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While I stand by what is stated in this article, three years on we have learned a great deal more about the Black Moon<\/strong>\u2013her actions, her purpose, and the reasons she behaves the way she does. I will be updating this article shortly with new material about Black Moon Lillith<\/strong>. In the meantime, take the negativity with a grain of salt. We have moved on from there. Dawn<\/p>\n

This article appeared recently in The Widening Gyre<\/em>. Though I don\u2019t intend to make a habit of using content from The Gyre in this space, I received so many emails about this particular article that I\u2019m reprinting it here for the benefit of readers of The Inner Wheel<\/em>. If you are a regular visitor to The Inner Wheel and haven\u2019t subscribed to The Gyre yet, please do (see the bottom right of this page). The Gyre has exclusive content that isn\u2019t available on this site, along with discounts and other bonuses, and you don\u2019t want to miss out.<\/p>\n

What I Know About the Black Moon<\/h2>\n

It seems that recently I\u2019ve had a hundred inquiries on the topic of Black Moon Lilith<\/strong>. It\u2019s understandable. Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> has been making a long-term conjunction with Uranus, on and off, since December of last year. She only just pulled away from him in late June. For a good part of that time, the Uranus\/Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> conjunction was squared by Pluto. What does this mean, you might ask? The honest answer is, \u201cWe don\u2019t know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the big truths in astrology is that the incidents that arise via outer planet disruption take a long time to sink in and a long time to make sense of. We go through the storm first and take stock later. Basically, when outer planets attack (forgive me, it\u2019s shark week on the Discovery Channel again), the best we can do is try to stay alive so that we can ask questions later. Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> to Pluto, Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> to Uranus\u2014sure, we can throw the archetypes together and come up with some theories. But without really understanding the initial archetype thoroughly and completely, we will be, at best, guessing.<\/p>\n

And with something as slippery and reluctant to be defined as the Black Moon<\/strong>, guessing is the best we can do. Talk about taking stabs in the dark. I\u2019ve been studying the Black Moon<\/strong> closely for about five years now. She doesn\u2019t like it. The minute you try to define one of her patterns, she slithers away and hits you with another one. It started with a client of mine whose chart was so dominated by the Black Moon<\/strong> that he could hardly take a step without confronting her in some form in his life. She\u2019s prominent in my chart, too, close to Chiron and opposite my Moon\/Uranus conjunction in Leo, also opposite Venus, square Neptune and quincunx Pluto. Obviously, at some point in my life, she and I would have to have a confrontation.<\/p>\n

Defining Black Moon Lilith<\/h2>\n

Before we go any further, let\u2019s define her. I\u2019m not talking about the asteroid Lilith. I\u2019m talking about the Lilith that is represented by the apogee of the Moon\u2014the Moon\u2019s furthest point away from the Earth in its elliptical orbit.<\/sup> This orbit is not steady, but extremely wobbly, which is why you have a choice of the True (or Oscillating) Black Moon<\/strong> or the Mean Black Moon<\/strong>. Even this is mysterious (we will find that many things about the Black Moon<\/strong> are mysterious, uncertain, and hidden).<\/p>\n

Apparently, even the \u201cTrue\u201d Black Moon<\/strong> is only True when it\u2019s actually touching the ecliptic (the path of the Moon). The rest of the time it\u2019s just as wonky as the other measurement. I\u2019ve always favoured the Mean Black Moon<\/strong>\u2014I\u2019m comfortable with mean measurements in astrology because they seem to represent a concentrated essence of the measurement. I like to think that the mean measurement is the concentrated essence of the Black Moon<\/strong> and the Oscillating Lilith represents the parameters of that influence.<\/p>\n

Uncovering the True Nature of Black Moon Lillith<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve read a lot about Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> and her influence. Unfortunately, a lot of what I\u2019ve read has nothing to do with the experiences I\u2019ve been witness to via my clients. The worst is when someone tries to put a happy face on Black Moon Lillith<\/strong>, because I\u2019ve yet to discover a true positive side to her aside from the raw power which emerges from her intimate connection to occult abilities, and her propensity to distribute post-rage clarity. This is a serious lady, certainly no one to muck around with.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been said that we must give up, or sacrifice something where Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> resides. Unlike Neptune, with Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> there is no bargaining for what is appropriate to lose\u2013the only way we can tap into the great power of Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is to sacrifice our fears, terrors and hungers.<\/p>\n

Because I feel we\u2019re a long way from understanding The Black Moon Lilith<\/strong>, and because her behaviour is so inconsistent (some feel her a great deal, others not at all), I\u2019m instead going to lay out the things about Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> that I know for certain to be true.<\/p>\n

