New Moon November 9, 2007
6:03 pm EST
Scorpio Moon and Sun 17:10
Our New Moon, cast for the east coast of the USA, has a distinctly Virgo cast to it. Mercury, Vertex, Sun, Moon and Juno all fall in the sixth house of routines, rituals, habits and daily activities. Mercury rules the chart as the Ascendant is found on the world axis of seven Gemini ~ joined to the part of fortune smack on the Ascendant of the chart. That which we partner with becomes us! That which describes how we spend our days determines our life and our path through the world! We co-create our lives by our daily choices and routines.
Mercury recently turned direct but still finds himself in his retrograde shadow. On this new moon, Mercury is at the point of the 28 Libra, the same degree as the Saturn Pluto conjunction from Fall 1982. Back to then in time, we go to see a larger cycle of our life moving into a new direction. Remember what was going on back then in your life (or the life of your parents if you were not born or were young)? We started a new Saturn and Pluto cycle in partnership with creating our life. We recently had Saturn and Pluto in their closing trine from that conjunction ~ August 6, 2007. (Their opposition was the events around 9-11.) The next aspect up for Saturn and Pluto is their square in November of 2009. We are working with Saturn and Pluto separating trine energy. While Saturn and Pluto will each dance back and forth in early earth signs, they don‘t actually complete a formal trine in early earth even as they flirt with one. However, Saturn is the ruler of Pluto in Capricorn! Saturn is going to be in charge of the world once Pluto moves into Capricorn and starts answering to Saturn instead of to Jupiter. So how we do our Saturn work, and what we begin under this new moon and the next new moon is going to seed the next 13-year journey of Pluto through Capricorn. Yep, it is that big! Be conscious! Be careful what you plant!
Saturn ~ in VIRGO ~ what we do in our daily routines ~ is going to set the pace, focus, direction and purpose of our next 13 years of Pluto in Capricorn. That is very good or very bad news depending on how you want to look at it. For those of us who think that things miraculously appear, the universe is saying No, things happen because of a series of choices and actions. See the action, see the result. It is ALL CONNECTED and concrete, solid, earth. We gain weight if we over eat. We lose weight if we eat less. We write our book if we do a bit of writing every day. We dream of a book that never appears if we never sit down and put our fingers on our keyboard or place pen on the paper and move our hand. Virgo is about showing up, day by day, minute by minute, and doing the work. The sloggy parts of the job too.
Now for the good news: Jupiter and Pluto JOIN at 28:23 Sagittarius in early December right past that closing fire trine of August when Saturn and Pluto were at 26:33 Leo/Sadge. We have the two planets of society, the community, the collective, the karma, the results of things, the authorities, the good and the bad, the expansion and the contraction, luck and loss, Jupiter and Saturn, joining with Pluto at virtually the same degree of Sagittarius. And, perhaps more importantly, the three of them are all bunched up on the Galactic Center of the Universe. To me that union of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto at virtually the same degrees, only separated by 3 months of time (which to the cosmos is less than an butterfly’s eye blink) sextile to the 1982 conjunction of what we partner with we create (Saturn and Pluto in late Libra) is profound. It signifies a MAJOR shift in consciousness available for all of us if we choose to take advantage of it. Again, free will ~ that if “we choose” part is critical to the equation! It is a SEXTILE ~ we have to choose to exercise sextiles! Sextiles do not do anything or make stuff happen without a bit of energy applied to them. We have to ask them to work. However, IF you apply energy to those sextiles in your or any chart, they, very nicely, in a 6th harmonic way, create the change we need to move forward in our lives.
Next year, Jupiter and Saturn dance back and forth, three times with each other in earth signs, a trine between Virgo and Capricorn. We have to work at stuff to make it happen. However, the combination of Jupiter and Saturn in Earth in a trine with the advantage of the sextile between the two of them and Pluto means we can transform things rather radically, should we choose to do so. Again, the should we choose is critical here.
