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posted October 18, 2009 04:34 PM         

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New Moon October 18 2009 1:33 am EDT
24:58 Libra Sun and Moon

The Libra New Moon echoes back to the changes in the structure of our life, relationships or partnerships from fall 1982. The New Moon wakes them up and ties those memories with the challenges addressed in 1994 and faced directly in 2001. Now, as Saturn prepares to enter Libra again, 27 years later, to begin a final closing square Saturn dance with Pluto yet again, we face the wrap-up, ending, psychological and integrative step of the process.

All cosmic cycles work in this manner. Think of a growing season. You have a plan. You plant the seeds at the conjunction or beginning of the growing season. You water them, work with them, weed them, prune them, fertilize them during the opening square. You face some tests. They require work. Some of them don't make it ~ eaten by bunnies or deer or aphids.
The plants continue to grow and become their own entities which you can clearly see at the opposition. The corn is now over your head. The zucchini is crawling all over the garden. The tomatoes are weighing down their vines, pulling at the stakes. You harvest the plants as they become ripe from full to closing.

At the closing square you look to see what your garden gave you. You eat the fruit of it. You can even have a party or set up a farm stand to sell your excess. The PHYSICAL work is finished. The PSYCHOLOGICAL work is at hand. The figure out what exactly went on part of the job. You now understand one zucchini plant can make a heck of a lot of zucchini. You write 1) grow less zucchini next year. You noted a crazed raccoon can make short work of a whole section of corn, taking only one bite out of many of ears of corn so you add to your list 2) buy raccoon have-a-heart- traps. You remember the spring peas were a flop as you didn't harvest them in time so they were harder than the bbs for the gun you wished you had to shoot the raccoon when he ate all your corn. You write 3) harvest spring peas promptly.

Such is the time we are at in our lives. Time to evaluate where we've been and where we are going next. Time to look at the past growing seasons (since 1982) and see where you are in the path of your life. Are the structures supporting you? Do they need to change? Do you need to build NEW structures as some of your old ones have fallen to time? It is time to psychologically assess the good, the bad, the middle, the could-be-better and the I-don't-ever-want-to-do-that-again. What do you know now about the garden of your life that you didn't know before?

The journey of Saturn through Virgo has shown you what you are good at and not so good at. We all need improvement. We all are perfect just as and where we are. Those are not mutually exclusive statements even though they might appear to be. We are each plants, planted in a season, growing to be our plant's highest potential, as symbolized by our chart. What does your plant need? We are approaching the astrological winter, symbolized by Pluto in Capricorn. In the garden, it is time to mulch, wrap the rhododendrons, fertilize the lawn to strengthen the grass roots, and plant the bulbs to get ready for the next growing season. What do you need to do in your life to psychologically and emotionally support the wrap up of this growing season and get ready for the next season?

Now as Saturn prepares to go into Libra, the New Moon presages that energy. She asks us to look at our lives and understand them in the bigger context of where we are right now in time and space. It is not the actual mundane information about how much money you have in your bank account or whether you are feeling fat or thin today. It is the where is your soul? What would your SOUL say about who you are? What would your SOUL say about what you are doing with your life?

The Gang of Three in Aquarius, Neptune, Jupiter and Chiron are trine to the New Moon in Libra. Soon the other Libra planets, Mercury, Athena and Venus will move into to trine the Gang too. Ceres has already assessed the production of the garden last year and moved into making an accounting of it with her entry into Scorpio.

The Libra planets trine to the Gang of Three in Aquarius are in a closing trine ~ harvesting mentally the results of the life you've lived to date. Sit and make a list, similar to the garden list above. Too much zucchini, not enough flowers, maybe a butterfly bush next year? What do you need to adjust in the waning days of Saturn in Virgo to get the mix right.

The inconjunct to Uranus in Pisces asks you to make what ever adjustments you need to make. Adjust. Re fashion the vision. Maybe you ARE supposed to be a hot mama cougar instead of a docile doting wife! Perhaps you do recognize the man/ woman of your dreams isn't still the man/ woman of your dreams. Does that mean you don't want him/ her any more? Or can you keep him/her and continue to pursue your dreams in another forum? Or perhaps your job, while once thrilling and interesting, no longer floats your boat. But the money is good..... So you don't want to LEAVE but you don't want to stay. What was the long held dream deferred that is nibbling at the edge of your consciousness? Can you add that to your life and your list for the next garden to come?

It is also a verbal moon. Talk the stuff, the choices, the ideas out with yourself or others. The Sun and Moon square the nodes of destiny. A choice point is upon us. A clear choice with multiple options. You may not know where you want to go but you know you have to choose. You know you have to change.

In the next few weeks, Saturn will move into tropical Libra. We are going to be asked to step up to the plate and PARTNER EQUALLY with our life. That means we have to be responsible for OUR side of the fence and yard. We will have to let the other guy be responsible for THEIR part of the deal. No more fixing. No more apprenticing. Everyone has to pull their own weight. You can HELP them pull their weight but you can't FIX it for them any more. And understanding the distinction is VERY important.

All the Air planets also bring in great ideas of things you want to move toward, add to your life or begin. So start to move toward them. Incorporate more play, more love, more rest, more exercise, more reading, more partnership, more relationship and more, more, more of the things that give you joy in your life. Venus is in charge of the sky for the foreseeable future ~ until October of 2012. Venus rules the heavens!

Or at least six of the more important planets and points in the sky are answering to Venus. Saturn will be in Libra, answering to Venus. Pluto in Capricorn will be answering to Saturn, answering to Libra. Neptune in Aquarius answers to Saturn, answers to Venus. Chiron in Aquarius answers to Saturn, answers to Venus. Jupiter for a couple more months will be in Aquarius, answers to Saturn, answers to Venus. The North Node of Destiny is in Capricorn, answering to Saturn, answers to Venus.

