Venus entered cardinal Libra yesterday. Tomorrow, the Libra Sun squares the cardinal Capricorn Moon for an aspect known as the lunar first quarter. Today, you are in between, and thus in an excellent position to see a bigger picture.

For you, the big picture will begin with being mindful of (or at least willing to see) your personal connection with all things.

For you are indeed a child of the Universe as evinced by both the current astrology and recent scientific research.

The scientific research in question connects what you already know about the substance that makes up most of your physical body’s volume — water, to a bigger picture.

What you already know about water is that it circulates. It circulates through your body, distributing nutrients and removing toxins. 

Water also circulates from your body back into the world. Then, there is the big picture of the world’s water evaporating into the sky, and precipitating back to Earth (sometimes freezing or melting as part of the process).

A recently published study indicates an even bigger picture than Earth’s water cycle. The bigger picture evidently connects you with our entire galaxy, and possibly even the entire universe, through the water your body continuously exchanges with the world.

Astronomer Ilse Cleves, who led the study on probable origins of Earth’s water, concludes that a portion (at least) of the water in your body right now originated as “interstellar water-ice” circulating through our galaxy, predating and surviving the formation of our solar system.

Through its own modality of observation and correlation, astrology will often imply similar connections between cycles in your life and cycles representing bigger things in both the sky and on the zodiac. Now is one of those times.

By entering Libra, Venus invoked the continuum of its own and other objects’ motions through cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn) over recent years to interact with a bigger picture.

The bigger picture in question is a long series of seven exact cardinal square aspects (90 degrees of separation) from Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn that started in 2012, not to conclude until next year. Over the last several years you will almost certainly have been able to observe how the continuum represented by Uranus and Pluto repeatedly squaring up (and never truly moving out of orb in between) has correlated with your life.

To paraphrase an observation Eric has repeatedly made here on Planet Waves, the years during which Uranus will repeatedly and continuously square Pluto are defining our era. Beyond that, the fact that both Uranus and Pluto are in cardinal signs correlates with the continuous connection constantly being evinced between events in your personal life and the political events of this time in history.

Tomorrow, the Sun and Moon will reacquaint us with their own big picture from which the bigger picture of Uranus-square-Pluto is derived. That’s because the lunar first quarter provides the template through which astrology interprets all opening square aspects, including the current continuum between Uranus and Pluto.

The Sun and Moon at right angles to each other one week after their New Moon conjunction, and one week before their Full Moon opposition, serves as a template because you can see them plainly.

That’s how, weather permitting, you will see half-lit Luna near its highest point in the sky at sunset tomorrow, in tangible correspondence to the symbolic Sun and Moon simultaneously separated by 90 degrees on the zodiac circle.

By observing  both its contrast with the Sun’s position, and the contrast between light and dark on its own countenance, viewing the first quarter Moon often coincides with contrasts inside of you because the Sun and Moon correlate with the complementary constituents of your consciousness.

Appropriately, the Sun represents a form of consciousness with which you and others are familiar because it is readily seen. The Moon, for its part, corresponds to a no-less significant but probably less familiar form of consciousness that is more readily felt.

It is not so much that seeing a first quarter Moon brings on an often concurrent internal tension between the complementary parts of your consciousness. It’s more that the circulation of the luminaries (Sun and Moon) is visual evidence of a bigger picture in which your consciousness plays a part.

That’s how other square aspects, involving objects you can’t easily see (like Uranus and Pluto) are likewise apparent in their correspondences once you have the awareness astrology provides, and correlate that awareness with what you observe of yourself and the world.

In addition to awareness of how aspects between the Sun and Moon form a template for all aspects, astrology provides how each planet (much as with the solar and lunar relationship to consciousness) is an archetype representing and correlating with observable, real-world manifestations.

Additionally, being aware of the energetic field (or ‘sign’) through which the luminaries or any other given object are expressing can serve to make you aware of how the planetary archetypes are circulating in the context of, and effectively emulating, a bigger picture and greater whole.

Corresponding to the your actual experience in the tangible world, when the Sun enters a cardinal sign a new season begins for everybody on Earth all at once. So it is that any other object entering a cardinal field of expression (such as Venus did yesterday) indicates something beginning for everybody all at once according to the nature of that object.

Venusian archetypes (which include values and receptivity) tend to manifest on a personal level. Hence whatever happened for you yesterday that accords with the nature of Venus will probably have served to refresh your personal connection with all things — your starting point for perceiving a bigger picture through your personal experience with tomorrow’s lunar first quarter.

Then, as Venus circulates through Libra towards its own cardinal square with Pluto on Oct. 8 (the same day as a Full Moon and lunar eclipse), and a subsequent cardinal opposition with Uranus on Oct. 11, the bigger picture will probably develop as a larger manifestation of what you see and feel during tomorrow’s first quarter Moon.

Just like the circulation of water in your own body both models and emulates Earth’s water cycle, and beyond that, the circulation of interstellar water-ice in our galaxy (and probably beyond) allows you to glimpse a bigger picture through personal experience precisely because you are a part of it all.

Pretty cool, huh? So get started today by correlating how Venus entering Libra yesterday manifested for you. Then, prepare to observe what contrasts and tensions you see and feel tomorrow. From there, it will simply be a matter of proceeding from what you already know, to as big a picture as you are willing to see.

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