Here’s what I said about this conjunction in the newsletter: “Earth also conjuncts Ceres today, suggesting that we should keep all our dealings strictly material today–if you can’t weigh it, hold it in your hand, or point to it in the physical …
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Wise Counsellors for Cancer, Leo and Virgo
You may have read some of my previous posts on the “tutelary deities” used by Roman astrologers. These came as a surprise to me when I read about them last year since I’d not come across them in any astrology texts or lectures that I’d attended previ…
Ceres, Food and Revolutions
Shopping for bread in the middle of a riot can be hectic. Tunisia.
Have you looked closely at your grocery bill recently? It’s gone through the roof in the last 12 months right. I’m sure inflation for food is way ahead of the official figure.So I was…
Juno And Mercury: Thinking About Commitment
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sun trine Ceres
Sun trine natal Ceres has a similar feel to the sextile, but where the sextile has the excitement of blossoming flowers, the trine is more about lying back and gorging on their sweet, ripe fruit. The problem then is the slide of the trine into complacency and decadence, then the bigger problem is natures cruel way of having to balance the books. So Ceres in trine aspect can be a little too much of a good thing. If also aspected dynamically Sun trine Ceres bestows great artistic creativity and sometimes musical genius. When you experience a particularly hot and halcyon summer, a normal winter will seem devastating in it’s bitterness by comparison. More evolved souls with Sun trine Ceres somehow know that their good fortune or gifts need balancing, so they impose onto themselves a “bleak winter” every now and then. These subjects will not shy away from trying to understand and help those in poverty, pain or suffering. A more materialistic Sun trine Ceres will define himself by accumulating wealth and being rather ostentatious, that is until a Pluto transit comes along and strips them of everything. Another manifestation of this aspect could be over identification with the mother […]
The Essence for 25 May 2011: Nature is a Woman
Here are the two most exciting Lunar periods for the 25th; since one is very early, I thought I should publish early, so you can take full advantage of it. 3 AM is the Moon’s sextile to Venus; Venus is … Continue reading →
The Essence for 18 May 2011: Does Mother Know Best?
Through the 18th the Moon makes a handful of sextiles, nothing of real influence. It isn’t until 6 PM Pacific that the Moon makes significant contact, a square to Ceres; this, though, may be monumental. The emotions and/ or intuition are faced with a…
Dominique Strauss Kahn: A Tragedy Unfolds
“That old black ram is tupping your white ewe.”Othello strangles Desdemona from OthelloOthello rose to the highest public office; he fell because of a fatal flaw, a personality defect so big that it opened its mouth and swallowed him.Right now we …
The Essence for 15 March 2011: A Point of Reckoning
7 AM-ish sees the transiting Moon complete a Finger of God with a base of Ceres and the North Node. This may be a point of reckoning for all of us concerning Mother Nature and the way in which she’s … Continue reading →
The Essence for 28 February-1 March 2011: Mother May I?
Ceres sits at the midpoint of the current Jupiter-Pluto square, feeding the pressure of the social and expansive in conflict with the dark, the secret, the mysterious, and the forces of change into issues of authority and the maternal or … Contin…