{"id":74561,"date":"2014-02-25T11:50:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T16:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=74561"},"modified":"2014-02-25T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:36:19","slug":"shuffle-and-deal-looking-at-the-big-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/shuffle-and-deal-looking-at-the-big-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuffle and Deal — Looking At The Big Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

In astrology and in your life, there are times when it pays to step back from the details and look at the big picture. It would appear now is such a time. It is as though a deck is being shuffled, and a new hand is being dealt. In all probability you felt it begin late last week when something changed in the direction of your life. Now, astrology indicates we are each and all heading into the thick of it.<\/p>\n

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Paramount in the shuffle are four of the five planets visible to the unaided eye (Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) changing their apparent direction in a period of less than one week, beginning with Mercury’s return to direct motion this coming Friday.<\/p>\n

To have four major planets turnabout between Friday and Jupiter’s direct station on March 6 is rare and unusual. Yet, there is more.<\/p>\n

The day before Jupiter resumes direct motion, the remaining visible planet (Venus) will change signs. On March 5, Venus will move to a new place in the deck by ending a historic and uninterrupted Capricorn tenure (prolonged by retrograde) that started last year on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n

Then, there are the Sun and Moon. Tomorrow, Venus will be temporarily blotted from the sky as the Moon passes directly between Earth and Venus in an event called an occultation — a type of eclipse.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Moon is well into a near-monthly series of 12 straight occultations of Saturn which started on Dec. 1 last year. The next lunar occultation of Saturn is timed to take place on the day of the Vernal Equinox (March 20) when the Sun enters Aries for astrology’s ultimate expression of a reshuffling.<\/p>\n

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If we were living back in the day when the known solar system consisted of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, astrologers would probably be pretty excited by the big picture presented to the unaided eye. Yet there is more than the eye can see.<\/p>\n

Starting tomorrow, and before Venus leaves Capricorn on March 5, four minor planets of major import (Chaos, Ceres, Huya and Juno) will either change direction or sign.<\/p>\n

Meantime, Uranus and Pluto are emblematic of new era in the making through a continuum of seven exact squares extending over more than three years. Also, Neptune continues plying the waters of Pisces for the first time since Abraham Lincoln was alive, and Chiron’s return to Pisces is symbolically revisiting the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Can you see how it is that now is a good time to step back from the details and look at the big picture? If you can, then the next question is what to do with it. That’s where the image of shuffle and deal comes in.<\/p>\n

Implied in the shuffle is change, the only certainty in the universe. Within that certainty are the changes you make and those that are dealt to you. The changes you make are under your control. The hand you are dealt must simply be played.<\/p>\n

Before you can play a new hand, you must accept what you are dealt. You cannot change the motions of the planets, whether seen or unseen. Once you get past wanting to change the universe, you evaluate your new hand.<\/p>\n

A new hand means a new strategy must be formulated. To develop your strategy, it would be a good idea to begin with the four planets that are implicitly paramount in the cosmic shuffle that is playing out in your life.<\/p>\n

Two planets (Mercury and Jupiter) are stationing forward. In between the days Mercury and Jupiter resume direct motion, Mars (on March 1) and Saturn (on March 2) initiate apparent reverse motion. In other words, indications are that the shuffle and deal are fair, and that the breaks will even out.<\/p>\n

For that reason, you should proceed forward without burdening yourself\u00a0with the notion that the universe is unfair to you. If you can manage to rise above any perception of being victimized by inequity from above, then you will be in an excellent position to play the hand you are dealt according to the approach implied by astrology of the days and weeks to come.<\/p>\n

In the days and weeks leading up to the Vernal Equinox, the astrology implies how both the seen and the unseen are pursuing the same overall pattern. So, know by what you see. Indicated by the lunar occultations of Venus and Saturn is the probability that your emotions may occasionally (but not always) obscure reality. So, don’t deny what’s apparent. Rather leave room in your strategy for how you feel to balance what you see.<\/p>\n

Altogether, the big picture of the current and immediately impending astrology implies finding a middle path for dealing with the shuffle and working what you are dealt. A middle path between complacency and extremes or excesses is indicated. You manage complacency by playing the hand you are dealt to the best of your ability, knowing the breaks will even out.<\/p>\n

You manage any excesses or extremes by being mindful of the big picture. Regardless of how big the deal being presented for you in the days and weeks to come, remember, it’s almost certainly not the whole game. What you are going through now is important. Indeed, you are important, whether you feel that way or not. However, as big a deal as current events, both personal and political, may seem, this time is just one part of your life. Play it that way and you will have no regrets.<\/p>\n

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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