{"id":52407,"date":"2012-01-26T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=52407"},"modified":"2012-01-27T00:46:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T05:46:51","slug":"lilith-connection-moon-at-apogee-square-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/lilith-connection-moon-at-apogee-square-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilith Connection – Moon at Apogee Square Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"

In your life right now, there is a picture that will express as two unlikely but ultimately sensible events. One will make you aware of unity where before you had seen only difference. The other occurrence will reveal distinction where before you were conscious only of unity. While the details will vary from one person to another, the substance coming through Monday’s window will serve to connect us all. <\/p>\n

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On Monday, the Taurus Moon will conjoin its own apogee while in aspect to Mercury in Aquarius. The lunar apogee was discussed in this very blog precisely seven weeks ago (December 12, 2011 “We Are Many – Lunar Mean Apogee Enters Taurus”). A hypothetical point on the zodiac representing the part of the Moon’s orbit furthest from Earth, the apogee itself has two values, both referred to as Black Moon Lilith, or BML: the osculating apogee and the mean apogee. <\/p>\n

The osculating apogee is BML’s precise location at any given time. The mean apogee is, as Tracy Delaney put it, “an attempt to even out” the BML’s fluctuating position. The mean and osculating values can be up to 30 degrees apart, and they have been, as recently as December 18. This coming Monday, however, both Black Moon Lilith’s will be conjoined to the degree in Taurus when Moon sweeps in to make to make it three. That will, by definition, be a stellium that is at once unusual, rare, distinctive, and auspicious.<\/p>\n

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To understand the powerful opportunity symbolized by that particular arrangement, it will be necessary to examine the particulars, one at a time. The triple conjunction of Moon and both of its apogee points is unusual and rare because Luna touches both only once a month and far less often both at the same time. It is distinctive because a stellium originating from one object and the orbital values of that same object merges several facets of one origin. Finally, it is auspicious because that merger unites three archetypes normally treated as separate in astrology.<\/p>\n

Astrology has a very broad range of interpretations for the Moon. Most of those explications, however, have to with the lunar in complement to the solar. Seeing the Sun defines the day, whereas the brightest exposure of the Moon is always at night. Daytime is when most of us are most likely expressing our conscious thoughts. Night, on the other hand, is usually the realm of intuitions felt. The BML is a special case of both intuition and feeling.<\/p>\n

Two days ago, the Daily Astrology blog referred to “the hairs-breadth moment” when an internalized other, most often a parent, “grafts itself onto a glimmer of authentic Self.” The legendary figure of Lilith corresponds to that authentic Self. Lilith had no mother. She was the first woman, made of the same clay as the first man, and she knew it. Lilith cleaved to that knowledge of autonomy and equality and was true to it above all other things. She did not allow anyone or anything to graft itself over her self-assured identity. For that act of integrity she was deemed the first human criminal. In spite of that, she was strong enough to leave paradise of her own accord. Yet, even at the farthest orbit of our Earthly culture, faded into the black void and obfuscated by an oppressor’s divided story, she remained as present and undeniable as male pattern baldness. This coming Monday, the undeniable but fragmented unifies for a day with what we intuit and what we feel. Part of that feeling will be an internal tension with how we think, especially under the influence of convention.<\/p>\n

Mercury, among other things, represents how we think. About to enter Aquarius, where the individual confronts the collective, Mercury will be concerned with how our thoughts are shaped by social pressure and conditioning. If you have ever been told that there is only one correct answer to a subjective question, and placed under duress to accept that, you have lived a Mercury-in-Aquarius theme. On Monday, that theme will be tested inside of you when the lunar gang of three in Taurus forms a square to Mercury.<\/p>\n

Geometrically, a square is an aspect between signs of the same quality. Taurus and Aquarius, for example, are both of fixed quality, denoting their common position between differing cardinal and mutable modalities. Symbolically, a square represents an emotional knot in your gut, or an intellectual conundrum that keeps you awake at night. Whether felt or conceptualized, a square between fixed signs is bound to be something that persists stubbornly. In other words, it will not go away by itself; you must act.<\/p>\n

In the case of Luna and its conjoined BMLs confronting Mercury, the indicated nature of that action is clear. Before the “hair-breadth moment” of the Moon’s own day has past, do more than glimpse. First, act on the opportunity that will surely present itself for a good look and discern your “authentic Self” by your own recognition of it and not through the fragmented stories you have been given. Next, find a way to sustain that recognition so that you can forever distinguish between the gift you were born with and the burden you have been coerced to accept. If you can do that, it will be a good day and you will be prepared for another day, perhaps soon, when courage calls to build on your Lilith connection.<\/p>\n

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