{"id":74949,"date":"2014-03-11T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T04:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=74949"},"modified":"2014-03-11T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:46:32","slug":"sun-square-ixion-do-you-know-what-youre-capable-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-square-ixion-do-you-know-what-youre-capable-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun square Ixion: Do you know what you’re capable of?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you stop and think today — trying to make a decision, or figuring out where your thoughts differ from those of someone in authority, or perhaps considering how you wield your personal power in your life — consider this: that anyone is capable of anything, including yourself. The next question is, once you\u2019ve accepted that possibility, what do you do with it?<\/p>\n

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View from the Manhattan Bridge, January 2012; photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The primary astrology today is Mercury in Aquarius squaring retrograde Saturn in Scorpio (exact at 2:14 am EDT). That\u2019s where the decision-making, stopping to think for yourself, authority issues and questions about your personal power and how you use it all come in. There is a real question in our society, and probably every society, of the extent to which people really do think for themselves.<\/p>\n

How many times have you tried to make a decision and figured out that you’re either following some programming inserted into you at some point, or are following the will of other people? <\/p>\n

Mercury coming up against Saturn has the sensation of trying to push back against that conditioning, only to find another layer a bit deeper down. It’s therefore necessary to do a careful review of your thought process. If you’re experiencing a dilemma of some kind, is it really a moral issue, or is your mind doing the neurotic dance around trying to please others? Remember — it’s not always obvious when you’re doing this. The whole people-pleasing and family-pleasing and peer pressure group of scenarios often play out on an ‘automatic’ or semi-conscious way. The real question might be: how aware of your motives are you?<\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s Daily Astrology column noted the trine between the Sun in Pisces and Saturn in Scorpio (exact on Thursday) as being great for having the willingness to work for one\u2019s goals. It\u2019s a supportive aspect, which could be very helpful in navigating the Mercury-Saturn square once you\u2019ve identified the decision you\u2019re trying to make. Sun trine Saturn is also an aspect suggesting integrity and \u201chighly developed moral character\u201d in a person, according to the late Isabel Hickey — but it does not always work this way. It can also denote someone who is extremely clever at deception and at making it look good.<\/p>\n

Given the signs involved with the Sun and Saturn (Pisces and Scorpio), this bodes well for your emotional, intuitive and sexual energy. Even with Mercury working through group-consciousness Aquarius, we see a potential for of inner awareness and alignment with Sun-Saturn; the question is what one does with that awareness.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the hiccup, however: between now and Thursday, when the Sun\u2019s trine to Saturn is exact, the Sun also squares Ixion in Sagittarius. Ixion is a relatively new factor orbiting our Sun, discovered in 2002. It is a plutino, similar to Pluto. When the Sun makes a major aspect to such a new discovery, it’s necessary to watch and listen and see what information emerges.<\/p>\n

At Planet Waves one of our delineations of Ixion is \u201canyone is capable of anything,\u201d with \u201canything\u201d alluding to unethical behavior, but also to any potential. Ixion is also associated with the question of what someone does when given a second chance.<\/p>\n

In myth, Ixion is involved in engendering the Centaurs; in astrology, the centaurs function to raise our awareness around shadow material, old wounds and familial or ancestral baggage, with the express purpose of encountering it so we can work through it and heal it. At the same time, the point of looking at shadowy stuff is to bring in the potential to do more, to be more, to reach closer to one’s true capacities. It’s essential to take a balanced view with any astrological factor, particularly if it has some darker shades.<\/p>\n

One such thing is just how willing and able we are to step past the bounds of ethical behavior. Sometimes that means the subtle white lie; sometimes it means sidestepping honesty because we are so deep in denial we can\u2019t see the truth; sometimes it means using what power we have in our relationships to take advantage of another\u2019s weakness, yet justifying it somehow. There are many shades of gray in this realm, and many varieties of white lies we tell ourselves to blur the boundaries and keep thinking of ourselves as \u2018one of the good guys\u2019. <\/p>\n

And then there is knowing that you have the power to do the right thing. You have the potential to make a choice that works for all parties concerned, or that at least works for you in a way that does minimal harm to others. That, and: if you have a second chance to get something right, how do you plan to use it?<\/p>\n

— additional writing: Eric Francis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you stop and think today — trying to make a decision, or figuring out where your thoughts differ from those of someone in authority, or perhaps considering how you wield your personal power in your life — consider this: that anyone is capable of anything, including yourself. The next question is, once you\u2019ve accepted … 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\/74949"}],"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=74949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}