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By Christine Payne-Towler
ArkLetter 106, January 1, 2014
The NewMoon chart for January 1, 2014 is quite literally a drawn bow focused on Jupiter in Cancer.
Mars and Uranus are the top and bottom of the bow, and the NewMoon bundle that includes Pluto and Mercury represents the hand that fits the arrow and draws the bow. What a direct and forthright way to start the new year!
With the NewMoon in Capricorn, which is the end of the karmic cycle of the signs according to the ancient Ladder of Lights, we are now being given a gold-plated invitation to learn from the past and define our goals for the future in the light of immediate prior experiences. In Capricorn the seeds of the past are "earthed", and in Aquarius they sprout within the depths of our pre-conscious dreamtime. What seeds have we been sowing the last half-year with our thoughts and feelings? What conditions are we providing for their sprouting and early protection? What crops are we projecting for shortly after the Summer Solstice, the time of year represented by the spot that Jupiter is occupying right now? What do we need to have completed by Spring Equinox that will put us in place for that high summer peak? And what do we expect to harvest from our efforts at the next Fall Equinox? These are the questions brought up by this NewMoon on this first day of 2014.
In terms of Tarot cards, the NewMoon bundle contains the Fool, the Priestess, the World, and the Star, with the Empress having just gone retrograde near the end of the sign. All of these archetypes have banded together in the realm of the Tower. That's fully half the Planets in one sign, placing a terrific emphasis on results of past efforts and their consequences for the future. Everything in this chart either launches from, or returns back to, this terrific convergence, which is sheltering under the aegis of The Lightning Bolt (trump # 16). The suggestion is that a terriffic shock is getting ready to smite half the world, especially aimed at those who currently reside at the top of the food chain. From my experiences with the Tower over all these years, a reliable constant is that when that lightning strikes, 3/4 of one's 'so-called Reality' is radically transformed with such ferocity and intensity that most of it shudders and crumbles into dust. Only those things and beings which are humbly grounded in Nature and have no aspersions to grandeur will be furthered within this highly charged and literally electrified landscape.
As I write this within 24 hours of NewMoon, TEPCO in Japan is quietly announcing that the very damaged Unit 3 at the Fukushima nuclear reactor complex is suddenly steaming from an unknown source. (http://enenews.com/) Astro-geologists are raising their quake watches to critical levels due to this multi-planetary alignment at NewMoon. Political and economic pots are boiling around the world, threatening to overspill and scortch our habitual ways of supporting ourselves and maintaining our civilizations. Could the situation be any more emergent and demanding of readjustment? Time will tell.
The message of the Magus in the realm of the Hierophant is that all self-aware shamans, priests, healers, bards, psychics, intuitives, artists, musicians, creators, visionaries, inventers and word-smiths need to awaken to our true identity and speak truth to power. The Hierophant is traditionally the "power behind the Emperor's throne", teadhing us that the Emperor is a figurehead for the Hierophant's pre-existing Grand Plan, derived from astrological study across the centuries. Why aren't you and I at the center of the courts of power, advising kings and leaders? When I think of the amazing powers of magi from previous civilizations right up to the present -- Tibetans who chant and beat drums, causing giant boulders to rise, reshape themselves, and settle into the walls of their temples; Druids who can raise boils on their enemies' skins with a spell-song; healers who can thrust their hands through a person's skin and pull out a cancer -- I think we 20th century shamans of the 1st world had better start pulling our socks up! What are we waiting for? How are we going to meet these incoming challenges with our wimpy new-age nostrums, pardon my French?
Uranus has been in Aries since late May of 2010, and it won't be leaving for Taurus until May of 2018. Let's all just settle in and start owning our responsibilities, shall we? Anybody with any sense of "power", whatever one might call it, and whether it has been labled constructive or destructive, should start practicing and refining it as of today. We need your unique gifts and capabilities, people! Call them forth and perform them! Now is the time for which we were issued these special abilitites, I am convinced. We need to deliberately hack into our DNA, activate the unused portions, learn what they are holding for us and then mutate freely. This is the situation to which we are called by all the forces above and below. It's time to take ourselves in hand and live the things we have been learning. We need to move past the theoretical and speculative, break the spell of the usual and customary, and start making direct applications of our magical abilities to the literal situation at hand. There is no .other day. to leave it to. Now. Wake. Up.
As suggested above, each NewMoon chart maps not only the arrangement of influences in present time, but also the other sensitive nodes around the year that will continue resonating this chart, keeping it entrained and alive in the collective psyche around the circle of the year. Looked at this way, the marker of the Spring point is Uranus, which in the THL is associated with the Magus, currently residing in the sign of the Hierophant. If we are true and responsible to our own visions and inspirations starting right now, then by spring we'll have identified our sphere of power and how we want to apply our influence.
The summer "bull's eye" of Capricorn's target is the Emperor, our master of self-sovereignty and self-created abundance, occupying the realm of Justice ("you get what you pay for"). By then we can expect to see some result of our current NewMoon, appearing full-blown shortly after Summer solstice. According to the "drawn bow" figure in this chart, our current lightning-struck seed-drop is designed to elicit a manifestation of the Emperor (the individual as corporation, self-owned and self-operating) acting under Maternal Justice (Nature's laws). This symbolism implies that by this time we will have taken our place in the Emperor's court, if we aren't going to occupy the throne ourselves. With this timetable in mind we can calibrate our personal pace of development in the intervening months
The fall harvest is represented by the Strength trump in the realm of the Hanged Man. This sequence reminds us that that everything we wish for, strive for, work for and pray for is going to have a cost and a consequence, so we have to prepare yourself to pay that cost up front, rather than put it off to a later date. By fall we will have conquered our outworn fears of our own power and glory (Strength), and will be in prime position to make a worthy sacrifice for the sake of future generations (Hanged Man).
Assuming we have played our cards right, we will come into Capricorn's Hall of Accounting with our heads held high, knowing that we heard our call and responded to it with the spiritual vigor of true Knights and Dames.
Happy New Year to all the lives with whom we share this Earth. I have confidence that the Divine Plan is proceeding, and it lovingly includes us all. May we each find that still small voice within, and follow it to the Light. Aho!
CURRENT STAGE OF THE MOON for the Americas:
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NewMoon at 10+ Capricorn on Wednesday January 1st, at 6:15 AM (EST) / 3:15 AM (PST). From this moment, the Moon begins to wax, or increase.
FUTURE STAGES:
- 2nd Quarter, Waxing Half Moon at 17+ Aries on Tuesday January 7th, at 10:40 PM (EST) / 7:40 PM (PST).
- Full Moon at 25+ Cancer on Wednesday, January 15th at 11:53 PM (EST) / 8:53 PM (PST). From this moment, the Moon begins to wane, or decrease.
- 4th Quarter, Waning Half Moon at 4+ Scorpio across the midnight hour of Thursday January 23rd at 9:20 PM (PST) / Friday January 24th at 12:20 AM (EST).
- Next NewMoon at 10+ Aquarius on Thursday January 30 at 4:40 PM (EST) / 1:40 PM (PST). From this moment, the Moon begins to wax, or increase.
ArkLetter 106, January 2014
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