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The
Lunar Tick-Tock
WHY
does the moon's transit in any one sign give a different
result every time? March forward with a few steps
to understanding the dynamics of WHY the moon's
transit in the same sign gives different results
every time...
A suggested
the step-by-step for watching the lunar tick-tock
is:
- 1. Determine
the sign ruler that the Moon happens to be visiting
that day, i.e. Saturn for Capricorn, Mercury
for Gemini, etcetera. I prefer the ancient planetary
rulerships as they seem to work consistently
for me. (this doesn't mean I remove the "moderns"
at all! ...that's for another topic)
- 2. Go to that
sign ruler. Is it catching hell with a Pluto
square? Gaining sugars from a Venus trine? Fattening
with a Jupiter opposition? Just how is that
ruler doing?
- 3. Check all
the degrees that that moon will "hit"
from the time you are noticing the moon to the
time that she will leave that sign. In other
words, if you began observing tonight's moon
in Capricorn after the transit to the 13th degree
of that sign, Moon still has 14, 15, 16, 17,
etcetera until the 30th degree to make aspects.
Does she make any major aspects in your chart
before leaving Capricorn? Does the moon aspect
anything that is transitting?
- 4. Do you have
a planet that will be "hit" by the
moon in Capricorn?
Tonight
(Monday the 30th... I wrote this a long time ago
for a discussion group...), she aspected by trine
the Saturn in Taurus. This is a "reception"
of Saturn for the moon; i.e, the Moon is in Saturn's
Domicile, and Saturn is in the sign of the Lunar
Exaltation, Taurus. This is a fairly happy situation,
so the astrologer can make the assumption that as
far as a Lunar aspect to Venus on this occasion,
all goes well with her aspect to Saturn.
Let's
say you have Venus in Cancer. When this Saturn-tinged
moon opposes it she's in good "favor"
to her ruler, and gets a kind of mutual reception
from him since he's in the sign of her exaltation,
Taurus. The affairs of Venus go well for you--this
time. Since the lunar aspect is an opposition, the
situation is not yours to create, the (7th house
= opposition) Other does it for you. So, you can
accept a blind date and know that this time you'll
enjoy yourself, for instance.
The
moon's opposition to Venus does not always mean
Love Goes Well. If Saturn as the Moon's ruler is
"besieged" or otherwise malevolently placed
by zodiacal relationship to any other transiting
planet, Love Goes Wrong when the moon opposes that
Venus from Capricorn.
The
condition of the ruler makes for all the difference
when checking out the "second hand" timer
in the Sky: Luna.
However,
this is a rather tedious job, just watching for
the moon's indicators. These rules apply to any
planet, for any time of the life. So, watch Venus,
notice her ruler, and what she's aspecting. You'll
see she doesn't behave the same way every time she
makes the same aspect, because her ruler is being
subjected to different treatment at every occasion.
Stephen's
method of watching for what the Vedics call the
"graha" which is "when the archetype
grabs you" is fine for when you are not working
hard on the things that demand your attention such
as job, marriage or 11 o'clock news with Peter Jennings.
I used to do this when I got started with astrology,
and still marvel at it when I write down a question
for later review in a horary: usually one of my
natal planets is rising or in the midheaven, making
the chart radical for my purposes. The "graha"
grabbed me to write down the question; I was in
the "graha" of the moment. When we live
closer and closer to our animal instincts, these
moments indicating "grahas" are far more
frequent.
That's
what I call "surfing the indicators."
The "wave" comes in, we paddle out. The
"graha" grabs us and sends us speedily
back to shore in a satisfying ride of the wave.
That at least for me has been the successful use
of watching the Moon. Stephen is taking a moment-by-moment
journal-writing workshop approach to the Inner Life
of Lunar tides and motions and will tire of the
seemingly endless times that this approach works
because it really truly does, but it seems like
it's not really enough.
It
takes practice but this little step-by-step deepens
our flexibility demands that we pay particular attention
to each of the planet's places in the current situation.
When
we begin to see, for example, that Mars' direct
motion in Libra will be affected in turn by Venus'
being in Cancer, and that as such, this represents
a highly changeable atmosphere as anything in Cancer
might show... (public opinion and major pundits
alike may likely express the change of atmosphere
regarding what was "Certain and Most True"
(fairly "set" by the fixed sign, Scorpio)
at the time of the retrograde last March.
This retrograde can come to meaning "a change
of mind" or a "fluctuation in spending
patterns" or whatever else we might observe
on our watch of the Mars Retrograde. As we observe
this kind of dot-to-dot, step by step of the Lunar
position and her "wiring" for each of
these transits we become sensitized to the story
they tell together as a Celestial Family.
Wanderers will again show us a new parade of possibilities
as we watch the Merry-go-Round in the sky. Learn
to see them as integrated, not just in signs or
just in houses. These houses are "ruled,"
and visitations from Wanderers have specific protocols.
The signs are "ruled" and the Wanderers
are sometimes welcome (received) other times unwelcome
(Detriment, Fall). They each have "spats"
with each other (squares and oppositions) or they
just can't get enough of each other (conjunctions,
mutual receptions) and they have a pecking order
that gives or takes away their inherent powers.
Look at the integration of the Moon to the ruler
of the sign she is in. Look to that rulers' "condition".
Watch for her aspect to your chart with that ruler
in mind, not just the moon in her sign or her phase.
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