Aspects of Note This Week
All times listed are Pacific Standard Time. For Greenwich Mean Time, add 8 hours.
MON: Mercury transit of the Sun
TUE: Full Moon 5:34 a.m. PST, Mars sextile Jupiter, Mercury sesquiquadrate Chiron
WED: Mercury sextile Saturn, Sun sextile Pluto, Mercury trine Neptune
THU: Venus square Neptune
FRI: Ceres enters Capricorn
SAT: Venus sesquiquadrate Uranus
SUN: Venus trine Chiron
FROM OUR EARTHLY PERSPECTIVE, Mercury and the Sun align about six times every year—three
times when Mercury is moving direct, and three times when
Mercury is retrograde. But it is much more rare to have an
actual Mercury transit of the Sun, which is when Mercury passes directly
in front of the solar disk.
There
will be only 13 Mercury transits of the Sun in the 21st century, and
one of them is tomorrow (Monday, November 11). Our last experience of
this phenomenon was fairly recent, on May 9, 2016, but the next will not
be until November 13, 2032.
THIS MORE PRECISE alignment
of the two planets highlights the often subtle effects of a regular
Sun-Mercury conjunction. Usually, we would simply forecast that
communications and information would gain importance on the day of the
alignment, and that we would find ourselves drawn to writing, recording,
and planning according to
personal agendas. But, with Monday's transit, communications potentially
have a greater, longer-term impact, and
with Mercury in Scorpio, information is likely revealed that has
profound effect. Adding to this is the fact that Mercury is
now retrograde, which draws us more deeply into our own ruminations
about what we are now ready to release, that has been holding us back in
some way.
This
transit is an opportunity for a mental reset, to see the truth about a
situation, and to receive inspirations and realizations that we may not
have accessed before. On the down side, it may magnify nervous mental
energy, especially if we're already fretting over one thing or another.
For that reason, we want to remember to breathe, release, allow, and
remind ourselves that there is A
Plan In Effect.
ADDING to
the impact of the Sun-Mercury conjunction, it is activating the
influence of a fixed star called "North Scale." According to astrologer
Roderick Kidston, this star is said to carry the energy of the ancient
Egyptian goddess Maat, who personified truth, justice, and cosmic order.
As the Sun, Mercury, and North Scale align at 19° Scorpio on Monday, the search for truth deepens on many levels, potentially leading us to life-changing realizations.
Mercury's transit of the Sun will begin at 4:35 a.m. PST and will last about 6 hours from start to finish.
OUR FULL MOON on Tuesday occurs at 5:34 a.m. PST, when the Moon is at 19°51′
Taurus. You may recall that
this lunar cycle began with a very Uranian New Moon on October 27,
indicating that the month ahead would see unexpected developments that
could set us off balance and require us to look at some area of our
lives in a new way.
A
Full Moon is always a time of completion and reckoning, when we come to
terms or bring to fruition all that has transpired since the New Moon.
It can also be a time of illumination, given that the Moon is at the
brightest phase of its cycle.
AT THE TIME
of this lunation, the Sun and Mercury are separated by only two
degrees, so we can expect more revelations and significant
communications to take place. And, the Moon is at the same degree as the
asteroid Vesta, which represents devotion and service, especially of a
spiritual
nature. Astrologer Demetra George has written that when the Moon and
Vesta align, our capacity for "emotional rapport and sympathetic
understanding" is increased.
Supporting a harmonious unfolding of events—and a positive resolution to the issues that have set us off balance in the past two weeks—the
Full Moon is trine Pluto and Saturn, and in sextile aspect to Neptune.
These aspects will help us focus our intentions, open our hearts, and do
the work that needs to be done to achieve successful outcomes.
THROUGHOUT this week and next, the planet Jupiter is in alignment with the Galactic Center (GC), which is currently at about 27°05′ Sagittarius. Philip
Sedgwick, the acknowledged expert on the GC and many other cosmic
realities, tells us when we connect with the GC, we have "instant access
to a download of Divine Insight." The
access is so immediate, our only job is to "clear our mental decks, set the agenda and then do the hardest part of any spiritual exercise: Listen."
You
may have already been feeling this alignment building over the past
week or more, since Jupiter is currently less than two degrees from that
point and has already been amplifying its energies. According to Mr.
Sedgwick, "physical
sensations often accompany the flow of information: itching scalp,
burning in the
palms, gurgling stomach, heat in the back of the neck or at the base of
the spine, pressure on the temples of the head and overall tingling.
Sometimes a light-headed feeling, like that experienced after consuming
an excessive amount of sugar or caffeine."
THERE IS A CHALLENGE
involved in this download of brilliant insight: The GC can provides us
with information that is quite advanced, requiring that we let go of
existing concepts and perspectives, a process that is hard for most of
us. But how synchronistic, that at the same time Jupiter
is conjunct the GC, we have the Mercury transit of the Sun in Scorpio to
help us purge outdated thinking patterns.
Astrologer
Melanie Reinhart shares that when the GC is stimulated by a transiting
planet such as Jupiter, "A process of awakening is initiated. A time of
accelerated spiritual development occurs, with its attendant life
challenges which may include rapid change, separations, crisis, illness
and stress as outmoded ideas are released."
She continues:
"Expect
a major ‘life-review’ of a very particular kind. Density, opaqueness
and blockages within the mind the soul are being spun off, as in a
centrifuge. This is a perhaps useful image for the Galactic Centre—a centrifuge—where everything is spun away from the dark centre, revealing an empty space.
"This
‘empty space’ is where we are receptive to Grace, and like the black
holes said to reside at the core of the galaxy, it generates the
substance which will birth the new, individually and collectively."
These are profound times, indeed.
IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS THIS WEEK: If
you choose to take advantage of the opportunity, your journey takes you
to new spiritual heights and psychological depths this year. You have
the capacity to explore the truth of your being, to purge unwanted
emotional patterns and attitudes, and to
release them fully from your energy field, so that they no longer limit
your progress. The door is unlocked, but it is up to you to open the
door and walk through it. On the other side is a more expanded
understanding of your purpose and your place in the universe. (Solar Return Sun sextile Saturn, trine Neptune, sextile Pluto)
Pam
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