The Right Way to Lilith
I’ve been working lately on the Black Moon Lilith (BML), working to describe how to integrate the energy into your day-to-day life, and getting over the automatic, conditioned fear that she’s to be feared and avoided.
By house, sign and aspect, each of us can find the right way to Lilith - as a noun (finding her energy), and as a verb (bringing her energy consciously into our lives).
As an example, my true BML is at 3 Sagittarius in the 2nd, with Neptune & Mercury in the 2nd and Moon in the 3rd house (4, 9, and 11 Sagittarius, respectively). It sextiles Pluto-Venus in Libra/12th.
For me, opening up the satellite dish that this Sagittarius stellium can seem, and flowing with words that want to come out, is one way. Allowing myself not to edit too much too early, just to let it flow. Lilith brings a primal, irrational, instinctive and uncontrollable energy, and when I open the channel and write what comes through, I’m more productive than working in any other way.
Incorporating Lilith into our lives, bringing her out of the closet, or out from under the rug, leads to a feeling of greater wholeness. When I allow myself to write in this way, I’m not only productive but also I feel like an important part of me had the chance to participate. It feels like a gift I give myself.
As I wrote above, anyone can figure out how to let his or her Lilith flow. The trick is in releasing the conditioning and pain we’ve accumulated along the way, when we’ve internalized the judgments of others that this natural part of us is not okay. It’s natural for others to try to get us to normalize, as they’re looking out for our best interests. Yet each of us at some point has opportunities to identify, reclaim and bring out who we really are.
Tom is available for private evolutionary astrology & intuitive counseling sessions. See his website for more information, and for information on his True Black Moon Lilith natal report, available in late May.
April 29, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Announcing a new Black Moon Lilith natal report
I’m accepting pre-orders for a new natal true Black Moon Lilith report. It’s original material reflecting my work with clients, intuitive research and experiences over the last few years with this little-understood archetype.
If you know anything about Lilith and/or how she’s understood in astrological circles, you’ll have a sense of how important it is to get this information out. People want to reconnect with this authentic, creative part of themselves and heal the suppression and abuse, and release the limiting conditioning that gets heaped on those living out the archetype. They’re hungering to figure out more authentic ways to express themselves and live in greater alignment with their true natures. Understanding the natal true Black Moon Lilith is, in my experience, critical in such a process.
The report discusses the true Black Moon in general and in your chart. It has sections on Lilith’s mythology and how the archetype informs people’s lives (how we live her story), plus personalized info on your Lilith placement: natal house& sign, natal aspects with other planets/points, and important upcoming transits and progressions to Lilith. The report will be a 6,000-7,000 word PDF.
I’ll offer the report at $27, but by pre-ordering you’ll save $5, making the price $22.
This discount is available for the duration of the Sun’s trek through Taurus (until Tuesday, May 20th, at 9:01 AM PDT).
If you’re curious to learn more about Lilith before ordering the report, you can find an article on my site (http://tdjacobs.com/user/BML%2015Jun07doc.pdf) and some posts in my blog (http://tdjacobs.spiritcrossing.com/category/lilith/ - begin with the earlier posts first).
To order the report, e-mail me (tom at t d jacobs dot com). I’ll then invoice you via PayPal. I’ll also take checks mailed to me – contact me for the address. I’ll begin e-mailing the reports as PDFs when the Sun enters Gemini - the time of year to open up to new info and renew our curiosity.
April 21, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Saturn in Virgo & Food
Virgo fundamentally is about choice, being the sign of working on the details to make a better bigger picture. What needs to be done when and in what order? it asks…and answers.
Virgo’s view of the body, as a machine made of many constituent parts, can take food into serious consideration. Any concern over the purity of one’s food are running Virgo in their lives. It can certainly be overdone (eating disorders) but can also be used to serve a body by making it work better (health conscious people you think must live only in California).
My approach to Virgo choice stuff, including the 6th house, has to do with increasing awareness of the body’s reactions to what’s eaten. If Virgo energy is allowed to grow itself away from whole-body awareness and only take into account the mind’s rules and concerns, there’s disconnect, and disconnect = your being becoming out of whack in one way or another.
I advise people to be aware of the reactions to what they intend to eat, and I myself choose food before purchasing based on how on board my body is about that food. My brain will say, “You can’t possibly be thinking of eating [name of food product],” yet if the rest of me votes a thumbs up, I buy it.
Saturn’s transit through Virgo means that the work of the moment (Saturn) involves figuring out what it means to be mature enough (Saturn) to take responsibility (Virgo) for how our lives work (Virgo), including our bodies. One big arena of how it works or doesn’t is in what kind of fuel we choose to give our bodies. Your energy level, moods, sleep cycle, libido and everything else are influenced by what kind of food you eat.
Saturn’s retrograde right now, and this is the perfect time to check in with what your body wants you to feed it. How does your body feel when you eat something? Does it make you feel like you want to feel? After you open the door to awareness, take this into the store with you and let your body guide your purchases.
