WORKBOOK 4
PLANETS
IN THE HOUSES THE MOON
As we move into the Moon we begin to really
start working with the nature of the soul activity in the chart.
If the Sun is speaking to us of the experience of the lifetime which
we are here to embody, and through which we are going to bring in
our spiritualising impulse, then the Moon speaks to us of the place,
position and the sign in the chart where our soul is carrying in
its' cellular memory of the passage which has brought us to this
point.
The collective experience of all the lives,
and the sum total of the development thus far is expressed in our
Moon sign, and in this sense it is easy to see how the automatic
response mechanism which takes us through into the more mundane
emotional aspects, are all tied up with this sense of the very unconscious
automatic part of us; which at all
times is attempting to make its' impression felt, and to influence
us to honour the true purpose of our soul's passage during this
lifetime.
The Moon is so subtle and yet so obvious.
On the emotional level we have the sense of the Moon offering us
the understanding of how and why we feel, what do we feel. When
we speak of our feelings, it is our Moon sign and house that will
be generating the place which we feel from. This is where we get
the sense of all the encoding, the development of the 'who
we are' to this point, which offers us that sense of the
source of where we are emotionally connecting with life. What is
it that empowers us to feel that we are meant to be doing our soul's
work in the world?
The Moon is so very important in the chart.
In terms of the behavioral and psychological, the Moon is the Mother,
as it is from her that we receive the messages which program the
psyche about our "right to feel",
There are different schools of thought here ... Buzz Meyers talks
in terms of the Moon being the Grandmother. With the genetic thread
coming through the matriarchal lineage, we inherit a lot of our
Grandmothers' qualities and tendencies, and that this lineage tends
to skip a generation. The Moon sign or the house the Moon is in
will often be your Grandmothers' Moon sign. The idea here is that
the Moon comes to us in many guises.
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PLANETS
IN THE HOUSES THE MOON
One of the most wonderful symbolic models which I enjoy is the
idea of the three faces ... the virgin (or the youthful) aspect
of the feminine, the matriarchal (or the Mother-the nurturer-the
lifegiver), and then the crone (or the wise women-the sage-the
older women). These three facets are all contained within the
Moon. It is really worthy of exploration on this level ... to
look at the Moon sign in our chart, and to recognise that we
are going to embody that Moon in three distinct faces, as three
distinct phases& in our life.
Perhaps it is in the youthful maiden
phase that this is where we are instinctively attempting to
unfold the soul potential in its naive aspect. In the early
part of our life, especially up to the first progressed moon
return at the 27 mark, we are driven very instinctively by our
emotions. Not many of us up until this time have any awareness
of our true emotional self and how it directs, guides and activates
us.
So the first stage is the instinctive,
naive, raw and very reactive. And yet, what is the seed that
is motivating this instinctive experience, which then is deepened
and made into its women, nurturer birther sustainer phase in
the next cycle, and then ultimately to its wise crone aspect
in the final stage? Because the Moon represents our soul and
therefore our soul's destiny, in our early childhood we all
seem to have a sense of what it is that we are meant to do,
but for most of us as we mature we lose this instinct.
The first seven years of life are ruled by the Moon. In the
Indian culture the levels of protection placed around children
for the first seven years always incorporates basic talismans,
symbolic uses of pearls, white stones, moonstones and white
ribbons. They place these around the neck of the child up until
the age of seven so that they are guarded by the feminine principle,
the Great Mother. The four stages which can be broken up into
the eight stages of the lunation process from first quarter
through to balsamic, also fit in with this developmental phase
which takes us through to the near Saturn return time. There
are so many ways we can look at integrating the lunar principle
and ponder the significance of the Moons' influence in our lives
at the different stages.
We do the very instinctive
stuff early. If you ask a child when it is quite young, "What
do you want to be when you grow up?" you will probably
get the most honest understanding of the real potential of the
person, because the soul impression is still very strong up
until the age of seven. At that point, because of our social
conditioning it diminishes, and we live in a society that encourages
children to become left brained.
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