New Moon October 11, 2007

October 11, 2007

New Moon at 17:30 Libra

1:01 am EDT

Our new moon lunation falls in the Via Combusta, or the Path of Fire, in the heavens. In the ancient days, the Path of Fire was considered a rather nasty place. It is a cluster of fixed stars ranging from late Libra to early Scorpio that tend to be activated when difficult events were observed taking place on earth. A certain kind of predictive astrology, Horary, forbids the astrologer from reading the chart when its ascendant falls in the Path of Fire. A birth moon was considered to be afflicted, as if it was eclipsed ~ at or near one of the nodes~ if it fell into the Via Combusta. Additionally, our lovely moon is moving very slowly through the heavens, so we will all be feeling fiery passions and emotions via the impact of the Path of Fire igniting and flaring up the energy in the lunation chart.

The Sun is conjunct the moon and is the Ruler of the Chart cast for Washington, D.C. The Sun is in the Via Combusta too. Venus in Virgo rules both the Sun and Moon found in Libra. Virgo is one of Venus’ least favorite signs. She’s not an easy going, benevolent and loving Venus as her energy can be more critical, counting and waspish as it stings with accurate but oh such unpleasant criticisms. In addition, Venus is bearing down rapidly towards forming a conjunction with Saturn in Virgo. Venus will form a second important conjunction with the South Node of loss and release, right after she joins with Saturn. Not fun.

Mars is ALSO in one of his least favorite signs, Cancer, as he slows down and approaches his retrograde station. Mars is out of bounds, adding a wild energy to his unhappy, insecure and needy behavior. We recognize Mars does not like being in Cancer as Mars cannot take direct action boldly and bravely as Mars prefers to do. However, please do not underestimate Mars! Cancer Crabs and Mother Bears, both highly symbolic of Mars in Cancer, are known for their ferociousness when feeling threatened or under attack. Not content to merely growl, bears attack if you threaten their beloved cubs. Crabs attack too ~ ferociously yet in a round about way, grabbing hold and never letting go. We go back to the Moon to see the condition of the cranky, cardinal, action taking, and whiny Mars in Cancer. We find ourselves back to the moon found in the Via Combusta and joined to Sun, the ruler of the Chart. So an aggressive, ferocious, scared yet cardinal Mars which feeds off the lunation energy found in the Path of Fire. That is A LOT OF ENERGY!!! It will be a very active lunation as the lights and Mars are in Cardinal signs, even if it turns out to be unpleasant actions that takes place.

Keep in mind that Mars is getting ready to station. His retrograde journey will involve us in a six-month drama around rehashing the energies of Gemini and Cancer ~ siblings, communication, family, mother, nurture and security issues. Mars, deeply into his shadow and preparing to go retrograde, wants us to make sure to be clear about the causes and sources of our actions. Are we taking action because we are insecure? If so, the lunation will be teaching us lessons. Are we taking action to move ourselves cautiously forward? If so, the lunation will be teaching us lessons. Are we in the mood to attack someone like a mother bear or crabby crab because they are threatening something we love? Well, look at what that energy is reflecting back to you about your own needs, desires, hopes and wishes. Mars in Cancer is wild AND whiny. He also is a bit sorrowful as he recognizes families or groups are in the mood or desire to end. Things do end, even if we wish they wouldn’t. Often, we do not much like endings in our lives. However, THIS lunation has a very ending feeling to the new beginning. We actually WANT this situation to end. Or at least change into something else. That is why we are so frustrated by it.

Mercury is the ruler of Venus in Virgo. Mercury is in Scorpio. He acts as a flavoring for how that Venus in Virgo is going to show up as the ruler of the lights found in Libra. Scorpio takes us back to Mars and the Moon found in the Via Combusta. Are you starting to get a sense of how intense and important the lunation is? Mercury is sitting on top of Lillith. Lillith was Adam’s first wife. Did you know that Eve was a trophy wife and actually Adam‘s second spouse? Lillith did not want to be subservient to Adam. She left him. Adam was heart broken. God made Eve from his rib so she wouldn’t leave him.

