{"id":78269,"date":"2014-07-27T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=78269"},"modified":"2014-07-27T20:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T00:36:42","slug":"saturdays-leo-new-moon-and-all-these-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-daily-astrology\/saturdays-leo-new-moon-and-all-these-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday’s Leo New Moon and all these charts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daily Astrology for Sunday, July 27 by Eric Francis<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Leo New Moon happened yesterday at 6:41 pm EDT (22:41 UTC) — the alignment of the Moon, Sun and Jupiter with asteroid Amor, all of it square Mars, newly in Scorpio. Other asteroids right there in Leo include centaur Rhiphonos (which has not been mentioned on Planet Waves to my knowledge) and Panacea.<\/p>\n

Of the first, Philip Sedgwick rights, “The name Rhiphonos means ‘throwing’ or ‘casting’. Rhiphonos was one of twelve sprites dispatched by Zeus to protect the infant Dionysus from Hera. When Hera found out, she was naturally enraged her and she changed the twelve into centaurs. These centaurs later pulled the chariot of Dionysus. I did not know that Dionysus had a chariot, but given his relationship with the sacred wine, it is good that he had a dozen designated drivers.”<\/p>\n

I have a thick folder of charts from this summer. The weeks and the projects seem to be going by quickly — weekly and monthly horoscopes, birthday readings, Daily Astrology pieces, news events, and charts cast for aspects to investigate specific meetings of planets more closely.<\/p>\n

I have two annotated charts for the Leo New Moon, the coming Mars square Leo aspect, the Aquarius Full Moon and Mars conjunct Saturn in late August; and going back, Sun conjunct Jupiter, Jupiter ingressing Leo, the Capricorn Full Moon, The Cancer New Moon, the Sun ingressing Cancer and many others.<\/p>\n

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When I cast a chart, I print out the base chart using a commercial program, and then annotate in many other points, planets, asteroids, centaurs, Pluto-like bodies, hypotheticals and others. They all tell stories. It is these stories that I reflect back to you in my horoscope columns. Often the same chart tells many different stories and can be used to write different columns and articles. They all describe what you might think of as psychic or emotional developments, encounters and events associated with themes (which I cast as themes of growth and moments of budding awareness).<\/p>\n

One thing is consistent — they all describe progress. If they describe problems, they also describe solutions. If they describe conflict, they describe resolution. Perhaps this is just how I’ve trained myself to read charts; it would seem pointless any other way.<\/p>\n

Some describe larger developments, things that seem to sweep through the conscousness of many people; where there seems to be an opening for humanity to take some much larger step than it might otherwise. Yesterday’s Leo New Moon was just such a chart. It opened a wide door in one of the most significant signs of the zodiac, for in some ways Leo is the backbone of the horoscope. <\/p>\n

I spent the day out on the Grandmother Land with my friends Beth and Jonah, and met up with the people who live there; the New Moon passed while I was out by a waterfall in a forest. Later that night, I toggled between BBC and Aljazeera to see what was happening — and it was nonstop war: horrid scenes of the destruction and humanitarian disaster in Gaza; people burying bodies, including a family of 19 killed in one of the attacks; the temporary (unilateral Israeli) ceasefire ending overnight; bodies still strewn in a wheat field in the Ukraine, amidst a badly-tampered-with crime scene; the escalation of that war; chaos in Iraq and Syria; recovering bodies from the Aigerian plane crash; ebola in Africa; and on and on.<\/p>\n

These events don’t involve us all directly, but they are reaching many of us through out extended sensory system. Many people avoiding the news know what they are avoiding.<\/p>\n

This leaves me wondering — where is all this progress? If the charts describe the stories of our personal lives, what about the wider world around us? I can see how the Leo New Moon square Mars might reflect a pumped up, me-at-all-costs state of affairs; how the message of passion and vitality could be taken in a loving or creative rather than violent way.<\/p>\n

Clearly, that choice of what to do with the cosmic fire that comes our way is up to every individual — though it’s worth noting how we are swayed by culture and influenced by our environments. It may seem more difficult to avoid the environment of a war zone than it is to avoid garden variety social pressure. <\/p>\n

It may seem more appealing to live your life purpose in a bold way, to really be yourself and not who other people make you out to be, or who you think they want you to be. You might think that all of the growth and progress might add up to something resembling social conscience, and the desire to act in ways to make the world better.<\/p>\n

It may seem easier to be less afraid in an American city or town where nothing is especially going wrong.<\/p>\n

However, I am not sure.<\/p>\n

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Daily Astrology for Sunday, July 27 by Eric Francis The Leo New Moon happened yesterday at 6:41 pm EDT (22:41 UTC) — the alignment of the Moon, Sun and Jupiter with asteroid Amor, all of it square Mars, newly in Scorpio. Other asteroids right there in Leo include centaur Rhiphonos (which has not been mentioned … 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\/78269"}],"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=78269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}