The
Cosmic Story: The Libra New Moon
Imagining
a Balanced World
Susan Seddon Boulet
The
chaos and disruption of ‘regular’ life in America has never been
so great in my lifetime. Even the 60s didn’t feel this tumultuous,
but then again, I was in my teens and I can’t vouch for how my
parents experienced it. What I felt was excitement from the music,
the culture, the protests. It was our first wakeup call to an
exciting new vision of unity and love (the very promise of
Christianity), Now as an elder, I see what makes this chaos
different – it’s the despair in people’s heart and minds about
surviving and thriving. But that earlier vision of living an
awakened life has also taken root in places all over the world and
now it’s time to strengthen that vision deep within our collective
psyche. Our whole culture – our whole world – has to unite and
heal Mother Earth. Until we do unite, our leaders will continue to
play at war and power and greed.
We
unite by stepping forward.
The
hippies grew up in a time of peace and prosperity after WWII and
stepped into an adventure as they went out into the world and found
their new tribes. This was the birth phase of the Uranus-Pluto cycle
that began in 1965-66. We’ve just undergone 3 years (2012-2015)
and 7 squares between these planets of awakening and transformation
and our journey is different. Our task is to make those ideals that
our country was founded on a reality. The only way to do it is
through an awakened citizenry. Perhaps if Americans actually work
together on our problems, coming from opposite sides but willing to
negotiate, the US would make more progress with its diplomacy. How
can we tell other countries how to behave if we do not live up to our
own ideals?
We
can’t until we ARE
a true example of democracy and peace. And that’s where an engaged
and enlightened citizenry comes in. Each of us has to engage in our
world. Wherever we see a need, if we’re balanced we can step in
and help re-assert the proper balance.
“As
Above, So Below. As Within, So Without.” Come into balance
yourself and that vibration will extend out into your family, work
and community.
Libra
New Moon 2017
This
Libra New Moon occurs on October 19, 2017 at 12:11pm PDT/ 3:11pm
EDT/ 7:11pm GMT.
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 27* Libra is: An
airplane sails, high in the clear sky.
Dane
Rudhyar1
states that this symbolizes “a
consciousness able to transcend the conflicts and pressures of the
personal life.” This
symbol evokes our ability to take an objective view of ourselves and
the world,
looking at our lives from a higher perspective, creating unity within
the polarity. This is the alchemical ‘union
of opposites’ which
gives rise to the
Self.
The
original union
of opposites
was and still is the union of feminine
and masculine energies.
We need and deserve equality between the sexes, but we also have to
learn to give equal value to both types of consciousness – our
feminine imaginal brain and our masculine rational brain. They
each have a different function, and when they work together, they
create brilliance! This is what has put our culture out of balance –
the fact that our feminine wisdom is disregarded, used and abused.
But this New Moon in Libra can change all of that.
While
the Libra New Moon makes contact with Saturn, the Nodes and Chiron,
(as well as Jupiter and Mercury in early Scorpio), the most important
connection it makes is to Uranus and Eris, exactly opposing it from
Aries. Aries and Libra are concerned with Self/Aries and
Other/Libra, one of our primary oppositions. Jung felt that our
whole world is built on the energy of opposites. But remember,
opposing doesn’t necessarily mean fighting and refusing the
connection. Opposing means to complement each other, to share our
talents in a synergistic way, just as women and men, night and day,
heaven and Earth compliment each other and make life more
interesting, fruitful and fulfilling. It is good to remember that
these planetary energies will work best
when working together.
Uranus
and Eris have been working together for a while now. Eris symbolizes
the Goddess of Discord and we’re certainly experiencing that. But
discord
means against
(dis) the heart (cour).
We are in the midst of discord because we are going against
our own hearts.
Uranus in Aries has been waking us up to our destiny, which is
Aries’ special task. Who am I? Once I know who I am, I’ll also
know what I’m here on Earth to do. Together, their energies will
shake up our world, entwined to keep us centered in our hearts as we
awaken.
