New Moon in Gemini Pt. 2 – How Will This Grand Irrationality Lunation Affect Us?

by Robert Wilkinson

This New Moon will show us how to generate power on the mental plane. We’ve initiated a new life chapter these past two months, and this period is about expansion, exploration, openness, and seeing a broader and greater way. And the Grand Irrationality is on the move in big ways!

As noted in part 1, this Lunation occurred at 8:56 am PDT, 4:56 pm Greenwich on June 8. Because this Lunation falls at 19 Gemini, it jumpstarts Gemini energy wherever it falls in our chart.

This New Moon has an actional focus. Because it happens in Gemini, Mercury rules the Lunation. This puts the focus on exploring the Mystery of the Feeling-Knowing cut loose in the human race at the 2012 Winter Solstice/End of one of the Mayan calendars. Here we all have the ability to feel a great and deep revelation that will show us something of the Mystery of our life.

So this Gemini New Moon is ruled by Mercury in Cancer, itself ruled by Moon in Gemini. This makes these two planets in Mutual reception, a very powerful closed energy exchange loop. (I’ll be posting an update to that article soon, since the positions mentioned as examples happened a while ago.)

Mercury in Cancer is a feeling-infused mind, but given Mercury is opposition Pluto and square Uranus, it drives the very powerful Cardinal T-square dominating this New Moon. This is where the Grand Water Trine can be stabilizing and harmonizing, but also set unfortunate patterns into play due to the ease with which planets in trine reference each other. So we will build for good or ill through the Grand Water Trine, and will integrate and/or release through the unrelated Cardinal T-square.

Despite the diversity indicated by the stellium in Gemini, because it’s linked through dispositorship with Mercury and Venus in Cancer, it basically works as one gigantic stellium across 36 degrees involving Mars, Moon, Sun, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury. Wherever these fall in our charts, you can expect an intensification of activity. Since these planets rule 10 of the signs, no wonder everything will be concentrated around our Gemini and Cancer response to the events indicated by the transits.

Of extreme importance is the Lunation is biseptile Neptune. Thus it brings the Grand Irrationality into major focus for the next 4 weeks, and ensures that when Mars transits the Lunation degree it will trigger major events that will throw us all into important forks in the road of our lives and destiny. Wherever we have mid-Gemini and early Pisces, as well as where we have Cancer and Leo on the house cusps (and any planets in those signs, and the houses they rule), we will see major shifts and choices that will help to shape our future.

I’ve written extensively about the Grand Irrationality in past articles, most recently in The Grand Irrationality in May and June 2013 – Jupiter Leaving, Setting Up Triggers When you’re done here, please consult that article to find the current seven “hot zone” spans and times when this larger configuration associated with non-rational behavior and conditions will be activated.

Neptune and Chiron at the Cusp of the Age:

I’ve given you this information in previous New Moon articles, but I figured it’s so important for all of us that it bears repeating once a month. Once Neptune goes direct in November, it will no longer be retrograding back to the cusp of the Age, and so I’ll post this information separately.

For now, though, I’ll remind you that taking the long view, we stand on the threshold of an entirely new era that will not resemble the old Age in any way within just a few decades. In fact, we’re already solidly in the Dreamscape, and are already seeing long wave manifestations of the ending of the old and the emerging field we’re all learning how to maneuver through.

Other than the brief look we had in mid-2011, this is only the seventeenth New Moon with Neptune in Pisces for the next 150 years. We had Neptune in Pisces for the 3 New Moons for May, June, and July 2011 which gave us a front end look at how Neptune will function through 2025.

Between August 2011, when Neptune retrograded back into late Aquarius, and the January 2012 New Moon, we were given one last look back at a greater ideal, and the changes of the last half of 2011 helped many to break out of our "chrysalis" and transform how we live and all our relationships. That is now established in the collective consciousness, as well as a growing sense of the larger light field in which all sentient Beings live and love.

