{"id":77124,"date":"2014-06-04T20:33:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T00:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=77124"},"modified":"2014-06-06T03:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T07:02:36","slug":"the-great-attractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-daily-astrology\/the-great-attractor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attractor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through Wednesday and Thursday, the Sun is opposite a deep space point called the Great Attractor. This is no garden-variety object, like a galaxy or star. It’s more like the anti-big-bang. Our entire local group of galaxies (a vast cluster of us) is being pulled toward this point at a million miles per hour. That’s how fast we are traveling through space, right now — in the direction of mid-Sagittarius.<\/p>\n

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The Norma Cluster. See full caption at footnote below.*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Attractor broadcasts on every frequency but visible light. Because it’s located on the level of the galactic plane (of our own rather milky Milky Way galaxy) any direct view we might have of it is obscured. This area is called the Zone of Avoidance. We can only perceive it using instruments, and by inferring its existence from the behavior of our neighboring galaxies who all seem to be chasing it.<\/p>\n

And as they (including us) chase, the Great Attractor retreats — borrowing from one of my colleagues, it’s the ultimate Sagittarian statement of “don’t crowd my space.” Now the Gemini Sun is opposite this point. We know that Gemini represents two of something, and this is accented by the Attractor, which can have a wildly polarizing effect on reality or how we perceive it. Have you noticed that going on? What is interesting about the Attractor is that the two polarities don’t connect. With the Sun in its current sign this may be the ultimate Gemini statement of a battle of words. Yet this doesn’t need to be the case.<\/p>\n

Mercury is slowing to a station in Cancer, one of the most emotionally focused signs. You can think of this as Mercury slowly getting in touch with its feelings (that is, you getting in touch with your feelings), or the alignment of your mental body with your feeling body. Mercury seems involved in some profound contemplation, moving just arc minutes per day, in a water sign, about to change polarities and be retrograde. Mercury is doing this in alignment with Hades, a very slow-moving point associated with profound depth. The deeper the discussion is, the more vulnerable those engaged will feel, and the more truthful we will be. Some people may have valid gripes, but nobody is going to come clean until there is an environment of trust, of which guilt and shame are the opposite.<\/p>\n

* While objects in the direction of the Great Attractor lie in the Zone of Avoidance (the part of the night sky obscured by the Milky Way galaxy) and are thus difficult to study with visible wavelengths, X-ray observations have revealed that the region of space is dominated by the Norma cluster (ACO 3627), a massive cluster of galaxies containing a preponderance of large, old galaxies, many of which are colliding with their neighbours, and\/or radiating large amounts of radio waves. — Wikipedia<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through Wednesday and Thursday, the Sun is opposite a deep space point called the Great Attractor. This is no garden-variety object, like a galaxy or star. It’s more like the anti-big-bang. Our entire local group of galaxies (a vast cluster of us) is being pulled toward this point at a million miles per hour. That’s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1767],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77124"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}