NEW MOON at 19 Scorpio 01
November 11, 12:47pm EST, 9:47am PST, 5:47pm GMT
Image: Grandmother Mabel looking up at Orion. Photo from She Sings to the Stars, an extraordinary indie film with several kinds of magic.
Showing this month at the Red Nation Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Watch the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpB4fR74NcY
and then watch for it coming your way: www.shesingstothestars.com
(Wow, it’s November!! Time for annual COSMIC NEWS contributions request. I do appreciate your support. See link on right of this page.)
THE MOON makes a series of positive planetary connections leading up to this new lunar cycle. MERCURY closely accompanies this SCORPIO NEW MOON, indicating deep considerations and research over the next two weeks of the waxing moon. Some of the best insights come from dreams and spiritual realms, with healing import. Think of a snake shedding its outworn skin. Be gentle, we can’t force the process. As we share our perceptions we find common ground beyond manmade boundaries. Universal truths prevail.
SCORPIO is a oft misunderstood and much maligned sign. It’s depth and intensity is daunting for many (including some Scorpios), and its water sign sensitivity is not always appreciated. Scorpio feels into the depths. An all-or-nothing tendency may reject certain things immediately as being non-meaningful or mis-timed. Sometimes we are just not ready to take something in or to handle the implications of what we do. When Scorpio does let something or someone in, s/he can be whole-hearted about it, plunging in all the way like a deep sea diver. A rule of diving is that you resurface slowly. Otherwise you get “the bends,” or decompressions sickness, in which dissolved gases create bubbles in the body system that create dangerous symptoms and can be lethal. We learn to rise from the depths slowly, pausing as needed before ascending to the surface.
MARS is one ruler of Scorpio, presently perched on the edge of Virgo-Libra, evoking the open-eyed justice of Maat, Goddess of divine harmony and universal truth. The Virgo High Priestess holds the Scales of Libra, weighing her Feather of Truth with the heart and soul. What is your truth? Moving into Libra on the day after this New Moon, we seek peace and balance. As we engage in dialogue, some folks will be pushing, maneuvering for their agendas, often hidden. Some negotiate with good faith.
Recall the famous Biblical story of wise King Solomon? When confronted by two women claiming a babe as her own, he suggested cutting the child in half. Of course the true mother was aghast, willing to give up the child rather than see it killed. That’s one way of ferreting out the truth. We need such wise ones. As we head into December, Mars moves into alignment with major change makers Uranus and Pluto, for an “interesting” and potentially volatile holiday season. More to come on that. Who decides the “right” and “wrong” of any situation?
PLUTO is the other ruler of Scorpio. Naturally, the god of death and rebirth rules this insider sign of underworld experience, deep psychological perception and subatomic processes. How good to see that heart formation on the new iconic photo from the recent visit to Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft. It’s reassuring to know that Pluto has a heart!
Wise Woman Master Astrologer, Marguerite Dar Boggia offers free summaries of various esoteric teachings (see below*), which I have been receiving for years. She sends these insights about Pluto from the esoteric astrology of the Tibetan Master, D.K., to help our understanding:
“Pluto, as one of the rulers of Scorpio, signifies the death of the personality, and the birth of the soul. Then there is regeneration. Pluto is not to be feared. It signifies CHANGE. It works with the soul. It is the death of what is old in order to make way for the new. We must embrace the new with JOY. The Tibetan Master says BE JOYOUS.”
I like that “be joyous” reminder! Here in the small State of Vermont, tucked up next to Canada in the northeast U.S., we’ve had a fairly spectacular leaf-peeping season. We enjoy the brightly-colored, yet dying leaves, falling, sometimes quietly with a hushed whisper, but more often blown and dancing in the refreshing winds that augur colder weather and darker nights. It is timely. So is the dry and flakey scratch when gathering them for garden mulch. The leaves are just about all down now, colors muted toward November’s golds and grays. The sky is all the crisper and clearer in the northern hemisphere, even as the spring brings the fresh greens “down under” to the southerly latitudes.
What more messages are blowing in these winds of seasonal change? The New Moon is in harmonious cahoots with CHIRON, encouraging us to let go of feelings that, dying like those dried up leaves dropping from autumn’s trees, are ready for release.
SATURN, now in Sagittarius, is making steady progress toward a “burst the bubble” square with NEPTUNE. Some of our cherished illusions will be hit by the reality check of Saturn’s slingshot. This strengthening dynamic is a tough one, and one that is especially challenging for people born in 1959-63, 1971, 1942-43, 1982, having a Saturn return (ages 29-30, 58-59, 89-90), and assorted others. Aren’t we all feeling an underlying level of anxiety creep up if we are not vigilant? Aren’t we all experiencing some level of life being unreal, as if we are sometimes “looking through a glass darkly”? Our vision of what is possible knocks up against the current situation. We are challenged to maneuver around old systems or transform them, re-empowering our lives.
