The Moon is void until 9:44AM EST when she moves into Pisces and we start building toward this Saturday's New Moon.
Nurtured through art, compassion, our intuition, spirituality, connection, rest, water (the absence of this stuff more keenly felt now) a Pisces Moon is like a 12th house Moon in that she fosters deep unconscious hungers.
The Moon isn't like the Sun. Our lunar needs have preceded our solar ones. Being able to express our Moon means being able to express our survival needs/appetites without having to justify them (the reasoning abilities/self awareness of the Sun).
If you see the Moon as I do, kind of the earth mother inside us - the instinctual principal who knows how to nourish and sustain life (with lunar mis-firings showing up within us in different ways, such as 'eating disorders', looking for nurturing in all the wrong places, hanging on to things too long, etc), her time every month in the dark - the balsamic Moon that carries us through the birth canal toward the New Moon - it's as if mother has gone away. Some people are not so bothered by this and soothed during balsamic Moon days, and they are certainly more conducive to rest, etc, and some people - and this can be more about the way a particular month's journey is interacting with your natal and vary from month to month - can feel un-rooted as mother's siesta triggers very early and intimate experiences of feeling "unsafe".
Our natal Moon's sign and house are very clear indicators of what we need to feel safe.
Our Pisces Moon's only aspect today is a square to Mars (at 4 degrees Gemini) at 6:16PM EST. Forewarned is forearmed - this frustration/tension could take the form of an argument/disagreement, maybe especially within partnerships/over contracts or commitments because the only other exact aspect today is the Sun (at 21 degrees Pisces) squaring Juno in Sagittarius.
A challenge/frustration - this is all mutable energy, so maybe the terms of an agreement/partnership/marriage or maybe a situation with a woman need to change. Things are in flux. With the Sun in Pisces, boundaries/edges are fuzzy and Sag is all soothed by being 'gung ho' for something better/bigger, so this is not really the time to be signing on the dotted line or getting into bed with someone/something. Let's get past this thing first and see what we've still got. The Pisces Sun will shine a light on new hopes/expectations and through the tension of the square show us what needs to be released/what is already fading.
Practice empathy. Release control. Take responsibility for your own needs (momma's napping). Accept the other person as they are. Go with the flow. Make art. Listen to music. How else can we work with these squares? Get enough rest/escape as needed.
xo all
say a prayer for Fukushima and planet Earth and all of us on the 10 year anniversary of the environmental disaster that has changed the world ...
painting by the amazing Etienne Istvan
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