{"id":19326,"date":"2009-11-17T00:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=19326"},"modified":"2009-11-17T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T19:02:01","slug":"second-day-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/second-day-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Second day of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are”<\/em>
\n– Marianne Williamson<\/p>\n

There was a Beltane a few years ago that felt like it lasted a month.\u00a0 This year the most recent cross quarter (whatever you wish to call it) has felt similarly drawn out.\u00a0 The veil was very thin for a very long time.\u00a0 The mystery of death was continuously with us, impossible to ignore and seemingly infinite in its manifestations.\u00a0 It has been a long dive into the trans-formative waters of Scorpio.\u00a0 Many of us have almost become accustomed to the claustrophobic feel of metamorphosis, and it’s over a month to go before the Capricorn Solstice.<\/p>\n

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Even though The Big Square (first installment of the trilogy) was (and continues to be) a cardinal point phenomenon, it was, this time even more a Scorpionic moment, taking place as it did with Moon conjunct Venus, the Sun (squaring first Chiron, then Neptune in the Aquarius stellium), Ceres (squaring Nessus, also in Aquarius) and Mercury (anarectic) ALL in Scorpio.\u00a0 The chrysalis was crowded, the waters cold and deep, the energy was transducing in a crystal lattice.<\/p>\n

And then yesterday’s Scorpio New Moon brought an extra shade of darkness to the lengthening night.<\/p>\n

What a difference a day makes. Slowly but perceptibly, Moon and Mercury are leading the way having passed through the lighter end of the tunnel into Sagittarius. Time to break surface, exhale and take in some fresh air. Time to stretch out of fixity and break down what we have been through so that we can integrate it. Time to manifest the dreams of transformation into practice.\u00a0 Time to cook and render the cold and raw into the digestible and nourishing.\u00a0 Time to blow on the coals.<\/p>\n

With the New Moon still taking place late in a sign it’s also time to look ahead to when the Sun follows the Moon’s lead, heeding the call of Mercury, shifting into the energy of mutable fire to light up the coming weekend.<\/p>\n

Speaking of fire and mutability, today finds Vesta in the last degree of Leo, fully fueled and aching to transit the complimentary energy of Virgo, so recently released from Saturn.\u00a0 For just as Vesta constantly finds itself negotiating the conflict of intimate service and chastity, Virgo, as a mutable earth sign is deeply involved with balancing the need for stability with the desire to fly.\u00a0 Finally, after two years, that dynamic can be flexed for a few months and with Vesta in service it should be quite the liberating ride.<\/p>\n

No indeed, the Square is not over. Even given the commonly accepted orbs of influence it lasts for many months (or that of Cosmos and Psyche<\/em> author Richard Tarnas, who suggests the effects of these aspects span years), it’s constantly there, linking our own lives to each other and to the changes being so stoutly resisted by the established order. In the greater we can see ourselves and each of us, in our own inner fires can thaw the rigid structures given to us and re-shape ourselves as a model upon which the entire planet can in turn be transformed.\u00a0 In service, in freedom, back in the light, feet on the ground.<\/p>\n

If you are reading this, you made it this far. Don’t forget what you have been through is a shared experience, not yours alone. There is another few days of being folded and pressed but already we can see what good can come from it — if we allow ourselves to see how good things really are.\u00a0 This is us, this is we, this is doing it for ourselves as a way of doing it for each other.<\/p>\n

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