Black Moon Lilith in Astrology

Think of the part of you that has never quite fitted in: the desire you were told was too much, the anger you were not allowed to show, the "no" that got you into trouble, the truth that made people uncomfortable. Think of where you would rather be alone than be tamed. That is Black Moon Lilith in your chart: the wild, refused, untamable part of the self.

Lilith has become popular in modern astrology because many people recognise in it something the classical planets do not quite name: the power of the part of us that was pushed to the edges.

What Lilith is

Lilith is not a planet or a moon. The Moon's orbit around the Earth is an ellipse, not a circle, so at one point the Moon is closest to us and at the opposite point it is farthest away. That far point is the lunar apogee, and astrologers call it Black Moon Lilith: an empty point in space, a "dark moon", that the real Moon passes through once a month.

The apogee itself slowly moves round the zodiac, taking about nine years to complete a circle and spending about nine months in each sign.

The first woman who refused

Here is the story behind the name. In Jewish folklore, Lilith was Adam's first wife, made from the same earth as him and so his equal. She refused to be subordinate, left the garden rather than submit, and was turned into a demon in the stories that followed. For centuries she was a figure of fear.

Modern readers turned the story around. Lilith became the image of everything that refuses to be tamed: independence, sexuality, anger, truth. That is how astrology reads the point. Not as evil, but as exiled, and waiting to be reclaimed.

Where is this planet in your chart?

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