Écrit le vendredi 21 août 2020
Introduction:
The following article was inspired by the readings of the book, La Lune noire, un vertige d'absolus by Luc Bigé. To go further, a book in French has been written by him and translated into English by Google, The Black Moon, a vertigo of absolute:
You can also get an introduction to the mythology of the Black Moon on our website; https://lucbige-astromythology.simplesite.com/453119420/the-mythology-of-the-black-moon-in-astrology
The aim is to share a vision and an example of a particular birth chart configuration of the Black Moon Crosses, which we will try to dissect from a psychological point of view. We have chosen this theme because it displays a strong Black Moon dominant, with, in an involutive initiatory sense, Lilith (corrected Black Moon) in Capricorn astrological house 1, Priape in Cancer house 7, the SP (the soumission point) in Aries house 3, the AP (the affirmation point) in Libra house 9. And in a sense of evolution, some parentheses of interpretations of the four points of the Unicorn Cross (middle black moon) in Sagittarius conjoined to the ascendant (Phoebus) in Gemini conjoined to the descendant, the PP (point of purification) in Pisces house 3, the EP (the evolution point) in Virgo house 9. Towards the middle of the article, we set out some important parentheses. They aim to put things into perspective by proposing several alternative ways out of the dark side of interpretation.
This interpretative article is only one of the many possible configurations of the black moon crosses. We can observe diametrically different patterns of behaviour according to the locations in signs or in houses of these black moons. If one or more points of The Cross are in conjunction with one or more planets and the four corners of the natal chart, they will also be subject to a separate interpretation. The interpretation proposed in this article may also vary in amplification or moderation depending on the configuration of the birth chart as a whole.
However, from an ontological point of view, the Black Moon invariably retains the same desire for absoluteness, purity, supremacy, with a pride and intransigence that will be directed differently depending on the significance of the location it occupies in signs and houses.
Foreword
We are going to speak about the pivotal character, his memories, the tipping point between the founding myth and his desire for absolute purity (unicorn). Of this character after the fall with the feeling of loss and the suffering of his feeling of non-existence (Lilith).
On the ascendant and in the 1st astrological house, the Unicorn/Lilith goes through a deep need to touch her absolute divinity of being. The problem is located for a long time, especially if Saturn is retrograde in the chart, by a refinement of the personality which is characterized by a demand for self and a will for perfection of the I. The feeling of non-existence that Lilith provokes is due to the absolute of the I (ascendant) that the Unicorn wants to recover from its memories before its fall. Lilith is going to force her at a given moment to become aware of the shadow which hides behind his need of absolute by one or more tests. The vain intransigence of pride and supremacy only makes her feel inadequate, rejected and non-existent. Thus, the Unicorn ascendant can either spend his whole life looking for his unattainable absolute and live in the incomprehension of the refinement of the aristocratic I, or become lucid of her ability to see the shadow that attaches her to his memories from now on and cross his fears placed in Lilith Capricorn astrological house 1.
As the Unicorn ascendant moves through the various points of Lilith's Cross, she can perceive that humility, acceptance and flexibility of mind are what will open her to the dimension of the heart. In this space, the self becomes perceptive and the refinement of the I transforms from the inner to the outer, the I hearing the call of the self.
- x] Lilith, corrected black moon in Capricorn house 1. Unicorn, mid black moon sagittarius conjunct Ascendant house 12 and 1, or unicorn in Capricorn.
Lilith (corrected black moon) in Capricorn carries a wound of superiority which becomes, in time, a wound of inferiority. The image of the father is oversized. The wound resembles a fantasy that Lilith Capricorn carries within her of an all-powerful father who finds herself frustrated by the feeling that this father of flesh fails to satisfy her fantasy of the absolute Divine father. A feeling of great unconscious disappointment drives this lilith to contact a centre of strength and power within her without having an initiating, paternal model that matches the desires linked to her unicorn memories. This usually looks like a father who is very present, but who gives very little attention, or on the contrary, he can be a centre of anxiety through his tyrannical behaviour. In all cases, the child will suffer from the dimension of his fantasy linked to his memories of the absolute myth of an all-powerful, wise, knowledgeable father and the elusiveness that his fantasy so much to make live in the experience. We can often observe that a Lilith in Capricorn adopts several faces in this regard. On the one hand, the fantasy of an all-powerful father frustrated by the hyper-demanding nature of the fantasy, and on the other hand, a father who is unstable and often oppressive or even tyrannical. Rather than having lived a childhood linked to his memories of relational absolutes, the child will have built himself up in the fear and anxiety of a father who is not only devoid of any wisdom, but who conveys an energy that is often unjust and sometimes even traumatic. Over time, the child will compensate for his lack of wisdom by mechanisms of self-protection, defence and control while seeking a substitute father in the unconscious hope of reconnecting with the absolute within him.
