by Robert Wilkinson
This article covers significant aspects, degree symbols, and other important factors in this Scorpio New Moon chart. This Lunation can help us calm our minds and get some accurate intuitive flashes. This one is highly specializing, even if it’s more inward oriented than externally focused. Be receptive, demonstrate your integrity, and you’ll find yourself on the way to peace.
For the past few months, the planetary layout has moved between many different Jones Patterns, depending on the position of the Moon. These patterns operate their own independent influence, regardless of which planet is in which sign.
Currently, the occupied span begins with Jupiter in Libra, and proceeds through planets in Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Pisces, and Aries. This is an almost ideal spread, with all the planets in half the signs. It will continue over the next few months as the inner planets continue within the span defined by Libra through Aries. This pattern, where all the planets are within the span of half the signs, is called a Bowl Jones pattern.
The Bowl Pattern and how it works
This type of spread, with all the planets occupying approximately half of the signs with an empty half opposite the occupies half, creates a “special type of conscious selfhood,” which Dr. Jones says “marks the Bowl type of temperament. He goes on to state “Fundamentally it is an extreme self-containment,” which “holds things, and a Bowl individual is one who always has something to bear.”
He goes on to state that with the Bowl, “the whole dynamic of man, his total power of achievement, arises in his instinctive realization that he is set off against a definite part of the world, that there is a complete segment of experience from which he is excluded in some subtle fashion. The Bowl not only holds something, but also places whatever it holds into relationship with a larger consideration.”
Dr. Jones continues that “the occupied segment of the Bowl horoscope reveals the activity and organization of the self, since planets are significant according to their place by sign and house, and the unoccupied segment becomes a challenge to existence, or the need and emptiness to which the native must direct his attention. The outstanding characteristic of the Bowl temperament is its marked sense of what is self-contained in contrast with what the self cannot hold, and this take an everyday form in an advocacy of some cause, the furtherance of a mission, an introspective concern over the purpose of experience.”
He concludes his explanation of how the pattern works with “The Bowl native always has something to give to his fellows, whether literally or psychologically, whether constructively or vindictively, because his orientation to the world arises from division; that is, frustration and uncertainty. The leading planets, determined in exactly the same way as for the Locomotive pattern, give a point of application, and shows where and how the native seeks to carry out his mission or gain his everyday justification for existence.”
He brings up another important point of analysis, as he states “the leading planet is of secondary importance in the Bowl pattern, unless it is found in a strong opposition or cosmic cross. The fundamental attack on the problems of life by the Bowl individual is indicated more significantly by the tilt or house-position of the Bowl-segment.”
He concludes this section by stating “the Bowl character is definitely more self-expending, or self-seeking, and more practically interested in what things mean and what they are. It continually throws the emphasis from the signs into the houses. It a general way the Bowl tends to ‘scoop up’ things and initiate experience when the position of the leading planet ranges from the fourth cusp, up and over the ascendant, to the midheaven cusp, and then inclines to “capture” things or consummate various phases of life when the leading planet is placed similarly from the tenth angle down over the descendant to the nadir.”
With Jupiter leading this Bowl pattern, it shows us the need to use “expansive balance,” “balanced truth and view,” and “abundant well-roundedness” to open our planetary experience. Take a large and generous view of the many ways a thing can be approached or understood in its larger picture. As Jupiter is in Air, understanding and a sense of how things are related in a balanced overview will open doors to experience.
In this New Moon, the most intense occupied span (in this chart Mercury, the Lunation, and Venus and Saturn in Sagittarius) is 37+ degrees, making that the major focus. However, if we add planets in adjacent signs, we have 6 planets in the 64+ degree span between Jupiter in Libra and Venus in Sagittarius, and 8 planets in the 102+ degrees between Jupiter and Mars in Capricorn. Regardless of which grouping you use, this is a very intense cluster, guaranteed to set a lot into motion wherever it falls in our chart.
This month we have the 10 traditional planets occupying 6 signs, which are fairly spread out around the occupied part of the zodiacal wheel. As noted, we have Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Pisces, and Aries represented, with no planet in the other signs.
The Sabian Symbol for the New Moon
A New Moon sets the seed forms for what the following month will demonstrate. This Lunation falls at 8 Scorpio. While I've given you a sense of this degree up to now, this is where we go into depth.
The symbol for the 8th degree of Scorpio is “The Moon shining across a lake.” In his notes from the Jones class, Rudhyar says this is a degree of “Illumination of the soul by transcendent wisdom,” and “Quiet touch with cosmic strength; or wayward moody effort at greatness.”
In the Mandala he goes on to say this is a degree of "a quiet openness to higher inspiration.” He suggests this symbol is one showing us the surrender of the personal ego to the “inspiration of transcendent feelings,” where we can get out of our own way and experience a higher Love and Wisdom. But we have “to present a calm mind upon which a superman light may be reflected.”