Most of us are surrounded by easy availability of food that we know is no good for us. Saturn in Virgo is asking if you can be responsible enough for yourself to have the integrity to choose what feels right for you. I have no doubt that everyone can hear what their bodies are saying, it’s only a matter of how willing we are to listen.
Tom is available for 60- and 90-minute intuitive karmic astrology consultations. See his website for more information.
April 12, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Pluto in Capricorn: Dis-covering Authentic Sexuality
Underneath multiple uncomfortable and discomfiting layers of conditioning lies a particular sexual animal that is uniquely you.
There, that wasn’t so hard to read, was it?
Good. But those are just words.
Pluto’s transit in Capricorn offers each of us an opportunity to get clarity on and, if need be, overturn any conditioning we carry (and each of us tends to carry a lot of it).
A blog post about sexuality from me isn’t about drawing you in to read me - and I’m not selling you anything. And this is not about sex - it’s about sexuality. An important distinction, given that we use sex to sell everything and we almost entirely misunderstand sexuality.
I’m interested in taking away the layers of conditioning any of us has so we can find out who’s really inside us. Given the Capricornian excesses we generate to cover up a natural sense of human sexuality, it was only a matter of time until my Pluto-in-Capricorn wanderings took me there.
Are you wondering what authentic sexuality is?
I don’t know how you’ll take this, but you’re the only one who can answer that question for you.
Capricorn is the normalizer of the zodiac, the denier-of-all-spice, the suppressor. We need its systematic approach and work ethic to organize ourselves into society (schools, courts, roads), no doubt. But Capricorn in essence works to distill each of into an aggregate of shoulds and should-nots, and that only works for individuals as far as it does. It’s the anti-individual sign, and I don’t know about you, but I see tons of people all the time hungering to be more individually who they really are.
Pluto’s present retro through Capricorn (it began April 2nd & lasts 5 months) offers anyone who’s willing to look insight into the depths of their social/cultural programming. Use the time to allow layers to peel themselves away, to observe your habits and preferred reactions. Learn the skill of seeing how what you do might be informed by what others think you should do - whether they’re actual presences in your life or nameless and faceless masses. And where in the timeline in your life you learned to adopt any particular stance.
Re authentic sexuality, ideas of what men do and what women do, but really what it means to be a man or a woman, are the playing field. How you’ve internalized external expectations of the expression of your most basic and natural self.
The retro period is about the idea. New action is not best initiated during retro periods because the energy is working differently than normal. But if you do begin something new, allow that revisions will be necessary and you might change your mind a lot along the way. So, it’s an idea at present. Gaining awareness of your assumptions about what is and is not involved in sexuality, in your sexuality, is the point.
For a few months, anyway.
For some people, finding out what’s really going on with tantra will be important - not what you overheard at a party or read in magazines about sexy tips and tricks, not what the guy who tries to pick you up tells you with a wink. Tantra is a way of approaching, using and engaging with energy (a way of being) that is tremendously healing for those who’ve bought into too many Capricornian injunctions against being what we truly are (the vast majority of us). You could use the next five months to explore what it means to relate to the world energetically-as-you, instead of as an aggregate of rules, shoulds and should-nots.
Whatever you do, understand that what you find in those layers peeling away are not yours - they’re ours. You’re a member of a system that’s run via inculcating its members with beliefs and expectations. You’ve taken them on as yours, as the good little member of a Capricornian group that you are.
In the notebook in my head, there are several dozen stars next to this sentence:
Resist the urge to shame yourself for whatever might come up, and be grateful to get to see the deeper layers.
Capricorn is famous for being willing to shame itself for being what it is, and your opportunity is in tapping into and running the Cap energy that takes responsibility for its directives as a collective, understanding that you don’t have to internalize anything that makes you feel less like loving yourself.
Collectively, then, a major opportunity is for us to learn to recognize that taking responsibility for how we’ve conditioned ourselves is critical. And I take this opportunity to remind you of the Uranian truth that all collective change begins with individual change.
One last thing: if when these layers are peeling away you find Lilith (or someone like her) and are not sure what to do, call me - I’ve got some notes for you.
Tom is available for intuitive evolutionary astrology consultations. See his website for more information.
April 7, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
Pluto’s 2008 Retro
Tomorrow, April 2nd, the planet of digging below the surface begins its annual 5-month trip against the grain.
As this retro includes a trip back into Sagittarius, Sagittarian stuff can be now be revisited in terms of what Capricornian efforts have been begun the last couple of months. Our deepest motivations for thinking, feeling, believing and doing are going to be more readily accessible to our conscious minds during this retro period.
It’s a great opportunity for anyone interested in participating more consciously in their own lives.
A full article on this is here - scroll down to the section with my name.
Tom is available for soul-centered, intuitive astrological consultations. See his website for more info and to book a session.
April 1, 2008 By Tom Jacobs