Seeing Stars with Mark 13 - 19 February 2010
Dear Friends,
We open the new week with a New Moon at 25′17″ Aquarius conjunct Neptune and Chiron. This is potent stuff, for sure! Neptune, Chiron, and Jupiter were conjunct from March 2009 through January 2010 in the sign of Aquarius. Chiron is the mythical Wounded Healer: Chiron represents the psychic wound which we allow to make us feel separate from the rest of humanity. Ironically, it is also the capacity for healing through that same unique experience. Our greatest weakness is, in fact, our greatest strength. Learning how Chiron works in our charts is a crucial step to bringing more joy and connectedness into our lives. Neptune represents dreams, illusions, delusions, creativity, and outright deception. Neptune is an energy which dissolves boundaries: I always envision a huge bank of fog enveloping the landscape when I think of Neptune. Outlines are distorted, shapes are exaggerated, clarity is diminished. If the boundaries we have are rigid and not able to flow with the change required by the times, then Neptune can be a liberating force, dissolving the restrictions and allowing for more movement and for creativity to flourish. However, if we insist on believing that what we see in the fog is real, then we may find ourselves deceived once the fog recedes.
With Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune all conjunct in Aquarius for practically the past year, we have had an opportunity for great healing to happen in the Aquarius ruled house of our charts. Jupiter expands whatever it touches, so whatever liberation and healing was promised by Neptune sitting with Chiron was only magnified by Jupiter. Of course, there is always the chance that the opposite has happened. Perhaps rather than face illusions and wounds, we have retreated further into them. We all know people who are not happy unless they are miserable. Well, this influence could be making them much more “happy,” as their wounds get deeper and they refuse to face the reality of their situations. Jupiter has moved on into the sign of Pisces, where he is conjunct Venus at this New Moon, bringing either more love and healing energy reconnecting us to the divine, or more illusions and a need to hide from reality. As always, every coin has two sides.
Aquarius is the sign of humanity, of friendship, of dreams. Aquarius is the sign where each unique individual is accepted in to the larger family of man. Yes, we are all unique, we are all special. We are also One. No one person, no one thing, is more divine that any other. This is the message of Avatar, and the popularity of this movie is no surprise, given the astrology of its release. I told the folks at the Zodiac Lounge last night that we are all ants in the same hill, no matter how much money, prestige, or power we allow to delude ourselves otherwise. Aquarius is the sign where our differences cease to matter. We are all one in Aquarius, and this is the lesson we will learn as we move deeper into the Age of Aquarius. Neptune could dissolve whatever boundaries (Chiron wounding) have been preventing us from accepting our connectedness, and our unique capacities and talents (Chiron healing) could be just the ticket to help us realize that we ARE an important - even crucial - link, as is everyone else. This idea wont appeal to everyone. Some people believe they are better than others. This will also be a time when this illusion can be made more manifest: think Tea Party politics. Aquarius can also represent a detachment or a division from the whole, and those who cannot accept being just another ant will delude themselves into thinking that they are better than or above everyone else. Its okay, let them. Ultimately, this delusion wont sustain itself as society continues to evolve, and eventually they will learn finally their lessons, too.
The traditional ruler of Aquarius is Saturn and the modern ruler is Uranus. Well, people who read my column regularly know that Saturn and Uranus are opposing each other right now, and have been for 2 years. Saturn represents the status quo and Uranus represents an upgrade to outmoded systems. Well, we are all receiving an upgrade whether we want it or not, so we might as well embrace it! This New Moon is going to upgrade our software (our understanding of life) and bring us into the new millennium! We are, each and everyone of us, the same as everyone else. Money, houses, and jobs are all just things… and many of us had to loose these things in order to learn that lesson. Some of us got to keep these things so that we would be there to help those who lost. Those who lost today will be the helpers tomorrow and vice versa. No one is exempt from this lesson. Learn it now or learn it a harder way later. As always, the choice is ours. Saturn is also being squared by Pluto right now, demanding that we take responsibility for our selves, our own healing, and our own choices.
Aquarius is an air sign, therefore much of this change is conceptual. It is happening between our ears, and in our hearts, as well, as Mars (the ruler of action) is retrograde in Leo and configured as an apex of a yod with the sextile of Pluto to Jupiter. No need to get into all of that! It is enough, I believe, to set your intentions on this New Moon to break down the emotional and psychic barriers that we believe prevent us from embracing our larger role in humanity. There are other things happening in the sky, too, but really, how much info can you digest in one sitting?
The most important thing to remember is that we are all one in this world, and that no matter how much of an outsider you think you are, you are just one of the gang. Use your talents and resources to help your fellow man, and see how giving and sharing can result in acceptance and love. Easy breezy!
As Niecy Nash always says on my favorite show Clean House, when your hand is open to give, it is open to receive.
With love
m
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