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Chiron was a centaur unlike the other centaurs. They were wild and riotous but Chiron studied healing, astrology, and other wisdom.  This painting by Maxfield Parrish shows Chiron educating young Jason, who would later sail in search of the Golden Fleece.

Chiron’s parents were disgusted by his form and rejected him, creating an abandonment wound. Apollo adopted Chiron and raised him to be a healer.

But when Chiron was struck by a poisoned arrow, he couldn’t heal himself. He suffered tremendously but, being immortal, couldn’t even find relief in death until he chose to sacrifice his life to save Prometheus.

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Eclipses can only happen during the full moon (lunar eclipse) or new moon (solar eclipse), so in one sense we can think of a solar eclipse as a supercharged new moon: a powerful time for endings and new beginnings, a cosmic re-set button.

The ancients feared eclipses and took them as omens until astronomers became able to predict when eclipses will occur.

Has science removed the mystery and magic of the eclipse? We still talk of the head of the dragon, even though we recognize them now as the lunar nodes.

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The word at the top of this image is “audacia” which means “audacity” or “boldness”.

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and the sign that ushers in spring in the northern hemisphere. It is an egg cracking, a seed sprouting, a bold leap into a new way of being or doing.

Aries brings spring and the astrological new year. It all starts in Aries.

Esoteric New Year
Cardinal
Fire
2, 3, 4 of Wands

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This New Moon Astro-Writing Ritual will be recorded and the video and audio will be shared in public. Any frame that contains participant information will be removed from the final recording to protect your privacy. Staying muted keeps you off the recording and that means less deleting work for me, so thank you for remaining muted!

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The New Moon is a time when the Sun and the Moon are in the same sign, each emphasizing the sign’s energy in their individual way. When the Sun is in Aries, we call it Aries Season and on some level we notice and respond to that Aries Energy. When the Moon comes to meet the Sun for a New Moon, that emotional and intuitive lunar energy is also infused with Aries Energy.

So our biggest goal in this ritual is to think about Aries energy by writing our way into it.

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Spring
Edna St. Vincent Millay

To what purpose, April, do you return again?

Beauty is not enough.

You can no longer quiet me with the redness

Of little leaves opening stickily.

I know what I know.

The sun is hot on my neck as I observe

The spikes of the crocus.

The smell of the earth is good.

It is apparent that there is no death.

But what does that signify?

Not only under ground are the brains of men

Eaten by maggots.

Life in itself

Is nothing,

An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,

April

Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

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Crossings
By Ravi Shankar

Between forest and field, a threshold

like stepping from a cathedral into the street—

the quality of air alters, an eclipse lifts,

boundlessness opens, earth itself retextured

into weeds where woods once were.

Even planes of motion shift from vertical

navigation to horizontal quiescence:

there’s a standing invitation to lie back

as sky’s unpredictable theater proceeds.

Suspended in this ephemeral moment

after leaving a forest, before entering

a field, the nature of reality is revealed.

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Rock Bottom
By Eamon Grennan

So this is what it comes down to in the end: earth and sand skimmed, trimmed, filleted from rocky bone, leaving only solid unshakeable bottom, what doesn't in the end give in to the relentless hammer, whoosh, and haul-away of tides but stands there saying "Here I am here I stay," protestant to the pin of its absolute collar, refusing to put off the sheen on its clean-scoured surface, no mourning weeds in spite of loss after loss-whole wedges of the continent, particles of the main plummeting from one element to the other and no going back to how things were once, but to go on ending and ending here.

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Setting Intentions for the Aries Solar Eclipse Conjunct Chiron

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Setting Intentions for the Aries Solar Eclipse Conjunct Chiron

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I transform my wounds into medicine.

This month I will …..

In half a year I will …..

In one year I will …..

At some surprising moment I will …..

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Thank you for joining this Astro-Writing ritual. It would not have been possible without you!

In the last 15 minutes of our time together, I will turn off the recording and those of you who wish to greet others and process together can unmute for feedback, questions, and conversation.

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Every New Moon is also embedded in the astrological weather happening around it. Every snapshot of the sky has dozens of details we could look at, but I’ve chosen the biggest of them for our ritual today.

You might notice many things happening in climate weather here on earth, some aspects of weather get your attention more than others. Lightning, for example, will draw your attention to it with explosive noises and bright lights.

When I look at this chart for the Aries New Moon right now, the biggest element of astrological weather I see are today’s solar eclipse, where the sun and moon are together with a point called the north node or ancient astrologers called it the “head of the dragon”. Eclipses can only happen when the sun and moon are conjunct or in the same place as one or both lunar nodes. When Sun and Moon are on the same node, we see Solar Eclipses and when they are on opposite nodes, we see Lunar Eclipses.

These nodes change signs about once a year and when the Sun is on a node, it’s not only the season of that sign, but we also call it Eclipse Season.

The other bit of weather that is speaking loudly to me today is the location of Chiron, who we also call the wounded healer. Chiron is conjunct, or together with, that eclipse in Aries. So the energies we will be talking about and writing into are:

* Aries
* Eclipse
* Chiron

All of them within the New Moon frame. The New Moon is a time of re-set, refresh, starting again, and setting intentions for the next month (from one new moon to the next), half year (the time it takes for the moon to go from being New in Aries to being Full in Aries), or year (the time it takes for the moon to go from one New Moon in Aries to the next New Moon in Aries)

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Spring Equinox
Astrological New Year
Esoterical New Year
Modal Cycle (the seasons)
Elemental Cycle