Note: This week we asked a few of our favorite Chiron specialists for their thoughts on the Aries New Moon with retrograde Mars opposite Chiron. We quoted Dale O’Brien in yesterday’s Daily Astrology; here is the reply from Adam Gainsburg, with a link to his website. We are still in New Moon territory today. — amanda
By Adam Gainsburg
Each New Moon is our monthly opportunity to go verbally and mentally silent, in step with the dark or ‘silent’ Moon. [Yesterday’s] New Moon at 2 Aries looks to its ruler Mars in Virgo for expression, which sits precisely opposite Chiron in Pisces.
This is like a see-saw with an agenda that wants to lean you in one direction only. Retrograde Mars in Virgo, if followed deep enough, will bring us to the inner turf of Chiron, the place where we are at our most vulnerable around performance, efficiency and being and doing enough for the job. Usually, astrological oppositions give us a choice and if Mars was direct today, we’d have two very clear ones. But today, we have but one: look inside (Chiron in Pisces) at the sustainability of our actions (Mars Rx in Virgo). How much heart do we have for not only the tasks at hand but ourselves at the end of the day as we review our progress?
Amazingly, there is a third exact alignment today as well: a conjunction of asteroid Juno and the lunar North Node. This happens with Mars at the ‘bending’ of the lunar nodal axis, square the nodes at 6 Sagittarius. This creates a T-square with Juno/North Node as the synthesis between/for the Mars-Chiron opposition. I see this primarily as literally forcing us into relying on those our hearts are most aligned with, even if it means walking away from others who only look promising. Though this complex signature can be rendered in many ways, I tend to view it first in social terms: our relationships, our level of honesty in them, and what we’re willing to do and not willing to do for others. Who’s worth it and who isn’t. If we can listen to our Medicinal Heart — the result of transforming the sacred wound into sacred medicine — there can be little or no delay in manifesting better results and stronger ties with others.
Maeve, the ‘house’hunting has shrunk to apartment, then to ‘pied-a-terre’ hunting. I am the perplexed renter of 2 storage units and a footfull of studio apartment. So um, could be worse. I’m told.
Austin has turned into this forest of vitrine high-rises with $1500+ rents. Not my town anymore, so I’ll stick until the kid gets out of HS, then I’m down the road.
I’m accepting bids now.
As for what I do, I am a writer. But I stopped writing professionally after the boychild got his tail in the legal wringer back in 2010. Took a job with Medicare/Medicaid services, but I can see the end of that road. I’ve gone back to shaping the workshop I had launched before the Fine Young Cannibal’s little pecadillo, and expect to launch it next Fall. Insh’allah.
Hiya, Mystes.
How goes the househunting?
Clients? What do you do? (if’n you don’t mind me asking…)
Maeve, I’m with you… yowsuh.
Normally I go through this ‘drawing poison’ phase *just* before the NM. This month, I got a full-service treatment, from the day of Moondark through this morning. After about 2 a.m. today it transferred over to others, though.
I’ve had a half-dozen clients offload some very very (very) toxic emotions about their families, in the last 3 days, and esp. their mothers. I’ve listened patiently, but yesterday was *OVER* the top.
Good stuff. Especially the day *after*.
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“the result of transforming the sacred wound into sacred medicine”
Holee cats. Wow.
Thank you, Adam, wherever you are. Damn.