Full Moon in Aries | October 9, 2022 - restoring balance to relationships that have run off course, ending toxic connections & behaviors, last Full Moon before Eclipses

On Sunday, October 9th, at 4:54PM EDT, the Aries Moon moves into an exact opposition with the Libra Sun giving us this month's Full Moon - our annual Full Moon in Aries.

The Full Moon is always a time of tension (there is something to all that howling after all) - it's a time of Sun opposite Moon. Oppositions are pretty much just what they sound like. This one is in the "me vs we" polarity of the Aries/Libra axis.

This is the culmination of the Aries New Moon that launched the lunar year back in April, so maybe something from that time is finishing up/becoming illuminated/peaking. 

 

Feels like years ago, doesn't it? I think I am aging in dog years now. Woof. At the Full Moon things peak, culminate or come to light. Results are delivered. Stuff finishes up. And this is our last Full Moon before Eclipse season, so is MEGA important. 

Let's unpack the chart!

 

The Moon opposes the Libra Sun from 16 degrees Aries. The Moon is conjunct Chiron, The Sun is conjunct Venus (the Moon opposes) and answering to Venus, strong in her home sign of Libra. The Moon sextiles Saturn. The Sun trines. Uranus squares Saturn (exact by degree). Mars, the ruler of this lunation is at the 'power' degree of 22 in Gemini and answering to Mercury, recently direct in his home sign of Virgo. Mars trines Saturn (Grand Air Trine with Mars, Saturn and the Sun) and squares Neptune. The Moon/Sun are T-Squaring Black Moon Lilith in Cancer.

 

The Moon is conjunct Chiron. This aspect is separating/has already happened. Is still in play. So, just before the Moon reaches her fullness in Aries, she passes over Chiron/merges with Chiron (the Sun opposed Chiron on Friday). This makes this Moon extremely SENSITIVE. And this is Aries, an uncomfortable space for sensitivity. The Aries Moon is a warrior/protector not so much given to traditional nurturing or sentimentality. This is the mother who wants her children to be strong and independent. She doesn't coddle. 

This conjunction can bring up emotional wounds. Mother wounds. Painful female relationships. Maybe we are feeling the ways we don't fit in or how we don't "look" the way we want to look. With the Sun in projecting Libra we could be feeling the way someone else is hurting or the way they don't fit in. Fears around not being able to take care of ourselves or be ourselves can come up through situations that stimulate these feelings. At almost the same time this is happening the Moon is opposing Venus. Echoing challenges with females/with partners. Feeling out of balance. Feeling the unfairness/injustice of something, What we are wanting isn't matching up with what we need. We are thinking/feeling all the ways our relationship/the other person isn't measuring up. There could be some kind of disappointment here. 

And this is all happening in the background of the Aries/Libra polarity - me vs we. 

Now, at the same time, the Sun (in Libra, so answering to Venus) is conjuncting Venus. This is one of the most harmonious aspects in astrology. This is amplified by the Full Moon in Aries, but opposing it. So, there is something here about us standing on our own two feet/being self reliant. If the ugly here is too ugly, the Aries Full Moon/Chiron opposing Sun/Venus can give us the grace and self-respect to DEAL WITH IT. To face whatever this is HEAD ON. 

This is why this Moon will only be so challenging. Venus/Sun and Venus opposed Moon are both HELPFUL, loving. We are looking at the other person in a more loving way. Seeing the warts, the vulnerabilities in ourselves and maybe that is what allows us to be more compassionate with others. Maybe some person has been driving us crazy, and something may even come to a head here - likely this will come before the Moon  - and then, something either breaks lose - it is easier for things to end at Full Moons, especially this one - or, maybe we soldier on - the path to true love littered with fewer obstacles because we are dealing with the reality of what something is, warts and all. 

This is all happening just as Pluto is stationing direct. So, here is the death that was postponed - the ending/the dead thing we are carrying around and need to release coupled with the Full Moon's need to exhale almost forces this to happen OR here is the thing that DIDN'T DIE, and now we have a full-load of Aries fire to breath some life into it/fire it up/push it back on track. Sun/Venus in Libra is loving, harmonious, peaceful. Speaks of our RELATIONSHIPS. Venus is trining Saturn, so this is SERIOUS. We are either committed or we aren't.  

