by Robert Wilkinson
Over the next 4 weeks, the New Moon in Scorpio indicates it’s purification time! Get ready to part the veil and enter into the unknown, where we can “escape from a narrow destiny.”
This is the second New Moon with Saturn back in Sagittarius after a last blast of Saturn in Scorpio from mid-June through mid-September. There are a number of important aspects in play which I’ll discuss in part two. And we’re still in a Bowl Jones pattern, showing more of a sense of what we have and what we don’t, set in the context of practicality, education, experimentation in action, and friendly competition fostering group consciousness.
So What’s Happening?
Today we’ll do an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In part 2 we’ll cover Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.
This stabilizing, purifying, regenerative, and focused New Moon occurs at 20 Scorpio at 9:47 am PST, 12:47 pm EST, 5:47 pm GMT on November 11. This one gives us the ability to move into deeper life experiences, and shows us the way to use our magnetism in concentrated ways. We are definitely all at the threshold of the unknown, where we may show courage as we eliminate ego traps and fetters keeping us from a more perfect way to “do our Being.”
This New Moon is the tenth in a sequence where the Sun falls in the sign preceding the next Full Moon. This is the opposite of the “normal order of Lunation Suns,” where the New Moon Sun is in the same sign as the next Full Moon Sun. In other word, while this New Moon Sun is in Scorpio, the coming Full Moon Sun will be in Sagittarius. Since I explain this phenomenon and what it means in the Full Moon articles, you can find out more by consulting the Full Moon articles of two weeks ago or two weeks from now.
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
There are quite a few major forming aspects in this chart. The most prominent are the Lunation exactly semi-square Venus, septile Mars, and tredecile Neptune. The Venus semisquare Sun has been a big challenge for quite a few weeks, creating internal friction between our life and our likes.
Mercury, moving toward a conjunction with the Sun, creates a “collection of light” that brings two separating aspects back into play. One is the very productive Mercury-Sun sextile Jupiter, the other a Sun-Mercury quincunx to Uranus, indicating hard adjustments and sacrifices that allow us space to expand in different ways than in the past. With Mars making a biseptile to Pluto, the Grand Irrationality is back in play! I’ll discuss these and more in part 2.
There is a huge concentration of planets between mid-Virgo and early Sagittarius, so you can bet those sectors will be highly active over the next 4 weeks. This New Moon will jumpstart Scorpio energy wherever it falls in our chart. That's why this New Moon can yield a lot of purified magnetism via practical initiatives due to Jupiter and Mars in Virgo.
This New Moon in Scorpio makes Mars the worldly ruler of the Lunation, and Pluto is the spiritual ruler of the Lunation. Because Mars is in Virgo and Pluto is in Capricorn (both Earth signs), we have some serious practicality in the air, as well as major turning points in our individual and collective destinies wherever we have Aries, Virgo, Scorpio, and Capricorn planets and houses in our charts.
The chart shows an interesting blend of two standalone “final dispositors” and one Mutual Reception between Mercury and Mars. A mutual reception is a “closed loop” powerful self-reinforcing energy that governs the backdrop for all the other planets in the map except Venus in its home sign of Libra and Neptune in its home sign of Pisces. You can find out more about dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.
Because Mercury in Scorpio leads the Lunation, it’s time to focus our magnetism through conscious choices so we may eliminate obsolete things, behavior, and people, and through creating the void, attract those things, behaviors, and people that are more appropriate to our evolved sense of Being. This can lead us to our Soul through a deeper faith in our ability to move into unknown zones of deep feelings, and demonstrate courage as we move beyond old ego issues and problems.
We continue the quickening that’s been in play for many months, and will be for many months to come. This process involves learning to stay clear about our place and function in the bigger picture, make practical adjustments to sharpen our skills, and find those who share our heart fire. New archetypes and expressions are on the way in the very near future!
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 that the Grand Irrationality is in play, due to Mars biseptile Pluto. This shows major Martian “forks in the road of global destiny” are now in motion. As previously noted, this one offers us all an “escape from a narrow destiny” through joyously rising to some challenge, opportunity, or “task which broadens the life horizon.”
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. We’ve been living with it for a bit over 20 years, and will be active for a few more years to come, even though we’ve begun to be on the far side of that influence.
Though it will wane in intensity in the future, there will be enough set into motion that won’t make sense that we certainly can’t be lulled into a false sense of complacency! We’re certainly still seeing some global craziness and irrational behavior, so be aware!
