Grand Earth Trine: a call to integrity and patience

Meanwhile while all this other stuff is going on... and yes that's exactly how it is!  There is a reason things seem crazy, its because this is just such a vibrationally jam-packed moment!  Well while all the stuff I've been talking about is still happening (see my last blog, and all the blogs sited there-in) there is yet another bit of intensity I'd like to focus your attention on!


An interaction between the Moon in Virgo, Pluto in Capricorn and Jupiter in Taurus, lined up precisely in what is called a grand trine, which means they sit in such a way that when you draw a line between them on the chart they form a perfect equilateral triangle...  Specifically this is the most powerful of the "soft" aspects, pushed to its strongest ,manifestation.


Now the results of a grand trine will be felt no matter what you do, but it may be to our best interest to get in ahead of this and try to turn it to the best possible manifestation and most positive side of it.  Let's look at what it means:


Moon: our emotional guidance system is geared toward the specific and toward health (Virgo) flows easily and lends energy to (and receives energy from) our sense of optimism, possibilities, opportunities and expansion (Jupiter) which is geared in a consistent process oriented committed comfortable pattern (Taurus) which is giving and receiving energy from the interaction of personal power vs political power and airing of collective dirt/healing dark secrets (Pluto) which is currently operating within the realms of the Law, Money and Patriarchal Power (Capricorn) which of course is also giving and receiving power from our sensitivities.


This aspect can play very well or very poorly, and the secret here is Pluto magick.  The secret to Pluto is to own your own power and refuse to take a victim stance.  This often time does not actually mean fighting... this usually means finding a way (when possible) to refuse to give energy to the powers that be... to take our personal metaphysical ball and go home.  Let the Pluto within keep his power, and the Pluto without disappears as the illusion he is.  Part of the key to this is all about honesty with ourselves and with others.  Asking for what we need directly and knowing that if we can not get it honestly from one source then there is a better source out there that we can.  Beyond this it is about letting go of expectation, and being as loose as possible.  If we can keep our Pluto playing on the positive level, it is a time of real potential to set positive growth in motion, starting with what we feel we want, translating it into what we know we can create, taking that to empower our sense of personal power, and once again using that sense of personal power to empower ourselves emotionally to keep on it!


One hand washes the other one back scrubs the next!  They key, focus in on integrity, honest and healing through sunlight and open air!


Affirmation:

I build a future worth living, a life worth having enjoying every step of the way and the process of creating with full disclosure honesty flexibility and a firm unapologetic statement of my needs!

Grand Cardinal Cross:http://rebelastrology.blogspot.com/2011/07/mars-moon-neptune-mutable-t-cross-quest.html Stellar Revolution, This is What Astrology Looks Like!,  Dancer Dance! Grand Possibilities from Little Steps, Grand Cross to bear, Transform your life   Uranus-Lilith Conjunction:Shining Light into Shadow, 

Neptune Chiron Conjunction: Neptune Chiron Conjunction video,Neptune Chiron Meditation, 

Neptune and Jupiter:Neptune and Jupiter video, A funny thing happened on the way to Know-where

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Mars Moon Neptune Mutable T-cross: Quest for Meaning Search for Passion

So lets set aside everything we've been talking about (which is certainly in play still) and look at something maybe a bit more directly personal.  In addition to the major interaction of the Grand cardinal cross, pushing us in ways to come to grips with our greater world, and in fact seek to redefine it.  There is another Major hard aspect going on right along side.  This is a little more short lived but worth paying attention to while it lasts.  The Moon is currently in Virgo (and energized as the sun is in its home house of Cancer) it is in opposition to Neptune (who is also energized sitting in its native house of Pisces) both of which are squaring Mars in Gemini.
Neptune takes the lead in this situation as it is in its own house at its strength, is also the slowest moving of the bodies, and has a natural water affinity to the 2nd most powerful object in this scenario... the moon.  (although Mars has a potential of added energy from a sextil to Uranus in Mars' native house)
Squares and oppositions are by nature motivators, and thus if they are being unheeded to to present themselves to some degree as discomfort.  Because these are mutable signs, and because the nature of the Neptune and Lunar influences, this is a motivation to understanding, internal discovery and finding what we want.


The place of Mars in this puts us in mind of a search to understand where our passion is and how it fits in with the greater social arena.  The vibe is right to become clear on roles emotionally in context of learning craft, and perhaps more specifically the craft of feeling and nurture (Moon in Virgo) in this there is a strong call to paying attention to personal emotional energy, and making sure we are taking the alone or emotional down time we need.


Neptune calls us to examine and experience, to spiritually hold attention without defining or deciding.  To allow ourselves the right to experience, to know what we want, a new powerful passion within the world of humans (mars in Gemini).  The secret here?  Faith that it will emerge in the spiritual fog when we don't press the issue, when we don't hold tight to any preconceived notion.  To know that the passion we need is even now formulating itself in the great mist of our spiritual unknowing.


In some Quabalistic thinking the Sephiroth of Yesod (which is aligned energetically with the moon) is a mysterious spot right before manifestation.  It is also associated with the 2nd chakra, where our sexuality, empathy and emotions sit.  Here in lies part of the secret, desire creates manifestation.