Sex, Rage, and the Tearing Away<\/h2>\n

The word \u2018raw\u2019 is, I suppose, the best way to start with Black Moon Lillith<\/a><\/strong>. When you think about her symbolism\u2014the point where the Moon is furthest away from the Earth\u2014it becomes clear right away that her story has to do with being a kind of \u2018anti-moon.\u2019 The Moon, at its essence, describes how we feel nurtured and supported, where we are comforted and familiar. Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is the very opposite of that, and represents the stark terror of abandonment.<\/p>\n

Do you remember ever getting lost as a very young child? You dropped Mum\u2019s or Dad\u2019s hand in the department store or on the street, and when you found yourself alone, surrounded by strangers in an unfamiliar place, you screamed a scream of both fear and rage. You began to cry, because, at that age, we instinctively know that being severed from the people who care for us is death\u2014not a metaphorical death, but a literal one. A child can\u2019t survive on its own. When Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is touched by transit or progression, this kind of terror, normally hidden down deep, can rear its head.<\/p>\n

The Rage of Unmet Needs<\/h2>\n

Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> has a great deal to do with the rage of not being heard, and of needs not being accepted nor understood. This is particularly true of the needs of any house it falls in. For example, if she\u2019s found in the 5th house, and her needs for creative self-expression are not accepted, she will rage with utter fury when provoked. In the 8th house, there is a deep need for intimacy of the most intense kind; her fury will be unleashed at anyone or anything that gets in the way of this intimacy. It may be merely her perception of truth, and not \u2018truth\u2019 at all in literal terms, but with Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> we are not talking about a logical process. We\u2019re talking about visceral instinct. The cry of the \u201cI.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rage of Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is a peculiar one. Everyone who has experienced it will recognize it immediately. It isn\u2019t the deep eruption of Pluto or the cold cutting of Uranus or the lightning intensity of Mars. The best way to describe it would be as a combination of all three. It\u2019s instantaneous, it\u2019s blinding, and it takes over the soul and the sensibility to the point where we lose our normal consciousness and we feel nothing but the black rage.<\/p>\n

Black Moon Lillith as a Source of Primal Power<\/h2>\n

Notice I say black, not red. I think a red rage has more to do with an affronted Mars. This rage of Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> has to do with the nothingness at the dark side of life. Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> has been associated with the goddess Kali.<\/sup> She is the black hole in our psyche where comfort used to be. Kali has also been associated with Ceres. But Ceres spends equal amounts of time sewing and reaping, living the cycles of time, whereas Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> seems to be all about the reaping.<\/p>\n

In fact, she\u2019s not reaping at all, she\u2019s burning those old stumps of grass and salting the Earth so that nothing will ever grow there again. Her anger is something primal, a wailing wound at the center of the material world. But, at the same time, there is something glorious about her. There is something majestic about all that pure force, that pure energy, bound by no rules.<\/p>\n

The Black Moon and The Source<\/h2>\n

Try to imagine all the forces of the material world, all the energetic essences, without the world itself to contain them. That\u2019s what the Black Moon<\/strong> represents. And that\u2019s one of the reasons that Black Moon Lillith<\/strong>, when she sacrifices destruction and gives up relating herself to the material world, is the true representative of occult abilities in the chart. She\u2019s witchy, all right. More than witchy.<\/p>\n

Far from being at the mercy of her hungers, once she realizes she doesn\u2019t have to be hungry she has the powers of all the hidden knowledge of the universe at her feet. She just knows. Her knowledge is instinctual, and doesn\u2019t necessarily fit any logical patterns of knowing. Her wisdom is an ancient one and allows her access to become mistress of those other-worldly forces. There is a clarity, too, that can arise once the rage of Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is confronted and her anger and hunger quelled. Once we understand the seat of that rage, we can clear any debris from our soul\u2019s path.<\/p>\n

It has always been known that one of the great and powerful sources of energy in the world is sexual energy.<\/sup> Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> has a great deal to do with the sexual dance because of the deeper connection between sex and the regenerative forces of the world. Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is concerned with healing sexual issues, but it is also about the uses and abuses of sexual energy to achieve things towards one\u2019s own ends. There is nothing inherently bad in the use of sexual energy\u2014we all use our sexuality on a daily basis, whether we realize it or not. It is the yin and yang, the ida and pingala of our energetic make-up. But there is a difference between expressing sexuality and the manipulative use of sexual power.<\/p>\n

Black Moon Lilith and the Blade<\/h2>\n

Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is intimately connected to both male and female sexuality, and feelings about sexual power. (It also has to do with early sexual development and sexual preferences. However, this research is ongoing, and I will put out more information at a later date.) If Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> hits a planet in the chart, we will be able to use that planet\u2019s wiles in the sexual game. Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> can sexualize whatever it touches. It is intimately connected to the archetype of \u2018the femme fatale,\u2019 and men with Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> prominent may be attracted to relationships which cause them to give up their power and surrender to the feminine.<\/sup> They may also be terrified of doing such a thing, and avoid women altogether. Or they may like being surrounded by very powerful women (or a combination of all these things).<\/p>\n

