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<\/dt>\nThe relationship of air to water also carries over to all three Mercury retrogrades this year, making for a subject to examine now.<\/p>\n
There are 12 signs used by tropical, western astrology. Each one is a unique combination of quality (cardinal, fixed or mutable), and element (fire, earth, air or water).<\/p>\n
The quality of a given tropical sign is a function of the relationship of the Sun to the surface of the Earth. When the Sun is directly overhead at the equator, moving north on subsequent days, it is an equinox and the Sun is entering tropical Aries. When the Sun enters tropical Aries, a new season initiates, which makes Aries a cardinal sign.<\/p>\n
Approximately 30 days after tropical Aries begins, the Sun enters Taurus, a fixed sign. After another month or so, the Sun enters mutable Gemini, which is followed by cardinal Cancer (when the Sun is directly overhead at the Tropic of Cancer prior to moving South with subsequent risings and settings), which starts another season and another solar cycle through the sign qualities.<\/p>\n
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The procession of the elements through the zodiac is more subtle, and less amenable to empirical correspondence. The origin and order of how conceptual fire, earth, air and water integrate with astrology is undeniably ancient, and more a matter of speculation than elucidation at this point. Indeed, there are indications that some long ago astrologers tinkered with the system here and there much as ancient texts (like The Bible) have undeniably been tinkered with.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, we are left with something of how the four ancient elements relate to each other. Those relations work both intuitively and sensibly.<\/p>\n
Earth and water, for example, have an intuitive affinity on the abstract level. The affinity between earth and water also extends to make practical sense on a tangible level, as anybody who has ever had a garden knows. The same is true for both the instinctual and demonstrable symbiosis between fire and air.<\/p>\n
The less-than-affable and demonstrably unequal relationship between fire and water is part of everyday experience. Likewise, everyday observation yields something of how air and earth regularly meet but rarely mix for long.<\/p>\n
For land-dwelling creatures such as we usually are, the relationship between air and water is a bit more elusive, even unnatural. The weirdness of being suspended between air and water is how even the most proficient human mariners ultimately seek\u00a0any shore as preferable to no shore at all.<\/p>\n
Likewise, the alienation of constantly existing on the cusp between air and water was probably behind the decision of Odysseus (the most accomplished of ancient mariners) to head inland with an oar, searching for someplace where nobody knew what the oar was.<\/p>\n
Both the lunar last quarter tonight and the Mercury-Saturn square this weekend will somehow function to acquaint you with the tension Odysseus sought to relieve. Rather than avoiding or reflexively acting to relax the tension, however, take the opportunity astrology is offering to sit with the discomfort for a while. Try getting to know the meeting of air and water better, because you will feel it again.<\/p>\n
You will feel the meeting of air and water again during the Mercury retrogrades this year, when Mercury crosses over from elemental air to elemental water, and back again, and yet again. It is into the alien and disorienting environment where air and water meet, and even mix without landmark or inherent means of discernment that we are heading this year.<\/p>\n
It is fair to say that part of your experience this year will be that of learning to cross, and even be as a bridge, from air to water. The thin meniscus from air to water, although fragile, somehow makes all the difference. It will make a difference for you depending on how well your learn to identify and deal with it.<\/p>\n
Through the learning you will find new means of orienting yourself from within, becoming less reliant on external means, which you may ultimately have to do without (or which may ultimately lead you astray). Astrology indicates those means of your own will come in handy as knowledge for navigating your life.<\/p>\n
The lunar last quarter tonight will offer you personal access to such knowledge, bridging over to Saturday’s Mercury-Saturn square. So, sit with whatever sensation seems like a stranger over the weekend, and get to know it better because that feeling could end up being the best teacher you ever had.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Offered In Service<\/em><\/p>\n Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The lunar last quarter, shortly after midnight EST, relates the Sun and Moon from elemental air to symbolic water, connecting you with another way to be in the process. The connection will be echoed by Saturday’s square from Mercury (in airy Aquarius with the Sun) to Saturn (sharing watery Scorpio with the last quarter Moon). … 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\/73620"}],"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=73620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}