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Full Moon in Taurus 2015

10/26/2015

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I was reminded the other day that ‘patience is a virtue’. In that case, I had been waiting 6+ weeks for a business decision to be made, so I thought I HAD been patient.
Some things take weeks, others years….some decades.
Taurus moves slowly and a Taurus Full Moon feels so appropriate as we move towards the end of the Fall season and into Winter. Everything feels like it is slowing down.
It can also take years or decades for dreams to come true. We may give up before we reach our goal when progress is slow. Things may be cooking in the crock pot of the 12th house and when the time is right they will be ready. They will cross the Ascendant and be born.
Many pregnant women report that in the final month they are tired of being pregnant and feel they will stay pregnant forever, but of course, they know birth is inevitable, and they look forward to it. Nature has its own timing.
So in other areas of life, when something that is meant to be born is ready to manifest, it can seem like it comes out of the blue. Actually the preparations have been going on under the surface. We are, in a sense, gestating our future selves all the time.
This is how I now feel about the North Node. In Evolutionary Astrology as in other forms of astrology, the North Node represents the direction of growth and is often hidden from us. The South Node, so familiar we don’t even notice it, can color our vision like sunglasses, so that we have no idea there is any other way to see. Yet, there is the promise of the North Node.
As Wayne Dyer said, why would the Universe not continue to take care of you just as it did when you were in the womb (paraphrased). Why would your destiny not unfold in the same way even when you have no idea what you are doing?
The more clients I see and the more charts I read, the more I am convinced of the efficacy of astrology in its ability to describe a life and help us chart our path into the future. We may not understand what the symbols mean or how they will manifest in life, but they are in some way inevitable. I personally feel there is a combination of choice and destiny/fate. All along the road of life we have choice points which affect how the archetypes will manifest. But if you look back at your life, you can see how something was foreshadowed at earlier periods.
Patricia Walsh says at all her workshops: “You can’t make this shit up.”
I just finished reading another book by Tahir Shah, son of Indries Shah the famous Sufi writer. In Arabian Nights, the continuing saga of his buying a house in Morocco and living there, focuses on his search for the story in his heart. Storytelling, a dying art, is still alive and well in some cultures. These stories, beyond their entertainment value, impart wisdom.
When I discovered the story “Fatima the Spinner and the Tent” listening to Caroline Casey on KPFA radio, I knew I had found my story. It is published in Tales of the Dervishes by the father, Indries Shah. This was over 15 years ago. In the ensuing years, I visited many of the places where Fatima found herself and when I realized this….I knew I was on the path to finding my tent, but I still had no idea what ‘my tent’ was. Yet I trusted because of this story. The story gave me hope that ultimately, I would find my tent. And that is one of the purposes of these stories. My knowledge of astrology increased my trust in the process.
I know what ‘my tent’ is now and another thing I know is  that you can’t help but make your tent any more than a kitten will grow into a cat and not a dog.
Stephanie Austin, in her column about this Full Moon in The Mountain Astrologer cites this Sabian symbols for this Full Moon at 4° Taurus:
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; riches that come from linking the celestial and the earthly nature.
And for the Sun at 4° Scorpio:
A youth carries a lighted candle in a devotional ritual; the educative power
of ceremonies which impress the great images of a culture upon its gathered participants.
The thing is…you have to find your true story. When I first read Women Who Run with the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, I thought my story was ‘the Ugly Duckling’. That was my South Node story. Astrology suggested there was another story, my North Node story. 
Born into a tribe that I didn’t fit into it took me decades to find my true tribe. Having done so, I completed that karma to some extent. It was now up to me to continue until I found my NN story, to believe it and to let it guide me to fulfillment.
Find your stories, past, present, future or write a new one yourself.
With Saturn in Sagittarius (the Storyteller) it’s time to be the author of your own story. We all can access this now for the next two years or so as the transit continues.
Our birth charts are like an operator’s manual we are born with but seldom learn to read ourselves. I am trained in reading these language and can help you read your manual.
Contact me for a reading soon.


