By David Ockrassa, The Looking Glass
The Aries Ingress is at 7:01 AM, EDT, this year. Nice when it happens that way, we can go to bed under the waning influence of Pisces and wake up to a new day with a new “flavor”, one of new beginnings, new effort, and truly a new dawn.
The Sun is joined in Aries by Mars and Uranus, so the potential is certainly there for action, and that action may be of the sort that breaks us away from old habits and old ways of doing things. Mars, the ruler of Aries, is always impatient, always wanting to get going, and figure out where later. Uranus, of course, wants to toss out the baby, the bath water and the bath tub – NOW! So with these two adding their feverish energy to the Ingress, we’ll want to get going on our new directions immediately. Quite a strong energy in this chart to start out – but to start out at what?
Let’s have a look at some of the other parts of this chart to get some clues.
We see a Grand Trine, with the Moon in Cancer trine Saturn in Scorpio, and both of these planets trine the Mercury – Neptune conjunction in Pisces, making what looks like an equilateral triangle across the chart. Trines always symbolize an easy blending of the energies of the planets involved (even when their energies are not easy with each other), and having so many of them between 3 or more planets would, at first, seem to mean a really easy time of it. But with the Grand Trine, it’s often the case that, although the energies do blend easily, it’s SO easy that we fail to actually use those energies, believing that the good things promised will just come to us without effort. While some of that may happen, if we actually put some effort into it, we can get a lot more out of it.
All of these are, of course, water signs, in contrast to the fire of the Aries Ingress and planets. So they can act to slow down the impetuosity of those, and to add some meaning and direction for the changes the Ingress brings. Water Signs tend to represent feelings, not action. But shouldn’t we consider feelings before taking actions that will affect them? I think the world would be a better place if more people did that!
The Moon in Cancer suggests that we’re currently comfortable dealing with issues of the home and family. Since the Moon is (widely) square the Sun, we may not feel like we want to make changes there, but it might be a reminder that whatever changes we make elsewhere, they can have a significant impact in that area of our life as well. And this square ties the entire Grand Trine into some tension that can help us to actually use the energy instead of just taking what comes.
Saturn, the stern school principal, brings his energy of (hopefully!) self-discipline to bear on shared resources. While he’s in Scorpio he also wants us to look beneath the surface, to not just take the first answer that comes. Examine the issues / situations for underlying themes and messages. “Fine” may not mean fine…
Mercury in Pisces wants us to dream, and his conjunction with Neptune emphasizes that energy.
Home and family are certainly full of shared resources and dreams, aren’t they? We leave our family of origin to build a new one, based on resources we share with our chosen partner, and dreams of a new life with them.
Since this is all in the Ingress chart, it seems that there is a strong push for us to honestly examine our home life (Saturn) to determine what’s been working and what hasn’t (or what hasn’t been working as well as we like!), to see if what we’ve been doing in that part of our life is enhancing our shared dreams or holding them back. With that in mind, we can use the brash Aries energy to make positive changes. But we need to hold the desire for immediate change back until after we’ve done the analysis. While Aries certainly wants to rush in before thinking, that’s usually not a productive way to go about changes that have a longer or wider effect. The square to the Moon asks us to temper that rash activity with consideration of how such action will spill over into other, possibly more stable areas of our life. It may or may not be appropriate, at this time, to toss out the bath water, but do think twice (or thrice) about doing the same with the baby or the tub!
Pencil these five planets around the outside of your birth chart to see what Houses are specifically activated for you. The house the Sun falls in will indicate the specific area of life that you want to start new things in. How would changes there affect you home life and your partner? Will they enhance the relationship, the shared dreams and resources? If so, then get on with it. If not, then is it possible to make changes to what you see as the needed changes, so they are beneficial?
Or perhaps what you see as the needed changes are not really what is needed for you at this time, just the feeling of urgency that Sun – Mars – Uranus in Aries brings with it.
Use the energies of the Grand Trine to get in closer touch to what is important to you in relation to your relations, to your shared security, shared resources, shared dreams. Perhaps take some time to re-identify what they are, since, over time, we all tend to fall into the routine and forget. Once you’ve done that, reexamine the changes you’re anxious to make and see how they fit in with that.
And only then, carry on!
