Post by Sowelu on Sept 26, 2011 21:43:17 GMT -5
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Paradigm’s Paradox – New Moon In Libra
By Len Wallick
Planet Waves
Monday, September 26, 2011
It’s a New Moon in Libra tomorrow morning at about 7:09 am EDT. Every New Moon is a conjunction of the luminaries, Moon and Sun. A conjunction is two or more objects in the same degree of the same sign. Every New Moon is also the start of a lunation, the period from one luminary conjunction to the next. The beginning of a lunation is for Moon what a new season is for Sun, forming the template of a paradigm that will be developed and carried through until the cycle is completed and another commences. It would not be surprising if new patterns were rapidly emerging in your own life about now. It would be entirely consistent with the sky if those themes were aptly described or readily explained as paradoxical.
A paradox is a contradiction that conceals, or reveals, a truth. We have that going on symbolically in Libra right now. Tomorrow’s New Moon will emphasize, amplify and be a part of it. Most obviously, the apparent contradiction is with the concept of balance.
In last Friday’s edition of Daily Astrology, Eric Francis characterized an important dimension of Libra as “the expression of beauty through balance.” That phrase succinctly captures the essence of the one and only cardinal air sign. Most fundamentally, Libra’s glyph is uniquely an inanimate object, a set of balance beam scales. Those scales are an ancient and practical tool with an aesthetic appeal, representing an ideal of indifference. The sheer number of visible objects in Libra right now would seem to belie that ideal.
In addition to the luminaries, the planets commonly accepted as visible to the unaided eye are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. These seven wandering lights are the traditional sign rulers and have been a part of human consciousness for uncounted thousands of years. They are the core of astrology. As of tomorrow, five of them will be concentrated into one twelfth of the zodiac, a thin slice of sky we call Libra. That is an intrinsically unbalanced arrangement called a stellium.
The broad definition of a stellium is three or more planets in one sign. An infrequent event, it is a wide and multiple conjunction that catches your eye like bold print. It is as though the constituents and their common placement are being emphasized. In any of the other eleven signs, a stellium’s energetic focus on a single point of reference would be straightforward in its aggregate, even if it were complex in its detail. To have such a pronounced imbalance located in a sign characterized by the opposite theme, however, is a symbolic contradiction — and it has precipitated rapidly.
It started when the Sun entered Libra on the equinox four days ago, joining Venus and Saturn. It ramped up when Mercury followed over the weekend. Tomorrow, the Moon makes five and by golly, that happened fast. Look around you and pick out what has radically changed in expression, identity or energy since last Thursday and you will have discerned the flow. Figure our what has opened up for you to act on and change yourself since late last week and you will see the potential.
Astrology begins with awareness. The collective emphasis of the recent equinox, tomorrow’s New Moon and the Libra stellium is that this is no time to resist or ignore change. To do so would place you in a position to see only disturbing contradiction and be confounded by it. The path to awareness is through discretion.
To employ the discretion our moment calls for is to avoid getting hung up on the contradictions and to focus instead on the truth in the paradox. Let the Libra stellium be your guide. Sort out the events that distinguish the present. Last week was probably intense and important for you. However, it is precisely what last week was not that should get your attention now. If you can consciously employ that simple filter, you will be well equipped to act appropriately.
Astrology takes form through action. Your action individually and ours collectively will write the story. When astrologers look back at our time to observe and correlate, they will note the symbolism and compare it to the reality. They will see that the luminaries re-started their own individual cycles more or less together in the same sign while the majority of classical planets assembled with exquisite timing to be a visible part of their new paradigm. The corresponding events are about to take place, on the other side of doors that are just now opening. The history of this moment will be defined by those of us prepared to see and go through them.
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