The New Moon on July 19 is at 26º Cancer and on fixed star Procyon in the crazy little doggy. We have a melancholic and slightly rabid Moon who “vants to be alone” since it is widely square Saturn and conjunct asteroid Hekate. This seed moment is a time to go into ones cave and make some very serious plans for the future. These important decisions can only be made by you and you alone.
Going into hermit mode for this moon will work best. One will need a quiet, still, meditative mind with no outside interference and manipulations. As you will see, a storm has been brewing for quite some time. Dogs are chasing their tails and foaming at the mouth in anticipation.
New Moon Horoscope
The temptation to bury ones head in the sand and go deep into a witches cave will be great because, well just look at the chart! Mars plugging into the Uranus square Pluto. This is a very dangerous time. A fiasco. The planet of war does get a trine from Jupiter and Ceres, which could be a way out of conflict. Jupiter/Ceres could bring justice. A super-fertile, rich benefactor, possibly a spiritual warrior steps in. For Jupiter and Ceres are both on the honorable fixed star Aldebaran. With Jupiter “Great ecclesiastical honor and high military preferment.” In the wider world, this could be a brave ecological organisation who will step in and prevent some catastrophe from happening.
In our own lives this would be an outside counsellor stepping in and mediating in a relationship that is going through a crisis. 
So many of us are directly feeling the effects of the Uranus square Pluto, it is relentlessly challenging our closest relationships as we are feeling the effects of the paradigm shift on our bodies. A lot of us are exhausted from the fighting and it’s effecting our health too, leaving us too tired to make any important decisions. All the more reason to retreat and not throw petrol onto the fire of this very challenging chart. Mars opposite Uranus alone will be making everyone feel very wired and on edge.
New Moon on the Star Procyon
Procyon is the dog that rises just before Sirius, it seems to bask in some of the greater dogs glory and benefit from its success. It is seen as lucky for that reason. I think Procyon is a bit of an opportunist myself. I like Robson’s definition “makes its natives petulant, saucy, giddy, weak-natured, timid, unfortunate, proud, easily angered, careless and violent.” Other commentators recognise its hot temper, but also its Martian/Mercurial nature to quickly put plans into action. It’s impudence and drive to succeed often causes them to injure themselves. However the Ebertins say “Procyon gives drive and a good sharp mind. Linked with positive stellar bodies, success is made greater, but the native, in order to avoid a fiasco, has always to take care not to be imprudent… With the Sun, a valiant demeanor is indicated.” [1] It’s good that the Moon is not tangled up with the horrendous T square then, it is there in the very same chart but needs to draw back and “take care not to be imprudent”
New Moon on Asteroid Hekate
If anyone can handle Moon square Saturn on a “giddy” dog Hekate can. This aspect is prone to depression, but we have to remember it IS on Procyon, so the star heats up this potentially cold and mournful aspect. Procyon can be very stop and start. So this moon is a bi-polar and passive aggressive pup. It needs to find a balance between barking its rabid head off and whimpering at the back of a dark cave. Quiet time with a witch doctor maybe just the medicine it needs. So onto Hekate, she is a lunar goddess, Queen of the night and moves between different dimensions, but she is especially associated with dreams, prophecy and visions. Hekate is a shadowy figure that dwells in caves, while rocks and crystals are also Saturn’s realm. I do see Saturn as very magical, once we transform its blockages. And like Saturn “When we deny and reject Hekate, her shadow nature may make itself known as madness, nightmares, stupor, depression, stagnation, blocked creative energy, or real/imagined persecution” [2]
July 2012 New Moon Meaning
The Sabian symbol for the New Moon is “A Violent Storm In A Residential Canyon Filled With Valuable Homes”. We can certainly see that the Mars/Uranus/Pluto T square is the violent storm and the New Moon itself the valuable home. We retreat into our Hekate caves when the emotional weather is just too frenzied. The message of this moon is pretty clear. Batten the hatches and wait for the furious tempers to subside. Protect yourself and those closest to you. Do not, under any circumstances try to whip this Moon up or try and fight it on your own. The benefits of this storm will not be felt for a while. Any destruction suffered may be a blessing in disguise and a chance to rebuild a better model from scratch over something that wasn’t working anyway. Those who have a hard aspect to this moon will especially need to lay low. Look to see which house it falls for where your personal “storm” may fall, what may need rebuilding. Hide in the cave of the opposite house.
New Moon Keywords
Quiet time, retreat, planning, protection, melancholia, practical magic, crystal power, mud-baths, dream diaries, meditation, divination, barking mad, stormy emotions, furious weather, opportunists, charlatans, flash-in-the-pans, flash Harrys, flash..a-ah saviour of the universe, tempestuous relationships, domestic violence, stirring things up, fall-outs, marriage guidance, seeking counsel, rebuilding from the roots, re-structuring.
1.Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, p.43.
2.Finding Our Way Through The Dark” Demetra George. Pg 97.
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This week he energy has been strong, and felt the pressure as a week long headache which I thought I got rid of yesterday but it’s back and it doesn’t seem linked to anything physical, so am blaming the new moon for the headache. Am hoping it finishes soon, it might also be the fact I have mars conjunct my natal Pluto. Also seem to have a high temp , but apart from that I am fine, no other symptoms, bizarre! Maybe tis change coming
It’s in my 12th house, which is Cancer but not aspecting any planets, and the 6th house is empty but a week before the exact degree of this new moon, I met someone who gave me the chance of ‘hibernating’ by house/petsitting while she was away on hols. and hibernate I did, plus I got an awful cold the day after I ‘moved in’ so had no choice really – talk about the universe’ making decisions for us, this one was definitely fated!
