New Moons are times of new beginnings, planting seeds and setting intentions. Leo has rulership over the heart, spine and blood. This New Moon awakens our spirit and courage to listen to our hearts. The word ‘courage’ comes from the Latin word for the heart, Cor, which literally means ‘to take heart’. In the words of mythologist Joseph Campbell “Follow your Bliss” or heart. Leo is associated with creativity, self-expression, love and romance. Like all fire signs Leo enjoys having lots of fun, laughter and a good time.
Since Leo is ruled by the Sun they need to shine, to show off and most of all they need to feel special. This is one of the best New Moons to look for love and romance. However, it’s important that you set intentions to which you love and how you want to be loved? We need to bless those who challenge us to love more fully, for they are great teachers who show us when we are open hearted or close hearted. The Sufi’s tell us the greatest remorse we can ever experience is love unexpressed. When you keep your heart locked, closed, over protected, you can never free yourself from the cocoon and enjoy the freedom of the butterfly.
My favorite Solar myths for the Leo archetype are the Arthurian Grail legends, which are essentially stories of wounding and healing. The story of Parsifal and the wounded king who is wounded in the groin (this is before viagra) and the kingdom becomes barren and nothing is allowed to grow. It’s not until Parsifal (inner fool) goes on a quest to discover a magical vessel of healing and plenty- the Grail. The king is not a king, who has been injured and recovering, he is the ‘wounded king”. This is an identity of loss and disempowerment.
The healing finally takes place through the asking of a question, which sets into motion not only the healing of the king, but also the land. The quest for the grail is really about a quest for healing, renewal and recovery. In the words of the coyote trickster astrologer Caroline Casey, at the heart of all great cultures is the heroic task to restore the healing waters of life. Remember, that a myth is something that never happened, but is always happening!
This New Moon illuminates the opposition to the triple conjunction between Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius. We are called on to open our hearts to serve others rather than just ourselves through cooperative, community and collective participation. To exercise our personal will (Leo) for the good of others and the world (Aquarius). This New Moon is the fourth of five ‘Crisis Moons’ this year, when the Moon is at its (perigee) closest to the earth. The degree for this New Moon from Zodiacal Symbology reads: A stream of oil falling from mid-air upon the troubled waters beneath. Denotes one with a peculiar magnetic aura enables him to bring quarreling units to a peaceful union. It is a symbol of Conciliation.
The Sun makes its ingress into Virgo on the 22nd, which affords us the new opportunity to open our celestial toolbox and put our creativity, inspiration and heart into our work. The Sufi Mystic Rumi says it best “Let what you love be what you do”. Mars squares Mercury in Cancer/Libra respectively on the 25th denote your mind and mouth are moving to fast to consider the wounding of what to say to others. Killing me softly with your words! Think twice before speaking. Mercury goes retrograde in Libra on the 6th. Time to review, reflect and reassess your relationship commitments. New information will be revealed as Mercury moves forward on the 29th.
Pluto packs his punch on September 11th (yikes) as he makes his station at 0 degree (critical degree) of Capricorn. Pluto stations are extremely powerful as the first World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing both occurred during a Pluto station. On a personal level Pluto can lend power to whatever it touches, or it can devour or disempower. Pluto tears things down to build them back up stronger than before. Pluto in Capricorn (Corporations, Big Business) we are witnessing the death (Pluto) of corporate capitalism as we have know it in the past. We cannot avoid using power, so let us learn to love more powerfully!
On September 15th Saturn and Uranus make their third out of five exact oppositions between these heavy hitters. Here we have the old clashes with the new, tradition versus change, conservative versus progressive. We can see the intense polarization every day on the evening news especially around issue of health care reform. Major insurance companies and big Pharma have funded right wing extremist (Tea Bagers, Birthers) to disrupt sincere discussion about health care reform at town hall meetings. These tactics mirrors the Nazi’s brown shirts that disrupted town hall meetings at beer gardens in Germany back in the 1930’s.
The encouraging news that was announced today is the AFL-CIO union groups has promised to directly to engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town hall meetings during the August recess. The vote is expected on September 15th, which is of course the day of the exact opposition between Saturn (conservative) and Uranus (progressive). A big time donnybrook smack down between conservative groups and unions should make for an August full of fireworks.
By Larry Williamson
References:
Caroline Casey
Angeles Arrian
Are you willing to be sponged out, erased,
Made nothing, Dipped into oblivion?
If not, you will never change.
D.H. Lawrence
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