by Robert Wilkinson
New Moon coming soon! Over the next 4 weeks the New Moon in Aquarius marks a unique point in time, as it’s the first true Bundle Jones pattern we’ve had in many, many years.
We’ve now weathered the first of several Eclipses this year, so much is already “slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future.” This New Moon marks the beginning of many things, including the Chinese New Year of the Earth Pig. And this Lunation promises many healthy and productive interactions over the next 4 weeks, with honesty as a primary theme.
This is the fourteenth New Moon of the Saturn in Capricorn era! This month (and the duration of the 4+ years last month’s partial eclipse effects are in play), Saturn is front and center in terms of influence. Those who have made Saturn their friend will benefit greatly from its gentle wise understanding, being instructed in some “Way of Nature.”
This is the third New Moon of the Jupiter in Sagittarius era! This month it helps us reorient, and see that some changes may have to be made to ensure future health and well being. Jupiter now stands alone again for the next year, with all the planetary conjunctions of the past few weeks now launched into their next year cycle.
Jupiter in Scorpio was bound, or cocooned in some way. Jupiter in Sagittarius, in its natural home in Distributive Fire, opens a sense of life as a grand adventure in consciousness. We are at the middle stages of “Jupiter unbound,” and cultivating a sense of humor will relieve a lot of pressure. As Jupiter seeks truth, be honest with yourself and others, stand on your integrity, and follow these as a Spiritual Light.
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, synthesizing, and management oriented New Moon occurs at 16 Aquarius at 1:04 pm PST, 9:04 pm GMT on February 4. This will bring us into the Light of idealistic group power as we continue to organize the truths and futures we’ve been living into a new public persona. As Saturn is the ruler of the Lunation, we continue to learn a lot about our place and function within a larger group work.
We are now almost at the end of the long run of the current “alternate” Sun/Moon relationship which began in late August 2017 when this pattern began. The New Moon before that one, the July 2017 New Moon at 1 Leo was the fifteenth and last in a sequence where the Sun fell in the same sign as the Sun in the next Full Moon. There are two patterns: one with the Sun in the same sign as the Sun in the following Full Moon (New Moon between 1-15 degrees of a sign), and one with the Sun in a different sign than it’s in at the following Full Moon (New Moon between 16-30 degrees of a sign).
We were in the first pattern up to the 2017 Solar Eclipse at 29 Leo, when we shifted to the second (reverse) pattern, since that New Moon Solar Eclipse was followed by a Full Moon with the Sun at 14 Virgo and Moon at 14 Pisces. The past New Moon Solar Eclipse at 16 Capricorn set the seed for the following Full Moon Lunar Eclipse with the Sun at 1 Aquarius and the Moon at 1 Leo. This one at 16 Aquarius will have a Full Moon in about 2 weeks with the Sun at 1 Pisces and the Moon at 1 Virgo. Since I explain this phenomenon and what it means in the Full Moon articles, you will learn more from consulting recent Full Moon articles.
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 and made pleasing in Libra, purified and focused 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
We have now entered a time when the inner planets are inside the outer planet occupied hemispheric zone between Jupiter and Uranus. Venus in early Capricorn leads the inner planets, followed by Mercury and the Sun in mid-Aquarius. As Mars is still in late Aries, it means all the planets are now inside the “Bundle” defined by Jupiter in Sagittarius leading the occupied span and Uranus in Aries ending the occupied span. This will last until Mars is in mid-Taurus, and the only time we won’t have this compression is when the Moon is between late Gemini and late Virgo.
We’re also in a period when we have no oppositions except when the Moon is in Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, and Libra. This will shift once Mars opposes Jupiter in May, since it will continue to make oppositions for months after that, at times focusing the energy of the rest of the planets as the nozzle of the “Bucket” pattern formed at that time.
By July, Mercury and Mars in Leo will again form a Locomotive pattern, opening the front end with Jupiter in Sag closing it. If you want to know more about that, use the site search box and it’ll take you to an archived article about the Locomotive.
Looking at only the outer planet span, Jupiter is the entry planet to the hemisphere occupied by those social-spiritual energies. We finished a year of using Scorpio energy to enter that realm of wider experience, and now are in a year of using Sag energy to achieve momentum in that realm. We’ve moved from “expansive Scorpio” to expansive Sagittarius energy, and the coming weeks should be very productive, given the number of sextiles in play in this chart.
This New Moon will jumpstart Aquarius energy wherever it falls in our chart, so get ready to begin new activities requiring an ability to check up at the skills at our disposal, as well as managing interactions and receiving blessings for our efforts in the past. As Jupiter again leads the occupied span, keep opening to life’s adventure, reorient as needed, and take a look at the future to ensure your well being down the road.
