by Len Wallick
Verge – the point beyond which something happens or begins, a boundary or an edge.
Some years back, in his treatise on the Thema Mundi (or chart of the world — available in the Planet Waves archives), Eric cited an old teacher who was fond of saying everything has a beginning. Given the current transits and aspects, it may well be said that many of the astrological events of the coming months are on the verge today.
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Not surprisingly that fast lady Moon is leading the way. She’s been working the room even more than usual since starting off this gregarious month full in Gemini, the first of two solar oppositions in December. Today finds her stumping the Sagittarius circuit, coming off a conjunction with the Great Attractor, applying towards her monthly reunion with Venus and on the verge of tomorrow’s New Moon (conjoining the Galactic Center).
In addition, this particular New Moon takes us to the verge of a new set of eclipses — a partial lunar eclipse in Cancer on New Years Eve and an annular solar eclipse in Capricorn the middle of January, 2010. Please hearken back to the triple set of eclipses (two lunar and the big total solar) last Summer and remember how the lunar-solar conjunction immediately before set the stage for it all? Well, today is the point beyond something like that begins again.
While awaiting his mistress Moon, the Sagittarius Sun today sextiles Jupiter (the ruling planet of Sagittarius), as if to give it a gentle nudge on the verge of its solstice conjunction with Neptune in Aquarius. It’s almost as if the spiritual energy of mutable fire is at its peak, on the verge of cooling down to the nadir of the year.
One thing known by those who deal with boundaries in their various forms, is that the edge is the location where transitions and change occur. The place of uncertainty and ambivalence in the midst of transformation and metamorphosis. This it seems fitting that Mercury in Capricorn should conjoin with the asteroid Hekate today. Hecate (as her name is also spelled) was often portrayed with three faces and holds much of the 12th house energy of ancient Greek polytheism. Associated with witchcraft, childbirth, doorways, gates and crossroads, she represents the challenge of moving from the verge and across a boundary. You could say she is about the wisdom of women — which certainly implies a boundary.