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Astrology Notes: Astrology, Healing and the Evolution of Consciousness
The Moon
(Part 1 of 2)
Protective Mother
(Part 1)
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by Martin Lass |
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When I was a boy, my father had an antique, pendulum-weighted, wind-up clock named Teddy. It had a particular sound to it-that is, if you could actually hear it. Not that its ticking was quiet; on the contrary. But after years of having the sound of its ticking in the background (it was more of a tocking, actually!), the sound just seemed to blend into the background, like an aural chameleon. If the clock ever stopped, we would all notice it almost immediately by the absence of its sound. And if the pendulum were to have been removed, the clock would not have worked, even if it had been wound up. The pendulum was the balancing mechanism that made it possible for the rest of the clock to perform what it was designed to do.
Similar to the chameleon effect in our analogy above, Moon energy in us manifests in behavioral and protective patterns and mechanisms that we are so used to that we are mostly unaware of them; they are so much a part of us that we think that they are us. Either that or we deny that we have them, even though others can see them quite plainly! These patterns are, in reality, like luggage or clothing that we have acquired along the way, since earliest childhood. They are emotional patterns and mechanisms that we constantly fall back on and that we continually repeat, whether their usefulness and validity are current or not.
This is one side of the coin of the Moon-the side that we will explore this month in Meta Arts.
On the other side-in the cosmic scheme of things-the Moon is like the pendulum in my father's clock, performing a similar function. It is a kind of pendulum weight at the end of our cosmic Local Ray of Creation. Without the Moon in the cosmic/planetary scheme of involution (the Creation) and evolution, it would be impossible for us to walk the path of our own spiritual evolution. In short, the Moon points the direction for each of our earthly incarnations. We will explore this side of the Moon next month in Meta Arts.
First, however, the behavioral/protective side…
When things get tough, when you're feeling down, when you've just had enough, when you feel vulnerable or attacked, when you don't want to do this or do that, when you… when you just don't want to!... What do you do? How do you react? Where do you go? Into what do you retreat? How do you make yourself feel better? How do you indulge? What makes you feel safe, secure, and comfortable? Where is your safety zone? How do you behave at these moments? What is it that you inevitably fall back on when your peace is threatened?
These questions can help point the way to your specific Moon energy. The Moon is like a protective mother, offering us a place to go or come back to when things are just too much to deal with.
Each of us has our own specific safety zones and palliatives against the onslaught of painful realities. Mind you, most of it is unconscious, mechanical, and a matter of default rather than choice. Don't get me wrong, though, because even though many of these behavioral patterns/mechanisms are seemingly negative, they are also necessary and for several reasons.
First, they provide a real safety valve. When faced with seemingly irreconcilable stress, we might actually crack up and end up doing something that we would regret later if we didn't have such a safety valve. Constantly having to deal with difficult and often painful realities is, at times, more than we can cope with at our present state of evolution. There is certainly a lot of spiritual work to be done, but we can only do a little at a time. So, these safety zones are where we go when we are not in the mood for introspection or for facing our personal realities.
Second, our behavioral patterns/mechanisms provide a fertile soil for our evolution. They are the gross substance-the lead-that can be used in the alchemy of our spiritual transformation. When we are ready-and only when we are ready-our spiritual evolution is facilitated by transforming these patterns/mechanisms from their lower-octave, 'negative' manifestations into their higher-octave, 'positive' potentials. We are talking about the evolution of our lower (animal) nature into our higher (human) nature-the evolution of consciousness.
Have laid out the turf, so to speak, let's now take a short trip through the zodiac. Let's have a look at what the Moon means in each of the zodiac signs-covering both the lower (animal) side and the potential higher (human) side.
(Note: you can find out what your Moon sign is for free at http://www.astro.com/horoscopes/ahor.asp. Go to "Chart Drawings" and enter your birth details. The sign positions of the planets will be displayed on the left in the chart box.)
Moon in Aries
When you've had enough, others can just go jump! "I can't worry about other peoples' problems. I've got enough of my own. I can only worry about myself."
At the same time, though, you need other people to like you and to look to you for initiative. Moon in Aries suffers terribly from self doubt… "Please like me!" When the going gets tough, you start new projects… "I'll show them all what I'm worth!" Trouble is, you tend to forget about all your other unfinished projects!
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers solidity, presence, and magnetism that can lead others without the ego getting in the way.
