Lynda Hill's Sabian Symbols

Knowledge, Passion, Temptation and Forbidden Fruit: The Aries New Moon

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. Anatole France

It was from the rind of one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil as two twins cleaving together leaped forth into the world. John Milton

This desire to govern a woman–it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together before they shall enter the garden. E. M. Forster

Forbidden fruit is sweet. Traditional Proverb

Adam was human; he didn’t want the apple for the apple’s sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden. Mark Twain

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. Mark Twain

There are several good protections against temptation, but the most popular is cowardice. Mark Twain

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure until you know that there is no hook. Thomas Jefferson

The Aries new Moon is quite an explosive, passionate and deeply intense one with some very interesting themes that can ignite, inspire and feed our impulses while, at the same time, teach us some interesting things about our selves and our lives and what it means to be human. Occurring on April 3 in the United States and April 4 in Australia, it's one heck of a doozy of an Aries new Moon with Mars, Lilith, Uranus, the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter and Mercury all in Aries. Many would see this combination of planets all lining up in Aries as explosive. Combining that together with the Sabian Symbols, I would go a step further and call it incendiary. 

The Sabian Symbol for the new Moon is Aries 14: A Serpent Coiling Near A Man And A Woman. This symbolizes the story of the “temptation” of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The ‘Serpent’ offered Adam and Eve the gift of self-knowledge. However, this “knowledge” also revealed to them that they were naked and that this was sinful. The ‘Serpent’ was said to have brought them both knowledge and guilt. The “snake” can be symbolic of anything that induces fear or negativity into a situation. On the other hand, what the “snake” symbolizes can bring a healing and a profound sense of, or need for, self-knowledge. This Symbol can show the celebration of the physical body and the enjoyment of another through all of the senses.

Secret Knowledge From An Ancient Scroll: March's Virgo Full Moon

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leathern scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! The Press was found at last! John Greenleaf Whittier

History is the unrolled scroll of prophecy. James A. Garfield

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is . . . the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence. John Quincy Adams

All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. Walter Benjamin

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost. Buddha

Memory is the scribe of the soul. Aristotle

Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck. From the movie Aladdin

There is nothing new except that which has become antiquated. Lycee Rose Bertin

The full Moon in March occurs on March 19 in the United States and March 20 in Australia. This is a powerhouse full Moon, aligning as it does with Uranus just as it goes into Aries. The Sabian Symbol for the full Moon is Virgo 29: A Man Is Gaining Secret Knowledge From An Ancient Scroll He Is Reading.

A Lady Wrapped In Fox Fur: The Piscean New Moon

Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. Ambrose Bierce

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. Katharine Hepburn

Instinct is untaught ability. Alexander Bain

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. Yul Brynner

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. Marya Mannes

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. John Ruskin

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. Christian Lacroix

March's new Moon is on March 4 in the United States and March 5 in Australia. The Sabian Symbol is Pisces 14: A Woman Wrapped In Fox Fur. The following is from my book The Sabian Oracle: 360 Degrees of Wisdom -