1. The Road ahead, keep eyes open
Eyes on the Road — Sun enters Sagittarius Posted on November 20, 2012
by Len Wallick
The Sun enters Sagittarius at 4:50 pm EST tomorrow, with a reminder to keep your eyes on the
road. A road is a shared pathway between many points of departure and many destinations.
Every road comes with its rules of passage. Foremost among those rules is to leave the point of
departure behind and allow the destination to appear in its own time while being mindful of
where you are and what you are doing now.
The astrology has us all together at once on a pathway between eclipses. Scorpio’s retrograde
Mercury is your rear view mirror. An impending Capricorn solstice is your odometer about to roll
over. Both merit your attention. Neither is more important than the road.
After tomorrow, the road to keep your eyes on is Sagittarius. It is where the Sun will come out
on the other side of the November 13 Scorpio solar eclipse, in opposition to the Gemini Full
Moon for the lunar eclipse of November 28. It is where Mercury will return, in direct motion on
December 10.
Most of all, it is not the smooth, wide, straight road it used to be. Like nearly every other object
entering Sagittarius this year, the Sun will tomorrow find itself in an immediate square aspect to
Neptune, which is on the doorstep of Pisces for the first time since the 19th century.
Squares denote an inner tension that can easily be misconstrued to have its origin on the
outside. When Neptune is involved, errant perception is almost a given. Hence, the first day of
solar Sagittarius this year will require a measure of self control that this particular stretch of the
zodiac has not demanded within living memory, and that’s just so you can negotiate the foggy
on-ramp. Once the solar representation of consciousness is fully underway on the Sagittarius
turnpike, you will be heading for some curves and bumps that have only recently appeared to
awareness. Because any driver has responsibility for awareness, you should plan your trip now.
Two virtually fixed landmarks of Sagittarius are the core of our galaxy and a largely unknown
quality known as the Great Attractor. What they have in common is gravity, a lot of it, which
makes them a mixed blessing to encounter.
Gravity’s influence keeps you in contact with the road only as long as you are steering
mindfully and competently. Go off the road, and gravity is no longer your friend.
Therefore, be extra sure that your eyes and hands are where they should be when the Sun
conjoins first the Great Attractor on December 5, then the Galactic Core on December 18.
Before, during and after those gravitational phenomena, you may also expect to encounter
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2. some symbolic centaur bumps.
Of the known objects classified as centaurs, more than one third of them are currently
traveling through the one-twelfth of the zodiac known as Sagittarius. That’s a lot of
bumps in a short stretch of road. What they have in common is the concept of shadow
material.
All of us have some shadow material we have picked up from bumps in the road of life. None of
us are in any way less divine, sacred or worthy of love for having that baggage, but sometimes it
feels heavy.
The annual solar tour of Sagittarius gives us a chance to learn about how to take the bumps as
well as how to carry the baggage. Because Sagittarius will be a largely unprecedented and yet
shared path this year, it will be possible to take the learning a step further.
This year, the solar tour of Sagittarius is a special road. It is a pathway which all of us
together will travel all at once, coming from many points of departure, on the way to
many destinations. At eclipse crossings and retrograde intersections, as gravity adds to
your climbs and subtracts from your descents, and most of all, going over the bumps,
you will encounter not only others, but yourself in others.
It will be the chance of a lifetime to be one with others, and to realize that state is, in fact, the
only path. It will be the ultimate expression of journey as destination. That will happen, let
there be no doubt, but only for those who keep their eyes on the road. Offered In Service
Qabalist teacher Ann Davies told a story about a U.S. Army general negotiating with a cannibal
chief in New Guinea during World War II.
The general wanted the chief to rally his tribe to help American troops fight the Japanese. The
chief refused, calling the Americans immoral.
The general was shocked. “We are not immoral!” he protested. “The Japanese are immoral!”
The cannibal chief replied, “The Japanese and Americans are equally immoral. You both kill far
more people than you can eat.”
Using this tale as your impetus, describe how parts of your moral code may not be
rooted in an absolute standard of what’s good and evil, but rather bound by the
idiosyncrasies of your culture and historical era.
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Wednesday November 21 – Moon Meditation: “I am waiting for clarity…” Moon into Pisces…
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3. If you’re feeling confused about something, it’s really no surprise! Not only is the planet of
communications, Mercury, going backwards at the moment, but the Sun is headed for a clash
with the planet of confusion, Neptune. Put all that together and anyone who says they’re
100% sure of anything is quite possibly kidding themselves or not quite aware of the full
story!
So, if you’re feeling weirded out and not sure what to do, do nothing unless you absolutely have
to! And what if you have to? Be sure to decide based on an equal mix of logic and intuition!
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