About a month or so ago, during my daily meditation, I curiously began to hear the words “head home.”
What? Huh? What does head home mean? Inserted between between thoughts and breaths, I heard them again and again and again.
Head home.
Okay Spirit, you’re going to have to give me more information. Are we talking literal home? Metaphorical home? The great spaceship in the sky home?
Head home.
There was no urgency to them, just a quiet repetition and strength. Maddeningly I couldn’t get anymore information.
At the time I was strongly considering going on a solo trip to the Caribbean for Thanksgiving. Were the words suggesting otherwise? On one hand, I hadn’t been home for Thanksgiving for nine years, not since moving to New York City. On the other hand, my mother’s recent cancer diagnosis and impending radiation treatment played trump to impulsive, escapist Caribbean plans.
Head home.
So head home for Thanksgiving I did.
I had forgotten all about this recent foray into clairaudience until yesterday’s meditation coinciding with the 12/12/12. I heard the all too familiar words again.
Head home.
Really, guys? Are we doing this again??
When I look at the chart for today’s New Moon in Sagittarius, it has head home written all over it. The Gemini/Sagittarius axis always has a sense of destination to it and Sagittarius, the sign that points to lands so far off into the distance we can’t even imagine, pushes us outward into the world like a great ship leaving port.
Something curious is happening here in the new moon chart between Gemini and Sagittarius. Their rulers are in something called mutual reception. That is to say that they occupy each other’s signs. The energy between the planets play back and forth in a loop. And they are in opposition! There’s a huge dynamic spotlight on this aspect in the new moon chart, especially since Jupiter disposits the Sun and Moon. They feed the energy to each other back and forth, Gemini the sign that gathers and Sagittarius the sign that releases it into the world. Words become concepts and ideas, only to be disassembled back to their root parts.
Another curious thing in a chart of many curious things is that Jupiter in Gemini is the focal point of a yod with Saturn in Scorpio sextiling Pluto in Capricorn. Yods are imperatives. The yod points to Jupiter in Gemini and says Do This. Scattered expansion? Breaking down of beliefs? Release of dogma? The search for many truths? Multidimensionality?
When I started hearing the words “head home” again, I checked in with another intuitive I know in search for clarity. The information he received was that heading home was a return to true self as all the old parts are cast off. Hmm. That sounds a lot like our friend Mr. Yod in the chart above. In fact, those who read my recent post on soul fragments and retrieval know that a LOT of shadow material is coming up with Saturn in Scorpio getting sextiley with Pluto in Capricorn. Could “head home” represent the journey that the soul takes as it releases shadow material and fragments? Could it be with this yod energy is inviting us to return to our greater self?
In addition to the yod, we have a mutable t-square with Chiron in Pisces at the apex of the Mercury/Jupiter opposition. There’s a poignancy to this new moon, a clarion call to resolve our spiritual woundings. Chiron in Pisces is a 14 year examination of all the times we feel unworthy of God’s love and forgiveness and a reminder that from Source we came — we never needed his forgiveness in the first place. In astrology there are two types of God: the man with the long white beard that we learned about from religion (Jupiter and Sagittarius) versus unity consciousness and a vast love that is both outside us and within us (Jupiter/Neptune and Pisces). With Chiron in Pisces at the apex of the t-square, there is a need to resolve the tension between the two. Neptune, only a few degrees away but a little wide for a Jupiter square, tips the debate in favor of unity consciousness.
There is also sense of destination with Venus in Scorpio conjunct the North Node of the Moon. The North Node is where we, both individually and collectively, are evolving towards. And what is Scorpio? Intimacy, things that make us uncomfortable, wealth, death-like situations, and shadow material. Venus is the feminine principle, so we’re doing a lot of work on the shadow feminine. I get the sense that one of the evolutionary stops on our Sagittarian journey towards wholeness is the rebalancing of our feminine energies. If Venus in Scorpio represents the cast off aspects of the feminine, we’re bringing them back in, rearranging, building, and disassembling with Jupiter/Mercury in both opposition and mutual reception. Saturn in Scorpio also in mutual reception to Pluto in Capricorn lends a weighty hand.
So ask yourself, as this new moon begins to wax, as we head towards the much hyped solstice in 8 days, what does “head home” mean to you? How are you integrating and releasing your shadow? How are rearranging the parts? How are you rebuilding a better you? Uranus is about to turn direct. The alarm clock says it’s time to wake up.