Kether, the crown, the unknowable spiritual origin, the unspeakable ideal is associated with Neptune.  When we challenge Neptune for specifics, we, like the seekers of the grail go mad, because holding the grail in a literal sense is not a reality, the thing you seek is too grand to put in mind words or object.  We can only sit in our center and hold appreciation for Kether, listening and waiting for manifestation, it is from here that the passion and fire will emerge, and it is from this that we may build the future we only preferably have started to dream of.


things to look at in addition:

Grand Cardinal Cross: Stellar Revolution, This is What Astrology Looks Like!,  Dancer Dance! Grand Possibilities from Little Steps, Grand Cross to bear, Transform your life   Uranus-Lilith Conjunction:Shining Light into Shadow, 

Neptune Chiron Conjunction: Neptune Chiron Conjunction video,Neptune Chiron Meditation, 

Neptune and Jupiter:Neptune and Jupiter video, A funny thing happened on the way to Know-where

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Cancer: As Your Sun Returns, Consider Where You Go From Here

This is the first in a series of articles focusing on progressions and growth for each of the 12 solar signs.

As we begin the Solar stint in Cancer for the year, I want to do something that we do not take enough time to do. There are plenty of chances to read the characteristics of this sign in so many different places.  I want to look at something much more useful, I want to look at the lessons a Cancer should be learning over the course of their lives.


When I start this conversation I am, of course speaking of that laudable idea, the progression. [For more info on progressions]  A progression is simply put the natural place that the characteristics of a planet grow into.  This, of course, never implies the loss of old abilities, simply the gaining of new energetic tools in our tool belts.  This growth is of course dependent on us being active participants in our own lives!


Planets in Cancer are naturally progressing into first Leo then Virgo and eventually Libra...  The sun sign is the easiest progression to follow.  A progressed placement may be calculated beginning with the natal chart, then for every year a person has been alive you just add exactly 24 hours to the chart you are looking up (even easier, most programs and websites will also do this for you).


Since the sun moves approximately 1 degree a day and each sign has 30 degrees, one can easily estimate both the approximate natal degree and progression simply by knowing a date of birth and knowing what year it is now (other planets will actually require either fun with the ephemeris, a web sight, or astrological program).  so you assume (in the case of Cancer) the 22 of June is the 0 degree, every day after add a degree.  BOOM! you got a good estimation of the solar degree in the natal chart.


One can then take that number, subtract it from 30 and SHAZAAM! You've got the number of years till your progressed sun progresses into Leo!  (obviously this process may be generalized to any sign... but this is Cancer's time so ha-ha!)  For example lets say someone was Born on July 9th (most of the best people are).  When we count the days from the 22 of June to the 9th of July (June 22 - June 30 = 8 days + 9 days in July) we come up with the figure of 17 degrees.  Then when we subtract 17 from 30 we get 13.  Which means that a natural progression will enter into Leo at around age 13. We could then add 30 years per sign and see that it would progress into Virgo at 43, and Libra at 73.  (If the individual lived long enough this could be continued indefinitely).


It is important to understand that just because our progresses sun may be in Leo or what have you, it only implies that this is something we reasonably could have learned if we have been actively living our lives, paying attention to our hearts and engaging.


Sometimes, we define an idea of ourselves and stubbornly refuse to learn, or just become obliviouse to our hearts desire as it evolves.  Often we sink into a numb unhappiness that we are barely aware of.  The solution?  FOCUS ON YOUR PROGRESSIONS!


The first goal of every Cancer is to master the realms of Leo, after that Virgo etc etc!  Here's the trick the cycle flows in a very particular way, if we have become stagnant for too long we cannot simply jump in and try to learn an earthy constructive attention to detail coupled with a rational introspection (Virgo) if we have not first learned Leo's playful magnanimous generous stagecraft and dare I say vanity?


So in case it aint obvious always stop where you left off, and don't ever be limited by ANYTHING!  If you feel you have mastered Leo and it does not appear your progressed sign is Virgo- who cares!  The progression to my mind only marks a sort of average healthy marker... Flowing forward always lends new tools to your belt, gives you a greater reach of balance, and empowers you to do more! This is because you have a greater scope of possible tools!

SO, gentle Cancer, as we enter into your solar returns, (birthday to the uninitiated) let me offer you some thoughts!

First love everything about who you are.

Then:  Learn to feel good about taking the stage.  Learn to feel great actively requesting attention and acknowlegement, without apology (this part is hard- I know).  You deserve to be the center of attention sometimes.  Also learn to play and be less serious.  These are your first lessons, the Lesseons of Leo.

Next:  Learn to analize from a simple practical point of view.  Love the order of a straight line, and the elegence of the notion of intellectual and constructed perfection.  Embrace a focus on personal health and fitness.  Embrace speaking softly and straight to the point.  These are the lessons of Virgo.

Next:  Learn to negotiate.  Learn to plan for no winners and no losers.  Find what it means to create a good solution for the "USes" in general rather than the us and them's or the me and hims.  Learn to feel light and graceful.  These are the lessons of Libra.

If you have gotten far enough in your personal growth to need the next step after Libra, you deserve at least enough of a break to weight for the beginning of Leo and my blog on her progressions!

Good luck, great growth and much much  much Love!

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