Uranus
symbolizes the higher mind, one that is shaped by the archetypal
powers of life, the cosmic
laws
of life and death and rebirth. Uranus breaks us out of patriarchal
thinking, out of our collection sleepwalk through our corporate
culture. Uranus can inspire us to brilliance or when we ignore him,
shake us out of complacency by big surprises. What Uranus
contributes to this Libra New Moon is fresh ideas, the breakdown of
habitual patterns of relationship and the
courage to face the truth in our relationships.
So
what energies do they bring to this New Moon birth?
The
Sabian symbol for Eris at 24* Aries is: Blown
inward by the wind, the curtains of an open window take the shape of
a cornucopia.
The
Sabian symbol for Uranus at 27* Aries is: Through
imagination, a lost opportunity is regained.
Both
symbols speak to the magic ingredient of this powerful New Moon—the
creative imagination.
In the first symbol, our imagination ‘sees’ abundance in the
shape of the wind’s dance with a curtain. How do we value
abundance? In the second symbol, the creative imagination has become
a tool for self-growth and spiritual enlightenment. What possibility
are you called to?
I’ve
worked with the imagination for over 30 years and know its power to
create positive change in life. Yes, it can be used as the patriarchy uses it for personal profit.
But its true purpose is to help us understand and live life fully, as
both spirit and matter. It is our connection to Wisdom, the wisdom
of the Heart. This is the purpose of Jungian active imagination,
creative visualizations and shamanic journeying – accessing our own
wisdom.
We
have to learn how to consciously connect to the creative imagination
to ask for wisdom and guidance, until we re-member
our instincts and know their purpose. Patriarchal religions shame
our bodies and our instincts, devalues the body and its needs as
sinful, and demand that we reach for some heavenly perfection. Since
we never will, it keeps us constant sinners. It turned our
imaginations to negative
thinking: to
worry rather than creativity, to fear rather than hope, to confusion
rather than vision. Uranus will shock us to wake us up if need be.
It’s up to you how you meet him.
Imagination
is how we connect to the quantum field.
This
is what three lovers of Wisdom say about the Imagination.
I
do not know what bounds may be placed on the power of the
imagination. It can heal the body, reveal the secrets of divine
truth, transform the personality, incarnate God, and open up worlds
of infinite diversity and potential.
Jeffrey
Raff, Jung
and the Alchemical Imagination
The
imagination is, therefore, not a source of deception and delusion,
but a capacity to sense what you do not know, to intuit what you
cannot understand, to be more than you can know. William Irwin
Thompson, Gaia,
A Way of Knowing
Albert
Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
With
the return of the Goddess, women are remembering our direct
connection to spirit through the body and through the imagination,
for the Goddess’ purpose is to incarnate Spirit – to know the
spirit in matter. And that’s women’s gift to the world. Our
Wisdom and Vision. Just as we need and have developed masculine
traits such as rationality, focus, discipline, will.
Balance
is THE keyword for the sign of Libra, whose symbol is a Scale. A
scale measures and weighs things and is one important tool of
exchange, for how can we truly know how to balance things out?
Whether we speak of human partnerships or human/animal partnerships
or human/Earth partnerships, what is the correct balance?
One
thing is sure. The Scales demand our whole weight—our truth—to
balance out. In ancient Egypt, the Scales were sacred to Ma’at,
the Goddess of Truth. After death, Egyptians believed that we are
judged—by ourselves. The heart of the deceased is placed on the
Scale of Ma’at and the balance is a feather. The only thing that
will balance that feather is the Truth, the truth of who we are.
America
is a nation of laws, a system of checks and balances. We as a people
have to own up to some discipline and find our own inner checks and
balances. Yes, a person of a particular faith can believe that life
begins at conception, but that is only his belief. Shouldn’t we,
as a nation, create laws that allow for other people their beliefs?
Isn’t that what freedom means? Pro-lifers don’t have to use
contraception or get abortions – nobody is forcing them too. Why
do they need to enforce their beliefs on others? That is imbalanced.
