by Robert Wilkinson
New Moon coming soon! Over the next 4 weeks the New Moon in Pisces marks another unique point in time, as it continues the first Bundle Jones pattern we’ve had in many, many years.
First, welcome to the next phase of the Uranus in Taurus era! This will continue the revolution and renovation of our Taurus sector, so remember what you learned between May and October 2018, since that was your dress rehearsal for dealing with this new spiritual factor affecting us all. I have more specifically on the Uranus in Taurus era coming soon!
We’ve now weathered the first two Eclipses this year, so much is already “slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future.” While last month’s New Moon marked the beginning of many things, including the Chinese New Year of the Earth Pig, this New Moon marks the ending of many things, as well as a vast sense of our greater evolutionary connectedness within ourselves and with others on our Path.
This Lunation puts us at a threshold with healthy and productive interactions over the next 4 weeks. A Mystery Ritual must be done, and only we can do it. Divine Grace will come forth for those who know how to forgive much and allow it to flow down the timestream.
This is the fifteenth New Moon of the Saturn in Capricorn era! This month Saturn is again front and center in terms of influence, since it rules Venus, Mars, and Uranus along with itself and Pluto! Those who have made Saturn their friend will benefit greatly from its gentle wise understanding putting us all through accelerated growth the next 4 weeks.
This is the fourth New Moon of the Jupiter in Sagittarius era! This month it helps us prepare for “entrance into a new country,” where everything depends on our attitude as we confront unfamiliar experiences. Jupiter continues to stand as the gatekeeper to all the other planets, since it is the first planet in the entire occupied span.
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, lighten up, and with Jupiter ruling the planets in Pisces, play to Jupiter’s compassionate and forgiving side. Bless and forgive much, and you will see grace made manifest in your life.
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 distributive, practical, fluid sea-changing New Moon occurs at 16 Pisces at 8:04 am PST, 2:04 pm GMT on March 6. This will bring us into the Light of compassionate solitude which will allow inspiration to enter our consciousness. As Jupiter is the ruler of the Lunation, we continue to learn how to dance more freely as we stand ready for a new life and love. Over the next 4 weeks we’ll get one last look back so we may dream a more perfect future for ourselves and our loved ones within the larger group work being forged these past months.
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. The next New Moon at 16 Aries will reverse this pattern, since the following Full Moon will have the Sun at 30 Aries and the Moon at 30 Libra.
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 at 16 Aquarius set the seed for the following Super Full Moon with the Sun at 1 Pisces and the Moon at 1 Virgo. This one at 16 Pisces will have a Full Moon in about 2 weeks exactly at the Equinox with the Sun at 1 Aries and the Moon at 1 Libra. 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 continue to be in a time when the inner planets are inside the outer planet occupied hemispheric zone between Jupiter and Uranus. Venus in early Aquarius leads the inner planets, followed by Mercury and the Sun in Pisces. As Mars is in mid-Taurus, it has begun to separate from the “Bundle” defined by the span between Jupiter in late Sagittarius and Uranus in very early Taurus.
This is the last New Moon with a Bundle until the December 2019 Solar Eclipse at 5 Capricorn. The Moon is a primary factor in how all the other planets express their energy during this time, primarily when it’s anywhere between late Gemini and early Scorpio. During that span, Lunar oppositions focus the other energies. 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 Pisces energy wherever it falls in our chart, so get ready to begin to go deeper into your solitude to find new inspiration. This period can help us get in touch with vast “human race” energies, including our common joys and sorrows, tragedies and triumphs. We can all experience our humanness in ways that allow us to bless much of the past and see how it helped us to be who we are today.
So What Rules the Lunation?
This New Moon in Pisces has Jupiter as the worldly ruler and Neptune as the spiritual ruler of both the Sun and Moon. As both Jupiter and Neptune are in their home signs, they are equally powerful in their respective worldly and spiritual realms. As they are in signs that square each other, expect cross currents in the background of major events.
The rulerships are split this month, with Jupiter ruling the Moon, Sun, Mercury, and itself, and Saturn ruling Venus, Mars, itself, Uranus, and Pluto. As Jupiter is quindecile Saturn, it should bring the stirrings of the first stage of unique specialization to all the planetary interactions.
We are in a long term period of having at least three final dispositors, and occasionally four final dispositors, of all the planetary energies. At this time, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune are the ultimate rulers of all the other planets, with Neptune continuing 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.
At this point in history, a new factor has been introduced, creating what I’ve termed The Grand Irrationality V.2. Uranus made its first biseptile to Pluto in 2018, and as it moves further into Taurus, it will again biseptile Pluto for the second time, so expect more irrationality by the Spring. Of course, even when Uranus is not in a biseptile to Pluto, 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.
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.
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.
The Grand Irrationality V.2.
