The Cosmic Story: Capricorn New Moon January 12-13, 2021

 

The Cosmic Story: Capricorn New Moon 2021

 

Welcome to 2021!

After seeing the mayhem at the US Capital last week, we all might be wondering if 2021 will be any easier than 2020 was. On January 6^th, after 6 months in Aries, Mars gave us one last big explosion of rebellious energy as it exited Aries for Taurus. Mars has been tracking the 3 Capricorn change planets since September so the mood has been volatile – and Mars, which is a fiery energy, was ending an extra long stay in his own fiery sign of Aries. Mars, a doing energy, just had to do something!

And this energy will stick around until just after the U.S.Presidential Inauguration on January 20^th, when Mars will conjunct Uranus in Taurus. Be prepared for sudden surprises or rebellious acting out. This is a day to ground and center. Don’t let people and their words and actions make you react. Take time to breathe and then respond.

2021 probably won’t be easy, but for very different reasons. This year, we already know what damage COVID is doing to our world, both personally and collectively. We intuitively know that we will not be going back to what was ‘normal’ before. But that’s a good thing, because normal wasn’t all that great. We can do better!

This is the year we can begin to plant the new vision. Of a healed Earth, a healed humanity, of free and balanced societies. It’s not going to happen quickly, but we have to plant the seeds now in these coming years. That’s what America’s promise of freedom gives us - choice. This is the great gift of America’s founding vision.

This year’s first New Moon occurring at 24* Capricorn is conjunct Pluto at 25*: it is also the first Capricorn New Moon conjuncting the degree of last January’s Pluto/Saturn conjunction and the Pluto/Jupiter conjunctions during the past year. This began a new cycle of restructuring society, very near to the degree of America’s birth chart Pluto at 27* Capricorn. So we are living in similar revolutionary times.

 

The United States is having our Pluto return next year. This marks the end of an era. We forget America is a young country. Basically, a teenager. It’s time to grow up kids!

The last time these two planets met in Capricorn was around 1517 AD, around the time of Martin Luther’s protest, which split the Catholic Church and changed western European culture.

That wasn’t an easy transition, but we don’t have to repeat history. We have to know and understand history to do that. That’s why it’s vital for America to look at our racist history, but some people would rather live in their shadows than admit to and reconcile with them.

What this means for us is this: now this game-changing, new cycle for our culture has to become even more personal. This New Moon is about deep soul growth and psychological evolution. We have to become more Self-aware , so we don’t fall into other people’s delusions. The Cosmos is saying, it’s time to embody a new outlook, a new relationship with our communities and countries (Capricorn). It is time to take a stand for a new vision of life beyond a return to patriarchal capitalism. 

 

 

That is what President Trump and his followers want. They feel they’ve been cheated out of the ‘American dream’ and they want it back. And their leader, with the backing of big business or other countries, is happy to give it to them by returning to unrestrained exploitation of Mother Earth. To their old vision of how life ‘should be’. To rampant consumerism. To white supremacy. And we’ve seen how a manipulative leader’s words can evoke violence in them, and this is so often the case, under the pretext of being patriots.

The old battle cry of Patriarchy!

Trump enabler Steve Bannon is a trained occultist and so he knows astrology. He knows that America is about to have our first Pluto return, meaning that we are in the same deep energies of change that occurred during the American Revolution. With this knowledge, he helped Trump orchestrate the manipulation of this energy in his ‘followers’.

They are using the astrological energies for their own purposes, starting with the Saturn in Sagittarius square to Neptune in Pisces in 2015. This square challenged us to look at our beliefs and discern truth from falsehoods – so they started by twisting it into an attack on ‘fake news’ which they used to cover over their own ‘fake’ reality. And we’ve been living in this ‘through the looking glass’ inversion of reality ever since. This is how Hitler and the Nazis used their occult knowledge to take power.

On the other side, many people believe in standing up for racial equality and social justice and using the law to manifest their vision – like our Wise Crone, Judge Ruth Badar Ginsberg. That’s what the BLM demonstrations were – peaceful protests for unresolved and continuing killing of black citizens. That’s not to say that some of them also resorted to violence. Both sides have anger issues. But for the most part, these were peaceful demonstrations on the protesters side, which was met with lots of police violence. Which unsurprisingly didn’t happen on January 6^th against white protesters.

The American Myth is that we engage in our government to change the laws that need changing in an ever-evolving world. That is America’s greatest gift to the world – FREEDOM. The freedom to choose.

 

Miss Freedom on Georgia State Capital

Both sides are feeling something very real – the knowledge that things aren’t working well. That our society has to change – either backwards or forwards. And both sides believe in the American myth of freedom. We get to decide how to live!

And that’s the point. People are bringing their viewpoints to the collective table. If we don’t like what we see, we have an obligation as citizens to work to change it lawfully.

