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.
Her placement in Capricorn during the first part of the Pluto transit in that sign is complimented and amplified by Mercury, as if to remind us that we are on the verge of a long series of transitional events, most immediately Saturn (in Libra) stationing retrograde concurrent with next month’s solar eclipse and its second Cardinal Point (or Aries Point, if you prefer) square to Pluto just before the cross quarter in February.
We may recall that Tolkien character Samwise Gamgee was making a show of trimming the hedge below a window (a threshold) as a cover for eavesdropping on a conversation between Frodo and Gandalf. This in turn led him to be forcefully compelled through that portal and into a new and undreamed of life. There was no possibility of turning back to the old lifestyle without inviting disaster. Sam’s saving grace was his motivation. As much as curiosity, it was loyalty that let him to tend the garden’s boundary in the dark.
As we approach the dark of the Moon, let us examine our own motivations as we each, in our own way, for our own individual reasons, trim and tidy our way along the boundary we all share. For it is the motivations we have no that will be carried to the other side (with little else, in many cases) and they will in turn play a large part in determining how we fare on the other side of a boundary we are about to cross together.
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..if we’ve already exerienced those “own boundaries”,.. are we newbies on the relation realm?!.. No!!?? Or, Have we grasped this forrm through fishing in other quantum realities? (How deep can we go?) (are you willing to share?)(..this crap blows away. Lifetimes don’t in proper deepment, and Understanding, belong in this place..
Understand the fight.
Go There!
Hazel1 – that is really cool!
Also, in watchmaking, a verge is “the spindle of a balance wheel
in a clock with a vertical escapement”.
😉 Although I’ve almost perfect vision (and “golden ears” mind you) I feel “blind”* — as in All Is Feeling just now; a part of that is cerebral; “feeling” like we ARE through the rabbit hole, a part of that is very visceral; feeling like I am floating around in a bubble in embryonic fluid.
Not “spacey” at all. Very grounded indeed. Very A New Land. A New Time. A New Place. New new new. But then, I often experience, dream or think I know about something long before it’s real to others. Maybe this is one of “those”. (Sadly, insanity doesn’t even begin to apply.)
* “blind” because I know not what this is really, nor my “mission”. But hey, I’m all good with it. If I’m supposed to “know” something, I guess I will. And in contrast, I’m acutely clear-minded for completing that school application I’ve been writing on….
Love in Space,
Linda
Yes, Ms. Edgewise, I concur, good border talk. And you’re the one to say it!
Len, thanks for reminding me of the Cap/Cancer trampoline winding up tonight and tomorrow. Like I need a reprise of the summer Eclipses! But I’ll set aside my own oogaboogahs in favor of what’s gotta get done. Hecate/Mercury/Pluto… peering into Moondark and then New. YOwsah!
Anne Ortelee mentions this as well :: The new Moon echoes the Jupiter/Pluto conjunction in December 2007 right before Pluto entered Capricorn for the first time. It takes place on the virtually the same degree and links into the New Moon in Sagittarius back then. Think back to the changes in your life since December 2007. Note how much you’ve learned and grown. We are going to have “repeat” energy this week under the New Moon of that time period.
Just to keep things a little more uncomplicated.
Kissies,
M
I like your “boundaries” conversation today – and likewise; Samwise – made your idea very clear to me. Thanks, Len!
Thanks Len. Vergin’ on having a good time, methinks.
Don’t know if anyone else caught them but saw part of the Geminids Meteor shower on Sunday night – amazing – counted 14, but cloud cover and a bit of fog on the ground meant that we missed a few. First time I’ve seen anything like that.
Merc rx mini event:- tested the tree lights first. Lovely. Wrapped them around the tree. Decorated tree. With help, moved said tree into position – on a window seat. Switched lights on. Nothing. Changed socket, they worked. Switched them off and on again to check – nothing. Checked bulbs, broke two in the process – couldn’t find a problem. Changed fuse. Still nothing. Sigh. Slept on it. In the morning, moved tree again, removed faulty lights, put on another set, everything now tickety-boo. I’m over Christmas already. 🙂
At docs today to find I have a frozen shoulder! Feel about 93. It seriously is a struggle just to put my jeans on in the morning – the dog just looks at me in bemusement as I do the merry dance of trying to get a leg in without falling over. If I’d trained him properly he’d be a helping dog and tug at one side of the waistband with his teeth…
All love.