New Moon in Aries Pt. 1 - What’s Happening in April-May 2013

by Robert Wilkinson

We have a New Moon coming on Wednesday! Over the next 4 weeks, the New Moon in Aries indicates a time of great power, where the momentum will throw us into new paths, new lives, and new initiatives as Mercury finishes up the dream time. And yes, the Grand Irrationality is fully active, throwing everyone into major choices and changes!

This New Moon in Aries is active, quickening, one-pointed, and will jump a lot into high speed motion, so expect things to develop faster than you imagined! This is the final “purging of the old way,” and opens the door to great power and concentrated doses of spiritual energy. Finding an intuitive, forgiving, and/or compassionate view, understanding, or way of coordinating events is crucial in knowing what to do and when.

Due to the on-going Pisces energies, we continue to close out the end of the end and are in the direct experience of recent beginnings being powered up in very dynamic ways. Though there will still be a sense of emotional finality or even heaviness during the next month, the more we can forgive, bless, say goodbye, and flow onward into new fields of life the better it will feel. Sometimes we just have to move on, get it on, and stay in motion since to fight the flow would be impossible.

This Lunation is the newest boost in the energies of the new life experience that has its roots in the new archetypes that came forth in between late 2009 and early 2011, when there were a series of conjunctions in Aries portending what we’re about to focus on to a greater degree than we have since then .

This New Moon is dynamic, active, and is fairly focused and concentrated in its effects. We can expect huge new developments wherever we have Aries in our charts, so get ready to generate power, follow through on whatever is fulfilling itself, and welcome the powerful new spiritual energies pouring into our minds. Be receptive to having your mind shaped by spiritual energy, and you will reap “good fortune” to the degree you put forth the correct effort at the right time.

Saturn continues to set up situations where we’ll all be introduced into more complex, intense, and/or deep relationships. We are now launched fully into the lessons of 2013 involving us meeting others at the highest possible level of social interaction rather than with an “everyday” type of attitude.

The next 4 weeks will open up very quickly now that the inner planets conjuncted Uranus in Aries and electrified our individuality into manifestation. Here we’ve begun the end game of letting go of the ghosts of the past, and can wholeheartedly embrace the new set of initiatives we’ve been dancing around the past two years.

This initiating and powerfully focused New Moon occurs at 21 Aries on April 10, 2:35 am PDT, 5:35 am EDT, 10:35 am Greenwich (late April 9 in Hawaii). When a Lunation is on one of the angles of a chart, it is said to be particularly powerful. Among the cities covered in this column, this month the Lunation is culminating in the triangle between London, Moscow, and Johannesburg, setting in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Perth, on the nadir from Wellington to Maui, and rising in Montreal and Washington DC. This Lunation shows early Capricorn through late Pisces rising across North America.

The Lunation finds 28 Capricorn rising in Santa Monica, 9 Capricorn in Vancouver, 28 Pisces in Montreal, 23 Pisces in Washington DC, 27 Aries in Rio, 25 Gemini in Lisbon, 14 Cancer in London, 25 Cancer in Berlin, 25 Cancer in Sofia, 29 Gemini rising in Johannesburg, and 14 Leo in Moscow.

Moving into Asia and Oceana, we find Ascendants at 2 Virgo in Abbottabad, 4 Virgo in New Delhi, 30 Leo in Trivandrum, 7 Libra in Hong Kong, 27 Libra in Tokyo, 13 Libra in Perth, 26 Scorpio in Melbourne, 29 Scorpio in Brisbane, 30 Sagittarius in Wellington, and 27 Sagittarius rising on Maui (April 9).

So you can construct a rough chart for where you are in the world, I’ll give you the rounded up degree for each planet. Use the Ascendants given above to get a rough sense of what’s on the eastern horizon where you are, and using an Equal House system, you can see what’s going on in your part of the world for the next 4 weeks.

