New Moon in Leo August 2013
New Moon in Leo August 2013 “Ain’t No Sunshine when she’s gone”.
The Leo Sun is where the Sun is the center of the universe and the light that shines and gives life and love from the heart with fierce loyalty and devotion. Leo, ruled by the Sun, rules over the heart and the center of our being and the place that ticks our daily emotional barometer. The heart center is the life giving pulse of life blood heart pumped out throughout our system.
Take the time today for a Sun ritual. Bathe yourself in the Sun rays as you proclaim your place in the Sun with your intentions and wish list. Wear yellow and amber, gold or citrine gemstones. The Sun rules over the power chakra, solar plexus and the will. The naval and gut gets attention as our power center where we reign supreme in our own strength and vitality.
The Leo self center is the ego defined and ingrained with the need to feel validated whether it’s a healthy determined effort to be seen or noticed or given acknowledgement, appreciation or credit or all about me drama with a negative arrogant push for supremacy, the prima donna that won’t stop at anything to take over a room and outshine dressed to kill where humility takes a backstage, preferring worship on their golden throne.
Dramatics and theatrics and all the world is a stage, Leo brings a sense of importance and entitlement as the royal sign should. Leo encourages one to be centered in themselves enough to feel a sense of pride as the king and queen on their throne that deserves honor and loyalty. In Leo’s world, everyone should feel as captain of their ship, master of their domain and the center of their own universe with an ability to roar like a lion and be heard.
The heat is on in Leo. The solar high in Leo every year with the hottest season (at least in the northern hemisphere) of the year gives the life giving Sun energy. Leo is the sign of entertainment, fun in the sun, playful recreation fitting for summer leisure and pleasure trips. Leo gives the creative spark that brings life to anything. We notice very clear when the Sun is darkened or hidden from view and the change in mood. SAD is the disease of lack of vitamin D in the dead cold of winter causing depression and sadness but SAD is anyone without a place to shine and sparkle. In the light of the sun, one is hard pressed to be down too long.
This New Moon in Leo is a Moon Wobble as it squares the nodal axis in Scorpio and Taurus. Moon Wobbles are usually crisis oriented and a cross point between eclipses. Being in a fixed degree shows critical changes and turn of events surrounding anything to do with Leo-love affairs, broken hearts, children, wounded ego, hurt pride and being humbled and brought down from the princess ivory tower with the Leo cat running away to lick his wounds. Leo and the Sun is the core of vitality and in strain can show weakness, illness and thwarting of the life energies.
The Cancer stellium bearing down on the Uranus Pluto square is getting cranky and crabby lately with the run of Cancer since early June that just won’t let up first with Mercury, then Venus, then Mars and now Jupiter making anyone turn into a big cry baby with sulky irritation with grumpy Saturn saying get over it or I’ll give you something to cry about. Masculine martial energy in Cancer can get a bad rap and get labeled as a wuss hence the term boys don’t cry.
Jupiter rules long distant travel journeys and foreign affairs. Jupiter moves into the tsquare with Uranus Pluto for most of August which brings the timely headlines urging a worldwide travel alert and hyper vigilance with security measures due to terrorist threats. Some say it’s just plain fear (Pluto) mongering however this configuration can’t be denied in its intensity and the potential ramifications of the energy pattern. If anything we can hope that the alert will dispel any terrorist action.
Jupiter rules over religious beliefs and in this tense configuration, fanaticism that can turn destructive. The last Jupiter oppose Pluto transit was just before 911. The Jupiter Uranus Pluto transit is a collective wave pattern that has to be integrated and channeled and can’t be ignored. When the outer planets line up in these cardinal tsquare configurations we can expect significant expansion and growth and needed change as well as over reaction, over estimation and misjudgements. Stormy periods are a sign of the shifts stirring the pot waking up any latent or sleepy energy.
The plethora of train accidents across the world in the last month seems highly unusual although fit in with the Mars Jupiter Uranus Pluto tsquare. Riding off the rails is Uranus and Mars is speed, Jupiter travel, Pluto destruction. Saturn rules brakes and slowing down but being in a grand trine can show Saturn’s boundaries to be lax and without resistance as grand trines hit the release button.
Train wrecks are seeping into leadership riding off the rails with wannabe mayors and gay rights bullies with all kinds of airing of dirty laundry parading privates in public. Suffice to say we have a grand piece of Leo entertainment turned circus with scary clowns and freak shows with parades of bizarre weirdo wacko absurd moments (Uranus) .
Russian president, Putin has a strong Saturn signature, one that doesn’t easily adopt new reform and sticks with traditional and conservative beliefs. This is further obscured with Neptune which strains Uranus showing his non conformity to group or mass consensus keeping him out of the mainstream public interest with a Public Relations disaster shooting himself in the foot playing his own Russian roulette during a time when he is on the world stage with the Olympics.
Weiner is a Virgo Sun join Mercury Uranus and Pluto all in Virgo showing his intense sexual (Pluto) proclivities and perversion (Uranus) all via text (Mercury) and at a distance (Uranus). He is the perfect embodiment of the Uranus Pluto signature of doing it my way and adding shock value to his might makes right attitude. No coincidence of such a fitting name which gives new meaning to positioning and branding yourself with a tune of “I wish I was an Oscar -Mayor- Weiner”. Time to mind his p’s and his q’s.
The grand sextile came and went without a big hit but was a blessing in that it mitigated and brought balance to the challenging cardinal tsquares that could have had us much worse off. It did prove an opportunity for a major jewelry heist and several jail breaks. With Neptune (prison) and Saturn in flowing aspect all blocks and boundaries blurred with a chance for escape (Neptune) and a window of opportunity to make a get away when someone had their backs turned.