New Moon
December 22, 2011
2 Capricorn
When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is to just live your life inside the world and try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to live a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That is a very limited life.
Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; that everything around you that you call life was made up by people who are no smarter than you, and you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you will never be the same again.
— Steve Jobs
If that is not a Pluto in Capricorn statement, I don’t know what is. Pluto is the planet of transformation, meaning change it forever. Sometimes we call this “forever change” loss or death.
But sometimes it is good to have forever change—even of the seeming worse kind. Perhaps change is neutral, and ideas about it being good or bad has to do with how we take it and how we make it. Capricorn is about the limits, those of definition, safety, and propriety, and those that are fear and superstition-based. Walls are a kind of limit.
Pluto in Capricorn is clearly going to be about getting outside of the walls, scaling them or tearing them down. This includes your personal walls, your psychological walls and social walls—the Wall Street within you. The New Moon conjunct Pluto suggests that we can mark and make world changes.
Speaking of Wall Street, the Times “Person of the Year, 2011”, is “The Protester.” The picture on the cover represents all who have recognized that we have voices and choices, including the Wall Street and other occupy-protesters who represent those of us who think enough is enough. (The word protest means complaint, dissent, objection and, demonstration, and also declare, affirm, claim and insist.)
The collective is made up of individuals. This is represented by Pluto in Capricorn square Uranus in Aries. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. Its keywords are “I am.” It has often been noted that the discovery of a planet often coincided with its emergence as part of the fabric of life. Uranus was discovered in 1781, and is thought to coincide with revolutionary wars of the United States and the French Revolution.
God is Change, and in the end, God prevails
But God exists to be shaped. It isn’t enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse.If that’s the shape we give to God, then someday
We must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick/To defend ourselves/Then we’ll be wiped out.
There has to be more we can do, a better destiny that we can shape, another place, another way, something.—Octavia M. Butler, Parable of the Sower
This statement is similar to Steve Jobs idea that one can influence and change things. Don’t just sit around and wait. Don’t accommodate your victimization. Give God a shape. Decide on what you want, where you want to go, and what you intend to have and be and see. Keep your eye on the prize.
We think change is risky. What if we lose? What if we are misunderstood? What if we fail? What if we are delusional? Better hang back and not rock the boat or bang on the walls. But calculated risk that keeps the goal in sight will enable you to make use of any stumbles on your journey, and at least you are on a journey, not droning on and drowning, taking your lumps and surviving without vitality.
With the New Moon in Capricorn we shine a light in the darkness. We just reach up and turn on the light, bathe ourselves in light, breathe light.
Scintillating Brilliance, you are my breath. I am as smart, as worthy, as gifted as anyone who has created anything, achieved anything, risen above anything, conquered anything, overcome anything.
Laugh at yourself if you find yourself going into the cave of dreary things, feeling black and sullied about your worth. Crack up. Say, “Fool, get back here.” Chuck despair. There’s a new day coming, rising clear and sweet and free sang Nina Simone. That new day is here.
Get down to business. You can change things. You can choose and make your choices utterly unique. Who says you can’t? Who says that you flawed? You? Don’t lie on yourself.
You are a child of the Living God, made special, blessed, beautiful, quirky good, a delight for the seeing eye. Our chorals and choirs and choruses are for you. Keep shining. You can do it. You can shape it. You can call it and cause it. Press on. Rest only for the sake of having strength for whatever is next. Problems may cover our work while the Sun is in Capricorn. In Aquarius we experience the dawn and the answers.
Artwork: Beneath and Beyond the Ordinary Daylight World by Deborah Singletary
Inez, thanks for the words of light. Deborah I recognize some sisters in your artwork.
Inez, thank you so very much for your words. I share them with friends.I remember so well seeing you at the Huntington Gardens and always with a smile.
I love so much of these words but the ‘surving without vitality’ really speaks voumes.
Thank you!!!
Love this on-time article! The Wall Street Within You! Exqusitely put! Great illustration! Had to read this again ‘n again! It’s revealing and oh, so true!! Thanks, Inez!!
Just had to read again! So needed this! Awesome New YEAR’S MESSAGE!
Always look forward to visiting this site to read the blogs…I’m never disappointed. Thank you.
Ms. Deborah, the painting is beautiful! Thank you for showcasing it.
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