This time, with Lilith in the 1st house of Capricorn, identity is built on lacks, disappointments and deep frustrations. A lack of self-confidence sets in, causing a need for approval from others. As Lilith feels distant from her true desire for power, mastery, wisdom and knowledge an inordinate self-demand builds in the deeply wounded psychological structure.
In adulthood, a Lilith in Capricorn house 1 will build a Persona of apparent mastery, of a desire to exist with a representation made of aristocracy when situations are dangerous to her wisdom image. She will have learned, at her own expense, the gift of control based on an eminent need to protect herself from her sense of insecurity which has become a deep inferiority complex and a deep anticipatory fear of what might happen. Lilith in Capricorn house 1 will idolise certain people whom she perceives as demigods, thus compensating for her deep disillusionment at having had a disappointing father.
It is necessary to perceive here the game of projection that Lilith has manifested so much in the experience. Having access to memories of knowledge and power which are difficult to crystallise in her representations to others she will become intimidated by a personality who seems to hold this knowledge as well as experiencing a feeling of extreme inner tension when she shows herself, in one way or another, PATRIARCAL. There is a rejection of authority in general and a powerful anger at constitutions or parliaments that define rules and concepts that leave little room for alternatives. This mode of operation reactivates the memories of the Licornian fall and the suffering of having been the victim of an unjust father, incoherent to the point of his desire for the absolute.
In certain cases, it is delicate for a Lilith in the 1st house to feel part of the world in which she lives. She feels out of place because of a sense of unconscious refusal to descend into her embodiment; it is not easy for her to construct her identity. The experience of self as a separate being can cause her considerable anxiety. Becoming a full-fledged individual remains a frantic desire that carries the risk, through the exposure it entails, of being unmasked of her fears. Her memories remind her of a traumatic experience releasing fears of which she is unaware, at least until Saturnian maturity.
When the Saturnian energy begins to bring the mental aspect of the unicorn down into the experience, the awareness of the lemniscate mechanisms of the Black Moon Crosses begins to make sense and a vast initiatory work can begin.
At first, Lilith in Capricorn will refuse structures, worldliness and conformity. It is the formality of the representations that these energies imply that triggers in her a visceral fear, long misunderstood.
In the youthfulness of her incarnation, the unicorn experiences an eagerness to relive the memories of before the pivotal character. She seeks to reconnect with her absolute Sagittarius house 12 and 1 without going through the initiation process of involution of the archetypes contained within Lilith. At certain points in life, this metaphysical unicorn absolute, filled with meaning and symbolism, seeks to merge with the unconditional love of the rest of existence, and without reservation, it will want to contemplate God. Therefore, the unicorn on the Sagittarius ascendant will have intense, even mystical experiences before the identity is sufficiently incarnated in matter. It is the pride of the unicorn linked to its ontological desire for purity which makes it relive its fall, thus creating an imbalance of psychic energy with a sensation of displacement from the world of incarnation, hence its refusal to reincarnate. We can analyse it as a dismemberment of the structures of the ego and, all that cannot be contained in the ego is propelled into Lilith from the moment of the first Unicornian fall until this incarnation. This is how we can become aware of the karmic meaning, all the wounds that were not confronted and integrated through experience, accumulate from life to life and approach, in this incarnation, a decisive (obligatory) necessity of confronting the knots of suffering that have become unbearable for the ego's threshold of resistance.
