The Pain to Be Me
New Moon in Libra 5ยบ ♎️ 20'
New Moon opposite Chiron
After emerging from their initiation with Chiron, the Sun and the Moon have travelled for months through the different phases (aspects), with opportunities, struggles, challenges, self analysis, and accomplishments. Today, they show the fullness (opposition) of their revolution. Our emotional reactive instinct (Moon) joins the essence of our individuality (Sun), and they both look themselves in the mirror of Chiron. It's their maximum potential of the process this year.
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| Reference: Evolution of human psyche through the Life Seasons in Mari Kennedy's website |
The New Moon indicates a reset in relationships. The phases of planetary relationship, called aspects, parallel the evolution of Nature through the seasons. Symbolically, we go from the darkness of Winter all the way to the full fruition of the Summer, and the way back to Winter. Similarly to the human development, planetary cycles to one another follow the 'season' cycle. They have birth (conjunction), growth, development, maturation, reproduction, decay and death. We discussed about the phases of the Moon in relation to Chiron in a previous article, and throughout the year we've been discussing the phases of the Sun in relation to Chiron as well. September 26, the Sun opposed Chiron exactly.
With this New Moon opposite Chiron, we experience the pain to be ourselves reflected on 'another'. This opposition presents us with situations where we can find ourselves projecting our insecurities, inadequacies, and vulnerabilities on the 'other' like in a mirror. The New Moon gives us a new perspective about our relationships. Hopefully, we've been consciously working on them since March 22, 2019 when the Sun conjoined Chiron, we've faced the struggles and overcame them. Think back, what was happening then and how the relationship evolved. Go back and read my monthly series on Chiron activation to correlate them with your personal developments.
Today, we become aware of some aspect of a relationship, realize a truth, or accomplish an important milestone in the evolution of that relationship. Something about who we are has been bothering it, and we need to embrace those feelings of not being 'good enough', of being faulty or at fault, of being inadequate. There is a new emotional awareness, of our own imperfections, moral, psychological, physical, appearing in the relationship as blocks or obstacles. However, at the same time, we can find a way to accept and integrate them, and work with them to make the relationship more functional.
In fact, the most important relationship we are working with is the relationship with ourselves. Today, the mirror shows us that painful piece, that fragment of our individuality that we need to integrate in order to love ourselves just as we are.
In the world, this shows up in the overwhelming problem of people forced to unroot themselves from their own country, culture, customs, religion and lifestyle because of unsolvable conflicts of war, famine, or violence. Incorrectly called 'immigrants' instead of 'refugees', once they cross frontiers, they find themselves facing the pain of being 'different' as seen by the others. The New Moon is hopefully, the time when we start looking ourselves in them. Face to face, aren't we as different to them as they look to be for us? And, in the end, don't we all of us, human beings, have the same needs, sorrows and desires?
New Moon quincunx Uranus
At the same time, this awkward relationship with Uranus, shows up as a dislocation between the harmony required in this new beginning and finding difficult to conform to 'normal' expectations. Although we accept and integrate our feelings of imperfection, and of not measuring up to the circumstances of our relationships, yet in order for us to break free, we want to rebel against those who don't tolerate 'differences'.
Humanity as a whole realizes now how broken it is. We have our own self-undoing IN OUR FACE. It shows as the refugee, as a needy person, as a rejected friend from a group, as a rejected citizen from a community, as another war-broken human being at our door. We are challenged to revise and adjust the social norms to liberate us from the conditioning that constraints us from accepting and allowing a relationship with the 'other' who is different, original, 'out of the norm'.
We now got to the point that there is so much migration in all directions, that those who have been stubbornly holding to 'my way' is the right way of being, will break down. We got to the point of having to recognize that there is only ONE HUMAN that needs a human way to survive, even though the package changes colors. This is evident in the long lasting semi-sextile between Chiron and Uranus. As a whole, humanity will be forced to bridge the gaps of differences and understand that whatever we do to others, we do to ourselves.
Melanie Reinhart called Chiron, the Rainbow Bridge, between two worlds, the ideal and the material, the spiritual and the physical. It is through experiencing the pain of being human, with basic survival needs for food, shelter and safety, that we finally understand the commonality, that we can finally build a community where we live and work for the benefit of all, not just for the selfish survival of the individual. We will learn mutual cooperation, because we will understand the downside of the competition that is taking us to extinction. We will learn innovative and alternative creative methods never considered or used before in order to operate this shift and survive as the human race.
Diplomatic conversations - Venus and Mercury in Libra
Venus is the ruler of this New Moon, and she is comfortably installed in her own harmonious house of Libra in the company of his friend, Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods. Their diplomatic deliberations run up against the nearly extinct status quo of social conventions, political boundaries and regulations (represented by Saturn Pluto South Node conjunction in Capricorn). Venus and Mercury loving considerations also call us out on the search for family and home safety, harmony, wellbeing of children, motherly nurturance and care (represented by the square to the North Node in Cancer).
Venus sextile Jupiter, give their wisdom, and open the door for Venus to appreciate different cultures and belief systems. Now that Jupiter is separating from the square with Neptune and Black Moon Lilith, the public starts to see clearer the overall big picture of the circumstances. Where we were lied to, purposefully or unintentionally deceived, now we clearly see the truth. It's not surprising that we learn some very disturbing political issues that were hidden behind the scenes. Venus quincunx Neptune now, so she has to review and adjust her convictions regarding what was of value and it is not anymore, after learning the news. Our values are now up against our exposed fantasies, speculations or delusions.
We feel a strong need to do something that seems difficult in order to resolve the dilemma of the New Moon with Chiron discussed above. Since Venus is the ruler of Uranus in Taurus, she has an idea or two to tell him about changing our values or finances, and adopting innovative futuristic methods. Mercury in turn, is the ruler of Mars in Virgo, and he is giving instructions to the executive warrior (Mars), now in charge of the repairs and healing processes (Virgo). Mars in Virgo is asserting his will, taking logistic actions to soften the rough edges. With great flexibility, he taps into his database all information necessary to put his plan into practice.
Conclusions
Hopefully, we have done our personal work in our relationships. This way, we actively and consciously correct our course. Through Chiron teachings we are able to improve relationships. He has a lot to teach us about them that can help us assess them, understand their dynamics. Thus, we can make decisions to live a happier, wiser and fuller life with that 'significant other' that is another human being, just as fallible as we are.
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