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<\/dt>\nThe best known of the Moon’s cycles is the one we can see, a lunation, the period of time from one New Moon to the next. The lunation that starts tomorrow will contain the beginnings of two other, longer, lunar cycles. Hence, the Leo New Moon will symbolically begin a month-long period, representing a favorable time to restart your personal consciousness on several levels, all at once.<\/p>\n
Your personal consciousness has a public and a private side. Public consciousness is what others usually see when you are out amongst `em, usually during the light of day, attending to the worldly tasks or purposes that illuminate your public life. Public consciousness, therefore, corresponds to the Sun. Private consciousness is another breed of cat.<\/p>\n
Like many cats, private consciousness is suited to the night. It comes forth in the dreams you have when you are asleep, when anything is possible, or in intimacy, possibly confounding or astonishing you. Because private consciousness often reflects back what originated during the day, it corresponds to the Moon.<\/p>\n
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Like the Moon, your private consciousness can go unobserved unless you make a special effort. The society that most often prevails during daylight rarely makes the same effort to educate the emotions as it does the intellect. Most of us are left to ourselves when it comes to the awareness, care and feeding of our emotional and psychological needs. Working with the lunar cycles can enhance your awareness of the Moon inside you and help you to integrate it with your Sun.<\/p>\n
The transiting Moon (where Luna is now) lives somewhere inside you. Just as your public consciousness is aware of the solar seasons, your private consciousness feels the lunar cycles. The simple act of enlisting your public consciousness to check the phase and location of the Moon, and keeping track of the results, can increase your awareness of your feelings and how important they are. For example, the observed results of a New Moon frequently indicate favorable circumstances to begin something that corresponds to where the luminaries come together.<\/p>\n
Leo, the location of tomorrow’s New Moon, is ruled by the Sun. A convergence of the luminaries in Leo is therefore a favorable indication to restart your private consciousness in conjunction with your public consciousness. It would be an appropriate time to start taking your sleeping dreams seriously, for example, by keeping a journal that includes the phase and placement of the Moon. <\/p>\n
You might also find that accredited counselor friend of yours open to deferring payment in exchange for advice on how to get your emotions to better support your intent and aspirations. Working with the Leo New Moon to restart your consciousness of lunations will also inform and enhance your participation with the lunar nodes as they begin a new cycle of their own.<\/p>\n
The lunar nodes are the two calculated points where the Moon’s orbit around Earth intersects with Earth’s orbit around the Sun, and they move around the zodiac in a peculiar way. In perpetual opposition, the points of luminary intersection are the points where eclipses take place, hence where the personal consciousness of the individual is transcended to a different level, merging with ‘the one’ and ‘the is’. <\/p>\n
In between eclipses, the nodes symbolize the dynamics of polarity, cause and effect, both in relationships and in time, oscillating to and fro from one day to the next with a net retrograde motion, slowly waltzing backwards through the signs. As September begins, and within the cycle of the lunation beginning tomorrow, the lunar nodes will change signs for the first time since March of 2011, offering the opportunity to escalate your practice of integrating private and public consciousness.<\/p>\n
Nearly a year and a half ago, the lunar nodes danced in through the back door of Sagittarius and Gemini, bringing eclipses to the mutable axis where air feeds fire, fire warms air, and intellect confronts intuition. In the interim, your purpose for being here was confronted by a persistent challenge to being at all, with all of us repeatedly called to rise, and rise again. Now, that rising cycle will yield to a collective task and worldly purpose of grounding and flow on a fixed axis from Scorpio to Taurus. <\/p>\n
When the nodes reach the back porch of Scorpio and Taurus, all of us at once will be challenged to take what we have learned from persistently rising to the occasion, and apply it to address whether sentience can long continue to animate a material framework on this planet. That challenge, in turn, will elevate your participation from the monthly lunar cycle to a long term cycle in relationship to others and to posterity. <\/p>\n
Fortunately, the Leo New Moon begins a lunation that will include a third cycle of interim length. Literally and symbolically it bridges the gap from personal to collective by addressing the process in which individual awareness incurs responsibility to self and to others. That third cycle concerns the mean lunar apogee, otherwise known as Black Moon Lilith.<\/p>\n
The mean lunar apogee, like the lunar nodes, is a calculated point. It is the mean point of the lunar orbit furthest removed from Earth, whether the Moon is there or not. Consistent with the Sumerian myth from which the mean lunar apogee derives its common name, the astrological meaning of Black Moon Lilith has to do with removal to a distance as an act of conscience.<\/p>\n
Just as the legendary character Lilith took responsibility for her awareness by acting to distance herself from a male-supremacist paradise, the mean lunar apogee expresses in your life as integrity and conscience. Conscience, in turn, is what bridges the integrated personal consciousness to others, individually and collectively. Without conscience, we would be like any other social organism, incapable of taking individual responsibility, and unable to practice individual integrity as an example from which members of the collective may learn and change. The opportunity to become the conscientious agent for collective change, a uniquely human potential, is what the new cycle of Black Moon Lilith will afford.<\/p>\n
In the last days of December 2011, the mean lunar apogee entered Taurus in direct motion. Since that time the astrological expression of your conscience has been moving slowly through the fixed earth of grounded values. Now, carrying those values, Black Moon Lilith is approaching a new cycle in the mutable air of Gemini, trading places with the lunar south node, and all contained in the Leo lunation that starts tomorrow.<\/p>\n
From Gemini, the mean lunar apogee will be primed to express itself. The communication, however, will not be received from a calculated point in outer space. Nor will you be able to depend upon any collective entity for conscientious behavior. An appeal to take responsibility for awareness and act in integrity can only originate from within the individual, because that’s where our dilemma originated.<\/p>\n
Fragmentation within results in alienation without, and separates us all, in turn, from our collective responsibility to posterity and life. You are in a position to conjoin and restart your personal, inner Sun and Moon, even as the actual luminaries merge to start a new cycle in the sky. You can do simple, practical things to become more whole and aware. You can act on your awareness with responsibility, and inspire others to do the same. <\/p>\n
In relationship we can interface with the transcendent through practical means, purposefully addressing cause, and conscientiously taking responsibility for effect. But it starts with you, restarting your personal consciousness on every level, right up to where there is only ‘is’, and ‘one with’. That is what makes tomorrow’s New Moon an opportunity to make a difference, even beyond your dreams.<\/p>\n
Offered In Service <\/em> <\/p>\n Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The luminaries, Sun and Moon, perfect their Leo conjunction just before Noon EDT, tomorrow. It will be a special New Moon, initiating a special opportunity for you to make a difference beyond your dreams. The Moon and its cycles show up in your life as an important part of your personal consciousness. The best known … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}