{"id":77114,"date":"2014-06-04T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=77114"},"modified":"2014-06-04T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:21:32","slug":"sun-opposite-great-attractor-an-experiment-in-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/sun-opposite-great-attractor-an-experiment-in-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun opposite Great Attractor: An experiment in observation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Few critters are as polarizing as spiders, although the babies in this two-day “spider nursery” on my car’s front bumper were adorable to observe — as long as they stayed on the outside of my car… Photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On our way to Mercury stationing retrograde Saturday, the Gemini Sun today exactly opposes the Great Attractor, a deep-space point located in the direction of mid-Sagittarius. Of the Great Attractor\u2019s qualities, one of the most salient is its ability to polarize — whether it\u2019s a discussion that gets polarized, or the emotions of others toward a person with this point prominent in their natal chart.<\/p>\n

Yet at the same time, the Great Attractor can also \u201cbless one with the ability not to be touched despite that polarization,\u201d as Eric has put it, adding that \u201cwhen the Great Attractor is present in the equation, events in one place can ripple out in ways that someone at the point of origin cannot see.\u201d<\/p>\n

So when the Sun lines up with the Great Attractor from the other side of planet Earth, we get an experiment in observing these phenomena. <\/p>\n

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One way to get to know lesser-used astrological points is to observe yourself and those in your environment when the Sun makes a strong aspect them. How is new information coming through to you today?<\/p>\n

The Sun in Gemini has this great quality of bringing out the two (or many) sides of an issue and getting us talking and thinking about them quite actively. Though with its emphasis on outward expression, it\u2019s not always easy under a strong Gemini influence to pause long enough to truly listen. Which is not to say that we don\u2019t listen. It\u2019s more that sometimes a Gemini mirror can stir an impulse to show more and say more to augment what we see.<\/p>\n

Our collective consciousness, represented by the Sun and flavored by Gemini\u2019s mirroring capacity, is currently in a direct encounter — perhaps even a confrontation — with this mysterious point far away in space. And the Great Attractor is pulling our entire galaxy (and more) toward it on some kind of spiritual quest with an edge to it. <\/p>\n

At least, that\u2019s kind of how it feels to me down here on Earth, as we continue trying to sort our way through some very difficult, emotionally freighted and polarizing subject matter this week. <\/p>\n

You may be noticing you feel drawn to those conversations, pulled as if by a magnet even as you feel upset by what is said by others, or frustrated by your own reactions or feelings of voicelessness, or overwhelmed by how so many seem to be taking sides even as some others appear determined to present a third option and rise above the incessant back-and-forth. <\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019re so involved in the dialogue between your own inner twins of light and shadow, the thought of externalizing that dialogue is less compelling to you than the thought of simply healing whatever the inner rift is about. <\/p>\n

Yet the Great Attractor is there, staring you in the face from across the countless light years, fuelling its Sagittarius fire with all that Gemini air blowing back and forth. And yesterday we had just about the closest thing to an astrological vacuum as we\u2019re likely to see, which many of us rushed to fill in some way. <\/p>\n

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Minor planet aspects for Monday, June 2 and Wednesday, June 4 — but there’s nothing there for Tuesday among the points included in the aspectarian, which Serennu’s programmer, Tracy Delaney, confirmed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That is, according to the list of aspects (called an aspectarian) at Serennu<\/a>, not a single one of the major planets, asteroids, centaurs, Trans-Neptunian Objects or other bodies programmed in there were making any exact aspects to each other. <\/p>\n

Which is not to say that nothing was making any aspects — there are more than one thousand identified objects in the Serennu ephemeris, and the Moon is always making aspects because it moves so quickly. But other than the Moon, none of the common points used by Planet Waves, plus many uncommon ones, were exactly aspecting each other.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an incredibly rare event. In its own spirit of spaciousness, I\u2019m going to leave its possible meaning up to you. In case you\u2019re curious, the last listed aspect before Tuesday\u2019s seeming void was asteroid Pallas in Virgo sextile centaur Thereus in Cancer; the first aspect afterwards was the Sun opposite centaur Orius in Sagittarius. (Note that the beginning and ending of that period is according to midnight Universal Time.)<\/p>\n

In the midst of it all, Mercury is entering the \u2018storm\u2019 phase before it stations retrograde in Cancer June 7 at 7:56 am EDT. As Eric has been chronicling in the Daily Astrology posts, Mercury is in a water trine with centaur Nessus, and that emotional energy may be stirring up feelings you had thought were long buried or patterns you\u2019d like to sort out and put a stop to. It\u2019s an undercurrent to the Sun-Great Attractor polarity that could set you adrift just as easily as it could prompt you to take the rudder into your own hands. <\/p>\n

In any case, feel what it\u2019s to bring your speech and your awareness of your thoughts down to Mercury\u2019s speed. That small, potent planet is about to churn things up as it changes its apparent direction, and you don\u2019t want to be so distracted that you forget your keys, or assume a missed email is a commentary on your worth, or run a red light with disastrous consequences. There\u2019s already enough to contend with, just getting through a regular day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our way to Mercury stationing retrograde Saturday, the Gemini Sun today exactly opposes the Great Attractor, a deep-space point located in the direction of mid-Sagittarius. Of the Great Attractor\u2019s qualities, one of the most salient is its ability to polarize — whether it\u2019s a discussion that gets polarized, or the emotions of others toward … 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77114"}],"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=77114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}