Lilith in the 1st house may believe for a long time that she is inhabited by a mysterious force which makes her experience emptiness and/or non-existence, and therefore she has difficulty in being part of the world of representations. But in reality, it is more the fear of letting go, of losing control over her desires for the representational heights, that provides a sense of displacement felt as emptiness and as a sense of non-existence rather than the feeling of fear of emptiness itself. With the black moon on the ascendant and in Capricorn house 1, there is a phenomenon of absorption of identity into a black hole... This can lead to maladaptive behaviour in society or in a too personal sphere of relationships, but it is due to a feeling of strangeness that accentuates the uncontrollable.
Same important parentheses:
Not all black moons in Capricorn house 1 will experience such a radical destructuring of the self and it is essential to take into account the whole birth chart. Look especially for a personal trans dominant, especially Pluto in red aspects to the Sun with Mercury enhanced. In such a case, there is, in addition to the dark moon positions as described here, an apparent Faustian myth with a strong obsessive tendency. But also if the chart shows a planetary cluster in Scorpio or if the astrological houses 8 or 12 are charged. Even more markedly, if the planetary cluster of one of these houses is in intercepted signs. Or, if the chart includes several retrograde planets and/or the lunar south node in afflicted aspects.
Thus, the interpretation of the positions in Sagittarius of the middle black moon (Unicorn) on the ascendant in the 12th and 1st houses, of the corrected black moon (Lilith) in Capricorn in the 1st house, can vary quite a bit in terms of amplification or moderation according to the various configurations of the birth chart.
(It is however appropriate to quote Joëlle de Gravelaine on the black moon in 1st house) on: https://www.cultura.com/p-le-retour-de-lilith-la-lune-noire-9782733913277.html
( Of all the positions of the black moon, this is the one that allows one to inhabit the symbolic values it conveys with the most force and to understand them, to feel them as obvious... As soon as they are no longer refused. )
We will also note the risk of falling into the pathological nature of Lilith's position in the 1st house rather than her location in the sign. The sign colours the type of experience that the 1st house will provide on an identity level.
Similarly, it can be said that there are several effective doors to escape the risk of confinement of such an astrological configuration.
With the significance of the sign and house of Priape (the point opposite the position of Lilith). Priape is an uncomfortable point of comfort, as it remains an escape, even if it is necessary to shape the personality, Priape does not correspond to the essential projects of the soul. Priape, in our Cancer h7 example, will help rebuild the identity, learning to be kind to spouse and children, family ties and home, with a pleasant, intentional and kind atmosphere. The relationship with others can also be comforted by following Cancer's energies of simplicity, flexibility and gentleness.
In fact, it is very interesting to give special attention to Priape in the 7th house in Cancer, as it combines with the meaning of the 7th house itself which represents the word "we." On this dynamic, learning to disidentify from the darker part of the Sagittarius/Unicorn I manifests in relationships with others. The ascendant's problem represents a tendency to identify with the values of the sign it occupies and to impose them on others. It is therefore interesting in relationships to favour the sign of the descendant in order to detach ourselves from our certainties which ultimately remain valid for us and not for others (h7.) In this example, the descendant is in Gemini. Thus, staying in tune with the other, in a fraternal lightness and in the present moment, allow the Sagittarian I to build itself with more flexibility. The quest for meaning and truth remains, but without imposing it on others.
Where, if we follow the values of the sign and house of the ruler of the sign where the unicorn is found, in our particular example, it will be Jupiter AM Sagittarius in Taurus h5. Values of creativity and bringing a work into the world, whether it is a child and its development, through art or drama, unless it is through a creative conception of agriculture (Taurus) or the care of the body or bodily expression that opens up sensuality. Or the work represents the person himself through his process of rebirth into the dimensions of being.
Another gateway would be the North Node, with our example (NN in Gemini h7). By listening to others and communicating with light and warm intentions, the identity, representing the Sagittarius h1 South Node, centred on itself, will learn to turn towards others and their singularities, thus freeing itself from its only Sagittarian truth.
Uranus is an essential key, for the detachment and humour of Uranus allows one to laugh at this spiralling tangle between the Licornian sense of supremacy and the Plutonian sense of obsession. By the significance of Uranus in the birth chart, in our example, Uranus in Virgo m8 conjunct Mercury and Pluto. The values of transformation through therapeutic processes, the occult and/or spiritual sciences, introspective writing are values that can help in evolution if they move in the direction of a sense of disidentification, detachment and liberation from beliefs and inculcations.
