Two days after this full Moon, Saturn in Libra squares Pluto in Capricorn for the second of three times. The first square was on November 15, 2009 and the third will happen on August 21, 2010. This waning square opens us to a "crisis in consciousness' where we have to shift our perspective from individualism to group consciousness, from big to small, from outer to inner. We are all in this together. We have to let go of old separating patriarchal structures and strictures we've depended on and develop new beliefs and structures that take our mutual benefit into account.
But of course, the Old (Saturn) doesn't really want to change (Pluto) so we see the old dragon fighting back the Supreme Court of the United States of America has bestowed "personhood' rights on corporations, which they've been trying to legitimize for over 150 years. We can either acquiesce to the inevitable privatization of our government or we can fight it now. That's the collective challenge we face from this Pluto/Saturn square. Our personal challenges will force us to face those things in our lives that aren't working in alignment with our values.
The force of change (Pluto in Capricorn) at 5* Capricorn is: Indians on the warpath. While some men row a well-filled canoe, others in it perform a war dance. This image calls for the mobilization of physical and emotional energies in a spirit of conquest. There's a lot of energy. There's a lot of aggression in this image. What are we going to do with this energy? We can also look at this image and see corporations gathering more power, or relate it to the image of the gathering of the Na'vi in Avatar to fight the "sky people'. Going to war to defend our homes is a natural impulse in all humans. Going to war for conquest and economic reasons is no longer a moral option, if we are going to evolve and grow.
The challenge to our perspective comes from Saturn at 5*Libra: A man revealing to his students the foundation of an inner knowledge upon which a "new world' could be built. We have to find ways to transmute the aggressive, selfish aspects of personality and culture through this inner knowledge that a new world is possible.
The Aquarian Experiment
Two weeks after this week's Leo/Aquarius full Moon, there will be a new Moon in Aquarius. This new Moon falls on America's 4th of July chart Moon, which represents the people of America. Every country has a birth chart, but America has a few of them. The chart of the Declaration of Independence is the chart I'm using, because I believe it represents our ideals and the pitfalls that those ideals face.
Since new Moons are planting times, we can use this new Moon energy, coupled with the imprint of the hopes for freedom and justice that America represents, to plant a new vision of freedom and justice and love. But this time a shared world vision of the future that we the people want.
So the Aquarian experiment on the New Moon on February 13th begins by imagining that "new world'. (Saturn rules Aquarius as well as Uranus.) Mystics and magicians know that building a vision in the imaginal world can bring that image into reality. Groups can do this too. So think about what you'd like a new world to look like, and use your childlike, playful, imaginative Leo to engage in the process.
Practice engaging the Creative Imagination.
IMAGINE!
On this 2010 Aquarius new Moon, if you want to participate in the Aquarian Experiment, please join together to plant the seeds of everyone's vision of the future in our Imaginal World Garden. Think of it as a collective virtual reality Garden - which will have laws governing its use. You'll find all the information about how to participate in 2 weeks in the Aquarius New Moon newsletter.
By combining our efforts, sharing energies and spending time going to the Garden in meditation every day thereafter, we can grow a World Garden. Sharing our energies and hopes on common ground, we can feed each other's visions on the inner planes, making it stronger than if we each imagined it separately. United, we can build a strong inner vision. Who knows what can happen then? Critical mass?
So practice your telepathy and don't forget to dive into the fires on the Full Moon this weekend! The new Moon is only three weeks away!
Full details
will be in the Aquarius New Moon 2010 newsletter. And please pass this on! I wonder what would
happen if we reached critical mass?
Thanks!
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