{"id":77158,"date":"2014-06-06T03:18:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T07:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=77158"},"modified":"2014-06-06T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T14:39:18","slug":"sun-square-chiron-what-men-go-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-daily-astrology\/sun-square-chiron-what-men-go-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun square Chiron: What Men Go Through"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend and into early next week, the Gemini Sun makes a square to Chiron in Pisces. Chiron is conjunct another (very) slow-mover called Borasisi, and I’ll see if i can work that in at the end of this post. For now let’s stick to Sun-Chiron. Aspects between these two points talk about the struggle of men and also of maleness, and what women go through when subjected to the struggle of men and maleness. I’ve been reading, initiating and participating in many forums on the theme of sex and gender lately, and I’m observing that there is only a limited understanding of what men go through in the world. There is also a widely held presumption of man as persecutor or perpetrator (and that’s it), and considerable anger and antipathy directed toward them because they are supposedly inherently evil, ignorant or complicit.<\/p>\n

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Soldiers, mostly young men and boys from 18 to 20 years old, of the 16th Infantry Regiment, wounded while storming Omaha Beach, wait by the chalk cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital for treatment, D-Day, June 6, 1944.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not everyone holds this view; the wise among us see the whole story, or at least see that the scenario is complex. Yet see it or not, everyone is affected by it, and many men lack a clear concept that what they have been through was a special struggle of some kind. That’s allegedly because it’s so commonplace, but may be because it’s hidden from view.<\/p>\n

Sun-Chiron aspects raise the question of male vulnerability. What is it really like for men to be in a world where they are expected to swim or drown, kill or be killed, and then (except perhaps on special holidays) are prohibited by culture from grieving, crying or expressing any sensitivity? What about the American men sent to war, venerated as heroes for a while, then treated like garbage when they return home, as is happening today?<\/p>\n

What is it like for women to be raised and\/or to grow up around men living with this struggle? What about the men in our lives stems from the inner sense of being broken, incomplete, failures, or not having lived up to the expectations of their fathers? What is it like to bear the burden of initiative, especially in a world that seems to resist everything that is good?<\/p>\n

These are the questions that I believe are appropriate for Sun-Chiron aspects — especially as Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer on Saturday, and we get to question the total influence of our early emotional environments. I would ask: do you really know what your father went through? If you do, how do you know? As for Borasisi, I will sum that up: Sayin’ it don’t make it so — but you might think it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend and into early next week, the Gemini Sun makes a square to Chiron in Pisces. Chiron is conjunct another (very) slow-mover called Borasisi, and I’ll see if i can work that in at the end of this post. For now let’s stick to Sun-Chiron. Aspects between these two points talk about the struggle … 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\/77158"}],"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=77158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}