{"id":763,"date":"2010-08-20T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-08-20T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T07:10:13","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-22-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 22 August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

From beginning (Saturn square Pluto on Saturday 21st<\/sup>) to end, it\u2019s Pluto\u2019s week, so it\u2019s time to get friendly with Pluto\u2026But first on Monday 23rd<\/sup> the Sun enters Virgo, and you may feel a switch of seasons from sunshine, sea and sand to autumn mists and mellow fruitfulness – a nip in the UK air perhaps.\u00a0 Our collective animal totem will go overnight from the Lion (or Lioness) of the jungle, to the quiet harvest mouse\u2026The Full Moon in Pisces opposes this Sun in Virgo on Tuesday 24th, taking us past the jungle and the harvest field on to the ocean (emotionally we could be all over the place\u2026but we could just be releasing past emotions we don\u2019t need to hold on to).\u00a0 Scientists have just announced that the Moon is shrinking, but it might be too early to conjecture about astrological ramifications.\u00a0 The final aspect of the week takes place on Thursday 26th<\/sup>, and is a trine between the Sun and Pluto \u2013 not to be sniffed at.\u00a0 It struck me this week what a beautiful symmetry the Cardinal T-Square is: Pluto at the base, with Saturn on one end opposed by Jupiter and Uranus (which are either side of Saturn in the rank of planets) \u2013 that could be a perfect balance.\u00a0 On waking the other morning, I was given, as a symbol for Pluto in this position, of all things a pogo stick!\u00a0 Wikipedia defines this as \u201cA device consisting of a T-shaped pole with a handle at one end, footpads to place your feet on the other end and a spring which support the stick and the user when on the ground<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 The pogo stick represents Pluto urging and pushing the other planets in an act of self-transformation, the transformative element in our lives and psyches seeking to push its way up.\u00a0 It relies on our experiencing it in a true way, unencumbered by the feelings of others or social expectations, and represents the work we do on our own psyche.\u00a0 This analogy can of course be extended to society, but we need to do the work on ourselves, now.\u00a0 All other planets of the Cardinal T-Square have to meet Pluto\u2019s standards as it squares them.\u00a0 Pluto is autonomous and contains everything, perhaps even the nature of all the other planets put together.\u00a0 This is why Scorpios (ruled by Pluto) often wear the colours black and white together.\u00a0 It is the most powerful planet, pulling rank on the others in any interchange. Its position on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life is Daat, the invisible sephira.\u00a0 I am no Kabbalist, but in 1974 I bought a book by Z\u2019ev ben Shimon Halevi entitled \u201cTree of Life\u201d in which he writes in language easy to grasp:<\/p>\n

\u201cMoving back up the Tree along the Lightning Flash we pass through the invisible Sephira known as Daat \u2013 Knowledge \u2013 before we reach Binah, or Saturn in the planetary scheme.\u00a0 Some modern Cabalists not only describe this transition point as the entry into what is known as the supernal triad of Kether, Hochma and Binah, but ascribe this position to the recently discovered planet Pluto\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Pluto is the furthest and outermost planet in our Solar System.\u00a0 Once that has been mastered as a principle, it can be a psychological gateway to other parts of the Cosmos.<\/p>\n

Halevi goes on to say: \u201cPluto orbits at the very edge of the solar system.\u00a0 Beyond lies the realm of the local star cluster and containing this the vast galactic arm of the Milky Way.\u00a0 Pluto\u2019s strange eccentric orbit is the margin and frontier of the planetary world, and who knows what barrier or bridge this dark unseen planet describes?\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Daat is a point of profound transformation whether you are travelling up or down the Tree of Life<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sun in Thursday\u2019s trine is helpful in revealing the positive side of Pluto to work with (the negative pull being Saturday 21st<\/sup>\u2019s square of Saturn to Pluto).\u00a0 There is nothing to fear from knowing your own psyche, and Pluto is about working through your fears until you have reached the bottom of the barrel.<\/p>\n

The planets involved in the Cardinal T-square have to \u00a0act as a counterpoise to each other, in their conjunctions, oppositions and \u00a0squares.\u00a0 In the trine with the Sun, Pluto is in a friendly counterpoise, enabling us to reach some sort of a completion on this round of Plutonian activity, and find a freedom and a purpose beyond that, until you can draw new lines for yourself for this time, when you are satisfied that you have completed work on this monumental round.\u00a0 The more you are in touch with your Soul, the more you can do this. And remember that Angels can be intermediaries until we fully merge with our Soul.<\/p>\n

So, in summary, this friendly counterpoise between the Sun and Pluto can enable you to balance your deepest awareness of the Cosmos (Pluto) with your own conscious Individuality (Sun), and thus make sense not only of this trine, but potentially the whole Cardinal T-Square, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From beginning (Saturn square Pluto on Saturday 21st) to end, it\u2019s Pluto\u2019s week, so it\u2019s time to get friendly with Pluto\u2026But first on Monday 23rd the Sun enters Virgo, and you may feel a switch of seasons from sunshine, sea and sand to autumn mists and mellow fruitfulness – a nip in the UK air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}