MOON DRAGON of LIBRA

 

Angel by Benjamin Victor

Symbol of love and death; spirit and body.

The New Moon of 10^th October occurs in the zodiac sign of Libra, the sign of balance between worlds. These worlds may be metaphorical and expressed on one of a multitude of levels, such as good and bad, life and death, truth and lies. All these levels of expression have to be confronted as we look for the balance of good justice in our living. 

This is the message of our New Moon in Libra occurring at 17 degrees longitude of that zodiac sign. The Sabian symbol of Jones-Wheeler for this zodiac degree is: 'A retired sea captain watches ships entering and leaving the harbour.' Sound familiar on the world news? How will those in charge direct the traffic across the waters of life or the physical waters of trade?

Unless you are a well disciplined person this New Moon in Libra is going to be found to herald another rather difficult month.  Can you do as you are told when necessary? Can you play according to the rules and accept responsibility for your own thinking and way of doing things? 

If not, then it is more than likely that external events will put you in a difficult situation from which these lessons of life can be learnt.

 

Maybe the help comes from striving to achieve a balance between the Yin and Yang, the pluses and minuses of living; between the going forward and holding back and as necessity dictates whilst not being too anal or aggressive about it. How kind, considerate and generous can you be? This is the test of your relationships and of your relating abilities.

The Balance of ‘Justice’

by Maaten van Heemskerck. 16^th Century

Ride the tide to Full Moon around the 26^th October and be ready to deal with the fall-out of your efforts made over the previous weeks. Some are destined to find it hard going but those who can win through without doing harm to others are sure to find a way to mend relationships and see their value. As the month draws to a close, harvest your gains and show others how to move forward in a beneficial way of love and generosity, both of feelings and wealth.

Even if results are not available immediately, know that you have laid good foundations and wait for the fruit to ripen mid November when love and thoughts again unite.

Fruit Basket of health, wealth and happiness

MOON DRAGON of VIRGO

 

Demeter – Mother of the Wheat Harvest

What-ever is started under a New Moon will follow the lunar tide of energy until the following New Moon. This will generally occur in the next zodiac sign as the Sun and the Moon move forward in their orbits through the 12 zodiac signs as seen from Earth. These zodiac signs are the imaginary divisions of the imaginary circle called the Ecliptic, although they hold an affinity with the constellations of stars that hold the same names. 

 

Between two New Moon, the tide of energy reaches a peak at the Full Moon when the lunar orb reaches the opposing sign holding the Sun. This takes about 14 days from New Moon. 

The Lunar Cycle

The New Moon of the 11 September 2026 holds the 18^th degree of the zodiac sign of Virgo the Wheat Maiden or Demeter, mother of the Earth and Harvest. 

 

The Sabian symbol of Jones- Wheeler for the 18^th degree of Virgo is that of two girls playing with a Ouija board in order to contact the spirits. Its meaning is that of human desire for contact with the beyond in response to the restless desire of inquiry of how things are in truth. 

 

This is a very appropriate scenario for our present times in the light of all the unrest of the world and questioning of what is. Perhaps this New Moon of Virgo is advising us to give attention to how we are living day to day. Are we conscientious in our hygiene habits and what rituals we pursue; and how we do this with honesty and good humour, rather grouchy complaining at the way things are. Be hardworking and give attention to health, diet and exercise for a good working system both of body and mind. Look at the details; exercise your craft skills. Most of all, be efficient and apply your common sense to matters at hand.

Our enthusiasms and energy of the New Moon are well directed towards family and community activities and concerns, as we turn our mind to friendly communications. Perhaps we should modify this with less self interest over the following lunar month. Look for ways of adjusting in a positive way to our fast changing world.

 

Shortly after the New Moon, things may not be as clear as they should be and a few fantasies and half-truths may be bedazzling our conversations. 

 

The Equinox is between 22^nd and 24^th of September. Here is your opportunity to create more balance and harmony in your life by looking at what is fair and equal as the Sun moves into the sign of Libra and night or dark equals day or light. 