Lillith has a fairly dark mythology. She steals the sperm of men as they sleep by seducing and causing their nocturnal emissions. She makes her demon babies with their stolen sperm. Frankly, I like to look at her mythology by lifting up the veil of the patriarchal sperm control freak energy she seems to carry for the collective. When you lift her veil, it makes her a rather likable kind of gal. Lillith wants babies! Lillith is going to make her babies however she can ~ including using stolen sperm via dream seductions. Lillith refuses to be submissive to those men who are unwilling to donate their life force. So she takes their sperm as they sleep. Is it just another version of the Robin Hood story? Robbing from the rich to give to the poor? Or is it something else?

Mercury next to Lilith rule and imbue the forming Venus/ Saturn conjunction in Virgo with meaning. While your project may seem like it is not ever going to come to fruition because of the energy of the lunation, not to worry. The purpose of everything up until now was to get you ready for the NEXT phase, whatever it is. Think of it as practice, practice, and more practice! The universe loves to have us practice creating! Venus joining with Saturn gets us clear about what we want to create. We are all a bit like Lillith on this new moon. The hell with you, (insert the name of whoever the apparent denier of your cosmic sperm is), you control freak you! If I can’t get it from you, then I am perfectly capable of creating with some one else. However, I WILL use what I learned from YOU to help me create it. They may not want you around because you aren’t subservient enough. They may not like you because you don’t conform. Wouldn’t you rather have their respect any way? Isn’t that better than having them like or love you?

Jupiter and Uranus just perfected the last of their three square sky dances with each other two days ago. They are separating now. Jupiter rules community, international, organized religions, beliefs and connections. Uranus rules change, computers and chaos among other things. Change and chaos in the established communities and connections between yourself and your world. The first of Jupiter and Uranus’ three squares was January 22, 2007 at 12:26 Sagittarius/ Pisces. The second square was May 10, 2007 at 17:56 Sagittarius/ Pisces. The final square was October 9, 2007 at 15:35 Sagittarius/ Pisces. For those of you who follow the sky patterns, you undoubtedly recognize those degrees as being the same degrees as the mutable eclipses formed in March 2007 and September 2007 as well as the degrees where Uranus in Pisces stations and finishes up his journey next March. We start now to wrap up the Jupiter Uranus story of change to your community that began in February of 1997 in your Aquarian house. We start to prepare to integrate the psychological processes of change and expansion to our community as we approach the balsamic phase. The next Jupiter Uranus conjunction takes place on the world axis in 2010. We move towards it with a firm, yet expanding and evolving understanding of our place in the world.

Pluto is joined to Vesta suggesting there is an end ~ or a transformation ~ to the home and hearth energy in mutable fire energy of Sagittarius. Time to break apart the fire found in the fixed hearth of our home and heart. Time to put that energy into tiny, moveable forms and send it out into the world in a new form to help light the way. Think candles lit from the warmth of the fire
in the fireplace and sent o
ut into the world. Ceres in Taurus is moving retrograde on the Jupiter / Saturn conjunction from May 2000. In a sense, the ending or migration into the world that you are experiencing NOW was inevitable based on what you have been working toward since that conjunction took place in Taurus seven years ago. Do you see how it all connects? Be gentle with yourself. Understand that there is a purpose to every season. A purpose to every thing under the heavens, even the things that might not feel fabulous in the immediate moment. All part of your soul’s evolution.

There are a number of other aspects that have helpful, supportive and illuminating components or energies ~ Mercury square to Chiron ~ says take the learnings to help your self expand to see the deeper truths in the experience. Saturn is opposite Chiron by declination. Mars opposite Vesta by declination. Sun is joined to Uranus by declination. Moon is joined to Chiron by declination. Mercury is joined to Pluto by declination. Combining the declination energies with the lunation chart, we find lots of energy pushing us forward to our next phase in a resolute, okay, I am going on with my life kind of manner even if the stuff I am wrapping up right now is hard to leave or separate from. Time to move on with my life.

