The July 2019 New Moon at 9 Leo Pt. 1 - What’s Happening in August

by Robert Wilkinson

This is the second New Moon this month, featuring Mercury going direct and the power of Leo on center stage! This one intensifies our focus, and allows us to use deep feelings to express something creative we might not have been able to before now.

This is a month where many Leo types of things are set into motion due to the Sun, Moon, Venus, and Mars all in Leo at this New Moon. This is the next step in a huge compression of planets which create numerous new Virgo cycles a few weeks from now, all trine Saturn and square Jupiter! Power and openness to wider futures and truths are in the air!

The maximum compression in late Leo and early Virgo in August and September has begun. This has important implications, since now all the inner planets are at the far side of the outer planet span and have formed or will form oppositions to Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, and Neptune between June and September. This sequence of “tension of opposites” has shown and will show as external oppositions and oppositional-defiant behaviors in our world, but we have learned to make progress by finding third and fourth ways to approach those oppositions through adjusting the tension to further spiritual possibilities.

This is the twentieth New Moon of the Saturn in Capricorn era! This month Saturn is again front and center in terms of influence due to important inner planet aspects. Saturn continues to prepare us for some sort of “planned group behavior,” so take all opportunities to train in forms of coordinated activity. Saturn’s retrograde has been getting us ready for greater group effectiveness.

This is the ninth New Moon of the Jupiter in Sagittarius era! This month it’s back on a degree showing our ability to see what’s coming in the future through the signs, symbols, and omens of the present. As it is the first planet in the outer planet occupied span, Jupiter continues to stand as the gatekeeper to all the other planets and the natural way to enter all experience. In other words, if it’s not leading to a sense of freedom, openness, expansion, and greater truths or futures, don’t go there! This month’s lunation trines Jupiter close to its SD degree, lighting up our fires in major ways.

Jupiter in Scorpio (Oct 2017- Nov 2018) was bound, or cocooned in some way. Jupiter in Sagittarius, its natural home of 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, generosity, and an abundant view will relieve a lot of pressure. As Jupiter seeks truth, be honest with yourself and others, lighten up, and as Jupiter rules both our Sag and Pisces sectors, open 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 stabilizing, warming, creative and enthusiastic New Moon occurs at 9 Leo at 8:12 pm PDT July 31, 4:12 am BST August 1. This will bring us into the Light of a technique for focusing emotional intensity into “works of art.” In this sense, remember your art is a work of life AND your life is a work of art. As the Sun is the ruler of the Lunation, we will find that focus on our natural heart expression will show us how to open to glimpses of our “ultimate fulfillment” we’re all waiting for.

We are now firmly out of the long run of the “alternate” Sun/Moon relationships, having entered into the “normal” sequence in April. The New Moon at 16 Aries was the first in the new sequence where the New Moon Sun was in the same sign as the next Full Moon Sun which was at 30 Aries.

Last month’s Total Solar Eclipse New Moon at 11 Cancer was followed by the Partial Lunar Eclipse Full Moon with the Sun at 25 Cancer, signaling the Light of accepting a Divine blessing and mandate will be expressed in new forms of transcendent security. This New Moon at 9 Leo is the seed theme for the coming Full Moon at 23 Leo/Aquarius, showing the theme of this New Moon will find focus in demonstrating how well we have our ego under control and can put on some public performance.

How The Sun/Moon Sequence Shifts

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).

Before the April New Moon, the last Lunation where we had the New Moon Sun in the same sign as the next Full Moon Sun was the July 2017 New Moon at 1 Leo, which was the fifteenth in that sequence. The next Full Moon had the Sun at 16 Leo, and finished the run of Full Moons with the Sun in the same sign as the preceding New Moon Sun.

The next New Moon was the August 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. We’ve been in this “reversed order” between then and April 2019. Since April we’ve been back in “the natural order.” I also explain more about this phenomenon and what it means in the 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 are now at the far side of the yearly cycles of the inner planets relative to the outer planet occupied hemispheric zone between Jupiter and Uranus. This month we see Mercury stationary direct in late Cancer followed by Venus and the Lunation in early Leo. Of note was at the last New Moon (the Solar Eclipse) Mercury was about to go retrograde at 5 Leo, and in this New Moon Venus is at 5 Leo. Thus we should see Venusian manifestations of whatever Mercury’s threshold at 5 Leo has been all about these past 3 weeks. As Mercury is in the Pisces decan of Cancer and leads that span, forgiveness is the virtue to demonstrate about all things past which are fading fast.