 

Rings go on fingers and rings come off.

The Sun is in a helpful (brakes off) trine to Mars in Gemini and Saturn in Aquarius. Here is the AIR, the fiery Full Moon needs. Mercury is just moving off his/her square to Mars, who in Gemini, is answering to Mercury who has just stationed direct, too, so we are probably saying things we have been thinking about or saying things we have said before, but now there is some force/fire/energy behind the words. 

The Moon is sextiling Saturn and Mars, so we should be able - in the Moon's bright light - to see more clearly our options and limits. And, again, this is all about our RELATIONSHIPS. And probably a primary relationship. 

And in the background of all this is the Saturn/Uranus square - separating now, but exact within degree. The old vs the new. The stability vs the chaos. 

This is all forcing our RISING TO THE OCCASION. Whatever the occasion is! Whether we need to work on something that has run off the road or end something that is TOXIC. 

 

We are all lying in the beds we made, so what are we going to do with these sheets and blankets and maybe even that person lying next to us? 

The Aries Full Moon is answering to Mars, who is in Gemini and answering to Mercury in Virgo. Because of his own upcoming retrograde Mars will be in Gemini until March 2023, so this Full Moon is part of the long and winding road to March 2023. Happening with the Moon's final dispositor (Mercury) in stable and practical Virgo tells us the best way through this Moon is by being stable and practical. Attending to our health. Attending to our daily obligations. Small is BIG. The way we do one thing is the way we do everything now.

 

Mars is approaching his square to Neptune, and this, with Mars' upcoming retrograde will be repeating and ongoing. This is already in play and we will feel it stronger as October plays out. Mars is our drive, our passion, our action, our energy. In Gemini, this is us, doing two things at once or doing things twice. This transit has us focused on our Gemini house theme or the more general Gemini themes of communication, words, paperwork, the local community, school, schoolchildren, writing, transportation, tech, etc. The square to Neptune is like the draining of our batteries/attention. Maybe we catch a cold. Maybe we give in to youtube/Netflix. It can be an aspect of confusion. If we are already dealing with mental health issues/neurological issues/breathing problems or love people who are, this will, most likely, have our ATTENTION THIS MONTH and into next year.

Mars/Neptune in mutable signs can dilute our attention from practical matters and make it harder to make sense of things. It can be self-deceptive which can easily float us right into self-sabotage, especially if we, or people we love - because remember this is the me vs we axis at this Full Moon -  are already struggling to care for ourselves in meaningful ways. Mars/Neptune can also fog up Martian things, so we don't notice that wolf at our door until he has his teeth in our leg ... something to keep in mind.

 

The Sun is conjunct asteroid Psyche. In mythology, Psyche, was part of a 'long and winding road' path of true love story with Aphrodite's son Eros (who is in Libra, too, now) and with Jupiter headed back into Pisces to join Juno it would seem this is all reinforcing the importance of our RELATIONSHIPS right not. The Full Moon though is in Aries and this is her lunation. The Sun in Libra wants everyone to play nice and the Moon in Aries wants to deal with this damn wound (Chiron)!

The T-Square to Black Moon Lilith in Cancer speaks of the ways our relationship challenges are connected to our childhood wound/mother wound. The ways we weren't seen or heard. The ways our needs were not accepted. There is a need at this Full Moon to see/confront emotional FEAR. At this Full Moon we will be able to see/feel what we do with this fear. Do we hide? Do we project it onto other people? Do we get sick? Do we entangle/manipulate? Do we take action? Do we get bloody freakin' angry? Can we allow our bodies to process/feel it without judging it? The square to BML might also indicate an uncomfortable female energy at odds with the Full Moon. She wants what she wants, and if this is us, we will need to be thinking about how we might be sabotaging ourselves here. Keep in mind the lunation ruler, Mars, is trining Saturn and the empty leg of this T-Square is Saturn ruled Cappy. What do we need to take responsibility for? And what is not our circus/not our monkeys?

 

(note with the Moon conjunct Chiron in Aries this is pretty much about OUR monkeys and we don't want to be burning bridges based on some victim story we are selling to ourselves that isn't the WHOLE story)

 

We can see this is a complicated Full Moon. We can also see Mercury - and Mars is answering to him/her - is approaching his FINAL opposition to Jupiter in just a couple days. The last chance to mine for that old gold (via Mercury/Jupiter). AND with Jupiter and Mercury both on a world point AND the axis of this Full Moon - Libra/Aries. We'll talk about this in the week ahead.

