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Scorpio New Moon Notes

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Okay, so, the New Moon is on my Neptune, so forgive me if I space out and miss the point entirely, but here goes. It’s exact at 24+ Scorpio at 19:14 UT. I wrote a little program to show local time zone equivalents which is here.

The Moon has its Fall in Scorpio. Traditionally a planet in its Fall would be considered to feel a bit “fucked up and far from home” in that sign, it’s the place where it’s least comfortable, and so where it can become insecure, defensive, frightened. In Scorpio, the style of dealing with this could well involve brooding, getting lost in the depths of emotion, analysing things to death, and perhaps deciding it’s safest to tear everything down and start again. These reactions are all about insecurity. This is definitely a time when “everything is a call for love,” however it may look.

The New Moon is exactly squaring Neptune in Aquarius, which therefore brings in Chiron and Jupiter which are still in conjunction with it. This is a reminder that, for the brave, all these deep feelings and reactions can have a spiritual/healing purpose. Scorpio is not afraid to feel its feelings, however scary they may seem, and Scorpio specialises in transmuting & transforming. Allowing yourself to feel things fully, watching without judgement, can result in them naturally passing through and healing; the only way round is through, what you resist persists etc. Gangaji offers an exercise for this, where you say “okay, despair, come.” It’s surprising.

This Moon also trines Uranus in Pisces (which is in mutual reception with Jupiter and Neptune in Aquarius), which again is an image of being deluged with water (emotion). Emotions are feelings in the body resulting from thoughts passing unbidden through the mind. They’re like weather.

We also have a mutual reception between the Sun in Scorpio and Mars in Leo, meaning this New Moon could also be viewed as a Moon-Mars conjunction in Scorpio. Feisty! My suggestion as usual is to be gentle with yourself and everyone else through this little storm, and to remember it will pass. Could well be a cathartic New Moon.

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Moon Phases

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

You can now list the phases of the Moon for any given year from the Moons page. You just need to click the checkbox. Thanks.

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Cancer New Moon

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

The New Moon is exact overnight at 11° Cancer 32′14″ at 2:18:35 UT on July 3rd (minor planet chart here).

This Moon is conjunct Ceres (2 degrees away), exactly trine Psyche in Scorpio, and exactly opposite asteroid 23, Thalia, in Capricorn.

There seems to be a cyclical theme; Moon in Cancer emphasises this, and Ceres, at her most basic level a fertility goddess, is also about natural cycles, in her case the seasons. In mythology Ceres’ cycles are intimately involved with Pluto, ruler of Scorpio, where we find Psyche exactly trining this lunation. Psyche had to journey to the underworld in her search for Eros, and Ceres was one who refused to help her. This setup has a deep, sensitive, easily hurt feeling to it.

I’ve seen Psyche in a few charts seeming to literally represent the study of the subject of psychology, and it is the root of that word, and Scorpio can also represent this. So I guess now’s a good time to embark on your psychology degree. But Psyche in the chart can also be a real emotional ache. The myth at one level is about trust — blind trust. Psyche’s troubles began when she “looked on the face of god,” wanting to know him, which caused her to loose him. This could be related to the idea of no-mind; the way direct, inexpressible experience can be perfectly beautiful until the mind comes in with its very helpful overlay of interpretations, questions, doubts etc. It’s common for people to experience a moment of blissful enlightenment, where their mind and ego disappear and all is one, and then immediately lose it as the mind comes back in. They then spend the rest of their lives trying to get that moment back. Good sex or the right drugs can yield the same experience. These are some of the things I think Psyche’s myth is about. The unfulfilled longing that you can’t seem to let go of has its roots in spiritual longing, but often manifests as longing for a particular person or thing forever. And of course we’ve all lived in bliss at some point and lost it, maybe in utero. The trine suggests there may be supportive New Moon energy for making some progress with this. Longing for external things is really longing to connect with the deeper Self, where we are all the same anyway, there’s really nothing “out there” that can actually make us happy for long.

And for some very necessary lightening up, we have Thalia, Greek muse of comedy, opposing the lunation from Capricorn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcLVIkpE8iM

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Taurus New Moon May 5th

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Taurus New Moon sometimes seems to be the cue for a lot of pseudo-spiritual bullshit about attracting personal wealth, but this lunation is exactly square Nessus in Aquarius.

The New Moon takes place at 15° Taurus 22′24″ tomorrow at 12:18:13 UT. Minor planet chart is here. It is conjunct asteroid Hephaistos and centaur Thereus; square Nessus and Nemesis in Aquarius; square Hebe in Leo and opposite Pandora in Scorpio.

Nessus is a centaur planet whose elongated orbit crosses those of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. He is most often associated with the dynamics of power and abuse, and in Aquarius is about those situations we are all collectively responsible for.

The symbolism of the orbit implies that Nessus somehow brings Neptune’s energy back in towards Saturn, where it can manifest in more concrete form. In which case you could say the deeper causes of what Nessus represents come from Neptune; big fat boundary issues and/or a lot of delusion and denial. All forms of abuse and neglect could be viewed that way.

Neptune of course has a positive side too, but it is impossible to access in the presence of the ego. The ego is the one that thinks it owns its money. Hence the camel and the needle. If everyone and everything in this world is part of you (the real Neptune), then taking care of all the parts, none more important than any of the others, automatically becomes the unified goal, and personal ownership cannot be conceived of. In theory Nessus could go for that, particularly in Aquarius.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2if5GYXOGyo

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Scorpio Full Moon Opposite Asbolus

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

The Full Moon is at 10:25:23 UT today at 0° Scorpio 42′52″. Minor planet chart here.

This Moon, exactly conjunct asteroid Klotho, is quincunx (simply cannot relate to) Vesta on the Aries point. It sextiles Pluto-Juno-Diana, which are all hovering near the cusp of Capricorn (all retrograde, squaring Vesta), and sextiles Saturn-Okyrhoe on the cusp of Virgo. The Sun, opposite at 0° Taurus, is conjunct centaur Asbolus and asteroid Phaethon. Thus we have a kite of Sun, Pluto, Saturn and Moon.

The kite formation would suggest the Moon is the way out of the mire. But to go back to basics, a Full Moon, Sun opposite Moon, symbolises a tension between spirit and soul, like an internal split, which can feel much like when you were a small child listening to Mum and Dad fight. There are various ways to approach an opposition, but Asbolus conjunct the Sun implies to me a sort of transcendent approach. Maybe. This is not how Asbolus is usually described, but I’m not talking about anything misty or Piscean. I mean seeing the paradox from a slightly removed perspective with absolute clarity, i.e., from a point somewhere above the chart. I think Asbolus can point you away from the struggle itself, back to the awareness that watches it (which is the one constant).

Asbolus used to watch the birds.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JSi3_izdRZE

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