It seems we are here on Earth at this time and place to help create a new paradigm for our society. To help evolve humanity to greater awareness. 

That is. If we choose to.

While being in lock down has brought us ample opportunities to study online, we might be ignoring what is going on right outside our door. We have time now to listen to our local town council meetings, our city and state meetings, and our national meetings.

We need to pay attention to what our leaders are doing, and check in with ourselves to see if we’re ok with that. If we’re not, it’s our duty as citizens to bring our knowledge and vision to the community, to ‘lobby’ for our vision of what the next steps can be.

What we have now is the opportunity to work with the energies of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in Aquarius, an energy that calls us to collaborate with each other and to envision a better future for all of us. And because both these planets will be squaring Uranus and Mars in Taurus, to collaborate with Earth’s guiding genius as well.

Capricorn New Moon, January 12-13, 2021

This first New Moon of 2021 is in Capricorn, the sign of our collective institutions. The Capricorn New Moon occurs on Tuesday January 12 at 8pm Alaska time and 9pm PST. It occurs on Wednesday January 13 at 12 am EST and 5am GMT.

 

 

Capricorn is the sign of personal achievement. But only once you master what you do through long apprenticeship and hard work. Capricorn rewards those who have earned it, whether it’s a profession or it’s wisdom, because Capricorn is also the sign of the Elders who have the wisdom to make wise decisions for the tribe or country. After last year’s conjunctions of Saturn, Pluto and Jupiter in Capricorn, we are re-inventing what Capricorn leadership means. Hopefully, we’ll do away with patriarchal leadership based on domination and evolve into a leadership model that is based on wisdom, equality, responsibility and truth.

Capricorn is about authority, both outer authority and our own personal inner authority. Become the author of your own life – Believe nothing, entertain possibilities. We are heading into an unknown future. Instead of letting anxiety rule you, re-structure your life into what makes you feel safe and secure. Be your own authority.

The Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 24* Capricorn is: A woman entering a convent. This symbol implies a deep, feeling commitment to a transcendent state of consciousness. This is a call for us to start living our beliefs. It is another call for evolving our self-awareness and authority.

The Sabian symbol of Pluto at 25* Capricorn is: A store filled with precious oriental rugs. In ancient societies, rugs symbolized something a person could stand on, a place that symbolized home and security, especially in tribal societies. Prayer rugs are used to bring the cosmic down to earth. What is your truth? Where is your home?

This conjunction to the New Moon forces us to face the darkness in ourselves and in our society. It’s intense. We might not want to look at it. But if we do, we can actually transform things.

Pluto is also about power – the abuse of power, the power structures in society, and our own connection to power. Patriarchy thinks it can own the power and dominate with it. The Divine Feminine says we are containers in which power can manifest when needed and then be released. Nobody owns power but everyone can open themselves to it when needed.

This powerful New Moon calls to us to deepen our connection to spirit and to our commitment to making this world a better place. Not through conflict but through a deep recognition of our unity. We are all children of Mother Earth, going through a dangerous and chaotic time. The easy way is to blame each other. The higher ground calls us to look at the inner emptiness of our culture and name the truth that leaves people open to manipulation by selfish power-hungry leaders.

We can create a society that helps people be creative and satisfied on an inner level, unlike the one we have now which has created addictions and delusions of progress. But we need to own our own imaginations, so that the media and leaders can’t manipulate them. We see this in the Neptune in Pisces square to the lunar nodes in Gemini and Sagittarius. It is so important to examine our beliefs and let go of the ones that do not serve life. Instead of allowing others to delude us, we need to learn how to relate to our unconscious beliefs and wake up to our soul’s needs. We need an awakened mind!

Other Astrological influences

These next few weeks are full of intense energies. The best way to handle them is to stay grounded, be grateful, act compassionately and stand up for the truth. It’s time to learn how to have deep conversations about our world and what we want it to become.

Venus, Mercury, and Mars all changed signs this week. Mercury will travel with Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius, Venus will be going over the Capricorn energies that riled us up all last year, and Mars will hook up with Uranus in Taurus on Inauguration Day.

While the New Moon is only connected to Pluto, the real action comes from the dynamic square between Jupiter/Saturn/Mercury in Aquarius and Uranus and Mars in Taurus.

The Aquarius planets are forward thinking and revolutionary. Uranus and Mars challenge them to bring them down to earth so they can manifest. Not as a riot or insurrection, but as viable plans to change the way we live on Mother Earth.

These energies are dancing with each other all through the month as well as throughout the year. It’s important to envision where we as a collective (Aquarius) want to go. That’s why keeping track of local, state or national government is important.

We can take what happened on January 6^th as a sign that we do need to make changes in our government and our society. These visions of a better world are what this year’s planetary aspects will be working with.