Moon in Taurus
You indulge! It's the good life for you! Having food, having wine, having (and spending!) money, having beautiful things… just having! Also, touching and being touched. If you have little money in your pockets and no 'desserts' or 'candy' at home, then you suffer terribly. Your safety zone must have stability, solidity, and material and emotional security.
And when things get chaotic or too challenging, you say, "Don't try changing me! I'm not budging! I'm right and that's that! And don't try snapping me out of my mood either… I like being a boring stick-in-the-mud!"
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers a solidity and a presence that is vast like the ocean. It represents a doorway to unconditional love.
Moon in Gemini
You talk… and talk… and talk! It might be talking to yourself, or it might be talking to others, but your safety lies in the mind being constantly in motion. That way you will never feel your pain. You analyze, you dissect, and you hypothesize, building edifices of reason and logic, bypassing the need to feel too much.
Alternately, you party! Life is a romp! And nothing matters anyway, because nothing stays the same! It's all a game!
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers the possibility of connecting superior thought with depth of feeling. It confers a highly intuitive and inquiring mind that is guided by the Heart.
Moon in Cancer
Ironically, you take solace in the feeling that you can never get enough love. You could have all the love in the world at your feet, but it wouldn't be enough. So, you just have to content yourself with the meager scraps that are thrown your way. You might then abandon yourself to nurturing and caring for others-totally, totally, and without pause. That way, you might not feel the bottomless pit in yourself that is crying out for the love it feels it can never get.
When things get tough, you tend to retreat into your shell, beset by a black mood that others cannot fathom. You need to be alone for a while. But it will pass soon enough.
On the higher (human) octave, Moon in Cancer is the personification of the nurturing mother. This relates to the Goddess, to Mother Earth, and to the general nurturing of Humanity. Such impulses come from a heart that is unfettered and free, unafraid to love and be loved, vulnerable yet strong, and childlike yet wise.
Moon in Leo
When things get rough, you want to be looked after, pampered, listened to, and appreciated. If you aren't appreciated, cuddled, and molly-coddled, then you say, "I'll just take my toys home and everyone can just suffer without my company!" Then, you will probably lavish your affections upon children and small animals. Or indulge in a massage or a rich meal. Or go out and spend money on yourself. Or seek out a new romantic conquest; after all, you are still a Casanova amongst mere mortals!
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers the development of spiritual will, as opposed to our little self-wills. It offers us the possibility of conscious focus, purpose, and awareness, as well as creativity. It offers us the opportunity to shine our divine design out into the world.
Moon in Virgo
If you feel backed into a corner, vulnerable, or your conscientiousness cannot be satisfied, you will probably go out of your way to criticize everything and everybody around you. "I'm only trying to help," you say. But it's a mirror of your own self-criticism, whether you see it or not. You will tend to find solace in organization, neatness, and cleanliness-driving your partners, roommates, family, and so on crazy!
Alternately, you let everything go… "Damn the cleaning, damn the hair, damn the money, damn the boundaries, rules, and regulations… I'm gonna have a good time! On the town or in my own private pig-sty!"
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers wholeness, integrity, and healing-taken in their broadest senses. It offers us the possibility of becoming channels for healing energy-mental, emotional, and particularly physical-for ourselves and for others.
Moon in Libra
Your safety lies in taking the line of least resistance and in avoiding conflict and confrontation at all costs. Don't rock the boat, don't make waves, and all will be well! The trouble is, you end up sacrificing things that are precious to your spiritual well-being just to avoid disharmony. Your own beauty can occupy your mind's eye, and this is further supported by others' perception of your beauty. (That was a polite way of suggesting that vanity can be one of your vices!)
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers true (higher octave) beauty, love, and harmony. These attributes will ooze out of every pore, attracting people from everywhere. This transformed placement confers the gifts of counseling, teaching, conflict resolution, and artistic creativity.
Moon in Scorpio
Your safety lies in battle and in fortifications. Your weapons are ready, and you're not afraid to use them. Shoot first, and ask questions later! Strike first, and you won't risk getting hurt yourself. Your fear of being hurt is chronic and, like a wounded animal when cornered, you lash out when others come too close.
You may find yourself on a mission or a conquest, but beware of your ulterior intentions. Are you there to help or destroy? Blame, suspiciousness, jealousy, resentment, vengefulness, and so on live here and can harm you in the process.
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers the tangible power of transformation-transformation of yourself, of the world around you, and of other people with whom you come in contact. You will not only move mountains, you will make new worlds out of them.
