Horoscopes are relational maps. They enable awareness of our unfolding relationships to outer space from our varying times and positions on Earth. They give us vocabularies and timespace for developing our relationships with intentionality, accountability and reciprocity within the vast and complex community of our solar system. In doing so, horoscopes tell us about the stellar energies present and available to work with at any given point in spacetime. They remind us that we are in material-spiritual community with not just our human and unhuman kin on Earth but also in a larger community with our galactic relatives that demands responseability.
Relationships need stories to be challenged, grow, learn, and survive. So horoscopes are often read as layered and many-voiced stories. The horoscopes this month are told as your Lilith story. In other words, they are organised by your Lilith sign.
Lilith is the lunar apogee or the point in its orbit where the Moon is furthest from the Earth, thus signaling a unique Earth-Moon relation. There are different versions of Lilith, but one of the most common ones used in Hellenic astrology is Black Moon Lilith, represented by ⚸. To find your Black Moon Lilith sign, you need to look at your birth chart or your natal chart that includes a Black Moon Lilith calculation. Generating your birth/natal chart online will require you to input your date of birth, place of birth and time of birth. Since these are sensitive data, I highly recommend that you use only trusted web sources or other online cloaking technologies to protect your privacy.
A typical Hellenic natal chart may look like this:
The 12 zodiac constellations (Aries, Taurus, Gemini…etc.) typically go around in a circle and are represented by Graeco-Egyptian symbols in a Hellenic natal chart. These symbols look like this:
Aries: ♈︎ , Taurus: ♉︎ , Gemini: ♊︎ , Cancer: ♋︎ , Leo: ♌︎ , Virgo: ♍︎ , Libra: ♎︎ , Scorpio: ♏︎ , Sagittarius: ♐︎ , Capricorn: ♑︎ , Aquarius: ♒︎ , Pisces: ♓︎
Having got hold of your natal chart, you now need to note the zodiac constellation in which the ⚸ symbol appears. That constellation shall represent one version of your Lilith signs.
Lilith in Cancer
Seeds planted take their own time to germinate, efforts made their own time to unfold. What if your search for belonging were not to result in a destination but enriched your life through its journey? Share your love generously– with parts of yourself and others. True homes are not outcomes but the processes of building. Much like bread must be made everyday, and our bodies constantly watered. With whom do you enjoy the processes of creating?
Lilith in Leo
Fire comes in two forms: the ravaging, consuming fire that destroys homes, and the warm kindling that sustains an enchanting hearth in a cold winter. Both kinds of fires are important, for different timeplaces. But in your search for belongingness it is also important to be mindful. Which kind of fire are you feeding in which of your relationships? Are you feeding your inner fire at all…adventure, passion, excitement, creativity? What makes you feel alive today?
Lilith in Virgo
Home is not just a safe place but also a place where our needs are met and desires tended to. Home does not make us feel ashamed of our desires but rather nurtures them in love, not the endless spiral of addictions. How much does your search for home invest in building castle walls against the demons that lurk outside? How much does it invest in sustaining space for magic?
Lilith in Libra
The longing for another is nothing to be ashamed of. Sometimes we learn our hardest and most freeing lessons through close partnerships. If your politics isolate you, ask if it is what you desire. Through such honest questioning, a new politics may arise. Caring for yourself is important, but there can also be joy in looking out for another. If you had to make a ritual for a loving home that you perform every new moon, what would it be? If you grew up in a loving home, what would that be like?
Lilith in Scorpio
You have known pain and hurt intimately. As part of your home, almost as a safe space. What does it mean to have home in pain? How does it change you? How has it changed you? How do you self-medicate? Does your medicine target to temporarily eradicate symptoms or work with your experiences? May a different kind of home be found with a different kind of medicine? Would you feel like you belonged there? Know the difference between kindness and spoiling someone.
Lilith in Sagittarius
Slow and steady wins the race. Just because a journey moves slow does not mean that you are standing still. Just because a journey moves slow does not mean that you are on the wrong path. Time transmutes to transform you. You may be living in the time of atomic clocks and mayflies but this journey is perhaps rooted in the time of trees and cloud travels? Home is not just a place, it is also about syncing with the right time.
Lilith in Capricorn
Belonging demands conversations through language and through un-language. Do you sometimes find yourself stuck in words unable to express what you were trying? A loving home is built not just in communication but through energetic embodiments. Working with the art of embodying takes longer than a quick utterance. Do not get so fixated on words that you lose sight of what you embody. Not just in one moment, but over a period of time.
Lilith in Aquarius
Things you have lost, things you have gained…It is easy to think of relations of belonging in terms of loss and again, but what if we didn’t? What would be an alternative vocabulary that does not feed into this transactional warring mode of being in relation? You hold more creativity than you give yourself credit for. Now let it spill into this new relationship you imagine with Home.
Lilith in Pisces
Belonging as the ability to collaborate on epiphanies, sudden inspirations. Synced in time. Home is more than material, it is magic. So how does Home look, feel, taste, sound, smell for you in this magickal world? This unsettling magic home is not about getting the perfect resources in order; if you were given 8 bouquets of flowers and 5 healthy stones, how would you use them to bring your community together? You are the dreamer, and you are already doing it. So what are you waiting for?
Lilith in Aries
Choices can make anxiety, everything is possible, so where do we start? You see the endgame, the final outcome, and it’s exciting, so it creates distance, unbelonging with others around you. But what if you weren’t so sure of outcomes? You think it’s certainty that keeps you away from anxiety, but what if anxiety kept you away from collaborations? Home is where you shall find wonder not anxiety in the process of unfolding (not pre-determined) relations. Ask our magickal Earth, and then trust her.
Lilith in Taurus
How and what does your home celebrate? How and what does your home keep you safe? The home of your childhood? The home you make now? The home that you shall pass on to others? How do you juggle your way between the schism? Has it been worth it? Differences are not always meant to be resolved but to be acknowledged and accepted.
Lilith in Gemini
How do you learn about belonging through community? (What have you learnt?) How do you learn about belonging through prosperity? (What have you learnt?) How have loneliness and poverty contributed to your relation to relationships with others? What if poverty and loneliness were something you did not have to fear? What would belonging look like for you then?