| Part One | | | | mothering and emotions, but our lineage. It is also the |
| Judy Hall's book Hades Moon is an important, | | | | past. And with Pluto, evil (or the darker side if you |
| powerful and validating book for me. I continue to | | | | wish) is never far away, either operating from within |
| lend my copy out to grateful friends who then keep | | | | or without. |
| it, and I am back to being without a copy. She | | | | A stranger example of past lineage connection is my |
| defines a Hades Moon as being in aspect to Pluto, a | | | | son Damian's "story". His father was not interested in |
| Scorpio Moon, and possibly (I consider it), Moon in the | | | | being involved (we had split up before I realized I |
| 8th house. Even with an 8 degree out of sign | | | | was pregnant) and that was fine with me. The |
| conjunction of my Moon to Pluto, this aspect has | | | | relatively short lived relationship was a lustful |
| been huge in my life. This series of blogs is dedicated | | | | nightmare. He changed his mind when his mother's |
| to all men and women with the courage to allow their | | | | guru and self proclaimed identifier of incarnating |
| feminine aspect to visit, embrace and transmute the | | | | masters, saw Damian as Chogyam Trungpa. The |
| dark shadows of Hades into Truth and Love. | | | | Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche is an |
| | | | important teacher in the Buddhist Kagyu lineage who |
| Kelly Lee Phipps points out in a recent article "Ceres | | | | barely escaped the Chinese invasion of Tibet, fleeing |
| and the Urge to Belong" that wherever Ceres lands in | | | | first to India at the age of 20, then moving to |
| your chart is the theme of surrendering to the loss | | | | Scotland, England, and finally the United States, |
| and return. Eris asks us to be with the chaos. Pluto | | | | landing in Boulder, where I live. He established not |
| asks us to dive into the fire, enter Hades, and not | | | | only several meditation centers, but the Naropa |
| shy from dark nights of the soul. It is all about | | | | University here in Boulder. He is well known for his |
| transmutation at the highest level. | | | | book "Crazy Wisdom" among others. Trungpa died in |
| ___________________ | | | | April of 1987. |
| Part Two | | | | I did not take this seriously because it smacked too |
| Judy Hall has a chapter in her book called "the Karmic | | | | strongly of "specialness" (a most potent trap) which |
| Moon". She opens with "No matter what the aspect, | | | | had me running in the opposite direction, while his |
| the Hades Moon shows us some of the more deeply | | | | father took the bait and started running in our |
| entrenched karmic issues we have carried from | | | | direction. That's another blog. The guru whose |
| incarnation to incarnation over a vast period of time." | | | | mission to identify these souls, traveled from Texas |
| This implies the reality of reincarnation, which I can | | | | to visit me when I was pregnant. I did not like her, |
| personally resonate with and use extensively in my | | | | but gratefully took the check for $800 which she |
| client readings. However, the idea of reincarnation | | | | gave me. I also chuckled to myself, because by that |
| may also just be a good way of explaining something | | | | time I had intuited that Damian had Down Syndrome |
| beyond our actual literal understanding in this very | | | | and wondered what would happen with that |
| limited third dimensional reality. It doesn't matter. The | | | | revelation. I had chosen not to have any tests. She |
| frame is a valid one, and correlates also to one's | | | | told me that I could expect a visit from Pema |
| prenatal and early life experience. Karma can be | | | | Chödrön, a well known Buddhist teacher |
| defined as a neutral universal principle that essentially | | | | and Trungpa disciple...I'm still waiting. |
| has to do with cause and effect. | | | | During his first year I couldn't go anywhere without |
| Metaphorically, Pluto can be looked at as the | | | | someone stopping me to tell me I had a "special" |
| "evolutionary" intent of the soul as carried in from | | | | child, and they weren't just talking about his DS. Mind |
| past incarnations. Pluto is also very tied into genetics, | | | | you, he also has Neptune / South Node / Uranus on |
| and we know that the information we inherit in our | | | | his Midheaven. Most of these people were |
| DNA goes far beyond physical characteristics. We | | | | middle-aged wise-women working in the healing arts |
| inherit our ancestors' lineages on spiritual, geographical, | | | | and looking like modern day witches. One day while I |
| and psychological levels. We continue the work that is | | | | was shopping at one of our 7 (soon to be 8) natural |
| not completely our own. It's all very mysterious stuff! | | | | food stores, a slick, well dressed stranger with an |
| My father has a Scorpio Moon, with a close Pluto / | | | | arrogant air, come up and asked if I would like a |
| Sun conjunction in Cancer, and my mother has a | | | | "reading". Why not? As it turns out, he was Rennie |
| Pisces Moon trine a close Pluto / Venus conjunction in | | | | Davis of the infamous Chicago Seven (originally eight) |
| Cancer. It is not surprising that I would be born with | | | | which also included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, |
| a Hades Moon, and at least two of my four siblings | | | | Bobby Seale, and others, charged with conspiracy in |
| as well. My ex-husband and father of my two | | | | the 60's related to the Vietnam War protests. Now it |
| daughters does not have any Moon / Pluto | | | | seems he is a venture capitalist and lecturer on |
| connection, and neither do my daughters. My son, | | | | meditation and self awareness. He said that he was |
| however, was born under the canopy of a close | | | | there to inform me that Damian had a special destiny |
| stellium with Chiron / Pluto / Moon (Sagittarius in the | | | | and that I was chosen as his mother because of the |
| 7th house) and his father has a Moon / Pluto square. | | | | completely unconditional space which I held for him. |
| The strong connection to the past can have the | | | | At least my life isn't boring. |
| intention of clearing both personal and collective | | | | The early intensity with this issue has died down, but |
| karma. Pluto transmutes and the Moon is not just | | | | Damian is quite well known in Boulder. |