If you want to know what's coming for many years to come, take a look back at the intuitions and sense of belonging to a vaster interrelated whole you were shown in May, June, and July 2011. It may help to give a sense of our collective lesson in dissolving our separateness as we finish this transition through "the Winter of the 21st Century" on our way to Spring, beginning in 2025!

During those months that both Neptune and Chiron were in early Pisces, we were offered chances to learn about bargaining and trade-offs, with the ultimate payoff a deeper and larger feeling of being connected to others. During the last half of 2011, Neptune retrograded back to 29 Aquarius, the degree where humanity was forced to emerge from its "chrysalis" as a new world is being born.

Chiron retrograded back to 1 Pisces. So those two dancing together kept us attuned to elements of this transitional span of experience for all of 2011 as we prepared to cut loose into the Neptune in Pisces era for many years to come. During 2011 both Neptune and Chiron revealed our unique part to play within a larger light/life field.

During that time, these planets at the beginning of Pisces and end of Aquarius occupied degrees representing "the Cusp of the Age," the span where the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius meet. From one point of view, where we were collectively between February 2011 and March 2012 revealed what the period of (approximately) 1990-2140 is all about in the broader context of human evolution. I suspect that future generations will look back at 2011 and 2012 as being crucial in showing long range patterns of larger evolutionary necessities.

Neptune and Chiron dancing between signs on "the Cusp of the Age" had the effect of making it seem like we have all been occupying a very weird dreamscape which we'll be navigating for years to come. The trick for us is to apply our new strengths and understanding freed from the ghosts of the past, and by riding the waves of intense (but curiously steady) pulses of spiritual energies shaping our minds, we can find techniques where our efforts will lead us to forms of good fortune.

During the year they danced together in this critical degree span, they provided us a bridge to understanding the global lessons we all must embrace, and helped us graduate into a new view of how we are an essential part of a greater whole. I'll give you links to articles explaining more about "the cusp of the Age" at the end of this article.

As Neptune went stationary direct at 1 Pisces around the time of the last 2012 Solar Eclipse in Scorpio, Neptune was literally at the “Cusp of the Age” between April 2010 and January 2013. It was conjunct Chiron the entire time, showing that this era was about all of learning to heal into our Higher Selves through greater awareness and compassion, as well as feeling our place within the larger collective feeling-field.

In this chart, Chiron is at 14 Pisces. This will help us heal anew through our positioning within collective consciousness, helping us find the protection or “camouflage” we need to continue to do our work of destiny in safety. We will heal into our Higher Self through using “intelligence and mental subtlety as a protection against storms and trials,” though this may involve some superficial form of self-representation to others.

In this chart Neptune is now at 6 Pisces, where we have hit a threshold in our relationship to a larger intuition and a greater feeling-connection of our positioning within a vaster field. According to the Sabian Symbols, this shows the collective field is about “self-dedication through consecration to the task of defending collective values,’ “self-testing,” and “perception of high goals.”

Again, Chiron shows us how we can heal into our Higher Self. During 2012 the focus was on healing into our Higher Selves through seeing what we’re dedicated to, what skills we’ve cultivated, what “call” we’ve heard, and how we’ve quickened our striving. During the next 4 weeks we can heal through displaying our gifts within a greater collective spiritual field. We’re now hit a threshold after which we’ll review various ways to heal into our Higher Selves through November, when many will find themselves with higher responsibilities as Masters of obscure realms.

More About Saturn's Universally Important Influence

Saturn is again at the forefront of the chart due to it being the nozzle for the “Bucket” Jones pattern, as well as one of the bookends of a “Locomotive” Jones pattern. I’ll explain in more detail in part 3 of this New Moon series.

For now, we’ll turn the spotlight on Saturn in Scorpio as the cosmic timekeeper, since it does symbolize the ongoing lessons and limitations within the larger field of existence. Saturn was in Libra through early October 2012, making this the ninth New Moon of the Saturn in Scorpio era!

What we learned from Saturn in Virgo in 2007-2009, returning briefly in 2010, has been of importance in the Virgo New Moons since then. We learned a lot about how to apply those lessons in forms of practical action when Mars transited Virgo between November 2011 and July 2012, and will get a review and renewal of those lessons when Mars is next in Virgo between mid-October and early November 2013.