So What Rules the Lunation?
This New Moon in Aquarius has Saturn as the worldly ruler and Uranus as the spiritual ruler of both the Sun and Moon. With Saturn biseptile Uranus, you can bet that this Lunation will be another powerful “fork in the road of destiny” for all of us! Because Saturn is in its home sign of Capricorn, it is its own ruler and therefore the final dispositor of the Lunation, Mercury, Venus, and Pluto, while Jupiter and Neptune rule themselves, and Mars rules itself and Uranus.
That means all the planets are ruled by Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. We’re now about to finish a run of having FOUR final dispositors, a very rare thing! So the Lunation and all the other planets are ruled by Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, the last of which continues as a longwave “standalone” dispositor of itself, ruling the fogs and mists of the current collective consciousness. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.
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, as well as subsequent Solar Eclipses whose influence continues. These effects are 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.
It’s been triggered in quite a few past Lunations, including the 2017 Solar Eclipse in Pisces and the August 2018 Solar Eclipse in Leo as well as the Mercury direct station that month. Because that Solar Eclipse activated the configuration, we are in for even more major choices and changes over the next few years, which will certainly keep things dynamic, if unstable!
This configuration is set into motion by any conjunction with or septile-series aspect to Neptune or Pluto. In this chart, there are no 7th harmonic aspects made to Neptune or Pluto, giving us a break from recent transits which activated it in a big way.
Uranus is now direct in motion. While not yet biseptile Pluto for the second time, the nonrationality is still triggered any time a planet makes a 7th harmonic aspect to either Uranus or Pluto, so it’s still in regular play if only in an “offset” way. When Uranus again biseptiles Pluto a few weeks from now, we’ll again find ourselves in a time of even weirder events than we’ve come to know during the Grand Irrationality of the past 25 years. This biseptile has been and will be associated with “extraordinary irrationality” every time it’s triggered. Things may not make sense, but they don’t have to. We just have to learn to navigate with a steady hand and an eye for abrupt changes.
This means we can’t relax too much while moving through the “forks in the road of destiny” at this time in history. Both the Grand Irrationality AND the off-set 7th harmonic pulses made as planets aspect Uranus and Pluto get triggered every few weeks by transits, and of course the Moon triggers both of these 7 times each month. Each time there’s a transit to any of the 7 zones made by Uranus, Neptune or Pluto septile series aspects, it profoundly affects those with a planet or angle in any of the 7 “hot zones” defining the phenomenon.
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 about 25 years, and it will be active for a couple more years to come, even though we’ve begun to be on the far side of the original Neptune/Pluto relationship that created it. However, effects continue to be felt due to past Solar Eclipses which triggered the configuration, and we’ll soon enter another phase of the Grand Irrationality V.2. when Uranus again biseptiles Pluto.
Because late Autumn through mid-Spring brings Neptune into a close septile with Pluto, during those months the configuration acts as a simultaneous “pulse” that activates Neptune and Pluto at the same time. However, as we get into late Spring through mid-Autumn, we experience a lag in how Neptune and Pluto operate, since they’re out of the septile and again approach the sextile they made from 1942-1995. This will become more evident in the Spring.
The current degree spans that trigger this transformative mass configuration are around 1-5 Taurus, 22-26 Gemini, 14-18 Leo, 6-10 Libra, 27 Scorpio-1 Sag, 19-23 Capricorn, and 10-14 Pisces. 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. This event requires that we allow what’s been stuffed down to come up to the surface of our lives, and see how we can allow use the available power wisely.
As you can see, Uranus is pulled into the configuration as it gets further into Taurus, so even when Neptune makes a constant sextile to Pluto by this time next year, we’ll be in the thick of Uranus biseptile Pluto, which will mark a time of some very wild rides! Neptune will continue to move forward out of the Pisces zone, but Uranus will have begun its non-stop occupancy of the Taurus zone by the Spring of 2019.
Speaking of Uranus…
Remember that in 2017, 2018, and 2019 Uranus has been and will be teaching us to listen to our inner voice to find our place in the Cosmic Choir. This awakened in July 2017, and was part of the spiritual training the Grand Fires Trines stimulated in our charts.
We’ve all been learning to “sing our song” within a greater harmony symbolized by the Cosmic Choir. This has meant changes in both who we’ve been singing with as well as songs being sung in different life contexts. Remember that in any choir, there are times to sing unisons, times to sing harmonies, times to sing solo, and times not to sing at all. Even when we’re not singing, we’re still part of the choir. What is your part to sing? Be as clear as you can about what you can offer to the harmony of the whole, and keep training to bring it forth!
