New Moon | February 27, 2025 | 9 Pisces 41’
I'm not defined by what I lost. I'm only defined by what I could rebuild. Hope is always alive. Hope is never dead.
Thus spoke Louvenia Jenkins, aged 96. She was one of the first black female homeowners in the affluent Pacific Palisades, California. Her home, which she had owned for almost 60 years, was filled with art, furniture and other valuables from her international travels. Her home was destroyed in the recent fires. Her life was saved by her long-time caregiver, who insisted on braving the backed-up traffic, to get to Louvenia Jenkins and take her to safety.
“Rebuild? How can you talk about rebuilding when you are 96 years old?” But her statement that hope is alive and never dead got my attention. It illustrates the New Moon in Pisces where you have hope for that which you do not see. This hope is in conflict with the “common sense” of the sense-based world represented by Jupiter in Gemini. Logic says, how can you have hope for building when you clearly don’t have time?
I am about to turn 76 and if I live to 96, another 20 years, I will have had a long life. I may or may not want more years by this time. While I think it is “realistic” to expect death to be nearby then, I won’t be thinking of it as the end.
I draw inspiration from Louvenia Jenkins now. I am disappointed, hurt and more than a little bewildered that the United States is where it is now after I had been active in both civil rights and women’s rights. It seemed that things got better, that the world was more open and progressive. How could we have come to this after 50 years of progress?
Maybe it is tempting to be too literal about a woman of 96 or 76 to be building or rebuilding.
That is precisely why we have Pisces. It is the vibration of that which is present but unseen. What would we have Louvenia or Inez do at this time? Will we have them cut the chord with spirit? Are we all supposed to get to a place where there is nothing more to be asked for, hoped for or expected? Would it be a place where we would give in to fear?
I have had moments in this past month where chaos was nipping at my feet to the point where it seemed all hope for a sane society was lost. But I kept coming back to, “How am I now?” As tenuous and threatening as things seemed, I was still okay. I kept going back to, “All the power that ever was or will be is here now,” and “Everything is always working out for me.
Perhaps this chaos that we are experiencing is the call of the Universe for us to build an inner bridge over turbulent waters, so that more of the spiritual world will find a way into the lives that we are living. Living in a different way with different values could get us better results. From my observation point, more and more of us are picking up this call and are following faint images and quiet voices. It has something to do with eternal life that you attain while you live in temporal life. As I understand it, that means that now is all that matters, that now is the time to keep the faith.
Practicum
“Keep hope alive.” – Jesse Jackson.
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