New Moon in Scorpio: Entering the Charnel Grounds
Moon conjunct Sun- 11/14/20 @
11:07pm CST
“What you resist not only
persists, but it will grow in size.” -Carl Jung
As we lead into another
eclipse season, Moon conjoins Sun at perigee (where she is closer to Earth in
her orbit). Not only is she closer to us
(and more intensely felt), but she is also in a sign that is counter-intuitive
to her naturally protective and comforting emotional nature. Scorpio is a path of complexity, intensity,
and extremity. What is safe, relaxing,
and predictable is of little concern on this path. Scorpio often pushes us to the edges of what
we fear most…so that we may find the deeper truth of it and transform. Along the Scorpio path, that which must die is
brought to the charnel grounds to decompose.
Not a pretty picture to open
with…but bear with me, I was born under a Scorpio Moon. It’s almost impossible for me to unsee what
is dying of our former lives still walking around and interacting as if it is
immortal. It will not ‘go gentle into
that goodnight’…mostly because many of us have been conditioned to fear death
as an absolute end. We hold on to even
that which hurts us or holds us back from truly living. Scorpio teaches that death is necessary and
leads to regeneration.
This Scorpio New Moon is in a
sextile to Jupiter, Pallas Athene, and Pluto in Capricorn. The sextile provides an opportunity to begin
this lunar cycle with some wise insight about where we need to transform. By now, as Saturn, Jupiter, and Pallas wrap up
some of their last lessons of sustainability in Capricorn (eventually leaving
Pluto to continue the transformation process in cardinal earth)…we have
witnessed the bare bones of our societal structures being rattled and tested by
the force of natural law. It has been
undeniable and unavoidable. But on the
personal level, each one of us is feeling our own necessity to change as
well. Step by step, we are transforming
in our own ways. Some have a harder time
with this process than others. But
really, none of it is easy. It involves
so much letting go of what we have previously relied upon. It requires a great deal of trust in the
unknown, and as much patience as we can muster.
There is likely an inclination
to fall back into suppression of our feelings so that we can power through all that
is being asked of us now. The feelings
are so intense, many will fear they will only further complicate the process
and bring us into states where all control is lost. In Scorpio season, we tend to cling to a desire
to control things. And yet, Scorpio shows
us our hidden power to transform when we let go of our desire to control. That’s a scary lesson for most people to
accept.
We often hear that what we
resist persists. But the other part of
that quote from Jung, that what we resist also grows, is a large part of the
theme of this New Moon sextile Jupiter.
Jupiter, the planet of expansion, amplifies things. So if we’re trying to suppress our
complicated feelings right now…they are bound to grow, eventually erupting from
under the surface of that suppression.
Pallas Athene suggests the best strategy is to have a solid emotional
outlet.
What might be most suppressed
right now is what is coming from Eris in Aries, who squares the Capricorn
planets and is in an uncomfortable quincunx with our luminaries in Scorpio. Feeling unseen, unheard, and unappreciated…Eris,
Goddess of Discord, is tapping the masses to sound the ‘Devil’s Tri-tone’ and
unleash their chaotic fury. This has
been a recurring theme all year with Eris squared by the Capricorn Council, but
the protests continue to evolve into new territories…some more chaotic than
others. Whether we act on it visibly or
not, everyone’s feeling that chaos in some way in their own lives. Eris’s call in Aries has really always been
about integrity…but integrity is often challenged when pitted against established
societal structures. Even worse when we
are conditioned to be pitted against each other so the establishment can
maintain business as usual while we fight amongst ourselves.
As Mars, traditional ruler of
both Aries and Scorpio, has been retrograding through Aries and recently slowed
down to station direct…I have been pondering the Mars-Eris connection and what
it has been bringing up lately. In this
New Moon, I feel it is an appropriate time to share my thoughts on this. The following is something I’ve been writing
about lately…
Eris, Uninvited
In a world gone mad, Discord
makes herself known. She’s not just
lurking in dark corners…she is crashing every party that wasn’t expecting her. Her reputation of stirring up chaos and
strife precedes her…but there is much overlooked about the Goddess Eris. It is when she is overlooked or ignored that
she wreaks havoc on what we guarded as our comfort zone.
In Astronomy and Astrology, we
were introduced to Eris in 2005, though this celestial body wasn’t named after
the Goddess of Strife and Discord until 2006.
Eris is well known in her mythological storyline for shaking up the
order of things…and her discovery led to Pluto being ‘demoted’ to ‘dwarf
planet’ status along with her. Not only
was she uninvited to the planetary party by Astronomers, the threat of her
importance took Pluto down as well.
Neither Eris nor Pluto will be exiled without a fight, and this year has
been one to remember as they square each other multiple times.
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| 'Eris, Goddess of Chaos' by Emily Balivet |
Since her discovery, we Astrologers have become more and more acquainted with Eris. We see the beauty in her chaos…there is great purpose in it. When we’re ignoring the integral things that seem too complicated to deal with, too outside of our comfort zone, too threatening to our complacency and convenience…Eris arrives to cut through the very fabric of falsity we enable. In tatters after her blow, we can finally see our true self and what we are really meant to do. Eris isn’t subtle, though she often creeps up on us unannounced.
And humanity was in a state of
complacency before this rising state of emergency alerted us to what has been
out of integrity all along. No matter
how many times we’ve gotten her message since Eris let herself be known to
us…we still kept falling back into complacency after the dust would
settle. Rejection after rejection,
Eris’s message has by now reached a fever pitch in 2020.
Slow as her faraway orbit is,
the vast majority of people alive today were born with Eris in the cardinal
fire sign of Aries. This is a sign ruled
by Eris’s brother (Ares/Mars), whom she would join on the battlefield to ensure
that justice was served. She’s quite
powerful here in Mars’s fire sign, and is acknowledged with respect as a fierce
warrioress by her brother. Perhaps this
is part of why she spends more of her 560 year cycle in Aries than in any other
sign. Like Mars, she has a lot of agency
in cardinal fire.
Mars has been enjoying an
extended stay in his home sign this year too, retrograding through the last half
of the Aries degrees lately. From August
through October, Mars has made conjunctions with Eris…calling upon her
warrioress gifts to aid him in the battle this year. This has strengthened Eris’s presence in our
collective awareness along with discordant square aspects activating her from
the Capricorn Council.
And what interests me most,
since I was born in 1982, is that this Mars Retrograde in Aries has been either
doubly or triply activating the natal Eris of each person born in the last 38 years. Really, for most of us under 80 years
old…we’ve been at least twice within the orb of influence with Mars activating
our natal Eris. Mars stationed direct at
15 degrees of Aries on November 13th, the very same degree Eris was
in between 1982-1987. When anything
contacts our personal Eris degree, it stirs up whatever has been keeping us out
of integrity with our purpose. The
discord becomes more pronounced internally so that we feel we have to do
something about it.
And at this Scorpio New Moon, which
follows both the final Jupiter-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn and Mars’s direct
station in Aries, all signs point to a big change toward greater integrity with
our soul’s path. Perhaps if we actually
invite Eris to the party, rather than shunning her out of fear for what chaos
might ensue, she’ll help us grow through our discomfort.
Love and Gratitude,
Felina Lune Kavi
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Excellent post
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