New Moon February 17, 2007

New Moon February 17, 2007

11:14 am EST

8: 14 am PST

28:37 Aquarius Sun and Moon

The new moon invites us to examine our assumptions to see where our vision of our life is different than what we’d like. New moons always ask us to reflect on endings in our lives as well as offering the promise of a new beginning. Mercury is retrograde, after recently passing a retrograde conjunction with Uranus, offering an awakening of our consciousness. We’ve figured out important concepts during the lunation that recently ended as Mercury stationed and Sun formed aspects with Saturn and Neptune. Whatever important (to you and your life) insights arrived over the past few weeks, the time is NOW to put them into practice and work towards incorporating that new knowledge into your being and life.

A new moon at the very end degrees of any sign indicates a new beginning built on the shoulders of the insights that took place during the journey that occurred before it. Such is the case for this lunation. We’ve been undergoing a long journey around the areas in our lives and our charts that are fixed and not so open to change. We tend to be fixed in our fixed places. Funny aobut that. Our fixed areas of life are a good thing. However, times change and our fixed areas need to change too. So the point of the journey over the past two years has been to examine, modify and incorporate the fixed areas (after all, they ARE profound parts of our being) into our lives in a slightly different way. Fixed areas of our charts provide the stability we crave as creatures of habit. However, we can become a bit dusty and stuck in those very ruts that provide such comfort on planet earth.

The purpose of every chart is to evolve past the energy that preceded it in the sky or universe or cosmos. As children of our parents, we evolve past them. As parents of our children, our children evolve past us. As we incarnate, we inherit (because we are supposed to) our parent’s problems and inhibitions. Numerous phrases such as “sins of the father” and “chip off the old block” remind us of this “fact”. Our charts reflect where our PARENTS were in their lives, at the very moment when WE were born. We inherit the situation(s) they are experiencing in their life as the blueprint for our lives. (So, yes, you can blame your chart on your mother and father!) We inherit their belief systems ~ they are describe by our chart! Our chart is part and parcel of our DNA. We also inherit their inhibitions which we call our Saturn. We incarnated into this darn chart we call our own. We spend the rest of our lives figuring out how to work within it.

A parent’s job is to pass their insecurities and fears to their child, to each of us. We got their fears. They are described by our charts! That is how they keep us alive enough to grow up and live our own current lives. We are little people in their world, hearing, seeing and experiencing what they are going through. We attempt to make sense of it. Making sense of it can be hard, as we know the RULES but not the reasons for those rules.

The past couple of years have been about understanding the rules of the game you inherited in your chart. You’ve been looking at why and how you play the game of your life. Do you LIKE the rules? Do you AGREE with the rules? Are they EVEN YOUR RULES? If they are your rules, great. If they aren’t your rules, even better. The point is to be CONSCIOUS of what the rules are, in YOUR version of the game, and TO PLAY YOUR BEST GAME!

Once I was complaining once to my younger sister about how I, as the oldest, had to forge the way with our parents while she, as the youngest, essentially skated through getting whatever she wanted. To my mind, she got stuff ‘early’ that I had fought hard won battles for! I was looking for a bit of appreciation and gratitude from her for my role as her older sister and the fighter of battles of childhood.

She said to me, “Well, those things weren‘t that important to me! They might have been important to you! But I didn‘t care if I got to shave my legs or wear nylons before Easter in 8^th grade!” She got to wear nylons in FIFTH grade! I was stunned. She, then, wisely added, “Besides, I watched you and Barney (my brother) so I KNEW HOW TO NEGOTIATE with mom and dad. I learned what the rules were before I needed to use them. And, as a result, I was able to “skate” through life as you so nicely put it.” And then she laughed at me, as younger sisters are prone to do.

However, she WAS right. We take for granted and look for appreciation and medals for the battles that were so hard won for US. We fail to understand that just because WE fought a battle, doesn’t mean the next person up has any need or responsibility or even any desire to fight the same battle. It isn’t their battle. And, often, they don’t much care about our battles, frankly. They have other fish to fry.

On this lunation, the cosmos are going to be talking to you about the battles you’ve fought which you need to put down. You need to put them down to go skate through the rest of your life. You aren’t going to forget those battles. However, you don’t need to hold the resentment of not being able to shave your legs or wear nylons before Easter in 8^th grade. You need to take that experience (and IT WAS AN IMPORTANT EXPERIENCE) and integrate it into your life in a new way.

For me, the battle for wearing nylons was important. I help people learn how to negotiate with the energy in their charts to get what they want in their life. I cheerlead them on to be first and take risks to live their best lives, even if no one else thinks they can get it. My early training as oldest (and bossiest) required me to learn skills to do THAT job as I negotiated and argued to get nylons. My sister, was born into a tribe of people (four of us preceded her arrival on earth and into our family). Her job is to work with groups and get them to all move in the same direction, know the rules, learn how to maneuver within the rules and make sure to take advantage of any openings to get what you want ~ she is a NCAA Division 1 College Basketball Coach. See how wonderfully the world works? We both, in the same family, received the training we needed to live our best lives.

So the past couple of years have been about helping you understand how the fixed areas of your life and your chart gave you the skills you need to create the life you want IN THE FUTURE. The discoveries you’ve made about your Saturn have contributed. Your understanding of your strengths and weaknesses around the fixed issues and your Saturn have helped. And now, you need to put down the FEARS from those battles ~ especially the battle from 1982/83. That battle made you a bit skittish. It was part of your training but it doesn’t have to make you afraid any more. You survived it.

