The Moon and Sun meet at 2:15 PM PDT on the 4th at 12 Scorpio 40, just shy of perfecting an opposition to Uranus in Taurus. We may think Halloween is over, but this set-up screams that a shock, shift, change, accident, revelation, revolution, new understanding, or good old-fashioned scare is slated for the Lunar event. We may simply observe this (the opposition), or we may live it ourselves (likely through the House matters where the NM falls in the natal scenario, or the subjects of the House where Uranus is transiting, or the House it or the Moon rules natally), but either way it will shake us, our world, or it may change our viewpoint in radical or unusual ways.
The New Moon is pulling away from a semi-square to Juno but approaching semi-square to Venus, and that may suggest that empowerment issues, struggles to have our way or for supremacy (especially in partnership), and matters of status that have lately been before us give way or resolve in the face of love and the importance of relationships–but that both aspects are semi-squares tells us that the fresh lens of Venus brings attention to a whole other set of factors: the potentials for jealousy, rivalry, lust, competition, especially for love or resources, and for examination of what assets or talents we do or don’t have.Venus is at 29 degrees, under stress, perhaps acting in ways that feel a little desperate, a little deprived. We are letting go of one set of concerns because we recognize the power and sanctity of love–and then find ourselves in danger of sabotaging the very relationships we care most about, because of our own Venusian weaknesses.
This isn’t the whole picture, of course, but it is a more prominent part of things than the relatively minor aspects involved might first suggest. A New Moon in Scorpio means new starts, but in this sign that can be particularly disruptive to our emotional health; we just naturally want to dig, to excavate whatever captures our emotional attention or stirs feeling at this time, and nothing, not a relationship or a person or an onion, does well having those protective layers of skin peeled away.
The Scorpio New Moon makes only one other close aspect, a quincunx to the Black Moon Lilith point. This says that what arises now may come from discomfort (the quincunx) with those matters we’ve been ignoring, are in denial about, or that have enraged us but haven’t yet been addressed. So, Luna opens the door and shines an ever-growing light on what’s bothering us–and that may manifest through a Uranian event like an accident or a Higher Mind revelation, or may channel into relationship issues. It’s the conscience and its conceptions of right and wrong that are sending and receiving right now, so that the more consciously aware you are of your own motivations and needs, of how honest you’ve been and how much you may have deviated from or stayed within the framework of your ideals, the more adept (and less surprised) you’ll be at handling what comes forward.
We have a very Uranian Sabian Symbol for this New Moon: ‘An Inventor Performs A Laboratory Experiment’. This re-focuses us on the importance of Uranus and Uranian elements in this New Moon equation, and points to a few possible questions you might want to meditate on before the Lunar event: how do you feel about shocks and surprises? do you seek them out, enjoying the charge, or do you hate them and the disorienting feeling they convey? do you insist on having control (or that you are in control) and find it offensive when others/ the Universe point out there’s no such thing? how do you really feel about change? do you see it as a catastrophe or a chance to escape? There are two keys in this symbol, ‘Inventor’ and ‘Experiment’, and these offer us a good way to approach this New Moon. We are natural inventors–seeing ourselves that way should show us how much power and creativity we actually carry within–and we are in the midst of one enormous experiment–and that means nothing is certain. All we can do is respond to what comes at us, to what we create, to what’s drawn to us, with the greatest capacity for understanding, and the ability to invent and innovate, that’s most uniquely suited to who we are.
I looked up the Sabian for Uranus, thinking it might give us more detail about what Uranian thing we might expect, and it didn’t disappoint: ‘A Porter Carrying Heavy Baggage’. This points us toward the trigger of all those Black Moon Lilith things we’ve stuffed down into the dark. What we’ve been trying to out run or hide, our baggage, may become too heavy for that part of ourselves we’ve assigned to haul it around. Wouldn’t it be better to drop that stuff off, for good? This New Moon might be the chance to do just that.
A note about Ceres, Chiron, and Pallas at 9 degrees of their respective signs, which would seem to put them in generous orb to the New Moon: you know I’m careful about drawing as precise a Lunar picture as I can be; in this case, these placements, you’ll notice, are all past aspects, indicating the Moon’s contacts prior to meeting the Sun. Since these all occurred in the Dark of the Moon period, I suspect they’re hidden in our own personal dark, carried in the Lunar event but not actively informing it. So, that would say that wisdom, personal power situations, and hurt all affect what happens–they shape it, rather than drive it, intimations of what’s coming like whispers that precede a shout, that you’ll probably ‘hear’ on the 3rd.
Thanks Julie, with Neptune between 8 & 9′ Scorpio 1st house and my natal moon at 15 Libra 12th house, open being a tiny inspiration in some way that I am different, or being inspired by another equally in what way they are different.Because I do believe, that through our differences coming together we will find a better way and outcome, than continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting a different result can ever provide.
Absolutely–I agree that being inspired by others, and working together, are really the only way to get things done🙂
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Thank you for being a channel of inspiration Julie!
Thank you, Debbie!
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Another question, in case you are able to help yourself or are able to direct me to another respectable astrologer, I simply feel it is a good idea to grasp a better understanding of the Vertex point. The Full Moon in Taurus, following this New Moon in Scorpio is conjunct my Vertex point in Taurus and although I dont want to get too far ahead of myself, I do feel the need to prepare to be aware of it being briefly activated and make the opportunity.
How would you feel if I addressed the Vertex in a short article, and used your chart contact as an example? If you’re not comfortable with that, I can just do something theoretical. I would talk only about the upcoming Full Moon (which is an eclipse!) as it contacts your Vertex, what a Vertex is, what kind of things can be triggered when it’s hit by transiting events. If you’d like me to do that, just include your birth data in an answering comment–I prefer to comment based on a look at the whole chart, but will keep your stats and chart private–and then give me a little time to write it all up. If you’re not okay with that, I’ll still do something general, maybe with other examples. Thanks for the topic suggestion, Debbie!
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That would be great Julie, it seems to be one of those elusive points that we dont seem destined to work with, rather it seems destined to work with us if we pay attention and we all have one so if it may be of interetst to others or help other to grasp this intriguing axis point or at least an idea of it, then most certainly, I am willing to oblige.
Excellent! Thank you so much for your trust, Debbie. I know others will benefit as well from discussion of both this coming eclipse and the Vertex as a part of the natal picture.
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PS, Just so you can be assured, that was not a hasty reply, I intuitively “just know” I can trust you to protect my privacy and as a Cancerian Sun, that means the world to me 🙂
What a beautiful thought–thank you! I’d put a line of heart emojis, if I only knew how to do that!! 🙂
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