Full Moon over the Mountain

By Full Moon tide of 26^th September we will see how well we have done and to what degree we have been successful in applying all that energy and enthusiasm released at the previous New Moon. We are likely to be dealing with more big events as we adjust to the general paradigm shift. 

Look at how you can assist rather than fall prey to feeling sorry for yourself and be prepared to deal with more strong challenges as the lunar cycle wanes towards its next New Moon phase.

Ode to the Dragon of the Moon

LEO the LION

 

LEO the LION

23 July – 22 August

The Water Serpent

As the Sun enters the Tropical sign of Leo, the great and famous Sirius becomes the morning star to herald the day. The month of August breaks with the planet Jupiter looking at the planet Pluto across the vault of heaven reflecting on from the end of July. Those looking to improve their situation need to profoundly transform their current outlook on both big and small situations. By the end of July the Full Moon will reactivate this situation, which now reaches a high point. Those things that have been in go slow or stalemate  over the past weeks, as the planet Mercury dithered in its orbit, are now likely to get a move on, and early August sees us with the opportunity of making the necessary and practical adjustments to improve our situation. Integrate the old and the new with as little anguish and anger as possible. 

Around mid-August the fiery planet Mars is telling us to focus on domestic situations, its comfort or not.  Go deep and think about the situation.  How selfish and self-centred have we all been?

Rise like a Phoenix. 

Aberdeen Bestiary 1200 CE

Stone and Fire-Water

 

Everyone one seems to be getting a tad itsy about Saturn meeting Neptune in the sky. It happens approximately every thirty-six years but this time the pair of planets are moving together into a new zodiac sign, ARIES, the sign of new beginnings and new cycles. Aries is the beginning of the zodiac circle. This is causing all a bit of a stir, especially as AI is taking over quite a lot in all sorts of areas of life and business, perhaps redefining the space-time parameters within which we live. Externally we see this chaotic shift happening through the experience of the horrific wars going on around the planet, both national and personal. The intensity of this combination of planetary energies is about to ramp up as the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune becomes exact over the period 15^th to 21^st February 2026. But we don’t necessarily expect an immediate happening, although it can occur, more likely it will wait for a more precise trigger to set the big planets in motion but we will feel the growing energy of important changes. To prepare for a positive response to these coming changes look back 30 years or 300 years, to get a flavour of our present time and so that we can avoid previous mistakes and the potential sorrow of reflection on things not done.

Saturn bringing new foundations

The sign of ARIES is all about a new beginnings, beginnings in life and in cosmic cycles. These beginnings, in true Arian fashion, are not thought about but chased after with great unthinking enthusiasm – please don’t stand in my way cause I know what I’m doing and where I’m going and can be very forceful and careless in doing so. That is unless there is a degree of maturity and wisdom at play as well!!!!!! – to give guidance and the necessary direction to enthusiasms.

The planet Neptune hasn’t been in the sign of Aries for approximately 161 years, that is way back in the 19^th century when Queen Victorian of England immersed itself in engineering innovation driven by under-paid workers, or human robots, and there was pseudo spiritual awakening to amuse the wealthy hiding a more productive movement of human spiritual growth. Are we too on the verge of robotic slave labour and a tsunami of spiritual confusion? We are sure that readers can delve into more areas of mess-up!! Look out for new waves of colonisation during the power-shifts, as all the outer planets join Saturn and Neptune in moving into new signs of new influence.

Leonardo portraying wisdom

As we progress through the year, look out for those suffering, avoid the anxiety of irrational fears and anxieties growing due to too much self-centred navel gazing. Drop the ego and aim for humility, be extra diplomatic before making that heated opinion. Avoid drugs like the plague. Work hard and be self-reliant so that your ideals, imagination and intuition can find constructive and healthy outlets that contribute to progress however small or big. This could be a time of great creativity and successful business ventures or a time of losing control and spinning out in the chaos of confusion, scandal and defamation. Watch the sky as it goes through a kaleidoscope of change over the next two years or so. 

As the recent young Australian surfer demonstrated, may the heroic acts of personal sacrifice of time and energy made for the greater good of humanity, out run the self focused destruction of non-action and woolly thinking. May charity replace lack of awareness and consideration of the rights of ALL. May creative endeavour replace warped thinking. 

