August’s New Moon in Leo
Thursday, August 5th
6-7:30 pm PDT
Event will be hosted online.
A link for the live event will be sent one day in advance & a recording will be sent within 24 hours .
In this installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, Salome’s resident astrologer, Carol Ferris, will offer insights into the astrology of the month ahead.
In August, the New Moon is in Leo:
“In alchemy, the lion, the ‘royal beast’, is a synonym for Mercurius, or, to be more accurate, for a stage in his transformation. He is the warm-blooded form of the devouring, predatory monster who first appears as the dragon . . . This is precisely what the fiery lion is intended to express – the passionate emotionality that precedes the recognition of unconscious contents.”
- Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, CW 14
At high summer, the womb waters of the Cancer Solstice give birth to the fierce individual, Leo, the Lion. The New Moon in Leo heralds the arrival of the heart—the center. While modern governance celebrates the emerging, heroic individual, older cultures envisioned leadership as service to the divine: what was the Mandate of Heaven? Natural and economic disasters were laid at the feet of the ruler who was out of communication with the divine.
The new moon in Leo wants to know: what is asked of our hearts in this time? How do our hearts hold the personal and the heavenly?
Note: If you have a copy of your own horoscope, it will be possible to trace these currents to your own experiences.
For more information on reading your own natal chart, you can purchase the recording of How to Read Your Own Horoscope 101, recorded live on June 27th, 2021.
About Carol Ferris
Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understand how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.
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