November New Moon Astrology
Sagittarius, the Centaur and Chiron; working with the wounded healer.
By Isis Ward
Although the actual new moon falls in Scorpio, the Sun enters Sagittarius, where Pluto lingers and asteroids Chiron and Pallas Athene are packing up to leave. Currently Jupiter and Saturn are both retrograde in Cancer and Gemini respectively, slowing down everybody’s plans.
We don’t always consider the large mythological component in our lives, yet we all experience the movement of these godly figures. Often we forget how each moment offers us an opportunity to change ourselves and thereby puzzle a lot of people. Or change the world.
How we feel the movement of the planets and the opening of these universal doors varies from person to person, depending on the placement of the planets at our births.
Nonetheless, we will all feel an overall Sagittarian flavor that flows from the skies right now touching each of our wisdom bodies. One of the ways Jupiter, ruler of Sagittarius, touches us from Cancer is by reminding us that real wisdom comes from compassion and working for the highest good.
The extremely lengthy opposition between Pluto and Saturn calls us all to transform our habits and Karmic patterns, but those with strong Sagittarius or Gemini elements in their charts (this would notably apply to the USA, which has Sag rising) feel it most.
Sagittarius, the archer, the centaur, is known for shooting directly, telling the truth, philosophizing, taking a stand on the moral high ground and thoroughly lodging his hoof in his mouth because he just doesn’t censor himself. This is where Pluto, the transformative force can be found.
Gemini, the twins and his opposite, is much more charming but more flighty, less likely to choose one thing as better than another. We see then, how Pluto is comfortable in Sagittarius, but stiff old Saturn is uncomfortable in flexible Gemini.
Saturn, then, will be the planet to give way in the opposition; old habits must go, especially unhealthy stuck ways of being. The problem is, these old habits feel they have tenure and plan to stay on without retirement. Some of us have a tendency to claim we have a “right” to our stiff belief systems.
Of course we have a right, but who wants the right to stay in prison? Take a plunge into your own compassionate heart and the truth that lies there: Belief systems that have become rigid will be shattered while those that are flexible and allow for change will be strengthened.
As the sun moves through Sagittarius, he will illuminate both the spiritual/philosophical work we are doing and that which we are hiding from in these areas. You can well imagine that this will happen at a national level as well as a personal one.
The ruling planet and asteroid of Sagittarius are Jupiter (currently heading backwards in Cancer, sign of nurturance, compassion and protectiveness) and Chiron, the wounded healer, winding up his stay in his own sign of philosophy, religion and travel.
Chiron in his own sign brings us all to examine our wounds as transformative events that have huge potential for uplifting us rather than destroying us. We always have the option of bemoaning our “fate.” Chiron invites us to bless it, to use every happenstance as a chance to love ourselves and others.
One way to work through this in order to help the transformation on a larger level is to start working consciously with Chiron. Ritualizing your relationship with Chiron as the ruler of Sagittarius and healing will help with making abiding changes.
CHIRON RITUAL Ground and center yourself. Light a candle for each of the four directions. Place a blue candle, preferably marked with the glyph of Chiron, a “k” rising out of a circle in the center of your altar.
Make a list of five (5) instances in which you feel you were irrevocably hurt, or barring that, have a hurt that has changed your behavior or life. If you are not a wordy, writing person, draw funny little symbols for them. For example, one might have a smiley face to represent a wound you received that taught you to always be a good boy or girl.
State aloud the nature of the wound and how it changed you, how you currently act on it. Give it to Chiron in the form of the center candle. Do this for all five.
Take five deep breaths. If you have made a list or drawn symbols, burn them. Take five more breaths, each time breathing the light from the flame into your heart. Imagine on the exhale that the flame goes, (one per breath) out through your head, right arm, right leg, left leg and finally the left arm.
Now state aloud each of your wounds in terms of healing and transformation. For example: From rejection, I grow forgiveness. From abuse, I grow compassion. From rage, I grow patience. From abandonment, I grow self-love. From cruel words, I grow beautiful expression. From spite, I grow honest evaluation.
Who knows what you are growing, really. The point is to allow yourself to shed them as scabs (now there’s a lovely image!) and examine them as new beautiful tools you can offer the world. It is done.
Bright Blessings
~Isis Ward http://www.ecstaticarts.com
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