{"id":78064,"date":"2014-07-17T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=78064"},"modified":"2014-07-17T11:53:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:53:15","slug":"easing-the-way-venus-enters-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/easing-the-way-venus-enters-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing The Way — Venus Enters Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nTo know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded.
\n— Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Venus transitions from tropical Gemini to tropical Cancer at 10:06 am EDT tomorrow. By itself, and in context with current astrology, the ingress of Venus to Cancer indicates how you might want to participate in easing the way through passages that appear to be challenging all of us at once.<\/p>\n

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Astrology has seen several major passages this week. Based on the doctrine of “as above, so below,” many transitions in the sky implies many on Earth.<\/p>\n

After after nearly a month of retrograding back into and then re-progressing out of Gemini,\u00a0Mercury started this week of major passages by returning to Cancer\u00a0as last Saturday transitioned into Sunday, leading the way for Venus.<\/p>\n

Then, just two days ago, Mercury subsequently emerged out of the narrow (less than 10 degree) arc of the zodiac in which it had paced back and forth since May 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That emergence, plus Mercury once again being expressed through Cancer’s cardinal waters, symbolized a chance for your mind to pass out of prior confines. Such a passage, taken consciously, would in turn help compassion to arise from a necessarily emotional grounding to a rational basis for altruism.<\/p>\n

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Then, just yesterday, Jupiter concluded more than a year in Cancer and moved on to 12-plus months in Leo. In addition to being the centerpiece of this week’s astrological transitions, the beginning of Jupiter’s next sign tenure will implicitly serve to test and temper your altruism.<\/p>\n

That’s because fiery, fixed Leo favors expressions of self-interest. Hence, even if generous Jupiter being expressed through Leo’s solar-ruled dominion is magnanimous, the next 12-plus months will entail walking the narrow path of enlightened self-interest lest you lose both your balance and your friends in the process of gaining (or attempting to gain) the world.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, that’s where Venus comes in, easing the way. First, perhaps foremost among its many manifestations, Venus is associated with ease. Not laziness. Not sloth. Rather the value of ease which water itself employs when taking the path of least resistance.<\/p>\n

That’s how Venus and water signs find compatibility. It’s also how Venus will express in Cancer to ease the way for Jupiter’s transition out of its cardinal water exaltation. Simultaneously, the altruistic values of love, truth and beauty that Venus also symbolizes will support Mercury’s elevation from merely mind to a manifestation of emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n

Next, the first degree of Cancer is where everybody in the world simultaneously experiences a solstice when the Sun crosses that point. Like the first degree of its fellow cardinal signs (Aries, Libra and Capricorn) it is where your experience and your actions intersect with the experiences and actions of everybody else at once.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, that’s where you come in. The planets can symbolize all day long and nothing will come of it unless you fulfill your role in the solar system as the means by which the sky manifests on Earth. Yes, you are the crucial factor in easing the way.<\/p>\n

Now that you have read this far, you no longer have the excuse of not being aware of what this week’s astrology of transition signifies. It is for you either to ease the way for somebody or to graciously allow somebody else to ease the way for you. The ideal expression of the sky would have you doing both.<\/p>\n

For only by being on both sides of compassion can you realize that it’s more than just a touchy-feely fairy tale. By the same token, it is only by being on both sides altruism that you can appreciate how it is more than an abstract value, but in fact a practical way to make life easier.<\/p>\n

Finally, it is only by knowing that your self-interest is irrevocably tied to the best interests of other beings that you can become conscious of what enlightenment really means, and how easy simply living can really be. That’s pretty good payback for helping another life to breathe easier. That’s the success you are here to enjoy.<\/p>\n

Offered In Service<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Venus transitions from tropical Gemini to tropical Cancer at 10:06 am EDT tomorrow. By itself, and in context with current astrology, the ingress of Venus to Cancer indicates how you might want to participate … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78064"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}