{"id":68549,"date":"2013-07-11T12:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=68549"},"modified":"2013-07-11T12:40:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T16:40:54","slug":"energy-and-emphasis-mars-enters-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/energy-and-emphasis-mars-enters-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy and Emphasis — Mars Enters Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like a dog without a bone, an actor out on loan, riders on the storm.
\n— The Doors<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mars enters cardinal, watery Cancer Saturday at 9:22 am EDT with an emphasis on energy — your energy. The keyword is energy because that’s what Mars fundamentally is. How you experience the emphasis may be unconventional, and your employment of the energy will probably require innovation because of where Mars will be.<\/p>\n

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When Mars traverses Cancer (as it does every other year), it opposes Capricorn. Traditional astrology has Mars exalted in Capricorn, meaning it’s comfortable and empowered there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the terminology of conventional astrology, the sign opposing a planet’s exaltation is said to be where the planet is “in fall.” An object in fall is considered to be incomplete, impaired, weak and doing without. Nevertheless, this will be no time to write Mars off, nor your own energy.<\/p>\n

We do not live in conventional times. Traditional astrology does not provide a complete picture. We are all riders on the storm. To meet the storm’s energy with your own, it will be necessary to be innovative and employ unconventional means to make up for what you have to do without.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the context of this year’s Martian tango through Cancer provides everything your energy needs to improvise and prevail, beginning with Saturday’s ingress.<\/p>\n

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Immediately upon entering Cancer, Mars will open a sextile to 1992 QB1 at the first degree of Taurus, and flow into a water trine with the asteroid Iris, retrograde at the threshold to Pisces.<\/p>\n

Speaking of thresholds, we saw how potent Kuiper Belt object 1992 QB1 is when it crossed the threshold of Taurus on May 17 (or 18th, depending on your time zone), emulating the aftermath of its discovery.<\/p>\n

For 62 years after Pluto’s discovery in 1930, most folks thought there was nothing else out there past Neptune, except for astronomer Gerard Kuiper. He\u00a0suspected there might just be some objects keeping Pluto company. The discovery of 1992 QB1 took us across the threshold. In the decade or so since, literally thousands of small planets have been revealed beyond Neptune, more than Doctor Kuiper dreamed possible.<\/p>\n

1992 QB1 was discovered on the first degree of Aries, the “Aries Point” that Eric has written so much about, where the personal and political converge. We have only known of it with an Aries background ever since — until last month. Immediately after 1992 QB1 entered Taurus, your suspicions about how the US Government was keeping your intimate company were verified by Edward Snowden beyond what you had dreamed possible.<\/p>\n

To have Mars open up a supportive sextile with 1992 QB1 upon entry to Cancer indicates that some energetic threshold may be available for you. Perhaps it will be enough to get you connected with participating in the unique and unprecedented astrology of our time. That is where asteroid Iris comes in.<\/p>\n

Finnish astrologer Kirsti Melto has referred to Iris<\/a> as “the female counterpart of Mercury”, and it’s true. Iris is a messenger, a bridge, a connection between worlds and ways of thinking. The initial water trine to Iris is a message. It tells us that during its nearly seven week Cancer tenure, Mars will participate meaningfully in a grand water trine (from Neptune in Pisces to Scorponic Saturn to Jupiter’s Cancer exaltation) unprecedented in modern history. Perhaps that participation (and your own) will serve to to bridge The Trine to what Eric has called “the defining aspect of our era.”<\/p>\n

What Eric was referring to, of course, is the years-long continuum of the cardinal square from Uranus to Pluto. Mars is in a position to do that because Cancer, in addition to being a water sign like Pisces and Scorpio, is also a cardinal sign like Aries (where Uranus is), Libra and Capricorn (where Pluto presides). Later this month (July 27), Mars will oppose Pluto, and square Uranus (July 31) just as 1992 QB1 is stationing retrograde in an Aries Point combination that looks for all the world like all the world could show up at your door — as Dylan put it, “standing in the clothes that you once wore.”<\/p>\n

Being the good host that you are, you will want to be prepared for such a plethora of sartorially suggestive guests. The energy of Mars will be there to help, but not in the traditional places, and not in conventional ways. That’s how you should spend the weekend and next week initiating innovative ways to energize with Mars.<\/p>\n

Through connection and support, maybe. Perhaps with water instead of coffee. Or, most of all, by imagining that everything going on in the world really does effect you, and that there is something you can actually do about it. Allow yourself to imagine that we could actually ride the storm out, no longer be “in fall,” and see what that does for your energy. It could happen. With your energy and emphasis in participation, it will.
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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like a dog without a bone, an actor out on loan, riders on the storm. — The Doors Mars enters cardinal, watery Cancer Saturday at 9:22 am EDT with an emphasis on energy — your energy. The keyword is energy because that’s what Mars fundamentally is. How you experience the emphasis may be unconventional, and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}