Venus in Capricorn will help us mediate these conflicting energies as she trines the Uranus/Mars conjunction in Taurus. Venus rules Taurus, and in mythology is the off-spring of Cosmic Uranus’ phallic power. She brings that cosmic vision and energy down to Earth, where it is transformed into Love and Connection.

Uranus is the planet of surprises, of awakening consciousness, of rebellion, genius and invention. Uranus in earthy Taurus shows us the ingenious consciousness of Mother Earth and her laws. While Uranus travels through Taurus until 2026, we would do well to learn from Nature how to survive and thrive. The last time Uranus was in Taurus was in the 1930’s when we developed the New Deal in America. It’s time to renew and expand those social safety nets. This isn’t socialism. It’s what a community does for its people. Just look at how trees take care of each other!

Uranus is the ruler of Aquarius along with Saturn, which is in Aquarius. So their square, which occurs on February 17, can bring tensions between our need for a new structure and our need for freedom.

The Sabian symbol for Uranus stationing direct at 7* Taurus is: The woman of Sumaria at the ancestral well. This symbol relates to the story of Jesus asking this outcast woman for water. He rebelled against Jewish law by talking to her and he even reveals to her that he is the Messiah. Jesus was bringing a new social order to the world, one not based on tribal laws but one based in love and connection. This is a symbol of a new quality of being that is possible, if we can get over our fear of The OTHER.

All this is happening in the next few weeks.

January 6 – Mars entered Taurus

January 8 – Venus entered Capricorn, Mercury entered Aquarius

January 9 – Mercury conjunct Saturn

January 11 – Mercury conjunct Jupiter

January 12- 13 – New Moon in Capricorn conjunct Pluto

January 13 – Mars in Taurus square Saturn in Aquarius – frustration/blocked energy

January 14 – Uranus stations direct.

January 14 – Sun conjunction Pluto

January 17 – Jupiter in Aquarius squares Uranus in Taurus – a bigger vision.

January 19 – Sun enters Aquarius

January 20 – Mars conjunct Uranus in Taurus

January 22-23 – Mars in Taurus square Jupiter in Aquarius

January 26 – Sun in Aquarius squares Uranus in Taurus

January 28 – Leo Full Moon/ Sun conjunction Jupiter in Aquarius

January 30 – Mercury retrograde in Aquarius

2020 was an Initiation and a learning experience. What have you learned? What new work is ahead of you for 2021?  Find your inner truth and be it in the world. We do have freedom of choice, so choose the bigger vision.

Blessings on us all!

Cathy

 

 

Let My Country Awake

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action —
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

 

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

 

(Gitanjali)

 

The Cosmic Story: Sagittarius Total Solar Eclipse 2020

 

The Cosmic Story: Sagittarius New Moon Total Solar Eclipse 2020

 

 

 

Our disruptive, chaotic year of 2020 is coming to an end. Finally!!! Most of us can’t wait for a new beginning in 2021.

But please consider this before we go into that bright new beginning. What if this year was a spiritual initiation for us, a time when we were forced to face our Shadows – both personal and collective? To clean out what no longer serves life. 

 

 

Around the planet, we’ve been forced to face Death through Covid, extreme fires and hurricanes, glacier collapses, collapsing economies and infrastructures, the breakdown of governments, continuing wars, famines, droughts and earthquakes. We’ve faced authoritarian leaders who would take our freedom and stop our peaceful protests. We’ve faced lies and manipulations from our governments, our corporations and our media. We’ve seen leaders refusing to use our own tax money to help citizens in need. (Taxation without representation is tyranny!)

Not to mention the breakdown of the Earth’s electromagnetic field and the shifting of the North Pole, perhaps signaling a polar shift? All the while Earth is being flooded with strong solar winds from heightened sunspot activity.

 

Earth’s frequency is changing, and so that shift is rattling and shaking out old dis-harmonies. The dissonance is dissolving the frequencies that no longer have any juice or relevance. Once they’re gone, a new harmony will develop.

So what is the universe trying to tell us? And what can we do to help?

The simple answer, and simple strategy, is to stay centered and look at yourself and your life choices. Meditate, get in your body, stay grateful. And as in any initiation, when confronted with a Truth about ourselves, we are asked to choose. To make an authentic choice by facing what’s been hidden and embracing all of ourselves. To choose to commit to a higher version of ourselves, a better use of our energies. And then choosing to let go of the past to step into a new story for the future.

If we can raise our frequencies, we can be beacons of calm, of peace, of light in these dark times. We can radiate harmony into our neighborhoods and into the world. We can be the calm, grounded center – radiating frequencies of security for our neighbors. When we let go of fear and anxiety, others can too.

In fact, if we spent these next weeks meditating and radiating, we might lock into Earth’s shaky electromagnetic field and co-create the new one.

