New Moon Journal

Angel Wings and the New Moon

So much I could write at this New Moon in Sagittarius yet it feels a bit much to share. My mother is slowly slipping away and this Christmas season I am flooded by our Holiday past. Mom loved being with family, holiday decorating and entertaining. She crafted like Martha Stewart, opened up our home, invited the town to tour, wine, dine and dance.

Anne Lamont in her book Grace Eventually writes-"old mothers never die, and they never fade away. They are too complicated for either."

I created a collage today, the girl reminds me of a 60's Breck Shampoo Ad- all that I wasn't in my mother's eyes; my New Moon SoulCollage® feels very important. So here is my evolving SoulCollage and the journaling that unfolded...

We teach each other
how to fly by our shared journeys,
by our truth-telling.

Healing stories born
out of the dark places
from anger, fear and sadness
In the fallings and failings
I find courage
To take a risk,
to wake up,
to trust
and once again

Open up to loving arms...
that were always with me.
But I forgot
how to connect...
Magically my angel wings unfurl
and flutter
Our Brilliance is revealed.

And when the Boat shows up
it finds we already
flew Home.

Sagittarius New Moon SoulCollage®

After a month of letting go in the Scorpio energies you are ready to expand into something new.

Sagittarius is about telling the truth, your truth. “I know what I know.” As a Teacher of Sag, one is called to share what they know from that place of truth. In Sagittarius you find your Genius and then mentor from that wisdom place.

Explore, share and teach your wonder.

Each of us brings a gift to share with their Tribe. This time of year you STEP BOLDLY into it...even if you are scared...even if you don't know what the next step is...the Call is to DO something. How are you responding?

Do you know your gift, do you know what Tribe you serve? If not why not?

Saturn and Jupiter work as a planetary pair. Jupiter asks you to expand while Saturn holds your feet to the ground. Saturn is 1st chakra= grounded, Jupiter is 2nd chakra= feelings. If you are not manifesting your hopes, wishes and dreams look first to Saturn and Jupiter within.

Saturn is now in Libra for the first time in 29 years...demanding balance in all our relationships. So as we enter the Holiday season issues of trust and truth telling go to a whole new level. What was hidden is now revealed. People are dancing all over the place with these energies.

How are you dancing? Can you hold your center point in the chaos?

Jupiter expands while Saturn contracts.

Saturn is ruled by Capricorn. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter. Jupiter is the in-breath, Saturn the out-breath. You can’t have one without the other or you just die. Fiery Jupiter asks you to GO BOLD and take a risk. Jupiter represents truth and wisdom. Your truth, your wisdom.

Each month readers at the New Moon Journal create collages representing the energy (archetypes) of astrology and by years end you'll have twelve SoulCollage® cards to work with, journey to for inner guidance.

What bold action step can you take this month that will set the path for 2010?

With Jupiter’s energy we are collectively called to expand, venture out beyond our comfort zone. To travel beyond our borders, to learn something new. To connect with, embody the God of your understanding through your own inner knowing [versus what we are told about God]. To know embody Spirit of Knowing without a doubt.

Create your New Moon SoulCollage® Card for Sagittarius:

It's time to stir the flame [Sagittarius Fire] by making a SoulCollage® Card representing the archetype of Expansion. 2nd Chakra. Jupiter in Sagittarius represents:

• I am the One who seeks the Truth- knowledge from religion, prayer and higher guidance, frankness and honesty, direct communication.
• I am the One who connects with the Nature of all things- including connections to nature, intuition, peace of mind.
• I am the One who explores new territory- all forms of spontaneity, adventure, positive expectations, exploration, foreign travel.
• I am the One who is an Optimist. I believe in the inherent good nature of faith, friendliness, good luck, generous spirit and gallantry.
• I am the One who seeks Knowledge. Representing higher education including mentors, colleges and universities, philosophy, seeking answers and finding solutions.