In this New Moon at 21 Aries, Mercury is 25 Pisces, Venus is 24 Aries, Mars is 23 Aries, Jupiter is 14 Gemini, Saturn is 10 Scorpio retrograde, Uranus is 10 Aries, Neptune is 5 Pisces, Pluto is 12 Capricorn, TransPluto is 30 Leo, Chiron is 12 Pisces, and the NN is 17 Scorpio.

This is the eleventh in a sequence of New Moons that fall in the sign preceding the Sun of the following Full Moon. In other words, this New Moon in Aries will have a Full Moon in Taurus and Scorpio. This reverses the sequence of the 20 months preceding the 2012 Gemini New Moon that all had the New Moon in the same sign as the subsequent Full Moon.

That pattern is now reversed, but will shift back to “normal” a few months down the road. I explain this phenomenon and what it means in the Full Moon articles, so I’ll elaborate on this new beginning that reverses “the natural order of things” in the next Full Moon articles coming in about two weeks.

The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced in Libra, purified in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.

This New Moon at 21 Aries, like other recent Lunations, puts the focus on magnetism, loss, regeneration, timeless mysteries, and the great unknowns of life due to Saturn at 10 Scorpio being the primary handle of the “Bucket” Jones pattern. I’ll discuss more about Saturn’s important influence in part 3 of this New Moon series.

Much that we focus on during the next 4 weeks will help us to a new connection with others, and deeper feelings about our “comrades” we’re being united with, whether in the next month or in other lives to come. In some way, this is the beginning of a new type of “group consciousness,” and we shall all come to a deeper experience as a result of things we’ve done together in the past with our spiritual Brothers and Sisters, as well as friends in the angelic world and the animal and plant realms.

Perhaps there will be interesting “reunions,” or the stage will be set for activities that will lead us to a deeper connection with others in the future. Due to Saturn’s influence, we’re eliminating and getting rid of all that we don’t want nor need to take with us into the future that’s coming at us like an express train! You might as well let go, since you cannot hold on to those things anyway.

Because of where Jupiter is in Gemini , we’ve finished the next phase of our liberation from ghosts of the past going on since the 2011 Gemini Solar Eclipse. When Jupiter retrograded over the degree of that eclipse in late November and early December, it accelerated the eclipse effect.

When it passed over the last time in late March and early April, we set the stage for the end game of leaving old ghosts behind that will be completed after the inner planets move across 12 Gemini in May and June. You can find out more about what induced us to shed the ghosts of the past these past 21 months by checking out the articles at the bottom of this one.

A Little More About the Past As Prologue

When Venus first transited the Gemini zone of the Grand Irrationality in the third and fourth week of April 2012, it gave us a Venusian lens through which to view what needed ending, or what had been ended since the Gemini Solar Eclipse of June 2011, which also fell in the Gemini zone of that powerful configuration. We went through the second phase of that influence with more “irrational” destiny-producing developments (which could be good or bad, depending) when it next occupied 14-18 Gemini, as well as when Mercury and the Sun also transited this zone, between May 31 and June 10, 2012.

We saw further major developments related to these “forks in the road of destiny” allowing us to be liberated from the ghosts of the past in the last half of July 2012. When Jupiter passed the third time over the Eclipse degree in late March and early April, we began a “final exam” time, with testing done by mid-June.

Jupiter helped us dislodge many things in December 2012 when it was part of a very powerful Yod, or Finger of God, focusing Saturn sextile Pluto through each making a quincunx to Jupiter in Gemini. We got another round of “expansion through sacrifice” tests in late March 2012 when Jupiter was again involved in Yods, or Fingers of God,” with Saturn and Pluto (like December 2012), but with the additional interlocking Yod created by the planets in Aries sextile Jupiter and all quincunx to Saturn.

This was an intense “spiritualizing” influence which I wrote about extensively at the time. If you want more information about the forces that squeezed ALL of us into a more focused spiritual intention and function through sacrifices and hard adjustments, please check out the numerous articles written in late March about that set of very powerful configurations.

