{"id":72204,"date":"2013-12-02T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T05:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=72204"},"modified":"2013-11-29T18:20:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T23:20:06","slug":"the-sagittarius-new-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/the-sagittarius-new-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sagittarius New Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight is the Sagittarius New Moon, exact at 7:22 pm EST. This is a conjunction of the Sun and Moon in the last sign of this season, a mutable fire sign. Among the significant planets and points involved in this New Moon is the Great Attractor — one of the two most potent deep-space points in the sky, located thousands of light years beyond our galaxy.<\/p>\n

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Simplified version of the Sagittarius New Moon chart featuring planets in direct aspect to the Sun and Moon. Clockwise from right: Ceres in Libra (sextile), Pallas in Virgo, Uranus in Aries (trine) and Chiron in Pisces. View full chart here<\/a>, and glyph key here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The GA and the Galactic Core (the other powerful deep-space point) give Sagittarius most of its flavor: emphasis on the spiritual, on the exotic, on the unknown and on long-distance travel and, for individuals, the sensation of needing a lot of space around them. <\/p>\n

The sensation of planets in range of the Great Attractor is polarization. Viewpoints can seem to differ wildly; both can seem right, or are arguably right. People with planets conjunct to or making other strong aspects to the GA can have a polarizing effect on others. (That might be you if you were born in mid Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces, or have one of those signs rising.)<\/p>\n

Others can have unusually strong feelings about these people and not understand why (and I do mean unusually strong). They may seem to walk around with a storm of controversy surrounding them — which often can be meaningless and serve no practical purpose. Therefore, if you find yourself in controversies any time from now into midweek, I suggest you not feed them. Just stand back and trust that you cannot be harmed by the opinions of others.<\/p>\n

The Sagittarius New Moon has two points aspecting it that may clarify the issue. It is square Pallas in Virgo and Chiron in Pisces. Both of these minor planets are about focusing the mind. They are doing this from different points of view.<\/p>\n

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Pallas in Virgo is calling for focus on the most precise details (supported by Mars in Virgo). These Virgo placements are asking for careful planning and making sure that your data is correct. Use power tools with full consciousness; make sure you know what you’re doing.<\/p>\n

Chiron in Pisces is a reminder to distill the ‘big picture’ into a meaningful presentation — one way to look at that is spiritual ideas focused into a practical approach to life. The information comes not from the data (as in Virgo) but from a cosmic source, something a bit beyond the world, though for that to work, there must be action points.<\/p>\n

Then the data side of the equation and the cosmic side of the equation need to be integrated. That may be tricky with the Great Attractor pointing out all the seeming differences, though the differences will be less meaningful (or more useful) as time goes on.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Mars in Virgo, today it squares the other major deep-space point, the Galactic Core. The GC is so far away, and our galaxy so big compared to the scale of things we can measure with our immediate senses, this translates to an interesting variety of tension. <\/p>\n

One version might be a sense of frustration with the inability to make something (including yourself, your desires or beliefs, or some kind of \u2018universal truth\u2019) fit precisely how you\u2019d like it. Or it could feel like frustration with yourself for wanting to in the first place. Will you take action to resolve the tension by trying harder, or by deliberately stepping back from it all? The GC urges a \u2018big picture\u2019 view in contrast to the potential hyper-focus of Mars in Virgo.<\/p>\n

Another factor in today\u2019s astrology is Mercury (in late Scorpio, but on its way to ingressing Sagittarius Wednesday) square centaur planet Nessus in Aquarius. Mercury is about thought, the mental mode and consideration — \u2018the idea\u2019. Nessus involves (broadly) karma, consequences and accountability. <\/p>\n

So we have \u2018the idea\u2019 clashing with \u2018the consequences\u2019. The message: pause and consider the consequences of whatever you’re doing, whether it’s sex, getting behind the wheel ‘buzzed’, engaging in revenge… whatever. You are accountable for what you know — and what you do. Make sure you keep the dots between the two connected.<\/p>\n

With Amanda Painter<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight is the Sagittarius New Moon, exact at 7:22 pm EST. This is a conjunction of the Sun and Moon in the last sign of this season, a mutable fire sign. Among the significant planets and points involved in this New Moon is the Great Attractor — one of the two most potent deep-space points … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/72204"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}