New Moon Notes - November 2007

By Christine Payne-Towler
NewMoon Notes
ArkLetter 32, November 9, 2007

The NewMoon in Scorpio brings another Bucket chart, but what a difference a month makes.  Now we have seven planets above the horizon, with everything ranged between Virgo and Pisces. Mars in Cancer is still holding himself away from the crowd, and is still pointing towards the empty sign of Capricorn for his release. But this time he's held in a Grand Trine with the NewMoon in Scorpio and Uranus in Pisces.  The three of them are bathing the whole chart in a hot springs of their mutual creation, infusing all the issues of the new month with free-floating emotionality that simply won't be suppressed. How does it feel to be me? Where shall I aim all this passion and power? This month is all about coming awake to these questions.

The sign of Scorpio kicks off such a powerful period!  With the days getting shorter and the weather getting colder (in the Northern Hemisphere at least), many face unsettled conditions that drive us all indoors for the interval. As a result, we are thrown up against our inner realms perhaps more than we want to be. Scorpio's seeming unpopularity begs the question: Do people fear this sign because they are uncomfortable being so immersed in their own inner life -- especially the part about seeing themselves under the same microscope through which they view others?

It's also true that All Saint's Day and All Hallows Night  fall right in the middle of the sign of Scorpio, marking the end of the shamanic year. This represents that mythic period when the veil is said to thin out between the realms of the living and the dead, allowing some communication and possibly even traffic between the worlds. This is when the magus goes into the metaphorical 'cave of earth' (the dreamtime, the magical trance) and meditates on the Interior Sun until winter solstice, which brings the rebirth of the light.

For all these reasons and more, the sign of Scorpio is described as intense, relentless, demanding and insatiable, just like the winds that are rising to strip the leaves from the trees right now. True to its ruler Mars, Scorpio is also scalding, pressurized, probing and sharp.  Scorpionic forces are not afraid to be seen as armed and dangerous, and why should they be? When I think of Scorpio's placement as the follow-up to Libra, I think with relief "It's about darned time! Bring on the accountability and let's get some boundaries going, for Pete's sake!" 

Soft and sentimental Libra seldom wants to question or enforce anything, a style that allows situations to fall into fuzz-focus.  This style keeps the human relations aspect very groovy, and everybody gets along easily enough, but that's mostly because nobody's taking responsibility to ask any of the hard questions.  During Venus' reign, people whose level of evolution is low will find ways to cheat, taking advantage of being trusted and left unsupervised. Even high-minded people who would never stray out of the lines of righteousness (at least not when they know they are being observed!) might sometimes be tempted to bend the rules and think "nobody's looking, they'll never know the difference, so what's the harm in just a little thus-and-such over here...?"  We have seen quite a bit of this in the news of late!

Thankfully, all of that self-delusion is set to rights now that we're fully into the cauldron of Scorpio. This is the season for tough love, the time for receiving compassionate correction. Now the steaming jet of Scorpio's fixed water sign drills into any gaps or hollows where Libra’s fig-leaf of good intentions and trust-without-verification have failed to cover the territory. In Scorpio, there's no more sympathy, no more benefit of the doubt. It's pass or fail now, based on the natural consequences of our own self-chosen actions. Each of us will be, so to speak, 'hoist on our own petard'.  After all, what could be more loving than removing the 'slack' that was covering up our hand-in-the-cookie-jar immaturity?   Once the penetrating examinations of Scorpio begin, there's nowhere left to hide, no 'fudge factor' to duck behind. We are exposed in our selfishness, and forced to look at ourselves without excuses or rationalizations to soften the view.

