Moon & Mercury in Sagittarius - A Time for Truth

[Sowelu]

 

Moon and Mercury in Sagittarius - A time for truth…
Priya Kale
November 17, 2009

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Dear Friends,

We are still under the energy of yesterday’s powerful Scorpio New Moon. Today with Mercury and the Moon in Sagittarius, the energy is lighter.

Truth could start to come out. But the combination of Scorpio and Sagittarius energy can be pretty piercing, so there could be a tendency to be blunt. But with gentleness and honesty we can dare to say the things, the Scorpio Moon has brought an undeniable awareness of.

Mercury’s transit through Sagittarius can be imaginative, expansive, creative. This can also be a rather truthful influence. Sagittarians are well known to say the things that other people don’t dare think of. Being the opposite sign from Gemini, they see things without duality — as they are. But this can be polarizing. Truth often is.

With Mercury the planet of communication in this sign, it may be easier to be honest now with ourselves and others. This is an influence that at best could fill us with fresh hope for the future, lifting the mind above dark clouds of fear.

As the Moon passes through Sagittarius through tomorrow it trines Mars in Leo at 2:39 AM EST on Nov. 18, 2009. So overnight in the US and on Wednesday in the UK and Australia. This could be a fiery release of truth, passion, optimism, self-confidence and creativity.

The Moon will also sextile the triple conjunction in Aquarius — suggesting there can indeed be fresh hope and healing. This is a re-birth, but that means accepting that an old way of life can no longer continue as it has. Things cannot change unless WE change. But if we are willing to evolve we can move forward to the place beyond the horizon. Above all the Scorpio New Moon is about resurrection. Not death.

- Priya Kale



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[AndiDonnaMira]

So you want truth? The Moon and Mercury are in constellation Ophiuchus the Serpent Holder. There's truth for you.

Here's an interesting bit from Spaceweather News, more info on yesterday's interesting occurrence in an interesting place.

GREAT WESTERN FIREBALL: Yesterday, Nov. 18th, something exploded in the atmosphere above the western United States. Witnesses in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho say the fireball "turned night into day" and issued shock waves that "shook the ground" when it exploded just after midnight Mountain Standard Time. The fireball was so bright it actually turned the night sky noontime blue, as shown in this image from KSL TV in Utah:



Although the fireball appeared during the Leonid meteor shower, it was not a Leonid. Infrasound recordings of the blast suggest a small asteroid hitting Earth's atmosphere and exploding with an energy of 0.5 to 1 kiloton of TNT. Experts liken the event to the Park Forest fireball of 2003, which scattered dozens of meteorites across a suburb of Chicago. Meteorites are likely from this fireball as well. Stay tuned for developing information about the possible fall zone.

more fireball images: from KSL TV in Utah; from KTVB News in Idaho; from Thomas Ashcraft near Santa Fe, New Mexico; from Marsha Adams of Sedona, Arizona;

Approximately 6 hours after the fireball, people in Utah and Colorado got another surprise. As the sun rose over those states, a twisting electric-blue cloud appeared in the dawn sky:



"These curious clouds on the horizon caught my attention just before sunrise," says photographer Don Brown of Park City, Utah. "They were strangely bright relative to the rest of the sky."

The cloud strongly resembles artificial noctilucent clouds formed at high altitudes by rocket and shuttle launches. Yet there was no (officially reported) rocket launch at dawn on Nov. 18th. Could the cloud be associated with the fireball? The geographical coincidence is certainly striking. Debris from the fireball should have dissipated by sunrise, but the cloud remains unexplained and a connection to the fireball cannot yet be dismissed. Readers, if you have more information about this event, let us know.

more mystery cloud images: from Lisa Cain of New Castle, Colorado; from Daniel Owen of Monarch, Utah; from John Omohundro of Grand Junction, Colorado; from Jeff Kendrick of Salt Lake City, Utah; from Allan Jeffers of Denver, Colorado; from Scott Stringham of Salt Lake City, Utah; from Sean O'Leary of West Jordan, Utah;

[Sowelu]

Thought I'd try to get the image here... if you click on it, it should take you to the web page where the News video can run.

[AndiDonnaMira]

Oh, I am so sorry --

Technically, the Moon has already zoomed through Ophiuchus so now it really IS in Sagittarius.

