Today’s aspect is Mars square Jupiter — it has arrived (and is exact at 6:46 pm EDT or 22:46 UTC). Mercury is now in the picture, so what we really have is Mercury square Mars and conjunct Jupiter; like a guitar chord, there are a lot of ways to name it, and Vesta is right there in early Scorpio. <\/p>\n
The theme I see is that it’s necessary to learn from making mistakes. That is to say, unless one is actually taking action to the point of making errors, there is unlikely to be much progress, much push, much of anything. The conventional wisdom of the world — don’t piss off anyone, be humble, don’t take on more than you can handle, keep your life in balance (et cetera and so forth) all fall flat when it comes to guiding yourself into new enterprises and new uses of your creative talents.<\/p>\n
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Here’s what I am NOT saying. I am not saying that in the long run, minding your politics is irrelevant, nor using your energy efficiently, or learning the best way to do things. Those are separate issues. What I AM saying is that at the outset, when you strive to do that different thing you’ve wanted to do, you must work your way out to the edge of a number of boundaries and do some transgressing on a fairly regular basis, to test the environment, to see what works, and to see what you can actually get done.<\/p>\n
The pre-approval of others matters far less than your willingness to dare. In fact pre-approval is about the last thing you want to focus on, because most people have next to no gumption whatsoever, and many are likely to give you resistance for daring to do what they would not do. What we think of as humility is usually counterfeit. What we think of as good politics is usually trying to please our parents and to dodge some paranoia about how society will react to whatever you want to do. <\/p>\n
If all those concerns are on your mind, your mind is in the space opposite that of creativity, of enterprise, of being willing to take sufficient risks to actually succeed. You will know you’ve left them behind when they are reduced to passing thoughts, perhaps with a laugh, which you’re too busy to bother with because you’re actually engaged in some experiment, creative project, business endeavor or most likely, all three at once.<\/p>\n
I am covering all of this territory for the 12 signs and rising signs in a project called Good as Gold, which will be available soon. Check this blog or your inbox for ordering information.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s aspect is Mars square Jupiter — it has arrived (and is exact at 6:46 pm EDT or 22:46 UTC). Mercury is now in the picture, so what we really have is Mercury square Mars and conjunct Jupiter; like a guitar chord, there are a lot of ways to name it, and Vesta is right … 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\/78434"}],"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=78434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}