Don’t
we need laws that are wide enough to accommodate many beliefs without
hurting the common good (which we don’t have now with our crazy gun
laws), and let our free will choose which course to take? If
pro-lifers think early abortions or even using contraception is
murder, why do they send their sons and daughters off to war to kill
and be killed? Killing is murder, however you want to spin it. If
they lived their beliefs, they would be pro-peace and life. This is
the self-discipline and awareness we have to bring to bare on our
beliefs. Many people are hypocrites, living contradictions, because
they don’t live the beliefs that they want others to follow.
Now
that Jupiter is in Scorpio, we’ll get to the bottom of that
religious contradiction. With Jupiter
and Mercury close to this New Moon
in the sign of secrets, diving deep and psychological renewal, don’t
be afraid to look at some hard and fast truths about yourself and
others. What you do with these truths is up to you.
Uranus
and Eris want this new balance to include individual freedom, both in
our communities and in our partnerships. We don’t own each other –
we’re not possessions. We are free to follow our convictions –
or we should be. But we’re still at the very bottom of the barrel
of patriarchy, so we’re seeing the worst, and yet, once the wound
is lanced, we have a chance to heal. While we have a President who
has molested women, it wasn’t until last week’s Harvey Weinstein
revelations (reported on the day that Jupiter went into Scorpio, the
sign of sex, secrets and scandals), that women are taking a united
public stand against these kinds of male predators. Women are and
have been raped and pillaged right along with Mother Earth and have
been second
class citizens for
thousands of years. It is time to balance
the scales. Especially
if we’re going to deal with our environmental and social crisis.
We need both types of knowledge and wisdom to heal our world. If we
listened to the grandmothers and water protectors, if we listen to
the women peacemakers, if we listened. If we listen…
To
avoid unconscious hypocrisy, we need to develop the self-discipline
to use this New Moon’s objective perspective to live out our
beliefs. That’s where Saturn in Sagittarius comes in, forming a
waning sextile with this New Moon, opening up opportunities to
exercise that discipline. Along with Black Moon Lilith, Saturn is
moving over the Galactic Center. As the base note of our chakra
system, this signals a time when we complete the shift to a higher
vibration. Aligned with the Leo North Node and Uranus and Eris in
Aries, Saturn can focus the fire energies generated by this grand
trine into cosmic creativity.
In
personal relationships, be true to yourself! State your desires so
that you and your partner can have different opinions and yet create
win-win situations. That’s what makes partnerships vibrant and
exciting. The Scale is always in movement, striving to create that
one perfect moment of balance. So ride the wind with wings
outspread: balance yourself and you can create that balance with
anyone else.
Libra
being an air sign, it’s associated with thinking, socializing,
communicating, as well as justice, beauty and the arts. Venus, the
ruler of Libra, is in Libra, drawing our thoughts down into our heart
chakras to see if we are being true to ourselves and open to the
other person. Venus wants to bring harmony and balance, beauty and
fairness to relationships. Meanwhile, she’s dancing with Ceres in
Leo, Pallas in Taurus, and Juno/Pluto in Capricorn, making it a
fruitful time to begin creating and embodying the
changes that
you want
to
bring to the culture. We need you!
So
open up to your feminine wisdom and ask how to do it! You’ll be
surprised at what you learn. The truth will set you free.
Walk
in the Light and Dark,
Cathy
1.
Dane Rudhyar, An
Astrological Mandala,
Vintage Books, 1973.
Burnt
Norton (excerpt) -- T.S. Eliot
At the still point of the turning world.
Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards;
at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered.
Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline.
Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance,
and there is only the dance.
~ T.S. Eliot ~
(excerpt from Burnt Norton, The Four Quartets)
At the still point of the turning world.
Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards;
at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered.
Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline.
Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance,
and there is only the dance.
~ T.S. Eliot ~
(excerpt from Burnt Norton, The Four Quartets)
