Lynda Hill's Sabian Symbols

Straight to the Source: An Addendum to the Scorpio Full Moon

This month's full moon in Scorpio has the Sabian Symbol of Scorpio 1: Tourists on a Sightseeing Bus. Of course, we're all tourists in life in one way or another, and this month it can be interesting to observe our lives. In fact, observing one's life and the way one 'is' in life, your souvenirs - those things you pick up and take with you, etc, can be illuminating, interesting and insightful. What are the snapshots of your life? How often do you take them? Do you reflect on your journeys and what it took to get you to where you are now?

The Symbol for the Sun in the full moon is Taurus 1: A Clear Mountain Stream; we are asked to stay on our path, determined and positive about the flow of our lives and ready and prepared for what might come on our journey. We 'mix it in' with people all the way, we become more and more strong as we journey downstream to join in with others and spread out in life with others, becoming more and more somehow integrated into the great outside world as we continue along our path.

Spectators in a Strange World on a Journey of Wonder: April's Scorpio Full Moon

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Shirley MacLaine

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust.

The universe as we know it is a joint project of the observer and the observed. Teilhard de Chardin

The full moon on Sunday April 20 is a particularly powerful one. In Scorpio, it is likely to bring up all kinds of powerful and intense responses and events in and around us. The Sabian Symbol for the full moon is Scorpio 1: Tourists on a Sight-Seeing Bus.

This full moon ensures that there's much to be seen and heard and learned and integrated into our lives by observing what's going on around us, taking things in, assimilating what's going on in our environment as we pass through it. Sometimes we need a tour guide on our journey's; whether it's a journey to the shops or to the Moon. We often take pictures of the terrain we're traveling in, whether they're actual photographs or snapshots that fill our minds. Also, we gather souvenirs; things that give us pleasure or merely prove that we've been somewhere. The main thing with this degree is to really take a good look at your life, but the trick is to be a participant, not just a spectator. One has to 'connect in' with one's environment, people, country, role in life, etc. Who are you on the 'Bus' with? Who's a fellow passenger, a fellow traveler, and who do you invite along on your 'journeys'? What is the vehicle you're traveling in? What is worthy of noticing and what's not? By observing, we learn and assimilate things of great value; we become more rounded, more able to cope with the things that life holds in store for us, or, indeed, throws at us.

As Yogi Berra, the great American baseball player and manager said 'You can observe a lot by watching'. Such profundity!

Two Spinsters, Two Realms, Two Guardian Angels - it's a Big Pairing of Energies at this Aries New Moon

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I think most people will agree with me when I say that the energy of the last week or so (heck of the last few years!) has been pretty weird, fractured, unwired, a bit cranky, over-the-top, or frazzled. This is largely because the Sun, in Aries, and Mars, in Cancer, have been squaring off against each other, giving people either a big burst of 'me-first' energy or a depletion of the adrenals (probably both). Then there's always the issue of bumping heads.

To top it off, we've had the Sun, Mercury, the Moon and now Venus squaring Pluto. So much for diplomacy, so much for people being nice to each other, so much for holding one's thoughts and emotions without having an implosion. Still, there's big changes afoot and many people are feeling them, some intellectually feeling it, others spiritually but many on a visceral level.

Well, this new moon is set to be an interesting one, as is the few days that lead up to it. Occurring on Sunday the 6th April, it's one of those Symbols that gives one pause for thought - literally. The Symbol is Aries 17: Two Prim Spinsters Sitting in Silence.

Curiously perhaps, we have quite a lot of two's going on in this new moon. We have Mercury, the planet of communications, communicating and talking, on Aries 7: A Person Successfully Expressing Them Self in Two Realms at Once and Saturn on Virgo 3: Two Guardian Angels Bringing Protection.