by Robert Wilkinson
Over the next 4 weeks, the New Moon in Libra introduces us to a time of new inspiration through transfiguration, with Venus bringing gentle beauty and appreciation to all we attempt. This will be a productive New Moon, with a promise that the scales of justice will be balanced as we see how connected we truly are to the life that’s all around us!
This New Moon in Libra is idealistic, initiating, balancing, and challenges us to put ourselves out there and show others our training or how we’ve mastered our lower nature. As it falls just after the Autumnal Equinox, most of the aspects are the same, so please take a new look at that article to know more about the planetary interactions in play over the next four weeks.
This one helps us move into a greater ideal, and with the Lunation triseptile Neptune, it puts the Grand Irrationality in play in a big way! Very big changes in how we do and do not mesh with the collective will be in motion, and some will find allies with whom they can cooperate in a greater destiny involving a collectivity of people.
As I noted in the Equinox article, right now we have Mercury quintile both Jupiter and Pluto, and Jupiter biquintile Pluto. This activates 3 points of a 5 Pointed Star pattern, showing high specialization where unique qualities can come forth, or specialized conditions will allow for unique gifts that are perfect for whatever is needed in that situation. Given that Jupiter is part of the very powerful Grand Fire Trine in the making these next several weeks, it’s time to get inspired and light up the sky of our life!
This idealistic, interactive, joyous, balancing and uniquely gifting New Moon occurs at 2 Libra on September 23, 2014, at 11:14 pm PDT, September 24 at 2:14 am EDT, and 7:14 am BST. The Lunation finds 26 Gemini rising in Santa Monica, 4 Cancer in Vancouver, 5 Leo in Toronto (Sept 24), 10 Leo in Montreal, and 4 Leo in Washington DC. That means the span of Ascendants across North America is between late Gemini and mid-Leo.
Continuing eastward, we find rising signs of 14 Leo in Rio, 28 Virgo in Lisbon, 5 Libra in London, 14 Libra in Berlin, 24 Libra in Sofia, 16 Scorpio in Johannesburg, and 30 Libra rising in Moscow. That means the span of Ascendants across Europe and Africa is between late Virgo and mid-Scorpio.
Moving into Asia and Oceana, we find Ascendants at 7 Sagittarius in Abbottabad, 13 Sagittarius in New Delhi 21 Sagittarius in Trivandrum, 24 Capricorn in Jakarta, 20 Capricorn in Hong Kong, 11 Aquarius in Tokyo, 12 Aquarius in Perth, 7 Pisces in Melbourne, 12 Pisces in Brisbane, 2 Aries in Wellington, and 9 Taurus rising on Maui (Sept 23).
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 2 Libra, Mercury is 28 Libra, Venus is 23 Virgo, Mars is 7 Sagittarius, Jupiter is 15 Leo, Saturn is 20 Scorpio, Uranus is 16 Aries, Neptune is 6 Pisces retrograde, Pluto is 11 Capricorn (stationary direct degree), TransPluto is 1 Virgo, Chiron is 15 Pisces retrograde, and the NN is 20 Libra.
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 (near the MC) in Pakistan and India, and setting in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Wellington. The New Moon is on the nadir (IC) in Santa Monica and Vancouver, and rising (near the Ascendant) in Lisbon, London, Berlin, Sofia, and Moscow.
This is the fifteenth in a sequence of New Moons where the Sun is in the same sign as the following Full Moon. This is assumed to be the “normal order of Lunation Suns,” whereas the other Lunation order is the opposite, where the New Moon Sun falls in the sign preceding the Sun of the following Full Moon.
In other words, this New Moon in Libra will also have a Full Moon Sun in Libra two weeks from now. This is the reverse of what we experienced between July 2011-June 2013, when we had a sequence of Lunations where the Full Moon Sun was in the sign after the New Moon Sun.
We shifted back to “normal” with the New and Full Moons of last August. Since I explain this phenomenon and what it means in the Full Moon articles, I’ll elaborate more on this shift into the “normal order of things,” and when the pattern will next be reversed, 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.
