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| Fruit of the Vine Catherine Al-Meten Meyers |
Venus in Gemini formed an exact square to Neptune in Pisces at 14 degrees earlier in the week. It’s waning aspect still creates confusion and emotional polarization and/or edginess in areas related to love, romance, creative beauty, and artistic expression. Pressure builds, things fall apart, and life’s certainties shift in ways that we begin to see will have a lasting effect. This New Moon may bring about breakups, surely major changes and alterations brought about by reaching the breaking point or outer limits of tolerance over what can no longer be ignored.
In the wake of the New Moon in Leo, Uranus in Aries stations retrograde. We may have reminders of past alterations, turning point crises, or some other sudden or unexpected upset or transition that we find we still need to integrate or understand. At the same time, it may be a time when we do more reflecting taking time to reconsider changes that have happened and that need to happen. It's a time for second chances, starting fresh, or reviewing, revising, and reimagining what is needed and what direction to take. Ask yourself, "What could be?" And then listen, and begin plugging away in that direction.
Jupiter in it’s lengthy Libra cycle makes its third and final square to Pluto in Capricorn. This is the area of life where you’ve been going through the greatest transition over the past few years. If you are a regular reader, you may have already identified where this is in your life; if not, look to the realm of greatest change, upset, and deep transformative upheaval. Those same areas of your life are receiving the final thrust of energy and push (motivation if you’re ready/shove if you’re not). The best thing to do with this kind of major aspect is to acknowledge the gifts, resources, knowledge, and expertise you already have that will enable you to do what needs to be done in the transformations needed to make your life free from past patterns and baggage so you can move forward in pursuit of your dreams, passions, goals, and new life paths.
One of my favorite astrologer’s, Marina of DarkStar Astrology, calls this New Moon the Moon of Tribal Shock, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if we didn’t not only see but also experience some dramatic major shifts and surprising changes ushered on this New Moon at 0 degrees Leo. We’ll be called to seek shelter and to ready ourselves for what lies ahead. Conjunct active, let’s-do-it-now Mars and square sudden, unexpected Uranus in Aries, we can anticipate some fairly significant break ups in families, tribes, and nations. We can also expect to see shifts in both personal and collective areas where we’ve been drawn to and united by clan or cult-like types of groups. Time to determine where your true loyalties are and how you want to find purpose and meaning. Settling for anything less than authentic and life-affirming is not a path that works well for most people under this transit. A new moon always begins a new cycle, and this may be the new moon where you are brought into greater clarity about what is needed for your path to go in a more life-affirming direction. Awakenings and break ups, embracing and walking away from former loyalties, or being forced out of a situation you’ve not been able to free yourself from—all likely in one form or another during the New Moon in Leo.
This lunar cycle has a very spiritually enhancing element to it. For we seek the unitive or unifying experience often through a religious or spiritual medium. While that still may be where you find a pathway to the unity you seek, the true meeting takes place on the soul level between our individual essence and its connection with that Divine Source being. However you define and identify with that, we want to remember our path to Divine Unity is both transcendent and imminent. The mysterious, unreachable, ineffable essence and the mundane, daily life connections that truly shape, mold, and define us, are within our grasp, regardless of where we are or who we are or are not with. This New Moon in Leo conjunct Mars and square Uranus in Aries (just before it goes retrograde) calls us to remember who we are, to celebrate what that is, and to find that center within that can remain calm through whatever storms or inconsistencies or diverse options appear before us.
We are being forged in the fires of this New Moon. Like gold we are being temperate so that we can be shaped and molded into of our golden potential. We are the alchemical material with which the Divine creates, and it is our work and joy here, to use the potentials, creative ideas, intuition, and full expression to co create the world in which we live, and to leave, as our legacy, healing, beauty, love expressed and shared, and ties that honor what is best about ourselves and others, and a desire to heal the wounds that have been inflicted on us or that we have inflicted on anyone else. With the Moon conjunct Mars, we have a yearning to protect and provide for those in our families with whom we connect. Someone from the past may appear or you may hear from someone who has been estranged or you might have thought lost to you. Take time to make amends when possible, and to loosen the bonds that keep yourself trapped in relationships, jobs, living conditions, thought patterns, perspectives, or life circumstances that are anything but healthy and growing.
Mars in the area of emotional home/well begin can be very emotional, and so avoid explosive and volatile situations that might burn out of control if ignited. And it you get caught up in such a situation, get to higher ground, seek shelter, and understand that this is the time to gain the perspective you need to do what is right and good for you and yours. Fight or flight responses are the physical choices we have when we’re in danger. Whether this kind of peril is physical, mental, emotional, psychological, spiritual, or a combination thereof, it is really important to do what you need to do to protect yourself and find safe haven.
This New Moon, the earlier New Moon also in Leo, the February eclipse, and the upcoming Total Solar Eclipse in August all signal a major shift in cultural and universal life and values. The Solar eclipse in a couple of weeks is conjunct the anaretic (last degree in a sign), 29 degrees of Regulus, signifying the completion of some major transformational change. Rather than getting caught up in generational identity or static, dogmatic belief systems, we might want to call upon the Divine powers and angelic forces to infuse us with wisdom, empower us with Love, and guide us in faith. Travel on the pilgrim trail ahead with the hope that together we can weather all storms, heal wounds, protect one another, and create great beauty and bring peace. Begin within, and share what you have to help in this time of great need for healing.
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