New Moon in Aquarius & Maha Shivaratri: Mind over Matter

The New Moon in sidereal Aquarius is happening on March 2nd at 7:34 am HT (9:34 am PST). The Moon and Sun are coming together in the nakshatra Shatabishak. Shatabishak is the star of a “Hundred Healers” and is ruled by Varuna, who is known as the god of the ocean waters, but truly, he is the “dark sun”, or the Sun as it disappears beneath the ocean and we experience night. The eyes of Varuna are the stars, and they can see in the night all the corruption that takes place in the dark. As the sign of Aquarius is an air sign and related to society as a whole and the systems with which we function in society, we can see that the hundred healers are here to heal socially, not just bodies. Ruled by Rahu, the dispersive, suspicious and foreign “other-worldly” quality is present in this star, and Aquarius’ rulership by Saturn shows the punishing element that arises when we see injustice, especially when it is at the hands of an individual or group who seems to have an inordinate amount of power. Aquarius is the sign of progress, technology and aeronautics and is opposite where we had our full moon two weeks ago in Leo. This shows the inherent opposition between the “King” and the “people”. Aquarius is the sign of the people, and if the King gets too cocky, Shatabishak is the specific star that sees that and aims to bring the power balance back. Jupiter is closely joined our Sun and Moon here, although recently moved into his own star of Purva Bhadrapada. He has been bringing our beliefs and ideals to the realm of social justice since he entered Aquarius (first in April of 2021, then again in November 2021). Here we are not perhaps at our wisest or most expansive, but we are inspired by what we see wrong and unjust, and by imagining what new systems could potentially take flight. Purvabhadrapada is where we have a lightning bolt of insight that we are beyond these bodies, and even these minds. We are infinite beings merely existing within the finite realm of matter. This star takes us from Aquarius into Jupiter’s own sign of Pisces, where we can explore deeper into this realization and find the truth of our identity by losing it.

Since Saturn rules Aquarius and also Capricorn, where Mercury and Saturn are tightly conjunct, and likewise Mars and Venus who just crossed in, we can see that all the planets except the nodes of the Moon are in Saturn’s signs. Saturn is the planet of Time. The concept of time is what instills fear in our hearts, because we begin to imagine the “future” and remember the “past” and we forget that everything happens in the present moment. It is the bearer of pressure, as our awareness of time is what tells us that it is running out and we must do_____before it is too late. Too late for a missed opportunity, an appointment, or too late for your body’s tenure here on earth. Too late=death in its most primal reality. Saturn is also the moksha karaka planet that gives us the potential to move beyond this life/death paradigm and time as a linear concept. In the depths of the loss, disappointment, humility, pain and suffering that Saturn offers us our big lessons with, we are able to learn how to surrender. Ultimately, it teaches us that while loss is inevitable, even of our own body, the pain we feel around it is negotiable. If we accept the truth of death, then we can begin to embrace the truth of life and fully live it. Saturn is the great meditator, with whom’s boon we can fly beyond time.

February 28th begins the celebration called Maha Shivaratri “the Great Night of Shiva” here in Hawaii and in the US, as the 14th lunar day, or tithi of the Moon begins on this day. Every month, as the moon wanes to dark, the phase right before the New Moon is a Shivaratri, or night of Shiva. Shiva means corpse, and is pure consciousness itself. When our Mind (the Moon) joins Consciousness (the Sun), we are closer to a state of Shiva awareness. This alignment of the luminaries gives us the highest potential for this state. This particular 14th tithi before the New Moon, in the Hindu month of Phalguni, is said to be the time, where the tilt of the Earth is such that by sitting with an erect spine we have the most conducive conditions for connecting with this Shiva Consciousness through meditation.
Blessed Shivaratri and New Moon!

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