We’ve all been sent to our rooms by Mother Earth. Shouldn’t we stop acting like spoiled children and think about what we’ve done? This isn’t just about COVID. This is about choosing a different type of future, one in which we work with Mother Earth to heal the world.

We all say we want freedom, but we don’t even know what that means. It isn’t gathering in large groups with guns to scare people, or to destroy things and hurt people. That’s so adolescent. It isn’t feeling like your freedom is being taken away if you’re asked to wear masks as a courtesy to protect others. It isn’t feeling powerful while you chant with a mob, “Lock her/him/them up” like you’re in The Hunger Games.

Real freedom is taking responsibility for your life. Real freedom is owning your own authority while respecting others. Real freedom is an inner knowing rather than an outer showing. Once we are truly free, nothing can trap us. Then perhaps we can work together to create a free society.

So let’s choose to face our Shadows in this darkest time of year, which Catholics call Advent – a time of waiting and preparing for the return of the Divine Light.

So the Universe asks: if this year was an initiation, did we face it and make it?

The Universe is benevolent. It is sending us last minute help. Before 2020 ends, surprise! We get to experience some interesting energies, some hopeful energies, some future-oriented energies. Energies that we can use to bring the darkness into the light.

The first is a Solar Eclipse and the second is a conjunction of two planets, opposite energies that will come together in a shining star to show the way to our future.

So don’t lose faith in yourself or in the world. Better days are coming. We just have to ‘Make it So!’

Sagittarius New Moon / Total Solar Eclipse

On December 14, 2020 there will be a total solar eclipse at 23*08’ Sagittarius.

The New Moon eclipse will occur at 7:17am Alaska time, 8:17am PST/ 11:17am EST and 4:17pm GMT. The eclipse will be visible in parts of the southern hemisphere.

 

 

The Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 24* Sagittarius is: A Bluebird perches on the gate of a cottage.

Bluebirds are associated with happiness (the Bluebird of Happiness) – the joy that comes when we are true to ourselves and our purpose. This blue bird has come to perch on our garden gate – asking us to walk through into a happier place of security and comfort. A blue bird also symbolizes a more spiritual consciousness. So once again, we are reminded to open ourselves to the goodness of life and lift our vibrations to one of love, hope and truth. What a great message for this time of year when we all say, and hopefully mean, “Peace on Earth, goodwill toward all life.”

This solar eclipse is part of the 142 Saros Series of eclipses which started in 1624. The interesting correlation with this solar eclipse is that the Sun was at 7* Taurus, where Uranus is now, and the Moon was at 29* Leo, where the Great American total solar eclipse occurred in 2017. That eclipse spoke of a mermaid taking on human form – symbolizing a deep unconscious feeling and need that wants to become conscious. With Uranus _RX resonating this original Sun degree, it indicates it’s time to incarnate what that mermaid means. It’s time to birth a new Earth.

Eclipses always signal times of change. Full Moon lunar eclipses are times of seeing things that we’ve been missing, acknowledging them and finishing up old business. Solar eclipses are times when we visualize a new direction we want to head into. Since a solar eclipse is a very potent New Moon, it’s a time to plant seeds for the future.

 

 

This total solar eclipse, which will be visible in the southern hemisphere, is conjunct the lunar south node, so we’re called on to leave something behind so we can open to the new energies coming in. The south node is where we’re stuck, where we’re too comfortable, where we make easy, unconscious choices. The south node shows us the ideas and issues that no longer serve us, whereas the north node can open us to new energies so that we can renew the south node energies. These lunar nodes ask us to let go of old beliefs (Sagittarius) so new information and ideas (Gemini) can expand our consciousness.

With this New Moon exactly between the lunar south node and the Galactic Center (the center of the galaxy sends out radiation that affects us), we are, as astrologer Pam Gregory says, at a tipping point between the old outworn beliefs (south node in Sagittarius) and new, more expansive, cosmic beliefs (GC). The best we can do is stay grounded, see if our vision is acceptable to our values (don’t listen if a god tells you to kill your son), and find ways that vision might be needed in the world.

The south node in Sagittarius tells us that we’re stuck in old beliefs – about ourselves, our world and our spiritual beliefs. This is the south node that stays stuck in thinking we know ‘the truth’. We see this playing out in America with Donald Trump’s insistence that he is right about COVID and the election. This solar eclipse is on his Sagittarius Moon and his Sagittarius south node. He always thinks he’s right, even when he’s wrong. So a humbling question for each us might be: where is the Donald Trump in me? If we all heal that part of our Shadow, perhaps the collective shadow will lighten up.

With Neptune in Pisces squaring the Gemini/Sagittarius lunar nodes as well as the Sun, Moon and Mercury in Sagittarius, this need to examine our truths becomes imperative. Neptune can delude and confuse us, giving over our power and authority to leaders or the media. Or Neptune can inspire us to access our own spiritual vision, which the Capricorn planets are grounding in. For these new visions to have room to develop and grow, we have to let go of old beliefs that no longer serve us or our world.

