Relief and re-animation are coming to
us under this Moon phase. As moments of bliss are discovered, enjoy
them as you find them. Dance where you are and grow where you've been
planted. Briefly, windows with enrapturing views will open allowing
us to see how beautiful life can be and how much joy can be delivered
by the acknowledgment of simplicity. We will discover that joy and
bliss are often temporary entrapments of fleeting moments.
Realizing the impermanence of Joy
should not discourage us from celebrating her when she finds us.
Instead, we learn to anticipate and cherish those moments as they
come without distractive effort taken to fixate on the past or
future...to enjoy the bliss as it comes. We discover the elements of
life are ever changing. Even bad times eventually pass. Knowing that
helps us to better endure the low points because we know the storm
will pass. It's all temporary.
Much of what we've experienced on
global levels as a result of the pandemic is a preview of what will
be further revealed to us under Saturn in Aquarius. That change is
necessary. Irresistible. The only constant. I suspect many of those
notions will come forcefully under Saturn's eventual square to Uranus
in 2021. That's a long way ahead of us. The happenings we've
experienced under Saturn's dip into Aquarius is merely the theatrical
trailer to advertise the next big flick. Saturn turns retrograde and
heads back to Capricorn soon. But, Saturn will be back to stay awhile
in Aquarius. We may experience his energy, again, under similar
global themes or in a variety of individually experienced things. It
could be both.
The whole of this experience was just
the first knock on the door that was meant to advise us of necessary
adjustments to be made in the way we prioritize. In the ways in which
we find satisfaction and a sense of self-worth, stability and
security. In the ways in which we think about things...which is
likely the biggest imperative with the North Node soon moving into
Gemini. We are also being called toward an individual willingness to
surrender what it is we think we know. To let go of our self-assured
ego lifting sense of “knowing” and enter a land where we realize
we don't know but can remain curious and devoted (Vesta in Gemini) to
discovering and learning.
Perhaps it is just this instance of the
Virus that acts as a small piece of a much bigger puzzle meant to
leads us into preliminary personal adjustments and realizations.
Maybe the next knock on our door comes from a different situation.
Maybe it comes from a re-visit of the same. Does the actual
instigating event matter? I don't think so. It's just an agent. A
catalytic operative of the Universe leading us into the direction and
awareness we need. What we have experienced so far is of the more
major players in a long line of more minor characters and personally
impactful circumstances geared to show us a new way of life is
imminent.
This New Moon falls under the rulership
of Venus in Gemini. Venus in Gemini can be about the value of your
words. The sweetness of what you say. Softening the way you think and
allowing yourself to entertain pleasant thoughts and be kind to
yourself in your brain. It is about the worth of your speech.
Negatively, it can be about platitudes and spun sugar words. Sweet
nothings. But, it's best wrapped around assessing what we can add to
a conversation. It's also a love of curiosity and learning that
allows the brain to remain flexible (sometimes referred to as fickle)
in a way that it stays open to new information and delights in its
discovery. Venus in Gemini is the summer butterfly that adores the
nectar of all the flowers. She can find reason to love each one and
would struggle choosing just one. She has a light appreciation that
casts a wide net as there is so much that interests her and that she
finds beautiful.
Once Mercury enters Taurus at the end
of April, he falls into mutual reception with Venus in Gemini. He
rules her location and she his. The value of what we say, our time
and those ever precious fleeting moments increases. This is an
amicable and supportive mix of energies. It mixes common sense with
curiosity and flexibility. Together they will help us understand how
to cherish each moment. They will teach us the value of time and our
attention. The mutual reception will help to better align the heart
with the mind.
Yet, during Venus' retrograde path, we
will likely experience Gemini as the trickster. The flexible heart
could flip flop into ambiguity or fickleness. As we learn, we grow.
As we grow, we change. As we change, our opinion of what is important
and what we truly enjoy may change as well.