And finally Neptune, in our example, positioned in Scorpio h10, opens one's space and heart to the world and takes a position in a profession related to psychology, therapies related to emotions and the collective unconscious. Contribute to the world through spirituality, astrology or shamanism, tantrism or meditation, through bonds of caring, compassion and love.
Let us end this paragraph by quoting what Luc Bigé tells us about the humility that we can find in the Point of Submission of Lilith and especially the Point of Purification of the Unicorn Cross.
The humility of the Purification Point, by reenchanterlemonde.com
On the link at the top
Humility is accepting that the truth we carry within us is not the truth.
It is accepting, for a time, that what we feel to be true within us is put under a bushel and not recognised.
Why is this?
Because the unicorn has long been confused that its truth is the truth.
It is to accept this unbearable process of letting go of what works and what one feels to be profoundly right and true, even to the point of not understanding why it is so. It is this kneeling down; this is genuflecting that is required in Lilith so that the pride of the unicorn begins to dissipate. Similarly, it can be said that there are several effective doors to escape the risk of confinement of such an astrological configuration.
More generally, what is the personification of a representation made of height for a Lilith Capricorn 1 house? To have self-control, power and strength, to hold knowledge and wisdom, to keep self-control at all costs, to be unique and singular. This generates, in all cases, an intense tension and a fear of not being able to assume one's own representation.
The Lilitian fear is therefore based on the impossibility and inability to live in this fantasy of heights. Everything seems to be done so that a Lilith Capricorn in the 1st house is forced to let go of her ego and the representations of heights. This ontological pride is rooted in the founding myth of unicorn Sagittarius 1st and 12th houses. In this sign are rooted memories of a missionary wanting to instill his truth in others. Or, a Capricorn unicorn with a sense of having, from the top of his mountain, attained wisdom even before he inhabited the bottom of the valleys and accepted their realities.
Unicorn memories of the ascendant become, with Lilith in Capricorn house 1, a pebble in the shoe of others. She has a deeply critical and uncompromising view of her spouse and other human beings, who are, in truth, only projections of her own imperfections directly related to her self-expectation which she projects onto others.
At first, having few means to build her identity, a Lilith in Capricorn house 1 will seek comfort in Priape placed in the opposite sign and house (Priape Cancer house 7). Here, the identity builds a Persona appreciated by others. On Priape, the possibility of building a marital and family life provides a sense of belonging and identity built on projections. We appreciate in the other what we do not dare to do ourselves. Priape becomes as much an escape route to allow a necessary release from the pressure that Lilith conveys in the experience as a tendency for the person to settle into Priape to escape contact with Lilithian fears. (This is also true for SP and AP.) But in a different way. With a Lilith in the 1st house, the pressure is often considerable, powerful, destabilising and the person will tap into the energies of Priape to shape their personality, but this personality will never be more than a Persona, for their greatest fundamental desire lies in the energies in sign and house of the mid-black moon (unicorn Sagittarius house 1/12). At certain times in life, often at the transits of the return of the black moons to their initial locations or/and on one point or another of the Cross, or of a passage of Saturn or/and Pluto on one of the four points of the Cross, during these transits, the visceral fear of the other can re-emerge and relive this feeling of non-existence, of loss and of displacement. This distressing feeling pushes one to seek a dependent substitution towards the spouse. With such an attachment, Lilith by Priape may relive anxieties up to the terrible fear of being alone or abandoned by the spouse. She dreads the simple act of imagining her life without the other, but more importantly, imagining the fear of the unknown after a possible separation and the nastiness that might come out of the other, which is ultimately just a fear of the shadow that tugs at her from the memories of her own unconscious.
There is a dreadful fear of abandonment, but the call of true desire makes all dark moons vibrate, the essence of being and the perceptible grace of lady Unicorn lies within each one, here we are in contact with our founding myth. That is why no escape route is possible with the position of the black moons, the being will be insatiably called back to its true unicorn nature. In order to return to a unicorn without pride and intransigence, the being will have to go through the fears of Lilith until the moment when the initiatory spark will open the way to the Zenith of his inner star, unicorn Sagittarius.
