Sun in cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn both squaring Uranus in Aries!! That's a T-square that puts an immense amount of pressure on embodied freedom from a deep well of control at odds with a radiant everlasting sense of nurturing.

Life on Saturn moon? Discovery of hidden ocean on Titan  tantalizes.

Scientists already knew Titan has the  building blocks for organic life in abundance. Now, the discovery of a  underground sea with liquid water adds another intriguing element.

By  Pete Spotts, Staff writer / June 28, 2012

A global ocean appears to lurk  miles beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, adding to the allure of an
object rich with the building blocks of organic life and often likened to Earth  before life emerged.  Cassini has already found large lakes – most  likely made of hydrocarbons such as liquid methane – on Titan's surface. But a  team of scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft have now found indirect but  telltale signs of a subsurface sea, perhaps of water as well as ammonia, which  would act like antifreeze.

The data suggest that the ocean, perhaps more  than 15 miles deep, is sandwiched between two layers of ice, each less than 60  miles (100 kilometers) thick. It rides atop one layer of ice covering the moon's  rocky core and appears to be capped with another ice layer that forms Titan's  surface.

Titan has captured the imagination of scientists hunting for potential habitats for simple forms of life for decades. The temperature at  Titan's surface is unbearably cold, minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit. It is paved  with the methane ices and other organic solids on which Cassini's Huygens probe  landed on Jan. 14, 2005. Its atmosphere is thought to mirror the composition of  Earth's atmosphere before the emergence of life some 3.8 billion years ago.


As hostile as the surface seems to be, "liquids from below would enhance  the possibility of life being on the surface" as well as enhancing the  possibility of aquatic habitats deep beneath Titan's crust, says Dirk  Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University in Pullman with  a keen interest in Titan's potential habitability.

Thursday's report  represents "a nice step forward" in establishing an ocean's presence on Titan,  he says.

The new finding adds Titan to the growing list of moons thought  to have subsurface oceans. The icy surface of Jupiter's Europa is believed to  hide a vast ocean, and data from Cassini suggest a large, if not global, region  of water or slush under the icy sheath of Saturn's Enceladus. Neptune's moon  Triton may also have a subsurface ocean, and Ganymede and Callisto, two more  Jovian moons, also are though to have under-ice seas.

But Titan stands  out because researchers know that organic compounds are abundant there.


Researchers led by Luciano Iess, a scientist at the Universita La  Sepienza in Rome, used radio signals from Cassini to track changes in the effect  Titan's gravity has on the orbiter during flybys. These readings allow the team  to measure the strength of Titan's gravity in the regions Cassini  overflies.

This process allows researchers to "weigh the moon,  basically," says Sami Asmar, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in  Pasadena, Calif., and a member of the team that reported its results on  Sciencexpress, the web outlet of the journal Science.

If Titan was solid,  its gravity field wouldn't change. Even when the moon comes closest to Saturn on its elliptical orbit – experiencing Saturn's strongest tug – its mass would  remain fairly evenly distributed throughout the object.

But Titan's  gravity changes as it progresses along its orbit, the team found. The side of  the moon that always faces Saturn bulged as Titan made its closest approach to  the ringed planet.

"We caught Titan in the act of deforming," Dr. Asmar  says.

This tidal bulge represents a redistribution of material within the  moon's interior – a telltale sign that there is likely a fluid layer in the  moon's interior.

It is as though Titan's rocky core with its icy cover  was being drawn through the global subsurface ocean toward Jupiter as the moon  made its closest approach, creating the bulge.

The friction of the moon's  tidal interaction with Saturn generates heat, which could help sustain the  ocean's liquid state – as is the case within Enceladus and Europa.

The  observation of a global ocean beneath Titan's icy exterior is indirect, Asmar  says, "But it's real evidence."

link: :http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0628/Life-on-Saturn-moon-Discovery-of-hidden-ocean-on-Titan-tantalizes.-video

Here's a picture of the chart right now relative to San Francisco. The moon entered Scorpio about an hour ago so if you've noticed others eying you with a certain suspicion, well, don't take it do personally...that sensitive Scorpio moon thinks it has a lot to protect. Be loyal to that side of you an other's that feels as though the rug may be pulled out from below at any moment. It just may you know?!?

Check out the astroid Palas Athene joining Uranus in its 1st quarter square to Pluto! Wisdom and freedom at odds with power and control. Where will the agreement be made? Will these forces grate against one another until cataclysm or will they unify to transform the mental landscape. What will we do? Only time will tell.

Moon near star Spica and planet Saturn on June 27 and 28

From EartSky

See two bright star near the moon on June 27? They are (or were) the star
Spica and the planet Saturn. The chart at the top of this post shows the moon,
star Spica and planet Saturn on June 28, 2012. Look for them to pop out quite
close to the waxing gibbous moon as soon as darkness falls or any time this
evening.