An Overview of the New Moon
As I said, this will be an initiating, refining, practical, efficient, gifting and destiny-shaping New Moon, and we will all be tested to show our self-discipline as we identify with a larger sweep of cycles and evolution. With so many favorable aspects and only one minor frictional one, these next 4 weeks should be unique, productive, and favorable for those who have overcome their sense of separateness or isolation.
We all began to learn about “the brightening influences” around us in late 2010, and had to keep our balance while acting on what we knew between March 2014 and July 2014. Now we get comprehension about how far we’ve come, and how far we have to go.
Many of the gifts and unique conditions promised by this New Moon will show us new ways of linking our perception to our imagination, especially regarding seed-forms to be developed with patience and maturity. Many who have endured tough situations, disappointments, and relentless or manipulative people will find rewards for having done the right thing despite difficult circumstances.
Some of what we confront these next 4 weeks relates directly to November 2009, March 2010, and the 2 year period that began at the end of July and early August 2010 that lasted to mid-August 2012. This will be an intensely creative 4 weeks, so “get your motor running, get out on the highway!”
The coming Grand Fire Trine should make things brighter and more inspired for those with planets almost anywhere in the first 19 degrees of Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius, with an emphasis on 1-9 and 13-18 degrees of those signs. Many of these effects will also be seen in late November and early December, as well as early March, early April, and all of May 2015. This Lunation will be the gift that keep on giving, with a great potential for joyous response to what's brightening!
As I told you in the Equinox article, Mercury at 28 Libra is quintile Jupiter at 15 Leo, and quintile Pluto at 11 Capricorn, with Jupiter is making a biquintile to Pluto. This generates an exceptionally favorable pattern where gifts and uniquely favorable circumstances can happen.
The 5 zones most affected involve 8-12 Capricorn, 20-24 Pisces, 2-6 Gemini, 14-18 Leo, and 26-30 Libra. If you have a planet or angle in these zones (or even a degree or two to either side) then expect some highly specialized circumstances and gifts to come your way, or see some of your gifts and special qualities come forth that will be perfect for the circumstances you’re in. Some will experience a clear joy at what develops!
As I also noted in that article, besides these specializing aspects, we also find Venus quintile Mars and tredecile Pluto, and Saturn is biquintile Uranus. So if we figure Venus into the above configuration through its tredecile to Pluto, then we have to add the same degree spans of the opposite signs to those above, thus doubling the number of affected zones!
This continues the long run of Lunations with Jupiter trine Uranus, favoring inspiration, expansion, new heart expressions, and overall breaks a lot loose from the inertia of the past, whether binding stagnation or calculated inaction. Last month’s New Moon featured Venus trine Uranus, which should present itself as a great truth and/or blessing when Jupiter transits 17 Leo in early October, as well as February and late May/early June 2015. These Fire Trines should lighten things up for the rest of the year!
Jupiter will be leading the occupied span of signs for quite a while. Because Venus in Virgo leads the Lunation, this should be a period where people and relationships will be important, so try not to be too nit-picky, critical, or worried about the small stuff. Again, it should be a good time for demonstrating your “virtuosity” or any other skill you may have mastered.
This New Moon will jumpstart Libra energy wherever it falls in our chart. A sense of the larger cyclic patterns with the ability to see the stages in creating any given thing will bring productivity and a sense of intensified love, however it’s expressed. Like the last two New Moons, this one continues an actional, physical-material “real world” focus.
Because it happens in Libra, Venus is the ruler of the Lunation. Because Venus is in Virgo, and Virgo’s ruler Mercury is in Libra they are in ”mutual reception” and are the final dispositors for all the other planets except Neptune, which is also in its home sign of Pisces. A final dispositor is a very powerful self-referencing energy. So these planets dominate the background for all the planetary energies.
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. Since then it’s been reinforced and triggered by various Lunations, planetary stations, and transits.
This Lunation finds the Grand Irrationality is incredibly powerful, since it’s being triggered by the Sun and Moon triseptile Neptune in Pisces. Those with a planet or an angle in any of the 7 zones of the Grand Irrationality will find themselves confronting choices and changes as they stand at forks in the road of their destiny.
For those who are new to the site, here’s a bit of explanation about this thing called “the Grand Irrationality” associated with 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 20 years, and will be in play for a few more years to come.