This is probably a time we will be thinking about who we are within our relationships and who we are without them. If we can see our part in any messes/tangles and take action, likely to be more independent or to encourage independence in others, we would be better off than if we are still doing the Mercury retrograde "re's" - time to move on/forward. Pluto direct/Moon with Chiron at a Full Moon that is not so warm and fuzzy anyway, can hurt, can end relationships and ways of relating, but the pain will be REAL. With Mars journey through Gemini just getting starting there are many choices/questions ahead of us over the next few months and it would be a good thing if right here/right now we can clearly SEE in the most practical way, the REAL of our relationships. Our patterns of relating and relationship imbalances will be ILLUMINATED allowing us to check-in with ourselves, potentially toss some toxic behaviors onto the pyre before this next chapter.

xo all

I hope something here is helpful. I have been blogging less as my faithful readers have probably noticed. I am converting 2 newish jewelry shops I have on Etsy to an escape room box shop (Unlockkit) and Coloring Gift Box Shop (name in process) and this, plus, a community school project (which ended right at this Full Moon thank goodness) has taken much of my time. I should be back here more often in a couple weeks! I miss blogging alot and making and taking pics of new work - especially after 15 years of jewelry only (I do still have my locket shop, of course) - has been freaking exhausting and uncertain. I am mostly more a 'stick with it'er' than a 'start from scratch'er', but circumstances are forcing my hand it seems ...

Today's astrology forecast | Thursday, October 6th, 2022 - words are our super-power, third times the charm and a peek at Friday

 

 

The Moon moves into Pisces at 8:46AM EDT. 

 

Now we are nourished/nurtured through prayer and meditation, by art, music, nostalgia, our imagination, healing, connection, escape, rest, water. Our boundaries are porous - take that extra Vitamin C and think about what you are thinking about/watching/absorbing/who you are connecting with. 

 

Pisces is magical - visualize the results you want. SPEAK IT OUT LOUD.

 

The Sun, at 13 degrees Libra, squares Pallas in Cancer. This is tension/frustration with home/family plans and strategies. Being nice, being polite, being fair (or indecisive) is somehow challenged by situations with home/family/maybe mothering or mother. Or maybe a home/family situation is awakening you to some kind of injustice/imbalance.

 

What to do?

The way through the square will be today's Mercury/Pluto trine. Our third of three. This is about practical conversations, diving into the details, FOCUS. Mercury trined Pluto first on August 22nd and then again on September 27th, so we have been going back and forth over something that is and will be very TRANSFORMATIVE. 

 

Meaning there is a 'before and after' quality to whatever this is. 

For today, don't lose focus on your plans by feeling you need to be civil/polite. Instead focus on honesty/focus on the nuts and bolts and WHAT REALLY MATTERS. Virgo/Cappy is an Earth trine. Practical. Reality-based. Focused on whatever is going on right now. 

 

Small is big. Words are powerful. Use yours well.

xo all

 

Tomorrow, we have the Sun opposed Chiron - that illumination of a wound/vulnerability. The Moon in Pisces will have a sextile to Uranus (change is good) and a square to Mars (tension/frustration with actions, words, ideas). The Moon will also make her monthly Waxing Inconjunct to the Sun. Their last aspect before Sunday's Full Moon in Aries. One final adjustment or something rocky that pushes us to that Full Moon's conclusion. A Pisces/Libra inconjunct might speak about the letting go/release of something we are projecting or a relationship, imbalance, injustice, etc. The need for air in a water environment is painful. So, Friday looks a bit tricky - we have the painful Chiron/Sun with likely something 'unfair' here with that Sun in Libra then the need to let go or release or something is dissolving. We could be feeling tired/under the weather/washed up a bit. The good news is that Pisces Moon in sextile to Uranus - if we can move with whatever is changing there is some kind of opportunity/smooth path in flowing with the change/the unusual/the new/the future.

 

photography by the amazing oprisco

weekly astrology forecast | week of october 3rd to 9th, 2022 - october has come in with a bang and will only get bangier

 

 

We are pulled into the month of October through some pretty powerful portals.

