Cancer Full Moon – December 26, 2023

It’s a full moon at 4 degrees of Cancer. Cancer is all about family, heritage, mother, tribe, country and nation. It’s ruled by the moon and so puts us in touch with our emotions and intuition. At the full moon these things are coming to a culmination. Many of us will be spending time with family over the holidays and this is the perfect setting for bringing out all things cancer.

The moon is sextile Jupiter and trine to Saturn. The sextile to Jupiter will bring out happy and joyous emotions. We feel like celebrating and spending time with friends and family. This is a good time for spending time with any group you feel attached to. With the moon sextile Jupiter, there may be temptations to over eating or overindulgence however, the moon is also trine to Saturn which gives us a certain amount of control over our emotions. We’re more realistic and don’t mind having some restraints or setbacks. For instance, we may have wanted to spend lots of money on our family, but because of inflation or other financial impacts, we feel very happy and satisfied with small gifts and small token of appreciation…. And so the restriction brings out a feeling of appreciation. We can also feel nostalgic for past traditions or a simpler time.

The sun is in Capricorn and it’s conjunct Ixion. Ixion has a bad reputation. He is the god who promised to pay for his bride and then didn’t. He’s the steal you girl or guy type. She’s the one who will try to get away with murder. You’ve likely given them lots of chances before and they usually mess it up! It’s likely we will have in our midst at least one of these types who we don’t and shouldn’t trust.

The ruler of the Sun is Saturn. And the trine from Saturn to the moon helps us to have boundaries and to trust our gut with respect to anyone who is in our midst that we cannot and do not trust. This will protect us from any ill will sent in our direction. Since this is a full moon will be able to bring a conclusion to aspects of this negative relationship. We may finally learn how to be loving, but not trusting. The saying fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame on, you comes to mind.

Regardless of the fact that this person or energy is in our midst we still feel good and enjoy our full moon!!

Cancer Full Moon

Scorpio New Moon – November 13, 2023

The new moon is at 20° of Scorpio. It is conjunct, Mars, and asteroids Hopi and Child.

Hopi elder sharing peace pipe ashes

It is also opposite Uranus and the asteroid Lampo.

New moons are about new beginnings. They are a great time to set intentions for what we want to bring into manifestation.

This is a good time to consider making intentions around things shared, therapy, looking deep into our issues around control, trust and power. Scorpio is also about sex, death and transformation. It’s connected to magic, the occult, organized crime, secret societies, or secrets of any kind. Scorpio can be destructive in it’s lower form and transformative in it’s higher form! Fundamentally Scorpio is about creation, destruction and/or transformation.

The new moon is a conjunct asteroid Hopi. The the Hopi are a very important native American tribe whose prophecies revolve around the end times… that point to the path of making it through the transformation of the Earth… or not. Hopi prophecies say that we have repeated history many times. Always in these repetitions there is a decision point where society can choose between greed, worship of technology and fighting each other or coming together in love and creativity and peace. The prophecies say that one path leads to the destruction of our world and the other to avoiding disaster!

But how can we come together in peace and love and creativity? It all depends on the child, or more specifically, the inner child! The new moon is also conjunct astroid child brings up issues around our childhood, our inner child, or relationships with our children. How have we dealt with our childhood hurts? When triggered do we turn into a terrible two year old or a petulant teenager? Have we grown spiritually and have we nurtured and healed from our childhood hurts?

Hurt people hurt people…. and more easily, hurt people, hurt children and create a lineage and cycle of hurt. Ultimately these hurts play out in our relationships with others, our work relationships and ripple out to society. Worse if we have power! The impact of our acting out can be huge!

The Scorpio new moon is ruled by Mars, and Mars is conjunct this new moon. Added to it is an opposition to Uranus, making this new moon somewhat volatile. But it also gives us accesses to earth shattering breakthroughs. Instead of allowing volatility to take over we can approach it like a controles demolition! We can use the volatility to breakthrough issues that stop us from finding peace within and without. This is therefore an amazing time for therapy, meditation, astrology readings etc. anything that can help us to reach within and heal.

Opposite the new moon is with Uranus is Lempo. Lampo is the Finnish god of love and fertility. Apparently Lempo was turned into a demon through Christianization and a villain in the medieval finished folktales.

Lempo is a mild swearword in Finnish!

Lempo astrologically seems to indicate malevolent distortion, demonization and possibly religious bigotry.

But let’s go back to the heart of Lempo! Lampo reminds us of all of the inversions that have taken place in our understanding of our world, and allows us to reach into the truth of who we really are! If Lampo is truly about fertility and love, then it’s like the word F@ck! The sacredness of love and fertility (sex) has been turned into something profane… we can use this new moon breakthrough energy to return to the truth… maybe we even do a fuck meditation to channel the energy, reach the truth and ultimately heal and grow our inner child!

