Black Moon Lilith – living wild and free

Lilith Untamed, a Guide to the Astrological Black Moon, by Christina Rodenbeck, is a richly detailed look at yet another addition to the astrological lexicon.

  Signifying the untamed, wilder, anti-social elements of human temperament, the author relates it to Adam’s first wife in paradise who refused to accept the inferior role, and to the rage-filled Kali the Hindu goddess, as well as figures from other cultures. An archetype which encompasses the creative, erotic, unboundaried, uncivilized, violent, crazy, unstable, unconventional.  In Jung’s terms “an archetype is like an old watercourse — digging a deep channel for itself. … and sooner or later the water will return to its old bed.”

 What is complicated is that Black Moon Lilith is not a planet or body, but rather a point, and should not be confused with the asteroid, Lilith. And to add to the confusion there is a True and a Mean Lilith.  The author says she generally uses the mean Lilith but that both are valuable.  My Janus software for some reason will only add the True Lilith glyph.

Calculating all the Liliths can be done on: https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/asteroids-astrology-online-calculator?no_mobile=1

 And Café astrology has an ephemerides as well as calculator:

https://cafeastrology.com/whats-my-black-moon-lilith.html

https://cafeastrology.com/black-moon-lilith-signs-houses.html

  Lilith gets an entertaining and extensive analysis with dates for Lilith in each sign (every nine years), illuminating quotes from famous examples and an analysis of what each sign and house represents. Lilith in daring Aries, the initiator, has Christian Barnard, the first heart transplant surgeon as an example. Vincent van Gogh, a Lilith in Taurus was on his Lilith return when his painting exploded in a vibrancy of colour. Emily Bronte, whose wildness lived out solely through her writing had Lilith in Gemini — and on through the signs.

 The houses also get a detailed run down. Marilyn Monroe had mean Lilith on her Ascendant with many of the motifs associated with the Black Moon – abusive childhood, several marriages and miscarriages, treated as an outsider etc

Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage both with Lilith in the 3rd house of communication – wild and wayout in language.  Barack Obama has his Lilith in the 7th house of close partnerships – starting life as an outcast, ending up with a strong, independent wife. The 8th house, not surprisingly has Elvis Presley, Bardot, Angelina Jolie, Sophia Loren.  The tragic Whitney Houston who drowned in a bath had an 8th house mean Lilith conjunct Neptune.

 The Lilith cycle is pointed up as being important as is the Via Lamia – the gap between the mean and true Lilith.

 This is an all-round one-stop-shop of an informative and entertaining primer on Lilith and worthy of a space in anyone’s astrological library.  

10 thoughts on “Black Moon Lilith – living wild and free”

  1. I managed to find out my true Lilith and Mean Lilith using astro dot com. They varied by 5 degree but in the same sign. I was looking at Someone’s chart and his was a 4 degree different from mean and True Lilith. Looking at natal chart not much difference but when put into synastry aspects are made with true lilith vs non for mean Lilith.

    This was a reddit post by founder of astro seek who did a graph for the year 2020 lilith movement (mean vs true, vs asteroid vs the waldermath dark moon)
    https://www.reddit.com/r/astrology/comments/e40ho2/difference_between_4_different_lilith_objects/

    The graph is quite clear if you are born in early 2020, your mean Lilith quite near your true lilith. But as the year progress, the difference between the true and Mean gets bigger. It was a very interesting post.

  2. Years ago, I took a Black Lights course with Monique Leurink.
    This gave me a completely different perspective on astrology: it was as if I was now seeing a much broader picture. “Black Lights” expanded my consciousness.
    I highly recommend checking out her website: https://www.moniqueleurink.com/
    [email protected]
    She also wrote some books about the Black Lights: (for example)
    https://www.amazon.com.be/Diamond-Astrology-Black-Moon-Priapus/dp/9083409074

  3. Just something I noticed, those online free chart generator websites I used, used Mean Lilith.
    Astro-seek, Cafeastrology. Astro-charts. I have not found any sites that used true lilith yet. I shall continue my search. BML = Black Moon Lilith

  4. Thank you for drawing attention to this book, it looks well worth a read. Lilith in my chart (all iterations) are conjunct or close to my Moon in Cancer. My Mum also has Lilith(s) conjunct her Moon (Scorpio). I’ve always wondered about this.

  5. Thanks Marjorie. Looks like an excellent book to add to my stacks! I do think Mean Lilith (what a name) works well, but haven’t really experimented with the others, except for True Lilith. Lilith is such a fascinating figure, and what she represents is complex and seemingly rooted in ancient fears of female creativity, sexuality, and power. Screech owl, mother of demons, dust storm, ghost, and eventually as centuries roll by she’s a witch.

    The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh says:

    “Gilgamesh struck the serpent who could not be charmed.
    The Anzu-bird flew with his young to the mountains.
    And Lilith smashed her home and fled to the wild, uninhabited places.”

    The extraordinary Gisele Pelicot, 7 December 1952, has Leo Moon conjunct Pluto, with BML 28 Leo opposing today’s Solar Eclipse in Aquarius. Her book, ‘A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides’ is published today. The title, I feel, could be a plea from Lilith herself.

  6. My BML is in a different house in my chart depending on whether I am using True or Mean Lilith which is confusing.

    Also there is the asteroid Lilith to consider as well, which I have conjunct my Ascendant.

  7. Thanks Marjorie. Yet another interesting book for my collection. Asteroid Lilith is conjunct my Mean BML in Leo in the 12th. I have a stellium of Asteroids there, along with Uranus and NN. The ‘outsider’ theme and imposter syndrome has been a big part of the struggle with those placements for me, but because it’s in Leo, I suspect that it might me my way of feeling ‘special’. Standing out in any way had certain risks attached to it in my early childhood.

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