Fri,

New Moon @ 21 Taurus 18 on May 12, @ 5:00am AEST
May 11, 2021 @ 3:00pm EDT; 12:00pm PDT; 8:00pm BST; 


 
Some people call a New Moon Black Moon. Indeed, a new Moon is in its black 
phase, disappeared into the light of the Sun, invisible and black. Making this 
Moon even blacker, Black Moon Lilith is smack dab in the zone, deeply embedded 
its in Taurus earthiness with subtle, subsurface mycelium intelligence. Have you
seen the documentary, Fantastic Fungi, about this amazing, fascinating, magical 
world? Highly recommended.
 
 
This Taurus New Moon culminates in a Total Lunar Eclipse on May 26 (at 5 
Sagittarius) and wanes into a Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse on June 11 (19 Gemini).
We need to be ready to jump through that fire hoop! This Moon cycle is an 
experience we wont forget. One way or another, Black Moon Lilith may saturate 
our material existence with awe. Refer to your gut intelligence. Mercury and 
Venus in Gemini play frisbee with a kaleidoscope of options, ideas and 
information. Keep breathing to slow down the spinning merry-go-round.
 
 
Jupiter and Saturn Shift Gears
Two days after this New Moon, Jupiter enters Pisces on May 13, an incoming wave 
that flows with enhanced feeling and sensitivity. Blessings abound through July,
giving us a taste of what will later unfold more fully. In late July Jupiter 
backs in to Aquarius, like a dolphin coming up for air-- and perspective. Well 
need that. A second, stronger Jupiter in Pisces wave rolls in for New Year 2022.
 
 
Close to the Full Moon, Saturn turns retrograde @ 13 Aquarius on May 23, 
indicating a pause in the ground game. We have gotten as far as we are going to 
get in obvious progress. New information (Venus/Mercury in Gemini) and a new 
feeling tone (Jupiter into Pisces) will effect a major shift in our perception, 
our experience on all levels--spiritual, mental/emotional, physical. Saturn 
retrograde into mid-October gives us time to consolidate our gains, integrate 
and calibrate new input and the initial repercussions of strong May-June 
eclipses.
 
 
Plutonian Earth Connection
Just as I began writing this newsletter, the mail delivered a recommended book I
had ordered: UnderLand: A Deep Time Journey (2019), by nature writer Robert 
MacFarlane. He talks of the mycelium realm a bit, and so much more: hidden 
sub-surfaces of place and mind, deep mysterious layers of geological and human 
history, what we have forgotten and what we dont want to know.
 
 
For some time, I have been mentioning the outbreaks of unhealed history arising 
all over the world that remind us of where we have been and dark shadows that 
continue to haunt us. I attribute this to Pluto in Capricorn, the underworld 
emerging up to the surface to be brought to awareness and processed, so that we 
can renew and recreate. The void migrates to the surface, as MacFarlane quotes 
from Advances in Geophysics, 2016. Another phrase that caught my attention: 
historical memory behaves like flowing water, disappearing without warning, only
to resurge under new names in new places, with fresh force. Here in this 
topography of cavities and clandestine places, dark pasts get hidden, then 
brought to the light again.
This New Moon is beautifully in alignment with Pluto in Capricorn, digging down 
like deep-rooted tree of Taurus, with (sometimes stubborn) patience and 
persistence over time, stabilizing the ground, interconnecting in a productive 
way and connecting Heaven with Earth.
 
 
Mythic Lilith lives in her tree, doing the same, sometimes, and certainly now. 
The Black Moon is present, shoulder-to-shoulder with this New Moon, with an 
unusual, focused, laserlight intensity, at 22+ Taurus.*
It is as though the moon
threw down a black body upon earth
visible only to the subliminal senses,
which thereby became illuminated.
--Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real
 
 
And at 26+ Taurus we find the star Algol, which has been called Lilith. This 
star has a potent power of its own, marking the Eye of Medusa in the 
constellation Perseus. That paralyzing Eye, writes Jungian psychologist Sylvia 
Perera in Descent to the Goddess, looks right through you with
with an objectivity like that of nature itself and our dreams, boring into the 
soul to find the naked truth, to see reality beneath all its myriad forms and 
the illusions and defenses it displays.
 
 
We are not going to miss any of the major implications indicated for this New 
Moon cycle! With the current instability of geotectonic plates, high octane 
photon waves activating Earths electromagnetic field and the rumblings/tumblings
of earthquakes/volcanos, much is migrating to the surface-- into our earthly 
reality and into our mental/emotional landscape. Lilith/New Moon Taurus 
demonstrates this in a profoundly literal, experiential way that no doubting 
Thomas could argue with. Lilith doesnt argue: It is as It is, and thats that.
 