The current degree spans that trigger this transformative mass configuration are around 18-23 Scorpio, 10-15 Capricorn, 2-7 Pisces, 23-28 Aries, 14-19 Gemini, 6-11 Leo, and 27 Virgo-2 Libra. If you have a planet or angle in any of these zones, you are making critical choices and decisions that will alter your future in important ways. And because it’s in motion due to outer planets, these are pretty much forces beyond your ability to control, even if you can always control your response to these critical events.
Neptune and Chiron at the Cusp of the Age:
Now that these two are well into Pisces, they are no longer at the Cusp of the Age. Since they first entered the zone back in 2011-2012, we’ve been navigating through the threshold of an entirely new era that will not resemble the old Age in any way within just a few decades. 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 thirty-third New Moon with Neptune in Pisces for the next approximately 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!
In 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. The article deals specifically with the first degree of Pisces, which is where the Precessional point occupies at present.
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. You can find more about what we’re going through to get to the coming Age of Aquarius in the article The Sun Enters Pisces Today Illuminating the Cusp of the Great Age, Where The Age of Pisces Gives Way to the Age of Aquarius
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.
In this chart, Chiron is at 15 Pisces. This will help us heal anew through our positioning within collective consciousness, helping us let go of appearances when real needs arise, find new perspectives on who our spiritual group is and isn’t.
We are again able to find healing through Pisces attributes, strengths, and blessings. This continues to show us how to merge the sacred and the everyday in our lives. Over the past couple of years, we have healed through knowing what we stand for, and heard a call to a life renewal that is now front and center. We’ve had to let go of unnecessary baggage to quicken the pace in achieving some social goal, mastered something important in our spiritual quest, been offered higher responsibilities, and been shown what spiritual goals we’re fit to accomplish.
In this chart Neptune is at 6 Pisces. The degrees Neptune is transiting in 2014 is a span we haven’t experienced for almost 150 years, and the degree where it went stationary retrograde in June 2014 shows that we’ve all being summoned to hear “a call to renewal,” where “tomorrow acts through today.” This month’s degree is related to collective lessons glimpsed in February and March just before “the Great Fracturing” of March, April, and May 2014, and helps us revisit some dedication we’ve moved toward since the Summer of 2013.
Because Neptune has not experienced 6, 7 and 8 Pisces for over a century, it indicates that collective consciousness is now in an “unknown zone” of experience, feeling what it stands for amidst the swirl of the tides, “hearing the call” during the Summer of 2014. This continues to strengthen our intuition and emotional intelligence, as well as a greater feeling-connection of our positioning within a vaster field.
More on Saturn’s Universally Important Influence
Saturn in Scorpio continues to put a focus on eliminating stagnant feelings and responses, finding appropriate boundaries and a sense of responsibility for our magnetism as we continue to shed various “skins of personality.” This Lunation shows Saturn with few powerful aspects, indicating it will be one force in the Neptune “forks in the road of destiny” that the world is facing at present.
Scorpio helps us make choices about what to eliminate, what to regenerate, and how to let go of all that we don’t want nor need to take with us into the future. Now that Mars conjuncted Saturn in late August at 18 Scorpio, we’re into a two year period when we’ll see what we’ve completed that has transfigured our lives.
It is also showing us an on-going process of self-transformation at the end of a cycle if we’ve done what we needed to with excellence and found the right perspective on the dues we’ve had to pay these past two years. And as I’ve told you before, when in doubt, you might as well let go, since you cannot hold on to those things anyway.
Saturn continues to help us see a) how we have shifted our magnetism on relationships since last Summer, and/or b) how we need to find a new view or way of understanding the losses and eliminations of the past we’ve been through. Now we’re flowing into a long wave period of finding the right focus to allow inspiring teachings to transform our daily lives.
Because of Saturn’s path the past year, through our magnetism and desires we have begun to demonstrate a higher level of social functioning. Now that we’ve learned what is permanent and stable in our life structures, this is the next step in practicing those Saturn lessons.
