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[ArtCharts] Inspired Astrology Newsletter: New Moon edition

Scorpio New Moon: November 9 @ 6:03 pm est
Mars stations Retrograde: November 15 @ 9:24 am est

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Scorpio New Moon and Mars stations Retrograde: embracing your power, or tangled up in glue?

Happy New Moon in Scorpio!

This is the Scorpio New Moon. It’s time to look deeper, below the surface, behind the facade. Instead of the obvious, it’s time to focus our attention to inner realms because they hold the key to secrets and mysteries. Our dreams can bring hidden feelings to the surface as they unlock and communicate messages from the subconscious. That’s why it’s a good time of year to sleep. The nights are cool, long, and dark, especially at the New Moon.

New Moons are seed times, when you cannot SEE the results of your work, but you still plant, having faith that your seed will take hold, be nourished, and grow. What you DON’T see is what’s important at the New Moon. So what are we NOT seeing?

The Scorpio New Moon is the time to look at what scares you. What do you hide from? What really matters, deep inside? In Scorpio, you don’t have to look at your shadow alone! It’s not even recommended because Scorpio is fixed water and if you delve alone, you can get obsessed by the darkness. Scorpio wants a partner, and you may find someone whose penetrating insight and honesty can help you shed light on what’s dark.

In modern astrology, Scorpio is ruled by Pluto; and in Classical astrology (or any astrology practiced before 1930), Scorpio is ruled by Mars. When you study horary or transit charts, you will notice that personal issues are described by Mars, while large-scale social issues come under the domain of Pluto. For most of us, most of the time, Mars still rules Scorpio.

Mars in Cancer is in “mutual reception” to the Moon in Scorpio. They are both in each other’s rulership sign. Mars rules Scorpio, while the Moon rules Cancer. This can awaken your need to be needed, physically. Your strong, courageous actions can protect your home and family and make you feel like you’re in control. Yet, if there is no way to vent emotions, they can come unglued at the wrong time, and with tidal-wave force.

Mars, the personal ruler of the New Moon, is hardly moving as Mars in Cancer prepares to make a Retrograde station next week, November 15. Before Mars resumes forward motion on January 30, 2008, Mars will Retrograde out of Cancer, all the way back to 24 degrees Gemini.

Whatever part of your chart contains 24 Gemini to 12 Cancer can experience an energy shift. In the USA chart, Mars will make its Retrograde station conjunct the USA natal Sun. And Mars will Retrograde back to 24 Gemini, just 3 degrees from the US Mars at 21 Gemini. The entire country is reviewing it’s energy policy.

Everyone wants to know when Mars Retrograde ends, but you can’t hold your breath until January 30! Mars stationing Retrograde is a chance to look– again– at how you use your ENERGY. And despite frustrations and set backs, there are also opportunities. At the New Moon, Mars is TRINE the Sun and Moon and in mutual reception to the Moon; the path to progress is eased because you CAN take the heat! Great ideas can be forged, even if you can’t set plans in motion as quickly as you’d like.

This is more than Mars stationing Retrograde. This is a very close connection to the Moon. Mars is also: in its FALL in Cancer, in mutual reception to the Moon, out-of-bounds (OOB) by declination, and trine Uranus. Mars Retrograde alone is challenging, and all these factors combined can give this Mars Retrograde an EXTREMELY out-of-control quality. And if that’s not enough to make the energy feel unstable, the Moon is at a high declination and moving out of bounds. When Mars stations Retrograde on November 15, the Moon will also be out-of-bounds at 24 S 53 (contra-parallel to Mars at 24 N 2 and approaching perigee (closest to the Earth) on November 24. That’s a lot of volatile energy starting to boil.

Using your energy spontaneously can suddenly take you beyond your conscious boundaries of action and aggression. When does stimulation become aggression? When does passion become obsession? And when does obsession overtake your productive energy and hold you back instead of give you energy?

Retrograde, Mars can drain our energy, making it harder to take direct action. And the more we hold our desires inside, the more frustrated we can start to feel. Yet, impulsive or premature action can result in a setback and you may not really feel more energized or sincerely motivated until Mars starts to move direct, especially in the area of your chart where you have 24 Gemini to 12 Cancer. Using more force won’t open a locked door, but using the right key (Gemini) will.

With Mars Retrograde in water-sign Cancer (where Mars is in its Fall), energy and emotions meet. Automatic reactions can have consequences. But– if you can become more conscious of your automatic responses, you can be the one in control of your actions. This is about your (Mars) relationship to your Self (Cancer). Cancer can get stuck in a rut, and when Mars is Retrograde in Cancer, we can see how we made our ruts. One way to get out of the same old rut is to stop blaming others and being angry at them. If you can stop that automatic reaction, you can get some insight into how and why you got to the point you’re at right now. There are sensitive, private feelings you’re trying to protect, where you need more nurturing, understanding, love, compassion, forgiveness, and release. Holding them takes energy you could be using for …..

Before we wonder how we can be responsible for our subconscious, let’s take another look at the subconscious. Unlike your conscious self, your subconscious self does not know how to lie! It can only tell you YOUR truth. That’s why we feel so profoundly moved by our dreams. But most of us don’t want to see or acknowledge our subconscious. We don’t want to know, and we try to hold it back so we don’t have to look. Yet, that kind of repression is what congeals energy from free-flowing into a solid goopy mass that is harder and harder to process. What if your subconscious was your best friend, always there to give you the best advice, for you, if only you would listen to it!