We showed our skill in applying Saturn in Libra lessons since then while Mars was in Libra in July and August 2012, and had the light of understanding put on those lessons after the mid-October 2012 Libra New Moon. As a side note, Mars in early Scorpio the last week of August and first week of September 2012 gave us a front end practice related to Saturn being in that span of Scorpio from October 2012 through October 2013, so review what you were doing, since it symbolizes ongoing and coming Saturn lessons.

Saturn was retrograde in late Libra between early February and mid-June 2012. During the first 9 months of 2012, we were reviewing how to repair or reconstruct things from the past to come to a philosophical completion. The year between October 2011 and 2012 was about coming to a holistic philosophical view based in a life renewal, learning to read meanings in symbols and things, and moving beyond knowledge into true balanced understanding.

As Saturn rules Pluto in this chart in worldly affairs, it shows that when we are confronted with the need to deal with something or someone in an organized, efficient manner, reference Saturn in Scorpio and the lessons of focusing intensity. Feel what needs to be eliminated to achieve emotional stability or movement, and being efficient and truthful in getting to the core of any matter.

Naturally, the usual Saturn keywords will be crucial to effective behavior - patience, discipline, organization, patience, structure, maturity, patience, understanding, wisdom, patience, authority, responsibility, and of course, patience.

So as you open to the sixth New Moon of 2013, take stock of what larger holistic understanding you’ve achieved in 2012. See how you’ve moved from a theoretical ideal to a new way of living your life and relationships into a deeper connection with your ability to regenerate productively over the long haul, or a deeper communion with some inner or outer element of your Being.

In 2011 we learned about karmic consequences from a wider angle of view, while playing by the rules of whatever system we were dealing with, or acting within. We were challenged to show as much balance, grace, and equipoise as we could, given Saturn's penchant for heaviness.

We all learned a lot about how we use Libra energy to fulfill Dharma during Saturn's stay in Libra, as well as what we should not be trying to prop up through a misplaced sense of responsibility or obligation. As with all Saturn lessons, when we ran into roadblocks or delays it was teaching us about patience, as well as what limitations and burdens we could and could not live with.

As noted in previous articles, Saturn ushered in allies, friends, fellow truth-seekers, more balanced views, and corrective actions as techniques for community building or group awareness during the time it was in Libra. Given that Saturn is “exalted” in Libra, meaning that sign is the lens of greatest growth for Saturn, and Saturn is the worldly ruler of Aquarius, the sign of friends and allies, between October 2009 and October 2012 was a time when we learned a LOT about those parts of our lives.

The transfigurations in our actions and relationships we went through between January 2011 and October 2012 led us to do forms of "repair work," where we confronted the consequences of past actions, whether our own or another's. The repair work could as easily been in the realm of our inner self as in outer affairs.

Saturn in this Lunation chart is retrograde at 6 Scorpio, the same degree as the Moon in the recent Wesak Festival Lunar Eclipse a few weeks ago. We are now conducting a review of what Saturn has taught us since November 2012, and the current lessons are similar to what we first confronted back in mid-November.

2012 finished our understanding in life areas related to Libra, Capricorn, and Aquarius in our charts, and since October we have entered a Scorpio experience of an intensification of magnetics to attract what we need and repel what is not needed. Saturn in Scorpio will be a MUCH different manifestation of Saturn than we were used to between 2010-2012!

This Lunation shows us either a) we will continue to pull away from the “known and familiar,” gambling everything on some great dream, and/or b) having pulled away from the known, we will find new structures within which we may live and continue to pull away from the known. This has awakened our “avidity” and willingness to go for it! Please reference the Wesak Full Moon Eclipse articles posted in part one of this Full Moon series.

This is a review as part of the long wave process of learning how to conduct ourselves at a higher social level of interaction, which will confirm our “social status” and help us be part of a refined display of interactive class, style, and culture. Where Saturn was in the February and March New Moons began the larger Saturn lessons of 2013 which we’ll be learning until October.

