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New Moon in Leo, 5 August 2005 by Margaret Koolman
August 12, 2005
Soul Astrology
New Moon in Leo, 5 August 2005
Using the New Moon moment as a birth chart for the
following month, my comments
are meant to provide an attitude that maximises our ease
and growth during that time.
Run-up to the New Moon
While Saturn transited Cancer during the
last two years, family relationships have been the focus
for the principles of authority-responsibility and
structure-control. From 16 July, Saturn is in Leo and
these principles will now be focused through the governing
of society. This is particularly clear with Saturn’s
opposition of Chiron. Chiron in the first degrees of
Aquarius represents a wounded faith in human behaviour, so
clear after the London bombings. Since then, there has
been time to express those emotions which follow shock and
grief, and which were stopped in their flow, after the 9/11
disaster, by Bush’s revengeful whirlwind. This time, the
shock and grief have been allowed to unwind and, at least
begin, to heal - the positive face of Chiron – with diverse
neighbourhoods and communities holding together in shared
pain and sympathy.
It is not simply a matter of people being
lovely to each other, but more pertinently accepting the
truth of any situation before reacting. So much reaction
is due to previous personal experience and not relevant to
the actual situation itself. It is the fear we harbour
that creates unkind and brutal reactions to people we
hardly know. When we focus on the actual person in front of
us, who they are and how their life feels to them, an
absolutely natural human response is to be kind.
Mars from Aries to Taurus
On 28 July, Mars completed his 1 ½ month
transit of Aries, and entered Taurus, squaring both Chiron
and then Saturn. Perhaps this is the feeling of pure
energy suddenly driving into the earth and slowing to a
point of inertia. Working flat out with urgent Aries
energy is difficult for the earthy body to tolerate for
long, as is experiencing the shock of sudden aggression
where there was peace, and the fear of its repeating.
After a period of such stress, our body runs down and needs
to recover, and Taurus is the natural healer, Earth
herself. Mars will make his retrograde movement this year
while in Taurus, so he will be there from now until
February 06. Much of that time, Mars will be within reach
of squaring Saturn in Leo, so we have plenty of time to
adjust our style of action to what works. That’s the key
phrase I will try to bear in mind for myself – ‘approach
carefully, and do what works!’ With this attitude, we have
the opportunity to achieve many things we’ve not had the
grit to get down to before.
The new ‘tenth’ planet.
Another planet really has been discovered.
It first showed up in photographs in October 03, was only
recognised as a planet in January 05, and was announced to
the world last week, on 29 July. So far it is referred to
as 2003 UB313, and, though the name Xena has been proposed,
the International Astronomical Union will make the final
decision. It is probably larger than Pluto, and at present
is twice as far from the Sun. Its orbit is around 560
years, as opposed to Pluto’s 248, and even more eratic than
Pluto’s, sometimes bringing it closer to the Sun even than
Pluto!
Each new major body discovered in the solar
system seems to correspond with a shift in general human
awareness. Just as with Pluto, and with Sedna recently,
astrologers will have to play with the new planet’s
character-name and position to get a feel of what it might
represent in human terms. At the moment it is at about 21
Aries – lovely, considering that Mars, who is Aries’ ruler,
earthed its energy in Taurus the day before the
announcement was made! Also in the New Moon chart, Mars
sextiles Uranus, emphasising the bringing of new off-planet
ideas to earth.
This discovery has brought into the open
once more the discussion as to what makes one body ‘out
there’ a planet, and not another. It is as though the
discoveries laugh at our rules of definition! If Xena is
to be the planet’s name, the laughter is even louder,
because Xena is the name of a powerful Greek goddess - who
was invented only in the 1990’s! It seems humanity is
ready to accept that there is no need to remain rooted in
our past – another sign of the Aquarian Age? Certainly
Xena celebrates the equality of women with men. Let me
know your ideas on what shift in our awareness this planet
may indicate.
New Moon in Leo – 5 August
All the above brings us to the New Moon
moment in Leo, when Sun, Moon and retrograde Mercury, all
sextile Jupiter on the Moon’s South Node in Libra. The Sun
rules Leo and is therefore the most powerful of the group,
tending to pull into its naturally positive life force all
events (Moon) and communications (Mercury). Mercury
retrograde implies that we are talking over old events, and
the Libran addition suggests that those events are
affecting our personal relationships. There is the
possibility here that, through gentle discussion, we may
find again the love between us that has been hidden under
the hard experiences of life.
This Leo bunch is opposite Neptune. We may
find ourselves somewhat confused, trying to put too good a
face on things. We may know that ‘all is well’ on one
level, yet not know how to apply that to the day to day
experiences. However, Venus, quincunxing Neptune from
Virgo, is showing us that it is care of each other from our
inmost soul that brings all things together. Also, Jupiter
is coming up to trine Neptune, and our sensitivity to the
harder aspects of the human condition can work to smooth
out much of the past.
On a more personal note, we may find
ourselves too ready to complain about things not being
clear, getting depressed about the world in general and our
own frustrations in particular. The route through this
morass is to keep the heart lifted, and to focus on what we
can do to improve things. As always we need to remember
that it works to ask for help and guidance through whatever
personal links we each may have with the greater Life.
Humanity is building a conscious bridge between spiritual
awareness and daily experience, and each of our individual
efforts adds to the strength of the bridge for us all.
With Mars square Saturn in this New Moon
chart, the background scene could look potentially
aggravating for anyone trying to control their situation.
But Mars, who is ruling the Aries North Node, is in Taurus,
so it is by slowing down and considering the natural
organic route, that we find our way forward.
Meditation for this Leo New Moon:
Find pleasure in being who you are,
pleasure in experiencing nature and loved ones through your
five senses.
Enjoy breathing – it helps to open up the heart area.
Take regular moments to enjoy whatever you can in your
immediate surroundings.
Practise feeling loving, and feeling loved.
With love,
Margaret
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