The sign of Taurus is Venus ruled and
typically not known as willingly flexible or prone to engage with
change. However, with Venus in Gemini, it may be easier to change in
light of new incentive to do so. This is wonderfully used toward
breaking bad habits or creating fresh routines. Venus in Gemini
offers options and displays the goodness of each. The Bull will
follow the Butterfly becoming enchanted by her kaleidoscopic
interests and fancies. It's much more gently motivating toward change
than the cattle prod known as Uranus in Taurus.
The potential downfall being Venus in
Gemini also enjoys all the shiny baubles. By way of new and modern
gadgetry and devices. Taurus season could lead us into an area where
we feel our self-worth is held in our ability to amass all the shiny.
Or we could believe that our worth is reflected in our number of
friends or likes, shares. Yet, none of these things have the least
bit to do with our value as a person. Plus, while Venus is flitting
through Gemini, the ways in which we amass resource, make money and
what it is we favor (like/share) are all going to be fickle and
kaleidoscopic entities. Our inherent worth and the value of what we
have to give as individuals is much more static than that. However,
if self-value is linked to these things, then it's possible to find
that in flux under Venus in Gemini as well. The flexibility found in
mutable placements can be employed purposely toward creating positive
change for ourselves instead of just being felt as instability.
Venus in Gemini encourages us to learn
about all of our options while remaining flexible. We are not
lighting on just one flower for its sweetness and beauty. We are
allowing ourselves to be curious about all of them. Becoming open to
possibilities. Admiring each one for their individual appeal. We will
be given to assess the unsavory or dark sides to these “flowers.”
We will be given a chance to assess our base of thinking and shadow
for factors that may influence our choices, what we
admire/adore/appreciate and also the ways in which we show that
admiration/adoration and appreciation. We will encounter opportunity
to also assess the root of our thinking that has built our sense of
self worth. We can learn how to speak more gently to ourselves and
discover the residual of that is an ability to treat others more
gently. We can sharpen our skills in regard to sharing information in
the interest of communal growth and thus lend value and quality to
the use of our words and time.
Time, under Venus in Gemini, is an ever
increasing in importance resource. Her attention span is short and
her interests diverse. To catch her, you have to capture the current
moment. Once that moment passes, the chance is gone. There may be
something better or worse in its place but it won't be back in the
form it was the first time. To grasp the current moment, we need to
be grounded in the present. That's the benefit we can receive from
the season of Taurus as Venus begins her retrograde journey.
Taurus allows us to root ourselves in
the present. Problem of that being becoming stuck. However, The Bull
will follow the Butterfly. Venus in Gemini shows Taurus that the
present actually moves. She delivers him incentive to remain flexible
and curious about what might be next while he finds reason to savor
the now.
What we are positioned to discover is
simplicity is bliss. Life, all by itself, and the ability to wake to
see the dawn and engage with the simple wonders of nature and life is
cause to celebrate. It's miraculous. In truth, life is simple. We
just insist on making it complicated. It's easy to forget that life
really is simple.
In some ways, this is an ego thing we
place in front of ourselves. Typically driven by shadow. Either by
way of an assumed need to compete with others by placating our
personal sense of lack with “the most or best toys;” through
exertions of our earning prowess or by way of placing extreme
importance on our functions in the world thus creating an air of
self-importance. What we are doing or need to do is VERY important
therefore we have value. When in reality, even if you were doing NOT
A DAMN THING...you are still important. You still have value. Life IS
valuable. Yours. Mine. That of every little living thing. As is each
precious moment we are given to be in this experience called
“Existence.”
Our guide for this New Moon is the 3 of
Cups. 3's typically involve sharing and learning. In the case of the
3 of cups, we are sharing our heart songs. The card is often depicted
with reference to music and dancing. It can equate to being “played
like a fiddle” or emotionally manipulated. It is also advice that
often, what we share, can spread. Meaning, if we share happiness it
might just rub off on someone else. Same is true for misery. And,
germs.
