Astrology Tutorial: Sun and Earth Opposition

There's an astrological silence, an invisible hum that surrounds a polarity in every astrology chart: the opposition connecting the Sun and Earth. Almost nobody, astrologer or client, talks about the position of Earth in the astrology chart, even though it's so easy to find. Earth is always exactly 180 degrees from wherever the sun is in the chart.

Even though it's easy to find, using Earth's position in reading a chart immediately starts astrolger and client both focusing on the opposions that tell us an uncomfortable truth. The 12 signs of the zodiac are actually six pairs of signs, not twelve individual, unrelated images. They're yang and yin, indivisibe as the front and back of a five dollar bill.

I'm a Virgo sun sign, so the Earth is in the sign of Pisces in my chart. Where is it in yours? And what might embracing our Earth signs, so opposite to the dear behaviors so cherished in our sun signs, mean to each of us in terms of self-understanding and compassion? It sounds worth trying. And, as the last two posts suggest, Sedna would be pleased.

OH, maybe it's more (Virgo) honest to say that I, as Sedna's interpreter, would be pleased.

Maybe in some Piecean, oceanic, tidal way, she would, too.