Libra gives us the rope, our own unfinished business hangs us, and Scorpio is what searches us out in and savors the inevitable consequence, enjoying the poetic justice of our ensuing predicament.  Scorpio's ability to deliver us unto our just deserts is, in a way, a relief and a release. By being 'caught in the act' and corrected, we also learn that it's quite likely nobody else gets away with practicing his or her double standards forever, either.  Our personal lesson might even become a public event, with both awakening and educational consequences for the whole neighborhood. If nothing else, Scorpio gives us a chance to remember that none of us are issued into this world without our warts, our wild hairs and our blind spots. By accepting our imperfections and incomplete development, we can also gain humility and grow in compassion for the world around us. The come-uppance that Scorpio dishes out is also a  'come-downance', a leveling of the playing field whereupon we can re-encounter our limits and retract our projections.  In this sense too, Scorpio is a cleanser and therefore a healer.  Whatever is extraneous to our psychic well-being will be exposed as crap and jettisoned; despite the excuses the rational mind will babble. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Intercepted Signs, Resolved through Relatedness

Here on the northwest coast of America, the chart takes an arrangement that gives us four interceptions, including the sign of the NewMoon, Scorpio.  Please indulge my locality-based provincialism for a moment so that I can use this example to make a point: Looking past the equal-house style printout, this chart shows us four very compressed houses around the vertical axis and four huge, stretched-out houses across the horizontal axis. If we were to interpret this psychologically (as if it refers to an individual), the issues around the Midheaven/Nadir (where collective consciousness is "coming from" and "going to") attract very little attention and energy, whereas by comparison, the issues across the horizon (the I/Thou axis) get huge amounts of time and focus. In short, the inner life of personal meaning and relationship takes precedence over the social life of group inclusion and striving. In times like this, we are more inclined towards what my Aries mother calls navel-gazing; the feeling is introspective, sensitive, reflective, melancholy and likely a bit narcissistic.  After all, it takes a lot of pondering to work out the flow in a chart with one or more pairs of intercepted signs. Nothing comes easy.

A house that hosts three signs will have three rulers, one for each:
    a) The sign on the cusp of the house,
    b) The sign with no house cusp of its own, which is trapped between the house cusps with no direct channel of expression, and
    c) The sign that ends the house and occupies the cusp of the next house.

Let's look at this NewMoon's 6th house, which (calculated according to the Campanus system) starts with Sun-ruled Leo on the entry-cusp, holds all of Mercury-ruled Virgo 'in the pocket', and ends with Venus-ruled Libra. With three rulers governing segments of the same house, there is going to be a mix of formative influences.  The rulers of this house are in this case over in the 7th house mostly -- the Sun with the Moon in Scorpio, and Mercury in Libra. Venus is in the last degree of the 6th house, in the very early portion of her home sign of Libra.  Uniquely, in this case, the focus of the whole Virgo/Libra 6th house is pointed across the descendant into the Libra/Scorpio 7th house. The rulers of the 6th house are all on the cusp leading into, or fully installed in, the 7th house. It looks like communication towards accountability for purposes of healing is desired in the realm of 'right relationship'. 

This is another situation where it is good to have the ancient functions of Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio updated for modern astrological practice. As we saw in last month's NewMoon article, this complex of nutritive, relational and cleansing functions needs to be well sorted out within ourselves, so we don't make the mistake of blaming our inner states on outer circumstances or vice versa.  Without making careful discriminations between our hungers and cravings for new input (Virgo), our need for companionship and collective recreations (Libra) and conversely, the need for privacy to undertake the work of detox (Scorpio), we would be in danger of misreading our own and others' signals.  Were this the chart of a person I was counseling, I would say "Study the relationship formula that has dominated your life as if you were a scientist. Look past the present manifestation and pick out the pattern that keeps repeating through the years. Then get in right relationship to that pattern, and the momentary manifestation will take care of itself".

More often than not, given the odds, one will see the three rulers scattered all around the zodiac, and possibly even pressing aspects to the residents of the house they currently rule.  This is the case with the NewMoon's 12th house, where Saturn (ruler of Neptune in Aquarius) is pressing an opposition to the North Node, and Mars (ruler of the final few degrees of the 12th house) is throwing a trine to Uranus.  With these multiple agendas pulling in so many different directions, it can be difficult to find a cause or goal that all the relevant parties can work towards together. In the chart of a transitory event like this NewMoon, the confusion and hydra-headedness can be chalked up to the vast range of human psyches experiencing the moment simultaneously. But in the case of a person whose birth chart is configured this way, there's a lot of soul-searching that needs to be done to figure out how these multi-valent energies are to be worked through and satisfied. The issue of competing desires and loyalties will complicate the process of fulfilling the needs of that overlarge, mixed-up house. These are the circumstances in which unique adaptations of personality get formed, folks!  No two alike...