Yet, we need to allow ourselves to talk
honestly about the full spectrum of our emotions. This is not an
indication to spread our sorrow or misery. On the converse, creating
small circles of trustworthy folks we can speak to honestly about how
we feel can help us feel less alone in our sadness. Burdens and joys
can be safely shared in these trusted heart connections with the
folks who recognize our song. You will find there are only a few
folks that can hear your heart's song. That's of lesser importance
than the ability to hear it for yourself.
Ciro Marchetti cites the following
quote in reference to the 3 of Cups: “it isn't big pleasures that
count the most, its making a great deal of the little ones” Jean
Webster
That, in combination with a willingness
to embrace and cherish each moment, are wonderful mindsets to begin
our journey with the Sacred Bovine. Let yourself celebrate the little
things. Be grateful for every step and every stumble. Share your joy
and find support when you are shouldering burdens. Walk slowly
savoring your ability to drink in the sights and sounds around you.
Delight all your physical senses with what they enjoy. Share all of
your favorite little things and the precious moments you gather.
This New Moon gives us opportunity to
taste the simplest of little joys. We can gather them up as if we
were picking a bouquet of wild flowers. Or, let them pass by because
they do not measure up to our ideal of beauty and end up missing out
on the sheer joy of simplicity. Rebel against reaching out to share
another news story about heartbreak, horror and the more toxic
notions about living in “interesting times.” Let your attention
shift. The bad news will be there if you need to get back to it.
Deliberately balance it out with messages that speak the truth of
your heart even when you have to push your ego, fear and shadow out
of the way to do so. For a personal story about that kind of
thing...Go here.
Emotions will be plentiful and active
as we move forward. Let your heart sing when it's happy and full of
love. Let your soul wail when its anguished and in pain. Just let it.
It's all temporary. Precious. And, fleeting.
Assessing
the distant horizon:
Venus' rx path bridges happenings
between the New Moon in Taurus and the ecliptic. She doesn't exit her
shadow until following the 2nd New Moon in Cancer (the
first lunation in 2 months that is NOT an eclipse). She exits shadow
on 7/29. An exit that follows a Mercury retrograde in Cancer. Mercury
exits his Rx shadow 2 days before Venus (7/27). So, much is wound,
unwound and rebuilt between now and then. But, part of what we are
dealing with then reaches back thematically to what we experience
during the Rx paths of Venus and Mercury as it all shuttles us toward
the Full Moon in Aquarius on 8/3, under which the modern ruler of
Aquarius (Uranus) will turn Rx at 10 Taurus 42 on 8/16. Plus, as
Mercury and Venus reach new pages in the exiting of their shadow,
Mars is only then stepping into his Rx path (7/26). With hearts and
minds adjusted and the eclipses over, we begin to take initiative in
regard to adjusting the ways in which we go about our business.
Alchemical internal changes will have occurred in regard to how we
think and what is important. Therefore, it makes sense that our
motivations and actions moving forward would change. This is captured
by the Mars' entrance into his shadow in the sign of his rulership
that corresponds to initiation...the beginning of action and what
drives us toward it. This is pioneering energy that pushes us into
new territory and shows us what adjustments must be made due the new
environment. We learn as we go and adjust accordingly or continue to
flail in frustrated efforts with Mars once he turns Rx later this
year.
Venus turns direct 6/25 and finds
Neptune a 3rd time by square on 7/27 at 1:48 PM at 20
Gem/Pis 39/ This is the same day Jupiter Rx finds Neptune by sextile
(2nd in a series of 3 at 20 Cap/Pisces 39) at 12:47 PM.
Under an active Moon in Scorpio and coinciding with the challenges
brought at the First Quarter of the New Moon in Leo cycle (8:33 AM).
The first sextile between Jupiter in Cap and Neptune in Pisces
occurred on Feb 20 at 17 Cap/Pisces 46 while both planets were
direct. The 2nd, Jupiter is retrograde. By the 3rd,
Jupiter is direct and Neptune is Rx. The 3rd takes place
just one degree ahead of the first at 18 Cap/Pisces 45 on 10/12 at
3:05 AM.