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New Moon in Libra 2015

10/11/2015

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I stopped writing my lunar blog posts a few months ago when I got very busy with my other business Silk Road Soutache. What I noticed by doing so was that I lost touch with time. Time seemed to speed up and I had no idea where I was in relation to it. The bi-monthly posts grounded me in a way that I missed more and more as time passed. That said, I plan to take up the practice again.
 
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”

What this means to me is that it’s never too late to begin again and so with this Libra New Moon, I am returning to my practice.

It’s appropriate to call on Rumi since he was born on September 30 and therefore, was a Libra. When I went to visit his tomb in Konya, Turkey in December 2005 the place was packed with sobbing women who sat in a kind of vigil throughout several days. There were more women than men, which surprised and pleased me. Many came on tours from Iran and other surrounding countries to celebrate his Urs also known as his reunion with the Beloved (God). Sufis celebrate one’s death rather than one’s birth. I read the epitaph on his tomb and saw its truth all around me: ‘When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.' (Read women) I saw how he had touched the hearts of all these women who, although from Islamic cultures and therefore supposedly repressed (not) had come on buses from hundreds of miles around to sit in his tomb and honor his memory. He died December 17, 1273 yet he could still be honored and mourned this many years later.  

People usually associate Libra with balance since it is represented by the scales. However, Libra is actually learning the lesson of balance. In relationships balance is very hard to achieve as we all know. The act of falling in love itself implies a kind of losing of balance. Libra is the first ‘relationship’ sign and the first outer sign of the zodiac. The first six, below the horizon represent inner processes and development. With Libra, we look for our partners, both romantic and other, such as business partners.

This New Moon finds us with Pluto still square Uranus and everywhere we feel the effects of revolution and transformation. We also find Saturn only 2° into Sagittarius square Neptune. What happens when you combine form (Saturn) and formlessness (Neptune)? Since Saturn is part of traditional astrology and the structure of consciousness and Neptune part of the transpersonal and ‘psychological’ triad of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto…in a sense they are part of different paradigms and thus operating at totally different levels. It’s like saying what do you get when you cross a dog with an orange? Huh? But, as we have seen with genetic engineering, now we can mix things up in new ways. Didn’t they put a fish gene in a tomato or something like that in the last few years?

So, Neptune square Saturn. I would say that Neptune challenges Saturn to come up with new ways to create structures that allow for permeability, flexibility and resilience because that’s what’s needed now. Like those new sidewalks and driveways that allow water to soak through into the soil beneath yet are strong enough to be used in roads. It’s called pervious pavement or pervious concrete. How Neptune square Saturn can you get?

Neptune in Pisces and Saturn in Sagittarius also have something in common….Jupiter, the traditional ruler of Pisces and Sagittarius. Currently Jupiter is in Virgo. Virgo, Pisces and Sagittarius are all mutable signs with Gemini completing the quadrad. The mutable signs rule the cadent houses in astrology and are all places where a type of gestation occurs before the ‘new’ is born in the angular houses. The cadent houses all deal with ending, processing, synthesizing, analyzing, and preparing for change and something new to be born.

Many people report feeling at a cusp in their lives. They sense endings, but are not sure exactly what they are. They also sense something waiting to be born although, again, having no idea what it is. We are all being called to take leaps of faith regarding the future.

Steven Forrest says that where ever Saturn is in your chart, you will either feel exhaustion or depression. If you take up the gauntlet that Saturn throws down, you will become exhausted by the work that it entails. However, if you don’t take up the challenge, you will feel depressed at the stagnation that accumulates around you.

Therefore, this New Moon, which as all new moons do, represents new beginnings….go for it! Just do it! What do you have to lose! Take a chance, try something totally new.

If you have no idea what this all means for you, why not get a reading? I do them over the phone then send you the sound file. Contact me via email for a reading today. 

 
 

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    Hamida Judith Dides, M.A. is an evolutionary astrologer living in Northern California.

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