copyright Tara Greene 2008

LIBRA NEW MOON  SEPT 29  1:13 AM PDT/ 4:13 AM EDT/  8:13 AM GMT

This Libra new Moon brings our emotional intuitive reflective feeling sides in tune with the present Solar consciousness. Libra is the sign most concerned with relationships, love, balance beauty peace and harmony and we definitely need that energy right now.
Over the last few weeks we’ve witnessed and unprecedented breakdown and  shift in the U.S. and the World’s Financial markets creating a huge imbalance, generating much fear, anger and debate over how to fix the mess.

Venus is the planet that rules the sign of Libra, she governs values, money, luxury and the arts as well as romance and committed relationships, and as the natural ruler of 7th house issues, all “others” and business relationships.

New Moon’s are always archetypal new beginnings, and this Libra New Moon turns our attention towards creating a balance in our values, balancing the budget, helping us to judge, as Libra’s scales are equated with the scales of Justice,how to judge fairly.
We need to feel our way and think our way  through these complex issues and ask ourselves.. What is necessary? What is of real value? What contributes to a peaceful harmonious lifestyle?  How have we been living that is out of balance? The ways in which we have used and misused money, depending on other peoples’ influence {a Libra issue to be sure}and how our love of money and greed got us into this mess, threatening to destroy the world’s economies.

The Sabian Symbol of this New Moon . 7 degrees of Libra is otally on the mark, it counsels us to safeguard and support what we value “ A woman feeding chickens and protecting them from the hawks; the need to face the antagonism of “powers of darkness” as one attempts to feed the mind of as yet helpless and frightened apprentices.”

I do believe that those overpaid, over bonused to the millions CEO’s of all those big Banks and Security companies need to be brought to trial for knowingly creating this fiasco which is causing millions of people to lose their homes.  Just like the Enron scandals, Conrad Black etc. these people need to be made responsible and not bailed out by taxpayer’s dollars. I am not a Republican {although Mr. McCain surprised me by being in a dream I had the other night} and there is great danger in the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury getting carte blanche because those big corporations are the ones who run the show behind the scenes. But something sane to balance the budgets needs to be done. To find out how Sweden steered through a similar crisis years ago read this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/worldbusiness/23krona.html?em

As per what the outcome might look like based on the planets on this New Moon when the “new deal” is supposed to drop.

Venus is presently in Scoprio at 6 degrees.Venus is considered to be “in detriment” in Scorpio she is in Mars’ sign and takes on his more martial angry aggressive masculine characteristics. Scorpio is the Sign of Death, Rebirth and Regeneration. How apropos.
Venus in Scorpio takes us into the depths, into deep emotional territory, the Underworld, the unconscious, the shadow, secrets, power, control, the Sign of the Soul.

Yes and that’s exactly the elements that are going to be parlayed around as the Uncle Sam turns into Mr. $ Fix- It.  Who is running the show and for whose goals?

Neptune, considered to be the “higher octave” of Venus rules illusion, fantasy, glamour,  martyrs, film, photography, oil, spirituality. Neptune rules the Sign of Pisces, the sign of endings, Institutions, and credit cards-illusory $. Neptune at 22 Aquarius moving Retrograde, has been moving in very close quarters with two other important placeholders in the cosmos since March . Neptune has been rubbing shoulders with the North Node at 17 degrees also moving Retrograde and Chiron at 16 degrees also Retro.

The NORTH NODE, 
{there is always a South Node exactly opposite} are virtual points that represent the intersection of the Moon’s  orbit with the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, called the Ecliptic.  The nodes are considered to be karmic cycles, the North Node symbolizes the collective’s {and the individuals’s}  highest spiritual goals and aims and the South Node the past, or history.
The North Node spends about a year and a half traveling backwards through each Sign. In Aquarius the North Node is calling us to Higher Consciousness. To see the Big Picture, think from a Higher Perspective, Collectively, Humanitarianly, and to break free and revolutionize old structures.

Chiron is a planetary body with a 50 year elliptical orbit. Chiron discovered in Nov. 1977 symbolizes the wounded healer Archetype.
So to have Neptune conjunct the North Node and Chiron in the Hermetic dictum “as above, so below” reveals that Aquarian humanitarian collective inclusive revolution and breakthrough consciousness is what is needed to cure what ails us right now. We need change, we need to see people as unique individuals, each one of whom counts. We need a collective consciousness and we need to break from old Saturnine traditions-the old boys club. And that’s what looks like is happening to some degree. Barack Obama definitely fills this order.
The down side of Neptune is of course buying into the delusions, the fantasy, the glamour, the credit cards-which I accidentally initially had a Freudian slip with and wrote dredit or dreaded cards. Are the taxpayers-not the corporations who don’t pay tax- going to be the unwilling martyrs in this big time swindle?
Everyone who bought into the mutual funds and the market which held the mortgages as well as the individuals who bought the illusion of a home with no money down, bad credit no problem were wearing the proverbial “rose colored glasses” – a  proverbial Neptunian fashion must-are culpable. But the millions who did not-should not pay for the delusions  and greed of the many or few, depends how you slice and dice it.

TRADING PLACES - HAWKS BECOME DOVES
Mercury is Retro in Libra right now so a rethinking of how to balance the books is also apropos. But as with every Mercury Retrograde lots of talk and maybe no one hears the other one very well. Mars to is in Libra at 26 degrees, and Mars is also weak in Libra as
He is in Venus’s sign as Venus is in Scorpio. But this is a special case, something called “mutual reception.”
The planets of sexuality are temporarily “trading places”  with Venus is in Mars’ house and vice versa. This puts an interesting spin on things. The two planets, male and female, receptive and active, yin and yang understand each others’ perspectuve’s at this time and this bodes well. Doves become hawks and hawks become doves. I just had another Freudian slip and wrote devos instead of doves. HEY THOSE SLIPS ARE GREAT!
It’s a perfect fit. Ah DEVO they made the first rock video and were geniuses. So now it’s time for the musical accompaniment.

THE NEPTUNIAN SONG FOR THIS NEW MOON-

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL WORLD by DEVO

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL WORLD WE LIVE IN,
A SWEET ROMANTIC PLACE
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE
THE WAY THEY SHOW THEY CARE
MAKES ME WANT TO SAY

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL WORLD
FOR YOU {X 3}
ETC.
 
& THE VENUS IN SCORPIO SONG

WHIP IT  by DEVO

CRACK THAT WHIP 
GIVE THE PAST A SLIP  
STEP ON A CRACK   
BREAK YOUR MOMMA’S BACK  

WHEN A PROBLEM COMES ALONG YOU MUST WHIP IT,  
BEFORE THE CREAM SITS OUT TO LONG YOU MUST WHIP IT  
WHEN SOMETHING’S GOING WRONG  
YOU MUST WHIP IT

NOW WHIP IT- INTO SHAPE
SHAPE IT UP, GET STRAIGHT
GO FORWARD, MOVE AHEAD
TRY TO DETECT IT – IT’S NOT TOO LATE
TO WHIP IT, WHIP IT GOOD

WHEN A GOOD TIME TURNS AROUND  YOU MUST WHIP IT  
YOU WILL NEVER LIVE IT DOWN  UNLESS YOU WHIP IT, 

NO  ONE GETS THEIR WAY UNTIL THEY WHIP IT

I SAY WHIP IT
WHIP IT GOOD ETC.