Right now, under this new moon is the time is for planning, deep planning and evaluating what you want to do with your life! Our Scorpio parts will dig in with their intensity under the new moon! Next month, the new moon at 17 Sagittarius takes place two days (or cosmic fractions of a hummingbird second) before the Jupiter/Pluto conjunction in Sagittarius setting the stage for the next 13 years. That new moon is also in aspect to the September new moon eclipse and transiting Uranus in the teens of the mutable, life changing, end of cycle sign Pisces. To have a change, we have to dream the possibility of a change first.
Do not let your dreams under this moon be limited by what the old processes and procedures are or were! Be a bit radical. Be dairing. Be bold and brave. Seek your dreams and hopes out from when you were young. Seek the energy of change in your life. Say what you want. Ask the heavens. In the fall, after the leaves fall from the trees and we can see through the woods that surround the roads we drive. We come to understand that what the trees have hidden with their foliage all summer long is exposed for the entire world to see. We can see what is hidden by the trees ~ the houses, the landscapes, the land, the streams, and the frolicking deer. Look at your life in such a manner under this new moon. What is normally hidden behind the trees? What is exposed now for the world to see since the leaves have fallen in your life? It is okay! Honest. It is okay. It is as it is supposed to be. You have to look! Fall is a season that permits us to see that which is normally hidden by the rush of life and the cover of green life. Scorpios ALWAYS see through to the secrets hidden in the brush. The nice part about this new moon is we all are honorary Scorpios. We can ALL see through to the secrets hidden in the brush.
The good part of this moon is we being able to see what is hidden behind the trees in our lives. The leaves have fallen ~ or will fall darn soon as Sun moves past his closing square to Neptune in a couple of days. Moreover, NOW that we have seen, we can never go back. So what do we want to do about it? That is the most important question you will answer for yourself for the next 13 years of your life! Be wise. Be brave. Move toward what you want. At least think about, make a list and plan what you want. Thirteen years is a darn long time to be stuck doing something you do not love. It also can be fabulous if you are doing something you love.
So what do you love!? What is your Saturn. We both know you love him even if he does make you nervous. Make sure to go and do a bit of what you love each and every day. Make it a habit. Make it part of your life. Do your Saturn. Give yourself permission to create the life you want to have.
A QUIET PATH THROUGH WOODS BRILLIANT IN AUTUMN COLORING
Commentary: ‘A Quiet Path Through Woods Brilliant in Autumn Coloring’. The ‘Quiet Path’ is the ‘Path’ that one should, or perhaps must, take in order to finish something or accomplish some mission. The ‘Autumn’ leaves are a symbol of change – the energy of the recent growth is returned to the earth in preparation for the next growing season. There is a feeling of transition as the leaves decay into the vegetation.
Oracle: In the situation facing you, fruitful success is now behind you. It is the dramatic preparation for change that has resulted from the fruits of your
labor that surrounds you now
. It is now either on or just after harvest time and everything is changing. Take a deep breath and infuse yourself with nature’s gifts. This Symbol can also represent the opportunity to consider and reflect on the success of your recent activities. If there hasn’t been success or productivity then there is nothing more that can be done as the “season for harvest” has now finished. Winter is coming and with it the need to recuperate and restore energy. It is time to let the past go and prepare for making new plans. Whether your “harvest” has been successful or not, there will be many lessons and benefits from what has occurred. This Symbol is about the opportunity and maybe even the need to take time to quietly appreciate this shift of energy.
Keywords: Rewards of plenty. Transformations through the different seasons of one’s life. Overcoming battles and disappointments, and finding peace. Layers of personality issues flaking off with maturity. Gardens, sometimes off the beaten track. Taking time out to reflect on nature. Walks. The feeling of change in the air. Mature and elegant responses. Warm. Rich colors. Memories and memoirs.
The Caution: Being too late for the harvest. Concentrating on the past. Being oblivious to nature’s beauty. Resisting the flow of the seasons.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Charles Hare
What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. Edwin Way Teale
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? Dr. Seuss
Two roads diverged in a woods, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
For my part, the longer I live the less I feel the need of any sort of theological belief, and the more I am content to let unseen powers go on their way with me and mine without question or distrust. John Burrough
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. John Burroughs
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright ©2007 Anne Ortelee