The Bundle Jones pattern of early this year was the last Bundle until the December 2019 Solar Eclipse at 5 Capricorn. I’ll discuss the Jones pattern in part 2. The Moon has been the a primary factor in how all the other planets express their energy for the past 18 months, primarily when it’s been between Cancer and early Scorpio. During that span, Lunar oppositions have focused the other energies.

As I said earlier, this has now shifted with the inner planets making oppositions from Gemini, Cancer, and Virgo until September. The oppositions will end with the Scorpio oppositions to Uranus, but by then the planets will be how the front end of the occupied span works, since Jupiter will no longer open the span.

Looking at only the outer planet span, Jupiter is the entry planet to the hemisphere occupied by those social-spiritual energies represented by the planets beyond Mars. 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 with the aspects to Jupiter in this chart, open to life renewals, heart strengths, and spontaneous expressions of happiness.

This New Moon will jumpstart Leo energy wherever it falls in our chart, so get ready to express yourself! Take the new wisdom and new life that’s opened since the Spring and let it all come out with spontaneity and creativity. We can take “the first steps” into a new heart focus which will stabilize in practical ways over the next year.

So What Rules the Lunation?

This New Moon in Leo has the Sun as its worldly ruler and the Moon as its spiritual ruler. Since the Sun is in its home sign of Leo, it is the final dispositor of the Lunation. So this month we again have four planets in their home signs. The Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune are all in the signs they rule, making things very clear and natural in all matters ruled by those planets.

This means as usual, the rulerships are split. The Lunation, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Uranus are ruled by the Sun, Jupiter rules itself, Saturn rules itself and Pluto, and Neptune continues as a longwave “standalone” dispositor of itself, ruling the fogs and mists of the current collective consciousness.

While we’ve been in a long term period of having at least three final dispositors, and occasionally more, as planets move through Leo the Sun is in charge, and when they enter Virgo it will bring Mercury front and center. Mercury in Virgo will rule the first half of September, and when Mercury and Venus simultaneously enter Libra in mid-September it makes Venus a final dispositor.

In November, Venus returns to Sagittarius while Mars is in Libra and the Sun and Mercury are in Scorpio, again putting Jupiter as the backdrop to all these planetary energies and beginning a time when Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune will again be the four final dispositors ruling all the other planets except for when the Moon is in Cancer. 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 active in past Solar Eclipses in Pisces (2017) and Leo (2018), indicating its influence persists in some way throughout the period we can expect Eclipse effects to manifest. It’s why we are in a period of dynamic unstable energies which at times make no sense. This configuration is set into motion by any conjunction with or septile-series aspect to Neptune or Pluto. In this chart, even though Mars makes a biseptile to Uranus, as Uranus is not in biseptile to Pluto at this time, and Mars make a quincunx to both Neptune and Pluto, it creates a Yod without the Grand Irrationality being triggered.

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 again biseptiled Pluto for the second time at the end of May and beginning of June. Even during the past few months when Uranus was not biseptile Pluto, the nonrationality was 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.

We are now past the era of Neptune septile Pluto. Because of their orbits, late Autumn through mid-Spring narrows the distance between these two planets, but as we get into late Spring through mid-Autumn, they are closer to a sextile than the previous septile. That means we’ve moving into an era we last experienced between 1942-1995.

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, which continued until last month. Now neither Saturn nor Pluto is biseptile Uranus for a brief period before they return later this year!

Uranus biseptile Pluto symbolizes the irrational revolutionary conditions 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!

The current degree spans that trigger this transformative mass configuration are around 4-8 Taurus, 25-29 Gemini, 16-20 Leo, 7-11 Libra, 28 Scorpio-2 Sag, 20-24 Capricorn, and 11-15 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.

So we’ve resumed the larger Pluto-driven part of the GI V.2 now that Pluto is retrograding back into the biseptile with Uranus, which 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 of that year stimulated in our charts.

We’ve all awakened to “our song to sing” within a greater harmony symbolized by the Cosmic Choir. This has resulted in life changes related to who we’ve been singing with as well as the 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 off-and-on 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 about 8 years, we’ve been navigating through the threshold of an entirely new era which will not resemble the old Age in any way within just a few decades. We’re already solidly in the Dreamscape, as many old things end as 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 retrograde at its 6 Aries SRX degree. This marks the beginning of Chiron’s reflection on this Aries span, further developing the Aries “healing into our Higher Self” themes of Chiron in this sign. Chiron has been retrograde on this degree since July, and will continue to be active through the Spring of 2021. Over the past two months we’ve begun to get valuable insights into how the “healing of the world” will be grounded in the next 20 years, given that month is when the next Grand Mutation occurs at 1 Aquarius!