This solar eclipse shows us the need to compost all the old beliefs that have shaped our world by force, not by choice. Like the false belief that Americans are the best and the bravest, that our government is the model of democracy, that America is exceptional. Because we no longer are. We are young country and we often act like adolescents in many ways. We’re also a country of orphans, with shallow roots here on the North American continent. We need to deepen those roots now. We need to grow up to our responsibility to be the stewards of the Earth.

It’s time to look at false and limiting beliefs about religion. Whoever created us doesn’t think of us as sinners, although many of us choose to be. That’s free will. We’re not condemned to burn in flames after we die, although we’ll have to judge ourselves and our actions. Whatever force or God created us, it was for us to become more creative ourselves. To co-create our world. To make it a hell or heaven. Once again, our choice. But if we’re like any plant, animal, star or galaxy, we’re here to evolve. Whatever power brought about the creation of this beautiful world and all Her children wants us to evolve to a higher state of consciousness.

That’s what is needed now. It’s time to evolve!

Look at old beliefs about duality. About being Chosen. Because if someone is chosen, someone else obviously is not. That’s such a negative black and white belief. Such a masculine, left-brain belief. It’s about power and domination. If we balance out that left-brain with our right-brain, feminine wisdom and imagination, we’ll see things differently. Nobody needs to be chosen if we’re all chosen. This is not about giving everyone a trophy. This is about knowing that we’re all in this together – which is something this pandemic has made obvious.

All great religious teachers know that all religions are just different aspects of one belief – that there is a greater power at work in this universe than humanity. All beliefs about life, even the belief that there is no god, is worthy if the person who believes it lives a self-aware life. Isn’t it time to stop believing that some of us are better, more spiritual, more blessed than everyone else? That we know better than others about what is morally right and true? That one set of beliefs should outweigh all the others? That’s a good limiting belief to let go of.

With this solar eclipse in Sagittarius, we have the opportunity to let go of old religious and personal limiting beliefs, which no longer serve our higher good, as well as the needs of Mother Earth. 

 

Varda

This solar eclipse is exactly conjunct by minutes the dwarf planet Varda, Tolkien’s Elfish Queen of Heaven. Like the Woman clothed with the Sun, she is Wisdom and Cosmic Law. While we let go of limiting beliefs, let Varda expand our vision and open us to her Wisdom. It’s time we grounded ourselves in cosmic law once again, regaining our place in Mother Earth’s biosphere. The Divine Feminine will guide us now if we let her. That’s a great seed to plant for this New Moon.

Mercury is close to the Sun at this eclipse and will conjunct the Sun on December 19^th, just before the Winter Solstice. Mercury the Messenger God will carry the message of these transformative times to the Sun and to our collective consciousness. This is a time of great awakening.

Mars and Eris in Aries are still squaring the Capricorn Amigos, especially Pluto. Mars will square Pluto for the third and last time on December 23^rd. How can we stand in our own authority and what spiritual awakenings and transformations can we hope for in our culture? We have a lot of work to do, but it will get easier.

Venus in Scorpio opposite Black Moon Lilith in Taurus are supporting any new visions of a better world that Saturn and Jupiter are brewing as they leave Capricorn to meet up in Aquarius on December 21, 2020.

This conjunction of opposing forces is what will make things easier. When we stand in the tension of opposites, a new, third force arises and new ideas, new forms, new life is created. We just have to hold that tension until the new is birthed.

Because this is getting long and it’s going to be hard to retain anything else, I’ll be sending out part 2 about the Winter Solstice conjunction next week.

Until then,

Warm love and blessings as we enter the cold and dark,

Cathy

A Brave And Startling Truth

We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns
To a destination where all signs tell us
It is possible and imperative that we learn
A brave and startling truth
And when we come to it
To the day of peacemaking
When we release our fingers
From fists of hostility
And allow the pure air to cool our palms

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We, this people, on this small and drifting planet
Whose hands can strike with such abandon
That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living
Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness
That the haughty neck is happy to bow
And the proud back is glad to bend
Out of such chaos, of such contradiction
We learn that we are neither devils nor divines

When we come to it
We, this people, on this wayward, floating body
Created on this earth, of this earth
Have the power to fashion for this earth
A climate where every man and every woman
Can live freely without sanctimonious piety
Without crippling fear

When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world
That is when, and only when
We come to it.

~ Maya Angelou ~

(A Brave and Startling Truth)

The Cosmic Story: Scorpio New Moon 2020 & Mars Stationing Direct

 

The Cosmic Story: Scorpio New Moon 2020

A New Beginning

 

 

This weekend’s Scorpio New Moon is definitely one of the most intense New Moons of the year. Secretive, seductive Scorpio isn’t interested in surface interactions. It wants to get to the juicy aspects of relationships, the ones that we keep hidden even from ourselves, the ones that we’re afraid won’t be accepted.

