#planet dignities

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New Moon in Scorpio: An Analysis

The upcoming New Moon is marked by celestial death, grief and rebirth. In a few hours, it will occur at 28 degrees of Scorpio, where the lunar waters descend into their most dense and mortal state. The previous Venusian lunation is near its setting and the of the Queen of Night fades within the dark iron of Mars. In Scorpio, the sign of death, putrefaction and regeneration, the Moon is in her zodiacal fall. Her aquatic and emotional current becomes here a stagnant lake, and the maternal tone acquire the weight of blood and metal.

At this penultimate degree, the silver reflection of the Moon is constrained by two malefic forces: the cutting power of Mars and the melancholy of Saturn, ruler of the bound. This New Moon is an act of interior alchemy, as the celestial womb closes itself in a submerged tomb to perform the hidden miracle of regeneration. The poisoned waters of Scorpio hold within them the secret of healing, since only poison recognises its own antidote.

This New Moon is also the stage of a triple conjunction, as Mercury retrograde is already under the burning cazimi force of the Sun in the very same degree of the novilunium.

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Saturn Retrograde in Pisces: The Return to the Mother of Form

When Saturn alters his behavior the whole sky bends. The planet stepped into the first degree of Aries, the place of his fall, and today turned back into Pisces at the anaretic degree. This is a gesture heavy with meaning. Aries is fire cardinal, a sign of beginnings where Saturn cannot hold his quality. His cold and dry nature is out of place in the heat of Mars.

Retreating into Pisces shows that the cycle of thirty years cannot yet be renewed. The unfinished burden of the twelfth house must be carried first. The ancients knew the twelfth as the house of the kakos daimon, the evil spirit who presses upon solitude, exile and undoing. Saturn has affinity with that house, as his chains belong there. The sign of Pisces, mutable water, is ruled by Jupiter. And so the lord of time now moves within the sea of dissolution. This movement calls for discernment, since the soul is asked to walk between confinement and vision.

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Fiat Lux.