If the global weather patterns of wind, rain and tide settle down, then we will know that we are on the right road to recovery. If not, it comes to mind that the alternative might be a revisit to Noah’s Ark or that of Hindu Vaivasvata or Chaldean Nuah. 

The painter Hieronymous Bosch said it all way back in history:- 'Death & the Miser'

      

Astrological perspectives of this combination of planetary energies, seen in the past, are also indicated in what we are seeing and experiencing today. These are problems of finding a new combination of exclusive traditional form and inclusive universal principles. A new level of being and living needs to be found, one that balances clear focus and definition of goals with a broad idealistic perspective. Such may be accompanied by vast political changes that arise out of the objections to old institutions and established regimes living beyond their use by date. And yet let us not forget a balanced approach to solutions rather than swing too far in the opposite direction. Intellect must combine with spirit, the individual with the community needs, understanding with the demands of ‘rights’, then a new beginning can be positive. Many are trying to move in this direction and the impetus must be sustained. Can the young show us the way without too much arrogance.                                  

                   

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. #71

FOURTH CENTURY BC (399-300)

4C BCE       The Chinese produce the earliest known atlas of comets, called the ‘Book of Silk’, it is a silk ribbon about 5 feet long illustrating 29 forms of comets and listing various types of catastrophes that they herald. The work will be discovered in a Chinese tomb in 1973 CE. (81)

The Mawangdui silk, a 'textbook' of Comets

from early Chinese observation

                    Babylonian horoscopic techniques are introduced into Greece early in this century following Alexander the Great’s victory over Babylon. (46)

Babylonian sky observation

390 BCE          CELTIC tribes of Europe attack and sack the Italian city of Rome.

 

c380              EUDOXUS OF CNIDUS (c408-c355 BCE) as a Greek geometer and astronomer  gives an explanation of the motion of Sun and planets around the Earth. His work is equal in accuracy to the work of Nicolas Copernicus of nearly 2000 years in the future. In geometry, Eudoxus establishes the principles that laid the foundations for the work of Euclid (330 BCE) and he introduced an ingenious system of 27 nested spheres in an attempt to explain planetary motion. Eudoxus was born and died at Cnidus, Asia Minor. (12) Eudoxos’ calendars indicate a Greek zodiac and in his work ‘Phainomena’ on spherical geometry, he divides the Ecliptic into twelve signs. [323]

Eudoxos studies the heavens

                  CAMBRA tribal queen of the Sicambrians provides the heritage which is to become the female line of the Merovingian dynasty of the future (417 CE). The Sicambrian peoples came originally from Scythia, north of the Black Sea and were referred to as the 'Newmage'. They will eventually combine with the tribes of the Frankish peoples to produce the Merovingian line of descent. (131)

 

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AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. #70

 

Greek god Dionysius

vase painting

c415 BCE        PROTAGORAS (c490-421 BCE) a Sophist at the time of Critias. In reaction to the ‘ass’ of contradicting ideas of the preceding Greek philosophers, the Sophists recognised that each person had his own experience and therefore his own reality. The result being that all understanding is according to subjective opinion and moral standards held; understanding arises from convention and knowledge is relative. In response the Sophists concluded in favor of a flexible atheism or agnosticism in metaphysics and a situational morality in ethics, all was open to humanly created conventions and that invisible deities no longer existed. (19)

Marduk & Tiamat of Babylon

410 BCE          Earliest known individual birth chart or horoscope, of a Babylonian birth, is recorded. It is probably based on the constellation zodiac rather than the tropical zodiac. (46) which won’t come into common before the 4^th century CE. 

Orvieto Cathedral marble bas-relief ‘Creation of Eve’

by Lorenzo Maitani 14^th century 

c400               Compilation of a second version, of the first of the 5 books of Moses. The Hebrew ‘Bereshit’, ‘In the Beginning’. It will be called ‘Genesis’ when translated into Greek in the Third Century. (9). It is taught that Adam is the first man and from him was created Eve. The first Greek translation of the Hebrew ‘Book of Law’ was said to be the ‘Septuagint’ of the time of. Ptolemy II Philadeplus (c347-285 BCE).

