The
Cosmic Story: Scorpio Full Moon 20018
Beltane
& Wesak Full Moon
Beltaine
Gaia
really blossoms in May as we welcome in Beltane, the 2nd
cross-quarter fire festival of the Wheel of the Year, from
April 30th to May 5th. This is my favorite time
of the year, not only because it’s my birthday but because Spring
begins to really blossom now. Nature adorns herself in sweet smells
and soft breezes, gorgeous colors and vibrant greens, bright sunny
skies and happy faces. We really know in our bodies that Winter is
behind us and Summer is on its way.
This
is the time to dance the Maypole, weaving the ribbons of masculine
and feminine life energies, weaving sweet desire and blossoming hope
in our hearts. Gaia opens up her treasure trove of blessings and we
all get to share in her abundance and fertility – not only of the
body, but also of the mind, heart and spirit.
For
the month of Taurus inhales all that Aries fire and gives it a form.
What we have to remember is that the form is also Spirit, Spirit made
manifest. While Taurus often gets a rap for being too possessive, too
materialistic (it is the most fixed and earthy of earth signs), too
concerned with security, in reality Taurus knows that this Earth and
all her children are really a concrete form of Spirit. It is only our
modern culture that has forgotten and denies this truth, and
be-spells us into thinking our material wealth will keep us safe and
happy. For we have forgotten how to see Spirit in everything around
us, lost in the flat Earth illusion that Spirit resides
somewhere in the heavens.
The
truth is, Earth’s life is beautiful! And Spirit walks in beauty.
How can we learn to love Spirit if we have no images and feelings to
connect us to that Great Mystery? The Earth and Taurus give us a
visceral experience of the beauty, peace and majesty of the Unseen
Spirit. Of the creative possibilities of Life.
So
we ask ourselves, how can we collaborate with Mother Gaia to
strengthen the Life She so freely offers us? Because these
years are the most crucial in our lifetime. These are the years when
we either integrate the new life of true freedom, compassion and
community in our world, or we let it fall apart and into more war and
death.
We
are called to a new story of Life. We are called to weave these
energies together for the coming year, to balance our inner feminine
and masculine energies, as well as our outer relationships between
the sexes. We need both men and women to birth a new world, just as
we need a mother and a father to create a child. And to deepen that
metaphor, it is through pleasure and connection that we do create new
life, isn’t it? Later this year, both Venus and Mars will go
retrograde, giving us a chance to renew these energies and refresh
their bond.
While
women have been working on finding our own unique gifts and powers
for some time now, men have been feeling left behind. But this is
changing. I’m seeing men integrate their feminine side in many ways
– planting gardens, taking care of their children, hanging out at
the YMCA and singing together! Taking care of their own health
needs, both at the supermarket and at the gym. Calling out other men
for bad behavior and taking responsibility for past behaviors.
Just
as women have been reconnecting to the ancient goddesses to discover
our lost heritage, men need to rediscover their mythological roots.
The best story I can offer men is that of King Arthur, the Once and
Future King. Arthur is the archetypal King, who protects his land
from death and destruction, who creates a kingdom of peace and
prosperity and who presides over the great quest for men – to
attain the Holy Grail of a deep and spiritual vision of life. Like
all myths and fairy tales, the Arthurian stories help us navigate
through uncertain times.
Guess
what? The Future is NOW!
Let’s
invoke the return of the King, for we need the power, protection and
honor of the masculine intellect to embrace the vision, love and
creativity of the feminine imagination. Just as we need men and women
to stand together to bring about the changes we need to protect our
children’s future.
So
Happy Beltane. If you have a partner, go out and make love in the
fields! Or at least, find a Maypole to dance around.
Buddhist
Wesak Moon
This
Taurus-Scorpio Full Moon is know as the Wesak Moon, celebrating the
Buddha’s
birth, enlightenment and death. This gives us a symbolic picture of
what the Buddha spoke of. Taurus is manifest reality while Scorpio
speaks to the inner realms of desires, feelings and transformation.
It is where we transform our inner feeling realm, letting emotions
that no longer serve us die so we can create energetic space for new
life. Once we get over the illusion that we are only our body and
understand that it houses our Spirit, we are transformed. We no
longer have to fear life. We can live it!
