We must remain fully committed to our shared, fundamental mission: to hold strong to our most treasured Democratic ideals, to cherish the spark of divinity in each and every one of us . . . Nancy Pelosi, Address to Congress 11/17/22
Well, we did it! We collectively chose to preserve our Democracy. We voted against separation, hatred and violence, and for the precious freedoms upon which our nation was built. When Pluto makes its final return on December 28th, we can rejoice that we met the test of the last six years. Yes we lost seats in the House, but the predicted red wave fizzled in the face of true patriots. Although the rancor will echo for a while, we can shift our focus to the future we want to create.
We are in transition into a New Age, one in which we learn to work together for the betterment of all. I said last time that we would address our wildest dreams, and the New Moon in Sagittarius provides the perfect context.
Back in 2019 when this blog was finding its voice, I published a weekly newsletter called Good News Mondays. I focused on innovations that were the early signs of Aquarian influence: changes in our approach to education, child care, health care, relationships and new technology that addressed the challenges of the future. The day after our election, which was also the day of a potent, total Lunar Eclipse, I searched the news for more hints of change. I thought I would share a few items that could kick off our exploration of wild dreams.
NPR posted the news that two universities – Cambridge and Northeastern in Boston – had discovered how to create a new metal in the lab called “tetrataenite.” This metal was not native to our planet and could only be found in meteorites, a combination of nickel and iron which had cooled over millions of years as meteors and asteroids tumbled through space.
Turns out this unique compound makes possible the manufacture of permanent magnets that are essential for electric vehicles and green energy technologies. Think about that – permanent magnets! No need to charge or throw away magnets that leak toxic material into our soil. Tetrataenite holds a permanent charge!
Here’s another item – not new, but announced the day after the eclipse. The European Space Agency is in the early stages of developing a Space-Based Solar Power station that will meet our future energy needs and fulfill Europe’s transition to a Net Zero carbon world by 2050. A single solar-power satellite would generate around 1 gigawatt of power, the equivalent of a conventional nuclear power station, able to run more than one million homes.
And let’s give a shout out to Gen Z! 63 percent of eligible voters in this age group cast their votes in this election. Of course they have a huge stake in the outcome because they are the ones who will have to live with the consequences of two centuries of mismanagement that has compromised our environment and precipitated a climate crisis.
Not only that but a Gen Z idealist named Maxwell Frost, age 25, became the youngest person ever elected to Congress. This energetic young man organized “March for our Lives” at age 22, demanding gun reform and protesting gun violence. When interviewed after his victory, he stated his goal was to develop an economy that works for every single person. He encouraged his generation to talk about the world they want to build, not against the world we live in now. That’s Aquarian!
And finally today, I was heartened by an item concerning a 200-year-old unkept promise that Andrew Jackson made to the Cherokee nation when he forced their tribe off their ancestral land, an exodus known as the Trail of Tears. The promise was a seat in Congress. On Wednesday, around the 1st Quarter Moon of this eclipse season, Congress heard from the Cherokee Nation chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. who asked that Congress finally keep their promise.
Dissenters used the age-old argument “If we do it for you, we have to do it for everyone.” How many times has this illogical excuse been used to squelch the aspirations of dreamers? Nevertheless, many members were sympathetic to the idea and Chief Hoskin said, “I think the conclusion is inescapable. And I think that conclusion can be reached in this calendar year.”
Imagine the potential healing when we honor our agreements and bring Native Americans into the decision-making process. Who knows better how to restore our land and build right relationship with it?
So let’s take a look at the New Moon chart and what it says about new beginnings.
New Moon in Sagittarius
On Wednesday afternoon, November 23rd, the day before Thanksgiving, the Moon joins the Sun at 1:38 degrees of Sagittarius. Pam Gregory noted that New Moons for the next 5 months will happen at the first degree of signs. Five months introducing new beginnings.
In the USA Chart, Sagittarius occupies the last half of our 12th House. What is the 12th House all about? Well it’s complicated and has a lot of attributes which can manifest at different levels of consciousness. It is sometimes called the House of Confinement. We certainly have been held in confinement through the pandemic. Sometimes confinement can mean imprisonment, physical or psychic. Pregnancy used to be a period of confinement, when new life was gestating. Metaphorically, confinement can provide the time, space and solitude in which something new can be born. It is a pause in which to re-evaluate, reflect and get in touch with the changes we need to make for a happier life.
We can view the chart as an evolutionary flow from birth at the Ascendant, counterclockwise through 11 houses of growth, learning and development. When we reach the 12th house we pause and make course corrections prior to a rebirth, a new cycle of growth as planets cross the Ascendant, which for the USA is 12+ degrees of Sagittarius.
The 12th House is also our interface with the Collective Unconscious and with unseen guides who watch over our progress. It is associated with the sign of Pisces and its co-rulers Neptune and Jupiter, which is also the ruler of Sagittarius. The New Moon is trine to Jupiter which currently is retrograde at the tail end of Pisces, reinforcing our imagination and connection to all that is sacred.
Transiting Neptune is closely opposite its natal position in Virgo in the 9th House of philosophy, paradigms, higher learning. Through our years of fake news, confusing theories and alternative facts, Neptune was breaking down our certainty to allow new vision to enter, as well as train us to use new dimensions of perception. The 9th House, by the way, is associated with Sagittarius and its ruler Jupiter. See how the message is reinforced – the intimate connection between houses, signs and rulers – Jupiter in Neptune’s sign, Neptune in Jupiter’s house working together in our 12th house Sagittarius?