Shadow of Sagittarius:

• I am the One who is impulsive. Shadow issues related to carelessness- shortcuts, self-righteousness, making assumptions, excuses, extravagance, blunt communication, Pollyanna approaches.
• In the body Sagittarius relates to issues in the body of restoring health of hips, liver, sciatica, thighs and upper legs.
• I am the One who overindulges. Observe and take action to overcome excessive behaviors- eating, drinking, smoking, spending, etc. What's driving you to distraction?

Being Stalked at this New Moon is a post I wrote back in 2007 about how the Sagittarius energies work in my life. Interesting in reading it again and seeing how I am at a similar place, yet with a much broader understanding.

And how my Sagittarius SoulCollage® cards for the past three years create a common thread to what is being revealed this month. I'll write more about this at the New Moon.

What's your Sagittarius story? Create a SoulCollage® card and explore your mystery in bits of paper and glue this Holiday season. Let me know how it goes...

Saturn and Uranus Opposition

This is a time of grand expansion, a opportunity to reconnect with the fragmented self and perform your own soul retrieval. Call back your power. Saturn entered Virgo in September 2007 and dances in opposition to Uranus in Pisces over the next year. This could be fun! (hey my Sun in Pisces is getting direct hits from this energy...)

We have one more New Moon in Virgo September 18th, 2009, next year at this time Saturn leaves and doesn’t return again until 2038.

Connect the dots and embody the Practical Mystic within, especially during the 2009-2010 New/Full Moons in Virgo, Sagittarius, Gemini and Pisces. Take the teachings deeper as Saturn finishes up the journey through Virgo...expect aha’s and shape-shifting.

Being stalked at this new moon

At this new moon in Sagittarius on December 9th, 2007 a stellium of planets [Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto]¹ are stalking my first and second houses [this is me and this is what I am worth, self-worth]. Can I share it is not a good time to aggravate me, yet that is apparently what the Universe has in store. Oh my.

In the news there are stories of people losing their tempers in a flash and saying something they regret. Imus on steroids. One shamanic friend set some much needed boundaries in her community, she blew her fuse and at the exact same moment the power went out in her neighborhood. Good news- there was a healing. Like her I am finding it increasing difficult to hold back and not mince my words. Here is my New Moon SoulCollage® for Sagittarius:

Jupiter’s Shadow
I am the One who Consumes
Buy this and that
fill up with this and that.
Spend too much,
Eat too much.
All because I feel
Not enough.

What do I want?
What do I need?

No more she shouts
quietly to herself,
I’ll sit here
Let myself be.
Discoveries...
I will not run myself
ragged this holiday.

Superwoman
is just a costume
I use to wear.
It doesn’t fit me
any longer.
For today, silence and faith
in myself and my God
that is my
this and that.

Saturn in Sagittarius

Looking for your truth in all the wrong places

Saturn moved through Sagittarius from January 1956 through January 1959 and November 1985 through February 1988

Pluto has been in the sign Sagittarius since 1995 and leaves to move into the sign Capricorn next month. Pluto transforms us from within, the Cosmic garbage collector, rules death and rebirth. As an agent of transformation he doesn’t just go away. Pluto is our collective get out of Hell ticket so we can share our story through transformation. Pluto is the change agent for our rigid black and white thinking; our shadow issues, those things we want to hide. Pluto is the task master over the crap of our shame represented by the seven deadly sins- pride, wrath, greed, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth. The offenses against Love.

“Pluto burns away the conditioned voice of family and society that limits our vision of what is possible for us and for the world.” (Casey, p. 99)

Read the rest of this post via the New Moon Journal pdf

New Moon in Sagittarius Teleclass

SoulCollage®, the holidays, and the new moon in Sagittarius; on December 3rd I am offering a free teleclass and you’re invited to join in.

Together we’ll explore the astrology of the moment, and the mystery of you found in bits of paper and glue through the SoulCollage® process. During the session I’ll share about what’s unfolding energetically in the next 30 days and how you can use SoulCollage to support your journey through the holidays and into the new year.

Here’s to manifesting your hopes, wishes and dreams. I call this teleclass Holiday Hoopla!