Mercury is at the end of constellation Scorpius and will be entering Ophiuchus shortly.

I should have fact-checked first. But anyway, you get the drift. Sky realities could be vital these days now that we have a mysterious 13th constellation with such a fabulous and important history on the planet.

[AndiDonnaMira]

Thank you for the assistance, beautiful sister :-)

[Sowelu]

Now... I know next to nothing of this, but I recall reading - from Laura Knight-Jadczyk, I believe - many years ago that there originally were 13 constellations... and part of the descent or co-opting (or however you choose to view the alterations that occurred over time in this paradigm) was the elimination of one (a key one, apparently) in order to obscure truth (much like the church rewriting history in the bible and other similar slight of hands). Do you know anything about that?

D'OH! Or is that precisely what you're talking about here? LOL! I looked it up and realized it is, indeed, Ophiuchus. Somewhere I saw, too, that it's image is that of an eagle... which would make sense to me (as something to eliminate, if you know the symbolic value of "eagle"). But as "serpent holder", as you said, it also makes sense to me. That which is in command of the serpent, rather than dominated/victimized by it.

Very interesting!

[Edward]

That was pretty cool video of that fireball.

Ed

[AndiDonnaMira]

This is a late response -- sorry.

I have been working with constellation Ophiuchus since 1987 when I bought a sky atlas and noticed there was a constellation on the zodiac belt between Scorpius and Sagittarius that I was not expecting to see there. I had been intending to put out my shingle as a professional astrologer but that all went up in a puff of smoke. I realized how little I know about anything, even after taking a correspondence course from the Rosicrucian Fellowship and spending YEARS reading other people's books.

So I'm writing my own book--mostly as a work bench for my own edification. But the kicker is that things keep changing the more research I do. Hence the "workbench" approach.

So far it appears Ophiuchus the constellation was naturally subsumed in Scorpio because of the brighter stars of Scorpio. By tradition the "signs" take their names from the bright stars in the vicinity. Libra was the 12th zodiac sign created for the modern zodiac. It was made by clipping the claws off the giant scorpion which is now only left with nubs. The meanings of the foreign names of the alpha and beta stars of Libra to this day bear silent witness. Northern and Southern Claw.

Ophiuchus was placed in the sky by Zeus, not given a name but a description "serpent holder". It is supposedly Asclepius without his name attached. Think of the magical and mystery implications of that. But there is another reason why the constellation name "Serpent Holder" is an important clue to the mystery value of the constellation as a "13th sign".

Deeper levels of research reveal that the Olympian gods took their roots in myth to a large extent from Minoan Crete. Experts all agree Crete is the birthplace of Zeus. Originall, Zeus was the bright son and consort of The Great Goddess, who later became Hera long after Knossos and the whole of Crete was overrun by warring cultures, specifically Myceanea. The influence of the Goddess centered matriarchy softened the warrior cultures a bit over the years and the two cultures, mercantile and warrior, lived together in harmony until natural disaster in the form of the super volcano Santorini on the island of Thera put a natural end to Crete which represented the last staunch stronghold for the matriarchy. Art and artifacts reveal the culture on Crete was gender balanced, and the main deity worshipped there was The Great Goddess. The roots of The Great Goddess I will not go into here because it's complicated and I have not completed all my research.

However, be that as it may, the patriarchy made use of the Phoenician alphabet to bring pre-greek city-states out of the Greek Dark Age around 950 BCE (approximately) and reduce the wisdom teachings to writing. So all we know of the past before the Greek Dark Age is meta-history, self-serving stories designed to suppress the importance of The Goddess, and exalt the role of the Gods. Minoan Crete civilizations ended around 1400 or 1450 BCE. The Great Goddess was imported into the personage of Hera, Zeus's wife.

I'm abbreviating alot here but to get to the point, Zeus is the Shining Sky Father, his son Apollo becomes the God of the Sun. In search of a wife, Apollo's pursuit of Coronis results in pregnancy. But Coronis prefers to marry a mortal to marrying the God of the Sun, for which Apollo has her killed. This overturns the template observed for thousands of years wherein the annual chosen king is the one sacrificed. In this story, Apollo kills Coronis (a nymph daughter of King Plegyas, so she is legitimate royalty), puts her on a funeral pyre (Plegyas = fire) and sends her to the gods in smoke, but before it's too late, he delivers his son Asclepius (grandson of Zeus) by cesarean section and has Hermes take the babe to be raised by Chiron the Wise Centaur, so Asclepius will be taught the secrets of life and death and become a wise god of healing.

