May Day
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The first day of May is the birth moment for the entire month containing the potential unfolding of our self-awareness if we pay conscious attention to the celestial clues being offered. If we look at the natal chart for this birth, using Greenwich Mean Time ( GMD ), we see the Sun in Taurus rising above the horizon in firm determination to build something within ourself which is of value to us and others. The North Node in Aquarius is gallantly leading the celestial pack toward worldly fulfillment, and opposing the Leo South Node in the fourth house suggesting a month of solar flare-ups stimulated by emotional insecurities garnered long ago. The Leo Moon is approaching a conjunction with the South Node and together they are approaching the fifth house where we seek the pleasure of being our authentic self. This celestial signature between the Leo Moon and the South Node foreshadows “the opening square “* of the Taurus New Moon encouraging us to grow more self-confident during the month of May. The Leo Moon is exactly trine Venus in Aries, and approaching a trine with Mars in Aries, igniting passion and desire which could easily smoulder underwater, the root source of our passionate desires wholly unconscious, unless we put effort to bring the darkness from our past into the light of our present. The Moon approaching a square to the Ascendant in Taurus and quincunx Uranus in Pisces further aggravates our insecurities about being appreciated for who we are. If we shift our perception of what we think we know and open our mind and heart to the source of our ambition – Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune in Aquarius – we may heal the great divide separating “you from me” and “us from them” that is preventing all of us from working together to create a better world for everyone.
* I heard this describing of the waxing Moon from astrologer, Alexander M. Zoltai, and found it beautifully describtive of the potential of this phase of the lunation cycle.
May 1st, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Since your mentioned the “opening square” I’ll quote about it and the closing square from a wonderful article about the 36 phases of Any cycle from:
http://www.khaldea.com/eon/eonintro.shtml
“PHASE 10 – The Waxing Square 90
KEYNOTE: Maturing new qualities demand freedom from the past and its compulsions.
SCENARIO: The direction of the rest of the cycle now hinges on a capacity for decisive action, enabling one to remain in tune with the futureward movement of the eon. The essential character and quality of how the process unfolds — or fails to unfold — through the remainder of the cycle is largely molded by the allegiances and patterns of action formulated and enacted during the previous phases and in this crucial phase of decisive action and subsequent stabilization.
Here the two paths inherent in any cyclic process operating at a truly human level lead to a decisive struggle for ascendency between pastward and futureward forces. Its outcome largely decides whether (and to what degree) the cycle’s activities and capacities courageously unfold mostly in tune with the needs of a creative future or are largely controlled and conditioned by the past and its ghosts. Either way, a stable basis for expanded activity is about to be established.
DYNAMIC: For a moment the principles of subjectivity and objectivity, of unity and multiplicity, are equal. But the process moves as the waxing square demands decision in the perhaps turbulent life-department represented by the planetary pair. Now individuality becomes a realizable potential as the principle of differentiation attains ascendancy; it is actualized when one courageously stands against the powerful torrents of the past and successfully resists the pull of collective psychism and ancient failures. Here the courage to meet crises of action and encounters with the tyranny of the old leads to an active and decisive break with the past. Yet one often does not realize the full magnitude and implication of such moments until their time has passed. ”
“PHASE 28 – The Waning Square
KEYNOTE: An emergent new order and its ideals and values offers a new way of living.
SCENARIO: Facing broad issues with an open, creative mind may precipitate a crisis of meaning in this decisive phase. The cycle which in its waxing hemicycle nourished and brought into fruition a new Quality of being and its faculties, and which witnessed a new vision and its ideals around the waning trine, now calls for the development of a social order founded upon rising qualities, principles, and values. The phase carries the symbol of a exemplary individual utterly dedicated to transforming his or her society — be it a group of peers, a family, a town, a profession, a nation, or humanity as a whole. Here everything connected with the planetary pair is questioned and re-examined in light of a new worldview or ideology, and whatever is shown to be outmoded and inadequate is uprooted and disposed . . . sometimes ruthlessly.
As the cyclic process wanes, organic decline becomes increasing evident in the activities and functions symbolized by the planetary pair. If the cycle has not been allowed to unfold and actualize adequately, alienation and manipulation may surface as controlling forces. If the direction of the process was mostly pastward during the waxing hemicycle, but was successfully turned-around during the waning trine, a growing sense of individuality may precipitate a crisis of reorientation similar to that seen in the waxing square. In such instances, one may experience crises and opportunities allowing one to redeem past shortcomings through the acceptance of a new direction and outlook — opening the way for actualization in the succeeding cycle.
Even if the process has unfolded in a mostly successful and evolutionary manner, intellectual honesty may be compromised for the sake of expediency. Here, perhaps more than in any other phase, any individual flaw or shortcoming, any opaque element of the personality, casts far-reaching shadows as the individual attempts to impress her subjective values and reality upon the outer world. Indeed, the exemplar of a new way, or the father of a new society, symbolized by this phase could be a Gandhi or a Lincoln, or a Lenin or a Mussolini. Either way, they forced a society to embody their values and vision.
DYNAMIC: In this crucial phase, the principles of integration and multiplicity are for a moment equally matched, with the movement toward unity and integration in ascendancy. Now action must be given meaning. Current activity, and the entire network of experience comprising the cycle, needs to be seen from the broadest perspective possible. The crises and comforts, confrontations and pleasures, experienced earlier in areas symbolized by the planetary pair should not be seen as isolated, unrelated fragments, but as congruent phases of a whole cycle of experience. But there is also a degree of cultural or intellectual ruthlessness connected with this phase: the weeding-out of unnecessary elements, a drive to succeed at any cost, and the possibility of social and ideological intolerance. In a higher sense, in this phase the evolutionary hemicycle of the cyclic process culminates, beginning a closing arc of consolidation as its Quality of being is realized as a vital, creative force in the world. “
May 1st, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Dear Alex,
Your generosity of spirit to share this entire quote with me and others is deeply appreciated – it will take many readings for me to even begin comprehending the breadth of these ideas and i thank you for opening the portal to my understanding.
Lauren