                    At the end of the 5^th century BCE, Hestia of Mount Olympus is replaced by the rule of Dionysius.(33)

Hestia, goddess of the sacrificial fire.

AAL’S LABYRINTH HISTORY An Alternative Viewpoint…..contd. #68

 Athenian College as depicted by Raphael 16^th century CE

c465               ANAXAGORAS of Clazomenae (c500-428 BCE) Greek Ionian philosopher who teaches at Athens. He is the teacher of Euripides, Pericles and possibly Socrates.  Anaxagoras believes that all matter is composed of ‘seeds’ or minute particles. He explains the true nature of eclipses.  Towards the end of his life Anaxagoras will be exiled from Athens for his ‘impious’ teaching that the sun is a white-hot stone and the moon to be composed of earth and merely reflected the sun’s rays rather than having a light of its own. Anaxagoras believes that matter is infinitely divisible; that any piece of matter, regardless of how small it is, contains portions of all kinds of matter; he believes that order is produced from chaos by an intelligent principle. Anaxagoras posited that the universe is constituted of an infinite number of minute, qualitatively different seeds moved by a transcendent primordial Mind known as ‘Nous’. (12.19.114)

Anaxagoras studies Ecliptic cycles.

c460               EMPEDOCLES (c490-430 BCE) Greek philosopher and poet, born at Acragas, Sicily. He writes ‘On Nature’, a work in which he agreed with Parmenides that there could be no absolute coming into exist or ceasing to exist; that all change in the world is the result of two contrary cosmic forces, ‘Love and Strife’. These forces separate and mix to create four everlasting elements, Earth, Water, Air and Fire. This doctrine of four elements will become central to Western thought for 2000 years through its adoption by Aristotle. (6) Much of Empedocles work derives from ancient Orphic sources. (6.162)

c455               SOPHOCLES (496-406 BCE) a Greek playwright of genius whose tragedies are destined to become looked upon as the high point in Attic drama. His play ‘Oedipus Rex’ is one of the most influential plays ever written and records a powerful conjunction of character and destiny. The relentless recognition of hidden truth, in this work, its paradoxes of human knowledge and ignorance, will provide Aristotle [361 BCE) with his model tragic plot of his ‘Poetics’. Far into the future, the work ‘Oedipus Rex’ will be the inspiration for Sigmund Freud to write, ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ (1900 CE) a work which will give a mythic prototype for Sigmund’s ‘Oedipus’ complex, and a central feature of the future millennium of 20^th century psychoanalytic theory. (102)

Oedipus. Painted by Giroust 18C CE

c454               HERODOTUS (b.c.484 BCE) known as the father of factual history. A Greek born in Asia Minor, he is a great traveller of the known world of his time. He will be remembered in the future as being an authority on the ancient Persian wars and which archaeological research will eventually confirm.  Herodotus gives much information on the customs and practices of the Egyptians of his time. (6) Herodotus is the first major source of Egyptian history from antiquity. His works are based on the viewing of monuments and on interviews conducted. Herodotus said ‘the priests told me it was Men (Menes, meaning the first influx of light) who was the first king of Egypt. (49) Herodotus identifies the Egyptian god Thoth, with the Greek god Hermes. Many Greeks, such as Thales, Solon, and Pythagoras, will take initiation into the Egyptian Mysteries when on their travels to that land. In this way, the ancient knowledge will be transmitted on to the Hellenic world of Greece. (277)

c440               ICTINUS Greek architect, who with others, designs and builds the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. Ictinus is also architect of the ‘Temple of Apollo Epicurius’ at Bassae, Arcadia. This is the first appearance of Corinthian architecture. Ictinus also works on the ‘Telesterion’ or ‘Hall of Mysteries’ at Eleusis. (102)

c435               EURIPIDES (c484-406 BCE) youngest of the three great Greek tragedians, the other two being Aeschylus (480 BCE) and Sophocles (c455 BCE). Euripides’ world view reflects the political, social, and intellectual crises of late 5^th-century Athens. (102)

Herodotus, historian & traveller. 

2C CE Roman copy of earlier Greek bust.