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Read MoreFrom centerstage to backstage: New moon in Virgo
Ripened fruit upon the vine
Your sleeves are rolled up
The vision is distant
Blurred in its edges
But vast and deep
This dream draws you in
And you are ready
Invigorated and charming
You the discerning one
With the quiet flame
When the wax melts
And the metal tarnishes
You will exhale
Into softer intestines
As rules or delays
Bump into your plans
So perfect the vine
That births the fruit
Even after you weave
Vine into flexible rope
The shadows of decay will
Nip at its junctions
Consuming its strength
And dissolving its function
so what does remain?
gaze at the shadows cast by your proud and waving flag: new moon-solar eclipse in Leo
As creator of ‘nataleo.com’ I’d be remiss not to publish an article about the giant, important, awe-and-fear-inspiring, so-called “Great American Solar Eclipse” that is happening in the late degrees of Leo on Monday, wouldn’t I?
SO MUCH has been written on it, by vague, new-age-y astrologers and excellent, critical, well-researched astrologers and everyone in between. It can be overwhelming to try and contribute something interesting, unique, and fresh.
I don’t wish to repeat what others have said so well, and there are so many layers to this moment in time.
Read MoreRhymes for the New Moon in Cancer
from high skies to fitful streams
sipping on placental dreams
though our eyes & minds may agree
our fallen warrior is moist & moody
to feel warm and safe and surely held
supports paths on which we are compelled
a threat makes our eyes pop wide
do we lash out or run and hide
protecting that which we hold dear
turning away from what we fear
a sweet, supported new beginning
injected with desires of winning
today's lunation in the crab's sign
impresses value on what is mine
be wary as we crawl this moon
enough abounds for all to bloom
Queen of Heaven Dances Through Her Lover's Castle
Venus is a glimmering diamond in our skies and her beautiful, cyclical dance with the Sun, as seen from our perspective on Earth, inspired ancient people to dub her with such lovely titles as Queen of Heaven. The ancients watched Venus alternate between her visible and invisible phases, when she regally shines in the night sky, she is Hesperos, when she dares to grace the morning skies before the Sun, she is Lucifer (bringer of light), and when her glimmer is absent from our skies, she visits her dark sister, Ereshkigal, in the Underworld.
Unlike the erratic and less predictable cycle of her cosmic lover Mars, Venus’ dance with the Sun creates a 584-day cycle as measured from one conjunction -when Venus is aligned with the Sun - to the next. During her inferior conjunctions, Venus is directly in between the Earth and the Sun and during her superior conjunctions, Venus is directly behind the Sun from Earth’s vantage point. She alternates between being invisible - when she’s in front of (60 days) or behind the Sun (7-8 days) because the Sun’s glare blots out her sparkle - and visibly shining in the night skies (260 days) or morning skies (260 days).
Read MorePisces Promises: Renewal In The Dark
For people who follow tropical astrological or solstice-equinox-type of calendars (ie. people in Iran), the spring equinox on March 21st heralds the new year, so by those systems, we are now in the deep dark of the end, where everything dissolves and unwinds and dies to make way for the new.
I love the dark moon chaos stillness so much that I can find the dark moon everywhere: the end of every lunation (every 28 days); the end of the Gregorian year; the end of the Chinese year; the end of each project; the onset of blood time…