Exact time of full moon: Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 12:21am Central
While it is sadly not true for all of us, if you are reading this, you have made it through the season of death. Scorpio, the second to last season, brings us into confrontation with our mortality. We begin to digest emotionally our experiences of the previous year. We feel it all. We have felt at all. And here we are in the season of Sagittarius having escaped death, and we are free. Here is where we must be careful.
That feeling of freedom can easily devolve into irresponsibility and selfishness. Since we made it through, our way must’ve been correct! That leads to self-righteousness. Having escaped death, we can have a sense of entitlement. You now know the shadows of Sagittarius season and why.
However, if we have successfully integrated our relationship with mortality, if we have truly felt the entirety of what we have needed to feel, if we have, through Scorpio, found the sacredness of life, we then enter Sagittarius with the jubilant wisdom, rich philosophy, and bright optimism, indicative of this sign. And this task is now ours; to remember the sacredness of life, integrate it into wisdom, and engage the great discipline choosing Joy in as many moments as possible…
So… show me where that is easy!
War, famine, genocide, disease, inequity… We have 100,000 reflections on the imperfection of existence. From one perspective, humanity is at a potential brink of extinction. It is very easy to look through the lens of what is wrong, especially when much of the “American Dream” is turning out to be quite an illusion for much of the globe. It is, therefore, our individual task to remove those imperfections from our own individual lives as much as humanly possible so as to assist others in removing theirs.
So, for this New Moon in Sagittarius, let’s do our best to look back on our year and synthesize what life experience we have had into a wisdom with which to begin anew. Let’s set an intention for acting instead of reacting and working towards the best of all possible outcomes instead of fighting the worst of all possible realities.
When it all comes down to it, there are really only two answers: courage and love. Everything we think and do comes down to those two words being our best of all possible courses of action. Dan Millman, author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, said that at the end of our life we are asked two questions; how could we have shown more courage and how could we have shown more love? Ask yourself those questions about this last year and see what you learn. Ask those questions every day moving forward, and all will be well.
– Courtesy of Evolutionary Astrology with Ryan Evans
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