Because of Saturn’s influence in Scorpio, we continue to eliminate and regenerate, let go of that which no longer works, and find ways to meet people at the highest levels of interaction. Now that the inner planets are all in Aries, we have been through the interlocking Yods and made needed adjustments to correct something. Late March and early April were a time of radical “expansions through sacrifices,” and now we’ve all gotten clear and focused about what we have to do.

So Saturn continues to help us get focused and clear about what structures are worthwhile and which need eliminating or purifying. Due to the 2012 Scorpio Solar Eclipse, we’ve been looking back to rehearse the future after eliminating elements of the past. This opened the doors that we walked through in late December that continued through January. Whether we want to or not, we’ve all had to be willing to embrace a purification process, especially purifying the life of stuck feelings and desires, and open to a new game and a new way of playing that game.

As noted in other Lunation articles, with North Node still in late Scorpio, our greatest development is through our ability to eliminate, regenerate, attract, and repel as part of a greater effectiveness. Consider this as a time of learning more from our losses than what we hold on to. How we grow now will pay major dividends once Saturn moves into the second half of Scorpio at the end of 2013.

North Node in Scorpio show we can grow through understanding magnetism in a more focused, active way. Where it is in this Lunation chart shows we can grow through learning to be more self-reliant, cultivate cooperation between the spiritual and material levels of our existence, and go for a “pure self-revelation.” Listen to “the God within,” and you will know what the Divine holds for you.

Surrender to the inward way. Contact the innermost “God force” and move beyond old forms. If there’s a conflict between the practical and the ideal, go to your “center of reality” and see how Spirit and Soul are dancing with whatever in your personality is conflicted. Go for your highest potential, regardless of what you must let go of and what you must accept.

This is a time of growth in effective orientation so that we can bring Spirit to matter, and the ideal in a grounded form. What we move into now will take shape once Saturn moves into the second half of Scorpio this Autumn.

We have quite a few powerful aspects in this Lunation, which I’ll speak about in the next part of this series. The major influences are a Cardinal T-square, a Grand Water Trine, and the New Moon triggering the Grand Irrationality into full swing via the biseptile to Neptune. It’s a wild ride, so buckle your seat belts! And show patience.....

In the next part of the series we'll discuss the various aspects at play in the chart, as well as some important degree symbols and other interesting elements affecting all of us for 4 weeks to come.

And as usual for the New Moon articles, here are two that are related to "the cusp of the Age."

Neptune Then, Neptune Now - The Cusp of the Age of Aquarius

Neptune Retrograde Into Aquarius - A New Look At the New Age This one has links to articles related to this theme, so enjoy following the breadcrumbs through the woods of time!

© Copyright 2013 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Tammi G]

Hi Robert,
I'm wondering if you could share your thoughts on this activity and my grand trine? I have a grand trine in water with my Cancer moon (13 deg, 1st house), Scorpio jupiter (11 deg, 5th house) and Pisces sun (14 deg, 9th house).
I've been told that jupiter entering Cancer will be great for me (here's hoping!) but I can never really synthesise the meanings to understand it fully.

[melissa]

dear Robert,
since the past lunation and this one both fell on significant points instead of planets or cusps in my BC (FM on my PoF in V; NM on my antiVertex in XI), how would you interpret them and how much importance do you attribute in general to points in lunations?
I'm Aries Asc Cancer with Moon in Leo.
thanks in advance for your attention

[Elah]

"Naturally, the usual Saturn keywords will be crucial to effective behavior - patience, discipline, organization, patience, structure, maturity, patience, understanding, wisdom, patience, authority, responsibility, and of course, patience." ~

Yep, you said it. This has been my path for quite some time now. Maybe I'll get the hang of it this lifetime!

[Jo Garceau]

I've spent the last hour reviewing notes from May, June and July 2011. What was coming through in dreams then has become my way of thinking today...this is great stuff, Robert.

[Tasha]

You articulate a way through our dark times with such positive knowing. You're a wonderful light, thank you.

--Tasha