Astrology for the New Moon, March 21, 2023

“Passing through the portal to get a glimpse of the next version of reality“

The inner and outer minds reflect each other.
Consciousness is a cosmic dance.

Preface — This article is not intended to be political, nor is it written with a political agenda. The archetypal cosmology speaks for itself.

During this segment of the lunar phase

Pluto enters the region of space known as Aquarius on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Because of the much tighter orbit and shorter year of the earth, Pluto will appear to move back and forth between Capricorn and Aquarius a few times before moving into Aquarius and staying there until 2043 on November 19, 2024. Dates link

This is the last new moon before Pluto’s first dip into Aquarius (Pluto will retrograde and come back to Capricorn on June 11, 2023 and then go back and forth a few more before November 2024).

The article focuses on this new moon, today, March 21, 2023. It also happens to be a new moon in the very first degree of Aries.

This new moon

We have a new moon in Aries every year, but only rarely is it in the very first degree of aries. From a technical and scientific standpoint, this means that the new moon happens at the same time that the earth is moving around the sun such that the backdrop of the stars behind the sun is just-passed-exact on the plane of the galactic axis.

This new moon alignment is “coplanar” with the galaxy

The moon passes directly between the earth and the sun, and there’s a perfect alignment between these three bodies (earth-moon-sun) that extends into the disc of the galaxy itself. The line that connects the centers of the earth-sun-moon is perfectly flat with the midline of the galaxy, like two pieces of paper in the same binder. It’s “coplanar”, but not pointing at the center of the galaxy (that’s at 27° Sagittarius).

• Imagine using a bow to shoot an arrow at a target, but not only hitting the bullseye, but splitting an arrow that’s already hit the bullseye.

• Imagine sewing a needle 8.5 inches across, through the thickness of a piece of paper.

Energetically, this is a new beginning point. Security will become an even stronger focus in the collective consciousness as a unipolar world authority seeks to establish itself.

Symbolically:

• The residue of history is still with us. Like a mermaid walking out of the ocean onto dry land, it’s still wet.

• Can you stay balanced on new legs?

On a bigger, cultural scale, the testing of structural feasibility is done. The testing of actual usability is beginning. You may think of it as, feasibility vs. usability or concept vs. experience.

There’s high-level approval of new initiatives from learning that was made during times of stress these last few months. Another way to look at it is like paperwork is being passed in the shadows.

There is no going backwards, there are only details to be worked out.

Mars, signifying individual ambition, is about to leave Gemini and enter Cancer, where it will move in a new direction from the initial impulse that the new moon is highlighting, from last May (2022).

Mars, which just completed its post retrograde shadow on March 15, 2023, went into Aries on 17th May 2022, right where the new moon conjunction is now, and Mars is in a waxing square to that new moon.

What does this mean? Shadows from last May are moving forward in new directions.

This activity is infused by Jupiter’s conjunction with Chiron — what healing have you created for yourself and others with your suffering and shame? What new approaches to life are you inspired to take?

As much as we’ve been playing with new ideas to go after what we want, staying in our lane (as I discussed in the previous full moon article) helps us develop new skills to be in better flow with life. In other words, we’re becoming more present to standardizable modes, techniques, for self-protection. One might think of it like “new mannerisms.”

Live life beyond expectations and projections to find true freedom of choice — to leave it all behind, and in that, lead with faith towards the development of natural drives, that, in its most ideal form, are symbolically like the song bird, performing a “righteous remix.”

What would it look like for you to stand free from the past’s baggage and — perhaps playfully — sing a righteous remix of all the feelings going on for you? How could you make art out of the madness?

Attend in a playful way where and how you can.

Jupiter has just conjuncted and passed Chiron — The Wounded Healer

Chiron is known as the wounded healer, but to me, that’s not actionable. It’s defeatist and to be honest, I find it quite limiting and annoying (I’m human too, right? #smileyface).

The opportunity for Chiron is “the challenge to transmute” pain into maturity to serve a purpose bigger than himself.

Mythologically, when Chiron gives up his immortality in exchange for the life of Prometheus, who had been punished for giving fire to humanity. Zeus was so moved by this demonstration that he put Chiron in the constellation of Sagittarius, giving him immortality without the pain of the poison arrow in his leg.

Take in information that sobers you, but don’t give up; don’t welcome death just yet. We all get to die, and the hardest part is letting go of control of it.

It’s our job to give that power to a higher (divine) authority:

• It’s not a higher authority that wears a suit and calls for more weapons to defeat the enemy.

• It’s the higher authority that animates authority itself. The power without a name except that which you give to it.

Neptune to Uranus Cluster

The Inner planets in this cluster are the Sun, Mercury, and Venus.

• Mercury is closest to the new moon, but Chiron and Jupiter are inside of Venus. We may be thinking clearly, but our emotions get clouded by others’ perceptions and opinions of our own suffering.

• There is the potential for mass hypnosis, where cultural identities (traditions and nationalism) are cited and used as a tool for manipulation.

The only planets outside of this cluster are Mars (on the northern side), and Saturn and Pluto on the southern side. Mars and Pluto are on the outside edges of this 149° bowl.

The arrangement of two planets on the edges (Mars — at the end of Gemini going into Cancer, and Pluto — at the end of Capricorn going into Aquarius) with all other planets in the middle signifies:

• Global agendas (secretive) to reorganize cultural behavior

• Disregard of individual human life in favor of collectivization (masquerading as unity)

We have a bowl!

Bowl energy just shows a focus of energy. The center point of the bowl indicates how to stabilize the energy.

The midpoint of the bowl (between Pluto at ~30° Capricorn and Mars at ~28° Gemini) is Aries 14.1°

This is in the same degree and considered exactly conjunct to Chiron, at 14° Aries 58°. This means that the archetype of Chiron (challenge to transmute pain into mature decisions) is what consciousness needs to stabilize the energy of this great cultural transformation.

Synchronistically, the new moon conjunction is 50 minutes ahead of perfect 0°, and the midpoint is almost exactly 50 minutes behind exactly where Chiron is. Synchrony is a demonstration of balance, and balance of harmony and equilibrium. This emphasizes the transcendent nature and importance of Chiron, and highlights the value of humans with strong Chiron placements in their charts.

Concretely, those of us who’ve already gone through our personal fires, survived to talk about it, and have learned life and integrated lessons about how to transcend the burning sensations of our personal fires, are the ideal teachers and leaders to vision the future and carry us all forward.

Unfortunately, these are the same people who are least likely to project authority, and most likely to resist controlling others by telling them what to do.

Mystics say that God (whoever/whatever your God is, whether it’s Jesus, nature, or something else) speaks as the quietest voice in our minds, and the best, most necessary leaders are likely to be the most unassuming of power.

In Summary:

Don’t hold onto the old ways of doing things. That which holds on resists renewal, and ultimately decays.

Imagine kicking a 70-yard game-winning field goal… in triple overtime — the pressure, the poise, the space between worlds (the world of the successful kicker vs. the world of the failing kicker) as the head coach is preparing to call his play. Does he go for this kick? The alignment must be perfect. The records that will be set, the legacies that will be created and destroyed… the space between worlds at which we glimpse the future and stand at a choice point.

What play(s) will our leaders call?

What play will you call?

Thanks for reading!

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