This can be harsh and destructive, and sometimes there’s no going back after the showdown… the only way is through. Echoes of her voice emerge from exile in the moments when our well-honed skills of self-denial and society pleasing can no longer contain a deeper primal urge for raw authentic expression.

Lilith has been demonised as bitch, witch, ball breaker, succubus, child killer, femme fatale, demoness, and malevolent wind spirit. The heavy door dusty and stiff with the passing of time opens, sometimes a creak, sometimes an explosion. When Mean and True Black Moon are conjunct, we may brace ourselves for a potent Lilith visitation arising suddenly and intensely into our awareness- a breaking through of repressed unconscious material: rage a sovereign declaration an inconvenient truth an admission of desires long buried under the polite weight of the superego that which is taboo a refusal to participate in the inauthentic something beyond the bounds… the realm of the divine is not always “good” but it is always pure. Fixed star Algol- the blinking eye of Medusa- is also involved in this Dark Goddess union with the Sun and Moon, a few degrees away at 26 Taurus. The “Temple” of Lilith between these two points is no more than a silver slither as both are within a few arc minutes at 22 ° Taurus. Today’s new moon at 21 ° Taurus is closely conjunct both True Black Moon Lilith and Mean Black Moon Lilith.

Temple of the dark moon