I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and
the sweetness of my moon.
Don’t talk about sorrow,
tell me of that treasure,
hidden if it is to
you,
then just remain silent.
Last night
I lost my grip on reality
and welcomed
insanity.
Love
saw me and said,
I showed up.
Wipe your tears
and
be silent.
I said, O Love
I am frightened,
but it’s not you.
Love said to
me,
there is nothing that is not me.
be silent.
I will whisper secrets in your ear
just nod yes
and be silent.
A soul moon
appeared in the path of my heart.
How precious is this
journey.
I said, O Love
what kind of moon is this?
Love said to me,
this is
not for you to question.
be silent.
I said, O Love
what kind of face is this,
angelic, or human?
Love
said to me,
this is beyond anything that you know.
Be silent.
I said, please reveal this to me
I am dying in anticipation.
Love said
to me,
that is where I want you:
Always on the edge,
be silent.
You
dwell in this hall of
images and illusions,
leave this house now
and be
silent.
I said, O Love,
tell me this:
Does the Lord know you are
treating me
this way?
Love said to me,
yes He does,
just be totally…
totally…
silent
Astrological Commentary:
The New Moon in Gemini instills us with a deep desire to talk about our experiences – to make themselves known, and to process them through the conscious mind.
The first stanza of this poem, ”I worship the moon. Tell me of the soft glow of a candle light and the sweetness of my moon,” reflects the sweet hopefulness of the combination of Jupiter and Neptune - the longing (Neptune) for a divine experience combined with Jupiter’s positive expression of hope and faith.
“Don’t talk about sorrow, tell me of that treasure, hidden if it is to you, then just remain silent,” we begin to see the emergence of Chiron which experiences the sorrow of longing, but then combines with Neptune to probe beneath the obvious to find that which is hidden, and to experience it in Neptune’s deep contemplation.
“Last night I lost my grip on reality and welcomed insanity. Love saw me and said, I showed up. Wipe your tears and be silent.” Chiron impels us to release the hold on what we think is structured reality to allow the true experience of our inner soul to make itself known. Jupiter grants the faith to realize that in the midst of our psychic pain, the peace of Neptune lies within.
“I said, O Love I am frightened, but it’s not you. Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. be silent.” Again, we feel the fear under Chiron’s tutelage, but Jupiter give us faith and Neptune the experience of deep silence and communion with pure Love.
“I said, please reveal this to me I am dying in anticipation. Love said to me, that is where I want you: Always on the edge, be silent. You dwell in this hall of images and illusions, leave this house now and be silent.” We are so impatient for perfect peace and for the end of all suffering (Neptune). Yet perfect peace comes from the surrender of desire, even at the edge of realization. We must release every drop of attachment to the process and desire to flee from our human consciousness (Chiron),
In the silence of the NOW, the total silence where Love can fill the gaps of experience, that is where the peace of knowing lies.
posted May 24, 2009 at 10:48 am
I just woke up, feeling I was late for something…this put me right where I needed to be. This is very moving, very profound for me, when I am searching for something to mean something to me.
posted May 24, 2009 at 11:12 am
Powerful & Beautiful!
posted May 24, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Yes indeed there is on the horizon a new world slowly, slowly ever so slowly emerging before us. Think for just a moment.. How quiet is the news.. no murders, no thefts no accidents reported. The world stands in awe as a peaceful silent world emerges, slowly, quietly ever so carefully..for all to see and feel. Drink in this peace and be silent..enjoy.
posted May 25, 2009 at 3:37 am
Yes, my dear moon, silently, I saw myself in the mirror and appeared to be having fun today, but a bad feeling is gnawing at me from the inside silently.
Am worried about something that’s been on my mind and yet how come I am so silently cool that no one even notices that am hurting.
Although in silence I may feel pretty clever about fooling others so easily, silently am also disappointed in them because they cannot see past my charade.
Trying hard to forget about blaming anyone else but I feel hard to just try to get beyond my resistance to be in silence, so that I can be more vulnerable with those I trust.
Oh, moon please help me to escape my silence silently!
posted May 25, 2009 at 9:28 am
Seems whenever I open this fine site, which is not often, the front article jumps out at me. And that article also strikes a strong chord with an acquaintance with whom I discuss astrology, he being the more adept with this art/science. I guess we have the right connection for sharing this interest.
He said Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune currently together in Aquarius was a “killer conjunction”…his words as he experiences it. Asked to explain, he said that it squares his natal Uranus while it makes an inconjunct to his natal Neptune. He was sleeping at the wheel when transit Venus in Aries came along and brushed his South Node / IC conjunction at the same time that transit Mars, also in Aries, made an inconjunct to natal Neptune in the 9th house and sextiled his Uranus in the 5th. And his progressed Mercury was squaring his natal Sun.