Whether it’s our Shadow qualities or just too much trauma, Scorpio’s New Moon is our opportunity to dive deep and bring those vampires into the light at the next Full Moon, which is a lunar eclipse in Gemini/Sagittarius. What part of yourself has been hiding in the shadows? Maybe it’s something we all need right now. But unless you bring it up and out, we’ll never know.

Scorpio is the fixed water sign of the zodiac. Fixed water can get stagnant if we stay on the surface, but if it spirals deeper into our psyches, it can bring about emotional transformation. And that’s the name of the game for Scorpio – the transformation of stuck or blocked feelings that generate emotions that keep us separate from the Other. That keep us separated from ourselves.

 

If Cancer is the sign of our original emotional body, then Scorpio is our emotional body under the stress of having to relate to others. This is where we pick up our trauma and when we hide behind our Shadows. But we can clean up the waters within us so that our truth shines out. It’s time to heal those wounds so we can get on to our new life. That’s the work for us this month as we head into eclipse season. With the lunar nodes in Gemini/Sagittarius, our cosmic assignment is to root out old belief systems that no longer serve us or the world, and learn to think in new ways so we can discover something worthwhile to believe in again.

And some of the old beliefs we culturally need to clean up our act about are our attitudes toward sex and sexuality, toward vulnerability and intimacy. That’s why pedophilia seems to be so rampant among men. They prey on the young and vulnerable through their dysfunctional beliefs about sex and their fear of women. Hopefully, American men are about to get an upgrade on their sexuality – see below.

While it’s intense to face the truth about ourselves, our relationships and our world, once we do, we bring light into the situation and it really becomes easier for everyone. And with the situation in the world now, being truth-speakers and truth-seekers is more important than ever. Just ask your Sagittarius friends! With the eclipses coming up next month in the signs of Gemini and Sagittarius, we will be confronting those truths about our beliefs to see if they’re still valid or delusional. We might have to learn something new. Why not start early?

Scorpio New Moon

The Scorpio New Moon occurs on Saturday November 14^th at 8:08pm Alaska time/ 9:08pm PST and on Sunday November 15^th at 12:08am EST and 5:08am GMT.

 

 Scorpio New Moon 2020

The Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 23* 18’ is: After having heard an inspired individual deliver his ‘sermon on the mount’, crowds are returning home.

 

This image speaks to the need to go home and live out those values which we aspire (to breathe upon) to. This is a symbol that speaks to our need for real transformation – of our minds, our hearts, our bodies and our spirits. It also speaks a lot to the situation we’re in the middle of here in the United States. While many are inspired by Joe Biden’s pledge to work to heal our nation, others are inspired by Donald Trump to see conspiracies, cheating and hatred. Which values will we chose to live by?

Half of the American population voted for the future, for kindness and compassion, for grown-up responsibility toward each other, the world and Mother Earth.

The other half seems to have voted for their own self-interest, for delusional conspiracy theories and for a morally corrupt and now treasonous leader. I don’t know about you, but this makes me sad and disappointed that so many good people don’t really know what their beliefs are or how to live out their values. That’s the work we face with the eclipses occurring in Gemini/Sagittarius.

Because if healing the environment by stopping corporations from polluting it further, if stopping the separation of children from their parents, if truth and responsibility are not at the top of everyone’s list of important things we have to handle as a world and as a society, what will our children’s children think about us and the world we’re leaving them? If we don’t start acting like our lives depended on it, they will condemn us for our selfishness and cowardly fears.

Waters of Life

This Scorpio New Moon occurs in the last decan of Scorpio – the last 10 degrees – which are dedicated to Cancer, the Great Mother. It generates the energy of transformation and a new birth, a conscious return to our original state of being. When we release the past, it transforms us but it also brings us back to our own unique selves.

The New Moon is exactly trine Jupiter in Capricorn, who asks us to open our hearts to our deepest desires and blessings so that he can fulfill them, and to Pluto, the new ruler of Scorpio, so that he can help us face our deaths as we prepare for new life.

This Scorpio New Moon is a time to plant seeds for the future out of the death of the year – and what a lot of death there has been. It is inspired by the Capricorn planets – Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn – who brought an end to our old capitalistic society and are now introducing us to a new era, a new society. It nurtures us to open to the imagination and spiritual vision of Neptune in Pisces, which shows us who and what we’ve been ignoring – the elderly, the children, community, compassion, freedom and equality, and the possibility of a new relationship with Mother Earth.

And it is aware that Uranus in Taurus will help us create that new world. With Mercury in Scorpio opposite Uranus_Rx in Taurus, we’re called to be open to new developments in the world, new technologies, new ideologies about how to live on our most precious Earth.