The Grand Irrationality

The reason this section is a recurring feature in the Lunation articles is because it was set into long term play by the 2011 Solar Eclipse, which is triggered each time any transiting planet occupies any of the 7 zones of the Grand Irrationality. This Lunation triggers the Grand Irrationality in huge ways, showing we all have major forks in the road of our destiny coming at us like an express train!!

In this chart, Venus is the trigger for this non-rational, choice and change energy confronting us these next 4 weeks. It will be very intense anyway, since Jupiter occupies the Gemini zone of the Grand Irrationality through the end of April, and will be triggered by the planets in Aries now and in the near future, as well as whenever the Moon crosses through any of the 7 “hot zones” of this radical, irrational configuration we’ve been living with for almost 20 years that has a few more to go.

So the Grand Irrationality is very definitely a direct and major influence during this Lunation!! Here’s a bit of explanation about this thing called “the Grand Irrationality” that may help new visitors understand why everything continues to be so weird. As I’ve explained many times before, the Grand Irrationality is a long wave non-rational influence that has put everyone on Earth on the unceasing edge of major choice and change.

Everyone has been confronting inner compulsions, continual choices that seem to have a major impact on our destiny, and occasionally irrational behaviors in others or external conditions. It is why things seem to have an unending hard edge, why so many choices are continually thrown in our faces that require immediate attention, and why reason seems to fail at critical moments of decision.

When the Grand Irrationality is in play, it’s a time when things don’t have to make sense. Get used to it, since we’ve been living with it for about 18 years, and will be in play for a few more years to come. I’ll explain more about its influence these next 4 weeks in part 3 of this New Moon series.

The only thing that matters is that we learn how to ride this ever-changing wave of very strange and weird human experience, and not get lost in our own obsessions, compulsions, and the general irrationality of our times. I posted a thorough explanation of this phenomenon in 21st Century Astrology – What is the Grand Irrationality and Why is Everything So Weird? Please re-visit that article to understand more about this recurring energy affecting the collective atmosphere.

More on how we’re still influenced by the 2011 Solar Eclipse in Gemini

The 2011 Gemini Solar Eclipse that triggered the Grand Irrationality for years to come has liberated all of us from some elements and ghosts of our past, freeing us from old preconceptions and chains of mental slavery. That intense activation of June 2011 has shown as hectic intense bursts that often made no sense during the past 22 months when coupled with the current “off and on” patterns of other planets in irrational relationships. The rapidly fading Jupiter triseptile is only one example of other “non-rational” energy fields created at this time.

The Gemini Solar Eclipse of 2011 has challenged us since then to find ways to liberate ourselves from unhelpful views and attitudes while staying on track with the new elements arising from the numerous conjunctions to Jupiter in Aries of March through May 2012 that have presented themselves over the past 2 years. In this Lunation, Jupiter continues to bring us information, understanding, higher perspectives, and different Spiritual awareness while it occupies Gemini.

When Jupiter went direct in motion December 2011, it launched our 2012 Jupiterian adventure. We finished substantiating and confirming some things the first half of 2012, and since then we’ve all had opportunities to open to larger ideas, larger opportunities, larger understanding, and larger futures.

We acquired some of the assets we needed while Jupiter was in Taurus from June 2011 through June 2012, and stabilized a growth pattern. We did a review and consolidated these things the last half of 2011, and were able to move forward in 2012, even though this involved multiple Mercury, Venus, and Mars retrograde periods through the first 7 months of the year.

Things became more solid and stable between February and June 2012, after which new worlds and new discoveries opened when Jupiter entered Gemini. Now we’ve gotten a lot of information about what we need to learn or understand related to the new archetypes we began to live in 2010-2011, and moved through major turning points related to The Grand Irrationality in August and November 2012 that primed the pump for the major league changes coming in just a few weeks.