Holiday Hoopla SoulCollage® Meet-up
Monday, December 3, 2007 at 7:00 PM (approximately 45 minutes long)
Cost: no charge
Where: Take this meeting in the convenience of you own home.
Conference Phone # and details posted at Meet-up; see the full listing here http://collage.meetup.com/93/calendar/6688127/
Please RSVP so I can send you email instructions prior to event; you can RSVP ’No’ or ’Yes’ on Meet-up.

Know that it is not necessary for you to have a working knowledge of astrology or SoulCollage. All you need to bring to the session is your openness to the information presented- your heart’s desire creates the container for the experience to unfold magically in a deeply sacred way.

Rev. Michele Lessirard, C.Ht. is a shamanic practitioner, astrologer and SoulCollage® Facilitator providing healing, counseling and instruction since 1993. You can get in touch with Michele through the ’Contact Organizer’ feature on the Meetup.com website: http://collage.meetup.com/93/suggestion/

Providence rules at this New Moon in Sag

I am browsing in the bookstore when I notice a very scruffy man sharing space in the same row of books. The voice in my head is saying ‘don’t talk to strangers’. Even so I cautiously find myself engaging in a conversation with him as he blurts out whatever he seems to be thinking about our surroundings, and during our brief interchange I find myself saying to him- “oh that is so lucky.”

He replies with authority “No that’s not luck, it’s Providence!” A chill moves through me as an ultimate truth is spoken. Providence. Luck is when I have no connection to Spirit. Providence means my angels have intervened- it is a divine intervention, a partnership acknowledged. Jupiter is said to rule issues of fate, good fortune, luck and providence. With Jupiter’s energy we want to expand into something, push out beyond our comfort zones.

There is a New Moon in Sagittarius on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 9:01 am est. Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, is all about risk taking. At this lunation you may be called to stretch, risk or die.

The Jupiter Collages- a reminder

Miracles– The Aramaic word for miracles, nes, also means to “run away.” When we “run away” from the Desire to Receive for the Self Alone- the selfish longings of our ego– miracles happen. In other words, we must affect the miracle within nature in order to ignite miracles around us. Your ability to transform from a place of reactivity to one of sharing will determine the amount of miracles that you’ll witness in this month of Sagittarius.-from the book Kabbalistic Astrology

This is the season of Light. This is the season of miracles. Are you busy cutting and pasting? I am excited to share the Jupiter Collages I have received from readers are posted here.

Many of you are still cooking with this energy, many have shared it is so much fun. I expect more collages in the next 48 hours. April Kent wrote about the SoulCollage® process on her Big Sky Astrology blog about the Full Moon. And if you missed it…this is what I am talking about…

My challenge to the New Moon Journal readers– make a collage representing this Jupiter energy and what it means for you. Make a SoulCollage® card, or make a collage to honor this time in your life. Don’t make the process too complicated…all you need are some magazines, a glue stick, scissors and paper. Cut out and glue images that call to you- images that represent what Jupiter’s energy stands for at this time in your life. Trust the process, your Greater Self will emerge, your little story shape shifts.

Send along your birth information and I am going to pick three collages (out of a hat) and showcase the images and the astrology of it all at the next new moon in Sag on December 20th. Send your collage via email to [michele at newmoonjournal dot com] along with your birth information:

Given name at birth:
Day of birth: mm/dd/yyyy
Time of birth- hh:mm and indicate am____ or pm____
Place of birth:

We are all Light reflecting…expect a miracle.

Challenge for Jupiter in Sagittarius-get a mini reading

Last week Jupiter entered Sagittarius on November 23, 2006. Jupiter is the archetype of the Teacher within all of us that knows how to take our blessed wound and make magic from it.

Now I have a challenge for you! I want you to make a collage representing this Jupiter energy and what it means for you. Make a SoulCollage® card, or make a collage to honor this time in your life. Don’t make the process too complicated…all you need are some magazines, a glue stick, scissors and paper. Cut out and glue images that call to you- images that represent what Jupiter’s energy stands for at this time in your life. Trust the process, your Greater Self will emerge, your little story shape shifts.