It seems as if the New Moon in Taurus
delivers us toward cause to celebrate. Perhaps this is the deposit of
stimulus money in the US or a simple realization of the beauty held
in life itself and the simplicity of natural cycles. There is a
feeling of freedom coming toward us that may unbolt us at least
temporarily as we move toward the eclipses. But, there is a flip
flopping of information and personal value that occurs during that
unbolting. There is a chance that this Fall could bring us right back
to similar themes we are experiencing now. There is a lot about that
July 5 Thunder Moon Eclipse which will fill in the nuance at that
time. So, at this juncture, we will be provided with relief and
eventually a little more room to wiggle around in. but, the
challenges ahead of us connect to this time in a way that lets us
know we aren't exactly done just yet. The changes we incorporated as
temporary may be necessary to maintain or fall back in re-group
effort as we wearily walk out of these Mercury/Venus Rx periods and
straight into the Rx path of Mars.
Relevant
symbols and incoming Astrology
*Sabian for The New Moon at 4 Taurus:
THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE
RAINBOW.
KEYNOTE: Riches that come from linking
the celestial and the earthly nature. In Genesis, the rainbow is the
symbol of the Covenant of God with Noah. In all mythologies it
expresses, in one way or another, a linking process — or the bridge
used by divine beings to communicate with mortals. What the linking
process brings to the individual consciousness is elusive, as the
rainbow never ends where you are, yet it is the source of symbolic,
universally valid wealth. All wealth, in a very real sense, comes
from “commerce”; i.e. from the commingling of minds and from
contracts, and thus is based on faith in the validity of a promise.
At this fourth stage of the five-fold process we are given a mode of
operation, which reminds us of the symbol for the second stage, “an
electrical storm.” Man need not be overawed by the celestial
display of power, for it leads to a fruitful contact with beings of
light. This is a natural kind of COMMUNION, involving a
transubstantiation of matter.
**Chandra for The New Moon at 4 Taurus:
A MAN TALKING IN HIS SLEEP
A psychic faculty is dreamt into and
sustained, leaving everything wide open for passive absorption. Going
so deep in there, an altered state, that you become karmically thrown
into the dilemma of translation between the worlds. Being used by
astral forces, and learning to adapt. Indwelling a place reserved for
those who are not ready to activate. But, oh, the dreams, the vapors.
Remembrance. Recapitulation. Return. Longing for connection between
the worlds, you may be able to take the underworld route through if
disciplined attunement is fostered. Creative powers are dammed up and
filtered through into naive wistfulness. You wait, hope, and are
drawn back and back until the inner worlds have been heard and
respected and the balance can be restored.
*Sabian for The New Moon's ruler, Venus
at 16 Gemini
A WOMAN ACTIVIST IN AN EMOTIONAL SPEECH
DRAMATIZING HER CAUSE.
KEYNOTE: A passionate response to a
deeply felt new experience. What has been “discovered” not only
needs to be discussed and tested through an intellectual exchange
which permits its formulation, it also demands “exteriorization.”
This implies the act of dealing with those who are still unaware of
the new knowledge or realization. A public is needed, and it has to
be convinced; its inertial resistance to change has to be overcome.
This usually requires an emotional dramatization of the issues at
stake. Here again, as at the very start of the cycle (Aries 1°), a
woman is depicted, which means a person depending upon feelings and
fiery images to sway the receptive public. This is the first stage in
the sixteenth five-fold sequence in the cyclic process. We are
dealing now with the exteriorization of the original impulse — i.e.
the emergence from the vast ocean of potentiality which constitutes
human nature at all levels. What is at stake is a process of
communication of new experiences. The mind is called upon to perform
its work, but what comes first is the action of that mind which is
violently moved and which attempts to move other minds by violent
means, the PROSELYTIZING MIND.