 
*[For those interested in the Black Moon, note that both positions,
mean and true, are at 22 degrees, just 10 minutes apart.
Also of note, Asteroid Lilith is conjunct Neptune and
Dark Moon Lilith closely squares the Nodes.
I am address this only indirectly in this newsletter.
For more about the different Liliths,
please request my introductory Lilith booket
or read Living Lilith: Four Dimensions of the Cosmic Feminine.
Lilith workshop series coming soon.]
 
 
Eclipses Coming, Mercury and Venus Prepare Us
Mercury in Gemini conjuncts the North Node, our collective leading edge of 
destiny. Weve been going pretty deep into Earth; Gemini wants to light things 
up, especially with Venus tossing delight here and there like dandelion fluff 
and rose petals, golden coins and warm teasing smiles. The Goddess of Love is 
fine-tuning our mental apparatus, infusing it with honey-flavored emotional 
intelligence.
Can you keep your mind open, in a non-judgmental spaciousness to entertain 
different perspectives?
 
Mercury has its trickster side, especially in its own sign. It can elicit 
paradoxes as weighty as that of Hamlet--To Be or Not to Be-- or light as a bird 
in flight. Mercury is asking a lot of questions, and this is a key one to get us
through, not only this Moon cycle, but these shifting sands times.
Mercury and Venus on the North Node, one of the eclipse points, are preparing us
and peppering us with things to think about. Along the lines of Buddhist 
inquiry, life poses questions and various viewpoints are proposed, entertained 
and considered. No snap judgments, except in an emergency. 
 
Life is so fluid and nuanced these days that we cant really take for granted 
that we perceive any situation clearly. Beliefs systems are being challenged 
along with all other conventional, societal and subliminal systems. Like a horse
with blinders on to keep them moving straight along, we may automatically assume
things are as they always have been or that we can retrace our steps. No way, ho
say, the bridge has burned behind us. We are have entered a New Era. It behooves
us to keep our minds open to new stimulation, new ideas and fresh options that 
might arise in The Moment of Now.
 
 
This is the opportunity of Mercury conjunct North Node in Gemini, though we may 
need to contend with wayward ambivalence that keeps us paralyzed (especially 
under the Eye of Medusa!), and misdirection from surrounding influences. We need
clear sight and fresh insight to move us forward on this winding path, 
destination unseen. Keep breathing, listen to your heart beat and keep your 
vision targeted on what it is you want to move toward. Keep your Eye on the 
goal. Apply the quantum creative energy available now, more incoming. Can we 
enjoy the journey as if we have never been this way before? This is where we 
are, in an unprecedented moment.
 
 
From my book, Living Lilith: Four Dimensions of the Cosmic Feminine:
This is the existential dilemma Perseus encountered in front of the primordial 
Eye of Medusa. ln his book, A Sense of the Cosmos: The Encounter of Modern 
Science and Ancient Truth, philosopher Jacob Needleman expresses the profound 
nature of this critical, sacred moment of reflection and self-questioning, for 
there is nothing to guarantee that we will be able to remain long enough or 
deeply enough in front of the unknown. In such a moment of stillness, we are 
petrified in a state of internal transformation, of potential awakening. 
Needleman identifies the core question as an emotional one, facing us with the 
unknown and stripping away our illusions. The question to be answered is, 
 
Do I fear the darkness more than I love the awakening?
"This is a question humanity as a whole faces in the throes of a paradigm shift 
such as we are experiencing now. We each have our personal moments of 
confronting fears of the unknown, the void, the fathomless gaze of Medusa."
 
 
Uranus the Awakener in Taurus
thunders our internal skies, inside Earth,
reverberating with radical patience, peace and pursuance.
Steady as she blows! sailors shout
when they see whales surface, rocking the boat.
Hug a tree, smell a rose, simmer some pine needle tea,
dig into your garden both food and flower,
appreciate the exquisite beauty of Nature,
the mirror of what is true and eternal.
 
 
Sailors 
 
We stand on a large flat rock, 
Pounded concave, 
An ancient stone holding our feet firm 
While pools whirl around us. 
Where a willow bends to the earth, 
Healing us with its yielding grace, 
A waterfall rushes over its edge, 
Seeking the sea. 
We are cleansed in the falling force of it. 
Its electrical song sears our invisible bodies. 
A sword of water knights our souls. 
We are contained, 
Rooted and dancing on a live molten egg, 
Shell shimmering in stellar rays 
That curve through space 
And shower us with ash, 
Cosmic dust, 
The blessing that wounds, 
A vital death that sifts the sleeping core 
Of a seed suspended 
At the cliff of night. 
A shaft thrusts into the ground. 
A spring sprouts forth 
And rounds itself in motion seaward. 
The yearly circle sounds 
A series of knells 
As planets frequent the moon, 
Mirror to the earth's star. 
These twin lights gather the sky, 
Penetrating the rhythm of our breath. 
Bonded they sail the tides, 
Moving us to and from the shore.
--1984
 
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