by Robert Wilkinson
Over the next 4 weeks, the New Moon in Sagittarius indicates a turning point, and a time when we will have to focus on the big picture so we can prepare for what’s coming down the road.
This is the third 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 an imperfect 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, training, and willingness to test our faith, strength, and valor.
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 expansive, rectifying, fine tuning and educative New Moon occurs at 20 Sagittarius at 2:29 am PST, 5:29 am EST, 10:29 am GMT on December 11. This one gives us the ability to do in-depth preparations for the next phase of our lives, and how we may have to do what must be done now so that we can have what we need in the future. This will be an enormously productive 4 weeks, and much will be stabilized as a platform for the future.
This New Moon is the eleventh 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 Sagittarius, the coming Full Moon Sun will be in Capricorn. 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, even though the Lunation itself makes one, and only one forming aspect, a square to Jupiter, the ruler of the Lunation. Prominent aspects include Mercury sextile Venus, biseptile Uranus, sextile Neptune, and conjunct Pluto, with Venus novile the Sun and sextile Pluto. Add an exact Mars septile Saturn and Saturn trine Uranus, and we are looking at major stabilized Fire energy. I’ll discuss these and more in part 2.
There is a huge concentration of planets between late Virgo and mid-Capricorn, so you can bet those sectors will be highly active over the next 4 weeks. This New Moon will jumpstart Sagittarius energy wherever it falls in our chart. That's why this New Moon can yield a lot of vision and understanding, backed by practicality due to Jupiter in Virgo and Mercury in Capricorn.
This New Moon in Sagittarius makes Jupiter the worldly ruler of the Lunation, and Neptune is the spiritual ruler of the Lunation. Because Jupiter is in Virgo and Neptune is in Pisces, there is a polarization backing the Lunation. Jupiter in Virgo is ruled by Mercury in Capricorn which is ruled by Saturn in Sagittarius, setting up a “chain of dispositors” as one of the ruling energies to the chart.
So the chart shows an interesting blend of three backdrop energies. Beside the chain of dispositors listed above, we also have a “mutual reception” between Venus in Scorpio and Mars in Libra, along with the standalone Neptune in its own sign of Pisces. Planets involved in a chain of dispositors or a mutual reception are both “closed loop” powerful self-reinforcing energies that governs the backdrop for all the other planets in the map. You can find out more about dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.
Because Saturn in Sagittarius leads the Lunation, it’s time to show maturity, discipline, and the willingness to take responsibility for learning and teaching whatever is needed to feed our future and become skilled at things that we’ll need then, even if we don’t need them now. This can help us with long term disciplines of self-realization, and help us organize the truths we’re awakening to.
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 liberate our egos from fear, the wrong use of force, and old associations that require a “dignified withdrawal.”
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 not in play, since there are no aspects to either Neptune or Pluto. The past month it was in play due to Mars biseptile Pluto in the Scorpio New Moon chart. This indicates all of us hit some sort of “fork in the road of global destiny, ” which has certainly been clear from the events of the past 4 weeks!
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-seventh 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 the last two New Moons, Chiron is 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 the last two New Moons, in this Lunation chart Neptune is at 8 Pisces, the degree where it went stationary direct not long ago. 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 first New Moon with North Node in Virgo and South Node in Pisces. Good for learning precision, practicality, refined discipleship and service! With NN in Virgo, our greatest development is through our ability to analyze, figure out what’s core and peripheral, what’s important and unimportant, and how each detail fits the bigger picture. We will demonstrate these qualities through compassion, forgiveness, and the ability to get emotional closure while relating our experiences to the general timeless human condition.
The North Node in late Virgo brings a more specific focus on growth in that direction. We now begin many months of developing many of the Saturn skills and disciplines we took on and learned to deal with when Saturn was in late Virgo between Aug-Oct 2009 and Apr-July 2010.
This NN degree is 28 Virgo, the degree of “A bald headed man,” showing the next four weeks are about the power of the personality to come forth in moments of crisis and decision and the power of the will in shaping outer events. We will grow through self-mastery that helps us take charge of situations, and as this is the exact degree where Saturn went stationary direct in May 2010, either we’ll see how we’re growing along lines set into motion then, or we’ll begin to grow on the basis of the rules and boundaries established then.
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 higher and wider understanding of how the present feeds the future, and how preparation now assures us supply in the future. This will be an intensely liberating yet practical period, with a need to adjust and imitate a higher way of living if necessary. This is another Lunation that takes us beyond the known and familiar, so be thoughtful as you move into unknown zones.
Though the openings may bring a sense of uncertainty and conflict between the old and the new, the expansive and the limiting, kill out fear, and embrace a more self-less view of the adventure of living life! We now can calm our minds, and understand old dramas we retired from in the past from a more serene and humorous view. This directly relates to what we began to leave behind October 2014, and frees us to move into the future.
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, as usual very informative and clear. And, also as usual, ready for the next posts!
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | December 10, 2015 at 12:23 PM
Today I am intensely aware that the situations and people left behind as Saturn moved through Scorpio are no longer compatible with who I am today. Makes for considerable inner conflict. I can't begin to see how that will resolve.
Posted by: Jo Garceau | December 11, 2015 at 03:47 PM
I haven't been to visit your site for ages - silly me. Now I find you have written much on Chiron and Neptune in Pisces that makes so much sense to me (with sun, moon and Mars in Pisces and Saturn hitting my natal Chiron right now). I have really enjoyed this article and will print it out to reflect on more deeply. Thank you very much. I must remember to come back to your site regularly. :)
Posted by: Suzanne | December 16, 2015 at 03:37 PM