Dark Moon Dreaming
This month's dreamy dark moon bolthole designed by Matthias Arndt
Dig in darklings for this is likely to be the deepest dark moon of the year. It is the deep breath in and the pause prior to the revolution. It is built on solitude and surrender and gently sifting through the detritus of the last eight years on a quest for uncommon wisdom.
Every dark moon arrives to make sense of the month prior, asking us to down tools and pull back. It offers a few days of deeply restorative rest, unhurried contemplation and uninterrupted integration. Rare prizes that must be dedicated to your greatest cause and deliberately carved out from a maddening world built on constant hustle and perpetual motion.
This dark moon is all that on steroids. It is the drawback of the arrow before we are shot into entirely new states and both bring their hefty stationing points to this balsam.
Mercury is retrograde from Monday, a nebulous business that will be confounding, confusing and decidedly odd. His pause at the station can muddle our thinking, foster misunderstanding and plunge us into deep water. He has been playing havoc with comms and tech for weeks already, his nebulous heads up for the mad season of his rx.
Urania shifts signs on Tuesday, one of the epic signatures of a year crammed with them. His stationing point asks us to consider the last eight years as a whole through the lens of change. Urania in Aries delivered a digital revolution and through it we shifted the expression of our individuality. We grew and shrunk online, documenting our triumphs and tragedies like never before. In so doing we floundered or were forged.
This weekend is built on resolution. Best spent drilling down into your own rolling evolution, knitting together the chapters of your life. Soften your gaze and be gentle with your excavation. Mistakes are learning curves and failure is just redirection. Take a long view this dark night, the very best preparation for a wild week on the near horizon.
Dig in, darklings.
Words c. Kerrie Basha, 2019