New Moon 04th/5th Feb 2019



New Moon and New Year / February 5th Eastern hemisphere / 04th February Western hemisphere

I would like to start my new-moon article with a quote from the Sabian Symbol of this degree (15-16 Aquarius

„A great deal of what is glowingly written about the Aquarian Age is probably sheer glamour. The New Age should be one in which man learns to use the power generated by human togetherness and group interplay — that is, to use it harmoniously for the welfare of the whole of which all individuals are parts, humanity and the planet Earth “



Neumond 04/05 Feb 2019 / New Moon 4th/5th Feb 2019 Hong Kong, London, New York


This new moon is the start of the New Year in Chinese Tradition. The new moon takes place on the 5th of February (time zone of China). To the Chinese and their astronomical calendar referring to a 12 year cycle, it is the year of the Earth Pig, which is said to be a very material, financially successful period, which gives me reason to calculate the horoscope for Hong Kong – and for 3 other major financial spots on earth.

One is calculated for London, where the Greenwhich 0 Longitude Meridian is placed, reference to calculating the Greenwich Mean time (GMT) also called UT / Universal Time that any astronomy date is calculated. An other Horoscope is calculated for New York, with Wall Street as one of the financial centers on Earth 
The reason, why I did so, may be found in the Sabian Symbol for this New Moon, taking place at 15-16 degree Aquarius:


PHASE 316 
A BIG BUSINESSMAN AT HIS DESK.
KEYNOTE:The ability to organize the many aspects of an enterprise involving a large group of human beings.


If you are aware of the current political debate in America, you may have noticed, that with Donald Trump a “business leader” is at the desk of the White House. You may also have noticed, that in the past days the founder and CEO of “Starbucks” the company paying no taxes almost anywhere on earth, but successfully selling coffee all over the world, is considering a run on the American Presidency. Partly the media is in a hype for him, partly media and political people are against him with a: “oh no, not another business man with no political experience but a lot of money to buy a campaign”.
With this in mind, I was almost shocked to see the Sabian Symbol for the new moon. 
It IS about a business man. it IS about financial success…. and more.
So let me quote the comment, Dane Rudhyar wrote to this Sabian Symbol:



A great deal of what is glowingly written about the Aquarian Age is probably sheer glamour. The New Age should be one in which man learns to use the power generated by human togetherness and group interplay — that is,to use it harmoniously for the welfare of the whole of which all individuals are parts, humanity and the planet Earth. This has never been achieved and only very rarely attempted. Mankind today must make a thorough and irresistible attempt, or be nearly destroyed — except for a creative „remnant“ of seed-persons who would have to begin again from new foundations. In the field of big business, of huge war undertakings (like the Normandy landing in World War II) or of major national efforts (like the Moon landings) great results have been achieved, but the motive and the quality of the human interrelationships involved were neither of permanent significance nor invested with a truly harmonic quality. The character of the techniques used were totally un-satisfactory from a „human“ point of view. Nevertheless there is much to learn from modern large-scale management and systems analysis, even in terms of personal endeavors of very limited scope.
This is the first stage in the sixty-fourth five-fold subcycle. It introduces the concept of management which is basic at this period of the cyclic life process which the zodiac symbolizes, yet which needs to be totally reevaluated if mankind is to actualize the spiritual potentialities implied in the evolutionary transformation just ahead.
ORGANATION should be the Keyword, rather than mere „organization“; for humanity now can and should realize that it is indeed an „organism.“








There is a new year starting in China, a looming Brexit in Britain, and America under a business man in reign, and other business man claiming their grasp on a presidency. Despite the charts themselves, it may therefore be of fortune to look where the challenges of each chart is arising

So we have a new year in China, a looming Brexit in Britain, and America under a business man in reign, and other business man claiming their grasp on a presidency. Despite the charts themselves, it may therefore be of fortune to look where the challenges of each chart is arising

If you take a closer look, you may see that the ascendant of the new Moon in Hongkong is Capricorn. The Aquarian new moon falls into the second house. Saturn Pluto at the Ascendant in Capricorn may show some underlying questions: China a country coming out of a Saturn phase, where poverty was amongst their citizens, one child policy needed to stop an expansion of population beyond the structure they were able to feed themselves in autonomy. China is a large buyer of land and of resources on Earth, especially of rare earths, which are used in new technology like mobiles or computers. The new Moon of this new year falls in to the second house, so the challenge and the task are the own resources, 2nd house. The resources of other countries are seen in the 8th house so the new moon emphasizes the business with the own resources, with the own soil, the own dragon power, the own structures, rather than with other countries and nations resources. 
Saturn in Capricorn refers to the own structure. It is materializing matter. But in esoteric terms, Saturn itself in Capricorn asks whether the structures for a spiritual life are build. With Pluto on the Ascendant in Capricorn, the dealing and marketing of resources of earth will not be that successful on the long run, if too much emphasis is put upon. 
Even therefore the earth pig is a very material sign, with plot on the ASC the task is rather how to adapt to a changing surrounding and rare resources – resources that may show a lack very soon. with Pluto at the ASC China also may face a nuclear arms race as a striving world power to be. With Mars and Uranus at the IC though, Chinas power in arms may not necessarily in the traditional weaponry, but in a new form of warfare. 
Now let’s take a look to London. 

With a Brexit looming, the new moon takes place in the 5th house of self expression. Venus is at the IC, so the inner values may be of the utmost importance, expressing in a new form of self-expression. The whole economy of Great Britain may be in an adaption to a new quality of expression, yet only successful if adapted to the needs of earth and community. the nodes in the 10th house tell a tale on a new placement in purpose, while the southern node in the 4th house may show an alteration on each “home”. 
Referring to New York, we see an other emphasis of that theme. The new moon is placed in the 7th house, the house of partners and marriages. One sing of this may be then seen in contracts kept, forming partnerships. Pluto and Saturn in the 6th house together with the nodes may show, that this may have a great impact on the economy referring to the every day work workers do. 


America has all planets in the right hemisphere of the horoscope. This shows a time of harvest, where one needs to rely on the seeds already planted and blooming. the „others“ are coming to bring the harvest, the fruits of the efforts of the past. It may be an odd time for this harvest, as the crops they try to reap may be rich in fruit, or low growing due to disasters that took place, shattering the seeds. Mars is at the highest place in the chart, at the MC, so it may also be a harvest of all the wars fought.,or yet to come. It is likely that this may lead to a kind of war, at least to an incredible amount of energy and effort of each individual in order to fulfill something.

No matter whether Hong Kong, London, New York, Rio or Tokyo, the challenge of today is not only the Business Man, but to understand Earth as an organism. 
it is not about seeing economics as a market, woven by calculable arithmetic. 
It is about Earth
It is about the awareness, that success involves her whole entity. 
The success may not be measured in $, Yen, Yuan or British Pound under the Bottom line. 
Her measurement is the success of humanity and all life upon her. 
I would like to close this article with a quote of Dane Rudhyar’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol:


(..) the concept of management which is basic at this period of the cyclic life process which the zodiac symbolizes, yet which needs to be totally reevaluated if mankind is to actualize the spiritual potentialities implied in the evolutionary transformation just ahead.
ORGANATION should be the Keyword, rather than mere „organization“; for humanity now can and should realize that it is indeed an „organism.“

Source: Dane Rhudyar, An astrological mandala. 
Octavia Gentemann-Schmidt