What a
Winter we just witnessed! Up here in the Boston Area, anyway, it has been one for the record-books. But even before the snow came, I could feel something
stirring in the atmosphere. You can always feel the Winter Solstice coming on;
the magnetic momentum of our world seems to pick up energy like a spiraling
pendulum driven to its nadir by gravity, and then abducting that same downward
force of attraction and using it to push off and outward, towards the Sun, into
the light. And we just came into it; recently, on Friday March 20th
the Spring Equinox and the New Moon coincided, thus reconciling the start of
the Solar and Lunar calendars as only happens periodically. This made that day,
Day One, of what in my own private calendrics was already shaping up to be the
Year One, the New Beginning just two years late of the Mayan prediction, the
purported Age of Aquarius although the transition time of the Rapture could be
indeterminate; seven years was only an example, based upon the common numerical
superstition that has held since the Chaldeans.
In any
case, whether we go by the Solar year cornered by the Cross of the Seasons and
call this the Month of Aries or adhere to the Sidereal system (which is
cosmologically more accurate as regards the actual constellations) as RawGoddess’s astro-blog based on the more ancient 13-signs and proclaim that we
are still swimming through Pisces, Fire and Water are both transformative
elements and as aspects of the essence of Pitta
either element can be used to demonstrate the significance of this time in
our collective destiny.
Of course,
if this were truly the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, then the New Moon
would have occurred when both the Sun and Moon were, from an observer on Earth,
superimposed upon the constellations of Aquarius, the last Decanate, 29
degrees. Aquarius is the sign of New Ways, infinite horizons in Space, our
Mother, Nuit. Most cultures had a male Sky God who impregnated the Earth, but
the Egyptians had Nuit, the Goddess of the Sky/Universe, married to Ra the
Sun-God but secretly in love with the male Earth-God, Geb. While it was
forbidden for Nuit to sleep with Geb on any of the 360 days of the solar year,
Thoth (the God of Wisdom, Science and Learning) tricked the Moon (male in the
Egyptian system) into playing dice and won 5 days of the Moon’s light to add
the calendar year, 5 days which were outside the Solar year and thus exempt
from Ra’s decree, enabling Geb to sleep with Nuit and impregnate Her with the
next generation of Gods and Goddesses. Among other things this myth helps to
explain the difficulties early civilizations had in reconciling the count of
the solar year with the lunar cycle. Chinese, Jewish and Islamic calendars are
all lunar-based and at times will be either more or less ‘in-sync’ with our
Western, Sun-based calendar. This recent new moon/equinox has been a perfect
example of the two orbits syncing up, which generally coincides with major
energy flowing relatively smoothly in our lives.
This past
Saturday saw the apex of that first moon cycle of the new solar year, a full
moon Saturday night going into Easter Sunday. Now we have as well the
synchronicity of an established religious ceremony, held on the same day of the
seven week days named after the seven planets (including sun and moon) visible
and known to the Chaldean astronomers, in this case Sunday the day of the Sun,
every year, and this year lining up with the Full Moon quite nicely as well. I
am already feeling quite a lot of energy as this first moon of the year
dissipates its energy slowly; sometimes the full moon is too direct and
powerful, a lot of people have been sick or tired lately and we may need to
just ride this one out and wait ‘til the next moon cycle, when things have warmed
up a bit more and our souls have thawed out. But I see great things to come in
the year ahead.