Mars, the traditional ruler of Scorpio, just stationed and turned back to direct motion on Friday the 13^th of November. The archetypal masculine planet is reborn on the Goddess’ day – Friday/Freya’s Day/ sacred to Venus/ Aphrodite – and number 13, since there are 13 lunar cycles in a year. May the Goddess bless her sons and inspire them to become the men they are meant to be. 

(Perhaps you’ll want to tune into my Face Book Live/ Zoom show – The Cosmic Campfire – for some storytelling about Mars and the Masculine Spirit. More information below)

 

Nature Spirits dancing

 

The Sabian symbol for Mars direct at 15* 14’ Aries is: Nature spirits are seen at work in the light of sunset. This image speaks to our ability, especially now after the shock of Covid and living in isolation for over 6 months, to see and feel how we are part of Earth’s biosphere. There are invisible energies working around us, on us and for us. We just have to be open to perceiving them and receiving their blessings. This brave new world we’re heading toward is our re-connection to Mother Earth’s biosphere. We have to take back our role as stewards of the Earth once again.

Before I discuss what this could mean regarding Mars, let’s look at how Mars is connecting with both the Capricorn Amigos and with Venus in Libra.

As it has for the past 4 months as Mars traveled through Aries, it has been squaring the transformational Capricorn planets. Our Mars yang energy is being challenged to accept the changes that our society needs to undergo if we’re to survive and thrive in the coming years. It seems like America is split down the middle on that one.

When we don’t ‘follow the energy’ we get clogged up and constipated with anger, fear, resentment and violence. So for those of us who are ready to follow the new energy, we know that we have to leave behind our old expectations of what ‘life should be like’ and begin to live a life that is connected to the Earth and sustainable living. We can begin to give up those ‘toys’ that the military-industrial complex has mesmerized us with. And get back in our bodies and back into Nature and community.

 

Venus & Mars

Mars in Aries is also opposing Venus in Libra. Remember – oppositions are complementary, which means they want to work together. We have to trust our instincts as well as our hearts, our minds as well as our morals. Desire, which Mars rules, is directed at Venus, who attracts that desire. We have been trained since birth and back through our ancestral lineage to ignore our instincts and our hearts, especially around attraction and sex. That’s what we’re leaving behind as we divest ourselves of patriarchal rules and beliefs and renew our social contract (the Capricorn Amigos) with new beliefs around the relationship between the masculine and the feminine and men and women.

Venus isn’t ashamed of her sensuality and her desirability, her wildness and openness, her charm and wisdom. As a matter of fact, she wants us to learn to respect our desires. But she also wants Mars and men to respect our sexual connection, making it sacred rather than profane. If we do this one thing, making our sexuality sacred again, everything can and will change. Venus in Libra asks Mars in Aries to stop and consider the Other before taking action. Venus says, ‘let’s play nice with each other’ and she’ll do it in an artful way. Women can learn a lot from Venus/Aphrodite.

 

 Aphrodite/Venus

Venus in Libra is also opposite Eris in Aries. There will be discord until we find our heart’s desire again. Once we do, we will stand up to anyone and anything that denies us that. Eris is a warrioress after all!

Now let’s look at Mars in new ways. As Mars finishes his game-changing retrograde through Aries while squaring culturally renewing Saturn, Pluto and Jupiter in Capricorn, he has to decide whose authority and rules he’s going to follow. The old or the new. The patriarchy’s or his own authority. Will he honor and respect women and feminine consciousness? Will we choose the New King or try to prop up the old king?

Mars in Aries

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. In the northern hemisphere, it signals the beginning of Spring, when the light conceived at Winter Solstice gets born into the world. So Aries is all about new beginnings, new life, new inspirations. It’s about new forms of growth, of action, of intention.

 

Sunrise

Some positive Aries traits are: adventurous, spontaneous, pioneering, courageous, enthusiastic (inspired or possessed by a god), assertive, confident, forthright; its goal is achievement and leadership.

Some unconscious Aries behaviors are: impulsive, impatient, foolhardy, quick-tempered, selfish, argumentative, quarrelsome, competitive, egotistical, contentious, aggressive, ruthless. This is toxic masculinity and it’s showing its ugly face again. Its goal is to dominate.

(There is a series on Netflix called Cobra Kai based on the Karate Kid. The two opponents are older now, and set in their ways. But the show is about redemption and the transformation of the old dominator model of masculinity to a more conscious and protector model of masculinity. It takes a while for the transformation to begin, but hey, we are talking about men! :)

The planet Mars is named after the Roman god of war. Throughout the ancient world, the Red Planet was seen as a planet of war, oppression, plague, and conflict. And so we’ve assigned those characteristics to Mars in astrology. 

