8-6-23
I read about you today Lilith, “She ruthlessly destroys all that is not our true individuality or appropriate life path. She will not lead us to our goal by revealing what it is but rather by eliminating everything that it is not. The black aspect of Lilith closes all the wrong doors that face us.” “The black Lilith in us will accept nothing less than our true individuality, not in the sense of separateness, but in the sense of who we intrinsically are. When we are secure in acknowledging and expressing our true self, we don’t falsify ourselves in order to be accepted by others.”[1]
August 6, 2023 Venus slipped below the horizon to enter an Underworld. Technically this is an arbitrary date, every retrograde cycle of Venus is different. Some cycles, in some areas of the globe, she is only invisible for a couple of days, but to keep appearances balanced, 10 degrees of separation from the Sun is used. That is this day, when she is retrograde at 25 Leo. The Mean Black Moon Lilith is there with her. When she was stationing retrograde it was the True Black Moon Lilith; the difference being true lilith gets the moon’s position at a very specific time while mean lilith is an average of various positions of the moon in a certain time frame.[2] The degree is averaged out so perhaps it is not quite as strong, however the energy is still there, still influencing Venus as she enters this liminal underworld space.
What are your messages to Venus/Inanna/me at this degree?
Resourcefulness in finding ways to cope with the surrounding reality or self-modification as the need arises.
Sense your spirit’s need to continually reach out to whatever will further its evolution, continually try to take in whatever might nourish you and bring balance into your being. Honor, encourage and support the creative ideal and realize everything is ultimately the same and leading toward union with the eternal.
You continually feel that something is lacking but never identify what it is. This keeps you trying different things in frustrating attempts to achieve satisfaction. At best, take in the essence of things in a concentrated potent and nourishing form. Find the joy even in the midst of difficult circumstances. Persevere; continue steadily even through the most bleak and unsupportive of circumstances. Patiently accept whatever occurs.
Ultimately we will become aware that our power lies beyond the physical plane and we have nothing to fear from the world of phenomena. Unifying with others and affirming our sameness becomes a way of overcoming the conflict of differences and hence clearing, freeing and rejuvenating our selves.[3]
[1] A Sumerian Myth: Queen Inanna’s Descent – How Two Sisters Reconcile the Light and Dark Forces Between Them – Aug 2, 2008 by Megge Hill Fitz-Randolph
[2] “Black Moon Lilith is the secondary focal point in the Moon’s elliptical orbit. Knowing just this, you’d expect the second focal point to move smoothly around the zodiac in the way that the Moon does. But, in fact, the Moon wobbles all over the place. Because of this, the second focal point does too. Some astrologers feel that, due to the wild oscillations of the second focal point, it makes more sense to take an average of those positions. This is known as the Mean (as in average, not temperament) Lilith, and it the most widely-used version of Black Moon Lilith. Other astrologers prefer to preserve the chaos and track the focal point as it is, in all its wobbly glory. This is known as True Lilith.” https://www.elsaelsa.com/astrology/mean-or-true-black-moon-lilith-which-is-correct/
[3] Leo – 25, The Circular Temple by John Sandbach