Let’s check the Sabian Symbol for this New Moon. At 19 degrees 01 minutes, it is officially into the 20th degree, as we always round up. Let’s use both 19 and 20 to get a sense of this degree threshold (using Lynda Hill’s The Sabian Symbols as an Oracle), remembering that 20 is the one to focus on:
19—A PARROT LISTENING AND THEN TALKING, REPEATS A CONVERSATION HE HAS OVERHEARD
Rumors and gossip abound. We can’t believe everything we hear and should check sources before passing on information. Some tale bearers are speaking for behind-the-scenes controllers. On the other hand, messages can come through many agencies. Birds are one of the most spiritual. If we keep hearing the same message repeated from many directions, we tend to get the idea that we need to listen! Synchronicities and serendipities drip from the heavens. Information is coming from many sources and perspectives, especially LILITH. Here she comes:
20—A WOMAN DRAWING ASIDE TWO DARK CURTAINS THAT CLOSED THE ENTRANCE TO A SACRED PATHWAY
Mysteries are revealed if you are willing to look behind the veils, give up some cherished illusions and let those resistances dissolve in the face of something more meaningful. It is a joy to move into a greater spiritual relationship with the All That Is. Fear melts away as we see a more attractive light of possibility. Many of us are fluidly aligning with the guidance of this feminine consciousness, which represents a paradigmatic shift that has been slowing tipping into balance with Maat’s Feather of Truth.
Yes, primordial Lilith is present to pull those veils apart for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear and, most important, a heart that loves. This particular tipping point is further indicated the imminent shift of the Nodes of the Moon, the collective destiny points, from Libra back into Virgo even as Mars activates this point, fresh from a love-wisdom rendezvous with Venus and Jupiter.
VENUS in Libra is in her most gracious sign, on the North Node, along with Black Moon Lilith. This is the call of destiny. There is an emotional tone that is potentially uplifting. Can we open to what is lifting us without losing our grounding? This extraordinary, non-ordinary quality of feminine essence and wisdom transmission is infused into our lives if we are listening and willing. What bird is showing up on your tree?
In my current class, “Lilith in Four Octaves,” we are discussing the various levels of cosmic Lilith: Asteroid, Dark “Shadow” Moon, Black Moon and Star Algol. Our recent discussion of the Asteroid Lilith, #1181, was revealing. First by numerology. Its number tells its order in the discovery chain of now over 20,000 rocky bits of asteroids. 1181 is an 11. I love that this New Moon is on 11-11! Eleven reduces to 2. In Tarot these are the Justice and High Priestess cards, finely tuned in for this New Moon with the themes we have discussed so far: Maat with her Feather of Truth that balances Cosmic Justice, and the mysterious woman, the High Priestess, Lilith, pulling back the curtains. All these mythic weavings are thrilling!
Asteroid Lilith is now in Sagittarius, consorting with Saturn. Witness recent election results and Obama’s veto of the controversial Keystone project to see how Asteroid Lilith is showing up in various ways challenging to the status quo, as Asteroid Lilith will be. Perhaps you have your own personal or neighborhood version of controversial issues, breaking the glass ceiling, gender questions, etc.
To be inspired by Asteroid Lilith, may I suggest some music? The asteroid was named for Marie-Juliette “Lili” Boulanger, whose nickname references her interest in Lilith, at a popularity peak in the 1890’s as she is today. Lili Boulanger was a musical genius, a young woman who broke that glass ceiling that kept women out of the serious music world at that time. Her extraordinary compositions were way beyond any of the competition when she became the first woman to win the prestigious first prize in the high level Prix de Rome competition. She left an amazing musical legacy before she died at age 24. If you are interested to learn more about her life, here is an excellent piece, with lots of links to her music:
Many of her pieces are choral pieces. My first favorite is
Les Sirenes, a song of seductive mermaids:
Music and the arts go along with the Black Moon/Venus in aesthetic Libra under this New Moon, as a fount of renewal, uplifting inspiration and joy.
LET US ALL SING TO THE STARS!
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*Marguerite Dar Boggia freely shares such Ageless Wisdom Teachings in weekly emailed pages about our relation to the universe, the etheric, astral and causal bodies, sacred geometry and more. A new series is starting on Nov.18th, but you can sign up anytime. If you are interested, contact her at www.FreePythagorasTeachings.com.
