One-of-a-kind Moonday

Today is a Moonday you and I will ever again experience.

The Moon Priestess deals Lady Love a Wild Card, decreeing it Purity, in the deep dark Underworld of Scorpio. Yikes!!!

This mystery play features the Moon as Priestess of the Feminine Mysteries, Venus as Lady Love, and Comet Catalina (meaning pure) as the Wild Card. Today they are all in Scorpio, archetype of the deep Feminine Mysteries of transformation through integration of the Shadow. To top it off, while the recently discovered Comet Catalina flashes through our sky on her way to the Milky Way representing a call to Purity, the Moon Priestess occults Lady Love, symbolizing Venus's complete overshadowing in service to her commitment to radical self-love and self-regard. The Moon Priestess will not accept anything less than complete willingness to letting go of self hatred that may be lurking in the heart of our Lady.

Ok, now the Moon Priestess and Lady Love have been trusting friends for millennia, but Lady Love is being asked to retain purity of heart while delving into Shadow material. If you've ever done Shadow work you know you can't help but feel foul. You dig deep enough into your psyche and if your are honest you will find thoughts, feelings, and actions you wish you could keep hidden. It's pretty normal to feel doubtful about your purity, so in a sense, the Moon Priestess offers Lady Love shelter from the Emperor's New Clothes syndrome. No one can pretend to not see her shadow because in actuality no one can see it. We see instead a waning crescent Moon as Venus hides behind her protective shield. 

If we add to this unfolding drama in the heavens the Sabian Symbol for the 4th degree of Scorpio (the degree we read for this occultation) we see a youth holding out candle in a devotional ritual. I like to think this role is played by the asteroid Juno, who also happens to be part of this conjunction. Although Juno is in the more mature and wise degrees of Libra, the youth represents her Purity before she became the wife of Jupiter. She accompanies Lady Love holding out a light for her during her dark descent.

If Lady Love, (the Feminine in all of us), does her work she will come out of this initiation like Lady Godiva, vulnerable in the eyes of the uninitiated, but Pure of Heart because she loves herself fully, and is therefore capable of facing anything. If we can participate in these Mysteries on a conscious soulful level, we come ever closer to the co-creators we were meant to be. 

Carpe Noctem, dear Friends! (Seize the Night)