Astrological Embodiment Of the Day – AEOD

5/26/2022 @11AM PST

These AEOD’s are intended as fun experiments. Please consult wherever you want/need to before partaking in any of them. The central postulate is that attempting to experience these astrological forces more directly with the body may assist us in learning to surf these ever-changing astrological waves with greater instinctual resonance. Currently, astrology seems somewhat trapped in the mental/theoretical. I hope these efforts assist the astrological community in exploring a wider territory. The embodiment exercises listed are just examples of infinite options. You could put all of these influences into form tweaks for one exercise, or one field of endeavor Ex: powerlifting, arm wrestling, ballet, ping pong, etc. 

Current Planetary Placements: Anatomical connections

Personal Planets (fast moving)

• Sun at 5 Gemini: core identity centers around arms, hands, shoulders, and lungs. 
• Moon at 24 Aries: current emotional tone resonating with head, face, eyes, and brain. 
• Mercury at 28 Taurus (Retrograde): thinking/communication centered in the neck, throat, and shoulders
• Venus at 27 Aries: magnetic attraction starts with the eyes, head, and face
• Mars at 1 Aries: action draws motivation from eyes, head, face, and brain. 

Social Planets (slower moving)

• Jupiter at 2 Aries: faith found in eyes, head, and face
• Saturn at 25 Aquarius: commitment and stability in the calves, ankles, and circulatory system

Transpersonal Planets (slowest moving)

• Uranus at 18 Taurus: electric liberation emanating from throat, neck, and shoulders
• Neptune at 25 Pisces: dissolving spirituality enters through feet, toes, and adipose tissue
• Pluto at 28 Capricorn: transformation begins in the knees, joints, and skeleton

Aspects – Actions: 

Mars Conjunct Jupiter; force of action in head allies merges with force of faith in head. 

• Make Faces: in a relaxed position, make various faces, exploring the cheeks, eyes, forehead, tongue, nose, jaw, etc as many ways as you can. Try to discover something new.

Moon Conjunct Venus; force of emotion in head merges with force of magnetism in head

• Makes faces in mirror, expressing various emotions as simply/purely as possible. 

Mercury Trine Pluto; forces of thinking in neck and transformation in skeleton connected via underground river

• Slow neck mobilizations support accessing transformations of the skeletal system. Move the neck through your current full ROM until your relationship with your skeletal system in that position has been transformed. Repeat in two other positions. Ex: standing, folded forward, squatting (“asian” style, just resting at the bottom). 

Venus-Moon Sextile Saturn – merged forces of magnetism and emotion in head allies with force of commitment in calves

• Focus on something you deeply wish to attract to yourself (as opposed to go get yourself). Once that focus has been established, spend time walking in search of a walking style that resonates with that deep desire. Think about each phase of gait from the ankles: weight bearing, leg swinging, pushing off, landing.

Today we’ll use the conflicting energies of the Square aspects by alternating the movements engaging the body regions of each placement.

Venus-Moon Squaring Pluto: Alternate expressing pure emotions with face in mirror (moon-venus in aries) and Multiplanar lunges/SLDL (pluto in capricorn). 5 minutes per exercise, 2 rounds each

Mercury Square Saturn: Alternate 1-leg balance with leg in various positions (saturn in aquarius) with slow neck/scap mobility (mercury in taurus). 5 minutes per exercise, 2 rounds each

Let me know of any interesting discoveries working with these embodiment practices, or any practices you come up with yourself! 

Surf’s up!