What is on the agenda for the visceral?
When BML is in the EARTH signs we tend to experience a resistance to the visceral. Additionally when BML is in the MUTABLE signs we are also viscerally moved by the paradox of human experience. Black Moon Lilith in VIRGO is about a visceral resistance regarding the paradox of human experience. Put simply: how do we connect our logical perspective and our impulses? How do we integrate our objectivity and logic with our subjectivity and affections? And how do we manifest that integration in a tangible way? What words and what practical actions result from connecting heart and mind?
The transit of BML in Virgo coincides with the transit of Neptune in Pisces, a call for us to become more human, to integrate our complexity. For such an integration to happen, we must first acknowledge our differences. We need to really comprehend the fact that it is precisely our differences that make us all human and unites us. The very fact that we are all unique and different is also our equalizer. We all endure the same human condition, which is that of being different. Neptune in Pisces awakens us to realize that we are all in the same big boat, in the same vast ocean of humanity.
In January of 2015, Black Moon in Virgo opposed Neptune. This opposition, by sign, continues until August 25, 2015. This is a period when we can experience the strongest visceral resistance, a primitive impulse to resist certain experiences and find it hard to tolerate certain people and viewpoints. Extreme viewpoints and conflicts are strongly highlighted and intensified. With Neptune in Pisces, motives can be religious or spiritual, but they can also be extremely ideological. In 1935, when Black Moon Lilith was conjunct Neptune in Virgo, the Nazi Swastika became Germany’s official flag and the Nuremberg Laws were pronounced. This institutionalized extreme prejudice, with rules prohibiting Jews from marrying Germans, as well as other racial and/or political extremisms were being enacted – a severe non-acceptance of the existence of the other as another.
Evolving beyond this dichotomy depends on an integration of what is happening inside each and all of us.
On the bright side, BML in Virgo is also about being able to resist the potential for collective anaesthesia and manipulation. It is about being aware and awake, about being more connected to our bodies, listening to the earth, to nature and to our own nature, as well as being able to connect our hearts and minds to the here and now experience. Remember, we are all the same, we are all just human beings and, as humans who are living in the here and now, what can we do to repair these extremes? How does the visceral aspect within us integrate into our day-to-day real life experience? How does it affect our habits, health and political or social attitudes?
Within these extremes of Virgo and Pisces, we may be very attracted or very repelled by the needs to purify and perfect our world. At the same time we are driven to perfecting our craft, our art, our talent fully driven by gut instincts. Within this is held the potential to create with great precision, focus and skill.
The themes that arise with BML in Virgo, are perfectionism, grasping the details of visceral effects, concerns of disgust versus lust, preoccupations with being dirty versus being squeaky clean, the acts of prejudice and racism versus the acceptance of Nature. Purification, cleansing, analysing, criticizing, health, natural-healing cures, the potential of plants and natural medicine, acupuncture, as well as integrating the wild and organic nature of our planet and ourselves, are all at play here.
To overcome the anxiety for this need for perfection and needing to get everything right, living in an imperfect world around us, is to remember to breathe, to simply breathe. It is a constant of the here and now, breathing in and breathing out, that connects us to all life and helps bring a more grounded connection to that which we must do or choose to manifest.
BLACK MOON LILITH IN VIRGO IN NATAL CHARTS
Those born with BML in Virgo are keen on details and have a strong need to be extremely accurate and precise. These natives may be troubled by the annoying little things, disgusted or obsessed by small details and imperfections, with a great repulsion to contamination, impregnation or dissolution. The key with these natives is for them to be remain in constant touch with nature, to allow themselves to be cleansed, purified and integrated by nature. This can turn the extreme sense of disgust and repulsion to the imperfect, into an acceptance of what is natural, to the extent that one can really physically feel part of the natural realms in amazing ways. Great pleasure comes with being in touch with nature where one’s own nature can be unraveled. To move beyond self-criticism and/or prejudice, an active acceptance of imperfections and supposed ‘impurities’ within others and oneself is needed. Deep inward feelings, the visceral connection, can be made through immersing ourselves in nature, through the healing power of plants, creating with our hands and handicrafts and connecting to our own healing abilities.
Some people born with Black Moon Lilith in VIRGO (Mean Node): Violeta Parra, Mercedes Sosa, Claude Levi-Strauss, Galileo Galilei, Sigmund Freud, Woody Allen, Michel Foucault, Pierce Brosnan, Fidel Castro, U.S.A, Dalai Lama, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Alicia Keys, Julieta Venegas.
BLACK MOON LILITH IN VIRGO AND OTHER RELATED TRANSITS
BML is always in charge of the visceral aspect of our collective process. Being in Virgo right now, opposing Neptune by sign, it is a preparation for the coming ingress of North Lunar Node into Virgo and South Lunar Node into Pisces (Sep 9, 2015), and for the ingress of Jupiter in Virgo (Aug 11, 2015).
So, in this context, remember BML’s call:
To create a new life on Earth, to bring dreams into fruition, we must integrate our human selves and our bodies, tune into the natural rhythms with nature and better own our natural selves. It’s important to hear our personal needs and those of the collective, acknowledging and respecting others, and being respected in return. To channel these visceral impulses to discriminate and purify, we perfect our own selves and craft, holding a greater potential for healing the rifts on our planet.
Black Moon Lilith urges us to live as realized individuals, not just as pieces of drugged flesh under constant manipulation, but as true entities of life and existence, conscious and present subjects in all creative action.
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By Vanessa Guazzelli Paim, Agent 55. First published on the Cosmic Intelligence Agency – April 2015.