Regarding the interception of the NewMoon, it's fortunate that Scorpio's ruler, Mars, is trine the NewMoon from his position in Cancer. We might feel a bit overwhelmed by this conspiracy of heat among the three Water signs, but we can use the same approach on the three points of the Grand Trine that we are suggesting for the interceptions.  The general rule goes like this -- the ruler of a house cusp’s sign is doing that house's business, wherever in the zodiac it is currently placed. In other words, one looks to where the ruling planet currently is, to determine what kind of resources it has for taking care of its home sign(s). In the case of an intercepted sign, the ruler's action might seem muffled or less potent. To strengthen the power of any sign, including intercepted signs, one can look to the ruler's web of aspects, to any other houses it might currently rule, and to the ancient alchemically based system of essential dignities. This is done to discover a planetary relationship that can be enlisted to modify the energy of the out-of-balance sign as well as liberate any planets contained within it. 

We can see that, whether the ruling influences are close to each other or scattered around the chart, the complexity of a pair of interceptions demands relationship-oriented solutions. Interceptions cannot be understood or resolved by applying tests of "purity", or distilling issues out into separate categories.  A house with so many degrees in it, especially if there's planets or Lights in them as well, is going to be a lively laboratory in which a lifetime of experiments are undertaken. Certainly, in the charts of individuals, the study of interceptions is vastly rewarding, since with patience and attention to details it's possible to assist people in untangling their fiercely repeating Gordian knots.

Interceptions are not peculiar to the Campanus house system either. Every house system except Equal Houses produces them; it's just a question of where they tend to end up around the circle of the houses.  The imbalance gets more obvious the farther north or south of the equatorial zones you go. By studying your own, your family's and your friends' charts in multiple house systems, eventually you will settle on a system that represents the chart in the way that's compatible with how people are describing themselves. This is the key to picking a system -- using tools that match with your worldview and that of your clients. You just have to remember that people with interceptions in their birth charts will probably, in their earlier years, suffer from confusion and mixed motives because of the overlapping rulerships. It usually takes a number of years to untangle these things and smooth out the wrinkles enough for folks free themselves, enter into and develop their smaller, plain-vanilla single-sign houses as well. 

Shining light on the case of the very-short houses that compensate for the interceptions in this chat, we can see why there's a block to putting them into perspective. We see two houses governed by Capricorn and two governed by Cancer; due to the interceptions, these two rulers (Saturn and the Moon) have dominance in an extra house each.  One might think this results in increased power for the rulers whose influence seems to be so easily doubled, but actually what happens is that the hours of time that can be devoted to those houses' work are greatly foreshortened.

Say, for example, you were using the progress of the Moon around the houses of this chart as a timing device, to suggest the days during the month each house would be activated and available for progress. In this case, you'd see the 3rd and 4th, 9th and 10th house periods whiz by extremely quickly, in only 36 hours or so.

On the other hand, the 12th and 1st, 6th and 7th house periods will drag on for almost a week, putting you through endless twists and turns before they finally let you loose. In terms of one's personal experience, the idea of all the houses carrying equal significance is an ideal, which is in truth only attainable by those of us who are born and live our whole lives at the Equator. For the rest of humanity, the subjective experience of time is inherently 'lopsided', whether the interval under consideration is the 24-hour day, the lunar month, or the solar year. Not only are the hours of day and night always shifting throughout the yearly seasonal cycle, but similarly, our own inherent capacity to attend and respond to the various realms of life that occupy human experience (the houses) is seldom uniformly distributed either.

Putting the NewMoon back at the center of our focus ...

Here is the full list of aspects emanating from NewMoon to other planets in the chart:

    NM novile (1/9) Pluto
    NM square (1/4) Neptune
    NM trine (1/3) Uranus
    NM trine (1/3) Mars
    NM quintile (1/7) Saturn
    NM semi-square (1/8) Venus

By investigating how these planets might be connected, we see several closed figures resulting. The Grand Trine between the NewMoon, Uranus and Mars has already been noted as a trendsetter for the whole season. It must be noted that the span between Mars and NewMoon is at the very outside edge of my tolerances for this type of aspect. If the NewMoon weren’t involved, I wouldn't consider this for analysis.  But Harmonic astrologers give the Lights an extra 25% margin of orb just for being themselves, so that pulls the Grand Trine formation into focus.