He states this degree “tells us that beyond all efforts lies the need for peace and the readiness to accept the illumination from above,” and gives us the keyword quiescence. He says this degree falls in the Span of Retention, Act of Group Integration, and is the synthesizing degree of the Scene of Communion on the Social-Cultural level.
Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this is a degree of “the magic on which (we) always may call in facing any problems of inner or psychological adjustment.” He speaks of “a fellowship of feeling which leads to all romance and which enables human hearts to gain their moments of release from the outer compulsions upon them and thus achieve their inner and more enduring orientation.”
He offers that “natural events here tend to shape themselves to meet the individual’s real yearning for a deeper experience,” and offers us the keyword RAPPORT. He states that when operating positively, the degree is a “an absolute and usually unsuspected mastery over the forces and exigencies of life and nature.”
Important Aspects
Remember that in reading a Lunation chart (as well as a horary, inceptional, electional, or any event chart) the forming aspects show things to come, while separating aspects show things already past. This section covers only forming aspects.
As mentioned in part 1, the Lunation makes several important aspects, all favorable and specializing. With the Moon including Mercury by collection of light, we see the New Moon quintile Mars, decile Venus and Saturn, and trine Neptune, with Mercury also making an exact bielftile and forming sextile to Pluto. These aspects are highly specializing, and many will find organizational skills working in unique ways and situations. Even the deciles (semi-quintiles) are favorable, since they’ll demonstrate as unique skills and expansive/responsible relationships in the future.
The other aspects are also very favorable, and include Venus and Saturn both trine Uranus, and Mars biseptile Jupiter, novile Saturn, and semisquare Neptune. We see Jupiter in a sextile to Saturn while also setting up a wide T-square through a square to Pluto and an extremely wide opposition to Uranus, pulling the Uranus square Pluto back into play. So with Fire trines and Water trines, lots of inspired experience is in the air that will affect us all in very deep and personal ways!
The Mars semisquare is waning, so it’s the end of the old Mars/Neptune cycle set into motion back in Jan 2015 when they conjuncted at 6 Pisces, setting our renewed dedication into action. From here we close the old, preparing to open the new in Jan 2017 at the conjunction at 10 Pisces.
Mars biseptile Jupiter will be extremely important in all of us confronting shifts in destiny wherever we have mid-Libra and late Capricorn, as well as the houses and planets we have in Aries, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Those most affected have planets or angles near 9-13 Libra, 1-5 Sagittarius, 22-26 Capricorn, 13-17 Pisces, 5-9 Taurus, 26-30 Gemini, and 17-21 Leo. If you have something in these zones, your life is definitely at a fork in the road in the realm of a new future more balanced than your old one.
The biseptile, novile, and bielftile are spiritual aspects. All novile series aspects introduce an element of gestation, whether something is going into it or coming out from a gestative period. These aspects hold the promise of realization and revelation, pointing us toward whatever spiritual pulse governs the planetary interaction. Mars novile Saturn shows emergent realizations arising in their cycle that began at the conjunction at 10 Sag in August.
The elftile series aspect all show some phase of learning to overcome some form of duality by making a leap of faith that will lead to mastery. Mercury bielftile Pluto is waning, showing us “reunions” with others that should reinforce our faith, or show us how our faith can be turned to productive social interactions and experiences.
Element Balance
Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 3 planets in Fire signs, 4 in Water, 2 in Earth, and 1 in Air. This indicates we have an emphasis on feelings, with heightened inspiration and considerable practicality with Mars exalted in Capricorn. While Air (interactivity) is in short supply by planet, that planet is Jupiter, and leads the pattern, so interactions will lead to all kinds of other deeper, more inspired relationships. You could call this combination inspired feelings, or experiencing freedom and lightness in our relationships and even our duties.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things will be running fairly hot! The emphasis on Fire and Water can create a very volatile combination that creates steam power when focused or fogs and mists when uncontained, so try to be as cool and practical as possible. While emotions may run high, and It could be a wild ride energetically, Jupiter leading the pack offers us ways to stay balanced and use the Water trines to deepen our understanding and stability as the Fire trines take us higher!
The current sequence at present of Deciding, Feeling, and Thinking
We’ve been through several different sequences over the past few months. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses. As a process of moving through events, this New Moon shows us that over the next 4 weeks the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience involves leading with our decisions and actions, and then searching for new information, new understanding, or a new vision that will help us to get clear about something, followed by the need to reference our feelings and what we’re experiencing as a result of those insights, memories, understanding, or vision.
After we decide or act and then think, research, revision, rehearse, or review our understanding, we then need to go deep within to feel the implications of those ideas and visions. So get it in gear, and then go get new information or new ways of seeing things, and then feel your feelings and check in about how you’re experiencing those thoughts, or that information or vision you are sensing.
Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend
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© Copyright 2016 Robert Wilkinson
Thank you for the practical and clear information on this New Moon.
I also enjoy the reading of "Saturn Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend" Also clear and practical.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | October 31, 2016 at 04:26 AM