 

Lots of things will move forward and change direction this month!

 

The second half of the month looks more challenging, so let's breath and take some breaks when we can. Eclipse season comes roaring back at the end of the month (and Mars stations retrograde and Jupiter backs into Pisces) and this takes us into the U.S. election season - with the first Eclipse on Putin's ascendant and the second on Election Day! 

 

It's going to be a BIG month.

Keep in mind Mercury stationed direct on Sunday, but will take a couple days to re-orient/get up to speed. Delays will end. Things will start moving forward. This is precise Virgo, so keep your eye on the ball folks!

The caveat to this 'move ahead' thing is Mars in Gemini's retrograde starting at the end of the month. He is already slowed down, so, again this month, we need to be cautious about taking on too much and going in too many directions at once. Although doing two things at once and doing things twice will still be par for the course.

This week we have the Saturn/Uranus square getting as close as it will in 2022, two planets stationing direct including powerful Pluto, Mercury's final trine to Pluto and a BIG Full Moon in fiery Aries. 

 

It sounds like alot because it is. Take your vitamins.

 

TUESDAY - Saturn square Uranus (doesn't quite perfect)

WEDNESDAY - Vesta stations direct

THURSDAY - Sun inconjunct North Node, Mercury trines Pluto

FRIDAY - Sun opposes Chiron

SATURDAY - Pluto stations direct

SUNDAY - FULL MOON in Aries, Venus inconjunct North Node

On TUESDAY - Saturn and Uranus (both retrograde) will come as close to their repeating 2021 squares, as they will in 2022 - exact within degree but not minute. The old vs the new. Stable structure vs chaotic change. The past vs the future. The old vs the young. Insiders vs outsiders. THE FIXED SIGNS BEING PUSHED TO CHANGE and needing to change while at the same time needing to HOLD THE LINE, lest things all fall to pieces in a pile at our feet. The battle for the rulership of the Age of Aquarius is in play folks and we are ALL part of the action. Jupiter, the planet of expansion/luck/faith is situated at the mid-point between these battling giants making everything BIGGER. Jupiter also bringing us HOPE and pulling that 'old gold' because Jupiter is retrograde, too - into the mix.

 

On WEDNESDAY - Vesta stations direct at 22 degrees Aquarius, a powerful number and a degree that has seen alot of action this year. She stationed retrograde back in July at 6 degrees Pisces, so we have been back and forth between these degrees reviewing a 'sacred focus'. Figuring out if something was the real deal/a smart idea or pure fantasy/illusion (in which case it has likely dissolved or soon will).

On THURSDAY -  Mercury, direct now, at 26 Virgo makes his/her third trine to retrograde Pluto. Financial or third party information. Secrets coming out - some of this might have happened closer to Monday when the Moon met up with Pluto. Dot your i's/cross your t's. Words are very powerful and information can come in/out without much resistance. The small details are powerful/the small steps matter. With Mercury direct and Pluto about to be - the conversation/idea is moving forward. There should be greater clarity now and over the next few days as Mercury gets up to speed and away from his opposition to foggy Neptune.

We had this Mercury/Pluto trine on August 22nd and again on September 27th and today is the third of three. Hopefully we have been precise, dug into the details - are ready to move forward. Keep in mind Pluto stations direct in just two days. Today is also the day the Sun inconjuncts the North Node, so some adjustment needed within our relationships (or a need for balance) maybe regarding resources or finances. This is a kind of 'rock and a hard place' aspect, there isn't a firm solution here right now. Mercury's trine to Pluto at the same time will help. Get real. Speak your truth. Focus on the specifics.

In general, this aspect can bring positive/good news in regard to a work/health, daily-life, pet situation. Solutions are smoothly integrated. Results come in. Virgo/Cappy trines are good for communicating with those in authority and stepping into our own with our words/information. Earth trines help with practical/reality-based concerns. 

On FRIDAY - the Sun, at 14 Libra, opposes Chiron in Aries. This is a light on a vulnerability or maybe we experience a wound through another person. We might feel like a victim somehow - "they are out to get me". Feel the ways we are on our own/left out/not supported or feel the ways someone else is. Oppositions can also bring endings/closing situations. We could be dealing with something painful now that highlights relationship imbalances.

