October’s New Moon in Libra
Thursday, October 7th
6-7:30 pm PDT
Event will be hosted online.
A link for the live event will be emailed to all registrants a day prior & a recording will be sent following
In this installment of our monthly salons on the New Moon, Salome’s resident astrologer, Carol Ferris, will offer insights into the astrology for the month ahead.
In October, the New Moon is in Libra:
Balance is “to be in a position where you will stand without falling…a situation in which two opposing forces have or are given the same power…”
-“Balance,” The Cambridge Dictionary
At the Autumn Equinox, as day and night are in equilibrium, the Sun enters the sign of Libra: the Balance. Astronomical and astrological cultures alike placed a set of scales in this sky, a testament to the weighing and measuring of the harvest.
Some astrological histories suggest the pans that hang from the scales of The Balance were once the claws of the Scorpion, symbolizing Fate’s spinning thread and the claws that clipped that thread. The Egyptian myth of the goddess Ma’at registered the evolution of human consciousness from a consciousness of fate to one of free will.
In Egypt, when you died, you traveled in the halls of the underworld to the throne of Ma’at and she extended her scales of justice towards you. In one pan, you placed your heart. In the other, she placed a feather from her headdress of Truth. As your heart was weighed against Truth, you recited The Negative Confession, a list of all the bad things you could have done but chose not to do. Your evolution was based on the weight of your heart in balance with the Truth, your narrative, and her judgment.
What will we weigh and measure in this New Moon and how will our hearts, our narratives, and our truths ready us for the coming winter?
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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