Astro Notes for New Moon in Libra cycle (October 2-November 2)
We are edging closer to an extraordinary period of concentrated cultural change, signified astrologically by all of the outer planets changing signs within 7 months of each other, starting with Pluto's ingress into Aquarius on November 19.
This month's extremely intense cycle will force a confrontation with our inner demons and demand that we take decisive action to align with our highest evolutionary path. With the great tsunami of change about to crash on our shores, we are being asked to choose our timeline.
The dominant planetary archetype for this month's cycle is Pluto, the principle of crisis and transformation. Pluto stations direct on October 11, thereafter moving forward for its final five weeks in Capricorn. Whenever a planet stations, the archetypal themes it represents become more pronounced for everyone. Furthermore, Pluto will be moving through the final or 'anaretic' degree of Capricorn, the last time Pluto will be in Capricorn in any of our lifetimes.
Pluto has been moving through Capricorn since 2008, exposing the shadows of corruption and deceit hidden beneath both the established structures of society and the executive functioning of our own psyche. In its final weeks in Capricorn, Pluto will bring a radical "now or never' sense of urgency to this process. We may experience a propulsive force of pressure on everything inside us that needs to heal and change in order for us to step into the higher vibratory path that awaits us in potentia in the coming era.
Pluto is the principle of crisis that precedes transformation. Our task is to avoid succumbing to the despair that can arise when the darkness surfaces to consciousness. Somewhere in our being we know that we chose this, that we are magicians called to be here at precisely this moment for precisely this purpose -- to meet the darkness with the light of conscious awareness and to become whole.
These Plutonic themes of intensity, crisis, and transformation will be with us throughout the month. However the peak of the crisis will likely come mid-month, with the Full Moon in Aries involving a searingly intense Cardinal Grand Cross, with the Sun and Moon both squaring Mars and Pluto respectively.
These are seriously explosive energies that will demand us to take immediate action to resolve the intense squeeze we will be experiencing at this time. While obviously challenging, the gift of such a dynamic configuration is to decisively break our attachments to unhealthy patterns within us, and to force a long overdue realignment with the Real.
On October 22 the Sun enters Scorpio, which is ruled by Pluto, so the backdrop of intensity, transformation, and magic will continue.
However, from October 28-31, we have a Grand Water Trine linking Mercury in Scorpio, Mars in Cancer, and Neptune in Pisces. With Mars opposite Pluto at the same time, this creates an auspicious "kite" aspect pattern.
After passing through the storm mid-month, the energies come together at the end of the month in a divinely coherent pattern. It's as though the forces that get unblocked earlier in the month now get to be channeled constructively, opening a portal for powerfully healing energies of compassion to flow in. With the US elections just around the corner, perhaps this will bring a touch of divine grace right in the nick of time.