Post by Sowelu on Jan 28, 2010 14:27:25 GMT -5
[/b]A Mid-Winter Night’s Harvest
By Len Wallick
Thursday, January 28, 2010
It’s Thursday, please pause and take a deep breath. Hold it just a bit. Let it out more slowly than you took it in. Slowly. The end of the week and the month are not so far away now.
Depending on where you are, the Leo Full Moon conjoined with retrograde Mars will take place in two days or less. Opposed to the Moon and Mars the Sun will be nearly conjoined with Venus in Aquarius. Stop and think about it. You don’t have to be an astrologer to know that Venus and the Moon imply a feminine energy. You can feel it when you see them in the sky. You have known it since you can remember. It is unmistakable. You know it in your body. Soon, they stand opposed with us in the middle.
When you stand under the Sun at mid-day and when you stare up at the steady red glow of Mars, you know without thinking that they are a masculine presence. An easy guess. Knowledge without thought. Soon, they stand opposed with us in the middle.
The male luminary, conjoined with the female planet. The female luminary conjoined with the male planet. Exchange, consort-ion, emergence, manifestation. With us in the middle. We can of course, readily shut it off, change the channel, opt out. We are superbly conditioned to distraction. This one time, try something else. Tomorrow and the day after take what you experience in the world and compare it to what you know in your body. Try, really try, to maintain that awareness and perspective for two days. See what happens.
The day after the Full Moon, January winds up with the second square between Pluto and retrograde Saturn. Neither one of them is a rebel, or an outsider, or an underdog. They are both lords of the established order with a taste for turf. Most of us are serfs on that turf, the alternative would be to live like an animal – don’t fool yourself. But because Saturn (the immovable object) and Pluto (the irresistible force) confront each other on the cross of cardinal signs, we feel their own struggle within as pressure to stir from complacency and act somehow. That some and how will define us. How often do you get an opportunity, however stressful, to define yourself? It can be painful. Remember, in the first “Matrix” movie? Neo’s eyes hurt because he had never used them before.
We have had steps to this point. Venus transited into Aquarius. The Moon completed an air trine between Saturn and the Sun. Two rare and simultaneous yods (“Y” shaped aspects involving three astrological bodies). One with a promise and a caution for its focus, Mars in preparation for the gender dynamic of the Full Moon. The other yod offering Mercury the fertile rewards of participation in resonance Saturn-Pluto square.
Today, on the threshold, they are tested as they move through a gauntlet of sorts.
As the Sun approaches the point of opposition, it is squared on one side by the minor planet stellium in Scorpio (Ceto, Deucalion and Poseidon) that being to mind the immense terror in the term “deep blue sea”. On the other side Askapaphus (in Taurus) with specter of suffering health, and opposed by Atropos in Leo (the Fate who cut the thread of life). What courage it must take for Sol to keep moving through.
As the Moon approaches its moments she suddenly finds herself averse to the Sun then opposed by Mercury. What faith it must take for her to advance to completion.
Courage and faith do indeed allow us to persevere, but to stay on course, in our lane, we need one other quality, discretion. Born of awareness, tempered by judgment, balanced by authentic compassion – the ability to discern. Between discomfort (the physical body telling you its truth) and anxiety (the mind telling you its lies). Between Patience (waiting for the promise of opportunity) and avoidance (rejecting the risk of opportunity).
And that takes us back to the Mars-pointing yod. The upper part a sextile between Mercury and his Other, Hermes, conjunct with Psyche. The mid point of this sextile is the realm of the trickster. Scorning patience as a waste of time for the weak to indulge in, confusing temporary discomfort with anxiety, offering avoidance as a false solace, tempting us to let go of awareness and enter into illusion.
All the while we feel the square aspect between a Titan and a Tyrant insinuating as though down our throat. With the trickster in control we might be persuaded to bite off the head of the serpent when in fact it is no snake and we would only be rejecting the nourishment we need. Or we may be persuaded to swallow poison in the guise of medicine. Only through discretion can we know. Only through awareness can we discern.
So that’s the opportunity we came here to harvest. To persevere with courage in the face of fear. To sustain faith in the face of alienation. To combine these two with awareness and discretion to know transcendence, not just as an idea, but in the body as we know the Sun and the Moon. And that’s a fine thing.
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