Christianity is the next holy war wave in which the patriarchy secured not only its dominance but the apparent eradication of Goddess. In this wave Jesus takes over Asclepius's spot as God of Healing & Wisdom. The church fathers replace the gender balanced pantheon that includes goddesses (particularly the role of The Great Goddess --maiden/mother/crone -- who had already been demoted to Zeus's Queen, the first Goddess of the Greeks) with a triad of Father, Son and [gender nonspecific but read into it male] Holy Spirit, supported by two mortal women, the Virgin Mother, and the whore of Babylon. The implications of this are clear.

So the subsumed "sign", or constellation Ophiuchus, is in actuality or ought to be the Minoan Serpent Goddess of Crete, or the Serpent Mother Goddess, but Asclepius is the patriarchal replacement for that archetype. Note Scorpius is elementally water=feminine so the choice of a man image for this constellation/sign spot is wrong. However, one look at Taurus the Bull (feminine=earth) gives us permission to be confused and permission to live in social and sexual ambiguity.

I don't say any of this is bad. What I'm saying is, that's how it is.

I guess that's enough for one story-telling.

Again, my apologies for the lateness of the reply. November-December are Ophiuchus solar transit months and I've been very busy tracking the progress of the coalescing energies in the sky.

Today by "coincidence" the Sun is in alignment (or conjunct you might say) with fixed star Alpha Ophiuchus, "Ras Alhague" so it makes perfect cosmic sense for this declaration of truth to be deposited here for the Earth Council to read.

If anyone wants to know who my recommended Ophiuchus resources on the planet are, they are Nick Fiorenza, "Sidereal astronomy astrologer" at www.Lunarplanner.com and Celia Fenn at www.starchildglobal.com. Both have December-Ophiuchus birthdays and both are very obviously extraordinary and beautiful representatives of the serpent holder constellation energies.

Love & Light,
AndiDonnaMira

[AndiDonnaMira]

This having been said (in my immediately preceding post) about the gender image of the constellation as pictured (male) being wrong, it doesn't necessarily follow that the image should be of a woman either. I believe I mentioned (and if I didn't, here is the mention now:) the name of the constellation "Serpent Holder" instead of Asclepius gives us the opening we need to find the truth and recombine what we see (myth and history extant) with what we didn't see before the unexpected occurred and this "13th sign" jumped out in front of the bus (the systemic suppression of Goddess spirituality).

Elementally, "the 13th sign" is neither water like Scorpius nor fire like Sagittarius but the Fifth Element, Ether. The meaning and significance of this in these changing times will be obvious to mystery students and initiates. Especially if you do a little research on the Hebrew terms "mazzaroth" and "mazzalot".

Love & Light,
AndiDonnaMira

[Sowelu]

Holy wow, AndiDonnaMira, that is some of the most intriguing and truth ringing stuff I've read in a long time. Thanks so much for posting it here. I don't have words at the moment, but it fits so many threads of awareness I've had in my consciousness that had nowhere to link up in this world. Just wow.

As I was reading I had this sense of it "making perfect sense" that I have Scorpio rising, in light of this information... somehow... and also that I am one whose sun rules her moon and moon rules her sun (Cancer sun, Leo moon). The implied purpose of this life being Wholeness in Form... finally. (Thus Sowelu, interestingly enough!

I also had a sense that the proper imagery is not male or female but androgynous, though not in the image most humans have of that concept. Basically "Whole Spirit Being in Form". Which to my senses fits this whole saga you've described here so well.

Like you I don't say or feel any of what occurred is wrong or bad, but its revelation now is part and parcel of the wholeness being realized.

So many things I wish I could find the words for, rambling around inside all at once, at the moment.

Bless you for your focus and intent with this! I'm delighted when I discover there are people here who apply themselves in such awesome, life-changing ways.

Love you! (((Hugs)))
Sowelu