In Aquarius, the Call takes the quality of the sign: placing one's singularity in the service of what exceeds the individual. I would like to show what this lack demands of each of the three Black Moons, and where it finds a livable form.
What Aquarius does to the Call
Aquarius is the sign of air that steps back to see: the idea, the group, the future, freedom. When a Black Moon stands here, the lack lodges in singularity. I meet, with this placement, people to whom the present feels stifling, who turn independence into rupture or prefer the idea of a new humanity to real, always imperfect human beings; and others who melt into a group so as not to feel their difference. The lack is not eccentricity. It is a place left open in what one brings to others, and that place calls.
I then read the three Black Moons separately, because they do not ask for the same thing in the same sign: the Mean seeks a course there, the True brings up what calls in the body, the Corrected seeks attunement between the two. For each, here is what I wrote in volume 1.
Mean Black Moon in Aquarius: the Alicorn
The Mean holds the course, and in Aquarius that course takes the quality of the sign. The demand is fine and it is formidable, and the answer is never to reach the absolute perfectly:
In Aquarius, the Alicorn indicates a direction in which uniqueness must be able to serve something beyond the individual. The perception of what could be different can make the present stifling, turn independence into rupture, or lead one to prefer the idea of a new humanity to actual human beings, always imperfect. The response is to give a shareable form to what has been glimpsed: to bring a difference to the collective without having to exclude oneself from it to preserve that difference.
The Black Moon, the three faces of the Call, volume 1
True Black Moon in Aquarius: Athena
The True shows what calls in the instant, in the body. In Aquarius, matter rises in its own way, and Athena reveals what can no longer be deferred:
In Aquarius, matter emerges as a need for air, freedom, difference, or a break with a collective form that has become too narrow. A long-contained strangeness may suddenly become impossible to conceal, or a familiar situation may seem no longer to permit breathing. Athena reveals what in life now refuses to be reduced to an already known identity, and the response is to give it a distinctive place without making exclusion the condition of freedom.
The Black Moon, the three faces of the Call, volume 1
Corrected Black Moon in Aquarius: the Unicorn
The Corrected seeks attunement between the course and the push. In Aquarius, that attunement has its own terms:
In Aquarius, mediation concerns uniqueness and its place within the collective. Difference can become systematic rupture, or belonging lead to sacrificing what does not resemble the group. The Unicorn seeks a way of remaining distinctive among others: bringing a new form without having to destroy every common form for it to exist.
The Black Moon, the three faces of the Call, volume 1
The open cross in Aquarius
Each Black Moon unfolds a cross: four stations that go from the call to the trial of the return, and that occupy the four signs of a single cross of the zodiac. The one starting from Aquarius passes through Taurus, Leo and Scorpio: the call in Aquarius, the price of passage in Taurus, the response at the point in Leo, the trial of the return in Scorpio.
In volume 2 I set side by side, station by station, the two respondents that travel this cross, Apollo for the Corrected, the form made habitable, and Priapus for the True, the power made present. At the first station, I have Priapus say, in Aquarius:
"I want an idea of my own, entirely new. An idea is born alone, in a single head — sharing it will come after, if I choose it."
The Black Moon, the three faces of the Call, volume 2
And Apollo:
"I want a world where everyone is free, where ideas circulate, where the future is built together. Technology, science, and friendship are my tools for lifting humanity up."
The Black Moon, the three faces of the Call, volume 2
The three other stations, and what each one costs, are read in the book.
What the book adds
Volume 1 gives for each Black Moon the complete portrait of the sign, and volume 2 unfolds the open cross in Aquarius over its four stations, for Apollo and for Priapus, with the relationship to the world, to constraint, to otherness and to the future that each one engages. That is where the reading becomes precise, and that is where I left it.
Frequently asked questions
What does Lilith in Aquarius mean?
That the Call of the Black Moon takes the quality of Aquarius: placing one's singularity in the service of what exceeds the individual. I do not read it as a shadow, but as a demand seeking a livable form, and that form is not the same for the Mean, the True and the Corrected.
Are my three Black Moons in the same sign?
Not always. The True can stray from the Mean by up to about thirty degrees, and the three are often found in two different signs. The application tells you which ones are in Aquarius.