New Moon October 22, 2006

New Moon October 22 20006 1:14 am EDT

October 21, 2006 10:14 PDT

28:40 Libra Sun Moon

The new moon at 28:40 Libra echoes across time and space. It asks us to start anew with a revised or different vision of the issues from our past. It is time to revisit our known knowns and our accepted wisdoms. We are a moment in time when we can see what and how our known knowns and accepted wisdoms created our life. One of the major stumbling blocks when we start to become conscious is learning and understanding how our beings are settled in, formed, created and passed into solid structures by the roots of our family and early experiences. When you are taught to “believe” in a thing, especially when you are young and completely surrounded by large people, like parents, teachers, and adults, it is difficult to separate out what is YOUR belief from THEIR beliefs. Time to evaluate the accepted wisdom of how it has always been done to see if you want to keep doing it that same way. Ready?

Back on November 7, 1982, Saturn and Pluto, two of our life structure planets joined in the sky to start a new cycle of consciousness about our life. They joined at 27:36 Libra, right next to the degree of our New Moon. The 27-28 Libra degree stays “sensitive”, for lack of a more adequate word, for the balance of the 38 year cycle of Saturn and Pluto. The conjunction of Saturn and Pluto is the “seed” where a new plant eventually sprouts to take form. Back in 1982, we learned lessons, perhaps not ones we were completely happy with as we started a new evolutionary growth process. The situation and the lessons from 1982 structured the next phase of our lives. When two planets join, we continue to track the steps of their cycle dance with each other. We watch our lives whenever planets stop or station on the sensitive degree of 28 Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Libra as those moments “wake up” that energy from 1982. Various planet actions taking place at 27-28 Libra can be experienced as growing, fertilizing, plucking the ripening fruit, pulling off the dead leaves, fierce pruning, testing, sway gently in the sunshine, knocked over in a fierce storm. All growth cycles have phases.

Over the past year, essentially, we’ve all been “pruning” our 1982-1983 structures, limitations and fears. There were a series of sesquiquadrates, described as a combination of squares requesting action and semisquares causing stress between the structures that have grown in our lives over the past 24 years thanks to Saturn and Pluto. The sesquiquadrates ask us to take advantage of and work with a stressful opportunity to get what we desire. If we worked with our Saturn and Pluto sesquiquadrates, now they will start to enhance our path and our ultimate closing trine bloom over the next year.

In the rose world, sesquiquadrates would be called “plucking the suckers”. At the bottom or along the main stem every rose bush, these little cute twigs or baby branches grow, seeking life. They are called “suckers”. Essentially, suckers take advantage of the growing season, rose bush and lovely weather to shoot forth. However, suckers sap the growing essence from the blooms. Suckers divert energy. Blooms are the ultimate purpose of every plant. Suckers want to use up the bloom’s energy. Rosarians, the fancy name for people who take care of roses, aggressively snap off the suckers to enhance, increase and lengthen the balance, fragrance and energy sent to the bloom.

Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with suckers! Suckers are perfectly wonderful little twigs and branches trying to grow and thrive in the world. When I volunteered in a rose garden, my Pisces Moon felt SO bad breaking the suckers off the rose bushes. I was apologizing to every bush I plucked! However, the Rosarian in charge was VERY CLEAR about the need to eliminate ALL the suckers! He even plucked off stuff as “suckers” which I thought were quite legitimate branches!

The universe, with, or without, your cooperation, has been plucking and snapping the suckers off you over the last year or so as you‘ve experienced the sesquiquadrate of Saturn to Pluto. The universe wants you to bloom. It is time. The suckers in your life are perfectly fine, legitimate branches or twigs ~ they are part and parcel of you after all. They have a perfect right to exist. In fact, you might want to keep some of the suckers on your rose bush. They might be making a very legitimate case for becoming an important branch in your life. However, to have you bloom, to your highest purpose and potential, you’ll have the opportunity to pluck your suckers over the next couple of weeks. You have clearly identified your suckers by now. You know what suckers look like. Pluck the suckers that don’t contribute to your higher path, love, growth or expansion. They are draining your energy and time.

After I learned about plucking suckers, I started checking out rose bushes that grow in the wild, untended by sucker plucking Rosarians. Those rose bushes have lots and lots of suckers! The universe and nature likes abundance and redundancy. Those sucker covered rose bushes still BLOOM. Their blooms are smaller, less fragrant and not as abundant. But they do bloom. It takes more work, time and energy to support both the blooms and all those suckers. The rose bush life force is diverted into all sorts of places that it doesn’t need to go.

