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 response-ability.
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.
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Lilith in Leo
What is the vocabulary of power you have inherited from your (settler) lineages? Is it framed along the lines of oppression and liberation, domination and submission? What did your mother teach you about power and victimhood? In which ways are these linear vocabularies helpful to do power responsibly in your relations, in which ways not?
Lilith in Virgo
What have your lineages taught you about love? In what ways is love a feeling, an (in)action, all, or none of the above? In what ways is love privileged as a human feeling? What have your lineages taught you about material needs? What causal lines have they given about the relationship between your value, your loveworthiness, your achievements, and your material needs? Which lines shall you carry into an unsettling Earth, which do you drop?
Lilith in Libra
How does settler linearity shape balance, restraint, symmetry as a virtue in your life? What fears surround imbalance, excess, too muchness? How do your lineages contour your discernment between the urgent and the important, what you deem valuable, and what gets on and gets prioritised in your to-do list? It might be time to explore what has lain dormant so far. What could your more-than-human queer magickal families teach you instead?
Lilith in Scorpio
What does abundance feel like without guilt or shame? How do your lineages conflate and weaponise self-care and selfishness? If your unarticulate feelings about this world being topsy-turvy were unconditionally validated, how would you move differently in your day-to-day? Ask a holly, oak, kangaroo, or elephant for some playful guidance.
Lilith in Sagittarius
How do your human families relate to the unfolding passage of time? What did your family of birth teach you about your relationship to the past, and the future? Respect, fear? What histories would you rather deny, what futures would you rather control, and who taught you these ways? To what end? Relating with the present requires knowing how to stop the incessant mental machine.
Lilith in Capricorn
What fears did you learn to cultivate about havoc, destruction, chaos in your family of upbringing? What strategies did you learn to fight back and block devastation, ‘negativity,’and/or challenging feelings? How have these strategies shaped your friendly relationships? You may have internalised warnings about curiosity killing the cat, but could a new season arrive without the death of the old? Inquisitiveness about the darkness may yet lead you to new wonders.
Lilith in Aquarius
Progress, movement, advancement, exploration … In what ways do your lineages idealise and promote these as virtues? In what ways do you find yourself enslaved to the new and to forward movement today? There is a vast difference between the adrenaline rush gathered in the pursuit of joy and quiet tiptoe of bliss that may only be noticed in restful stillness. A meditative walking habit or a journaling practice shall help just be.
Lilith in Pisces
What griefs did-does your lineages unburden unto you? How were you parentified as a child? What griefs emerge as you move away from these settler stories of lineages into yet unknown spacetimes of unsettling? How would you like to be seen and acknowledged? How would your child like to be seen, acknowledged, cared for? Could you give it to them? From these heavy potions of grief, a lightly airy magick conjures! Listen to the elements, pick up your wand.
Lilith in Aries
What would it be like if you perceived yourself laterally? Peripheral vision only. Would it be a different person? What would it be like if you perceived your lineages laterally? On the periphery? Would you be in a different relationship? What happens to a line when it is seen laterally? Does it change shape? What happens to the self when you change your orientation? Is there a self? Could be a thought experiment, could be something to do with old pictures.
Lilith in Taurus
When does a body become hard, dried stone (a fossil?) How does a heart wither in the mundane? What did your lineages teach you about the skill of survival and the nature of reality? Was this reality the harsh reality of a settler world or the unromanticised truth of a loving-eating Earth? How did these teachings suck you dry? Remember: This Earth’s practicality is never mundane or mechanistic, it is a practicality full of magick and wonder! Can you feel it in your bones?
Lilith in Gemini
What is it about gravity that made the Earth so suspect and flight so tempting to our settler ancestors? What is it about attachment (a form of gravity) that then flowed through your lineages unto you? Is it the fear of entrapment? Is it the horror of loss? How is this need to transcend also rooted in the settler need for certitude? Books are fine, but some true answers will come through your gut and your bones, and the truest ones in energetic/un-wordy conversations with the land which is you. Remember that flight too would not be possible without gravity.
Lilith in Cancer
Indecision, waiting, procrastination, analysis paralysis… How do these run in your lineages and how have you known your settler ancestors to react, covet, escape with or rebuke these behaviours? What work is seen and acknowledged through these reactions and what (whose) labours are made invisible, unvalued? Which kinds of work do you acknowledge for yourself, and the work of which parts of you do you ignore or take for granted? What would change about your relation with speed and your legacy if waiting for the right timing were also honoured as an action and revolutions spanned millenia and centuries?