When Uranus returns to a biseptile to Pluto, it will reawaken what I term "The Grand Irrationality V.2,” also known as the Grand Irrationality on steroids! The widespread irrationality is still in full swing, but with a harder edge than Neptune septile Pluto since Uranus is also semisquare Neptune, adding a very frictional "cutting and grinding" quality to the collective field.
TGI V.2 was front and center from May through November 2018, and except for a few weeks in August-September 2019, the Uranus biseptile Pluto will be in full swing between May 2019 and December 2019 and then again March through June 2020 and Nov 2020 through April 2021. This chapter of global craziness won't be going away anytime soon, so get your navigational skills in shape to ride this storm out!
Neptune and Chiron in Pisces and Aries
I have offered this segment each month for years to give you a broader perspective on the collective atmosphere, and the long wave changes humanity is going through. Because Neptune has been in Pisces for a little over 7 years, 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, as many old ways end while we learn to maneuver the field.
The last half of 2011 helped many break out of their "chrysalis" and transform their lives and relationships. 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 Spring and Summer of 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!
Chiron
In this chart, Chiron is direct at 30 Pisces. Before this period, Chiron was not in this “face” of Pisces since 1966-1968. This degree shows our mentoring and/or healing into our Higher Self involves visualizing the future we want to see made manifest when this era passes into the next one as Chiron slips out of Pisces and back into Aries. It first entered Aries in April 2018, marking a new era of Chironic healing energies. When it again enters Aries in a few days, it will remain in that sign until 2026 when it enters Taurus.
With Chiron at the end of Pisces and beginning of Aries in 2018, we were in an important position in space-time where we have had to embrace compassion, forgiveness, and a vast understanding of ourselves as Spirits having human experiences. And to be human is to be flawed. Those flaws provide the spur for us to overcome them by transmuting them into strengths and skills which serve a higher purpose in our lives.
Because it’s moving between the end of Pisces and beginning of Aries, it’s now moving between “the end of the end” and “the beginning of the beginning,” implying that we are being healed into our Higher Self by saying goodbye to some things and saying hello to others.
Jupiter and Uranus transited this span several times in 2010-2011, and what was awakened then and since then has prepared us for the current opportunities to heal or be mentored into our individuality. The vision or the new truth and future which led to a personal revolution then can now be the source of us being mentored, or us mentoring others.
Chiron now reminds us that even though we have been mentored into the future, and already “identified with a larger life” in some way, we’re doing our last review of our expectations, hopes and dreams to come once an old life has been blessed, forgiven, and laid to rest. Keep your focus on how to “pre-form” what you want to see made manifest in the future. We’re now finishing our long period of being mentored in closure rituals between February 2011 and April 2018, and much that we’ve let go of created space for the new life emerging since then.
We have been shown how to bless a lot as it flows down the time stream. We’ve been taught how to let go of dogmas, let go of beliefs that have us stuck in ambivalence or suffering, and we’ve healed by having compassion for ourselves and the suffering we share with the world. Now we heal by living in the NOW, embracing the new life with humor and a sense that we’re being led to identify with a larger Life and collective work.
Chiron in late Pisces has heralded what will be “dreamed into collective consciousness” by Neptune these next 7 years. Chiron transits help each of us heal anew through our positioning within collective consciousness. When in Pisces, we were mentored in Piscean ways. When in Aries, we are finding ways to mentor and be mentored in Aries, healing into our higher Self by moving into direct action, securing our initial position in the new Life, leading to a vision of a larger role to play in the future as an inspiration to others.
Neptune
Neptune shows us how to merge the sacred and the everyday in our lives. Over the past several years, we have heard a call to a life renewal, dumped excess and unnecessary baggage to quicken the pace to achieve some social goal, been offered higher responsibilities, and been shown what spiritual goals we’re fit to accomplish. We’ve also been shown the need for courage and a focused will, as well as the need for a “camouflage” as we let go of appearances and focus on true necessities. We now have received a new inspiration, and begun a long term collective renewal
2017 completed our realizations of these lessons, and prepared us to move forward. This chart has Neptune at 16 Pisces. It hasn’t been in this part of Pisces since 1854-56; the themes of 16 Pisces involve getting some quiet time to receive a new inspiration and finding “deep, vibrant realizations” by communing with “accumulated collective power.”
