July 17, 2004, 7:24 AM Washington, DC
Moon in 25 Cancer v/c 7:24 AM
The new Moon preceeding the Blue Moon adds one more layer in the buildup to the Presidential Elections on November 2nd. In the final hours of voting on November 2nd Polls Closing chart the T. Saturn at 27 Cancer will have conjuncted the US New Moon chart Moon and Sun at 25 Cancer in the 12th House of suprise suprise coming out of left field the People have spoken! Using an Election Night Poll closing 7pm est finds the T. Moon in Cancer at 16 degrees, just kissing the New Moon chart's Saturn at 17 degree's.
You say wait, the New Moon of 7/17/2004 is Void of Course. How can any good come from a V/C moon which births the Blue Moon of 7/31/2004?
From "Finding Opportunity Periods", by Jim Shawvan. "Finding Opportunity Periods
Definition: An Opportunity Period is a period in which the aspects of the transiting Moon to other transiting planets show no interference with the free flow of decision and action.
Opportunity Periods apply to everyone in the world all at once - although, of course, if your individual transits, progressions and returns are putting blocks in your path, you may not be able to use every Opportunity Period to the full. Nevertheless, you are always better off taking important actions and decisions during an Opportunity Period than at other times, all other things being equal.
You can use an ephemeris which gives the times of the Moon's aspects to find Opportunity Periods, but you'll have to convert all the times from Greenwich Mean Time (Universal Time) to the time zone in which you are living. Thus it's a whole lot easier to use a good astrological calendar which gives the times of the Moon's aspects in your local time zone!
Step 1: Determine when the Moon is Void of Course (V/C). The Moon is said to be Void of Course from the time it makes the last Ptolemaic ("major") aspect in a sign until it enters the next sign. The Ptolemaic aspects are the conjunction, opposition, square, trine and sextile.
In eight of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, Moon Void periods are definitely NOT Opportunity Periods. In the other four signs, however, they are! According to the 17th-century English master William Lilly, the Moon in the signs of the Moon and Jupiter "performeth somewhat". Horary guru Lee Lehman says that she has taken this to the bank many times - and so have I!
The signs of the Moon and Jupiter are:
Taurus - the Moon's exaltation
Cancer - the Moon's domicile and Jupiter's exaltation
Sagittarius - Jupiter's fiery domicile
Pisces - Jupiter's watery domicile "
Thus we have an 'Opportunity Period' here and now with this New Moon seeding the Full Blue Moon. The New Moon of the Blue Moon chart falls in the 9th House, as well the Ruler of the Chart the Sun (Leo Asc). These two luminaries are coming off an opposition with Chiron in Capricorn found in 3rd House of media, communications and travel.. Chiron here is digging out the dirt from Bush's sandbox revealing the latest travesties that Bloody Bush and his Bushmen have inflicted on the Iraqi people:
Prisoners Sodomised ~
'Secret film shows Iraq prisoners sodomised',By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor
Young male prisoners were filmed being sodomised by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to the journalist who first revealed the abuses there.
Seymour Hersh, who reported on the torture of the prisoners in New Yorker magazine in May, told an audience in San Francisco that "it's worse". But he added that he would reveal the extent of the abuses: "I'm not done reporting on all this," he told a meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union.
He said: "The boys were sodomised with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking. And this is your government at war."
He accused the US administration, and all but accused President George Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney of complicity in covering up what he called "war crimes".
A T-Square pattern formed with Jupiter 15 in Virgo in the 2nd House and Venus 14 Gemini the 11th House (aha turn the Senate and House Blue!). The New Moon Chart set for Washington D.C. has a really strong, industrial strength opposition between Mars at 14 Leo conjunct the New Moon Chart Ascendent in the First House (really angry agressive people) and Neptune, indicative of illusions but also of Idealism is in Aquarius and retrograde forming a conjunction with the Descendent threshold between the Country's internal issues and the Greater World.
To ignite just a tad more excitement Pluto 20 in Sagittarius found in the the 5th House trines Mercury 20 in Leo in the 1st House sublety tripping events by inconjunction with the New Moon and Sun in the 12th. What else shall come spilling out of the darkness into the light?
The Opportunity Period is now to water the seeds of change. I want to share with you an excerpt from the Tibetan point of view on this new moon.
"We¹re approaching a New Moon at 25 degrees Cancer, which forms on Saturday, July 17th at 4:24 AM PDT. In Tibetan Buddhism, the period from the New Moon in Cancer to the New Moon in Leo is considered to be one of the two most auspicious times for spiritual practice (the other is the lunar month following the New Moon in Pisces). It is perhaps no coincidence that these two signs represent the most yin, receptive energies in the zodiac.
This New Moon invites us to deepen our attunement with the feminine aspect of consciousness.
The word ³matter² comes from the same root as the word for ³mother²
(³mat²). In the beginning was the Word, but also the Mother, the Cosmic
Womb from which all life springs. New Moons invite us to rediscover the
fertile void, the place within us that has infinite intelligence and creativity.
While we always have access to that Source, this New Moon in Cancer opens the door a little wider." Stephanie Austin, MA, http://www.ecoastrology.com
Taking a look at how this New Moon is impacting the U.S. chart (I use Sag rising), it shows the New Moon and Sun in the U. S. 8th House death, resurrection, assassinations, death arrangements,and national mourning. It is also signifcant of new resolve to the population after a time of grieving. American's are grieving, and getting past the shock and grief over what has been done to 'our Country' by Bush and his henchmen. The People are angry and looking for a change in policy, the symbolic death. The People are feeling the 'pain' of no livable wage jobs, the Nation's reputation resembling the Dark Ages, the Have's have a lot lot more, the Have Not's are going under. Saturn having recently crossed over the U.S. natal Sun is still trouncing around in Cancer acting on it's square to the U.S. natal Saturn in....opps the U.S. 10th House of the Executive. Bushy Boy isn't getting a break here, The New Moon Venus 14 Gemini and the New Moon Neptune 14 Aquarius form an active trine with U.S. n. Saturn..bam, bam bam (think Emeril). Decadence, depravity sexual perversion the sicko kind all piling up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Hand the man a shovel.
T. Pluto in the U.S. 1st house is packing a punch with it's trine to the U.S. n. Chiron in the 4th House. Destroying any left over illusions some 'People' might have about their government and the atrocities that have been commited and are being commited today.
All this New Moon 12th House activity leads us to Visions and Dreams as a tool left to us by all the Great Masters that tool is visualization. Visualize whenever you see blue anything the United States Electoral Map on the night of November 2, 2004 as BLUE, living, vibrant, electric Blue. For artzy folks here are some blank maps of the USA where you can fill in the STATES as Blue and visualize Americans across the board, across social, spiritual and ethnic lines and financial ability voting BLUE for Edwards N Kerry. The Maps (1) and (2) link.
Sweet Dreams America
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