{"id":71995,"date":"2013-11-21T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=71995"},"modified":"2013-11-21T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T16:51:58","slug":"the-sun-enters-sagittarius-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/the-sun-enters-sagittarius-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun enters Sagittarius — finally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today at 10:48 pm EST, the Sun ingresses Sagittarius. The Sun\u2019s palpable move into \u2018cosmic\u2019 fire sign Sagittarius may come as a genuine relief for many. No offense, Scorpios — this last month has been fertile for deep, regenerative, emotional processing. It\u2019s just that not everyone is as well equipped for deep-sea free diving as you are. <\/p>\n

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The Sun burns through the mist at dawn atop Cadillac mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine. Photo by Amanda Painter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That said, the Sun\u2019s current square to Neptune in Pisces isn\u2019t exactly the most straightforward aspect. Sun-Neptune squares can make it hard to discern your emotions (or what you\u2019re really emotional about) clearly. <\/p>\n

With the Sun in Sagittarius, consciousness tunes in more strongly to the spiritual\/philosophical\/religious big-picture angle of existence. That would be great, except squares prompt action, and Neptune (especially in Pisces) can make it hard to recognize what would actually be best to do. <\/p>\n

Do you act on your lofty beliefs, or do you act according to how you feel? Are your passions about your beliefs in balance, or are you getting a little zealot-y about them — with a touch of denial regarding how well you\u2019re walking your talk?<\/p>\n

Enter another planet: asteroid Pallas in Virgo, making a mutable-sign T-square with the Sun and Neptune. The wide-open Sagittarius Sun square Pallas in the mental, detail-oriented sign Virgo asks whether the \u2018big picture view\u2019 (or your lofty philosophy) is at odds with (or more compelling than) the on-the-ground details. <\/p>\n

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With Neptune — the planet of drink, drugs and denial — in the mix, we find the perfect illustration in recent news about politicians (Pallas) behaving badly (or hypocritically) while drunk and high. Toronto, Canada\u2019s, mayor Rob Ford has been caught on video smoking crack, going on drunken tirades, and generally behaving like an entitled ass — one astonishingly unabashed example. <\/p>\n

The other is U.S. Rep. Trey Radel (R-Florida), who voted in September to mandate that welfare recipients get tested for drug use to qualify for assistance. Guess what? He was sentenced this week after getting busted last month for possessing cocaine. In his apology, he says a struggle with alcoholism led to his making \u201can extremely irresponsible choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

By no means is mentioning of Ford and Radel intended to make light of addiction. It is, however, an illustration of what this T-square can look like when one gets swept up in the story one is telling and neglects to do a reality check. There\u2019s an earth sign in this configuration for a reason: it needs some grounding in tangible facts and details.<\/p>\n

Also worth noting is that at the moment of the Sun\u2019s ingress to Sagittarius today, the Moon is in Cancer conjunct Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius. Black Moon Lilith (a calculated point related to the Moon\u2019s orbit) is nearby. Cancer is the Moon\u2019s home sign, and Jupiter is exalted there — giving a moister, more empathetic touch to a Sun in a sign that can need a lot of \u2018personal space\u2019 to pursue its path. <\/p>\n

Overall, Moon-Jupiter offers optimism, compassion and the potential to overindulge; Black Moon Lilith reminds us to recognize the full diversity of our feelings, even the darker or \u2018inconvenient\u2019 ones. They\u2019re part of what helps us to see the actual trees making up the forest we\u2019re so caught up in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today at 10:48 pm EST, the Sun ingresses Sagittarius. The Sun\u2019s palpable move into \u2018cosmic\u2019 fire sign Sagittarius may come as a genuine relief for many. No offense, Scorpios — this last month has been fertile for deep, regenerative, emotional processing. It\u2019s just that not everyone is as well equipped for deep-sea free diving as … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71995"}],"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\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}