Some years ago, I had been invited to a Thanksgiving dinner. The hostess (and most of her guests) were Astrologers and as my knowledge was quite minimal at that time, I was in over my head!

As the meal progressed, the ladies started to talk about an astrological phenomenon called Dark Moon Lileth.

Immediately, my artists’ mind went off on another tangent and I was off with the fairies until I could get home, research it and get something on paper!

This is what I found………….

(Published in the Second Road news letter, October 1988)

By Catt Foy

Copyright © 1988, Catt Foy

She is reputedly Adam's first wife, before Eve. She is known as a demoness, the killer of infants in their cradles. She is the original woman, who refused to be subjugated to a man's desires. Consort to both the devil and God himself, she is the enigmatic and mysterious Lilith.

A little-known element in astrology charts, Lileth is known as the "dark Moon" and, as such, represents our "dark" or hidden emotional selves.

Lileth’s placement in the chart is especially important to women, and represents the power of the original woman. In a man's chart, Lilith's placement will reveal the hidden power struggles or other issues he may have, resolved or unresolved, with the women in his life.

Lilith was known to the Chaldean astrologers; the Egyptians called her Nephthys. The name Lileth is from the old Semitic word for night, "lei" or "lelath", in Arabic "laylah," which also means "ghost" or "spectre" in Hebrew. She is associated with the Death card in Tarot and with the goddesses Persephone, Hecate, Athena, Minerva. She is associated with the Owl, representing secrecy and wisdom, and she is frequently connected with cats.

Lileth is perhaps best understood in contrast to her counterpart, the visible Moon, Luna. Luna receives her self-fulfillment and self-definition through the nurturing of others. Lileth is self-fulfilled and self-defined. Luna represents the visible emotions; Lileth is those emotions which remain hidden or secret. Lileth lives behind-the-scenes, usually undetected. She can be sneaky or deceptive.

I thoroughly enjoyed working this painting. Here is Lileth in all her glory, by all accounts a bit of a handful! Stroppy, stressy, sulky and sexy!