It is about to become all about the love, joy and desire nature of your being. And about the money. Venus rules money. And creativity, music, art and partnership. Venus rules all those things.

Listen to your heart's desire, figure out a way to partner with it and start to move toward it. That is your job now. That is the easy part. Just add a bit of what you love and desire into your life every day. Easy peasy. Just do it. And next, harder by far, listen to what your heart does NOT desire any more and start to move AWAY from that. This is where it can get a bit trickier. Let's make it a bit easier to see the thing you heart does not desire any more...

Suppose you realize you absolutely HATE zucchini now that you've eaten it every day for the last two years because the darn thing took over the garden. Zucchini stewed, zucchini bread, fried zucchini, stuffed zucchini, baked zucchini. ARGH! NO MORE ZUCCHINI! Why are you doing things you hate? If you hate Zucchini why are you eating it? Because it is there? Because it took over your garden? Not a good enough answer. No more zucchini!

Life is too short. Live in the love part of your chart. Support your Venus. Hang out with her. Love her. If your Venus doesn't want any more zucchini, support her in that. Give her other delicious vegetables and wait till she asks for a serving of zucchini again. She might. She might not. But the choice, the CHOICE about eating zucchini or even continuing to GROW zucchini rests in your own hands. It is, after all, your garden.

THE SIGHT OF AN AUTUMN LEAF BRINGS TO A PILGRIM THE SUDDEN REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY OF LIFE AND DEATH

Commentary: 'The Sight of an Autumn Leaf Brings to a Pilgrim the Sudden Revelation of the Mystery of Life and Death' is an image of someone having the ability to see much more in the simple things around them than most people ever notice. A 'Pilgrim' is a traveler, a voyager-someone who's on a journey. Often the 'Pilgrim's' journey is a spiritual trek or a trip to increase the level of experience and understanding. The 'Sudden Revelation of the Mystery of Life and Death' shows that the person on the journey pictured here is able to look at the smallest and sometimes most fleeting things and find layers and layers of meaning that others would probably not ever realize.

Oracle: This Symbol can indicate an insight into something that can change the course of one's life. The 'Autumn Leaf' in this Symbol brings to the 'Pilgrim' the sudden understanding of the cycle of life, death and rebirth. The 'Mystery of Life' seems to unfold before the 'Pilgrim's' inner vision. The 'Pilgrim' can see that the seed has grown into the tree and the tree's leaves have now fallen with the change of the seasons, ready for the new birth in the spring. The 'Autumn Leaf' becomes the composted material that nourishes the new seeds and fosters and nourishes the new growth. Often we go through our lives without noticing the information that can be gained from looking at small or seemingly insignificant things. The 'Revelation' that is experienced can change one's life, if time is taken to stop long enough to really look into it. At this point, you may feel that you've learnt much and grown tired of seeking information for life's meaning through more conventional channels. Look for the answer to your problem in simple, everyday moments. They are fleeting, but they are around you. Look for the signs, they can have profound effects.

Keywords: Seasonal adjustments. Fleeting inspiration. Seeing things in their own time. Spiritual revelations. Conversations with God. Feeling blessed. The beauty and timelessness of nature. Contacts with nature spirits. Angelic visions. Photography and having a photographic mind. Being here now. Pilgrims and their journeys. The Hadj pilgrimage. Solving problems. Quick and deep minds. Snapshots in time.

The Caution: Focusing on things that have no lasting value or are no longer relevant. Looking for answers in everything, therefore missing out on the big picture that's right in front of you. Making a big deal out of insignificant or everyday occurrences.
To see the world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower; Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. Moslih Eddin Saadi

Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life. Andrew Bonar Law

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity. Hal Borland

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Goethe

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. Henry David Thoreau

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From: aspideronmars
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posted October 18, 2009 05:14 PM         

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I moved house in the last 3 days, just in time for this new moon.
My family and I are very happy :-)

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posted October 18, 2009 05:41 PM         

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I love Anne's stuff, but I am so aggravated at how sporadically her column is posted. It was really bugging me yesterday.

And her weeekly weather for this week is still not up. It's never posted at the same time, never.

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posted October 18, 2009 06:38 PM         

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When a new moon happens, do you look to see what planets the moon is triggering in your natal? I'm not sure if this method is significant or not, but the new moon was in my 10th house and exactly trine my natal Venus, I'm hoping it will make things more pleasant.

At the moment, T. Saturn is squaring natal Saturn and Uranus, this is a generation thing, but boy, tests abound have been going on internally. It doesn't help that T. Saturn and Uranus have been exactly squaring natal Venus for the past month or so. These planetary contacts really make me feel so cold and detached and mean, not a good combo if you want to enjoy life, lol!

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posted October 18, 2009 06:41 PM         

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I don't know about these transits. Mars is going through my 7th house now , conjunct Venus and Sun and Mercury. The New Moon is exactly conjunct my natal Moon so my Lunar return just started. I should be feeling great, right? Actually I feel like sleeping! I feel more tired than ever. Last night I slept 10 hours and the night before I slept for 9 hours, I wanted to go out but I didn't feel like it at all.

I don't know, the transits are really hit or miss with me. I mean, I can turn anything into an "it happened because of the transits" story so "?". The only transits I really seem to feel are the Saturn transits and that is prob because of the Aquarius rising. Seriously, stuff comes out of nowhere to challenge me during Saturn transits. I guess ninth house beware!

ETA: Actually, I guess it is interesting that I feel like sleeping since I am an insomniac!

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