{"id":74050,"date":"2014-02-06T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=74050"},"modified":"2014-02-06T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:45:13","slug":"taking-shape-sun-square-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/taking-shape-sun-square-saturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Shape — Sun Square Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who you gonna’ believe, me or your own eyes?
\n— Chico (disguised as Groucho) Marx, in the motion picture<\/em> Duck Soup<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

During the eventful first week of November 2013, the Sun and Saturn briefly shared the same degree of Scorpio to begin a new cycle of their relationship. After their conjunction, the Sun left Saturn behind. Saturn remains in Scorpio to this day. Now, as the Aquarius Sun moves toward 90 degrees of separation from Saturn next Tuesday (an opening square aspect), their relationship implies an appropriate time to examine and evaluate what has taken shape for you over the last three months.<\/p>\n

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The words ‘examine’ and ‘evaluate’ have anxious connotations for many because examinations and evaluations are often conducted by figures and institutions of authority to judge and define you based on the results.<\/p>\n

Not so with the approaching square from the Sun to Saturn. Now opens a time when you may become your own authority, walking the narrow path of judging and defining yourself.<\/p>\n

How such an opening came to be begins with what the Sun and Saturn symbolize in common. Most plainly, the Sun and Saturn represent the bookends of both consciousness and authority for astrologers.<\/p>\n

In his book Horoscope Symbols<\/em>, Robert Hand concisely equated the Sun’s light with the light of consciousness. For his own part, Jeff Green (in his revolutionary tome Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul<\/em>) opined that “Saturn defines the boundaries of our subjective consciousness — that of which we are consciously aware.”<\/p>\n

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In other words, it’s just like the actual solar system, as visible to the unaided eye. The Sun is emblematic of the central source and first principle of sentience, while Saturn represents the outer limits of cognition’s container.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Sun has an ancient and pan-cultural correspondence with central authority. Saturn, in turn, has long been associated with the deliberate means and social structures through which authority asserts its power.<\/p>\n

Now, it appears that the traditional relationship between authority and consciousness is open to some revision, a process that has been taking shape for about three months.<\/p>\n

That’s because of where and when the Sun merged with Saturn back on Nov. 6, 2013. The place was Scorpio, the energetic field of metamorphosis and transformation. The time was three days after the conclusion of a monumental eclipse cycle and one day after Venus entered Saturn’s realm of Capricorn (where it remains to this day) for a long retrograde cycle that has reeked of a long-overdue revaluation of where consciousness and authority come together.<\/p>\n

What started with an Aries lunar eclipse on Oct. 18 and concluded with a Scorpio solar eclipse on Nov. 3 functioned as expected: to leave old patterns behind, while leaving you on a distant shore to reorient yourself.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, however, there was something exponentially more to the previous season’s eclipse cycle that keeps resonating through subsequent events — which, in turn, repeatedly redefine their customary brand. Witness the first Venus retrograde exclusively within Capricorn<\/a> for more than two centuries. Now, the opening square from the Aquarius Sun to a nearly stationary Saturn is ripening to reveal what is further taking shape, which is where you come in.<\/p>\n

In order for the impending Sun-Saturn square to express as something other than a customary case of anxiety, you need to believe your own eyes and interpret the aspect based on what you see. You need to examine and evaluate the tension you may already be\u00a0feeling and consider that it may originate with some opportunity you have to reclaim at least some of\u00a0the power you have given away for so long.<\/p>\n

Long ago, most of us acquiesced to have authority figures judge and define us. It was the path of least resistance, and it is to be expected that you may feel resistance when faced with the opportunity to reclaim some measure of authority to judge and define yourself.<\/p>\n

If you believe your own eyes, the boundaries of your conscious awareness must now be pushed, and you must do the pushing. It is an uncomfortable prospect to leave your container, which nonetheless probably explains much of what has taken shape for you over the last three months.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s a question of whether you are willing to continue, by consciously pushing back against your own, inner discomfort instead of something (or somebody) on the outside — even as you examine and evaluate the risks and rewards of a new pattern in your life. It won’t be easy. It will be worthwhile, especially when you consider that the alternative is to climb back into a container that is probably not long for this world.<\/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

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Who you gonna’ believe, me or your own eyes? — Chico (disguised as Groucho) Marx, in the motion picture Duck Soup During the eventful first week of November 2013, the Sun and Saturn briefly shared the same degree of Scorpio to begin a new cycle of their relationship. After their conjunction, the Sun left Saturn … 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\/74050"}],"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=74050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}