 

On SATURDAY - Pluto stations direct at 26 degrees Capricorn. Now there is nothing standing in the way of his entry into Aquarius in March 2023!!!

Here is the death that was postponed - maybe we had time to clean up our mess - to get our ducks in a row - maybe to prevent a big-bang style ending, but more likely to prepare ourselves for it. Pluto forges ahead again - bent on deconstructing the old order.

Pluto direct speaks of a loss (let go or be dragged), a total transformation or change of course of some part of our life and/or REAL EMPOWERMENT. Here is the power that was lost.

 

If you have planets or points near 26 degrees of the cardinal signs, you have been no doubt feeling this (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn). This is about changes with real-word structure. Tangible/physical things. He is just coming off that tine to Mercury, so no doubt information/communication will be very important with some things changing direction either last week or this week.

In general, this is a Cappy forward movement, so collectively good for stalled careers/goals and ambitions.

On SUNDAY - The Aries Moon will oppose the Libra Sun giving us this month's Full Moon, which yes, we will all be HOWLING AT. I think there is ALOT to like about this Aries Full Moon (and some possible relationship challenges/endings) and we will talk about it in its own post. 

 

We will take a better look at October, too, and look at some big picture stuff this week.

 

We start the week with a serious Capricorn Moon. 

 

Buckle down. Get to work. Take things seriously. The Cappy Moon is making all smooth aspects on Monday and will go void off her monthly meeting with powerful Pluto.

xo all

photo by the amazing ankazhuravleva

today's astrology forecast | Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 - words are our super-power

 

 

The Moon finishes up in Libra, going void at 12:26PM EDT off a square to Pluto (some tension/frustration, power struggles within relationships or with authority). She is void until she moves into Scorpio at 7:15PM EDT. In Scorpio, we are nourished/nurtured by power/collective resources/merging/purging/diving deep. Our emotions become more intense, situations can feel more "life and death".

As the Moon is squaring Pluto, Mercury is moving backward into a smooth trine (his/her second of three) with Pluto. This is the Mercury/Pluto trine with both planets retrograde. We had this aspect on August 22nd and will have the final trine on October 6th. Words are powerful. Secrets can come out. Mercury is in "let's fix this thing" Virgo, so there is something here - maybe involving a conversation or contract or information that we need a better/deeper look at. Seek facts. What needs to be re-viewed/re-vised? What needs to be said again? Something is falling into place, but we are going to have to be smart. The news/talks/our decisions and choices are in DO-OVER mode with this one.

 

Heads up for tomorrow - although I might be popping back in here. The Scorpio Moon is quiet, but we have Mars in Gemini trining Saturn in Aquarius. You could be feeling this today, too. Our actions/words/ideas will be in a cooperative alignment with authority/with the public. More smooth flow- brakes off. Whatever this is we will have a repeating aspect at the end of November with Mars retrograde, so whatever is happening today we will be re-vising, re-viewing, re-doing, re-peating then. But this is the time to be moving AHEAD.

 

(the Mars/Saturn trine, both today's and November's is part of the Mars/Saturn cycle that started in April 2022 and winds down in April 2024. We had the tense square in early August, so whatever started in April was blocked then. Now we get the smooth flow of the trine and move forward, but we will have to do this again somehow at the end of November).

 

Today though (the 27th) has that Plutonian vibe - intense interactions, Scorpio people, going deep, research, intimate conversations, financial information, etc. 

 

Keep in mind the long void Moon and use it to chill out.

More in the weekly HERE.

xo all

photo by the talented Anna1Anna

 

Astrology forecast | week of september 26 to october 2, 2022 - second chances, the week that 'old gold' shows up, secrets come out, obsessions are stirred, an intense week

 

 

This is a BIG week. Yes, I would say it is.

 

We are coming off the New Moon in Libra opposing Jupiter and right out of the gate the energy starts playing out. Here is the week some rock solid progress can be made. Here is the week that OLD GOLD can show up. Keep going. Don't give up. Take care of yourself. Rest when you need to.

Let's unpack this potentially FORTUITOUS WEEK! Just keep in mind the expression about not looking a gift horse in the mouth (is that how it goes) - if things don't show up exactly as we were hoping. We will be back mining for old gold again in a couple weeks, so we want to be GRATEFUL for whatever comes our way now. Powerful truths are possible, too.

