Pisces New Moon - March 8 2008
March's New Moon in Pisces brings up some very interesting issues and ideas. Falling on March 7 in the United States (March 8 in Australia), the degree of the new moon is Pisces 18: In a Huge Tent a Famous Revivalist Conducts His Meeting With a Spectacular Performance... shades of the U.S. Presidential race with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain slinging it out, making pronouncements, making promises, evangelizing, and talking up a storm. All of these candidates speak like they are promising a new world, a greater sense of freedom, more opportunities, greater wealth, etc. This Symbol brings up images of revivalists, evangelists, religious gatherings. It can also bring up the issue of boxing matches and circuses... going by what's happening in the media in the States we're seeing those things every day through the main stream media. This Revivalist Symbol describes what we've been seeing in recent times, especially as Uranus was on this degree for several months during 2007 and again for this last month.
It seems what we need most, and I've written this before, is a sense of hope. Hope is something that rewards us in it's own special way... feeling hope, we get a sense of relief in holding that space.
What we also need to focus on is gaining a greater sense of our own individual power - the power inherent in each and every one of us. This can be easily forgotten when so much is going on in our lives; things that challenge us, that push us to our limits. The trick, I believe, can be found through the agency of the current Mars-Pluto opposition. Pluto is on Capricorn 1: An Indian Chief Claims Power From the Assembled Tribe. This Symbol speaks of the need to stand up, feel strong and be counted as someone in charge of our own space, our feelings, our own destiny - most importantly, able to connect with the people who live around us and form our community. Claiming power from the assembled tribe also infers gathering together parts of our own personality - gathering in all those disparate parts of ourselves that divide us or sabotage our efforts; the part of us that is strong versus the part that wants to crawl under a table. The part of us that believes in what we're doing and where we're going versus that part of us that wants to go AWOL... those parts that don't line up with how we'd like to see ourselves. Claiming power shows where we need to reclaim those parts of ourselves that give away our power - where do you allow others to lord it over you? Walk over you? Dictate what you want, what you can have, where you can go?
Feeling powerless and impotent won't cut the mustard for very long, especially as Mars is smack opposite Pluto. Mars is on Cancer 1: A Sailor on a Boat Lowers an Old Flag and Raises a New One. This Symbol shows the need to assess and reassess what we need in our life, what we hold an allegiance to, what we salute, where we belong. It asks us to look at what we've signed up to. What is it that we need to let go of in order to live our lives with more authenticity? How can we change our lives so that what we do and how we live more authentically reflects our sense of self?
Finding out what we want is especially important as Mercury is on Aquarius 21: A Woman Disappointed and Disillusioned Facing a Seemingly Empty Life. We can't allow our lives to be empty - what's that about? Disillusioned and disappointed won't work, either. We need to again connect with that sense of hope and direction. I've pointed this out before, but I'll say it again, each and every Symbol holds the fruit of the exact opposite: The Woman Disappointed and Disillusioned holds the much bigger promise of the Woman Who's Full of Hope and Promise for the Future. Rewrite that Symbol in your mind (and I promise to: I'm going to do a big rewrite on the Symbols for my next book.)
Getting back to the Revivalist degree of this new moon, just before writing this, I read an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about Benny Hinn, the evangelist said to raise $200,000,000 a year through his entreaties to the people who flock to see him that they should give money to his ministry as it's money that's going to god.... something I find very hard to swallow, particularly as he apparently visited Africa last year with people donating money they could ill afford - hoping to find a miracle, they give and give and give - all over the world. Interestingly, there is currently a U.S.Senate Investigation into Benny Hinn and 5 other televangelists.
Barack Obama is a phenomenon - how is he doing it? It's like he's got a lot of something - charisma, the ability to say the right thing with the right tone, a calmness, a knowingness - something that somehow has quite a hold on people. I feel he's playing the part of the Revivalist in many ways, certainly he seems to be bringing hope and the prospect of healthy change to many people. It will be interesting to watch his progress. Obviously, he's a huge target for the right wing. They haven't started on him yet. I think they're not sure where to start.
Further, on the American Presidential election, I think that Hillary Clinton is going to have problems staying in the race, or, at least, staying on course as she has some very big Neptune transits - Neptune is forming a tight grand cross to her Mercury/Saturn/North Node t-square. This is huge and it would have to be very tiring for her. Although I think she's a very strong person, staying on an even keel emotionally is likely to be quite a test with all the confusion of Neptune going on. Neptune (the dissolver) on her Saturn (her sense of structure, what she knows to be solid and real) and her Mercury (her ability to communicate and think and listen) just won't give her the necessary energy to pull through and win this race - unless she has a few rather major miracles and some serious time to rest and recuperate.
At the time of this new moon, with so many things hanging in the balance for Hillary, we find Venus on Aquarius 24: A Person Turning Their Back on Their Passions - it looks like someone is going to be dropping out, or, at least, making major adjustments to how things are done. As this Venus is playing into Hillary's t-square so neatly, along with Neptune, it feels like she'll be the one turning her back, whether it's soon or in some months to come; things that unfold now could lead to this happening further down the track.
Likewise, I find it hard to imagine that John McCain will be able to keep up the pace. He has some rather difficult Uranus transits coming up later on the year. I doubt he'll make it to the election, actually. I'm not predicting death for him in the literal sense, more that he's likely to run out of steam. I don't think he has what it takes.
During this new moon, Uranus is on the degree following the Revivalist in a Gigantic Tent degree - Pisces 19: A Master Instructing His Disciple. Echoing these degrees are the issues of religion that are continually coming up. Issues of just how religious the candidates for the Presidency are, is Barack Obama a muslim? Is he religious enough? Does he wear a patriotic lapel pin? What representatives of what churches endorse the candidates, do they put their hand on their heart when they stand for the national anthem? and on and on and on (for God's sake, why on earth do people listen to this stuff? - I know, I know, not everyone do, but there's enough who do.)
Considering the real issues that are plaguing people in the United States and in the world, this all sounds rather specious, to say the least. The Sun and the Moon being smack on Uranus during this new moon shows how in need people are of being able to get back in touch with reality; what really matters at this time. One hopes (I could say one prays!) that some semblance of sense comes back to what's going on, but I feel that it's unlikely in the short term. Uranus on this new moon is most likely just going to ramp up the silly stuff to the point where many thinking people won't be able to stand watching the charade that passes as politics at all any more.
Jupiter will be interesting to watch, as well. Just a few days after this new moon, it moves onto Capricorn 18: The Union Jack is Flying from a New British Warship. This seems to imply that issues to do with the flag will come up more and more. This patriotism thing is really just a curve ball when people are losing their houses because they can't pay their mortgage and people are having not only their homes but their bodies blown apart in Iraq (this for service men and women as well as the people of Iraq).
Keeping the faith is always important, but with Uranus - which often separates and causes rifts - being in such close contact with the Sun and Moon in this new moon - we are needing more and more to connect with each other - and with a sense of personal authenticity. However we choose to connect, we need to do it with not only our minds, but our hearts and our bodies. Hug, kiss, touch, love; these are good antidotes to the separating energies that Uranus can bring our way.
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