Scorpio New Moon: Conjunct true Black Moon Lilith, opposing Rx Arjunsuri-Ceres
The new Moon at 3:03 PM Pacific time at 17 Scorpio is conjunct true Black Moon Lilith, at 13 Scorpio, and opposing Arjunsuri and Ceres, both retrograde in Taurus at 18 and 16, respectively.
For starters, some basic thoughts on Lilith can be found here and here.
With Lilith conjunct the new Moon, we’re talking about the probably-buried suspicion of your true, raw, animal nature that has an “in” to your more-conscious feeling nature at this time. The period that’s beginning with this new moon includes what could be considered an invitation to you to admit, if you haven’t done so already, that Lilith exists within you. She can appear in many different forms, but I suspect you’ll notice yourself wanting to edit an honest and sort of raw response to something in the moment because you’re clear that it’s socially unacceptable. And because you’re either not sure of what heinous response you’d get, or unwilling to get the kind of heinous response you know you’d get. And yet new Moon energy is about, in a sense, trial and error - stepping into experience without knowing precisely what we’re doing or where it’s going; forgiving ourselves for learning through experience and, thereby, risking pain and failure.
By house and sign, you can get a flavor for the ways in which you experience (and refuse to experience) Lilith in your life. With this energy conjunct the new moon, however, the opportunity for any of us is to allow more of our real natures time and space in our lives. Forget for a minute the details of any of Lilith’s stories that you may be familiar with - forget the subject matter of her experience for a moment, in other words - and understand that the edgy side of your animalness and it’s natural presence in you is what’s in question.
I’m not advising you to turn on the faucet of inexplicable crazy that you might think, or might have heard, is the key to Lilith energy. The fear that it’s too much to look at and deal with is what keeps it too much to look at and deal with, and so being willing to open to the energy and see that there are indeed parts of us that are kept far from the light of day may be more important than freaking out with suppressed anger, etc. - but it really just depends on what’s on tap for you right now.
Arjunsuri (asteroid 20300) opposing the new moon is a statement about the need to check the Scorpio intensity of expression with some Taurus grounding in the why we’re doing what we’re doing, specifically in being clear on whose voice we honor when we open up our personal Scorpio floodgates of feeling and get all Scorpio with ourselves or others. That the asteroid is retrograde suggests that revisiting our motivation for what we do (whose agenda are we supporting) is part of the question the moment asks. It’s conjunct retrograde Ceres, adding to the question of the moment a note on defining ourselves by the roles we perform for others. And this happens in Taurus, the sign of self-reliance.
Tying this all together, we’re looking at the opportunity to ask ourselves if the depths we’re either passionate about exploring or adamant about hiding (/hiding from) are informed by what we think about what we need to take care of ourselves, or what we’ve been told about what we need to take care of ourselves.
When the Sun’s in Scorpio, we’re always confronted with issues of where and how we meet others in the tight spaces of intimate relating. Scorpio’s the energy of wanting to penetrate another (person, thing, idea) in order to experience what it’s like to be it, which is to say be one with it. The conjunction of Lilith with the new moon and the opposition of Rx Arjunrsuri/Rx Ceres invites us to take a step toward deeper understanding of how we invite, create, recognize and interact in those tight spaces of intimacy - whose passion? whose desire? whose ideas of appropriateness? whose agenda?
This can manifest in our lives in many forms. Sex and sexuality are not the only playing grounds of Scorpio. Naked, absolute honesty is an area associated with Scorpio energy, as is removing the veneers of anything to see what’s happening below the surface. And it can of course come in the domain of shared material resources, but that’s often just a red herring for the issues of honesty and truth that’re behind all such transactions/interactions.
That said, those who are open to anything that might come up will in all likelihood see in themselves conditioning surrounding sexuality. In the ways that you understand yourself as a sexual being, one tack goes, what kinds of programming do you carry about what to do with that? What about how to do it? And as long as I’m throwing the “w” questions out there: With whom, why and when? (This could almost be another long post by itself, but, briefly: If you have control-based rules about whom you love, what it takes for you to love them, and what conditions make it okay for you/give you a green light to love, there’s an opportunity to sort out which of those rules are inherited/absorbed as a result of your conditioning and which are of your own design & manufacture, and which from each category are worth keeping and maintaining.)
This is happening on my Sun-Lucifer-Juno conjunction in my 2nd house, so I’m off to ask myself the hard version of the questions I so casually typed out for you above…
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November 9, 2007 By Tom Jacobs
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
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February 14th, 2008 at 1:01 am
I have been looking for someone to decipher my unusual aspects on lillith with a former soulmate. Firts, I have BML 21 Taurus and my Moon is 23 Scorpio. Soulmate has north node on my BML and south node and Vertex on my Scorpio moon. Today BML is tranisiting exact on my moon. What should I expect and how does soulmate fit in? We are both Leos. He is Cancer rising and I am Aries rising.
Thanks for any sharing of ideas.
February 15th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
hi, thanks for the comment.
first, i see soulmates as teachers - we agree to drive each other’s evolution. we each have several or many, and there’s no one person made just for us, like the common defintion says.
second, make sure you’re using the true black moon lilith. using the mean position will get you nowhere.
if you’re using the true BML: without seeing the two charts, i can say that your moon energy will strike his comfort zone (south node), and your lilith energy will challenge him to grow (north node). whether it’s experienced as good or bad isn’t in the chart. that’s up to the choice of each person.
and for you, with moon opposing lilith, you may have apprehension about finding lilith in you, or giving her air. essentially, there’s an argument inside you about your needs for honesty, directness and intensity (scorpio moon) and the independent and earthy part of you that’s wild (taurus lilith).
when the true BML goes over the moon, many kinds of things can happen, or nothing, depending on how in touch a person is with moon and lilith (there are people who bury their feelings and don’t notice transits to the moon as much as others). but it’s the energy of the wild authenticity that the part of us living in the dark brings to the moon. i’d expect a feeling of wanting to do something wild to feed the moon in a new way, for a short time.