A most significant New Moon this Sunday, 9/9/18 11:03 am PDST 17°00 Virgo HOW TO VIEW THESE SYMBOLS, as to society in general – not exclusively in the United States, although certainly speaking to the current state of affairs, they suggest a crucial turning point has been reached, a violent or karmic confrontation – note symbol for Intent:  17° Virgo, a Volcanic Eruption, “the explosion of energy of long-repressed contents of the subconscious.”

Individually, and on a positive note, it is a time to release everything from the psyche and seek the “transcendent” state of mind – the calm assurance of our potential ability to attain freedom from this objective confrontation with images of the karmic past which have been replaced by a subjective irruption of repressed memories and primitive cravings.

It is indeed tragic that Donald Trump seems to lack (“seems? Madame, nay, I know not seems”) the capacity to face his demons, so in this regard the Intent of this full Moon could spell disaster, or some kind of reckoning:  Rudhyar:  “We are dealing here with the dramatic release of energies which have been kept in check by the outer shell of the ego-controlled consciousness.  It may be a spectacular catharsis, but it often takes paths of destruction.  Yet unless some form of purification by fire is experienced, the inner pressure of the karmic past or of more recent frustration would shake up perhaps even  more destructively the very foundations of the personality.”

For those of us, and that certainly includes all of my friends here at Face Book, who possess the capacity to work our way through these sometimes negative “karmic visitations” the symbol following Intent of this full moon, “Continuing – or ways of continuing with Intent” we find at 11° Aquarius (advancing 72° in the Zodiac) “During a silent hour, a person receives a new inspiration which may change his/her life.”

However, and unfortunately, that’s not the end of it.  The last symbol of the Five Realms in this new moon, “Constructing Intent – or building new ways of dealing with Intent – is found at one of the most negative symbols in Rudhyar’s Mandala:  5° Cancer – “At a railroad crossing, an automobile is wrecked by a train – the tragic results which are likely to occur when the individual’s will pits itself carelessly against the power of the collective will of society.

We can expect of ourselves, “karmic readjustment” but not, tragically, from Trump.