A Replenishing New Moon

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6th October 2010

The approaching New Moon is calling us to regain our balance by dropping deeper into ourselves.

The Sun and Moon will be in the Spleen Centre, reaching up towards the Throat where it’s searching for an enthusiastic response, without which we can’t experience our value to others.

Underlying this problem is a profound fracture in the way we relate to each other in our culture. After all, the New Moon is in Libra, putting relationships to the forefront.

You can see from the chart that the Root Centre is activated by it’s connection to the Spleen Centre.  The Sun and Moon (48) are joining a busy group of North Node (58), South Node (52), Saturn and Mercury (18) and Venus (44).

Some see the Root Centre as creating a pressure.  I find it more useful to consider it an impulse from our body to engage with life in some way.  At the moment the primary impulse is coming from a felt sense of vitality and prosperity.  Our minds haven’t quite caught up yet, but our bodies can feel it.

We begin the journey at the Root, leaving behind old conditioned pressure to take action that robs us of tranquility and stability.  Sounds pretty straightforward, but conditioning to the Root Centre has us believing our very life is at stake.  If I don’t do this thing, something quite terrible will happen, for sure!  Tuning into our natural impulses is difficult against this type of pressure, but with the support we have now, absolutely possible.

Instead of rushing forward precipitously, or holding back out of fear, we dance and sing in joy at the prosperity life brings us.   Well, we’re still learning that one!  The singing and dancing is joy flowing through our bodies, allowing us to be softly and gently open to what life brings us.  Rigid belief dissolves as our ego patterning shifts into something deeper and more flexible.

Saturn and Mercury are together in Gate 18. Saturn always calls us to more responsibility.  Mercury brings us to become conscious of where our personal growing ground is covered with weeds.  We can blame others, including authority figures, for our problems but ultimately Saturn and Mercury are drawing our conscious attention to where we have averted our gaze from our own lives.  This is not about taking responsibility for others.  In fact, as we are called to look to our own lives it may look as if we are becoming more irresponsible.   You’ll know you’re getting the balance right if you feel a sense of lightening, of relief, as your attention naturally turns to what you need for yourself.

And so we arrive at the Sun and Moon in gate 48.  It’s known to many as the Gate of Depth.  Wilhelm refers to it as The Well.  Master Huang (my current fave I Ching) calls it Replenishing.  This is a hexagram that talks about the communal well at the centre of the village.  It’s maintained by all for the good of all, and because it is a source of constant replenishment to all, it is also a natural social gathering place and marketplace.   Compare that image to your local shopping mall.

There’s something precious being released within us here.  When we slow down enough to connect with our own vital connection with our physical body, we are naturally aligned with a collective unity of purpose, creating a common good that nourishes and replenishes everyone without judgment about their value or worth.

In our culture, value and worth are generally measured economically.  We tend to cut our cloth to fit the warp and weave of this measure of value.  Those who don’t measure up miss out on access to much that our culture has to offer.   As a result we have a culture where people are chronically exhausted, proving their worth in a cycle of earning and spending, earning and spending.

Having the courage to step away from these judgments of self and into something deeper cracks this cultural illusion wide open.  You and I deserve to be valued for our inherent attributes rather than on how much money we earn.  And we deserve the support of our culture regardless of how economically worthy we may seem to be.  We deserve to have the time to stop, smell the roses and replenish ourselves when we need to, rather than be pressured to dance manically towards our collective doom.

There is a lot of activity at the Throat Centre just now, including Pan and Diana in Gate 45, which some know as the Money Gate.  Pan and Diana are wild energies – masculine and feminine respectively.  Pan has been demonised and Diana hunted from existence, but their wildish natures are returning to our psyche.  This gate is willful and possesive, being an expression of the Heart Centre.  It seeks to control and dominate for financial gain, but when it acts from a place of true leadership it is a powerful force in aggregating resources for the good of the community.   We find our own inner leader, the one within who holds unlimited resources, when we apply our will to removing obstructions rather than creating them.

We can view it another way.  When we take responsibility for the resources we are being blessed with in each moment, rather than ignoring them in our rush to get elsewhere, we naturally connect with our own wild growing ground that creates a perfect pattern of life for us.

This shift to the wild is a major global watershed, affecting our inner being, and our economy and government.  It is creating a strange sense of confusion as each one of us begins to dance to a deeper beat without realising how or why.