Over the next few weeks, the Cosmic Rosarian will be marching over to your part of the rose garden to inspect the bushes you’ve been plucking the suckers on for the last year or so. The Rosarian might decide to pluck a sucker that you (and perhaps even the sucker) consider to be a legitimate branch or twig. Trust the Cosmic Rosarian if a branch or twig gets plucked off and called a sucker. Even if you don‘t agree, trust the process! The cosmic pluck is to help you grow. That plucked branch or twig can go and grow some place else. You don’t have to keep supporting it with your life force.

And, if the Cosmic Rosarian doesn’t pluck stuff in your part of the garden over the next few weeks that means you’ve been doing your Saturn. Keep on doing your Saturn. You’ve learned to identify the suckers from the true purpose of your particular rose bush and found your path.

Now for the astrology part: All the Saturn Pluto energy of 27/28 Libra is receiving a fresh start in our vision of what we want in our most critical and important relationships as they form the structures of our lives. Venus and Mars in Libra surround the lunation and fall upon the Sun/Moon midpoint. Venus and Mars also trigger the Saturn/Pluto conjunction from 1982. Mercury is joined to Jupiter in Scorpio, slowing to station next week, square to Saturn in Leo. Important information and secrets will be arriving in your life to help you to grow. Or the cosmic Rosarian if you prefer. If ghosts or folks from your past reappear, make a special effort to meet and talk with them. They will hold important information for you. If old messages from your past or deep, disturbing or profound dreams that speak to you in your sleep, make special note of them and the messages given to you.

The T-square of Jupiter/ Mercury, Saturn, Neptune shoots all sorts of delicious, delectable energy into the Taurus section of your chart. The t-square is generating, causing, fertilizing and promoting growth, abundance and life. Expect a growth spurt! Expect abundance from the heavens! Expect, expect, especially if you’ve been working your Saturn and directing that Saturn energy from the t-square consciously instead of willy nilly. If you’ve been plucking your suckers, or doing your Saturn, the energy from the effort over the past year will result in a huge growth spurt towards your life path. Don’t worry about anything, just pluck the non-essentials, clear suckers. The Cosmic Rosarian will be around in a week or so to inspect your w
ork.

Onto Lynda Hill&r
squo;s interpretation of the Sabian Image for our lunation. As usual, the lunation’s message from the heavens reflects where we are.

MANKIND’S VAST ENDURING EFFORT FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERABLE FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION

Commentary: ‘Mankind’s Vast Enduring Effort For Knowledge Transferable From Generation to Generation’ shows the handing down of learning or ‘Knowledge from mothers and fathers to daughters and sons. By instruction, by observation and by acceptance, we pass information to the next ‘Generation’, as this allows for the process to continue and develop from ‘Generation to Generation’.

Oracle: This Symbol is about conscious awareness and how we use this capacity to know and to ‘Transfer’ information from our mind to another mind through communication. This communication can be in the spoken word, the written word or through dance, body language or through our deeds. We pass on the biological nature of ‘Knowledge’ through our genes, our conscious ‘Knowledge’ by teaching, our social ‘Knowledge’ by example and training. Genetic memory is another way that things can be passed down from ‘Generation to Generation’. It can be said that the ‘Knowledge’ of the universe is within us, but bringing this out into our consciousness is something that occurs over time and through effort. The most likely “students” are those that are constantly around us, can relate to our activities and are inspired by our history and love-this often being our family. However, students, as well as teachers, can pop up anywhere, especially when there’s a need for the information to be ‘Transferred’. With this Symbol, there can be an outreaching to others through awareness along with a desire to teach, as well as to learn. There is more to wisdom than just knowing. In the end, it’s what is done with this ‘Knowledge’ that creates wisdom. It is through knowledge and understanding that we can bridge the gap between ourselves and others.

Keywords: Interpreting and conveying beliefs and ideas. The desire to pass on something to others. Handing down possessions or knowledge. Knowledge being changed, modified or updated. Teaching by example. The wisdom of the ancestors. Research into history. Striving for answers. Books and the spoken word. Encyclopedias and reference books. The gift of knowledge.

The Caution: A belief that one knows it all. Information, knowledge or riches inherited by only the select few. Reliance on tradition. Fundamentalism. Doing what’s always been done, regardless of why.

So pluck your suckers, reflect on what you’ve learned over the past year and take a sip of water. The cosmic gardener will be over to visit you next week.

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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