The general "hotness" of the trine, which I keep remarking about, is due to the nature of three out of four of the involved parties -- Mars is aroused and invigorating, the Sun is the generator of all heat and light, and Uranus is madly electrical.  Since this trine is taking place in the Water signs, (meaning the collective ocean of unconsciousness, consciousness and superconsciousness), it's pretty much a shoe-in that something intensely moving will be roiling these waters and setting loose tidal phenomena that wash up onto many people's private shores.  What we each will do about it remains to be seen, dependent upon each one's self control and wisdom quotient. Some things can't be tested except under emergency conditions.

Another figure that attracts interest is an oddball Harmonic Trine made up of NewMoon, Neptune, and Mars. To be a perfect Harmonic Trine it would have to have one side be a square, one side a trine, and one side an inconjunct. But the collective inexactitude of the Neptune/NewMoon square and the Mars/NewMoon trine have eaten up so many degrees between them that there's not room for an inconjunct on the Neptune/Mars side. Instead this side manifests as a narrow biquintile, which is frankly less problematical by half. Portending creativity and a visionary sense of the invisible, this biquintile might be able to suggest spirited and magical solutions for ordinarily intractable  problems.  One can easily understand why the union of a square and a trine could be challenging. But if the third side of the figure can come forward with goodwill, optimism and humor (instead of  the inconjunct's confusion and paradox), then the overwhelm-potential of this Hot Water Trine could be at least partially mitigated, benefiting in particular the stressful friction (perhaps mass-delusional fiction?) of the Neptune/NewMoon square.

Another angle on the biquintile from Mars to Neptune can be gained by looking back at it from the septile of Neptune to Pluto.  Pluto introduces another triangle entirely, creating a full four-sided figure with the Harmonic Grand Trine (the final side of this triangle closes the gap between Pluto and NewMoon with a novile). There's only one of two possible interior 'ribs' of this figure that is fully within orb -- namely,  the square from Neptune to the NewMoon. (The 6/11 aspect between Pluto and Mars falls about half-degree out of orb, but I won't mind if you visualize it present!) Overall, the nature of the aspects enclosing the conversation between Neptune and NewMoon (biquintile, septile, novile, trine) impart a bubble of security, serenity and detached perspective to the momentary play of potentially challenging circumstances represented by the square.

The semisquare that NewMoon shares with Venus is her least obscure aspect. In this chart, Venus doesn't lend herself to classical aspects  (30-degrees or multiples) with any of the planets.  The single figure she participates in is the novile triangle she shares with Mars and Jupiter (see below).  Other than that and the NewMoon semisquare, she has only the background  5/11 link going with Uranus, and her triseptile with the North Node (plus whatever she might be doing with the Angles in your time zone -- in mine she's square MC and opposed ASC). For this reason we will forgive her if she appears somewhat disaffected and alone in this NewMoon's light. Venus is in fact the actual 'singleton' in this chart, much more so than Mars. By taking her stand just at the turning point of the year (at the very opening of Libra), and putting herself in a degree that no other planet in the chart shares, she highlights her ownership and domination of the relationship imperative.

Despite Scorpio's unmasking of insincerity and false promises, and beyond the emotionally steamy climate of the Grand Trine that is making the whole chart sweat, Venus retains her pride of place as figurehead for the human bonding urge and relationship need. Through her semisquare with the Scorpio NewMoon, Venus expresses  feelings that are insistent and justified -- she demands what is due to her.  "It is high time", she says "that the grace and inspiration I bring to your (collective) life be recognized. Whatever you pay for the privilege, whatever I put you through, whatever recovery you have to undergo afterwards -- it's all worth it. My power of attraction is the Power that animates the creation itself. It is I who constellate your secret desires (Mars in Cancer), and I who drive your collective styles and fads (Jupiter in Sagittarius). Ignore my influence at your peril!" 