Neptune asks us to surrender old baggage – the burdens we carry from our past that limit our perception, restrict our freedom of expression, keep us imprisoned within reactive patterns of thought and behavior. It is in the 12th House that we reconnect to our soul and its “mission” in this lifetime. What is our purpose and how can we serve the collective?
The 12th House, therefore, is the House of Letting Go. We have been conditioned to think of letting go as something to fear. We tend to cling to what we know and that prevents us from learning and experiencing something new. Our clutch on the past gives us a false sense of security because we know the past and we don’t know the future, but the future isn’t something that happens to us. It’s something we create. Letting Go releases us from confinement within past conditioning and allows us to evolve. Imagination is where we begin to create something new.
Sagittarius is a Fire Sign, filled with passion, dreams, ideals, and a devout quest for truth. Symbolized by the centaur drawing back his bow and aiming an arrow at a distant star, Sagittarius connects matter and Spirit. Fortified by faith, optimism and a strong sense of justice – all Jupiter attributes – Sagittarius carries Utopian visions of a brighter future in a better world.
As we leave behind the confinement of terror, uncertainty, confusion and worry, Sagittarius supports our forward-looking imagination. It inspires us to dream our wildest dreams.
As the Moon is recharged by Spirit in the 1st degree, Venus and Mercury are conjunct at 9 and 10 degrees of Sagittarius, just 2 degrees from our nation’s Ascendant. Head and heart come together to inspire heart-felt dreams. It’s time to reclaim the best ideals of our founding fathers as they created a new form of government. Think of their ideals – liberty and justice for all! Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men (and women) are created equal! These are Aquarian dreams and if we can feel them deeply and embrace them, we will have the tools to create a more perfect Union.
What is our role in this rebirth process? Where is our passion? What have we always known that we really love and want to do? What makes us happiest? We all need to pursue that now.
Mars Square Neptune
Mars is currently passing through our 7th House – the House of our relationships – and at the New Moon is conjunct its natal placement. We are having a Mars return just when it is square transiting Neptune. Many astrologers are focusing on the lower frequency of Neptune claiming that we will have more chaos and confusion, illusion and delusion, but I don’t see it that way. Mars lends energy to its aspects. When it fires up Neptune, it fires up our dreams and our deep longing for authentic connection with each other, with nature, with all that is Divine.
Mars is in Gemini for a full 6 months giving us lots of time to focus. Our election results show that we are sick of chaos and separation. Mars as the fulcrum for the Neptune opposition, a perfect T-Square, is time for us to reconnect with our spiritual vision, our common ground; time to clarify our thinking and our perception and put energy into healing our relationships. What better time for that than Thanksgiving?
Haumea tiptoes into Scorpio
2023 will be full of changes as distant planets enter new signs and broadcast new energies. We will examine all of that in the coming year. For now, look at beautiful Haumea, goddess of rebirth, which entered Scorpio after 30 years in Libra. This dwarf planet was preparing the way for a renewal of our social contract. It appeared on the surface that our society was fracturing and we feared that our democracy would fail under the pressure.
I have written before about Prigogene’s Theory of Disspative Structures, for which he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. When energy overwhelms a system, the structure breaks down, and there comes a point when a grid bursts into spirals. That’s the short version but it explains the whole passage we have been through. Our planet entered the photon belt and Earth was bombarded with energy in the form of light and information. Our society began to polarize to the point of a new civil war. We got to see what had been hiding in the shadows. A pandemic ramped up the pressure. Systems began to collapse under the weight of demand as our population grew further apart. This is how transformation takes place – it’s a natural process repeated at all levels of existence.
Now with Haumea beginning her journey through Scorpio – Pluto’s sign – regeneration begins. Scorpio is a deep water sign the essence of which is desire for spiritual connection. To reach that we first must pass through an initiation, a stripping away of what isn’t essential, authentic or true. I cannot predict what will happen over the next 30 years because the future is ours to create, but I believe Scorpio reinforces our desire for a more perfect union, the original goal of our experiment in democracy.
Sun and Moon opposite Sedna
Sedna, the new outer limit of our solar system, is at 29+ degrees of Taurus, soon to enter Gemini. So while it is “out of sign” it is still opposite the New Moon. Meaning that this next month is time to think about humanity’s spiritual path. Pluto is winding up its return with a renewed commitment to democracy. Chariklo, the nurturing consort of Chiron, is conjunct our South Node, encouraging the healing of our nation’s karmic past. Varuna is conjunct our North Node, supporting our destiny as leaders of peace and justice in the world we are about to create.
Next year, Pluto moves into Aquarius, Sedna into Gemini, Jupiter into Aries, Saturn into Pisces and the nodal axis from Taurus/Scorpio to Aries/Libra. Two years later Uranus enters Gemini and Neptune begins a new cycle in Aries. Lots of Air and Fire. These new energies will provide a whole new climate for growth and progress. So our seemingly endless and torturous trial is coming to an end.
This is why it’s time, now, to begin to dream. For yourself, yes, but also for humanity and our planet. Ceres, reclassified as a dwarf planet, is conjunct our natal Neptune on this New Moon, emphasizing our original spiritual purpose as caretakers of our precious home. I believe the ultimate purpose of humanity is to embody spirit and re-establish our dream of Heaven on Earth, to reclaim the Garden of Eden.
I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for. Gratitude is a sign to the Cosmos to bring us more – more love, more peace, more joy, more connection.
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