Lynda Hill's Sabian Symbols

Feeding Chickens and Protecting Them From the Hawks: September's New Moon in Libra

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. Jonathan Swift

If this country is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth but not health. Adelle Davis

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. Edward R. Murrow

The new Moon on September 29 highlights an issue that many have been talking about - how to protect the innocent, our families, our homes, our livelihoods. This has been a very interesting, if not distressing, period of watching and waiting and observing - what will happen with the financial situation going on in the world - particularly in the US? Well, from my observations, particularly this Wall Street bailout - it is likely to be exactly more of the same - the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Of course, in this world of opportunity, we have gateways and opportunities to move past the limitations of lack - but for many this period could see their lives adjusted in terms of their financial situation and their possibilities for the future. The Sabian Symbol for the Libran new Moon is Libra 7: A Woman Feeding Chickens and Protecting Them From the Hawks.

The Lion Tamer and the Spiritualist Medium: September's Pisces Full Moon

 What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. Elie Wiesel

The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated. Isaac D’Israeli

Faith is power to believe and power to see. Prentice Mulford

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. Frank Gaines

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. Lara Gassen

September's full moon in Pisces has a rather Piscean image. It's Pisces 23: A Materializing Medium Giving a Seance. This is an image of strong sensitivity to the fields of energy around us. It can bring up the need for a good radar about what's going on in and around us; to sort out the real from the imagined, the truly desirable from one's desires, the obtainable from the unobtainable and to sort out the future from the past.

The trick with this full Moon is to be able to decipher, decode, deconstruct and decide what's real and what's not. This is a powerful full Moon as Uranus is smack in amongst it, riding side-saddle and it's rather electric and 'what's in it for me?' attitudes can clash with the softer side of Pisces, causing overreaction, bluster, storms of all kinds and the desire to run amok and make things better or different or 'your way' against sometimes overwhelming opposition.

It's not all bad, of course; it can be a marvelous freeing up of stuck or earthbound energies. There is indeed, as Elie Wiesel said, a need to go vertical - to head for truth and justice and clarity, leaving behind the past and forging to new opportunities.

Removing the Veil - the Sun/Saturn Conjunction

 

When the disciple knows Saturn as the God who offers opportunity and does not only feel him to be Deity who brings disaster, then he is on the path of discipleship in truth and in deed and not just theoretically. 

Alice Bailey

Whatever limits us we call fate. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see. Omar Khayyam

How does Saturn enter, except by forcing its way in? James Hillman

If you've been feeling stressed, weighed down, not listened to, like you've run into too many brick walls, tired, unsatisfied and unrewarded, welcome to the land of Sun/Saturn. Of course, as Alice Bailey says in her quote above, Saturn can be the God who offers opportunity, the trick is to know how to make that ol' disciplinarian Saturn work for you and not against you.

The Sun/Saturn conjunction occurs on September 4 in Australia and September 3 in the States.