So
go sit under your own private Bodhi Tree, face your demons until they
turn into flowers and die to your old story.
Taurus-Scorpio
Full Moon 2018
This
Scorpio Full Moon occurs on April 29th
at
5:58pm PDT and at 8:58pm EDT. And on April 30th
at
12:58am GMT.
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun at 10* Taurus is: A red
cross nurse. This
is a symbol that consecrates us to all of humanity. The first red
cross nurse, Clair Barton, went out to the battlefields of the
American Civil War, caring for the wounded and dying. This is the
agape love that will go into the darkness of death to help and serve
others. Are you ready to join up?
The
Sabian symbol for the Moon at 10* Scorpio is: A
fellowship supper reunites old comrades.
We’ve
done this before, you know. We’ve all worked to help humanity
before and we’ve come back to do it again in this time of need and
evolution. So find your people and band together, because there’s
work to do.
These
two images bring to mind a program I heard on NPR this morning about
veterans and our role in helping them. We can’t leave it up to the
government to take care of them because the system isn’t working.
It’s up to us to help, so find a way to either help veterans or
some others who need help in your community and get to work making
life better for them.
Out
of
the Uranus-infused Aries New Moon, we come to the Scorpio-Taurus Full
Moon, ready to discover what is blocking our Awakening. A seed
bearing a lightning bolt of energy, the New Moon we planted can give
rise to something new and unexpected. Our ego might struggle with
giving up control, but who really has control with Uranus? With him
we have to learn to expect the unexpected. If we go with the flow of
life energy, which is running high on a springtime flood, we might
find ourselves in a new place, a new energy, a new possibility.
Uranus
is the liberator, the energy that can pull us out of our rut and kick
us into the future. After 7 years in Aries, we’ve hopefully
connected to our archetypal identities to help us answer the Aries
question, who am I?
These
were the years of the Pluto/Uranus waxing square, the one calling us
to the Hero’s Journey. Think back to 2012 and look at our world
now. The old patriarchal paradigm is convulsing in its death throes,
while people
are finally rising up and taking responsibility for their needs and
desires.
The
Parkland survivors are going to bring down the NRA’s powerful hold
on the American government, American teachers are striking
all
over the country, the courts are standing up (for the most part) to
the American President and his corporate cronies and the world is
waking up to the environmental dangers of climate change. And most
importantly, people are acting like citizens rather than consumers.
We will ground in the visionary changes of the 60s, bringing gender
equality, social and racial justice, environmental, food and health
safety and peace to the world. We just have to stand up. And keep
standing up.
That’s
where Chiron comes in. Chiron has been traveling through Pisces from
April 2010 to April 2018, bringing a profound spiritual
transformation to us. As of last week, April 18th,
Chiron moved into Aries (it will return to Pisces for a short stay
from late September 2018 to mid February 2019). While we see Chiron
as the Wounded Healer,
which he has been while in Pisces, we need to remember that before he
was wounded, he was the Mentor of Heroes.
And
that’s what his role in Aries will be. We have to get over our
wounds and turn them into our strengths. Because to change the world,
we will have to stand strong, perhaps suffer and ultimately win
through to a new world order – one that ‘we the
people’ create
rather than our corporate masters. With his mentoring we can develop
wisdom, temperance, courage and justice – Plato’s ideal of human
excellence and a just society.
My
new favorite fantasy writer is Sarah Maas, who creates new
mythologies out of the deep myths of the past. She has created
characters who take a stand against the evils of their world,
fighting against tremendous odds, suffering untold pains and yet
coming through it unconquered. And winning through to a new world of
peace and community. I’m not going to say what we have ahead of us
will be easy, or even pleasant all the time (as we’re already
seeing). But if we hold true to our values (Taurus) and face Death
(Scorpio) with a centered heart, we will come through for ourselves
and our world.
That’s
the message I get from this Scorpio Full Moon. It is square the Nodes
– at the bendings. What this means is that when we can face our own
darkness – you can scream and shout at the pain it causes – and
yet come through it because that is what is
necessary to
accomplish our goals, we will awaken the new Queen and King (Leo
North Node) and establish the Round Table (Aquarius South Node) and
bring new life, new hope and new vision to our world.
