{"id":68960,"date":"2013-07-30T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=68960"},"modified":"2013-07-30T07:52:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T11:52:16","slug":"a-design-for-cosmic-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/a-design-for-cosmic-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Design for Cosmic Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things Eric mentioned in his discussion of this week\u2019s grand sextile was the idea of consciously re-patterning one\u2019s life. In a world that often feels like it offers too many options one moment and yet seems to push conformity (such as in relationship models) the next, it\u2019s easy to feel at a loss for which new pattern your life really needs. The sky is suggesting we get back to basics on this one, with love.<\/p>\n

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Simplified chart showing Venus in Virgo (blue ‘female’ symbol) trine Pluto in Capricorn (red golf tee). Eros in Gemini and the Galactic Center in Sagittarius are not show. Also shown are Mars in Cancer (red ‘male’ symbol), which is moving into contact with Pluto and Uranus (blue ‘H’) along the cardinal cross. The Sun is shown in mid-Leo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For starters, the Venus-Pluto trine (a leg of the grand sextile) is exact today at 8:52 am EDT. Yes, Pluto has a reputation as being difficult. But with a Venus-Pluto trine, chances are any love-life upheaval will have beneficial long-term effects. <\/p>\n

More often, however, this aspect is associated with deep love unions, a deep desire to create, deep reservoirs of emotional strength and self-sufficiency in relationships, deep empathy for others\u2019 struggles, and a tendency to see the beauty and good in others — no matter how deep it is buried.<\/p>\n

Have you noticed a theme yet? A Venus-Pluto trine takes love deep, perhaps even to its creative source. Generative energy is powerful stuff. In earth signs (Venus is in Virgo, Pluto in Capricorn) think of the deep heat below the Earth\u2019s crust, forming mountains through tectonic plate movement and volcanoes making new islands. <\/p>\n

In the end, the result is fresh ground to stand on. And fresh earth tends to be fertile, abundant with its bounty, and attractive to everyone from earthworms and butterflies to farmers.<\/p>\n

You could call Venus trine Pluto in earth signs \u2018the Earthly expression of cosmic love\u2019. Working in tandem with that aspect is another expression — one perhaps less obvious yet still influential. The asteroid Eros in Gemini is currently opposite the Galactic Center in late Sagittarius (exact late Tuesday night into Wednesday).<\/p>\n

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Eros, named after the Greek god of love, has perhaps had its work cut out for it in Gemini, working to bring both our lighter and darker inner twins (or male and female, or whatever duality calls to you) into communion. The Galactic Center, the origin of our galaxy (and therefore of us all) tends to feel too huge to really wrap our minds around. Yet there are times (notably when the Sun makes its annual conjunction to it in late Sagittarius) when its message of cosmic unity finds its way through the static into our consciousness more easily than usual.<\/p>\n

This may be one of those times. Awareness of the grand sextile has primed many of us to think of (and perhaps more importantly, feel<\/em>) ourselves as interconnected. We\u2019re aware of the need to look at past and current patterns in our lives, and choose carefully a design for living that\u2019s in harmony with our inner guidance and our deepest desires for the good of the world we inhabit. <\/p>\n

As you negotiate the opposition between Eros in Gemini (your halves united in love) and your cosmic origins, there\u2019s no need to get lost in metaphysical philosophizing. Eros and the GC are working in tandem with Venus and Pluto, which have a pretty sweet handle on more earthly manifestations of love. If you feel yourself called to look, feel and dig deep, know that it\u2019s your roots — both cosmic and earthly — calling you.<\/p>\n

You’ll want to be grounded in love toward the end of the week, as Mars enters the Uranus-Pluto square. That’s a ‘get real’ moment if ever there was one, calling for patience, awareness and creative outlets — and we’ll have more about that later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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