It was only because he had magnificently recovered from a “broken heart” a decade back that he could somehow manage this triple whammy coming to visit him now…from the past, so to speak. In recent days something was ‘gnawing’ at him (as in Shirin’s comment above…except that the silence was from his new ‘love’ interest).
And then a remarkable thing happened.
Something he surmised was possible…that the 20-ft chimney for his woodstove he was cleaning a while back could one day easily be the route for the downward flight of a bird into the stove. (Strange he’d never heard anywhere of that happening, though he knew birds to make nests in stacks.) It was on May 23rd, and he had been sleeping into the day, and awoke to hear something thrashing about. At first he thought it a mouse caught by the foot in one his traps. Turned out the noise was in the currently unused woodstove. Aha! It finally happened. Shining his flashlight through smudged glass on the door, he saw it…a pitch-black European starling timidly snuggled in an equally black corner. Well, to make this short…he did figure a way to get it out and release it without handling or allowing it to escape into the house. He said his Chiron helps him in these sorts of situations.
At first it didn’t help him figure out what this unusual event was about. He knew the starling was connected with what had been bothering him, yet couldn’t quite put it together. Then he finally discovered the link…that in scientific experiments, starlings (Sturnus Vulgaris) have been found to recognize “recursive grammar” (explanatory, or parenthetical clauses), an ability that noted linguist Noam Chomsky once said belonged only to homo sapiens.
I wonder if anyone could take a stab at this synchronistic incident…i.e., meaningfully explain the connection with my acquaintance’s concern during the Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune conjunction.
[ Btw, songbirds brains increase in size during the mating season, when their songs are produced...and I recall, though didn't read, the Astrological Musings article on meditation and brain-size changes. ]
Thanks, Lynn, for your ‘awesome’ article !!!
posted May 25, 2009 at 11:58 am
Shirin and Penney, thank you so much for your beautiful comments. Shirin describes perfectly the Chironic aspect of this drama which reveals the secret wounds within. I myself am experiencing that this weekend, a tender soreness in the heart that I know bears no relationship to the world around me but must be processed in the silent wisdom of the heart.
Yoshinogawa, thank you for coming back to this site! However, I am at a loss to add any meaning to your friend’s experience. Evidently something in the discovery of the starling touched a place within his heart that may have been feeling similarly lost and afraid. But only he can say for sure.
posted May 25, 2009 at 4:27 pm
this poem was profoundly exquisit. i was amazed, and at peace w/ it. loved it.
posted May 25, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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posted May 25, 2009 at 11:02 pm
the poem made alot of since to me ifelt it deep inside. IT’S really wonderfu that someone can finaly reach inside of me and bring out a feeling of peace thank you for such a beautiful poem
posted May 27, 2009 at 8:34 am
Yes, Lynn, only my ‘friend’ could say for sure. So he went over his experience with me.
To simplify a little…it seems that when his Neptune, Uranus, South Node, IC (and other positions, such as Mercury-Chiron in the 7th house) were contacted by the current Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune conjunction and the transits of Venus and Mars…as configured in my comment of the 25th…the resulting surge of energy triggered by the passing of the impending new moon over his Uranus released a flood of longing (and heart pain) transposed from a love long past (but not completely forgotten) to his recent love interest (who’s interest in him is highly platonic).
The starling was a ghost from his past, hinting to my friend ‘parenthetically’ that Neptune painfully ‘swells’ the mind & heart with Love’s songs of romantic sentiment and illusion…currently, with Chironic wound traces exaggerated by Jupiter…all 3 bodies of this conjunction being in airy, platonically inclined Aquarius.
When my friend ‘released’ the starling, symbolic of a negative Neptune invasion, it flew straight off in the auspicious south-west direction…and after the new moon arrived he, chastened by the experience, returned to his usual peaceful self to reflect on (for him) a completely new Mercury Rx event.
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posted August 15, 2010 at 1:41 am
You would have to loose your way in order to understand the Spirit
In 1993 I lost family and children and lived alone for years not even speaking to humans for three years. The moments in wonder revealed the True intentions of the heart. I just love Rumi poetry, earlier in my life I wrote poetry that reveals the intentions of the heart.
In the beginning I was called Adam
Which mean earth
(I) was alone……….
And like a dream “YOU came out of me”
In my loneliness, In my bewilderness
Through this broken heart…… YOU came
The hurricanes, and the Meltdown and Stockmarket were predicted as well as hundreds of other events that spell out the true intentions of the heart.