Together

Photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Darkness and a well-worn path for humanity to navigate together is the message of this moment. This is the season of Lughnasadh, which is often tricky, even tearful. Lughnasadh marks the transition between hunter-gather and agriculture cultures, and carries in it a certain melancholy or nostalgia for a nomadic life, lost when folks settled into one place to raise crops and animals. It’s the season when we in the Northern Hemisphere notice the return of Orion the Hunter, and his dog, Sirius (Dog Days of August), the brightest star left to us under smoke darkened skies. Lughnasadh contains celebrations of harvest, bread, tribal gatherings, and weddings. It might be a time to feel the pulsating connection to our bodies. Maybe it’s a time to lie down and look up, not just to the sky, but in chorus with all the green growth, which is rampant at this moment of lunar renewal! This is the marriage of light (Lugh) and Earth (Eire).

photo: Bruce Lhuillier

This new Moon is the Moon of (Coll) Hazel, the tree who grows in and near water. Hazelnuts feed the Salmon of Wisdom, who swims in the ancient Pool of Segais. But Hazel feeds our wisdom as well, if we keep one foot on land and one in water, like the Heron.

photo: Robert Fuhro

Prominent in the chart of the new Moon is Uranus….He often seems to move into strong focus at this time of year. Uranus, that unpredictable rebel connects to Sun and Moon and to Venus, essence and love. He is in Taurus, the sign of Earth, and the Moon’s favorite haunt. Uranus with his close embrace of important players in the astrology chart of the moment, brings about total and sudden disruption, like the Greenville, California fire, yesterday, like the explosion in Beirut last August 4, like the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Or maybe it’s just our focus on destruction, at this time, for the world is always suffering sudden change.

AP photo: Noah Berger Greenville California today

Chiron is also connected to Sun and Moon at this seed moment. He’s in the fiery sign of Aries, just as Sun and Moon occupy the Fire sign Leo. The theme of this new Moon is ‘togetherness,’ and Chiron seems ready to manifest and then heal wounds caused by separation. The issue of vaccines, public health, eviction, injustice, climate disaster never go away until we acknowledge the pain of our shared situation and then remember this vision of heaven and hell:

In each location, the inhabitants are given access to food, but the utensils are too unwieldy to serve oneself with. In hell, the people cannot cooperate, and consequently starve. In heaven, the diners feed one another across the table and are sated

Sabian Symbols are verbal images for each degree of the Zodiac. Channeled by psychic Elsie  Wheeler and transcribed by the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones in 1925. They were revised by Dane Rudhyar in his book Astrology of Personality.   You can find them online at http://www.mindfire.ca/.

Sarah Fuhro      The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present.   For an appointment or to be notified of classes call 508 740 7039 or email her at sarahfuhro@gmail.com.

Bruce Lhuillier Is a French artist and photographer currently living near Boston.   His ability to capture spirit in his photos and paintings is both unique and  visionary.  You can find his work on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Barknstone.

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It’s Almost Time

A Vast Public Park!

Taurus Sun and Moon are meeting in a ‘vast public park’, according to their Sabian Symbol!   There they will celebrate the shared joys of May, the pleasures of Taurus energy, earthy, sensual, imbued with the beauty and love of Venus, ‘ruler’ of this sign. Taurus is fixed, marks the fire festival of Beltane,  and keeps an ancient reverence for the feminine, celebrated all over the ancient world 5,000 years ago, during the ‘Age of Taurus.’   This was a period of huge public processions and gatherings, when tribes met in peace during the season of Beltane to find love and comfort in each other’s presence.

                      photo: Sarah Fuhro

The constellation Taurus marked the two halves of the year for many ancient people. Taurus contains the Pleiades and the Hyades, two important and highly visible star clusters.   At Beltane the Pleiades rise at dawn. At Samhain (late October), they rise at sun set. It’s hard for us to see these great wheels turn in the sky from season to season, but when we do they enrich our understanding of the meaning of change in our lives. Astrology, which came from ancient observation is one way to enjoy and interact with the turn of the cosmic wheel, and to remember that nothing stays the same, but is always in process of transformation.

Sun and Moon feel the action of Mars, Pluto, and Black Moon Lilith, from their position in another Earth sign, Capricorn.   Mars and Pluto make demands upon the luminaries in their Taurus embrace to manifest their love, because Capricorn demands material evidence.   We may also feel that strong energetic push to make something visible during this season of Venus, whether a new child or piece of art.   Black Moon Lilith is always a reminder of whatever we might choose to forget or ignore. Pluto is also the revealer of truth as we see week after week during this time of revealed sexual secrets.

                                    photo: Bruce Lhuillier

But the planet most energized at the new Moon is Uranus.  Always on the move, electric, rebellious,  Uranus will move into the sign of Taurus later this day.   This might have a huge impact on earth energy since Taurus is very associated with the element of earth and there is the extra impact of a new Moon cycle. On the day Uranus went into the sign of Aries in 2011, Fukushima was struck by a huge tsunami, and nuclear plant melt down.   But Taurus is a sign of love of the earth. What if the entry of Uranus into Taurus on May 15, hours after the new Moon, becomes a moment of intense victory for the earth, a joyous appreciation shared by enough people to turn our self destruction into passionate appreciation of the beauty and grace of our home?

                      photo: Bruce Lhuillier

Despite all the heavy interaction between planets, asteroids and luminaries, between cosmic bodies visible and invisible, this new Moon, embraced and hidden in the light of the Taurus Sun contains the potential for a new way of seeing the world.  Love and kindness are always there, waiting for us to notice.

It’s Almost Time

It’s almost time.

almost time for the change in the light,

but almost time for the poor and weak

to reach out their trembling hands

to each other and to grasp.

It’s almost time for the kind to smile

and be seen

in all their glory,

for the shift in power.

 

It’s almost time for the silenced to sing,

and for the earth to receive the sweet rain

of justice as it falls on ploughed fields.

 

It’s almost time to be brave,

and to go the next step

without knowing how.

 

It’s almost time for the Moon

to rise in the dark sky and let us know

there is more than one way

to see the road ahead.

 

– Sarah Fuhro

 

 

 

 

 

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