Because late Autumn through mid-Spring shows Neptune in close septile with Pluto, we’ll have the configuration operating in close sequence at this time. For the next few months, every time a planet makes a conjunction or septile-series aspect to either Neptune or Pluto, it’ll create a simultaneous “pulse” that will activate Neptune and Pluto at the same time, unlike the late Spring through mid-Autumn, when we have a lag in how these energies express.
The current degree spans that trigger this transformative mass configuration are around 6-10 Pisces, 27 Aries- 1 Taurus, 19-23 Gemini, 10-14 Leo, 1-5 Libra, 22-26 Scorpio, and 13-17 Capricorn. 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 2011-2012, and Where We're At Now
I offer this segment each month to give you a broader perspective on the collective atmosphere, and the long wave changes humanity is going through.
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 forty-sixth 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, as with last month’s New Moon, Chiron is again at 18 Pisces, the degree it went stationary retrograde last year. This will help us heal anew through our positioning within collective consciousness, helping us find a form of self-expression that will bring us our allies, “strengthen our communal spirit,” and bring us to a greater intensity of living. Keep revising your ideas, and you’ll see your faith will “open up a new environment.”
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.
Also carried over from last month’s New Moon, in this Lunation chart Neptune is at 8 Pisces, the degree where it will go stationary direct a week from now. This period is giving us a last tune-in to hearing a call to renewal that began last year. For the past year, “tomorrow has acted through today,” and we’ve heard a call to renewal, or sounded a call for renewal, or both.
Because Neptune has not experienced 6 through 10 Pisces since the 1850s, it indicates that collective consciousness in 2014-2016 has been in an “unknown zone” relative to the recent past, but somehow echoing lessons of the last period. We have reviewed some form of life renewal that’s been in motion since the Summer of 2014, strengthening our intuition and emotional intelligence, as well as a greater feeling-connection of our positioning within a vaster field.
We are moving through a long term quickening, and have dropped and will continue to drop many irrelevant considerations as we spur ourselves toward a goal. This will result in a mastery that will lead to new functional roles and truths in the next year. We’re definitely learning how to be precise in moving through the larger fogs and vast feelings in the collective atmosphere.
Once it moves past its previously occupied span this coming Spring, collective consciousness will again enter an “unknown zone” of experience, feeling what it stands for amidst the swirl of the tides, preparing us to demonstrate courage and focused will within a larger collective circumstance. The collective consciousness will again be officially in uncharted waters.
The North Node
This is the twenty-second and last New Moon 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 continue to be in a time of growth through learning how to live our archetypal self, growing by seeing the balances or imbalances in our relationships. In Libra we grow through understanding what is fair or unfair in what we confront, and many will find they have strong feelings for what is out of balance.
The North Node in early Libra brings a more specific focus on growth in that direction. And of course, as I’ve noted in other articles, it also develops many of the Saturn skills and disciplines we took on and learned to deal with when Saturn was in Libra between late 2009 and late 2012.
This NN degree is 1 Libra, the degree of “a butterfly made perfect with a dart through it,” showing the next four weeks are about “symbolic deaths” that show us a “spiritual awakening.” We continue to be pulled to grow into whatever “symbolic life” is appropriate to the wisdom and understanding we began to develop between late 2009 and the Autumn of 2010.
I’ll close today by reminding you that we’re still at the “far side” of the long wave friction and crashes symbolized by Uranus square Pluto indicating the global collision between a new humanity and an old slave/control system. Now that Uranus is retrograde and Pluto is direct, that again makes it a forming square which has been strong the past few weeks, and will last through the Winter.
This Lunation will help us embrace a deeper feeling-wisdom, a practical way of interacting to maximize results, and show us the way beyond where we’ve been, and the door to a deeper, broader, wider destiny. Eliminate all unnecessary considerations, concentrate your energies, and learn to play new games (or nu games!)
Though you may be uncertain, kill out fear, and embrace a more self-less view of the adventure of living life! We now can see why we had to eliminate a lot of attitudes and responses in 2013 that did not serve our long term good, and now continue the unveiling of things that have been hidden before now about how our greater service can take a practical shape.
See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!
© Copyright 2015 Robert Wilkinson
Thanks Robert. Lets see how life and world events play out now that the Grad Irrationality is again present.
Ready for part 2.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | November 11, 2015 at 12:33 PM