I find it quite interesting how the darker feminine is enjoying a *popular* resurgence in recent times. Black Moon Lilith is flavour of the month for sure. She’s always had her adherents and there’s always been that fascination with her, as she is a part of all of our psyche. However, in more recent times there has been an upsurge in indivuals openly embracing and espousing these figures. It makes sense when you understand human behaviour through the lens of Buddhist philosophy. Things come and go. What is popular one day is not popular the other. What is not popular one day is popular the other. Ebbs and flows, increases and decreases, swings and roundabouts are the order of this existence.
What drew my attention to Black Moon Lilith over the last few days was my puzzled observation of quite a lot of arguing in the more ill-informed witchcraft circles about the appropriateness of some peoples’ working with Lilith as a magical figure, as she is mentioned in the Talmud and Judaism is closed to those not of the faith. However, Lilith is not exclusive to Judaism, and is mentioned in other traditions in that part of the world. I wondered why there was such a fuss about her in particular all of a sudden and then I noted that transiting Black Moon Lilith was in a conjunction to Mars in Aries, and square to Pluto. Right, she’s asking for our attention.
There are a lot of Liliths in astrology, but I and most astrologers work with Black Moon Lilith. To avoid confusion, I will focus on this particular one.
Lilith in legend was the cast-off first wife of Adam. She would not submit to him, the story goes- so she was sent into the wilderness and lives there yet, breeding horrible demons and consuming babies out of her vicious hatred for them. Black Moon Lilith in astrology represents the furthest point of the Moon’s orbit from the earth. It is a dark and hidden place, a void in space that nevertheless makes contact with our subconscious- the Moon.
This hypothetical point represents our darkest and our most suppressed desires that have the potential to bedevil and haunt. These are the desires that stir from the bottom of the soul and from earliest time in memory, percolating through our emotional landscape and colouring our inner world with that flavour of the wild and venomous that all of us possess. She is what we are afraid of, and it is because of that fear we are able to triumph over ourselves and over the obstacles and adversity too much of civilisation can place in our way.
So what does Black Moon Lilith mean for you in your chart? She points to the location of your shadow self, and also your hidden power. What have you cast out within yourself that you would do well to embrace?
It is not about casting out demons or changing who we are. We change, anyway, through the inevitable changes that come *our* way. It is about the acceptance of our darkness and finding awareness and unity even in the pits of hell, so that we are reconciled with our own humanity and can embrace the life that is truly meant for us.
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