**Chandra for The New Moon's ruler
Venus 16 Gemini
A SINGLE SUNFLOWER WILTING AND DROPPING
ITS SEEDS
The sun shines so bright that it
compels all of us to empty ourselves out and bake in the light and
the warmth of spirit. We are transfixed by solar power and impelled
to unite with our destiny, no matter how extravagant or unlikely that
destiny proves to be. A momentum is pulsating, with edges to track.
In order to do so you have to breathe into it and let go a whole lot,
and then there you are, calling onward. You can hear it. Everybody
else can too. And so the spirit-caller cracks through and brings
futures alive in the light of a sun that never sets.
*This is the work of Dane Rudhyar
**This is the work of Elias Lonsdale
4/24
Mercury square Pluto at 3:34 AM 24 Cap/Aries 59 Moon in Gemini
(active)
Pluto stations Rx at 9:49 AM
4/26
Mercury square Jupiter at 12:26 AM 26 Cap/Aries 43
Mercury in harsh
apsect to Pluto and Jupiter is self-justified righteousness. A sense
of knowing that cannot be displaced with credible knowledge/evidence
and cannot bend to accommodate itself for being wrong. Can be loud.
Obstinate. This can also indicate runaway fears and paranoia that are
blown out of perspective and irretractable..inconsolable...nightmares
Sun conjunct Uranus at 5:01
AM:
Sabian for the
Sun/Uranus conjunction TAURUS 7°:
THE WOMAN OF
SAMARIA AT THE ANCESTRAL WELL.
KEYNOTE: The
meeting of the traditional past and of the creative spirit pointing
to the future.
The symbol refers
to a most important, but usually narrowly interpreted (or interpreted
away!) episode of the Christ mythos. Early in his ministry, Jesus
meets a Samaritan woman at an ancestral well. This woman belongs to a
tribe despised by the Jews; moreover, she is unmarried and therefore
on the fringe of even her own society. It is to just that kind of
woman that Jesus reveals that he is the Messiah: “I am He,” a
revelation that he apparently will not bestow even upon his
disciples, at least not in words. (Words in occultism are the
creative factor.) What does this mean? Jesus, as the Avatar
incorporating the Christ-Impulse, came to replace the old tribal
order with a new order based on universal Love. It is not to
representatives of, or even to men still attached to, the old order
that Jesus could reveal his spiritual, evolutionary and
societytransforming status; they had instead to reach a point where
they could discover his avatar-ship - as did Peter just before the
Transfiguration scene. But to the woman of Samaria - who, in her
openness to love’s urgings, had already repudiated any narrow
subservience to the old order - Jesus could reveal his function. The
highest meets the lowest when this lowest is free from traditional
bonds and open to love. The creative future descends first to that
which has become chaos. An old order is never open to a new
Revelation until it has accepted disorder in the name of that Power
which subsumes all forms of order, i.e. Love. In this second stage of
the five-fold sequence, a contrasting element enters upon the scene.
It is no longer a collective-cultural effort based on past knowledge
— as in the preceding symbol — but a “meeting” that
introduces into the collective situation a totally new factor which
transcends it. A NEW QUALITY OF BEING is revealed which renders the
old patterns obsolete.
4/27
Mercury enters Taurus 3:23 PM sextile NN at 7:16 PM
4/28
at 1:58 Mercury in Taurus sq Saturn in Aqua 1 Aqua/Tau 50 (Moon in
Cancer/Active)
4/30
Mercury conjunct Uranus in Taurus
follows tedious
FQM that waxed in with lunar opp to Pluto, Jupiter and finally Saturn
before cracking open at 10 Leo/Tau 57 on 4/30 at 4/:38 PM. The Moon
in Leo is still active when Mercury finds Uranus at 11:41 PM at 6
taurus 32. This is a break through energy. Occurs on the same degree
as the Sun/Uranus conjunction and knowledge from the “new quality
of being” that is captured in that conjunction is incorporated into
our language and conscious awareness.
5/3:
Venus square Neptune (1st of 3 passes in Rx path)
at 20 Gem/Pisces 18 at 11:53 PM.