But the Jupiter – venus square to my sun is also making me feel seriously LAZZZZZZY!!
Wow, this was conjunct my natal Hekate at 5 degrees and my IC at one degree. No wonder I had been holding space for this month of July to be both a pivotal time as well as informative for my overall life’s work.
it is not at all difficult to see the archetypes at work if one knows one’s mythology The helmeted “Black Knight” is the archetype of Pluto and the notion of his ‘rising” refers to the fact of Pluto in his chariot arising fron the depths of the earth and seizing the innocent Persephone and bearing her away to his dark Kingdom… Now that Pluto is in Capricorn the Plutonian energies are manifesting in very Capricornian (i.e. in very literal) ways; noitce too, that Mercury is retrograding in Leo and so is stirring the explosive depths of Uranus-ruled Aquarius.
I myself noticed around 2000 the artchetypal enetgies manifesting themselves to me in the plots and dialogues of movies; it was positively eerie at times! This was, of course, the culmination of many years meditation on the Tree of Life.
Given the Neptunian energy of movies – they reflect life more than we realise!
I’ve also seen the transits in the chart of an actor acted out in the movie they appear in! Makes me wonder – maybe a chart for Heath Ledger to see where the transits are in his chart.
Sure I know he’s dead but the transits continue.
Oh gosh yes Dark Knight is totally Pluto. I do remember watching one of the Batman movies thinking that also. It might have been the Heath ledger one Its when he shoots down this tunnel really fast into his batcave, chamber thingy where he gets all kitted out.
http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Heath_Ledger
Crikey! He IS the dark Knight – crucified on the cardinal cross. Sorry not to use astro but forgot how to load their charts to this page.
Sun Aries, conj Aries asc,Moon 15 Cancer,
I remember watching the Dark Knight at a big drive in and thinking what a dark movie it was – it had none of the charm or fun of the other Batman movies – a long cry from Tim Burton’s design and totally removed from the original comics and TV show.
Can’t help but think a different kind of energy pervaded it and it persists. Or am I just being dramatic??
This New Moon marked an escalation of tension in a summer camp for children and teenagers I was working at in Asturius, Spain. The Sabian symbol is apt indeed, as we were a scattering of cabins nestled in a valley of verdant hills and coastal cliffs. Unrest among staff members was close to coming to a head with the July 24th yod looming (which was also my birthday), but the night of the new moon had many of the children crying, and overworked staff members on the verdge of tears too who had been toiling for more than a fortnight without any free time. I defied the authority of the dragon lady Plutonic boss that night and escaped for a much needed cry beside the Atlantic, despite her orders that we be with the kids 24-7. Pretty typical 12th house transit stuff–confinement, a sense of being imprisoned. But I knew if I didn’t find some solitude that night I would indeed go barking mad, in front of the children and my colleagues. It would be a few days later, after a series of absurd and frankly dangerous decisions made by the dragon lady that bordered on child abuse, that the staff stood up to her in an all out yelling match, and a few of us even walked out. Never in my life have I been confronted with such blatant greed and undisguised cruelty. We’ve all decided that we’re going to do everything in our power to make sure that this woman never runs a summer camp for children again. Talk about Uranus square Pluto!
And speaking of furious weather, one hell of a storm ripped through my Canadian hometown of Cranbrook that night, felling dozens of trees and destroying property. Cranbrook’s situated in a valley too.
SCR!
I work with cruel preople also. They are cold as steel. The iron-lady from this side of the world, she does not have compassion what-so-ever. Recently, she made a comment -trying to become advices from me; she does not really talks. She wants knowledge for free- saying that her plants and animals die.
I said to my self: no wonder! you are a cruel running horse down hill! But in order to keep my work position, just satated that with affection and lively caring, they should do alright, which I think she took as if I was speaking chinese. She does not understand what that is. She feels as a strategiest and stays there, with teeth and nails. Holding to power.
At least, SCR, your whole group stood in front of you iron lady. In my group, I won´t leave job because I would not find a new one overnite (and have two children). And many of the group, follow her lead; they are quite the same.
So, I live walking over egg shell all the time. My lesson: let´s see if I may be prudent at least once in life. In the past, I confronted people like this (root of my changing works and of not growing and compromising more with what I do… I fear them soooo much).
Asturie was my mother´s family root. Cabrales and Niembro (my second last name: Niembro).
Saludos,
R.
Oh! Our Chihuahua has been very angry lately!
R.
Holy Baby Jesus!
The morning before this new moon – I was summoned to a local shop (when I didn’t need anything but went along with the instinct the anyway) by forces that I didn’t understand, and was witness to events that finally allowed me to close the door on a relationship that has been wreaking havoc and distraction on my life for TWELVE years!
Granted, Saturn has been dancing around my Seventh house for a while but this (while not fun in the moment), I was grateful that the universe presented me with this blatantly obvious key to freedom.
I’ve been looking at various astrology posts to see what stars may have aligned to help make this happen and this one has come closest. It is amazing how much free space is available my psyche now that can be used for manifesting my future. Thank you crazy doggy moon and Saturn too!