Neptune is sextile to Jupiter. These two expansive energies are encouraging us to follow our dreams and seek those dreams out in the wider world instead of where we currently find ourselves. So, just perhaps, maybe, we are NOT going to find those dreams of ours where we currently find ourselves. However, we DO see the potential. We have our dreams. We DO see where or what our dreams could become, maybe with more work or different skills or their potential. Sun and Moon are joined to the asteroid Psyche. Psyche learned whom she was married to once she agreed to LOOK at him clearly. After she LOOKED at him and lost him (or perhaps the illusion of the who he was), she worked very hard, on various formidable and seemingly impossible tasks set before her by Aphrodite to get what she wanted. Once she recovered the love she had ‘lost’, she realized her new version of the lost love was a fuller and more complete relationship. It was a love of both herself, as an equal mate, joined again with her former mate, Eros.

While there are many difficult and stressful aspects (did I mentioned the semisquares between the Sun/ Moon and Venus/ Saturn or the other semisquare between Mercury and Pluto?), the stresses and energy of the lunation will make us clearer, cleaner, and more precise in what we desire. The semi-squares will help us partner with ourselves to create the freedom or changes that we desire in our lives.

We often forget that we have enormous skills to co-create our lives when we single-mindedly dedicate our focus towards changing the things that can be changed in our lives. The frustrations inherent in the lunation in the Via Combusta, always coming back, coming back, and coming back yet again to that intensity found in a Path of Fire will make us change our lives. It is time to change our lives.

Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian image for the lunation is:

TWO MEN PLACED UNDER ARREST GIVE AN ACCOUNTING FOR THEIR ACTS BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL OF SOCIETY

Commentary: ‘Two Men’ are ‘Placed Under Arrest’. They have to ‘Give an Accounting For Their Acts Before the Tribunal of Society’. They are standing before some representative or authority and speaking about how they have acted against the rules and codes of ‘Society’. The fact that they are ‘Placed Under Arrest’ doesn’t have to mean that they are literally taken away by the police. This can show that they are held back by circumstances, people or experiences and they feel stuck, unable to move or stripped of their freedom. This can be rather compromising to one’s integrity, ideals and strength of character.

Oracle: With this Symbol, people’s ideas or actions may be under criticism or examination, to the point of feeling that someone has offended social responsibility and acceptability. Some may have to justify or explain themselves, and relationships can be held in limbo until all the facts come to light. There may be a need to be thoughtful about the situation, because it may be nothing but a suspicion at this point. The “case” could well be dismissed, with people forgiven or let off the hook, but with suspicion in the air, what permanent damage has already been done? Often a sense of trust and a belief in the goodness of people and things is necessary. An attitude of forgiveness may be really important to move through this situation with one’s sense of pride intact. Being charged with an offense can drive people apart, with each trying to save their own neck. How long can someone be “handcuffed”, either to themselves or to another? Imagining the removal of “the cuffs” could lead to a turn around in the situation. People in positions of power, physical or emotional, should show mercy so others can also forgive and forget and get on with their lives. Ultimately, the goal must lead to freedom.

Keywords: Having to plead one’s case. The need for “legal help”. Unacceptable principles. Blowing the whistle. Pointing at others to get off charges. People unable to relate. The “Romeo and Juliet” story. Feeling caught out. Restrictions. Saturn. Karma to be worked out. Being framed. Circumstances out of control. People in handcuffs. Identification parades. Police. The law. Lawyers. Judges. Juries. Tribunals.

The Caution: Refusing to conform to society’s mores. The sabotage of relationship values. Feeling stuck, unable to move. Staying in relationships when one should move on. Deadening emotions. Shutting off to cope with others. Not having one’s point of view heard. Losing one’s authority. Being bound karmically. Being tied up and limited.

Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee

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