A Multiplicity of Creative Opportunity
Our last intense Pluto-Lunar Cycle occurring in wet sidereal Scorpio (Endings & Openings), on the sacrificial black hole altar of the Centaur, catalyzed powerful completions that are forcing us to open to new paths and enter new octaves of participation (the role of Pluto).
We now enter a lunar cycle of high inspirational creative vision. In the high mountains of late sidereal Sagittarius, our New Moon of Jan 10, 2005 lies under the auspices of Lyra, Harp of the Angels.
Our New Moon specifically conjoins Sheliak, the strings of the Lyre, Sulaphat, the tortoise shell creating the naturally sculptured body of the Lyre, and the Lyran Starseed Ring Nebula, the exquisite and inspiring remains of the M57 Super Nova Remnant M57 in Lyra. Also contributing to the theme of this lunar cycle is the dynamic neutron star x-ray source SS4333, lying upon the tail of Aquila the soaring Eagle.
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M57 The Lyra Ring Nebula
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Sulaphat embodies resonance in structure and form and all to do with sacred architecture, whether applied in the body of a violin or in the design of a temple. Sulaphat embraces knowledge about the use of natural material (organically organized molecular structure) and the gross application of such material in physical form. The Lyran stars embody the artsciences behind what we today term Pythagorean or Hermetic wisdom.
The lyre was originally bestowed with the qualities to invoke and communicate the messages of the gods. As the harp of the angelic messengers, its tuning and voice are not merely for pleasure, but to harmonically translate divine information into vibration that supports healing and our evolutionary unfoldment.
Lyra, and prominent alignments with Lyra, indicate involvement with the music of the spheres, that is, the use of natural astronomically and resonant harmonics for healing, illumination, and for greater evolutionary purpose. Prominent alignments and aspects to Lyra are often found in musicians, artists, and those involved with art-sciences and multi-media projects--those with intent to use harmonics of light, sound, and geometry for the expansion of consciousness. Lyra is not just of the mathematical artsciences of natural harmonics in light and sound, but also of their application unfolding in geometry and time--all working intelligently together. Forty octaves up from our middle musical scale lies the spectrum of visible color--light-sound musical harmonics originate from the mathematical unfoldment of time in geometric proportion. To learn more about this artscience and the music of the spheres, please visit the Planetary Harmonics web page.
To learn more about the Lyre please see: Lore of the Lyre.
The beautiful Starseed Ring Nebula M57 of Lyra is the result of a super nova explosion, in galactic myth, home to several star civilizations before the subsequent fragmentation of consciousness into various stellar races or rainbow rays of evolutionary unfoldment. M57 inspires multi-spectral creative expression--a multiplicity of opportunity for fulfillment when individuality is creatively amalgamated into a greater expression than one could achieve alone. M57 also holds the memory pattern that unifies our diversity--reminding us that all rays of color and creed ultimately comprise and fulfill the unbounded expression of One Unified Creative Intelligence.
Conjoining M57 is SS433 in Aquila, a dynamic binary star system emitting twin-corkscrew shaped jets in wavelengths ranging from the optical to the X-ray emanating a unique and stimulating creative force.
Expanding on the Theme
The hours before the Crescent Moon provides a time when we relinquish patterns of the past that would limit our creative ability to expand on the theme now unfolding. The Crescent Moon is the time when the sprouting seedling sloughs off its protective coat of the past, and emerges in its new expression. As the Crescent Moon unfolds, the growing phase of the lunar cycle begins as we start to amalgamate our personal creativity with the original lunar theme.
Our Crescent Moon occurs on Jan 13 in the midst of sidereal Aquarius inspiring a humanitarian focus for our Sagitarrian-Lyran highly spiritual creative theme.