The Sabian symbol for the new moon is “obeying his conscience, a soldier, resist orders”. This suggests that following our own path at this time may go against society or the majority. However, it is in going against society that we sometimes help society out, taking it to that higher Hopi path!

Happy scorpio new moon!

Lunar Eclipse in Taurus – Oct 28, 2023

The lunar eclipse is at 5 degrees of Taurus. This is the last eclipse in this Taurus/Scorpio eclipse cycle. Taurus and Scorpio are money signs and over the last couple of years of eclipses in these signs, we have had big money drama. Bank runs, FTX, Sam Bankman Fried, Evengrande bankruptcy in China etc. Etc. In addition the growing push for CDBC’s (Central Digital Bank Currency). On the other hand, it has also brought up changes in food and food security. Crickets anyone? This the last eclipse in the money and agriculture sign of Taurus will certainly bring things to a head… and may even be a grand finale!

At an eclipse, the earth gets between the moon and the earth and dims the light of the Sun reflected on the moon. This eclipsing of the light of the moon gives us a moment or two to gain perspective on our emotions. The light returns and the lights come on! It’s an epiphany moment. A time when big changes come and we can’t unsee what we see.

The Sun is in the fixed sign of Scorpio. There are many good qualities about Scorpio, but in opposition, it favours the dark side enjoying power, secrets and control. To add to it, the Sun is beside two unsavory asteroids; Rhadamanthus and Narcissus.

The god Narcissus was beautiful. He was so beautiful that staring into a pool of water, he fell in love with his own image. He was so in love with his image that he stayed staring into the pool and starved to death. The asteroid represents narcissistic tendencies such as a grandiose sense of self-importance; preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love; the belief that he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions; need for excessive admiration; a sense of entitlement; exploitive behaviour; lack of empathy and arrogance.¹ Rhadamanthus on the other hand was one of the three judges of the dead, responsible for those in the East in Greek mythology. In astrology, it represents judges who are stern and often inflexible. It is highlighted in the charts of some very harsh people including Laura Schlessinger, Ariel Sharon, Ron Hubbard, Jim Jones (Jonestown “drink the cool-aid” massacre) and Marshall Applewhite (of Heaven’s Gate suicide cult), as well as Pope John Paul II and the Dalai Lama.

The Sun’s ruler is Mars which is conjunct Mercury in Scorpio and opposite Jupiter in Taurus. This adds a sharp tone to the judgmental narcissism already mentioned. You can expect this Sun in Scorpio confidently and expectantly and with superiority to encourage you to drink the cool aid. Before you would have missed the judgy narcissism, but at this eclipse, the light dims and when it comes back, you gain perspective. You now see the truth. You get perspective on your emotions, allowing you to see clearly what’s in the drink! And it’s all likely to be due to happening, sharp words and actions within Taurus-related things like money and agriculture!

In response to the Moon’s eclipsed energy, we will be able to tap into and channel our wounds into our creative skills. This is because The Moon opposite the Sun is in the earthy fixed sign of Taurus. Its conjunction with Jupiter will make emotional responses over the top. However, the ruler of the moon is Venus and Venus trines to Uranus pulling in inventive, workaholic energy. In addition, asteroid Hephaistos is conjunct the moon. If Chiron is the wounded healer, Hephaistos is the wounded creator. Hephaistos was born with a physical defect. He was treated poorly by his family and others and ended up on an island to escape. This is where he found his calling as a blacksmith. He also married Aphrodite, but she was unfaithful and he ended up pouring all of his energy into making weapons, arrows, jewelry and other technologies – anything that could be made with fire and metals. In astrology, Hephaistos represents those who are skilled in their trades, especially blacksmiths, carpenters and other tradespeople. At this eclipsed full moon we tap into our skills and trades and bring our creations (ones that we have been throwing all of our angry frustrated, “I’ve got to do something” energy into) to completion.

The opinions in this documentary may not necessarily reflect those of my own, but in the movie, The Primordial Code, the documentarian, in response to questions about our world, explores a couple of metal creations. He creates a metal-framed pyramid greenhouse to test how plants will grow. He also creates coils using copper to increase energy in his crops and tests that out as well…all with success. These are the kinds of creations that we can see coming to fruition at this time. And like the filmmaker, they are born out of frustration and questioning of the history and solutions provided by the narcissistic elite (0r those who think they are the elite).

A similar creative expression came about during the 2008 financial crisis… Bitcoin was born. Read my post on Bitcoin.

The Sabian symbol for this eclipse is a Cantilever Bridge across a deep gorge. Again this speaks of the ingenuity of craftsmanship and building, but it also calls on teamwork to accomplish the project. We can stay on one side of the gorge, but to enjoy all the lands, or to get somewhere needed, we will need to work collectively to accomplish our goals. The Lost Century and How to Reclaim It is another documentary with a call to action. This one starts with a cautionary tale about keeping our creations to ourselves and trying to take all the glory but ends with the hope of creating free energy technology (with the help of smart people and aliens of course!).

Happy Lunar Eclipse!