Jupiter retrograde from October 2012 through January 2013 gave us new insights into new knowledge and awareness of how to incorporate the discoveries since June 2012 into our lives. Now that Jupiter has gone direct since January, we’ve continue our emotional, social, and cultural discoveries, having finished a review of how we’re relating to energy and whether we’re being passive or active in how we use it to steer a course to our liking. Because it is direct in motion and speeding up, it’s been and continues to be a favorable tide with which to launch our new ideas of how to practice skills to find that which sustains our efforts.

In part 2, we’ll explore more about the influences of this activating New Moon, and the importance of Saturn, Neptune, and Chiron as we stand on the cusp between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius.

To learn more about what’s coming now that Jupiter has gone direct, here are two articles that address that exact thing. At the bottom of part 1, there’s a link to what I wrote when it went retrograde last October about what we could expect these past few months.

Long Wave Astrology January-June 2013 - Jupiter Stationary Direct at 7 Gemini Pt. 1

Long Wave Astrology Through Summer 2013 - Jupiter Stationary Direct at 7 Gemini Pt. 2

Here are two articles on the 2011 June Gemini Solar Eclipse so you can explore the details about how this event has shut down some things in the Gemini areas of our existence:

The Solar Eclipse at 12 Gemini June 1-2, 2011 Pt. 1 - Who Does It Affect and for How Long?

The Solar Eclipse at 12 Gemini June 1-2, 2011 Pt. 2 - How Will It Manifest?

© Copyright 2013 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Jim Nichols]

35 yrs after taking a astrology class from you on that little street in Austin near W 45th and is enlightening to read your aquarius papers ( makes me wish I had kept up with it, but at the same time peaks my interest once again). Happy 62nd bday ( I remember is is either passed, or is happening soon)

Jim

[Debbie]

The interesting thing I have found with the "ghosts" is that each time I acknowledge them and pull my power from them so as not to re materialise, they come back at me exponentially, quite weird like this false bravado in my mind wants to really challenge and it gets to the point where is is actually quite humourous, which helps replace the ghost energy with joy, so its certainly a very interesting exerience although not always pleasant at the time.

I have my moon at 14 Libra, so interested to see what is possible with ascendant for Perth being 13 Libra, its weird as something very simple that i triggered recently is taking off, and I am eternally grateful for the training of dear h48, currently back on my Nth node and sextile my sun, quite exciting!

[helina]

Waiting for your cheiron part.Neck pain forced me to rest at home... Cannot work (and cannot help) as I planned. And I hoped to have all Aries Starting power ;)

[Valerie]

thanks for a great update article. the grand irrationality doesn't seem to contact any important points in my chart but i am definitely feeling the weirdness. and i have to go to the dentist and face the possibility of losing one or two teeth. (Saturn return, and retrograde?) i have no other choice but to be brave and walk right up to the beast. when one gets old one has to face many things. i feel a little crazy this week. thanks again, namaste! :)

[sunshyne99]

Dealt with a cold like flu,released some old garbage, that I really didn't need to bring with me anyways. Trying to sacred practice meditation and yoga, with the sneezing, coughing, head congestion,and itchy rashes, was whew! or not so wooo.. But a great challenge, to just be, focus, and all that jazz. New contacts,a few that has piqued interest..Like a magnetism. Which is a building upon from months ago..Is like a fine tuning. More Positives and less Negatives, with much Laughter that is spontaneous, and a great Contagious Pathogen!

Love and Light!

[Roo]

Hello Robert, this New Moon is exactly conjuncting my natal moon at 21 in the 9th house.Any illuminations as to what this may signify would be most helpful.Many Thanks.

[Jennifer]

Namaste
I am new to your page and really enjoying your insights and writing style; this new moon in aries feels super significant; a true new beginning and the ending of endings - in the UK we have just 'lost' Margaret Thatcher who personnified a very hard kind of economics - the timings seem significant: definitely a kind of space clearing - and i am continuing my personal internal space clearing
peaceful blessings