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Out of the Shadows
When starlight aligns in just the right way, our shadows come to life,
plunging us naked into the depths of the underworld. The descent strips
us of our illusions until finally we are born anew, rising from the
underworld like the phoenix, shooting straight for the light of day,
holding the promise of a new beginning.
Such is the way of the Black Moon. She has been the missing
piece in astrology, hidden among the shadows, but now it is time for her
to come to light. It is time to bring the Black Moon out of the darkness
of the underworld and into the light of day where she can complete the
pantheon of astrological bodies in our solar system.
But we have a problem before we even get started.
Understanding the Black Moon is difficult because it is not a physical
planet. It was a planet in the distant past. The ancient texts refer to the
planet as Tiamat (sometimes as Krypton) and locate it between Mars and
Jupiter. Tiamat is the “lost planet” in the solar system. The ravaged
husks of the planet – its shattered remains – are now recognized as the
Asteroid Belt.
There are several theories about the cause of Tiamat‟s
destruction. Ideas range from a natural cosmic catastrophe to an ancient
interplanetary war. Personally I am inclined toward the latter, and
recommend the work of Dr. Joseph Farrell for those who wish to pursue
the subject.
I propose that when this lost planet broke apart (or when it was
destroyed, depending on your view) it “fell” from the field of
consciousness. With this, we lost the understanding of how it fit into our
cosmology and its importance in maintaining the balance of our psyches.
But the lost planet did endure in the form of a shadow - a phantom
hovering along the fringes of awareness in a nebulous, half-understood
astrological entity known alternately as the Black Moon, the Black Moon
Lilith, the Dark Moon, and the Dark Moon Lilith.
If it is true that energy can never be destroyed, the energy of
Tiamat has maintained cohesion at some level regardless of what
physically happened to the planet. This book suggests that the
electromagnetic, gravitational, and harmonic energetic fields of Tiamat
survived the planet‟s destruction and remain in effect today as the
astrological Black Moon. Just like all astrological bodies, this stellar force
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