Regular Figures that Don't Involve FullMoon

A fascinating figure of septiles runs between Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn (including also the Ascendant in the Pacific Time Zone -- note in this context the Saturn, Ascendant, Jupiter triangle.)  We know Jupiter and Saturn as the Opportunity/Limitation pair, who together control the flow of individual life just like the left and right banks of a river. Now we see the two of them -- Jupiter in homesign Sagittarius; Saturn in fellow earth sign Virgo --  yoked together by Mercury in Libra.  The septile family of aspects, which divides the circle by seven, gives an analysis of the karmic or compulsive factors that condition individual life from beyond the personal sphere.  It reminds me of the saying "the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons even unto the seventh generation". As the drought and water-rights issues playing out in Georgia, Alabama and Florida right now show us, the combination of go-go, me-first expansion taking place in the context of absolute limitation (the smallest water resource available to any metropolitan center in the country) creates a showdown that hurts the many due to the oversight of the few who were in a position to see this coming.  Mercury has to be asking -- how did our local planners, civic leaders and regional caretakers manage to sustain the vast blind spot necessary to overlook such a predictable dilemma? What were they thinking would happen to the little guys when the water ran dry?

Another regular figure of this NewMoon chart contains Jupiter, Mars and Venus sharing a Novile triangle.  This family of aspects imparts a cool, impartial, distanced point of view that allows for a non-attached analysis of larger trends.  There is a confidence and optimism among those who are in harmony with this figure, which allows for  resilience in the face of unstable or uncertain developments coming in from outside one's own center. In particular I associate noviles with far-sighted understanding of current events.

Circumstantially, macrocosmic Jupiter in Sagittarius is reflecting inflated, distorted expectations that are alerting the wary householder (Mars in Cancer) that  his foundations are at risk.  I'm likening this pattern to the attitude of a) the peak oil proponents, and b) those individuals who prepared themselves for the current carnage that is taking place in the financial  world.

It's perfectly correct that occasionally the lazy human 'something for nothing' delusion should be challenged and the consequences tallied.  For this reason the creeping fear that is spreading due to the relentless decrease in the world's oil supplies is justly deserved. So is the growing black mark on the face of the world's lending institutions, which bought into the mortgage-foreclosure mess (caused by indefensible, unpayable loans given out willy-nilly) by repackaging and selling these built-to-fail loans in bundles to their investors.  Like any castles in the clouds, all faked-up claims are bound to collapse into the nothingness they originally emerged out of. But then what happens to the little people's lives that were experimented on so callously, herded like sheep into the pens created for them? I believe that Venus will arrange some easement for those who were truly duped and hornswoggled by villainous snake-oil salesmen. But at the same time, we have all got to take responsibility for being so open and unquestioning to the constant  'pie in the sky' adverts claiming to offer an easy, instant fix for our greed and material lustfulness. Again, this NewMoon is Scorpio is bringing everybody nose-to nose with what is real for us at the bottom line.  Certainly part of that 'getting real' trend will be to make an accounting of our sustainable and unsustainable agreements. In times like this, we learn who our friends are, and if we have been canny, we take refuge in our safety nets.

Synopsis

Overwhelmingly this chart seems to extend last month's discussion about negotiating the delicate balance between self- determinism and interdependency. Every NewMoon gives a fresh start, and this one is no exception. But perhaps in Scorpio we are not granted the entirely clean slate that we might wish for. Certain debits cannot be canceled before they come home to their originator, and this is especially true for our failures in personal relationships. Where there are unbridgeable power imbalances, like that between a parent and a child, failures of insight can be especially damaging. Relationships built on trust and reliance are uniquely vulnerable to insensitivity, unconcern and neglectfulness. Therefore in Scorpio we are reminded of our own insufficiencies past and present, with an eye towards correcting our lapses towards others before they blossom into full-on sins of omission of commission.

It is also good to remember that the fixity of Scorpio grants its natives long memories about the ancient sources of their pain. Arbitrary developments from Nature (or instinct) are to be expected in times of stress, but gratuitous cruelty on the part of humans who have the means to be helpful is a sin against humanity. If in the past you ever told yourself "I'm going to remember what this suffering feels like when I'm (older, empowered, top dog, etc.)", then this is the time to keep your promises to yourself. The goal is not to maintain grudges into perpetuity, but to have the capability to put ourselves in the other person's shoes when we are making decisions that will directly affect him or her. It is necessary that we be able to feel ourselves before we can extend that sensitivity and understanding the plight of others. There is no place for offensiveness or defensiveness when we are talking about survival needs and fundamental human dignity.