Let's dive right in!

 

MONDAY/TUESDAY - Venus trines Pluto (retro), Mercury retrograde backs into Venus, Sun opposes Jupiter (retro)

WEDNESDAY - Mercury (retro) trine Pluto (retro) - 2nd of 3rd

THURSDAY - Mars trine Saturn (retro), Venus enters Libra, Ceres enters Virgo

SATURDAY - Venus opposes Jupiter (retro)

SUNDAY - Mercury stations DIRECT! (opposing Neptune), First Quarter Moon (Cappy)

On MONDAY/TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY - So, now, the Sun, doing what the Moon did Sunday, opposes that retrograde Jupiter. We talked about this in the New Moon post HERE.  

 

A light on the old gold. Maybe an old opportunity comes back around. Expansion. An ending of something that has become too big to handle. This can also be where what we have been OVER-DOING/exaggerating is illuminated. Sun/Jupiter - even the pesky opposition - should FEEL GOOD. This is an elevating aspect, can bring rewards for past good deeds, brings confidence/happiness.

Plus - this is happening while Venus is meeting Mercury and both are trining Pluto. 

 

The chances are high the NEWS WILL BE GOOD. The illuminated 'whatever-this is' BENEFICIAL somehow. Trines are smooth flow - the brakes are off. Whatever is happening should move in a positive direction without alot of pushing from us. Mercury/Venus speaks of us hearing what we want to hear (as in good news) or saying things that other people will. Mercury is still retrograde for a couple more days, so this will be something that has come back around. Say it again. Reach out again. Make changes/corrections. Try again.

Venus/Pluto is empowering/transformative. Sexy. Something is falling into place. Venus is finishing up in Virgo, so maybe we arrive at an important SOLUTION. This might have to do with our daily obligations, our work, our health, our pets, the theme of your natal Virgo house. Small is big with this one. This is an Earth trine, so brings real things we can hold in our hands/take to the bank. Pluto is retrograde, too, so this will also have its feet in the past. Venus/Pluto and Mercury/Pluto can also bring out secrets - financial, relationship. I hope there are no skeletons in your closet looking to be shaken loose. Manipulations are highly effective now, but never recommended due to their tendency to bite us in the ass later.

After meeting up with Venus, Mercury trines Pluto - for the second time. This time with both planets retrograde. We had this back on August 22nd, so maybe we are re-looking at something from that time frame. Information can be intense/precise. Words are powerful. With Mercury in Virgo, now we can see the problem AND there should be an answer/solution. Even with challenging news we aren't just left hanging out to dry.

 

The Moon in Libra is making her trines to Mars and Saturn - more smooth flow. The only tangle in the first part of the week is the Moon's square to Pluto at 12:21PM EDT on Tuesday before she goes void until 7:15 EDT. Here's that power struggle we talked about in the New Moon post.

On THURSDAY, Mars in Gemini trines Saturn in Aquarius. An air trine. Good for the flow of ideas and conversations. We are tapping into the collective. This busy/busy, two things at once or doing everything twice thing we have going on is somehow paying off. Authority will be supportive. Saturn is retrograde, so we might be returning to an old responsibility, goal, limit, structure, authority. Revising a business, our reputation, etc. Good for group activities, too.

This is also the day Ceres moves into Virgo - nurturing/change of life situations/things that are outside our control benefit from small steps in a healthier direction. We will talk about this as we move through it..

 

The big news - VENUS COMES HOME TO LIBRA. 

 

This transit (until October 23rd) makes Libra Suns and Risings, who are already naturally attractive, even more so - both physically attractive and more able to attract what they want/need. Everyone's Libra house gets more attractive, too (what house was Libra in when you were born? what is the theme of that house? Where is Venus in your natal chart? This area of life gets more attractive, too, as transiting Venus grows stronger in her home sign).

We will be attracted to what we find 'beautiful'. We will be attracted to what we find 'just'. We will be attracted to what we find 'peaceful'. And these are the qualities people will find attractive in us and our work in the world. These are the qualities we'll want to bring to the table (and yes, flowers, flowers would be a good thing to bring to the table, too) to attract whatever we are wanting to attract now.

