Balsamic/Dark Moon. Day 24 ½ - 28 (45 - 1 degree behind sun)
Keyword: "Release"
Ruled by Hecate, queen of the underworld and the shades; she is seen as the one who allows departed souls to choose their paths in the next phase of existence and rebirth Birth: If you were born during a balsamic moon phase, you possess the potential to be wise, insightful, understanding, prophetic, and patient. You have an eclectic personality and march to the beat of your own drummer.
This is the time of the month when the moon disappears for three days. It's time to go into the breathing silence and invisible darkness to merge with eternity. Your soul has come into this life to experience surrender. It has a deep store of ancient secrets and the chalkboard of your experience is overflowing with imagery. Now at the end of your soul's great cycle, you come to realize the true nature of love beyond all the bells and whistles.
The ultimate path to union with eternal being is through the mystery of love. The moon is returning to the sun preparing for the rebirth and renewal at the new moon. You are called to gather your soul's wisdom and breath meaning into a new vision.
It is not easy being born under the dark, foreboding phase of the lunation cycle. You carry so much within that you spend your life tying up the lose ends of karmic strands shared with people, places, situations, and things.
You must learn one thing. The people who walk across the stage of your life who you feel that instant familiarity and intensity of attraction with are the ones who you have karmic loose ends with. Master the art of surrender with these folks. Treat them like angels even if you feel deep resentment or outright hatred for them as time goes on. And when it's over, totally let it go! It isn't meant to last forever like storybook romance. The Zen master Suzuki said, "We don't need to learn how to let things go. We just need to recognize when they've already gone." You are supposed to burn through some intense interactions with many people and the territory is tricky. If you fixate on one person, then you never meet the rest of them.
If that one person goes away feeling bitter and rejected then another person shows up with the same lesson for you. It's like their soul gets back in line in another body. You will have long, enduring relationships, but mostly many deep, quick encounters to reconcile forgotten soul differences.
This is how you will find resolution. It is time to erase the chalkboard and prepare for a new journey. And it takes your whole life to get the board clear. But your soul will prosper in the next dimension for it and the ancestors will smile.
You come into this life knowing you are not like everyone else. You are way complex emotionally. In addition, you are ahead of your time because your soul has stored up so much depth, experience, and wisdom. This wisdom needs to be distilled into spiritual seed that you must scatter throughout your life for future generations. You must strive to life that future potential now in the face of extreme unacceptance. Yours is a special, invisible destiny. Cultivate your soul wisdom and give it to those who will nurture and carry it forward like a spiritual teacher passing his truth on to students. You have the opportunity and challenge of launching a mutation in consciousness on this planet. Do it boldly and learn to listen to the secret voice of divine being in your heart.
Location: This last sliver of moon is visible in the eastern sky at dawn until the first hours of daylight.
Power: This is a time when energy is quiet and receptive; find your "dark" self. It is a time for banishing angers from with-in ourselves.
Archetype: 14 ½ to 27 - The Balsamic Moon is a Waning phase that is three quarters dark. She is the Crone. She knows about hard truths, responsibility and action. She knows about power and how to use it badly and how to use it well. Her choices define her, sadden her and uplift her. 28 - The Dark Moon is all-dark and is the deepest dark. She is the Weaver. She knows all that the Maiden, Amazon, Lover and Priestess know. She has experienced what the Mother, Teacher, and Elder have lived. She has taken the power of the Crone and transformed it into a magickal philosophy of life that encompasses all that is in all its complexity and contradiction.
Candle color: Grey Things to work for Addictions Change Enemies Justice Obstacles Removal Separation Taken from various sources including -
Sisters of the Dark Moon: 13 Rituals of the Dark Goddess by Gail Wood http://www.angelfire.com/ma/cyrannahome/moon.htmlhttp://members.fortunecity.com/charmedones1/id41.htmhttp://www.susanlevitt.com/ar-8faces.htmlhttp://www.astrofantasy.com/astro-oracle/ interpretations/ birth_phase.htm |
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