New Moon in Leo: Shattering Chains and Reclaiming Your Center
Sometimes, Jupiter passing through my fourth house rewards me when I need inspiration the most, unexpectedly reminding me where I come from. Recently, with the poetry book I found in Strand Bookstore yesterday: translated poems of the Turkish sufi dervish Yunus Emre. Even though I've gotten a complicated relationship with Islam as I grew up, I absorbed Mevlana's (Rumi) seven pieces of advice from the framed artwork adorning my grandmother's wall at an early age.
"In generosity and helping others, be like a river.
In compassion and grace, be like the sun.
In concealing other's faults, be like the night.
In anger and fury, be like one who is dead.
In modesty and humility, be like the earth.
In tolerance, be like a sea.
Either exist as you are or be as you look.
Sufis whirl by extending one hand toward the ground and the other toward the sky, practicing abandonment of personal desires (nafs or egos), accompanied by devout concentration on God. This symbolically mirrors the planets within the Solar System as they orbit the sun, embodying the seeker's pursuit of spiritual enlightenment.
Leo is ruled by the sun - the focal point of the solar system. The sun is the ego - the gravitational center of human personality. Leo is life. Leo is self-expression. Leo is a celebration. Leo's energy is the opposite of what Sufis practice: it is the invitation of ego, not transcending it.
This new moon arrives on Wednesday evening Eastern time, right after Venus's conjunction with the sun. Venus is still quite close to our Sun & Moon duo. Uranus squares all three of them with an urge to get rid of the old ties that are pushing us to the side, not letting us stay in the center. Chiron trines the lunation with all the wisdom he collected from past experiences, perhaps the most painful ones. Luckily, Mercury and Mars are there to create solutions and take action for Uranus's surprises.
Envision what you can create that is worth celebrating. How much of it centers around you? Let's begin again, but this time by inviting ourselves a little bit more.
Cheers to existing as we are or being as we look.
From the heart to the wound,
Ipek
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