Chiron was first was in early Aries between April and September 2018, and is now moving deeper into this first sign of the zodiac. This indicates our long term mentoring and/or healing into our Higher Self involves embracing all that is new, realizing we have a unique individual part to play in “the healing of humanity.” Since July 2018, Chiron has now mentored us into “identifying with a larger life” as we became some type of “exemplar” for others.

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 now at 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.” In 2018 and early 2019, we’ve been healing into our Higher Self by saying goodbye to some things and saying hello to others. As Jupiter and Uranus transited this span several times in 2010-2011, what was awakened then and since prepared us to be healed and/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 now opens lessons of illuminating one part of our “Primal Selfhood” and following inner restlessness into a new “uncontrolled interest in any given thing.” This is the threshold from which Chiron will go RX, so open to new interests, and use your restlessness wisely to find your Higher Self.

During the years Chiron was in Pisces, we were shown how to bless a lot and let it go, including dogmas and beliefs which kept us stuck in ambivalence or suffering. We healed by having compassion for ourselves and the suffering we share with the world. Now in Aries we heal by living in the NOW, embracing our new lives by identifying with a larger Life and collective work.

Chiron in late Pisces 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 still on its SRX degree of 19 Pisces. It hasn’t been in this part of Pisces since 1854-56, and at this time has moved into yet another unknown zone, since this is the first time it’s been on this degree.

The themes of 19 Pisces involve “taking a walk with our wisdom,” “release from (collective) karma,” and the “body-strengthening function of the Soul.” This is a technique of transferring power and knowledge to keep some long wisdom cycle in play into the future. As this was the degree of the Solar Eclipse of 2016, we can expect to understand why it was wise to let go of some things these past 3 years, so that we could become “invested” in some way.

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 have been given a renewed clarity via the March Mercury retrograde and the recent transit of Mercury and Venus over this degree. We now know why many things had to end in the past 4 years, since those things were incompatible with the future we’re now living.

As mentioned, 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 1855-58, 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 1773-1774, 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 second decan of Cancer brings a specific focus to the Scorpio qualities of the sign of Cancer. This will bring forth a greater intensity, with a specific theme of enjoyment within a social setting. This should help us purify and/or eliminate everything in our immediate feeling experience which is stuck or negative.

These will express through the South Node in the Taurus decan of Capricorn. This should help us express our emotional growth through allowing ourselves to feel “the way of nurture,” enjoying our new found emotional experience within some kind of group performance. As Saturn is currently conjuncting the South Node, we are on the threshold of an entirely new long wave cycle of demonstrating through Saturn what we learned through Saturn in the past 6 years since Saturn last conjuncted the North Node in Scorpio in 2013.

Summing Up - The Big Picture

We are now all in a phase of polarization and awareness, accepting and displaying new values and new relationships. We’re opening to a greater freedom, a greater abundant life, and simply have to get focused, get connected with Source, and seeing our creativity in a new light.

We’re now both experiencing and preparing for new forms of social and group activity, and new skill at “doing our Dharma” in the world. Given Pluto’s influence the past year, the Law of Economy of Energy was a crucial factor in surrendering to achieve spiritual victory, and as we tend the seeds of moving toward “transcendent security,” we will find Dharma rolls to play 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.

Summing Up – The Immediate Picture

This Lunation encourages us to cultivate “the art of humor,” or a sense of our own creative potential and ability to play. Forgive a lot because generosity of spirit is in the air! We have already begun to leave behind old fear and control issues, and are moving into a few weeks of separating the less important from the more important as we bury the past and prepare for a new way of using power in the future.

Accept the releases, see what you care about, and use the revelations you’ve received the past 3 months to reorient. We’ve built our connections, and this period stabilizes our expansion. This one begins a crowded sprint to a more stable and practical way of serving.

Saturn’s patient, gentle, and wise understanding will prepare us for future group involvements, while Jupiter now encourages us to laugh, love and dance with life, seeing things from a higher, broader, and more abundant spiritual angle, finding the right attitude as we anticipate powers to come. Remember as we have awakened, we are moving from letting go to finding allies with whom we can do good “bridge building” work which will help us “cross the chasm” where we will find “a new quality of being rendering the old patterns obsolete.”

If some things have fallen apart, it’s only for the best. As we externalize our recent self-discoveries, we will find greater happiness and a natural personality integration which could lead to experiences of Love, Joy, and Bliss.

See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!

© Copyright 2019 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[bomega]

"This New Moon will jumpstart Leo energy wherever it falls in our chart, so get ready to express yourself!"

All this Leo energy in the air with the New Moon, Mars, Venus, and soon Mercury in Leo. But Leo is my 12th house. What's a Virgo Rising to do?

[Robert]

Hi bomega - It shines a great big light of completion and harvest. It is a joining of friends to review the movie of your life through a Leo lens.