Dark O Moon
to
Exalted New Moon
at 21+ Taurus….!
Tuesday noon pdt/3pm edt
Where Mercury was (referenced)
during radio show with Diane Wilson,
(now on day 30 – something of her water fast –
so absolutely we send her collegial molecular
supportive telepathic electrolytes…)
for her and for all of us
we be animating its guiding augury:
“A White Dove Flying Over Troubled Waters –
assurance that what one seeks is near at hand…
getting past emotional obstacles.
Looking for a safe haven.
Noah’s Ark like warnings.
Navigating by Natural signs.”
Dark o Moon….
We conspire to proffer
templates of desirable reality….
Mysterious Low ebb….
where what seems to feel good
is literalized metaphor:
Marie Laveau,
opening front and back doors-
sweeping out the past –
welcoming the vitality of Spring –
then she’d go forth and kick-butt….
So in my Libran dilly-dallying, lolly-gagging-
what settled the tension, and background dread,
was cutting entangling vines, liberating trees,
in the overgrown, vines, dead branches, bramble,
poison ivy back of my house…
(May hire goats!!!!!)
cleaning the fish tank..
tweaking house until it sings…
And very much aspiring to practice:
Saturn square Uranus/Moon in Taurus…
May every Saturn arghh, boundary transgression,
Serve as incentive to experiment
to create more Beauty…
(“S/he who hesitates gets bossed.”
Either we inhale our Saturn,
our goat or someone else will –
in a way we might not like…)
Really the whole Council
would be well dedicated to just that,
teasing into all the micro-macro
realms of our lives…
as the Moon in her exaltation
participates with Uranus
in squaring Saturn…
& Saturn be stationing now,
at “train (after being stuck)
entering a tunnel (through a large Mountain)
getting through an impasse,
taking a plunge through the darkness…”
thematically repetitive, resonant…
New Moon is loosely conjoining
Fixed Star Algol *
Algol at 26°10′ Taurus has an orb of 2°00′
(But I have a good anecdote to liberate
the below into humor and metaphor…)
Metaphors Be With You!
“Fixed star Algol, Beta Persei, is a 2.1 magnitude, rare triple star and eclipsing binary, located in the Medusa’s Head, carried in the left hand of the Hero, Perseus Constellation. The name Algol comes from the Arabic word رئيس الغول, meaning Head of the Ogre. The English translation became Demon Star, with other names being Satan’s Head, the Spectre’s Head. In Chinese, it belongs to s group of stars called the Mausoleum. Algol appears to blink. Every 69 hours, its magnitude dips for about 10 hours before returning to full brightness again.
Fixed Star Algol Astrology
In astrology, Algol is one of the most unfortunate stars. Ptolemy referred to it as “the Gorgon of Perseus” and associated it with death by decapitation: mirroring the myth of the hero Perseus’ victory over the snake-headed Gorgon Medusa. Historically, it has received a strong association with violence across a wide variety of cultures. Medieval Arabic commanders tried to ensure that no important battle began whilst the light of Algol was weak. It may be connected to the periodic lucky prognosis in an ancient Egyptian calendar for lucky and unlucky days composed about 3200 years ago. The 17th-century English astrologer William Lilly regarded any planet to be afflicted when within five degrees of conjunction. [1]
Algol represents the head of the Gorgon Medusa who was slain by Perseus. Medusa, who was the only mortal one of the three Gorgon sisters, was originally a beautiful maiden, but her hair was changed into hissing serpents by Minerva in consequence of her having become by Neptune the mother of Chrysaor and Pegasus in one of Minerva’s temples. This gave her so fearful an appearance that everyone who looked at her was changed into stone.
Algol symbol:
Algol is one of the 15 Behenian Fixed Stars. Its image is a human head cut off at the neck.
Algol is the Head of Gorgo Medusa. This name is derived from the Arabic Al Ghoul meaning “demon”, “evil spirit”, or “devil”. Derived from the same root as “alcohol.” The dark one has the property of pure Saturn character; the lighter one corresponds not only to Saturnian influence but also to Mars-Uranus-Pluto nature. If the dark fellow is showing toward Earth’s path, the destructive invisible action is exercised. These will be the hours in which Algol is least bright. In the olden times, people were well aware of this. Dr, Lomer wrote in Kosmobiologie, August 1950: “Arabic commanders-in-chief, in times of conquest, made it a point that no important battles were begun when the light of Algol was weak.”
more:
“Al Ghūl literally signifies a Mischief-maker, and the name still appears in the Ghoul of the ‘Arabian Nights’ and of our day.”
—Richard Hinckley AllenAlgol is known by other names too. According to Bernadette Brady in her book ‘Star and Planet Combinations,’ Rā’s al Ghūl, a name given by the Arabs, means “the Head of the Demon, and they considered this demon to be the wife of the Devil.” Tseih She, is the name given by the Chinese, meaning “Piled-up Corpses.” In the book ‘Star Names; Their Lore and Meaning,’ Richard Hinckley Allen writes: “The Hebrews knew Algol as Rōsh ha Sātān, Satan’s Head, Chilmead’s Rosch hassatan, the Divels head, but also as Līlīth, Adam’s legendary first wife, the nocturnal vampyre from the lower world that reappeared in the demonology of the Middle Ages as the witch Lilis, one fo the characters in Goethe’s Walpurgis Nàcht.” Returning to this association as the first wife of Adam, Lilith, who left him “because she refused to be submissive to his needs,” Brady writes:
“Algol came to embody everything that men feared in the feminine. She is not the mother face of the goddess but rather the passionate lover or the whore… This star contains immense female passion and power, or the potential power of Mother Nature, strong but not evil.”
Whether as the Head of Medusa, Caput Gorgonis, Lilith, or another name, Algol may be perceived as the face of the outraged feminine. In Algol we may find the power and potential for intense creativity and passion, or else destructive anger and rage. Obviously relevant for women, it is equally if not more so for men. This week, collective focus on Algol makes it relevant for everyone. “
The exalted Moon & Uranus
sextile Mars in Cancer:
originating impulse
behind Mother’s Day:
Mother’s Day:
Julia Ward Howe
Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
“Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says, “Disarm, disarm! The sword is not the balance of justice.” Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each learning after his own time, the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.
In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/mothers-day/the-original-mother-s-day-proclamation
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And we shall honor
all New Moon opportune amplitude,
especially Jupiter quintile Uranus….
that we may open passage ways
whereby our blessings support each of us in this Council, that we, in turn, spiral forth into collective Culture…
Lunar Eclipse to now/s New Moon:
at 5° Sagittarius on May 26th \
Jupiter enters Pisces on May 13th 2021
then retrogrades
back into Aquarius on July 29th,
re-entering Pisces on December 28th 2021,
until May 10th, 2022.
2022 when Jupiter aligns with Neptune.
