I covered today’s New Moon in detail, providing a reading for each of the 12 signs, in this week’s edition of Planet Waves, which we published Friday. For instant access, become a Planet Waves member. Here are additional options. There are many benefits of membership.
The Moon and Sun form a conjunction in the sign Cancer Monday at 3:14:18 am EDT. This is the one Cancer New Moon for 2013. The grouping of planets in Cancer around the New Moon includes retrograde Mercury and an exact-to-the-degree conjunction of the asteroid Atlantis with the Sun and the Moon.
Atlantis is a persistent myth, and it takes many forms. We usually think of it as the ‘lost continent’ or the ‘lost civilization’, the one that fell for a reason — generally assumed to be some version of its own misdeeds. There are a lot of versions of the story.
My personal favorite is told by J.R.R. Tolkien, of which (in case you’re curious) I happened to find a full audio reading on the Internet. It’s called Akallabeth: The Downfall of Numenor and it lasts for about 90 minutes.
This is just one telling of an event that’s part of a cycle of myths that have many names and all share similar themes.
The reason the Atlantis cycle of stories is such a powerful one for our time in history is that anyone with a shred of intelligence wonders, at least occasionally, if our society or our current world is the next Atlantis. Are we doing ourselves in with our toxic diets, wars, toxic waste, global warming, wars, disasters, nuclear waste, wars, famines, wars and (most of all) our obsessions with materialism, technology and diversion? And wars?
What about the economic situation that holds this all in place, so deeply entrenched in militarism? How are we going to break free of that one?