Saturn's new Synodic Cycle
Now through First Quarter Moon, a potent Grand Square occurs with the Sun and Chiron opposite retrograde Saturn sq the lunar nodes. A bit of emotional instability may occur with an astrological aspect known as a moon wobble, but the sobering reality of the situation demands we place our creative attention on concretizing new bridges and bonds in our lives that provide a way to move from the devastations or perpetuated dysfunctions of the past and into the opportunistic fulfillment of the future. This also begins Saturn's new 378-day synodic cycle, its theme is set by Pollux of Gemini, the ambassador--responsibility to establish relations that better all of humanity.
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M31 Andromeda
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Attraction & Involvement
The 24-hour period just before the Gibbous Moon is a time of perseverance, of pushing through in the action quarter of the lunar cycle. The Gibbous Moon is when the pressure releases and we enter the magnetic pollinating phase of the lunar cycle, which begins a social and communicative time.
Our Gibbous Moon occurs on Jan 21 in latter sidereal Taurus conjoining Kursa, the beginning of the Eridanus, the River of Life; and Rigel of Orion, inspiring enterprising entrepreneurialship to commence new journeys, ways of living, or projects in our lives.
Vision, Enthusiasm, and Realization
Our Full Moon occurs on Jan 25 in the midst of the Egyptian Scarabaeus (sidereal Cancer). The scarab is emblem for the emergence of humanity from darkness, dogma, and delusion back to light--although no one can predict the exact time of the emergence of the beetle from its own dung, as it seems oblivious to the natural cycles of life.
Adding to our Full Moon theme is the southern star Azmidiske, Xi Puppis of Argo Navis, the highest star on the aplustre of the stern of the ship sailing along the galactic equator. Azmidiske, an exalted star lying exactly on the galactic equator, holds the signature of the mission of the Argo--the emblem of the mission of the evolving soul. The ornately sculptured aplustre on ancient ships held an energetic, like a talisman, for the purpose the ship was built. Azmidiske reveals a transcendent purpose or mission to what occurs in the darkness of mundane life, a hidden gestating force supporting our personal and collective emergence from the darkness of the past into the fulfilling light awaiting our emergence.
Manifestation & Demonstration
Our Disseminating Moon occurs on Jan 29 on the cusp of sidereal Virgo square the Mars-Pluto conjunction. Demonstrating a new way to use our creative power (and our patriarchal force in the world) hallmarks this lunar cycle's gift. Do we blindly follow the totalitarian nature of the old world or find the way to the true cup of salvation.
Time for Change
The asteroid Pallas and Jupiter, both in sidereal Virgo, begin their synchronous retrogrades just before the Last Quarter Moon of Feb 2 stimulating our inner need to initiate change. The twosome begins a several month period redefining how we apply our wealth and mobilize our resources. Is it from a judgment-based righteous mentality of this side verses that, or by applying our creative intelligence from the wisdom experientially gained from having been on both sides of the fence at one time or another.
Last Quarter Moon occurs in side Libra about to conjoin the asteroid Ceres at the outstretched grasping claws of the Scorpion, Do we change and do that which is truly nourishing or enter yet another cycle in the entrapments past ways have to offer?
Focus to the Future
The Balsamic Moon marks the time in lunar cycle when we coalesce the experience of the lunar cycle into its seed essence, which will then sprout through the theme of the following lunar cycle. It is when we turn our attention from this lunar cycle in anticipation of the next to come. The hours before the Balsamic Moon is our time of coalescence while those after mark the time when we turn from looking back over the past cycle and look toward the future cycle to come.
This Balsamic Moon occurs on Feb 5 in early sidereal Sag conjoining the Solar Apex--a point in the heavens toward which our sun moves in our galaxy, near the Vega star system of Lyra--Harp of the Angels. The Solar Apex embodies the unique and majestic path of the soul. Alignments with the Solar Apex ask us to honor that we each have a path that is totally unique to ourselves, a path which is beyond what others can see or even relate to. This is why we must not judge the experience or choices of others and must accept our own as right for us no matter what they look like to others.
Our next New Moon occurs on February 8 in the overlap area of the Capricorn and Aquarius constellations--more to come then.