First of all, have a look at the current Nova article, where I write about great fluctuating movements facilitated by Neptune in Pisces, ones that are paradoxically grounded by the earth priestess Vesta.
And as you continue reading below, you will see that a number of significant, yet slow moving alignments are still very much in play.
The Saturn and Pluto conjunction in Capricorn
Technically speaking, these two energy giants aren’t exactly conjunct just yet but now at 5 degrees and getting closer they are clearly in communication.
They will dance slowly around each other for the duration of the year, before culminating to an exact peak in mid-January 2020. So, the tectonic shifts in our culture, our environment and our inner and outer structures will wax and wane accordingly.
Pluto conjunct South Node in Capricorn
Anything big crossing the South Node of the Moon will inevitably dredge up a great deal of past life material, a complex of good and difficult karmic influences.
The two coming together now will be a peak in processes of unravelling, even cracking open, old karmas while attempting to bring through great knowledge and power gathered over many lifetimes. (And if your worldview doesn’t include reincarnational theory, the same applies to the dredging of both personal and collective unconscious influences, that then liberate deep intuitive and pre-existing levels of wisdom and power)
These next three months then will be intense for these reasons and will be an excellent time for regression work, for Shiva Kali style meditations and any processes they give you access to the primal layers of being.
This also offers us greater access to some of the core mysteries of why we, as souls, have incarnated this time and what some of those core purposes are.
This will be happening in the house in your own chart that contains the last third of Capricorn.
The North Node in Cancer
So, while great karmic shifts represented by Pluto on the South Node, while all our chakras will be simultaneously challenged and excited, this point above talks to us about opening to the visions of what our individual souls would like to achieve in this lifetime. Or at least give us more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that is our ultimate reasons for being here at this time.
More specifically, these opening occurs wherever the last segment of Cancer is in our individual charts. So be alert to significant dreams, meditation experiences, spontaneous downloads or even sudden fantasies that have an extra energy about them.
Lilith conjunct Pallas Athena in Libra
Here is a continuing meeting of two potent feminist warriors, which at their best are an incredibly focused expression of psychospiritual power! Pallas occupies a space halfway between the masculine and feminine worlds, acting as a channel for the wisdom and creative intelligence of the deep feminine to be expressed with great clarity and one pointedness into a masculinised world.
Lilith represents the deep primal feminine with its mixture of great and deeply loving Shakti with overlaying layers of distortion, the legacies of generations, lifetimes and eras where the individuality, wisdom and intelligence of the feminine has been dishonoured. This is another place where we will carry unhealed rage and related traumas.
This is the other place I didn’t mention in the Nova article where this ancient material sits in our psyches and, where we are encouraged, to put it mildly, to work with purifying these distortions. The more we can do that, the more she can show us her pure tantric beauty as well as the fierce spiritual warrioress she is.
This simultaneous demand and opportunity is magnified by the fact that Lilith and Pallas are travelling opposite the Mars/Kali/Uranus opposition in Aries/Taurus, an already explosive combination that is very evident as I am writing this in late February.
The Moon, Medusa and Persephone conjunction In Capricorn
There is nothing superficial about this multiple conjunction as it connects our emotions with the great powers for truth, transformation and purification, in ways that are not radically different to the actions of Lilith above.
What is often forgotten is that the so-called dark goddesses are also Shakti goddesses and therefore goddesses of the essence of tantra, the deepest union of masculine and feminine inherent in our organic, pure and sacred sexuality. So, this is clearly a profoundly tantric month, reflected by the Mars/Kali conjunction, and, in the awakening of Lilith.
For those courageous in their loving, this is awesome support to cut through bullshit, denial and unconsciousness in our relating and in our relationships, to face the demons that inhibit our capacity for true intimacy, for clearing shadows off our hearts.
It will do a similar job on negative maternal influences and from the trans-generational feminine, involving intense purification, confrontations with old rage and the unveiling of lines of power and knowledge within our family structures that have been obscured by wounding and suppression.
Mercury in Pisces conjunct Chiron in Aries
Now that Chiron the Wounded Healer has left Pisces fully, ahead of his eight year journey through the fire sign of Aries, Mercury joins him on the third of the month. I’m reminded by an early TM book entitled “Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer”, because linking the planet of the mind with the Wounded Healer will sets up a situation where we get to experience the positive and negative uses of the mind.
At its best this conjunction aligns the effective use of the mind as a vehicle for healing power, where focused thought can be used to elicit healing responses. At its worst, it can show us how we can become our own worst enemies, by seeing the world through the lens of our wounding and by using word, whether deliberately or unconsciously, in ways that wound others.
At the very least, it will help us recognise places of wounding more clearly and drive our desire to explore the right tools.
On a deeper level, it can give us greater access to healing and spiritual knowledge gathered over lifetimes that can be found, however hidden, in all our Chiron positions. This latter potential is reinforced by the fact that both Chiron and Mercury sextile the Pluto/Psyche/Venus/South Node conjunction, while trining the North node in Cancer.
Once again, this is another great time for past life regression work, specifically aimed at recovering ancient healing skills and ability!
Mystic Rectangle with Hecate in Virgo At Its Peak!
The Mystic Rectangle is created by two parallel conjunctions, with each end sextiling each other, creating a long rectangle in the chart bisected by two oppositions. In this case, the Pluto/psyche/Venus/South Node conjunction in Capricorn trines Hecate, the medicine woman/witch Queen in Virgo, while the Mercury/Chiron conjunction trines the North Node. While the Nodes are naturally in opposition to each other, Hecate is directly opposite Mercury and Chiron.
Hecate and Chiron in opposition creates a polarised link between ancient feminine lines of spiritual and healing power with, the very same from masculine origins. Both can be equally healing and wounding, both have mixed karmas associated with them and both are undergoing their own forms of healing and recovery.
Their mutual connections to the South Node will activate ancient memories of antagonism between them but in ways that can also be exceptionally healing. There are great opportunities here for bringing the medicine man and medicine woman together, in ways that further our capacity to move beyond the past and to get more aligned with our ultimate soul purposes represented by the North Node.
To summarise then, it’s going to be an interesting month, a highly fluid one that will demand great flexibility from all of us, while offering the astute many gifts and potentials. Maybe all be able to make the most of it!
Cheers,
Daniel