Metaversal Newmoon in Libra Report: Monday the 12th of October

As the leaves fall, October supports us in letting go habits and ATTACHMENTS and moving to a new level of wellness, awareness, prosperity, and of joy in relationships. The Roman Goddess for this month was Astarea, associated with the lost Golden Age of humanity, which Pennick associates with the golden leaves that are lost in the cool dark days of fall. For the Egyptians it was Hathor, the facet of Venus that received the Sun in her arms as it set, much as October evenings receive the waning Sun of the year. Diverse archetypal virgin/whores are also associated with fall, supporting the strong Virgo influences at play this month. Virgo represents the period from 13 to 23 years old, when mental growth dominates our lives and many attend institutes of higher learning. Many binding choices are made and the rules and details of society are learned. On the World scale Virgo is between 800 BC and AD 400, when classical civilizations like Greece and Rome flourished, when culture, science, philosophy, politics dominated. By AD 300the Books of the New Testament were chosen to support the beliefs of the Christians who formed the political organization of the Church. The naive excepted the surface value, while initiates were forced to hide (occult) their rituals and teachings. Until now. Even above Earth, there are secrets at the heart of Nature that'd make you laugh till you stopped." How can you believe in astrology?," angry, drunken Basque separatists have asked me. I tell them that astrology is not a belief system, but an archetypal, poetic language. I don't ask you if you believe in Japanese. I ask if you speak it. I don't ask you if you believe in music, I ask if you play it. I happen to speak the heavenly tongue of astrology along with thousands of other highly intelligent, inspiring, spiritual and even scientific astrologers. If I never have to deal with angry, drunken Basque separatists who have stolen the Shroud Of Turin again, it'll be too soon. Still, if my destiny is to be an untransformed seed-cum-manure of a man - or to put it another way - if I can at least be the source of unconscious friction that triggers another Christ or Buddha's urgency to awaken, then so be it. Fertilize my ego!
As it BEGINS, Mars the warrior and Jupiter the promoter are both in the sign of chastity. On Thursday October 8, Venus, goddess of love and prosperity, joins this alignment, further enforced by Saturn as it is currently under Jupiter’s rule. Since Jupiter the visionary and Saturn the worker are perhaps the two most important planets for success, Virgo concerns and ACTIVITIES are getting a boost, including healing, work, change of habits, service, and people and groups related to these fields. If the latter include you or someone close, it’s worth putting fire in your goals, efforts and promotion.
These Virgo influences provide a practical, earthy base for October’s relational and transformational urges, which get triggered from day one with a conjunction from Mercury the messenger to Juno, the feisty-partner asteroid, as the messenger planet backs up in Libra, sign of relationship. The heat is hotter since this pair happens to oppose Vesta, asteroid of passion, in warrior-sign Aries. Themes of injustice, co-dependence and oppression in relationships will occupying our personal and collective headlines. Situations that may have been swept under the rug or simply tolerated until now will no longer seem acceptable.As Mercury’s opposition to Vesta perfects and lingers for several days, this restlessness will color the end of Mercury’s retrograde, until it sextiles Saturn on October 7 and 8. By that time many of us will be integrating the clarity found since late August,
when Mercury ENTERED pre-retrograde shadow in Libra.


MONDAY, OCTOBER 12

A very special New Moon in Libra, sign of partnership, closely opposes Uranus, planet of freedom in Aries, sign of the individual (5:06 pm PT, 8:06 pm ET). Libra represents the period from 23 to 42 years old, when partnerships are made and balance is sought between others and oneself. On the World scale Libra is between 400 and 1100 AD, when division of the church and state took over, and the Dark Ages swept over Europe and Asia. The opposition is symbolic of the fact that in order to emerge from the unconscious, internal conflicts must be brought out into the light of day. Marriage was the primary process through which opposing countries where integrated into a whole. With the Moon in Libra we are aware of our communal relations, law, justice and balance. The 7th house (Libra) has been called the house of marriage. The key to the New Aeon of MA'AT is figuring out the new symbol for Libra, as the institution of marriage was originally designed as a tool by the Church to secure it's future domination. Those that cannot find this new symbol and perform these symbolic rites on themselves and their tribe, and the whole fabric of material being, will inherit only the blues, decay, and husks. Think more in terms of partnership and remember, your heart must be light as a feather. We may hurry to begin a new project or partnership today only to discover that rushing in has its consequences. The rational Libra New Moon at 8:05 pm EDT requires objectivity in our decision-making process. But this New Moon opposes shocking Uranus, which releases buried tension. Establishing a steady pace is tricky; we must find ways to open doors to conversations instead of closing them before a fruitful dialogue even has a chance to develop. The connection with issues of partnership is emphasized in the chart for this lunation by Mars’ semi-sextile to Juno, asteroid of partnership and justice.The Moon provides a time of reckoning in relationship, of new ways of connecting
that that honor both partners’ need for freedom and space for individuality.
Although new commitments are not propitious with Mercury is still in its post-retrograde shadow, reworking and new paradigms in existing relationships are triggered by this portal.
The Sabian symbol describes:

“An old Rabbi sits contentedly in a room crowded with books. Interest in permanent rather than transient values.
Accumulation of ancestral wisdom brought to use.”