Sexual Power and Manipulation<\/h2>\n

If Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is prominent in a woman\u2019s chart, she may enjoy manipulating her partners and seeing how far she can gain in the game of seduction. Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is often prominent in the women who make a career out of breaking up other people\u2019s relationships, but can\u2019t seem to settle into one of her own. We all know these women, who believe a man isn\u2019t worth having unless he happens to belong to someone else. These women never feel the true and authentic power of Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> until they give up the false power for the greater.<\/p>\n

One of the darkest sides to Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> is her association with castration. Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> can be the castrating mother (her symbol is rather scythe-like), taking sexual power from her children, no matter which sex. With hard aspects, there may be a tendency to absorb the mother\u2019s unspoken rage and fear and take it for one\u2019s own. Her influence may cause an association between sexuality and this rage and powerlessness, or it may cause a disconnect between sexuality and intimacy. This is when sex becomes conquest instead of union; the ability to connect within our intimate encounters is stolen from us, and is difficult to reinstate. Or we may go through life feeling at the mercy of our sexual desires, powerless in our ability to choose, never understanding the emptiness that drives us.<\/p>\n

Black Moon Lilith and Passion<\/h2>\n

With Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> in hard aspect or prominent in the chart, there can often be an adjustment needed in one\u2019s attitude towards passion. Healthy desire is one thing, obsession is another, and with Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> strong we are prone to obsessions. Our obsessions can be about anything (see the houses involved) and can often be damaging to us without our knowing it.<\/p>\n

Obsession can lure us in until we dissolve within it, losing our separate sense of self along the way. This brings us back to Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> and its role as \u2018anti-Moon\u2019\u2014passion\/obsession is ultimately about the desire of the screaming, hungry child to return to the breast. The object of obsession is elusive. Our desire to own the object raises fear, terror and threat of loss, with fantasy offering the only temporary release. When we are obsessed, those obsessions become our substitutes for living, and they replace a healthy participation in life itself. We choose anti-life, and this is certainly the Black Moon\u2019s<\/strong> realm.<\/p>\n

For a while, I was taken to thinking of Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> as a polarity\u2014if the furthest, blackest point away from the Earth is Black Moon Lillith<\/strong>, wouldn\u2019t the closest point to the Earth, the perigee, indicate a place of material reward? A place where the natural matter forming principle as represented by the Moon could work unabated? Alas, as far as I know there is no research on this yet, and my own results are inconclusive.<\/p>\n

One of the difficulties is that, due to the wobbly orbit of the Moon, the perigee is not necessarily directly opposite the apogee.<\/sup> The closest point, astronomically, is not the opposition to Black Moon Lillith<\/strong>, but rests on some other point in the ecliptic that (to my knowledge) has not been charted for the purposes of astrology.<\/p>\n

I would assume that this alignment would work somewhat as the Nodes do, with negatives and positives to both ends and a kind of balance as the goal. There is some discussion of this on forums, using the Priapus archetype for the opposition, but I\u2019m not certain about dividing Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> into a male and a female half, giving one end the curse of excess and the other the rage of emptiness. It\u2019s certain that Black Moon Lillith<\/strong> has to do with sexuality, but dividing it into an easy polarity like this may be taking it too far beyond our evidence for the moment.<\/p>\n

Summary and Conclusion<\/h2>\n

The Black Moon Lilith<\/strong>, a slippery and elusive force in the chart, ultimately serves as a call to radical authenticity.<\/sup> Her placement pinpoints the space where the soul\u2019s primal needs\u2014the terrifying, abandoned, and raging parts of the self\u2014refuse to be denied or defined by external consciousness.<\/sup> By confronting the deep-seated fears and obsessions connected to Black Moon Lilith\u2019s<\/strong> domain, we move beyond the superficial expression of her darkness\u2014the destructive rage and manipulative sexual power\u2014and tap into her greater, unbounded power. The true essence of the Black Moon<\/strong> is not found in sacrifice, but in the sovereignty<\/strong> that emerges when we integrate this raw, instinctual energy, using its post-rage clarity to access an intuitive, ancient wisdom and claim our full, untamed self.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m encouraging everyone to explore the Black Moon<\/strong> in charts and gather and document results, particularly by transit and progression. She can\u2019t hide her dark mysteries from us forever\u2026<\/p>\n

Dawn Bodrogi Astrologer. The Inner Wheel<\/p>\n<\/p>\n