New Moon in Leo | Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - words light the match, brave actions, following our heart, birthing something new, old obligations and rules, a karmic turning point

On August 18, 2020, at 10:42PM EDT, the Leo Moon will meet the Leo Sun at 26 degrees bringing us this year's New Moon in Leo.

After two months of back-to-back emotional New Moons in watery Cancer, we finally get a fiery new beginning! This New Moon rushes in, plants the seed and pushes things forward.

Are we ready?!

This New Moon is happening in our Leo natal house. Our natal Leo house is where we are meant to "shine" - this is where we create, take risks and are "recognized". This "recognition" doesn't mean everyone is going to love what we are doing (although they might!).

But it does mean the stuff we are doing will stand out.

Let's unpack the chart.

The Moon is conjunct the Sun at 26 degrees Leo (so they both got almost all the way to the very end of the sign, before meeting, this matters and we'll talk about it). They are conjunct Mercury. They are sextiling (opportunity) the North Node (our future) and trining the South Node. They are trining (brakes off) an igniting and exact Mars/Eris conjunction. They are exactly inconjunct (rock and a hard place) sober Saturn and exactly sextiling Asteroid Haumea (she is new to me, but we'll take a look). At the same time, because this is an event chart and everything will matter to a greater or lesser degree, Venus is exactly sextiling Uranus.

When the New Moon happens near the very end of a sign, I see it as a push from life to get moving with something. We weren't trusted to take too much time with this because maybe we would never get it going, so this comes in at the very last moment with a kind of urgency. GO.

They are applying to a sextile to the North Node and trine to the South. The sextile is fire/air - talk, communicate, write, start a conversation, reach out. Information comes in. We share what we know. An opportunistic contact is made. The trine (South Node Sag) is a smooth release. Something needs to go and we are ready for it to go. This could be a 'belief' that has outlived its usefulness - maybe something your grandmother believed and maybe her grandmother before her. Something related to the theme of your Sag house maybe. Whatever this is it needs to go and we are ready for it to go. Or maybe I should say as ready as we will ever be. More time, more information, more planning will not make us any more ready. Trust the timing/the cycle.

THIS IS ABOUT KARMIC CHANGE.

We can not be in one state of consciousness without suffering the consequences of not being in another state of consciousness. We can't WAKE UP and then hit snooze and return to that dream we were having no matter no much we want to go back there. We are AWAKE now.

The Moon/Sun are trining a fiery Mars/Eris conjunction. The Sun trined Mars last weekend and the Moon got there today. A trine releases the brakes. This can be a good thing - we are trying to get somewhere and an obstacle is smoothly removed from our path and we can keep going or not such a good thing if that obstacle was the only thing standing between us and the side of a cliff. Avoid anger/violence. Initiate positive action. Passion. Again it's a GO.

The Moon/Sun are inconjunct Saturn. Here's the fly in the ointment, but we know about this fly because Saturn is retrograde, so we're already dealing with this fly. Here is the limit, the rule, the whatever this is - standing in our way. Adjustments must be made for this roadblock is major construction and going to be here for a while. This one is a STOP.

And because Mars (action) is squaring Saturn (actually sandwiched in a square between Saturn and Pluto) and these two are part of a 'Clash of the Titans' style battle until December - this is going to be an ongoing thorn in our side. Fly in our ointment. Roadblock on our journey.

THESE TIMES ARE NOT THROUGH WITH US.

Sorry to report this, but you already know this, don't you?

The fiery energy of Leo (the GO, the ego) has to contend with the conservative energy of Capricorn (STOP, the reality police). We have to adjust to this before and as we move ahead. Cappy is about responsibilities, commitments, limits, rules, authority. We have to pay attention to this, and we will, because we won't be able to not pay attention (and like I said, this isn't something brand new, we already know about this, are dealing with this), but it's not like the oppositions we have had for the last two New Moons with the Moon/Sun conjunctions in Cancer. Inconjuncts provide amazing opportunities for growth, but both sides need to be taken into consideration and perfection/total satisfaction with either energy is not going to happen. We have to accept a certain incompleteness here. And we can because we have no choice.

