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LIBRA
NEW MOON /
SOLAR ECLIPSE
Wednesday,
October 13, 2004
7:48 pm PDT / 10:48 pm EDT
Sun
and Moon joined at
21.06 Libra
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"Little Rose" by Claudia
Fernety
-- click on image for larger view
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Sabian
Symbol:
"Child laughs as birds perch on an old fountain, and drink."
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does listening to the zodiac do for us at each moon cycle?
It attunes us to the yet living quality of this ancient
rhythm. It sharpens our senses to new ways to bring
ourselves forth. It puts us on the alert -- as an
animal living in the wild -- to something new in the air... |
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What's
in the Sky this Cycle?
This New Moon
brings a Solar Eclipse (when the moon passes between
the sun and earth). If you want to see it and
are in the Northern Hemisphere, I suggest astral travel.
Set your coordinates for northeast Asia, Japan, the western
Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands, and the western part
of Alaska. Whether or not you can see the eclipse, you
will feel it. Perhaps you’ve already been feeling it.
Eclipses start their vibration sometimes three to four
weeks in advance. Eclipses bring a dramatic acceleration
or sudden turn of events. If events in your own life
have turned, I hope you’ve also noticed there’s an illuminated
doorway just ahead of you. It is open and beckoning. From
the other side comes an encouraging voice: "Change,
when approached in the right spirit, is always good."
Eclipses force much needed changes to the surface. Their
shakedown makes it easier to release worn-out behaviors,
attitudes and relationships. Their turbulence impels us
to grow.
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Libra
New Moon 'Scope
by Dana Gerhardt
Embracing
Libra is like riding a teeter
totter with a good friend on a crisp autumn day. Sink into
the movement of up and down, releasing into your partner’s rhythm
as your partner surrenders into yours. We are meant to lose
the fixity of self in Libra, so that we might approach our "others"
with a more spacious give and take. There are no fixed opinions,
no enemies in Libra’s world, only shifting points of view. Woe
to the undecided voters and the pollsters who must track them
this cycle! In Libra, thoughts can shift as quickly as the autumn
wind. It may not be until the Sun enters Scorpio on October
22 that the undecideds will discover their convictions.
There are two
eclipses this month--one solar and one lunar--which means you
might feel like you’re caught inside a
kitchen blender. Situations leap out, life gets splattered
with demands, the world grows noisy with unexpected turns. Stand
firm and your toes will get caught in the blades. My advice
at this particular New Moon, with Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury
and Jupiter in Libra, is to surrender to your spinning life.
Allow your dreams and your anger, your frustrations and your
desires to get chopped up and blended in a new and hopefully
tastier way. See if you can ride this wild momentum, gracefully,
to a new state of peace.
The majority of emails
I’ve received this past week tell the same story: many of my
friends and clients have been knocked off their feet.
Not all of their tales are catastrophic. Some are just too busy.
Others have enjoyed a surprising miracle. But whether you’re
up or down, the work is the same. The intent of Libra’s cycle
is to come to balance. Equanimity is the primary practice
this month. This is the time to make peace—with your
enemies, your loved ones, your own heart and mind. Neither repress
your emotions nor chase after them with your thoughts. Rather,
observe their momentum without attachment. Such steady attention
can, like the center beam in Libra’s scales, gradually bring
you to calm.
The Sabian Symbol
for this New Moon might at first seem a little incongruous:
"A child giving birds a drink at a fountain."
The fountain suggests renewal. A child serving birds suggests
we can renew ourselves through our concern for others. Ultimately,
we are both the child and the birds, thirsting and offering,
as we reach for a new lightness of being. In the midst of our
churning world, we have a special opportunity: to discover the
true source of Libra’s harmony.
©
2004 Dana Gerhardt,
All
rights reserved
Drop into our Mooncircle for October/November 2004:
- The
daily moon sign, phase and aspects...
"At
the New Moon refresh your animal nature, senses awake, happily,
simply aware of being alive..." (Today's
Moon)
-
New
Moon Meditation, with April: The Red Wall.
"Look
to the house of your chart that contains the twenty-first
degree of Libra. This house describes an area of your
life where a single focal point has exerted itself
as boldly and incongruously as the red wall in my
living room. The rest of your life has been thrown
out of balance by this concentration of energy, and
at this New Moon, the energy of Libra is rushing
in to restore equilibrium with a contrasting point
of view. Since the New Moon/eclipse point makes
a square to Saturn, it may not be a message you’re
particularly ready to hear. Nevertheless, like advice
from a bossy older sister, it may be the one message
that can help you restore your balance......"
New
Moon Meditations
- Season
Teachings, with Judith Goldberg: Hallowed Hauntings.
"Journeying
to the underworld is an apt metaphor for plumbing the depths
of our personal psyches. October’s new and full moons,
Libra and Taurus, are both Venusian, and thus goddess-ruled.
In this "hallowed" (meaning sacred) season, with
winter approaching, perhaps the love goddess is beckoning
each of us to journey within and confront the specters that
haunt us. We all carry ghosts from the past--dysfunctional
belief systems, repressed emotions, unfinished business.
Carl Jung posited that we cannot find peace by chasing figures
of light, but by transforming the darkness. Left hidden
in our shadowland, our demons will continue to create our
outer reality from an unconscious place. Brought into
the light, they are vanquished....."
Season
Teachings
- Join
us for the Full Moon on October
27.
- And
you're always welcome to take up the Talking Chalice!
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page is yours. We love to hear from you! (Talking
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