Phebus in Gemini House 7/6
Following the descent into his fears of being denied by his sons and of being alone and abandoned by his loved one. Phebus, in opposition to the unicorn in Gemini, in conjunction with the descendant, propels the being into a rise of creative inspirations with intentions of light reflections, of listening to the needs of the spouse and others. This dive towards listening to one's inner self gives him more and more inner flexibility, and it is through this simplicity that he connects again with the language of his soul.
SP in Belier 3rd house
Lilith in Capricorn house 1 at the SP (Submission point) in Aries house 3 will perpetually try to atone for this guilt-ridden fault of a desire to represent heights originally stemming from a feeling of supremacy of the unicorn position over the Sagittarius ascendant. With SP in 3, guilt is expressed by justifying one's behaviour, this goes as far as justifying oneself for one's attitudes and without anyone asking, one seeks to justify others for their behaviour. She justifies herself and the other, because she unconsciously feels that her desire takes her away from the feeling of being loved. Compulsively, she will give the impression of being and existing through verbiage that is often inappropriate for the situation. She has a sense of initiative to help. In this configuration, she is active with a lot of chatter to protect herself from the risk of being exposed for her fear of losing control. In some discussions Lilith in SP in Aries 3rd house behaves, especially in the context of siblings, in a complex way.
Logically not having an answer for everything, the Lilithian attitude continues this aristocratic allure by giving half-hearted answers or opinions. This Lilith feels an essence of meaning from the Sagittarian Unicornian memories, but fails to share them. More often than not, it is the paralysing fear of existing due to a heightened need to exist that brings her back to the agonising sensation of non-existence. Instead of remaining in a silence that could become an initiation of humility, she will compulsively emit snatches of sentences that sound mysterious and that can only be perceived by herself. She will also unconsciously vary her language through a communication of good moods. All this is done with the best of intentions, but again, in a way that is often inappropriate and never satisfies her, as she fails to be recognised and loved for all her efforts.
The PP in Pisces house 3
At one level of evolution, SP becomes a necessity to dissolve the chains of Licornian pride with the PP (point of purification) in Pisces 3rd house. Here it is permissible to remain silent in order to feel the grace behind the words. Service becomes a song of compassion without the need for recognition, learning humility begins its initiation process. (the being does what needs to be done and withdraws...)
AP in Libra 9th house
Following long frustrations with the non-existence of Lilith and the guilt of the SP, the impulse will be directed to the AP (affirmation point) Libra 9th house. In a moderate to devastating anger, the Libra 9th house AP will take an idealistic form that must be heard by others. The AP is a necessity for reversals in order to unwind the passive phases of the submissive point. In the Libra 9th house AP, anger is externalised through communication claiming a philosophical or alternative ideal of functioning in order to satisfy the Lilithian ego in the face of a sense of non-existent and submission. Or, a need for the spouse to listen in order to justify his or her angry behaviour and offload responsibility for the emotional strain of the situation.
The EP in Virgo 9th house
If this possibility of reversal goes beyond the stage of strength of argument in order to protect one's ego, the AP allows for a verticalization through an individualization to stand without fear of reprisal, thus, leaving room for a new beginning. By observing things as they are without being a prisoner of one's emotions, the philosophical gaze becomes clear and capable of showing meaning and symbolism filled with evolutionary inspiration.
In conclusion
It will be essential for the being to access its Lilithian wounds in order to live on a plane of assimilated wisdom and on a spiritual Sagittarius unicorn plane. This Lilith will have to pass through a symbolic death, that of the feeling of superiority, of supremacy and in this de-sidentification of this anguish of non-existence (of the fear of death).
Capricorn means (the knees) there is a need for a Lilith in Capricorn to learn humility through genuflection. It is through this awareness of humility that this Lilith in Capricorn house 1 will find the deeply spiritual meaning of monadic heights.
SatyamAstro
It is particularly interesting to leave the final word to Luc Bigé by quoting him.
How can we avoid being in the shadow of supremacy?
Beware of this demand for purity and truth that would prevent us from implementing anything, beware of this desire for the absolute that would prevent us from being able to touch our essential desire. It is not a question here of catharsis by shouting out one's emotions, but of plunging one's horn (the depth of one's vision) into the lake of one's emotions, and it is the vision itself that allows the purification of these emotions.
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