Too Soon New Moon?
And yet, her life was a living poem.
She left too soon. There is no poetic way for me to describe the passing of my dearest friend Lyn; it was simply too soon. And yet, her life was a living poem. Breath of grace and heart of grizzly, she was a powerful Aries woman of the stars. We first met gliding over glistening snow on our cross-country skis. I was in high school and had the formative opportunity to attend the Art & Literature program at the Teton Science School. Lyn led my group to ski under the trees, where we sat and traced the shadows of branches onto the pages of our journals. We then wrote poems inside our drawings about how it felt to be the living bark and imagined what it would say if we could speak “tree” (my high school journal from that program below).
But how can I say too soon? Timing is everything in astrology, and for weeks before she passed unexpectedly, she was so fearful, as if she knew something was coming. Was it destiny? Is there a specific purpose in her passing on right now? Touching the hearts of so many with the shocking grief of her seemingly early departure, or was she right on time? I wish I could ask her, and that we could study and reflect on her death chart together, attempting the nearly impossible task and emerging victorious from translating the star language into the comprehensible.
A Favorite of My Heart
A matriarch of my Jackson, Wyoming community, her passing could be felt like a wave across the Earth. She is a beloved soul by all the fortunate ones who were blessed by her presence and care. This past year, her dear friend, the Grizzly Bear Matriarch 399 was hit by a car, and I honestly feel that part of Lyn passed with her. Now, Lyn has also traversed across the sands of time into a new realm of Being. The depths of loss my heart has felt in these days are nearly unbearable. How she touched me to my core, I may never know, but she did.
Lyn, you are a favorite person in my heart of hearts. I love you and am eternally thankful for all our morning teas and treats, pouring over the mystery together, sharing charts, reading for each other, seeing what we couldn’t see alone. You’ve been a true gem of a friend, an auntie, a teacher, a colleague, a collaborator…and what about all our dreams?! Where will they live now but in my heart? I suppose you’ll also take them to the stars with you and plant them as cosmic seeds for this unknown future. Thank you for your Being Lyn and for sharing your great love of Nature and her gifts with me in so many forms of poetry. You inspire me, your voice remains on my voice messages forever as a gift of your frequency. You live on inside my heartbeat as my first mentor and dearest friend. I love you Lyn, thank you for you.
New Moon in Leo
And today is a New Moon. Not just any New Moon, it’s a Leo Moon opposed by Pluto in Aquarius, which is definitely overripening the unused fruits of this last moon cycle. You, I, and everyone else are asked to discard what is no longer needed and offer it into the flames of this lioness lunar threshold. Have you been overwhelmed during these weeks? I haven’t had one client who didn’t feel this way, and I know that I have been riding that edge myself, working to keep my nervous system at ease amidst the dis-ease of the moment. It has been such a strong time, and looking ahead, it appears to continue this way in waves. My advice: take really good care of you, and do your inner work. Let go and let God. Give up the fight and surrender to what is…Now is always the time to show up.
A harmonious trine from the Saturn/Neptune conjunction to this New Moon bodes well for this next cycle and can bring some much-welcomed refinement to our relationship goals, life dreams, and spiritual progress. There is a cost, of course, so what will you give up in order to arrive at a more balanced, honest, and aligned experience? Leo loves drama, so stay vigilant and Tai Chi your way around the upsets, especially with Venus in Gemini and Mars in Virgo in a square. Intensity may rise around communication with Mercury in retrograde, especially since Mercury is the ruler of both Gemini and Virgo; the perfect setup for dynamic discoveries and blowout debates in the name of clarity.
Astrology as a Tool for Inner Work
There is something I’ve been wanting to express as of late in relation to my style of astrological work. I am not a New Age-y astrologer who has fantastical dreams about the coming times of collective awakening. I do not sense a great invitation for the evolution of humanity at our fingertips, and I try to avoid using too much cosmic jargon except for what feels unavoidable. Why? Because for me, astrology is a tool for inner work. Our birthchart is a mirror of the psyche that reveals itself through inquiry and discipline. There is no end to what can be unveiled by the thorough examination of the self and comprehension of layer after layer of wisdom in potential. It is personal, and although we surf collective waves, each one of us has a personal responsibility to do our part for our own spiritual progress. I do sense the greatest invitation of all lies inside each one of our hearts, the path of self-realization. Imagine if every human took it upon themselves to wake up and liberate themselves from their egoic slumber of unconscious material, violence, selfishness, greed, destruction, cruelty, sloth, lust, and numbed-out ways of stumbling through existence; what kind of world would this be?
I can imagine.
What is your prayer for this New Moon?
All my best to you, and please receive the piece of my heart that lives inside these words,
Thank you for visiting my inner world. If you want to learn more about my work in the outer world, enjoy cielawynter.com and listen to The Astrotherapy Podcast: Interviews | CHANGE here.
We cannot change the world until we accept we are the world. This is the new conversation.