A dodgy post on the current shifts

A lot of astrologers may be surprised at how gently this New Moon has played out, but when we look at the Human Design transits we can see how the scales have tipped to gentle and beneficial.

The message is clear.  We can’t solve our own problems, personal or global, at the level at which they were created.  So why dwell on them in the old way.  Fear, anxiety and worry only add energy to matrix that contains the problems.  A coherent connection with a greater reality might feel counter-intuitive but will actually bring about real results.  This New Moon puts our attention firmly at the soul level and then connects it to the trauma of being here on the planet.  How do we bring these two experiences together?  How do we survive as pure and innocent beings of love on a planet that seems drenched in conflict and strife?

Venus in the Gate of Family, Jupiter in the Gate of Interference and Mercury conjunct Eris in the Gate of Increase all help to bring a positive energy to this powerful transit.  I have the feeling we’re beginning to benefit from the decades of hard consciousness yards we’ve put in.   With such incredible transits to the Ji Centre our sense of identity, purpose and direction are shifting.  Imagine the power of that when it is happening to every human being on this planet!  The magnetic monopole is being realigned.

I wrote this post in draft form and decided to post it anyway because there was so much coming up on the Facebook stream about the return of the feminine energy.  So enjoy, even though it’s not as clear and polished as I would like.

There is a powerful shift in the energy of the feminine in this New Moon.  Let’s start with the asteroid Lilith conjunct the Galactic Centre, a resurgence of new ideas about the role of women in the world.  Let’s add to that picture the minor planet Quaoar and the North Node, both in that same gate (11), which represents heaven meeting earth.  Quaoar sings and dances a constant flow of new creation energy, and the North Node represents our destiny, what we are moving towards.  And let’s also add  the Black Moon Lilith (a calculated position based on our Moon), exactly conjunct Mars and Uranus at the time of the New Moon.  A powerful message here from the deep felt rage of the feminine!

On the global level we saw it play out clearly when Libyan woman Eman el-Obeidi demanded action over her alleged rape by Libyan soldiers.  She was immediately demonised, in true Lilith fashion, being described as insane, a prostitute and a drunk.

To swing this out into the broader picture, let’s have a look at Pallas Athene.  Emerging fully formed from the head of her father Zeus, she has completely forsaken her physical birth, to her mother Metis Goddess of Wisdom, on the shores of a lake sacred to the Triple Goddess.  In Libya!  This myth is worthy of a long and detailed consideration – in particular I’d love to see the placements in Angela Merkel and Hilary Clinton’s charts – but for now let’s just look at two points.  The need for the newly emerging patriarchy to ‘swallow’ the powerful wisdom of the feminine that ruled consciousness at that time, and also it’s need for approval from the ‘mother’.

It’s as if this myth is being played backward right now, and like a Beetles song, it is revealing what some would consider a demonic message.  That we are reconnecting with that original mother energy and weaving a new perception of life that incorporates what we have learnt from 2000 years of patriarchy.  In this place we weave the feminine and masculine creative energies back together again after millenium of each one experimenting with going it alone.

We are being urged by minor planet Pallas (in 41.6 meeting Neptune in 30.6) to delve more deeply to the core of any issue facing us, not to be seduced or mesmerised by complex and so called rational arguments.

I had two friends yesterday ask for help with people who were trying to overwhelm them with their mental power – talking at them till they gave way and agreed.  When we believe our only safety lives  between our ears, then our ‘rational’ minds become crazy with fear and anxiety and spiral out of control.  This is a type of bullying that comes from a deep fear of fully incarnating.

I wanted to check the asteroid Athene as well, and she is conjunct Hekate in the Gate of Nourishment.  Hekate represents female wisdom, but specifically speaks to us of having reached a crossroad and having to choose a new pathway.  It’s clear that we can contine on in the madness of addiction and destruction, or we can hear what we truly know to be true and act on that instead.

Apollon joins Athene and Hekate, he who stole the oracular power of Delphi and claimed it for the patriarchy.  Astrologically the Uranian point Apollon is things that spread so far they create destruction.  I’m thinking radiation in groundwater, just as one example.   This channel represents the beginning of a new era that looks at the issue of nourishment in a whole new way.

Pluto (representing nuclear power) is no longer the cutting edge of energy technology and it’s time that we woke up and smelt the roses on this one.  The incredible number of new planets being discovered in our own solar system, beyond Pluto, indicate that it’s time to embrace new ‘free energy’ alternatives at our disposal.  Watch to see those technologies proliferate now, driven by grassroots pressure.

Mercury is conjunct Eris in a gate that asks us to really  take notice of our wealth.  It also indicates the blame that’s been placed on the feminine when it speaks up and threatens the existing order, our obsession with growth at the expense of natural order and our inability to find a way to relax and say ‘enough’!  I’ve done enough, I have enough, I can rest and enjoy life for now!

Psyche is conjunct the South Node in Gate 12.  This is a gate of Standstill, where Heaven and Earth cannot connect.  At the other end of the channel is Karma and Circe.  Again the idea of the end of addiction is present, with Circe being an indicator of drug use or other ways of losing touch with reality, Karma indicating the completion of a karmic cycle and the South Node representing what we are leaving behind.   Psyche is important here because she indicates the healing of a deep soul wound.  With Venus in the Gate of Family, Ophelia (the invisible feminine) in the gate of healing family patterns (18) and the consequent shift in our DNA and Saturn, Zeus, Jupiter and Uranus all coming together (read their family history on wikipedia, it’s not pretty), we can be sure that the boys are having to sort out their issues and the girls are having to step in to say enough is enough.

Really, I could go on like this all day, there is so much in the transits just now.  One last thing 🙂  Minor planet Snow White indicates that we have to wake up to the mother energy and find what is toxic and what is nourishing.  There’s a shadow mother aligned with the patriarchy that keeps our children captive within the bounds of the limitations of the father as sole creator – a sad and lonely place devoid of true creativity and the joy of connection.

With Chiron (soul wounds) and Ceres (the mother and nourishment) conjunct Snow White just now there is a double edged issue for us to deal with – we are all grown up and can’t return to the womb or ascend to a heavenly blissful place (Neptune is there as well, going into Pisces today).  We have to take responsibilty for our own growth (Saturn opposite Jupiter) and find the courage to step out and be individuals in our own right (Mars conjunct Uranus) even if it means facing the fears of ages past (Lilith, Psyche, Eris).  There is no handsome rich prince or beautiful princess (Snow White), just us.   The moment is now, our fears are from the past.  Till early May we have the courage to step into the void and find many others making the same journey.