{"id":77587,"date":"2014-06-26T11:53:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=77587"},"modified":"2014-06-26T11:53:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:53:38","slug":"one-good-koan-deserves-another-cancer-new-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/one-good-koan-deserves-another-cancer-new-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"One Good Koan Deserves Another — Cancer New Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?
\n— famous koan attributed to 18th Century Zen master Hakuin Ekaku<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Friday’s Cancer New Moon at 4:08 am EDT may ultimately correspond to your solving a koan, only to receive another. Only time will tell, of course. <\/p>\n

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A New Moon cannot be seen when it moves through the sky with the Sun. Similarly it’s difficult to see the outcome of the more-or-less monthly lunation cycle every conjunction of the Sun and Moon initiates.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, both the timing of Friday’s luminary conjunction, and the location of last year’s Cancer New Moon indicate you are at a turning point akin to a Zen monk who has satisfied her master that she is ready for a new challenge.<\/p>\n

Of course, classic koans like the one captioned are never definitively solved. Rather, they are devices to stimulate development and evaluate progress.<\/p>\n

As philosopher and Zen master G. Victor Sogen Hori explained\u00a0in a 1999 treatise<\/a>: <\/p>\n

…in the beginning a monk first thinks a koan is an inert object upon which to focus attention; after a long period of consecutive repetition, one realizes that the koan is also a dynamic activity, the very activity of seeking an answer to the koan. The koan is both the object being sought and the relentless seeking itself. In a koan, the self sees the self not directly but under the guise of the koan … When one realizes (“makes real”) this identity, then two hands have become one. The practitioner becomes the koan that he or she is trying to understand. That is the sound of one hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Very often, once the monk “becomes the koan” she has been integrating with, she receives another. You might think of it as reaching the top of one staircase only to turn and begin again on the next set of stairs.<\/p>\n

By looking at what you have been integrating since the Sun and Moon last conjoined in Cancer (on July 8, 2013, at 16+ degrees) you might very well sense yourself at a similar turning point of your own.<\/p>\n

After all, since the Cancer New Moon of 2013, you have experienced some astrology not seen every generation, or even every century. You have been through a continuous year-long grand water trine (keyed by Neptune and Chiron in Pisces, joined by Saturn in Scorpio and Jupiter in Cancer) without precedent going back centuries upon centuries.<\/p>\n

You have also been through the months-long continuity of Jupiter opposing Pluto in Capricorn while Mars simultaneously opposed Uranus in Aries. The combination sustained a grand cardinal cross the like of which is nearly without precedent itself.<\/p>\n

Concurrent with the grand trine and the grand cross you have lived through unprecedented conundrums, dilemmas, and challenges which have tested you very much as a koan tests a Zen monk.<\/p>\n

Whether or not you give yourself credit, you have passed those tests because you have survived to read these words. You have been tempered to take on new challenges as symbolically implied by the position of planets that have constituted the two historically significant grand aspects now concluding at the same time as the impending Cancer New Moon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For just as the Sun and Moon conjoin again in Cancer on Friday, Saturn and Chiron (constituents of the grand water trine) will be at 17+ degrees of their respective signs, forming a tight grand water trine of their own with the position of the last year’s Cancer New Moon.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Mars at 16+ Libra, and Uranus at 16+ Aries will be precisely (to the degree) opposing each other, and square the point of the July 8, 2013, luminary conjunction.<\/p>\n

Whoa! Can you hear the clapping? That’s no coincidence. That’s celestial applause. Mars, Saturn, Uranus and Chiron are implicitly positioned as one hand on Friday, pointing at where you were for the Cancer New Moon of 2013 even as they are in the process of signing off on their participation in what you have been through since.<\/p>\n

It’s a sign of your having become something you were not a year ago. It’s a sign indicating how it’s time for you to reach the top of the staircase you have been on for nearly 12 months, turn, and ascend to a new cosmic challenge. After all, one good koan really does deserve another.<\/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

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Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand? — famous koan attributed to 18th Century Zen master Hakuin Ekaku Friday’s Cancer New Moon at 4:08 am EDT may ultimately correspond to your solving a koan, only to receive another. Only time will tell, of course. A New Moon … 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":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77587"}],"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=77587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}