I recommend that you make your collage no larger than 8.5 x 11 so you can scan it and email it too me. I invite you to journal about your collage.

When you send me your collage (j-peg please) share a bit about what happened. Include your birth information. I’ll pick three [3] collages. If your collage is selected I’ll look at your chart [no names used] and write about the astrology of it all at the New Moon December 20th.

It’s like getting a mini-reading about what Jupiter holds in store for you during the next year. You can email your collage to michele at newmoonjournal.com by Friday, December 7th. When you send me your collage please know I may be sharing the image online. Here are some links to read more about the SoulCollage® Card process.

• Kaleidosoul and Anne’s Blog
• SoulCollage®
• SoulCollage® the book

“Stir into the Flame the gift of God which is within you.”- St Paul’s letter to Timothy

Let’s stir the Flame this year by making a SoulCollage® Card representing the archetype of Expansion. 2nd chakra. Jupiter in Sagittarius represents:

• Quest for Truth including religion, prayer and higher guidance, frankness and honesty, direct communication.
• The Natural world, including connections to nature, intuition, peace of mind.
• Freedom including spontaneity, adventure, positive expectations, exploration, foreign travel.
• Legal Issues- attorneys, lawsuits, ethics, morality, conscience and court proceedings.
• Optimism including faith, friendliness, good luck, generous spirit and gallantry.
• Higher education including mentors, colleges and universities, philosophy, seeking answers and finding solutions.
• Carelessness- shortcuts, self-righteousness, making assumptions, excuses extravagance, blunt communication, Pollyanna approaches.
• Restoring health of hips, liver, sciatica, thighs and upper legs
• Overcoming Excess

Fiery Jupiter asks you to take a risk. Jupiter represents truth and wisdom. With Jupiter’s energy we are collectively called to expand, venture out beyond our comfort zone. To travel beyond our borders, to learn something new. To connect with, embody the God of our understanding through our own inner knowing [versus what we are told about God]. Jupiter just entered the sign Sagittarius last week. His home town. Jupiter rules Sagittarius. It takes Jupiter 12 years to complete a cycle in one's birth chart. Last week I had a profound dream about Jupiter’s cycle in my life. Those times I took the risk and expanded have lead me down some wonderful roads. I thought I’d share the dates the last time Jupiter was in Sagittarius:

• February 1971-1972
• January 1983-1984
• January 1995-1996
• Now-December 2006-2007

What was happening for you in those years? You may have aha’s and/or you may be screaming ‘aaarrggh’. You may find yourself revisiting issues, people or places and taking the experience [wisdom] to a new level of understanding.

Jupiter traveled through Scorpio last year, meaning that in order to expand into something we had to be willing to let go of the old ways. Clean house. A year of stopping and starting- digging into heavy emotions, deep water. Jupiter's energy in Sagittarius works to help us expand into new territory- personally and professionally. Where is Jupiter in your chart? What doorway does Sagittarius sit…that’s where the action is? Keep in mind you don’t have to know astrology to honor Jupiter’s energy in your life. Trust the process -you just had a year of Jupiter in Scorpio. **smile**

Thanks so much for stopping by. Any questions???, use the comment area below. Scissors ready, let’s create!
Warmly,

We would have a great relationship if it weren't for you!

“I don’t recall.”

“I told him last spring.”

"We’d have a great relationship if it weren’t for you!" This from a book I read back in the 90’s on marriage and partnership. Aries is about self and Libra is how we relate to others, how we partner. Aries can be boorish and selfish when only vested in the ‘me’ energy. It’s the Full Moon at 14 degrees of Aries on Friday, October 6th, 2006 at 11:13 pm. And the boors are out and about. Full moon energy relates to your soul energy, the Greater Story you share with others that is healing and life affirming. You planted some intentions last spring and they are now manifesting- the good, the bad, the ugly.