Remember too that numerous Solar Eclipses in Pisces are still in effect. We had Eclipses at 30, 19, and 9 Pisces, all of which also had Neptune in Pisces. These have had a profound effect on the field of the collective consciousness, as well as the collective unconscious. Given Neptune is the spiritual ruler of Pisces, it’s also been involved in the eclipses at Virgo 21 and 10 by opposition, creating a “Tension of Opposites” that profoundly impacted the collective spiritual field.
The March 2015 Solar Eclipse at 30 Pisces helped us get very clear about the new “law of life” we yearned for, and sent out the thought form that created the life we’ve led since then. The March 2016 Solar Eclipse at 19 Pisces helped us “take a walk with our wisdom,” beginning the release of all things that would impede our receptivity to that wisdom. The March 2017 Solar Eclipse at 9 Pisces continues to assist us in releasing the last baggage we no longer need over the next few years.
So Neptune is now “dreaming” into collective consciousness the same themes Chiron introduced to us between 2013-2015. As you can see, both Neptune and Chiron have been taking us into a far vaster collective healing and mentoring than we’ve known in many decades. Collectively, we’re now solidly in a newer spiritual realm, where our ego mind has been introduced to a deeper and vaster Soul realm and our testing has begun.
Because Neptune already entered the second half of Pisces, where it hasn’t been since 1855-57, it indicates that collective consciousness in 2018-2020 is in a zone filled with turmoil historically. Given Pluto is also in a zone where it last was in 1772, it would seem a “pre-revolution” is in the air!
The North Node
We’ve now left the North Node in Leo and South Node in Aquarius era which began in May 2017, and entered the NN in Cancer and SN in Capricorn era. When the NN is in Cancer, our greatest development is through our ability to be tender, caring, and nurturing of all that we feel close to. This is where we learn through the “Mother principle,” and use “enlightened self-interest” to gather what we need to make our lives more secure. Because the SN is in Capricorn, we will demonstrate these qualities through being mature and responsible, organized and willing to work to demonstrate our personal skills in forms of social power.
The North Node in the last decan of Cancer brings a specific focus to the Pisces qualities of the sign of Cancer. This will bring forth more compassion and understanding, with less clutching and more of a sense of the timeless feeling factors that unite all of us in very personal ways.
These will express through the South Node in the Virgo decan of Capricorn. This should help us express our emotional growth through taking care of the details of a given thing, or at least paying attention to many small things that are necessary for the completeness of the growth of our emotional intelligence.
Summing Up
I’ll close today by reminding you that we’re now done with the 2018 “tag team retrogrades,” and now all the planets are in direct motion and moving forward. We no longer like what we used to like, no longer project what we used to project, and all of us had to “plan anew” in some life areas. We had to “undo or re-do” some things, and drop passive-aggressive behavior and people.
We’ve figured out more efficient ways to do things, and examined any parts of our subconscious mind which self-sabotages our efforts. We looked back at old relationships, and reconnected with a lot of memories, some of which are no doubt fond while others were expunged. The past few weeks brought a new level of purification and a more effective Light in our social existence.
Last month’s Solar Eclipse began new forms of activity, new forms of social cooperation, and new forms of recognized authorship for those “doing their Dharma” in the world. The Law of Economy of Energy has been crucial in recent developments, as was our ability to grasp “seed forms” which will yield manifestations of Dharma throughout this year and 2020.
2017’s Solar Eclipses in Pisces and Leo, and 2018’s Eclipses in Aquarius, Cancer and Leo have quickened us, and we’ve been eliminating a lot of expectancies, considerations, and excess baggage. We continue to dump all kinds of old ghosts and elements of pride that would hinder our hearts from its authentic self-expression, and are getting clear about our priorities and what we should and should not expect of ourselves and others. As a result of the 2018 Eclipses, we’ve hit the end of an old quest, attained some ambition, and now are learning a new freedom and togetherness.
This Lunation will activate our part in the Cosmic Choir, and many will receive concentrated doses of spiritual energy which will bring good fortune if we put forth the right effort. Some will find that using their imagination, they can reclaim opportunities they thought were lost. Be receptive to new spiritual developments, and sing your song to the best of our ability!
Things may seem frictional and often won’t make much sense, but truly, the only thing that matters is us finding deeper connections without and within, honoring our magnetic link to the source of all life and power. While Saturn teaches us patient, gentle, and wise understanding, Jupiter now encourages us to laugh, love and dance with life, seeing things from a higher and broader spiritual angle, even as we continue to eliminate all that no longer serve us. Be honest as you embrace a new vision, a new ideal, and new forms of managing your life!
See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!
© Copyright 2019 Robert Wilkinson
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