Yesterday afternoon, as the New Moon was approaching, we lit a fire for an informal sweat lodge. An hour and a half later a friend who was tending the fire walked into the house and said, “I don’t know how to say this, but the sweat lodge is on fire!” We went out, and the lodge was an inferno. A spark had drifted through the open door unnoticed, smouldered through the blankets, and once it reached the outer canvas it roared into life. Strangely, the hose-pipe wouldn’t work (though later we found a ‘rational’ explanation for this. Phew!)It was a strange event. My Native American friend, who was with us, had never seen anything like it in decades of sweat lodges. And everything had felt so idyllic and harmonious, up there in the Mendip Hills in the sunshine. We had begun the fire ceremonially, and I take the view that anything unusual that happens in ceremonial time means something significant.
The chart for the inferno had Sun conjunct Moon in Aries in the 8th House, in a t-square with Mars and Jupiter. A very powerful chart. As far as I’m concerned, if that fire didn’t mean something, then astrology doesn’t work! Transformative (8th House) fire (Aries) that will destroy the old and bring new beginnings (New Moon in Aries).What it might mean specifically I don’t want to know or talk about, it’s like talking about the plot of a novel you haven’t yet written: you take away the energy and creative potential. But it certainly means something!
4 comments:
Now that's an attention getting event! And having lots of Scorpio/12th house stuff myself, i understand the importance of holding the essense of something new close to the chest as it's gains strength. My intuition is it's going to be something major! :-D
Along with all the 8th house planets, is Venus at the 29th degree of Pisces(-0- Scheat), and the Midheaven conjoins Algol. Endings and rebirth themes are powerfully symbolized in so many ways(Scorpio IC, too).
Mars(fires) is sharply focused at this time and place- AS/MC = 14 Cancer 30 = Mars 12 Cancer 49. Since Mars is now OOB, it will tend to find extreme forms of expression.
With six planets in Cardinal (action)signs and at the same time strong Mars signs, related by squares (action aspect) no wonder the fire wanted to do a little more than create a little steam for you guys!
In the greater scheme, I hope we can channel all this abundant energy creatively.
Just too much heat!
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