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Originally posted by yungang_grotto:
Many of us are quite familiar with Black Moon Lilith as archetype, and energetically, if not astrologically. Some folks might not admit it, but everybody has a Lilith nature. She represents the unapologetic night-time prowler, sexually appetitive and deeply engaged with her passions. Lilith refuses to be dominated. In Christian mythology, she was Adam’s first wife, who was exiled and made, in their stories, into a demon who devoured her own babies after she refused to only have sex with Adam in the missionary position. Shocking, i know. At the time, it was tantamount to sacrilege for a woman to seek out sexual pleasure for herself. It’s becoming more widely accepted but despite our culture’s increasingly “liberal” attitudes there is still much that is taboo in this, for people across the gender spectrum. Adam wasn’t exactly free in his conditioning either, was he? But we are animals; we seek what are essentially innocent animal pleasures… but shame twists them, and the simple yearning for engagement and freedom of expression on this deepest physical level meets with stern disapproval from “correct, civilized” society.. and he yearning goes underground… manifests in darker and darker realms, because of its very banishment, it must seek the shadows… And pretty soon you have the archetypal demon lady devouring her own babies daily and cavorting with demon King, Asmodeus, in the pits of hell.Wouldn’t it have been easier to just let Lilith be on top for a change? Probably would have been more fun for everyone.
Lilith is sometimes said to gave returned to the Garden to visit once more; in the form of the Snake who delivered knowledge to Eve. Sound familiar? Lilith sometimes manifests as the Other Woman, coming to destroy the illusion of perfection and bliss which has been carefully constructed post-banishment. She is the part of our relating sexual selves which we attempt to banish… but she comes to deliver needful knowledge. If this knowledge can be integrated in a healthy way we might become wiser and stronger.
Lilith represents our attitudes towards infidelity; she represents the bucking of taboos, the reclamation of the inner Dark Goddess, our raw passion and embodied sexuality. She is a crucial aspect of a healthy and whole person, and when she is demonized she can wreak havoc on our lives and our relationships. When integrated in a healthy way, she is a powerful ally indeed.
Less of us (in astrological circles) are familiar with Lilith’s counterpart, White Moon Selene. Selene is another calculated point/an ethereal ghost whose position is mathematically derived from the position of the Moon.
She is the dream maiden, benevolent bringer of soft light and eternal enjoyment, dwelling in a mystical realm relatively free of trouble and strife. She is the light-bright, decidedly child-friendly and mythically palatable aspect of the Moon. In myth, Selene, Moon Goddess, fell in love with the sleeping youth/King/shepherd (variously): Endymion. The Gods smiled on their love and granted him eternal life, though the catch is that he must remain asleep. Their tryst goes on even now in the land of dreams; it is a story of enduring love which grants immortality. There is a great deal of beauty and benevolence, wonderful energy in this story. I explore the wonderful aspects of Selene in a previous article (“She Who Giv’st to Nature’s Works Their Destin’d End”).
However, there is a catch, for Selene is not all lovely, just as Lilith is not all bad; the love Selene bestows must have an element of unconsciousness about it. One of the parties, though eternally alive and remaining youthful, must be asleep to the realities of the world around him. We must be willing to lose an aspect of embodied reality for the bliss and eternity Selene would bestow.
If our love is true, and really smiled on by the Gods, this can work out… I guess. If our purity of motive is thorough, Selene’s dream may endure…
Therein lies the potential problem when we’re working with the White Moon. Just as we can not demonize Lilith without encountering serious problems, we can not beatify Selene without encountering equally dire issues. If we are not willing to go whole hog with the work and experience demanded by these deities, they do have sharp edges. I asuppose these edges are part of their wisdom and teachings though, mythologically, astrologically.
When I first started exploring the White Moon, the fact that she is so clearly a juxtaposition of the Black Moon was quite clear to me. We have the ***** (Lilith) and the saint (Selena). Both Moon Goddesses. We have the guttural, sensual ***** , smiling and licking (is that blood??) from her lips, and the incorporeal dream-lady, soft and white, floating in on a cloud over the billowing window-curtains to kiss a kiss so gentle and eternal and feathery… Interestingly, it is the latter image which makes me feel a little like barfing right now…. For it is too-good.
How could either exist without the other? Of course we must blend them; of course they must co-exist.
Small wonder, though, that most astrology these days features so much more Lilith than Selena. Selena is barely a blip. Kali Yugaand all that. We are in the age of Lilith, full tilt. The Dark Goddess holds sway, more and more, for she was repressed and buried far too long. She must reclaim her power; she must prowl the night, she must tear apart the taboos, she must stand resplendent in her pleasure and her majesty, and her work is just beginning… the D
Small wonder, too, that I would become all glossy and dreamy-eyed over White Moon Selena, even though I know Lilith is in fashion. I’m a bit of an iconoclast after all, backwards as they come. And Selene is conjunct my descendant. Maybe I have Venus in the 12th house and Moon conjunct Neptune… And hey, can’t I love her? Of course, it’s allowed. Part of the beauty of Selena is that she teaches us how to embrace the good, how to revel in the beauty of the just-becoming (see flowery article for more on this) and dwell in a realm which is free from the ramifications of the heavy corporeal world with all it’s real-life problems. A sensuality which occurs in the dream realm, one which is ostensibly free from ramifications is, in some ways, just as radical as the enjoyment of a Lilithian sensuality which is rife with taboo and saddled with the condemnation of upright goody-two-shoes society.
How to weave Selena in with our real lives? How to embody and express healthy manifestations of Lilith energy? Excellent questions, and worthy of much in depth exploration for each of us.
I became severed from the essential truth in the course of my exploration of Selena as I wrote that last article, for I became enamored of her without seeing her pitfalls. Many of us will, as we explore the White and Black Moons as archetypes in our lives, fall into similar traps.
We become enamored of the qualities of holy goodness/holy badness and go so deeply into them that we fail to see the importance of balance when we are incorporating their energies. Maybe that’s okay; so much of life is a dance between extremes. These ways of being, these astrological points, can be interpreted as stand-alone entities, but as with anything, if we try too hard and too long to carve out their separateness and define their boundaries so strictly, we actually cut off their oxygen and lose sight of the vitality of their life-force, which comes when we see them as part of an integral whole. White Moon Selena loses her meaning when we don’t have the rest of the chart to tie her into. It is part of her charm, and also part of her ‘shadow’, her downfall, that she wants to be aloof from everything, in a dream world of her own making. So with Lilith, who in exile from Christiandom becomes a monster in their eyes: she isn’t all bad, and can not be exiled and severed from the rest of creation! We must bring these two deeply into the fold in order for them to operate in a healthy way in our charts and in our lives.
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