Taurus
is the Earth Mother who provides us with the fertility of Spring so
we can prosper as the year turns. Scorpio is the Death Goddess who
takes back what is no longer viable. Life and death are two sides of
the same coin. We are born into this life knowing only one thing for
sure. At its’ end we will die. What we make of the middle is up to
us. Let us burn brightly and do our best to fill it with love,
creativity, art, beauty, truth, justice and honor.
At
this powerful Full Moon, we get to look at ourselves in the mirror of
eternity. Who were we before this lifetime? Who
will
we become
after? What fears hold us in a timeless frozen state that disconnects
us from our soul’s eternal journey? We’ve all been raped and
pillaged, and we’ve all raped and pillaged. We are mirror images of
each other, and yet unique. This is our chance to recreate ourselves
in our soul’s image instead of the world’s image. This is our
chance to meet the world’s needs rather than just our own. This is
our chance to dance with our destiny.
Who
do you want to be in the future? Because Uranus is going to leave
Aries on May 15th,
at the Taurus New Moon, and dip his toes into Taurus for about 6
months before returning
to
check back into
Aries
before settling into
Taurus
from March 6, 2019
to April 26, 2026. Collectively, Uranus in Taurus will see us
developing new innovative ways to live and protect the environment.
Personally, we will develop new ways of relating to our bodies and to
the Earth. We’ll wake our bodies up from their long
patriarchal-induced sleep and even begin to use more of our brain and
DNA.
This
is when we can become the Possible Human,
consciously
evolving with Mother Earth to change course and perhaps even create a
paradise here on Earth.
To
help us awaken to our deep need for renewal and rebirth, Mars and
Pluto joined together on Thursday April 26th,
motivating us toward our new goals and story. Saturn retrograde in
Capricorn trines the Taurus Sun and sextiles the Scorpio Moon,
helping us develop the inner motivation and responsibility to keep
going and change.
Neptune
in Pisces and Jupiter in Scorpio open us to the emotional
intelligence to listen to Spirit and stay in touch with the love and
compassion we need to face our challenges.
Get
excited about the possibilities of life. Don’t linger on the pain
and anger – that just feeds the beast. Imagine! Create! Love! Feel!
That’s what Taurus asks of us.
Walk
in beauty,
Cathy
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Copyright
2018 Cathy Pagano
Rapture
Who knows the mysteries of the poppies
when you look across the red fields,
or hear the sound of long thunder,
then the saving rain.
Everything beautiful,
the solitude of the single body
or sometimes, too, when the body is kissed
on the lips or hands or eyelids tender.
Oh for the pleasure of living in a body.
It may be, it may one day be
this is a world haunted by happiness,
where people finally are loved
in the light of leaves,
the feel of bird wings passing by.
Here it might be that no one wants power.
They don't want more.
And so they are in the forest,
old trees,
or those small but grand.
And when you sleep, rapture, beauty,
may seek you out.
Listen. There is
secret joy,
sweet dreams you may never forget.
How worthy the being
in the human body. If,
when you are there, you see women
wading on the water
and clouds in the valley,
the smell of rain,
or a lotus blossom rises out of round green leaves,
remember there is always something
besides our own misery.
~ Linda Hogan ~
(Rounding the Human Corners)
Who knows the mysteries of the poppies
when you look across the red fields,
or hear the sound of long thunder,
then the saving rain.
Everything beautiful,
the solitude of the single body
or sometimes, too, when the body is kissed
on the lips or hands or eyelids tender.
Oh for the pleasure of living in a body.
It may be, it may one day be
this is a world haunted by happiness,
where people finally are loved
in the light of leaves,
the feel of bird wings passing by.
Here it might be that no one wants power.
They don't want more.
And so they are in the forest,
old trees,
or those small but grand.
And when you sleep, rapture, beauty,
may seek you out.
Listen. There is
secret joy,
sweet dreams you may never forget.
How worthy the being
in the human body. If,
when you are there, you see women
wading on the water
and clouds in the valley,
the smell of rain,
or a lotus blossom rises out of round green leaves,
remember there is always something
besides our own misery.
~ Linda Hogan ~
(Rounding the Human Corners)