 

 

But everything is being renewed now, especially the archetypal images. Mars is the Yang energy of nature. It is the principle of energetic force and action, the impulse and capacity to assert, to act and to move forcefully, to have an impact, to press forward and against (to grapple with things), to act with sharpness and ardor. Our Mars energy can be experienced as aggression, anger, conflict, violence and competition. But we need Mars for courage and to be vital and vigorous.

In Jungian psychology, Mars is that part of the masculine which initiates, desires (Eros) and feels passionate about life. While Mars is most often embodied as the Warrior or Athlete, he is also the Lover as well as the King, and even the Magician if he’s intellectually inclined. In ancient cultures, there was little or no distinction between many of these archetypal patterns. The King especially has to embody the masculine essence of the times.

 

 

Now, with this retrograde, in this cosmic change year, we need to re-new the archetype and re-birth and reclaim our Mars energy. While this is especially true for men, we women also have a masculine side which needs renewal, for we are all Father’s Daughters, daughters of patriarchy, and we are called upon to leave the Father’s House and reclaim our original powers.

In the book by Jungian therapist Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover we see the four basic archetypes of masculine purpose and powers.  

 

 

Aragon

 

 

The King embodies the spiritual fire of life, both generous and generative (I see Jupiter here as well). The King brings order to the world and has to be seasoned and complex, wise and self-less. For he is the mediator between Heaven and Earth, who is willing to die for his people. The ultimate leader and protector.

 

Navarre

The Warrior embodies the strength of the earth, acting decisively and with courage to protect the people. He develops his skills, power, accuracy and self-control over his mind and attitudes as well as his body. He focuses his aggressive nature, develops clarity of thought, acts decisively and faces death without fear. He has self-discipline and takes responsibility for his actions.

Gandolf

The Magician embodies Air and has power over the Mind and Intentions, focusing his energies on gaining secret knowledge and wisdom as well as over technological/scientific knowledge. He trains his Mind to contain the Cosmos.

Mistress of Spices

The Lover embodies his heart and Water, the imagination that gives rise to art and mysticism. The lover relates to and connects with others. He is compassionate, empathetic, romantic, enthusiastic. He is alive to life and wants to see meaning in it. But he’s also willing to sacrifice his ego needs for his love.

These are four basic archetypal patterns of the Masculine Spirit. They can each manifest in many ways and hopefully we’ll see them springing up all over the world in ever greater numbers. Where they will be met and matched by the embodiment of Feminine Spirit – women who have freed themselves from the Father’s House. Women who run with the Wolves!

If you’d like to hear more about the archetypal masculine, join me on Friday evening after Mars turns direct at 9pm EST/ 6pm PST for my Cosmic Campfire, where I’ll share information and stories about Mars and Men.

You can find me on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/CathyPaganosWisdomSalon/)

or

Zoom. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81621923578 Show up a few minutes early so I can let you in.

To explore a bit deeper about the regeneration of the Masculine and men, I looked at America’s progressed birth chart. (I’m using the July 4, 1776 chart that Caroline Casey thinks we should work with, one that sets the time at 2:25pm.) A progressed chart is a chart that moves the planets ahead a year for every day.

 

Moon conjunct Pluto in Capricorn

The first thing that jumps out from this chart is that the progressed Moon, which represents ‘we the people’ is at 29* Capricorn conjunction Pluto. The end of Capricorn finds us at the end of empire – we are no longer a shining example for the world. We have let ourselves be brought low and now we’re experiencing a death. A death of our ideals as Americans but also a death of the corporate culture of capitalism. But rebirth follows soon after.

Perhaps as soon at this Winter Solstice, when Jupiter and Saturn join up at 1* Aquarius for the first time in Air signs (except for once in the 80s) since around 1200 CE. These two cultural planets sent the boundaries and interests for our collective culture and they are moving from earth and materialism to air and social connectivity and ideals. These next 20 years are going to be exciting as we discover technologies and different ways to live in the world.

Why this is interesting is that by Winter Solstice, December 21, 2020, America’s progressed Moon will also be at 1* Aquarius. So it looks like we’re going to get on board the Aquarian train to the future.

 

America's Progressed Moon in Aquarius

 

Also in the progressed chart, there is an exact opposition between Mars in Libra and Chiron in Aries. This seems to indicate that the American masculine psyche is in need of healing and renewal. When Europeans came to the Americas, they came as conquerors and that dominator mode of being has been stuck there ever since. But now we all have an opportunity to heal the masculine aspects of our culture and allow a great blossoming that our present Mars in Aries can bring us as it transits America’s progressed Chiron and opposes America’s progressed Mars.

All of that astrological jargon is just saying – Let’s choose the New King!

That’s good for now. Please join me on Friday night at 9pm EST/ 6pm PST if you want to learn more about Mars and the New Masculine energies being birthed now.

Goddess Blessings on all of us.

Cathy

 

 

For a New Beginning

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

~ John O'Donohue ~

(To Bless the Space Between Us)

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