In ancient civilizations, mythology served to feed the imagination and to answer the deep hidden mysteries of nature. Just as in the East yin is to yang, in the West the Moon is to the Sun. In ancient myths, the Black Moon Lilith was a deity associated with "darkness". In Astrology, Lilith represents the furthest point between the Earth and the Moon, symbolizing the most hidden and obscure feelings of our personality.
In the ancient religion of Mesopotamia and Babylon, Lilith was the "Beautiful Maiden", a lady of legendary beauty who gave birth to the Moon. Her name was associated with an owl symbol of wisdom-, the night and the moon, being a translation of "chirping", the owl's cry.
Later, Lilith came to be represented as a demon in Islamic and Hebrew legends, where she appears as the first woman of Adam, created at the same time and in the same way as this one. The Hebrew legends transformed the sensual charms of the beautiful Lilith and this one came to be described as a feminine devil whose powerful eroticism drove men mad. Lilith was thus transformed into a malevolent sorceress, with powers assigned by darkness.
The group of female deities belonging to "darkness" are numerous and represented under different names in diverse cultures such as Kali (the Mother Nature of Hinduism), Skadi (from Northern European mythology), Hecate and Circe (both from Greek mythology), Tlazolteotl (goddess of lust and illicit love in Huastec mythology), Hathor (goddess of the skies and symbolic mother of the pharaohs in religion and Egyptian), Lilith, the famous Medusa from Greek mythology and Nemesis, the Greek goddess of revenge.
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The Myth of the Goddess of the Night
All cultures and civilizations have created their myths and deities. Each one of them represents the forces that pervade the Universe and that keep all things in a dynamic and precise balance. These are forces complementary that represent opposites and that, together, guarantee this harmony. This is the case of the yin/yang axis in Chinese Astrology, or from Moon and Sun in Western Astrology.
The natural world is made up of opposites: light and dark, day and night, hot and cold, feminine and masculine, wet and dry. Each element is in opposition to the other, yielding in turn one face to the other.
The Sun emits light and heat, the Moon absorbs and reflects the luminosity of that one. Dominating the night, the Moon's cold rays were believed to possess magical properties, projecting their mysterious light onto the Earth.
Birth, Rebirth and Fertility
The Moon also represented uncertainty. While the shape of the Sun is constant, the shape of the Moon is unsteady. It acquires several shapes throughout the month, always changing configurations, growing and waning, going from a thin silvery blade to a full and yellow disk, returning, once again, to the darkness. It thus represented the cycle of birth and rebirth of all-natural life.
But the power of the Moon was also visible in a woman's menstrual cycle, in the duration of pregnancy, in predicting the birth date of babies, strongly associating with the female energetic power, the capacity of generating life. To the fecundity that dominates the natural world and renews existence.
Black Moon Lilith - A Multifaceted Personality
The Moon is metamorphosis, it is change, movement, and life cycle. Their disguises are multiple and are reflected in the three main phases of their cycle:
Like the New Moon, the star is represented as a maiden or virgin. A young deity, pure and innocent, with blossoming sexuality and precocious seduction power.
As the Moon reaches its fullness, it becomes the Full Moon, the receptacle of life, the fertile woman, who has the virtue of generating a new life within her womb.
In her last phase, as she wanes and returns to darkness, she is portrayed as a witch or an ugly and misshapen old woman, the master sorceress in the arts of magic and disguises, who have healing powers, as well as to transform what passes by. your hands.
Black Moon Lilith in Astrology
For Astrology, Lilith (the Black Moon or the Goddess of Night), represents the apogee of the Moon, that is, the farthest point between the Earth and the Moon. Lilith is not considered a celestial body, but rather an imaginary point in the sky that marks the farthest place between our planet and the Moon.
In Western Astrology, the Moon is represented as one of the planets that are part of your astral system and in energetic terms, represents our feminine nature. The Moon is the planet of feelings and emotions. In Astrology, Black Moon Lilith represents the way we deal with our most hidden emotions, those that we are often unaware of and have difficulty in identifying.
In Astrology, the Moon is related to the Water Element and the Phlegmatic temperament (sensitive and reserved personality, with a strong emotional motivation). It governs the Cancer sign.
So, in Astrology, Lilith shows, in the astral map of each one of us, where are hidden our intimate desires and the means we have to express them. These are the deepest instincts, the truth we don't confess, the motivations we sometimes have difficulty recognizing and naming.
In the astral map, Lilith represents primitive drives and instinctual behavior. It reveals our repressed sexuality, everything that makes us feel most vulnerable. It expresses the dark side of our personality that remains buried in our subconscious.
The mission of Black Moon Lilith was to spread her truth, and her message can be interpreted as the need to deeply know our true nature and to accept it. Only in this way can we change what we don't like about our way of being and abandon the beliefs that limit the full expression of our potential. Only in this way can there be room for personal growth and spiritual transformation.
The three phases of the Moon represent the natural cycles, merging the conscious, subconscious, and the unconscious processes of the human mind - our spiritual, material, and emotional faces. The Moon becomes the archetype of creation, femininity and the female psyche. In Astrology, the position of Lilith is used to understand the darkest facet of the personality but also the power of creation and rebirth, as well as the aspects that illuminate the various areas of life.
