Post Valentine Blues?

Beginning February 15 (and in effect until February 18) Venus and Mars join the antiscia of Saturn|Neptune on the cardinal axis. These planets fall symmetrically around 0 Cancer. Their current approximate planetary positions are: Venus 10 Aries, Mars 19 Virgo, Saturn 29'30 Libra, and Neptune 0'30 Pisces. 

While Venus|Mars would typically signify something quite desirable, with Saturn|Neptune the passion is obscured. More general themes related to SA|NE are sensitivity, as in psychic sensitivity or paranoia and irrational fear, sometimes illness or lack. The high side of SA|NE is making the ideal real, and bringing the spiritual into the mundane. With VE|MA added to the equation, there could be a feeling of love lost or destroyed or may be experienced as a lack of creative or sexual energy and drive.

An alternative to feeling loss of love or a lack of passion is to direct one's attention to devotional activities or to doing something of service for someone in need. VE|MA can be very devotional in and of itself (as they are the primary and secondary trigon (or triplicity) lords for the three Water signs) and may be made more so with SA|NE.  

It's a good time to remember to be extra gentle and compassionate with yourself and with others. 

Renunciate or Whiner?

Saturn and Neptune are in antiscia, now through early April. This planetary pair came within a half degree of exactitude on January 24 and will remain in close antiscion until April 8 2012. From mid February to mid March the potency of this combination will be at its most intense.

merging what is ideal with what is real

fact or fiction

loss of structure or boundaries dissolving

divine truth

spiritual practice or chronic illness

 

make it real 

ANTISCIA Feb/2012

Your monthly installment of planetary antiscia and contra antiscia is here.

Bold dates indicate the strongest day for a particular planetary expression. Dates showing only one planet indicate its ingress into a Cardinal sign (or 15 degree Fixed), i.e. it is sitting directly on the Cardinal axis and so should feature prominently that day. Those marked with an asterisk are antiscia formed around the midpoint of two Cardinal signs, which is always at 15 degrees Fixed. Those with a (c) indicate contra antiscia and are symmetrical arrangements around the Aries/Libra axis.

February 2012

1^st–29^th – Saturn|Neptune

4^th – Sun *

4^th – Sun|Mercury *

5^th – Mercury *

5^th, 6^th – Venus|Uranus (c)

7^th, 8^th – Venus

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th – Mars|Pluto *

11^th – Mercury|Jupiter (c)

13^th, 14^th – Mercury|Saturn *

13^th, 14^th, 15^th – Sun|Jupiter (c)

16^th, 17^th, 18^th – Venus|Mars

18^th, 19^th, 20^th – Sun|Saturn

21^st – Mercury|Venus (c)

25^th – Mercury|Pluto *

25^th – Venus|Node *

26^th, 27^th – Sun|Venus (c)

28^th, 29^th – Mercury|Uranus (c)

ENJOY! 

ANTISCIA Jan/2012

Antiscia are reflections or shadow points arranged symmetrically around zero degrees of any of the four Cardinal signs - Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn. Antiscia and contra-antiscia have been noted and utilized by astrologers since at least the 4th century; Julius Firmicus Maternus mentions antiscia in his Mathesis. Because these arrangements fall around the Cardinal axis, and all life on earth moves in sync with and is affected by seasonal change, planets in antiscia and contra-antiscia are thought to manifest powerfully in the world.

To use the list below, simply blend the meanings of the planets in combination. Bold dates indicate a day of strongest expression. Dates showing only one planet indicate its ingress into a Cardinal sign (or 15 degree Fixed) i.e. it is sitting directly on the Cardinal axis and so should feature prominently that day. Those marked with an asterisk are antiscia formed around the midpoint of two Cardinal signs which is always at 15 degrees Fixed. Those with a (c) indicate contra-antiscia, a symmetrical arrangement around the Aries/Libra axis.

January 2012

1^st – Venus *

1^st–20^th – Jupiter|Neptune (c)

2^nd, 3^rd – Mercury|Pluto

7^th – Mercury|Uranus *

7^th, 8^th – Mercury

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, 13^th – Mars|Pluto *

12^th, 13^th – Venus|Jupiter (c)

13^th – Mercury|Mars

14^th, 15^th – Venus|Saturn

16^th – Sun|Venus *

20^th – Sun|Neptune *

21^st – Mercury|Venus *

25^th, 26^th, 27^th, 28^th, 29^th, 30^th, 31^st – Saturn|Neptune

27^th – Mercury|Neptune *

31^st – Venus|Pluto *

ANTISCIA Dec/2011 Jupiter+Neptune=Uranus... cont.

The long-standing contra-antiscia of Jupiter|Neptune to Uranus (at 0 Aries) continues to persist through all of the month of December. Keywords for Ju|Ne include: pretend or false luck, faulty investments, and hypocrisy. Uranus signifies surprises, breakthroughs or breakdowns, and earthquakes (literally and/or figuratively). In the book Rules for Planetary Pictures, Alfred Witte described this combination, Jupiter + Neptune = Uranus, as: a sudden collapse, bankruptcy, in addition to, suddenly getting money which is easily earned - sounds like fake money flooding the banks to me. Further into December another somewhat long-standing antiscion occurs between Saturn|Chiron, in Libra and Pisces respectively. 

Planetary antiscia for December 2011

1^st - 31^st – Jupiter|Neptune = Uranus (c)

7^th – Sun|Venus

8^th, 9^th – Venus|Node

9^th – Venus|Mars *

14^th, 15^th – Sun|Pluto

16^th, 17^th – Mercury|Venus

18^th, 19^th, 20^th, 21^st, 22^nd, 23^rd, 24^th, 25^th, 26^th, 27^th, 28^th, 29^th, 30^th, 31^st – Saturn|Chiron

21^st – Sun|Uranus *

21^st, 22^nd – Sun

31^st – Sun|Mercury

31^st – Sun|Mars *

To use this list, simply blend the meanings of planets in combination. Bold dates indicate the strongest day for a particular planetary expression. Dates showing only one planet indicate its ingress into a Cardinal sign (or 15 degree Fixed) i.e. it is sitting directly on the Cardinal axis, and so should feature prominently that day. Those marked with an asterisk are antiscia formed around the midpoint of two Cardinal signs, which is always at 15 degrees Fixed. Those with a (c) indicate contra-antiscia, a symmetrical arrangement around the Aries/Libra axis, which like contra parallel may be more stressful or unstable.

Antiscia refers to reflections or shadow points symmetrically arranged around zero degrees of any of the Cardinal signs - Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn. Antiscia has been noted and utilized by astrologers since at least the 4th century; Julius Firmicus Maternus mentions antiscia in his Mathesis. Because these are arrangements falling around the Cardinal axis, and all life on earth moves in sync with, and is affected by, seasonal change, planets in antiscia and contra-antiscia are thought to manifest powerfully in the world.