Spirit of the Mountain Astrology

I admit I’m a Lunar Babe…an avid Moon Watcher.  I love getting up early in the morning before a New Moon Phase and watch her wane from a silvery sliver of a disc to her Dark Moon Phase.  It’s magical and soulful.  Some mornings I hear the howling of coyotes off in the distance, or an owl flapping its wings as it flies overhead, the shadows of the mountains and trees dimly aglow.  It is at this time that my dreaming is powerful and I rest…watching and listening for subtle clues from the Universe before the birth of the New Moon.  Adsum

The New Moon of January 16, 2018, at 6:17 p.m. PST at 26 Capricorn 54′ is a mighty New Moon with an overabundant amount of energy in Capricorn, a Stellium of four planets and the two luminaries:  Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, and Pluto!  It’s a powerhouse of earth energy.  You will feel pressured to make things happen, get it done, create order, form, and discipline or generate security and safety in your life.  Whatever you have dreamed of doing, creating, or becoming this New Moon will help you manifest it as long as you are willing to develop a plan of action and execute it.  Your dreams and ambition will be rewarded by Capricorn’s ruling planet, Saturn, as long as you follow his structured guidelines:  make it practical, have lots of self-discipline, utilize a step-by-step planning process that slowly gains momentum through hard work and a lot of effort on your part.  This is your Call to Action button: What are your hopes, dreams, and wishes? “Saturn doesn’t ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real,”  Steven Forrest* 

With a New Moon in Capricorn, there is a lot of heavy, grounded, practical energy.  Given six planets in this cardinal, take charge, earth sign you are given a window of opportunity to manifest your dreams or whatever you have been planning for a while.  Mercury’s conjunction with Saturn supports somber, no-nonsense thinking.  Now is the time to lead yourself towards your ambitions and face whatever fears have been holding you back in an honest, mature manner.  That process will assist you to stand on your own and align yourself with your higher truth and bring your sacred gifts to fruition.  What is holding you back? “You’ve always had the power, my dear; you just had to learn it for yourself”  ~Glenda, The Wizard of Oz** 

This New Moon is receiving support from Jupiter and Mars in Scorpio.  If the New Moon energies leave you feeling like you want to withdraw emotionally instead of engaging in life, Earth and Water signs can create a “muddy” environment:  Don’t allow yourself to get stuck in the mud.  Physically utilize this time to get things done.  Think about putting your taxes in order, balance your checkbook, create a budget, clean and organize those nagging closets or drawers, plant those bare root trees you want to do every year and conveniently forget to do. Where are you afraid to change? “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”  Socrates

The green light is on.  All planets are direct and moving forward.  We feel like we can climb that mountain, like the Capricorn goat, no worries.  I’ve got this.  There is a small burr in the hoof.  A challenging square from the revolutionary planet Uranus in Aries to this New Moon asks us to accept change that is coming unexpectedly.  It is challenging, unpredictable, maybe even shocking.  Work with it by opening up, allow yourself to be uniquely individualistic, and perhaps even brilliantly innovative to resolve any challenges you face.  What is your unique gift? Breathe in, breathe out.  Deeply.  See the top of the mountain?  No one ever got there without slowly, carefully putting one foot in front of the other ~ that includes the mountain goat.  “Be the master of your destiny, because you have the necessity to manifest yourself.” ~ Agnes Whistling Elk, (Lynn V. Andrews, Medicine Woman, Harper & Row, 1981)

*(https://quotefancy.com/quote/1717819/Steven-Forrest-Saturn-doesn-t-ask-us-to-giv>)

** (https://www.etsy.com/market/always_had_the_power)

If you follow planetary hours for your New Moon ceremony or writing New Moon intentions, note that the moon will conjunct Underworld Venus and be void of course (VOC) at 10:30 p.m. PST.  Planetary hours at this New Moon provide a slim window between the New Moon at 6:17 p.m. and the VOC.  You can obtain planetary hours for your location at the following link:  http://www.lunarium.co.uk  Remember to insert your location, then click Planetarium on the top ribbon.  Enjoy!