Moon in Sagittarius
No matter what goes wrong or how you feel inside, put on a happy face! Keep your chin up! Don't let the turkeys get you down! If you think positive all the time, then you won't have to feel all that… stuff… that lies inside you, threatening to darken your skies at any minute. It's all a joke anyway, so laugh and drink up!
Or perhaps there are people around who could use your good advice. After all, you know what they should and shouldn't be doing, saying, and thinking!
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers true (higher-octave) wisdom and joy. You can be a shining teacher-by example, by empathy, by simply being who you are. This transformed placement confers Inner Truth, free of filters, barriers, and masks.
Moon in Capricorn
No matter what goes wrong or how you feel inside, when things get tough or you are feeling down, you can always bargain your way into a more personally satisfying situation! You will tend to avoid intangibles-like emotions!-and bury yourself in pragmatic and practical concerns. But if it's love you're looking for, well there is always going to be someone around who will accept your emotional currency! And if you can't get people to love you, at least you know how to manipulate and organize them in other ways!
Alternately, you will tend to find solace in work, recognition, awards, and accomplishment. Workaholics live here!
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers solidity, substance, form, and structure-particularly with regard to your spiritual evolution. When you connect with your heart, you have the potential to be a tower of inspiration and a treasure chest of practical help.
Moon in Aquarius
Safety, here, is found in retreat and aloofness from the world. To others, you can seem almost alien! Sometimes you distance yourself so far from others that no bridge is possible-until your talkative, friendly nature once again surfaces. After all, you need people and social interaction.
Solace is sometimes found in perversity, contrariness, off-the-planet humor, and stubbornness for its own sake… "If you try to tell me what to do, not only will I not do it, but I will do the opposite! Oh, you're upset by this? How interesting!"
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers unusual insights, novel ways of looking at things and, in general, a feeling for the larger picture of life.
Moon in Pisces
When you are hurt or things get too much, you shut your emotional doors, you lick your wounds, you indulge in self-pity and victimhood, and/or you disappear into the mists of fantasy… off with the fairies! The Earth is much too coarse a place for your sensitive nature, so you cut yourself off from it, preferring the alternate and ethereal worlds of the imagination and fantasy. To hide this, you may tend to put on a hard exterior-an earthy, coarse, loud, sometimes-smutty, rough-around-the-edges façade, designed to put the dogs off the scent.
When transformed into the higher (human) octave, this Moon placement confers an unparalleled sensitivity to others, but a sensitivity that doesn't buy into, or get swamped by, others' negativities. It confers empathy, healing power, and true compassion (meaning feeling and understanding what others are going through without falling into the need to rescue them, fix them, or change the circumstances of their lives).
Next month, we will explore the Moon as the pendulum of the soul-as the orientating force that determines the direction of each of our earthly incarnations.
The Door
-Martin Lass ©2004
I walk this way and that-
Down this corridor,
Up these stairs,
Across this entryway…
And everywhere I go,
I find a closed door.
If there are many rooms
In my Father's house,
Then why are all the doors closed?
So I sit down
In the midst of these doors
And ponder my predicament.
I wait and watch
And put my question
Out into the universe.
Eventually, the answer comes,
Not from the outside,
But from within-
A door opens in my heart
And I remember why I am here.
Love and gratitude fills me
And, around me now,
The doors of my Father's house
Magically open again,
And I am off exploring once more…
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Martin Lass,
Astrologer
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Martin Lass
Professional Practising and Research Astrologer
Research Member of AFA (American Federation of Astrologers)
Member of ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research)
Certified practitioner of "The Collapse Process"(TM) of Dr. John Demartini (The Concourse of Wisdom School of Philosophy and Healing, Houston TX).
Martin Lass specializes in Chiron Astrology--the astrology of Healing--as well as actively researching the origins of astrology and astrology's wider metaphysical connections to every possible area of human endeavor and expression.
He writes for various trade journals, has authored numerous books (see below) and presents lectures/seminars/workshops worldwide on a variety of topics from astrology to healing to the connections between mythology, physics and metaphysics, to name a few.
Author of the three-volume book series, "Musings of a Rogue Comet - Chiron, Planet of Healing" and of "Love Makes the Worlds Go Around - The Living Planets Speak"
See:
www.martinlass.
com/chbk123.htm
Author of spiritually-based fiction and poetry
Professional musician (violinist), composer and entertainer
Book designer for Print-on-Demand (POD) printing process (primarily for self-publishers - e-books and trade paperbacks)
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(astrology and healing site)
www.martinlass.
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