Honor the part of you that you are releasing, for it has taught you the life lessons you needed to learn.
Ceres, the new dwarf planet/asteroid, is opposite this new moon in Taurus. Ceres is the Roman name for Demeter, who is the mother of Persephone, who was ravished away by Hades/Pluto to the underworld to confront death and transform her awareness and gain her power. As the Goddess energy of the Harvest, Ceres in Taurus awakens our spiritual connection to the Earth and to our physical bodies. This new moon provides an opportunity for us to transform our relationship to our bodies and to the Earth. This new moon asks us to take responsibility for our health and for the health of our environment. And not a moment too soon!
Neptune at 20 Aquarius, which just turned direct on October 31st, , squares this new moon, keeping the veils between worlds open. This waning square is called a ‘crisis in consciousness’ by Dane Rudhyar, and it demands that we shift our perspective to incorporate the spiritual aspects of life and community. We’ve been trying to bridge the gap between a spiritual vision of life and our concrete ‘reality’. Now is the time to leap over the abyss and come down solidly on the side of a spiritual reality that acknowledges our innate divinity and the underlying unity of all life.
Uranus in Pisces, and Mars in Cancer form a Grand Trine with this Scorpio New Moon. With all four planets (Sun, Moon, Mars, Uranus) in water signs, our intuition, ideals and feelings will play a big part in what we discover about ourselves. This watery energy calls us to compassion and courage in the face of difficulties. Meditate, watch your dreams and do your inner work. It will bear fruit.
Mars at 12 Cancer is going retrograde on November 15th until January 30th. Mars goes retrograde every 26 months, and it doubles its time in Cancer this year. Cancer is the sign concerned with the Mother, with feelings, family, the Feminine and with building our personality. So make peace with your past, reassess your primary needs and learn what is and is not healthy for your growth. Mars retrograde often generates elevated tensions and conflicts on a collective level and selfish behavior, impatient driving, competitiveness and courage on a personal level. It’s time to work with your Mars energy and transform any anger into determination, any aggressiveness into assertion and any desire into action. See where you have planets or angles at 11-14 degrees of Cardinal signs. These are the areas of your life that will be affected by this Mars retrograde. What needs to be revamped in your life? Mars will give you the energy to do it.
Pluto/Jupiter conjunction at 29 Sagittarius on December 11, 2007. Pluto has just completed its 3rd transit over the Galactic Center, making us ill at ease and out of sorts – because new information is being processed by our unconscious. Now Jupiter, the planet of expansion, luck, curiosity and spirituality will pass over the Galactic Center and meet up with Pluto, the planet of death, rebirth and evolution at the end of its stay in Sagittarius for the first time since 1758. More about this major stellar configuration in the next newsletter.
Uranus turns direct on November 24th on the day of the Full Moon in Gemini. Uranus is the planet of Awakening. It’s been retrograde since June 24th, creating inner awakenings about our life purpose and destiny. When it turns direct, it will begin to create in the outer world what we have transformed in our inner world. More news in the next newsletter.
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