 

If our relationships have felt too nit-picky/critical/austere - things will improve under this transit.

The potential for peace increases as we move from critic (Virgo) to diplomat (Libra). The potential for people pleasing increases, too, so balance is the key now. Making life too much about the other person is Libra's shadow side. It's easier, or I should say, ahem, lazier (although I am not blaming anyone because I think we are all tired and Venus has just moved out of her opposition to draining Neptune), to just give in to something to have "harmony" than to work out the win-wins or half-assed win-wins that are sometimes required. We need to honor ourselves as well as the other person.

In Libra, there is power in groups and alliances - but the emphasis (for now) is on the shared human experience of connection rather than on what might emerge later. It's not the time for thinking about how it will all play out, what we are getting or giving. There is Scorpio season for that. It's just the time for the experience. We come into real harmony when we can see each other clearly. We don't have to always agree with each other. Agreeing isn't step two or even step one hundred and two. 

 

These days, it's easy to forget that ...

On SATURDAY, Venus opposes Jupiter retrograde. More OLD GOLD. Also relationship DRAMA possible. Venus in Libra shifts the energy of relationships, money and self-esteem to a social level. If you look good/sound good, you must BE good. Libra gets a bad rap for pouring pink paint on problems and for being superficial, but without Libra's beauty, balance, diplomacy and tasty sugar coating, life would be pretty un-freaking bearable. Opposed to Jupiter this is all on steroids. Relationships are more HOPEFUL. Balance can RETURN. Maybe something overblown is ending and we can breathe. Fingers crossed on that one.

 

NOTE - the gold-mining isn't over until after October 12th when Mercury direct opposes Jupiter for the final time!

On SUNDAY,  good news - MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT. He is opposite Neptune - although the opposition never quite perfects, so the bubble isn't bursting just yet and things can be confusing! It will take Mercury a couple days to get up to speed, and we will be covering old ground for awhile, but we are moving on, plus now Mars gets a direct Mercury in his home sign to answer to - that will have to make a difference for all of us. Mercury is in the grounded energy of Virgo, soon to be back in the relationship/balance focused energy of Libra. 

 

I hope we fixed whatever we had the opportunity to fix!

Until Venus comes home to Libra, alot of the sky is answering to Mercury and he is STILL retrograde this week, so keep that in mind. Nothing is full steam ahead and anything we have over-done/over-committed to can be 'in the limelight/in our face'. Any week with multiple personal planets chatting with Pluto will be INTENSE. The aspect itself though is smooth/not jagged, so there should be ANSWERS/solutions to whatever he is digging up. There isn't alot of escape this week, so we are just going to have to roll with things. Keep your ear/eye/basically anything you can stick out there - open for that OLD GOLD. What did you miss the first time through? Maybe this is something that can now be fixed and then BOOM it's Easy Street for you. :)

xo all

photography by the amazing fae-photography

Autumnal Equinox and New Moon in Libra | whatever it takes to bring ourselves and our relationships back into balance over the next few months, ships will be jumped, contracts will be broken

Just days after the Autumnal Equinox, a collective point of balance, September 25, 2022 at 5:54PM EDT, the Libra Moon meets the Libra Sun giving us this month's New Moon - our annual New Moon in Libra.  

 

Libra New Moons are about new ways to partner/new people/new connections/new situations. New LOVE - not the deep kind necessarily (although it could be), but the social kind that gets us invited to coffee and walks in the park. New peace and harmony. New negotiations. What is fair now? What is balanced now? What does justice look like now? This is a cardinal energy - something is going to START.

They meet at 2 degrees. I like when a New Moon starts close to the beginning, although it almost certainly makes outcomes harder to judge (because it's TOO EARLY).

Let's unpack the chart!

The Moon meets the Sun at 2 degrees Libra. They are applying to an opposition to Jupiter. Exactly conjunct asteroid Rhiphonos. The ruler of this lunation (ruler of Libra) is Venus in Virgo who is conjunct (and answering to) a retrograde Mercury and widely squaring both Mars and Chiron. The Uranus/Saturn square of 2021/2022 is within a 1 degree orb/breathing down our neck. 