This phase began in June 2018 when Uranus first biseptiled Pluto. By November it was out of orb, but with Saturn’s transit of mid-Capricorn, it has made a constant biseptile since January, and will continue through late May! By then Uranus will again biseptile Pluto, continuing the ongoing revolution and upheaval of our times.
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 when Uranus begins its non-stop occupancy of the Taurus zone in May 2019, we’ll resume the path through even weirder events than we’ve known 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.
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!
Besides being a part of the Grand Irrationality V.2, (also known as “the Grand Irrationality on steroids,”) Uranus also brings a harder edge than Neptune septile Pluto since it is also semisquare Neptune, adding a very frictional "cutting and grinding" quality to the collective field. Add Saturn to the mix and there are some serious lessons in the air for all of humanity!
So TGI V.2 began 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 1 Aries. It first was in early Aries between April and September 2018, and it now resumes its transit through this first sign of the zodiac. This indicates our long term mentoring and/or healing into our Higher Self involves stepping out of immersion in the collective and realizing ourselves as a new being entering a new land. We had our dress rehearsal for this new Aries era of Chironic healing energies last year, and now get to learn how to use those energies skillfully through 2026, when it enters Taurus and we move into the next Chironic era.
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 moved from the end of Pisces back into the beginning of Aries, it’s finished its task at “the end of the end” and now mentors us at “the beginning of the beginning.” We’ve been healing into our Higher Self by saying goodbye to some things and saying hello to others, and this lunation’s Mercury retrograde should bring flashes of insight into the late Pisces Chironic transits of 2018 and 2019.
Jupiter and Uranus also transited this span several times in 2010-2011, and what was awakened then and since then has prepared us for how we’ve been healed or mentored into our individuality. The vision or the new truth and future which led to a personal revolution then has been the source of us being mentored, or us mentoring others.
Chiron has helped us “identify with a larger life” in some way, and this Mercury retrograde gives us a review how our expectations, hopes and dreams came forth as we blessed and put an old life to rest. This should show us a new look at how we “pre-formed” the future we’re living, allowing us to re-shape it to bring forth an even more authentic future to come.
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. We now have received a new inspiration, and begun a long term collective renewal. This chart has Neptune at 17 Pisces. It hasn’t been in this part of Pisces since 1854-56, and this is the exact degree where Mercury will go stationary direct later in March.
Last month it was on the same degree as this Lunation. 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.” This New Moon illuminates and gives form to that Neptunian dream, and this month’s Neptune position prepares us for the coming Mercury SD themes involving forms of social or collective renewal and devotion to a greater collective good.
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. That Eclipse and events related to it will be seen in a new light via this month’s Mercury retrograde, and by mid-April we will understand why so much was taken away these past 4 years.
he 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 are entering a new phase of life on Earth, and much that was “in fashion” before the Summer of 2018 is no longer sustainable. We now have a new orientation toward the past and future as we stand on the threshold of entering a new era. Grace is in the air, waiting for those who accept it without reservation and any need to “see justice done.”
All that’s been taken away this year helped us attract new forms of social and group activity, and new ease at expressing our unique way of “doing our 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 encourages us to get away from the world and receive a new inspiration. We can and should “commune with accumulated race power,” preparing for major social renewals in the near future. We now know what parts we are to sing in the Cosmic Choir, stand ready to enjoy our natural inspired way of doing our Being.
Saturn’s patient, gentle, and wise understanding will quicken us so we may demonstrate emerging skills, while Jupiter now encourages us to laugh, love and dance with life, seeing things from a higher and broader spiritual angle, finding the right attitude in the transitions. Open to the coming adventure in “the new land,” and when in doubt, return to simpler joys for pleasure and revitalizations as you gradually become more sure of yourself in the zone where the land meets the sea.
See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!
© Copyright 2019 Robert Wilkinson
My beloved Robert Wilkinson
Divine Blessings for a beautiful composition, yet again!
I took these words from your essay:
"This is the fifteenth New Moon of the Saturn in Capricorn era! This month Saturn is again front and center in terms of influence, since it rules Venus, Mars, and Uranus along with itself and Pluto! Those who have made Saturn their friend will benefit greatly from its gentle wise understanding putting us all through accelerated growth the next 4 weeks."
Because, two days ago we celebrated Maha Shivaratri on the 4th March 2019. It was also the 50th Anniversary of my having First Heard the Om Namah Shivaya Mantram sung by a group of women then. This touched my soul deeply.
The story is long and involves Babaji.
BUT, I am writing because I have mentioned the prolific SIGNS FROM GOD before, that confirm and affirm my Reality for me?
On my computer screen is the image of the Planets of our Solar System. Soon after I sent off the two mails on Maha Shivaratri, a magnificent Moth flew in and sat on SATURN, on the screen of my computer!!!
Please send me your e-mail address so that I may share yet another of my major miracles with you?
In divine friendship
Lady Shamla Rose
Posted by: Lady Shamla Rose | March 05, 2019 at 11:30 PM