New Moon in Leo Pt. 2 – How Will This Cardinal T-Square Lunation Affect Us? - Aquarius Papers

by Robert Wilkinson

This New Moon will show us how to express power, while giving us opportunities to act on the themes of last month’s New Moon in Cancer. We’ve initiated a new life chapter these past four months, and this period is about putting it out there for the world to admire! We’ll continue to consolidate and integrate based in the broader and greater way we’ve seen previously.

As noted in part 1, this Lunation occurred at 2:51 pm PDT, 10:51 pm Greenwich on August 6. Because this Lunation falls at 15 Leo it jumpstarts Leo energy wherever it falls in our chart.

This New Moon has an individual, mental, and spiritual focus. Because it happens in Leo, the Sun rules the Lunation. This puts the focus on spontaneous expressions that help us put our gifts out to the world. Here we continue personality integration techniques that help us express our Higher Self’s intentions and have some playful or fun ways of self-expression.

So this Leo New Moon is ruled by the Sun in Leo, which makes it the Final Dispositor for all the other planets except Neptune, making it extremely powerful as a backdrop force in this Lunation. (I’ll be posting an update to that article soon, since the positions mentioned as examples happened a while ago.)

The Sun is at home in the sign of Leo, putting the emphasis on fiery feelings and inspired self-expression. The Sun (and Moon) are completely unafflicted, and make only a decile (semi-quintile) to Jupiter, a binovile to Saturn, and a biquintile to Pluto. The first and last are specializing, while the binovile is a spiritualizing, gestative aspect. I’ll explain more when we get into aspects.

The Grand Trine prominent since early June is now past, while the plunge and integrative challenge of the last of the major Cardinal T-squares of the Summer is now upon us. We’ve built, stabilized, understood, glimpsed a greater emotional intelligence, but as with all the trines of the Summer, they have all been followed by the Cardinal T-square that represents a need for appropriate release of these volatile energies.

This Lunation features a stellium in Cancer that leads the Lunation. Though separating, we still have Jupiter in early Cancer, Mars in mid-Cancer, and Mercury in late Cancer, again indicating a large number of planets within a relatively short span of degrees. While last month the cluster of 6 planets occupied only 46 degrees, this month the same group, including Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Sun, and Venus, is now spread out over a span of 69 degrees. While still relatively compressed, at least it spans 3 signs instead of only one or two. 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 Cancer, Leo, and Virgo responses to the events indicated by the transits.

While the Grand Irrationality is not triggered by any of the planetary positions of this New Moon chart, enjoy the brief respite, since it’s been a major factor of the events of the past two months. This is a moment of cosmic pause and consolidation between when the Grand Irrationality was last triggered in the last week of July when the Sun transited the Leo zone, and the next point when it’s triggered by Mercury in just a few days.

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. You can also find more by going to the Gemini New Moon articles in the archives.

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 nineteenth 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 retrograde at 13 Pisces. This will help us review and heal anew through our positioning within collective consciousness, where by focusing our will power as a vehicle for fulfilling divine Will we can become an example for others who are to follow in our footsteps. We will heal into our Higher Self through “courage and fearlessness needed in the quest for spirit and real understanding,” and having “real faith in self.”

In this chart Neptune is now retrograde at 5 Pisces, where we are again experiencing the collective feel-field we all went through between late March and early May. This helps us consolidate our experience 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 “interchange of spirit and understanding on which groups are built,” “new self-development,” and “discouragement mastered.”

Because it is retrograde, we’re getting a new perspective on these issues that were raised over the past month since the last New Moon. And since they occupy the same position as the Full Moons of late March and the Wesak Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of late April, as well as the April New Moon, in some ways that was “the call,” and this is “the response.”

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 remembering and putting things together we’ve been dealing with over past months within a greater collective spiritual field. We’re now hit a time of reviewing 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 one of the legs of the “Splay” Jones pattern and conjunct the North Node in Scorpio. This is now the third pass over the 6th through 12th degrees of Scorpio, finishing those primary lessons in play since November 2012. Saturn was in Libra through early October 2012, making this the eleventh New Moon of the Saturn in Scorpio era!

Saturn is the cosmic timekeeper, symbolizing the ongoing lessons and limitations within the larger field of existence. As noted, though separating in this chart it continues to be one of the legs of the Grand Water Trine, making it very much a stabilizing force relative to the openings of Jupiter and the collective consciousness as symbolized by Neptune.

