Sessions -Black Moon Lilith in Leo

Art: ‘Our Lady of Flame’ by Lupe Vasconcelos.

LILITH IN LEO- ARCHETYPAL ASTROLOGY

Today, as Lilith makes her Conjunction to the Moon in Leo, I thought this might be a good time to begin to contemplate all that will arise as Lilith makes her new home here for the next several months.

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One of the first things we learn as Archetypal Astrologers is that Archetypes are multivalent.

Meaning that they express in a variety of ways. It’s easiest for us to group them in binaries. Such as them having Dark and Light emanations. But it’s always more complex than that. Each archetype creates a kind of map. A conglomeration of enmeshed patterns that lives in the collective.

For me, this is the most excellent fun. The excitement of mapping the web around an archetype matches the way my brain works. My Sun is in Scorpio, which means that existential detective work literally lights me up. Increases my life force.

Black Moon Lilith interpretation is a less developed area of Astrology. I’ve been drawn to her since reading the Book “The Witch of Cologne” by Tobsha Lerner, back in the early 2000’s. I was studying to be a midwife’s assistant with our local homebirthing collective at the time.

The main character in the book was a 1600th century midwife. As such, Lilith features prominently as the Mother of Demons and a Murderer of babies. She goes in depth about the fear the women had that Lilith would visit the birthing suite and take, either them, or their babies as they labored and have birth. This is an important function of the Lilith archetype. Her energy has the potential to “kill” the creation cycle.

They were so fearful of her that they hung amulets above the bed to keep her away. Some made offerings to Lilith. Gave her something other than a baby, hoping it would stave off her hunger for blood of innocence.

ASTROLOGY

In my studies and chart research, I find a clear correlation to Lilith and the “Death Mother”, or the “Anti-Mother”.

If the Moon represents the Mother, nourishment, safety, homeostasis, comfort, warmth, embrace, acceptance, the balanced emotional body, etc.

Then Lilith has the potential bring about the antithesis of this.

The Death Mother is a complex archetype, though important to understand. She is the one who injects psychological death into our experience through critical intent.

In Leo, this would manifest around our confidence, our ability to be seen, to be in the fullness of our light and shine it brightly, our ability engage unhindered in joy, fun, and play. Innocently and with the enthusiasm and wonder of a child. And it will most certainly stir up places where our inner child is still frozen and in pain. Lacking the ability to be fully self expressed in the face of others.

So likewise, to be free from the chains of the Death Mother’s gaze results in…..

Sovereignty. Freedom from taking on the projections of others. Freedom from shame. From the critical intent of causing psychological death.

In her light emanation she is the Rewilding of our true, empowered nature. The rewilding of our essence. Our childlike innocence.

She represents the place in which we’ve been cut off from our organic nature by the paradigm we live in. By our parents and the opinions of society. Cut off from owning our “darkness”, or the things others think are shameful and taboo.

Our Black Moon Lilith work is to move beyond Death Mother’s grasp, To reconnect to our essential self, the self that existed before we bathed in the the criticism intent on dimming our light.

She helps us “reconnect” to the places of severing. To cultivate a relationship to the mystery, to the dark, to the groundlessness from whence we came, and shall again return.

In doing this work for ourselves, we not only reclaim our birth right, but help to re-establish our place within the vast eco-system to which we are meant to contribute.

Where we find her in our chart can give us an entry point into integrating this ancestrally disowned piece of ourselves. To healing the places this psychological death was injected into our experience, cutting us off from our essence.

In a Black Moon Lilith Session we will look at where she is in your chart, and explore then how she shows up in your life, blocking you from your free expression. Black Moon Lilith often shows up in our lives as the “freeze response” as a result of feeling shame. Because of this, Damascena may request pre and post session inventories. After the session she will also offer practices around how to work with the freeze response. Follow up support and subsequent sessions may be applicable.

To inquire about sessions, read this page at the button, and fill out the contact form at the bottom. Specify which session type you are inquiring about. Include any questions you have, and any information you think I should know. I look forward to working with you, to help you liberate yourself from the grasp of the “Death Mother”