Therefore the cultivation of compassionate attunement to those people we depend upon and who depend upon us is called for at this time. By resisting the urge to project our judgments upon others, trivializing their needs and challenges, we will keep the doors open to healthy support and mutual reliance during challenging periods like these. Let's keep our self-perceived sufferings in proportion to the ~real~ issues dogging the planet right now, which will motivate us to reach out even more to those whose survival is on the line. It is more appropriate, in this turbulent and piercing season of Fall, to remember those simple things that bring pleasure and security to all, than it is to retreat and hoard our personal treasures behind high walls. Memories of difficult past experiences are not retained in order to make us paranoid and misanthropic, but instead to instruct about how *not* to proceed into the future!

News You Can Use

Starting this month, Tarot University is experimenting with a new offering that we hope you will all be intrigued with. I have recently been reunited with a dear friend and long-time old student stephen spyrit, who has, during interregnum, has become an avid astrologer and metaphysician. He has many other excellent qualities as well, but for our purposes we are going to tap into the years he has put into watching politics, pop culture, and broad social trends in relation to the movements of the heavens. 

From time to time in these writings I might make references to topical events, but stephen is the man for watching and collating those links to the headlines across the months and years.  Traditionally there are all sorts of rules and constrictions for practicing what is called 'electional' or 'horary' astrology, but we won't burden you or stephen with trying to explain or follow all of that.  We're asking stephen to write up a short response to these NewMoon charts a week after this one appears, to post at the Moon's first quarter and called, unsurprising, "First Quarter". In his articles, stephen will connect the trends and astrological structures previously highlighted to actual developments that are emerging in the news. When he has an insight, he'll suggest ways those NewMoon trends might be playing themselves out through the rest of the month. We'll

Stephen also writes a weekly column on his blog to talk about the transits of the day. I hope you'll go and check it out.  Don't forget, there will be a supplemental ArkLetter showing up in your mailbox announcing our new "First Quarter" offering one week from today. No doubt you'll enjoy stephen's insights as much as we at Tarot University do.

Happy Scorpio NewMoon, dear ones!

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CURRENT STAGE OF THE MOON - November 2007:

NewMoon 17+ Scorpio mid-afternoon of Friday, November 9th at 6:03 PM (Eastern) -- 3:03 PM (Pacific).  From this moment, the moon begins to wax, or increase.

FUTURE STAGES:

2nd Quarter, Waxing Half Moon at 25+ Aquarius  on Saturday, November 17th, at 5:32 PM (ET) -- 2:32 PM (PT).
Full Moon at 1+ Gemini on Saturday, November 24 at 5:15 AM (ET) -- 2:15 AM (PT) . At this point the Moon begins to wane, or decrease.
4th Quarter, Waning Half Moon at 8+ Virgo  on Saturday, December 1st  at 4:44 AM (ET) -- 7:44 AM (PT).
Next NewMoon 17+ Sagittarius, on Sunday, December 9th at 12:40 PM (ET) -- 9:40 AM (PT).   From this moment, the moon begins to wax, or increase.

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November 9, 2007
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Comments

[Bonnie]

Christine:

What a great new offering! I look forward to reading this, and did go to Stephen's site and sign up for his blog notifications.

Blessings,
Bonnie

[Christine]

That's the plan, Bonnie!

I really enjoy stephen's point of view, and think that others will too.

Working this way is fun for me too, because over the week between what I write and what he writes, the probabilities mature into actions that change the world. Watching how intimations and intuitions become history is the ultimate thrill for diviners!

C

[christine]

Correction!

Friends, please excuse!

The FullMoon will actually hit at exactly 9:31 am Eastern Time, and 6:31 AM for Pacific Time.

I hope this means a few of you can sleep in and still "meet the moon" in a civilized fashion.

Sorry to confuse you, dear ones!

Christine