Of some importance is that Saturn is now making the last of a series of triseptiles with Uranus. This has had major implications for the degree spans involved, and put the conventional and unconventional elements of reality at a huge fork in the road. The first triseptile of Saturn in Scorpio to Uranus in Aries was in October 2012. The second triseptile was in May 2013. Now we get the last in the sequence through mid-September. I’ll offer the degree spans most affected in part 3 of this series.

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. We will be tested on our ability to translate those Libra lessons into constructive action between December 2013 and late July 2014 when Mars transits Libra.

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 eighth 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 moving forward at 6 Scorpio, which will test our ability to manifest positive Saturn traits given the review we’ve had since February of the lessons Saturn has been teaching us since November 2012. The lessons of this month will have some similarity to what we first confronted in November and again in June about leaving something known and familiar behind, gambling on whatever avidity calls us.

2012 finished our philosophical and ideological 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 find stabilizing forces that show us new life momentum and bring us new confidence, and/or b) having achieved a long term stability, we will use this as a foundation to pull away from the “known and familiar,” gambling everything on some great dream. Those who have already pulled away from the known can find new structures within which we may live and continue to pull away from the past. This Lunation frees us for new expression, new play, new creativity, new heart strength, and new love.

We have now finished 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. Now we have to show what we know, and walk the talk! 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. 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 seeing that “our experiment in our improvised lab nears completion,” and that all we need to do is continue to outwit whatever needs outwitting, and find ways to relate seemingly unrelated things through persistence and caution.

As Saturn moves forward, it will concretize all that we’ve been learning via the North Node while it’s been in middle and late Scorpio. Though the lessons will take a Saturnine form, by early 2014 we’ll have had many opportunities to contact our innermost “God force” and move beyond old forms. Especially this Autumn, we will continue to learn to go to our “center of reality” and see how Spirit and Soul are dancing with whatever in our personality is conflicted.

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.

Besides the very dynamic Cardinal T-square and Saturn triseptile Uranus, we actually have very few powerful aspects in this Lunation, which I’ll speak about in the next part of this series. The major influences are the Cardinal T-square, Venus quintile Jupiter, Mars tredecile Saturn, and Saturn sextile Pluto. Overall, it should be a highly specializing time for many, as long as you follow the flow and remember what you’ve learned about a greater emotional intelligence and stability. 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.

Here's part 1 about this Leo New Moon: New Moon in Leo pt 1 - What's Happening in August-September 2013

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!

Comments

PS my Nth node with divine mother on it is at 29 Leo, 33' from the 29' cancer, hoping and hoping it will illuminate a good journey made with commitment as it is in my 10th house...so it may well be my finding the courage though creating an opportunity to "be seen" again now by many, I was publicly known in "my area" yet retreated to the shadows predominantly the past 12 years due to attempts by others to "assassinate my character" with untruths, with saturn about to hit my 1st house neptune again, I accept I will be revealing myself ethically and I am willing to, however this time I will be finally safe to to so?

Posted by: Debbie | August 05, 2013 at 05:57 PM

oopd that should read 33' from 26 cancer lol!

Posted by: Debbie | August 05, 2013 at 06:35 PM

ROBERT SAYS:"This Lunation shows us either a) we will continue to find stabilizing forces that show us new life momentum and bring us new confidence, and/or b) having achieved a long term stability, we will use this as a foundation to pull away from the “known and familiar,” gambling everything on some great dream."

Oh.My.Word. On Friday past (2/8) I did just this ... I took a MAJOR leap of faith around some old emotional ties that where so very familiar and comforting, and I actually thought "I'm taking a huge gamble but I'm risking it; it'll be all or nothing" It ended up being nothing (a friend responded to my outpouring of feelings around certain power dynamics in the relationship by ending our 25 year old friendship without discussion) but this article is such validation that - while the long term outcome of my action is still unknown and somewhat scary - for now, I did the right thing (respondi Deus!) I keep on thinking of the Judgement Card in the Rider Waite Tarot - that's the image I get for what the energies of the last few months have been putting us through!

But I feel less sad and scared now after reading this; like I've had a good spring clean of my life and once the dust is settled (hopefully soon!) things will be much brighter and more energising!

Posted by: Judy Croome (@judy_croome) | August 06, 2013 at 03:54 AM