Written in the Stars | Monday, April 18, 2005NOTE TO READERS: Today's entry is from the Planet Waves Weekly daily blog, on the subscriber homepage. It's usually a kind of astrological ledger that keeps tabs on current astrological events. For those interested in subscribing, you can find out more at this link: http://planetwavesweekly.com/login.html Venus, newly in Taurus, is closely square Chiron in Aquarius, an aspect associated with emotional highs and lows. This aspect can be a true roller coaster, though for this reason it can offer some unusual fun and/or unusual opportunities for awareness and healing. While Mars square Chiron can inhibit expression and create unworkable boundaries that are too tight, Venus square Chiron can have the opposite effect, releasing the emotions, potentially in an uncontainable way. The theme is to be aware of your limits, your basic guides for living, and know when you are exceeding them. Because Chiron is now in an exact conjunction to Nessus (another centaur planet in its class), the result may be a kind of purge of old emotions, programming and the residue of abuse. Abuse includes what we were told about ourselves that is not true; guilt and shame that were put into our bodies; limitations we were, and still are, placed under by others, or that we agree to; and the psychological legacy of these things that may take many forms. Venus square Chiron and Nessus is interesting astrology for the papal conclave to begin, given the history of the church in recent years. In an odd way, it fits. The Sun is also void of course in late Aries. The Sun is void of course when it reaches the last degrees of a sign and stops making aspects to other planets before it leaves its sign. There will be intervals when the Moon is making aspects to the Sun (such as today, when the Moon in Leo trines the Sun in Aries), and this may technically postpone the Sun's void phase (though very little is written about the technicalities). Strict rules aside, for the most part, when the Sun is in the last couple of degrees of a sign, that is, completing a phase of its cycle, we have a kind of opening for unusual feelings and events to come through, which may include a sense of instability, awareness of other possibilities, fear, or the sense that one may try one's luck on something daring and succeed. There really is no bottom line on a Sun void, and the condition is rarely noted by astrologers, as if it did not exist. However in my experience, the next 36 hours, until the Sun enters Taurus on Wednesday and stabilizes the situation somewhat, are a good time for caution, for delaying new commitments, and for evaluating information carefully. As the Moon builds toward the full, we come increasingly under the effects of the lunar eclipse in Scorpio Sunday, and through the week things may seem to come to a head. It would be best to avoid confrontations, particularly the blow-for-blow kind, until the energy dissipates overnight Sunday and into Monday. In an odd way, the decks will seem to clear, but my take on this eclipse is that it's a very important time for evaluating commitments. Events will take their proper course, if we let them. | ||||||
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