iVillage

At some point in life, each individual (Earth) draws his or herself out of and apart from their Moon, the undifferentiated mass from which we are each born and emerge. Think of it as what the adolescent goes through in the puberty years as each person begins to individualize and crystallize out of the group mind and self to which they belong and have grown up in. They individualize. This is the Moon giving birth to us, the concept of the Moon as our mother.

This contracting away from or distancing ourselves from our Moon (past) is a process akin to crystallization, the achievement of more definite form, an individual forming out of the great mass of their natal Moon. Before this can take place, there is the contracting to form itself (growing our the body) during our formative years as a child, and this contraction is continued further until the final impact at the Saturn return, when the finished form begins to come up against the friction of age (beyond Saturn’s ring of protection) and gradually bursts into flames and, phoenix-like, we begin rise out of (and through) this our personal cinder.