Post by Sowelu on Mar 15, 2006 15:13:48 GMT -5
March 15 | Sun square Pluto
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AS I MENTIONED earlier in the week, we have stars, planets and asteroids flying around like pollen this week and into next. Well, actually it's a bit more orderly than that, but there is a lot of astrology happening. We are in a mini-cluster that leads through the weekend and into the bigger cluster on March 29. It's all related but you have to sort it out in your mind somehow.
We could look at it all as one big wave of activity, for the most part conveniently located between a subtle lunar eclipse (last night) and a rather massive total solar eclipse (March 29). There is absolutely, positively nothing low key about the 3/29 eclipse, as it occurs so close to the first degree of Aries (happening a week after the equinox).
In such times it's best to take things one event at a time, which is usually one day at a time. This is why the daily horoscope is a pretty good concept. The one thing we're looking at next, as in right now, is the Sun making a square to Pluto.
For the next two years Pluto means Pluto + the Galactic Core. The Core stays put; Pluto moves; Pluto in Sagittarius is now conjunct the core for the first time in more than two centuries (and the Sun is at 90 degrees to this conjunction). Pluto on the GC is BIG news...something different...something never written about in an astrology book or experienced by a living astrologer. Even the old ones had no clue about the GC because it had not been discovered yet.
A square puts the squeeze on. An aspect is an aspect, but how the energy is applied is the difference. Look around your life and notice all the right angles: those are squares, where floor meets wall, the way a door is situated in the building, the shape of a brick. We love right angles but we complain about squares. Without squares, life would pretty much fall apart. But we don't like them for some things, for example, who sits with their laptop screen at a right angle to the keyboard?
When we have a transiting square like this, the words that Patric Walker used to use were "enforced changes," which is another way of saying we get a push. With Pluto there is no turning back. The energy is intense. With the GC involved -- well, we don't know exactly, but the suggestion is that we have two choices for what level to take the aspect on; we can go deep and dark, Pluto style (more my style unfortunately!); or we can 'jump to a new level' and take the Galactic Road (I am in training for this mode).
Now, this kind of choice is not as easy as it may seem to some, and it's very easy, even obvious, to others. Partly it depends on how much responsibility you have, on how calm you can stay in the midst of a lot of movement, and what you're working out emotionally as a result of the same astrology. That is, with a Pluto square involved there is likely to be a whole underground level of processing that may not be visible on the surface and which may be drawing energy from the surface to the lower levels where it's needed.
The best things to do are track how you feel, make the decisions you can make and look for options you don't see. Those are often the best ones of the lot.
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