This aspect is associated with the new Moon and, in its most extreme, with the eclipse of the Sun. In many respects, your identity may be said to be weak. You tend to be captive to unconscious forces--your emotions, your background, your subconscious motivations. Another dimension of this “weakness” is the “disappearance” of the self through merging your personal consciousness into the sea of the Divine Unconscious. Both states are symbolized by the Sun’s eclipse.
To a certain extent, a distinction may be made between the waning and the waxing new Moon as signifying the end of an old cycle or the beginning of a new cycle. For the waning phase conjunction, it may be that your identity is burdened down by a load of heritage and conditioning. For waxing phase conjunction, it may be that your identity is so fragilely established that, as a new vessel, you take your color from sources other than yourself. At the new Moon, also, most of the Moon is hidden or only dimly visible. Thus, your emotions and other conditioning influences may remain hidden, though deeply affecting your personality.
An alternative manifestation of this conjunction is that the primal masculine and feminine energies within the psyche are merged and united so that each absorbs the strengths of the other, producing a powerful and whole personality. As likely as not, in order to achieve this stage, you have had to work through an earlier stage of being dominated by unconscious forces. The waning stage challenge would involve throwing off the bonds of tradition, emotional conditioning, family influence or parental dominance. The waxing stage challenge would involve the discovery that there is a self, independent of your conditioning influences, and the nurturing and development of that nascent self into a mature being.
It is likely also that you will have to transcend cultural sex-role stereotypes if the feminine and masculine energies within your psyche are to be fully integrated. If you fail to overcome these stereotypes, then the likely result will be, if you are a woman, a personality with low self-esteem and a weak identity.
If you are male, the result of persisting in the culturally defined role is likely to be a personality that is out of touch with your feminine side. You are conditioned to play a dominant role, but you have little depth of self behind the conditioned persona. If you integrate the feminine and masculine energies, you are likely to become strong, not only in your will but also in your intuition. You will be independent of spirit, sensitive, nurturing, balanced and whole.
Whether role-bound or liberated, you are likely to have an affinity for home, family and domestic matters. The question is the extent to which you are conditioned by these facets of life. You are likely to have a strong emotional side to your personality. The question is whether you are controlled by your emotions or whether you use and enjoy them. You are also likely to be attracted to the past. The question is whether you will be bound by traditions or will be able to learn from the past, taking what is good.