Venus is sextile Uranus (in Taurus, so answering to Venus, who is in Cancer so answering to this Moon in Leo answering to the Leo Sun). When it comes to relationships, our resources, money and values, that home/family situation - we can smoothly move in a new, opportunistic and forward leaning direction and won't have to push. We are attracted to change.

The Moon/Sun are conjunct Mercury who is about to take his exit for Virgo, so again, we have to be quick about this! There won't be much time to think because more thinking won't help us. With Mercury coming off yesterday's Superior Conjunction to the Sun - he is kind of the spark here.

YES, WORDS AGAIN. Facts. Ideas. Information.

So what do you know, think, hear, say, read, write? What has just dawned on you? What are you talking about? Do you know? Yes, we are back to this again! And you do know. Maybe some information or deadline gets us moving!

The Moon/Sun are sextiling asteroid Haumea in Libra. She is a Hawaiian fertility Goddess and rules childbirth and renewal. She is associated with creativity and 'bringing forth' something new. In Libra, she pulls in our relationships, balance, fairness and other people into the mix.

Now we can't just take these transits and sit on our ass with them. We can't hear "this will happen to you" (which I never say, but sometimes people have a way of hearing) and have this allow us to be anything we want to be in the meantime and then "this will happen to us" - it doesn't work this way.

This New Moon is in fiery Leo so will involve our natal Leo house theme or a collective Leo theme - creative projects, children, romance, recreation, pleasure, our heart, our heart's desire, the space we are meant to shine, our center stage. 

Here is where we get a fresh start via a spark that is lit through Mercury's meeting with the Sun - information, ideas, conversations, choices that align with our heart/our natural spotlight.

This will be activated through our passionate and courageous action (Mars/Eris). Maybe what we value (Venus/Uranus) is changing or leans into the future somehow. Change is good.

There are old obligations, rules and limits we will have to take into consideration and adjust to. These are not going away during this New Moon period.

This fresh start/new beginning is KARMIC (the Nodal sextile and trine) - a smooth move forward as something else is released. Holding onto what needs to go (maybe an old belief) just jams up the works here.

This beginning - a new chapter within a chapter - is part of the final third act of 2020 - our Clash of the Titans grand finale!

Keep in mind the South Node (what we are releasing) is in Sagittarius - this isn't about what we believe or sitting in hope of something else or something more. This is about the steps we take and the conversations we have and the contacts and decisions we make - small is big, but we have to be brave, yes, there is some risk here - this is LEO! - that can move us into a new direction more in line with our best future. Leo is the sign of our ego and a reactivation of what we want to do/what we came here to do needs to happen now.

This New Moon is a GO. So what are we going to do with it?

If you need help figuring out what area of life this is activating for you just give me an email or leave a comment with your birth date, time and birthplace.

This is a fiery new beginning activating quickly and over the next two weeks within your Leo house theme. Your Aries house is supportive and will tell you what to do/the move to make. Your Cappy house brings what you will need to adjust to (for many people, because this is where Saturn/Pluto met and 'time ran out' this will be about the ramifications of the virus) via old rules, obligations, limits. Your Gemini/Sag houses are guiding your way through this ....

INTENTION TIPS:

Clear a space. Wash your hands. Speak intentionally (and less) in the time leading up to and following this ritual to give your thoughts/words more juice. Don't share them. This is all about you. Let your heart (aided by your head) guide you, write your intentions down by hand in script on a blank piece of paper, speak the words out loud, sit with this as long as it feels appropriate, then burn the paper - release your attention from these things knowing your intention is known.

Life has heard you. 


Know these things are already yours.



xo all


big picture post coming in a couple days and then we get back to that Wuhan/Pandora series