It has been said hope is a verb. And I believe that is true. Hope is a muscle. Something that must be worked at. Claimed. Honed. Sharpened. Not sure about you, but my hope muscle has been tested this last year…and still is. It has been a practice of accountability, awareness, presence, and shadow walking. Of course, hope doesn’t promise everything working out the way we want it, just that there is wisdom in what is arising and potential in the unknown. Hope means we show up. Again and again. We focus on what is REALLY important. We do our work. We strive to help others to do the same.
This Super New Moon in Scorpio @ 23°welcomes the wisdom we have been walking. Scorpio brings light into dark spaces, after all. Two days before the New Moon, Jupiter makes its third conjunction with Pluto of the year, offering the stark truth of new possibilities and significant change. If we have been doing the hard Plutonian work, it also offers a ray of hope- some light at the end of the tunnel. Pallas Athene joins the party offering her wisdom and diplomacy as well. There is an air of completion and renewal, fate dancing with destiny.
Additionally, Mars stations direct (finally) the day before this New Moon, adding to some forward motion. While we have been deeply introspective assessing our motives, actions, courage, purpose, and force of assertion, Mars stationing direct offers some needed clarity and tentative steps after the great pause we have been living. There might be a need to defend the new that is being birthed, however, as we hold steady in the turning tides. So, trust your gut and use the guiding light of assertion, anger, and passion as the co-creative forces they were meant to be.
(I do want to note, though, if we have resisted this inner learning, falling into shadow forms of anger and conflict, the integration phase may be incredibly challenging. Denial will only make the road more impassable, the uncovering more brutal, and the waves of humility more chaotic. This isn’t required, but for some, it may be necessary. That is quite evident currently as well.)
In general, this is an excellent time to take a deep breath. Inhale and exhale. It is a good time to look back, take stock, and review what truths have been revealed. The lessons in sacrifice, surrender, value, integrity, hope, and service have been activated and profound.
What has been uncovered? What have you learned? What wisdom has been presented? What shadows have emerged? What stories rewritten?
It is in trying times our true character is revealed. Whether that is a person, a community, a state, or a nation.
To that end, though things might feel a bit lighter (and they are), the tension is not quite over. November is ripe with potency and potential -challenges and choice points, unpredictability, and possible chaos. I am reminded of the hero’s journey in its totality. First, the descent and then the resurrection. The phoenix rises from the ashes, and the treasure claimed along the way is the transformation itself. The hero is never the same at the end of the quest, which is the point, of course.
Returning home, the hero must then ask.
Now what?
This integration of the old and new is the final phase of the totality of the journey. One no less vital than the journey itself.
We, too, find ourselves in the ‘now what’ phase. Who are we now? Have our better angels been resurrected or our wounded ego more cemented and defined? In other words, have we learned to love more fully or fallen deeper into our cognitive dissonance, wounded victimhood, or blame? The next few months will reveal those answers.
I find it fitting that the Sabian symbol for this New Moon is “After Having Heard an Inspired Individual Deliver His Sermon on The Mount, Crowds Are Returning Home.”
And inspiration can be a force of creation or destruction depending on the prism through which is channeled. Like a fire, it has the ability to illuminate the shadows offering the light of aspiration. It can also ignite flames of fear, creating and an inferno of destruction and mob like mentality.
This is the choice we are living at the moment.
In essence, we are being asked to now practice what we have learned and to ground all gained wisdom into real life. The new chapter is brewing, and we are tasked with writing it. In this way, our intentions, values, and integrity matter. Facts matter. The teachers and leaders we follow matter. What we do every day, the tiny choices regarding minutiae, all matter.
Who we are is precisely defined by what we do- especially when our egos are challenged.
Because inspiration is indeed a flame, meant to ignite the light in all of us, not the fear. It is meant to in-spire, to breathe new life into potentiality, not steal it from another. It is meant to open our hearts to create, cooperate, support, and encourage. True inspiration does not bypass the truth or deceive, falling on convenient narratives. It embraces the reality of what is regardless of its inconvenience in our lives.
Choose what inspires you wisely.
Take that inspiration home with you and use that fire to fuel your honor and ignite your will. Because the work is not yet over. Now we must LIVE the lessons. We must BE the wisdom. We must commit to the ever-expanding practice of being the extensions of grace we are meant to be.
“Don’t Just
Don’t just learn, experience.
Don’t just read, absorb.
Don’t just change, transform.
Don’t just relate, advocate.
Don’t just promise, prove.
Don’t just criticize, encourage.
Don’t just think, ponder.
Don’t just take, give.
Don’t just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do.
Don’t just hear, listen.
Don’t just talk, act.
Don’t just tell, show.
Don’t just exist, live.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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