Mars Retrograde in Cancer can make us wonder where we have an energy leak. How do you give away your power and drain your energy? Do you know that when you give you power away your also drain other people. Then you wonder why other people seemed uninterested and cool to you, after you gave so much. If you don’t take your power, you are drawing it from other people, and instead of feeling energized from your interaction, others lose energy, and therefore interest in pursuing a friendship, partnership, business transaction, etc. That’s your underlying shame leaking through. If you can realize that, you can maintain your power, and other people will also feel energized in your presence. You can use your natural energy and vitality in positive ways instead of letting your automatic responses take over. Mars Retrograde can make our actions more subconscious than conscious as energy coming through us can feel either overwhelming or less than enough.

So how do we lose energy? Mars Retrograde gives the image of choking back tears. Holding back or repressing our emotions turns them into a force that prevents us from moving forward. We get stuck in our anger. It’s not ANGER that is toxic, but the way we express it that creates negative spirals. We get irritated, irate, upset, argue, have accidents, cut our fingers, get infections, run a fever, get headaches, or feel enraged at little things. We point the finger and blame others because WE are so sweet and good we couldn’t possibly be angry or aggressive, it’s obviously all THAT bad person’s fault. We cannot admit when we have bad thoughts, so the bad thoughts make us FEEL bad and we take on the feeling that we have done something wrong. And from that bad feeling, we feel worse, and worse. So how can we turn anger into courage?

Mars Retrograde in Cancer also gives the image of melting anger. If you can realize the inner subconscious source of your anger, you can heal it from the roots (Cancer) and dynamically change your life. This can take outside guidance, since you can’t possibly see all your blind spots. Yet, you can change old patterns that are based on old identity beliefs. Denying your feelings keeps you stuck because it’s only through feeling them that they can dissolve. Denying feelings keeps you subconsciously living with frustration, fear, and anger, and those emotions keep you from being HERE and NOW. Believing our stories that cast us in the role of being “good” prevents us from being whole and helps us build defenses. And these defenses protect us from feeling emotions we really don’t want to feel. Yet, stuffing the bad feelings keeps them subconsciously alive and well, ready to add on to any situation and create a reason for a reaction.

This is Mars in Cancer from the New Age Adult Report. This reports is based on the work of Louise Haye, so If you’re familiar with her work, i hope you’ll enjoy this: .

“Everything you do depends on your mood. When you feel positive and happy you act with confidence and security. But when you feel depressed you show your irritability and impatience. It is probable that you do not adequately vent your aggressions and if you find yourself hurt by someone, you can bear a grudge. This astrological position could indicate that your home life was tense or discordant, with frequent arguments and disagreements, or, that you had a dominant mother with whom it was easy to fight. In spite of the lack of harmony that could exist in your home, you feel a great loyalty towards your family. In the face of an emergency you will be calm and firm. It is important that you learn to direct your energies with discipline and continuity, to be more tolerant of criticism, and to moderate your aggressiveness when it appears.”

To adapt this description of Mars in Cancer for right now, Mars in Cancer can point to disruptions in your CURRENT home or familylife, someone in your family trying (or passive/aggressively trying) to get their needs met, making fighting seem to be shadow boxing. Who’s right? It’s hard to say and it doesn’t really matter.

And from Your Spiritual Path
“With Mars in Cancer, your spiritual persona is expressed most fluently through the Feeling function. You are like a steam engine in many ways. Once you get rolling, it is nearly impossible to slow you down. You are able and willing to push into territory that other people shrink from, and you come out of difficult situations more or less in one piece, with your enthusiasm intact. You exemplify the connection between the past and the future in your devotion to whatever task you set for yourself. You are not satisfied until this connection has been made and you understand it. Spiritually you have to understand your karma from the past in order to guide your present decisions. Thus you may press deeper into your personal and family history, and even into past lives.”

Once Mars makes its Direct station and re-enters Cancer (on March 4, 2008), Mars will oppose Pluto at 0 degrees Capricorn. (Pluto is changing signs, always a major signal of a change in world focus, but before that happens, there’s a Jupiter-Pluto conjunction on December 18, more on that soon…) The issues you don’t clear up now can become MAJOR issues by Spring.

Many of us were taught very young (Cancer) to shut down our emotions (Cancer), so while Mars is Retrograde in Cancer, we may experience unconscious displays of emotions that have been kept in the dark as we pretend they don’t exist because, after all, that was so many years ago….

Yet, the subtle feelings persist and continue to color our every day lives. They influence our relationships, and they even influence how we talk to ourselves. As Mars Retrogrades from Cancer back into Gemini, it’s an opportune time to pay more attention to HOW YOU TALK TO YOURSELF. I don’t mean out loud, i mean to yourself. How much do you talk yourself out of everything you want? While Mars is Retrograde in Cancer you may realize how much of your automatic self-talk is unconscious. It’s “just” the way we were taught to be as we grew up, what we learned from the grown ups around us. This is not ANYONE’s fault. It’s the way culture changes, slowly, over generations.

On a financial level, Mars will station Retrograde in Cancer and exactly conjunct the USA Sun. Mars has a cutting effect, and when it comes to business or any financial transaction, Mars cuts prices. Cancer rules the home, and with Mars making a Retrograde station conjunction of the US Sun, it’s likely that we’ll see the dollar continue to drop, along with home prices.

What prevents us from abundantly manifesting whatever we want, and keeps us thinking we need to exert more and more and more force to get it is FEAR. Mercury, through affiliation w the archangel Raphael, can facilitate healing unspoken (Mars Retrograde in Mercury) fear. When Mars Retrogrades back into Gemini, you may find a healthy way to give voice to your anger. Speak your mind– with passion!

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