Since this is also pretty much the Equinox chart, this chart is about more than the next month. We will be working with this chart (yes, with Venus is nit-picking Virgo!) until the Aries New Moon chart next spring. 

The biggest aspect is the lunation's opposition to a retrograde Jupiter in Aries. Jupiter works his magic by MAKING THINGS BIGGER, so almost certainly what is started now is in some way destined/designed to be BIG or exaggerated. Certainly apt to GROW, so we really want to think about the seeds we are putting into the ground now. The Moon/Jupiter brings opportunities for luck, success and happiness, but also a warning around over-doing. Over-committing. Over-promising. Over-expecting. Wanting too much. Being a greedy assh*le. Jupiter is retrograde, so we are looking for the gold we missed the first time through - the gold is BEHIND US. The Libra New Moon fresh start will have a connection to something we did before or something from the past. Relationships can come back from the brink with this one. 

 

The Jupiter opposition could force us to look at what we are projecting onto other people, by MAKING CERTAIN PROBLEMS BIGGER. We are likely going to have to rely on ourselves more. Or find different people. Sometimes we are putting the wrong things on the wrong people and then acting like they are letting us down. If your partner is an Aries Moon, the chance of them mothering you, yes, even when you are down and out with covid, is pretty unlikely. So you need someone else in your life for THAT. Sometimes people think they need a whole new relationship when what they really need is a FRIEND.

 

We are in a whole new world and still trying to do relationships in the same old ways!

 

Over the course of the next few months many partnership contracts (not just romantic) will be broken/many ships jumped. We will be re-looking at what we have committed ourselves to. If our heart's not in it, we won't be either. With the Uranus/Saturn square in play - things we used to rely on are not as stable and at the same time the new structures will have limits/restrictions. Being free isn't free. There is so much retrograde energy - including both Saturn AND Uranus - nothing will be full steam ahead. 

 

We are going back to go forward.

 

With Venus conjunct a retrograde Mercury, we are talking/thinking about our relationships. Talking to people we are in relationship with. Old relationships can come back around. Old Mercurian things - commerce, siblings, local community, words, writing, childhood education - can be fallen in love with AGAIN. We could get some good news. Maybe from an old source.

 

Venus is still in finicky Virgo. Fixing, Refining. In mutual reception to that retrograde Mercury, so we need to go through the fixes/the service/the re-visions to get to Libra - the balance/the relationship/the love. And this opposition to Jupiter is making everything bigger than it should be/needs to be. It will be hard not to be OVER-COMMITTED to something right now! Too much work. Too much service. Too much spending. Venus is opposing Neptune which is draining relationship batteries and finances. 

The New Moon is exactly conjunct asteroid Rhiphonos. 

 

Rhiphonos, whose name means 'throwing or casting' was one of the dozen sprites guarding Zeus's son Dionysus from Hera, when she turned them into centaurs. He later pulled Dionysus's chariot. Rhiphonos, the asteroid, was discovered on the day of Ted Kennedy's funeral, which was kind of the end of American royalty. And, of course, this time period has a very strong connection to the passing of Queen Elizabeth and ending of the 'queen' archetype, which I wish I had time to write about, and will, when things slow down. Ironically, he is one of the few centaurs not famous for the way he died, but most of his story has been lost to time. His name definition might also be another admonition to think about what we are projecting onto other people. Think about how we are doing what we are accusing the other person of doing, etc. 

The Sabian Symbol for this New Moon is "the dawn of a new day reveals everything changed'. The NEW can begin and take hold quickly. Probably many of the changes, this is a lunar event after all, will be INTERNAL.

 

Just before this New Moon, the Moon passes over Venus, opposes Neptune, passes over Mercury and then meets the Sun and then will oppose Jupiter. She then trines Mars and Uranus and goes void off a square to Pluto. So, things are complicated and this "relationship-focused" New Moon ends with that testy square to power. 

There is alot to like here, too. Just keep in mind the seeds now are going to grow, so is what you are growing really something you want to eat. There is also an out of sign trine to Sedna - pulling something we don't want to look at too closely into the mix, but also more mega-transformational energy and, again, something about RELYING ON OURSELVES.

I hope something here is helpful, although I am feeling that somehow it isn't. Libra is my 12th house, not so much a space designed for me to be able to see clearly. You might have to muddle through much of this one without me 

:)

xo all