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The Shattering of Life As We Knew It (continued)The Plot Thickens Over the SummerMars passes by any part of its orbit about once every two years. All summer long, this planet of aggression was slow due to being "Retrograde" (apparent backward motion), moving back and forth in the neighborhood of a star in the constellation of Scorpio called Antares. The roots of this word are ant (like anti) = against, combined with Ares, the war god, a similar to the word Aries, the sign Mars rules and another name for Mars, as well. To look at them with the naked eye, Antares looks a little like Mars does when it's further from earth. This summer, Mars was about as near as it gets to earth, thus bigger and brighter. The ancient astrologers considered the combination of Mars and Antares to be a portent of war. And guess what was near Antares then (and now), too? Pluto! Mars came very close to Pluto in its backward march; together, they're a deadly combination. And in its back and forth Retrogradation, Mars passed the asteroid Chiron three times. The first time was on May Day, the second around Memorial Day, and the third time around Aug. 12. Mars was only 8 degrees beyond Chiron on Sept. 11th, still within the range considered effective. Chiron (known as the "Wounded Healer") relates to wounds and hurts, healing and teaching. Like Pluto, it's in Sagittarius, showing we can be hurt by our beliefs and religions or hurt through them. And this points again to air travel as another arena for trouble. What else is Mars up to? From mid-April through mid-October, it's in a condition called "out of bounds," kind of like stepping off the normal playing surface. Usually you think of the zodiac belt as the circle of the constellations, Aries through Pisces, that the planets travel around. These signs form the circumference of the zodiac belt. The belt has a girth, or width, as well. The planets do a wave pattern in parabolas above and below the center point of this girth, which is the celestial equator. Ordinarily, they stay with 23 degrees of the celestial equator, but once in a while, they exceed this and go "out of bounds." The energies associated with the planet go to an extreme or get out of control. In this case, it can signal Mars' happier associations: leadership, pioneering, male energy or physical fitness. But it can also mean extremes of Mars' Achilles' heels: selfishness, anger and aggression. Also, this summer, at its beginning at the Summer Solstice, we had a Solar Eclipse at 0 degrees of Cancer. A Solstice shows features of the season to follow (which lasts until the Fall Equinox on Sept. 22). A Solar Eclipse shows major events. At the time of the terrorist attack on America, Mars had just entered cool and calculating Capricorn and moved opposite (180 degrees from) the Solstice Eclipse degree. An opposition is a natural position of confrontation. Additionally, Mars entered the range of degrees in which it will oppose Jupiter, which exaggerates what it's in contact with. Jupiter rules foreign affairs, philosophies and religions, and air travel. It's in Cancer, the sign of home turf, and America's birth sign. On Sept. 11, Mars was poised to make its presence felt. <<Back Continue>>Home | Information Booth | Study Booth | Sales Booth | Janet Booth | Return to Top©2001-2008 Janet Booth for JanetsPlan-Its.com and AstrologyBooth.com |
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