Saturn is now direct, giving us one last time to apply the lessons of the past few months. This one will lead us into the unknown, so face your fear and conquer it, face your ego and bend it to the Wisdom of your Higher Self, and have faith that you’re ready for what’s on the other side of the veil. We are now in the final run of Saturn through mid-Scorpio, preparing to enter Sagittarius in late December.
So we’re now in the last act of the play of Saturn in Scorpio, where we complete eliminating and regenerating, seeing what to let go of that which no longer works. We have found ways to get focused and clear about what structures are worthwhile and which need eliminating or purifying, and have finished the long wave process showing us how to conduct ourselves at a higher social level of interaction. This gives us another period of seeing our inner wealth at the point of consummation.
As Saturn rules the bones, and Scorpio rules regenerative processes, you may want to regard the current Saturn in Scorpio transit as symbolizing a type of “bone regeneration,” or the elimination of all in our skin and bones that would block our ability to meet and greet others at a higher level of dignity, reserve, and “civilized” behavior. This shows us a long wave elimination and regeneration work each of us is doing in our own ways and times.
2012 finished our philosophical and ideological understanding in life areas related to Libra, Capricorn, and Aquarius in our charts, and since October 2012 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 continue to be a MUCH different manifestation of Saturn than we were used to between 2010-2012!
Due to the 2012 and 2013 Scorpio Solar Eclipses, 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 2012 that continued through January 2013, and the Solar Eclipse from November 2013 renewed the pulse. 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.
This is the eighth Lunation with North Node in Libra and South Node in Aries. Good for reasoned, balanced action! With NN in Libra, our greatest development is through our ability to balance, weigh, judge fairly, be diplomatic peacemakers, and generally cultivate our grace, style, elegance, and sense of beautiful forms.
We have now entered a time of growth through learning how to repair or reconstruct whatever we need to, and can grow by seeing the balances or imbalances in our relationships. Where it is in this Lunation chart shows we can grow through permanent truths and wisdom rather than transitory things and views. Study whatever “ancient wisdom” resources present themselves, and you’ll repair something you never knew needed it. Here we continue learn why we went through repair, reconstruction, or reclamation some things in 2011-2012.
During the time Saturn occupies the last half of Scorpio (between Nov 2013 and Dec 2014) it is concretizing and structuring what we learned via the North Node when it was in middle and late Scorpio. Though the lessons will take a Saturnine form, we are now almost at a threshold of reviewing how we’ve contacted our innermost “God force” and move beyond old forms. Last Autumn we learned to go to our “center of reality” and see how Spirit and Soul are dancing with whatever in our personality is conflicted. Now we get to do transmutation practices.
This Lunation features some very powerful aspects, mostly very favorable and specializing with only one frictional influence which is minor. I’ll cover these in part 2 of this series, along with the Sabian Symbol for the New Moon. This will be a specializing period leading to creative-expressive gifts and a sense of freedom wherever Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto are transiting and rule in your chart.
I’ll close today by reminding you that we’re in the heart of the long wave friction and crashes symbolized by the encroaching Uranus square Pluto indicating the global collision between a new humanity and an old slave system. So while we all get a joyous break from the pandemic friction in some really productive and unique ways, just keep relying on the emotional intelligence and stability you’ve cultivated since last Summer, and as always, show patience.....
Since the Solar Eclipse in Scorpio from last November is still a powerful influence, coming to the fore since Mars recently transited that degree, here are the articles for your review.
Astrology in November 2013 - On The Threshold of a Hybrid Solar Eclipse at 12 Scorpio
The Hybrid Solar Eclipse at 12 Scorpio Nov 3, 2013 Pt. 1 - Who Does It Affect and for How Long?
Since that Solar Eclipse occurred so close to the Inferior Conjunction of the Sun and Mercury last November, here's the article outlining how that influence was a factor in what Mars triggered when it was in Scorpio, and what we’ll be dealing with for the next 2 years.
© Copyright 2014 Robert Wilkinson
Thanks for that Robert. Good stuff as always. One of your greatest gifts is your ability to draw our attention to the cosmic energies which, like beacons, can keep us focused and prevent us from losing our way even when craziness is all around.
Bright Blessings
Posted by: Zephyr | September 24, 2014 at 01:04 AM