So, now, gently, and kindly on this new moon, just do your best work to love your Saturn and support it. Your Saturn wants to go forward and create YOUR life. Not the life your parents wanted or feared or avoided or scared you from living. YOUR life! Not their life. Time for you to change and move toward and into your new life. Think about “The Metamorphosis”, the story by Franz Kafka. The protagonist awakens to find himself transformed into an insect. He dies as a result of his family’s neglect and his own failure to act. The metamorphosis portrayals the problems of his family life and acts as a metaphor for the ability to transform our lives, IF WE GIVE OURSELVES PERMISSION to be who we are supposed to be!

Yes, it is hard! But, you are SO ready! So give yourself a bit of permission to dance in the energy of the hopes and dreams of the new moon. The Venus square to Pluto says you need to be brave. Maybe not this particular situation but a situation soon will be what you want in your
life. The Mars in Capricorn
on the world axis asks you to announce to the heavens what you want and start to work toward it! Neptune and Saturn opposite to each other point out how the limitations we agree to create our limitations. Neptune and Saturn also point out how we can create the HIGHER version of our hopes and dreams instead of dissipating our energy and feeling blocked by the naysayers in our world.

The North Node is approaching Uranus in Pisces. Some one dreamed that it was possible to do a double luxe, run a four minute mile, sail around the world, fly like a bird and land on the moon. And, after their dream happened, the reality was created. As the node moves closer to Uranus, your dreams are calling. What is the dream you want to create in your life? Time to go for it.

The Sabian Image for Aquarius 29 and Lynda Hill’s interpretation is profound and seems to match the work we‘ve all been doing in our lives over the past few years. A BUTTERFLY EMERGING FROM A CHRYSALIS

Commentary: ‘A Butterfly Emerging From a Chrysalis’ is nothing less than a complete emergence into a new life and total transformation. It’s facing a whole new beginning and an entirely new life from what it has previously known. The ‘Butterfly’, after it struggles to ‘Emerge’ from its ‘Chrysalis’, takes a moment to stretch its wings and orient itself. It has shrugged off its ‘Chrysalis’ and is free to take flight when the moment is right.

Oracle: Like an awakening, you may feel that you are suddenly able to do something that truly reflects your inner self and what you’ve always wanted or meant to become. Things have been developing within you that reflect who you truly want to be. There will need to be care taken with this great effort of birth and rebirth to ensure a smooth transition into another dimension of life. With this brand new start, you will be able to realize many more of your talents and potentials, even the “latent” ones. What have you been storing up and learning and what do you assess your life’s purpose to be? There is likely to be an awakening to a whole new field of opportunity, and this can be very exciting, although somewhat confusing and confronting. A cautious, but hopeful, attitude at first would help you to ease into it. There can be nervousness here, a feeling of having to “find one’s feet”. It may be a good idea to take a moment to adjust to any new developments before taking flight. There can be some pain involved in the birth of the new, but if one has faith in a new beginning, this is soon forgotten and life takes on a whole new meaning. Events often happen to us to help us come out of ourselves in a more meaningful and beautiful way. Seeing each event as an opportunity for rebirth can lead to new depths of life that you’ve possibly only previously imagined. Imagine the beauty that is coming through in the birthing of these new wings and this new life.

Keywords: Slow building of confidence. Coming out into a fuller participation in the bigger picture. Growing up and out. Emerging from the dark. Leaving yesterday behind. Becoming more and more beautiful. Finding one’s feet or wings. Metamorphosis. Huge changes in the works. Giving up struggling. The drama of new life unfolding.

The Caution: Failing to allow changes to be experienced. Feeling like one will never “arrive”. Struggling to emerge ahead of time. Feeling confined. Being tied to the past. Rushing leading to disorientation or injury.

The interesting thing about Butterflies is they COME from Caterpillars! Do you think a cute little caterpillar chewing on a blade of grass knows she is going to turn into a butterfly? Nope, probably not. However, once the call comes to spin that cocoon and nestle in to a quiet time to turn into a butterfly, she follows the call. She spins the cocoon. Suddenly, she has parts that shoot silk threads out of them! Who knew! She climbs into the cocoon. She metamorphoses over time. She emerges a butterfly. Metamorphoses is defined as

1. a change of physical form: a complete or marked change of physical form, structure, or substance. the overnight metamorphosis of the pond water into ice

2. change of appearance or character: a complete or marked change in appearance, character, or condition

3. supposed supernatural transformation: a transformation caused by supposed supernatural powers

4. transformed person or thing: somebody or something that has gone through a complete or marked change

5. zoology change in animal form: a complete or marked change in the form of an animal as it develops into an adult, for example, the change from tadpole to frog or from caterpillar to butterfly

Metamorphosis fom Greek metamorph?sis , from metamorphoun “to transform,” literally “to form differently,” from morph? “form” (see morph).

The past couple of years have been the universe’s way of asking you to turn from the lovely, delightful, and delicious caterpillar you are and have been into a bright and shiny butterfly. Follow the call of your heart and go build your cocoon. Change! Look for your parts that shoot silk threads out of them! Times a-wasting.

Copyright © 2007 Anne C. Ortelee

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