As seen from North American latitudes, Spica and Saturn appear to the west
(right) of the moon on June 28. But as viewed from northerly latitudes in the
Eastern Hemisphere – Europe, Africa, Asia – the moon is seen closer to Spica and
Saturn than it is in North America. At temperate latitudes in the Southern
Hemisphere, you’ll see the moon, Spica and Saturn high in the northern sky at
early evening.


No matter where you live, Spica, the brightest star in the constellation
Virgo, is the closer of these two bright lights to tonight’s moon. Saturn – the
sixth planet outward from the sun – lies to the north of
Spica.
 
Mentally note the moon’s position relative to Spica and
Saturn on these nights, then check out the moon’s position again tomorrow night.
You’ll see that the moon has moved eastward of these bright lights – or in the
direction of sunrise. The moon moves full circle in front of the constellations
of the Zodiac in about four weeks, but slow-plodding Saturn takes nearly 30
years to circle the Zodiac.


If you have a hard time telling the star Spica from the planet Saturn, look
at them through binoculars. Saturn looks yellow or golden in color. Spica
radiates blue-white. Or try to tell which object is twinkling more. That’ll be
the star. Best of all, try looking at Saturn with a telescope, if you have one.
Even a backyard telescope enables you to view Saturn’s glorious
rings.
 
At present, Saturn’s rings are inclined our way at a little
more than 12o from edge-on, near their minimal inclination for the year.
However, the rings will begin to open up more widely, starting in late July and
early August. By the end of this year, the tilt of the rings will have increased
to nearly 19o.
 
That’s this Thursday night, June 28, 2012: The star
Spica and the planet Saturn near the waxing gibbous moon. They are near the moon
on June 27, too.

Hete's the chart for today and it has some very interesting energies.

First and most central to the theme of lunation is the first quarter square sun in cancer moon in libra. This is the "crisis in action" square according to the great Rudhyuar and the crisis looks to be how to maintain a feeling of inner safety and security while fullfulling the emotional duty to others?!?! A big and powerful question for the day or two passed and ahead so if you've felt any energy like that, well like it or not your probably right on track!

What's the best thing to do with an internal battle such as this? I have found that finding a way to move beyond my own fixed ideas of right and wrong (the model of reality I may be working with at a given time), relax them just enough so that I can avoid unnecessary conflict. What can I compromise? Am I seeing the other reality tunnel in this conflict?

Thinking reality tunels/relationships is especially useful right now with Venus still retrograde in Gemini. Venus of course if the psychological, archetypical energy of relationship, Gemini is the same for thinking, mental constructs, and communication, and retrograde is a counterpoint, the function is turned inward rather than out. Venus retrograde in this respect correlates to the Taurus side of Venus, the act of Venus finding survival needs, values, and self-worth. This is an act of inner reflection.
 
So what is your reality structure of realtionships? What do you need to be in healty relationship with another? I beleive this is the last day of retrogradation for Venus. That doesn't mean the effects will simply vanish though as there is the necessary return process, Venus moving back towards the point it began its apparent movement backwards.  

First there was a Solar eclipse at the Gemini New Moon (http://www.trinityastrology.com/1/post/2012/05/new-moon-gemini.html) and now a lunar eclipse at the Full Moon in Sagitarius. The meanings of stellar events such as these can be so powerful and yet so subtle that it is important to sit and review events that lead to and occurred during the phases in order to best create the present and future. What astrology can do at times like this (and what I have found to be its best tool) is articulate where the events and circumstances may occur (what area of life experience) and how they may manifest within.

With this Full Moon Lunar eclipse happening on the Gemini/Sagittarius axis the where, especially with some special Venusian dynamics is relationships, and the how is anything that has to do with information collection and organization of said information into greater truths. Huh? Well what are your ideas about relationships? Or conversely what is your relationship to certain ideas? Either one of these area's of life and the multitude of ways that they appear and express themselves will be not only highlighted but someting more...something about it will be spotlighted...it will become obvious how important this something is to either bud or decay.

I refer to relationship here in its most organic sense: relationship to another of course in the most intimate sense but also relationship to beleifs, institutions, ideas, organizations, or nature. Why and how do I feel about my relationship in or with any of the above? Where has the energy been of late? Has there been a struggle or a strenghtening? Since the Full Moon (realization) is an opposition (Sun/Moon) look for (possibly) sudden insight or a moment of clarity around an issue that may have been struggling for recognition that will require a fusion of the logical with the intuitive to get there. There can be a tendency to value one over the other of ordered, linear, logical thought process (Mercury/Gemini) versus intuitive, thoughtfull, or gut instinct (Jupiter/Sagittarius). Perhaps one is innately strong in one over the other or, as in many cases in our world, conditioned towards a particular bias, either way the trick is to find the common ground between the two styles of intelligence in order to understand what needs understanding at this time. Planets at 14 degrees Sagittarius (my 2nd House Mercury is there)? Expect some sort of shock in this area of li