Moon in Virgo is
Void (lit up a mutable t-square with Venus and Neptune prior to the
perfection of this square between 11 AM and Noon on 5/3..outlet Sag
with Jupiter in Cap)---Questionable motives, mixed signals about
Venus themed matters and confusion in regard to what is important,
valuable and about what information is being delivered. If it sounds
too good to be true. Jupiter in Cap-just do the right thing. But, the
“right” thing may be hard to discern. Moon in Virgo can help to
prioritize and triage in a way that helps us to create better order
of this chaos. This is decision making by process of elimination.
Moon enters Libra at 3 AM on 5/4
5/4:
Sun conjunct Mercury in Taurus:
Fusion/Enlightenment/incorporation
of “new” into basic expressions of personality/feeling of being
very connected to what you think and adherence to your platform/set
of values which may have recently been altered/the descent of common
sense: 5:42 pm at 15 Tau 42
Sabian for the Sun/Mercury conjunction
in Taurus:
AN OLD TEACHER
FAILS TO INTEREST HIS PUPILS IN TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE. KEYNOTE: The
inadequacy of past knowledge in time of crisis. During this Act One
of the cyclic process the emergence of new developments is
emphasized. In time of crisis — as, for example, the “storm”
being braved by the man of the last symbol (Phase 45) — the type of
wisdom learned from this past remains in the background to be revived
later on in new forms; what is emphasized is change. Traditional
concepts are not adequate to confirm the new conditions of existence.
Thus whenever this symbol comes to a seeker’s attention it
indicates that even the most consecrated tradition does not have the
real answer to the problem. At this first stage of the tenth
five-fold sequence of phases of the cyclic process a seemingly
negative picture is shown. From the Zen point of view the mind facing
trouble should not depend on past concepts but should repeat: “Not
this! Not that!” — until the pure Void is reached. We might speak
here of the principle of CREATIVE FRUSTRATION.
Chandra for the Sun/Mercury conjunction
in Taurus:
A YOUNG GIRL AND
BOY EXPLORE A PERFUME COUNTER
Weaving polarities
adroitly with alchemical awareness of what can come from the right
combinations. You are fascinated and awestruck by all the various
combinations, facets, and ways the life-force distributes itself and
plays itself out. The rapt admirer of the wisdom and beauty of
nature, transfixed by what happens around here. Coming at things
always from yet another side, yet never feeling it is enough. There
is more to be done, infinitely more to partake in and enhance. The
world is an open book. And it magnetically, almost hypnotically draws
your attention and interest to what is needed next, to what is
emergent and outstanding as life matches dreams and dreams encompass
fantastic variety and vivid spectrum to lose yourself in and discover
everything through, from one end of the Earth to the other
5/4
North Node moves into Gemini 10:52 PM
5/7:
Mercury sextile Neptune 6:42 AM 20 Tau/Pisces 23
Super
Flower Full Moon
17 Scorpio 34 at 10:35 PM EDT
Guide: The Emperor
5/10
Saturn stations Rx in Aqua at 10:17 PM at 1 aqua 57
5/13
Venus in Gemini stations Rx at 21 Gem 50
5/14
Jupiter in Cap stations Rx at 27 Cap 14 9:44 am
5/20
Sun enters Gemini
Venus
square Neptune #2: 20 gem/pisces 40 at 7:30 PM (active
balsamic Moon in Taurus following a conjunction with Uranus at 2:07
PM) New Moon in Gemini on 5/22 captures Mercury sq Neptune at these
same degrees.
5/22
Mercury and Venus are conjunct under the Void Moon in Taurus at
4:41 AM at 20 Gem prior to the New Moon in Gemini.
New
Moon in Gemini
2 Gemini 05 at 1:39 PM EDT
Guide: 7 of Swords
5/23
Moon in Gemini enters this mutable mix as follows:
Moon
conjunct Venus at 11:15 PM at 19 Gem/ Moon square Neptune 1:34 AM on
the 24th at 20 Gem/Pisces/ Moon conjunct Mercury 7:14 AM
at 23 Gem 40
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