New Moon in Gemini 14 June 2026 Anticipation

12 Friday Jun 2026

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The New Moon forms at 7:53 PM PDT of the 14th at 24 Gemini 02, moving into a sextile with a stressed, 29 degree Chiron in Aries and a semi-sextile to Jupiter in Cancer. That gives our New Moon a heavy sense of anticipation; we’re thinking (Gemini) about what we care about (the Moon, Cancer) and our role(s) as an individual who must choose and act (Aries), out of hurt, or to heal or wound (Chiron). The challenge may be to know if we should act; believing we are being offered opportunities (Jupiter) or that there’s a crisis of some kind demanding we do something about it (Chiron at 29) can effectively play with our heads, filling our thoughts and paralyzing, or worse, spurring us to act precipitously or unwisely, just to reduce the tension.

Knowing what matters from the past guides us today. With Thanks to Rhododendrites CC BY-SA 4.0

What’s born here is probably a new viewpoint, after review of the facts (Jupiter) around what we care about (Cancer). Air signs will have an easier time of this, immersed in their usual mental orientation, thinking thinking thinking, while others will likely try to reach conclusions/ understanding via feeling (Lunar influences). It may be that the Air-aligned will short-change the feeling side of things, while those feeling-centered may remain confused about the way forward, if they fail to really think about those feelings, and so translate them into thought as the Gemini New Moon requires.

In the recent past (shown by Lunar and Solar aspects just previous to the New Moon) we see that we were confronted with what has been hidden, denied, or ignored, and that enrages (opposition to the Black Moon Lilith point in Sagittarius), followed by a semi-sextile to Mars in Taurus, where we likely expressed the way this has materially/ physically impacted us and our sense of security and stability, and a simultaneous sesquiquadrate to Pluto in Aquarius, calling for reform, revolution, and/ or destruction. This experience set the stage for the new way of thinking/ interpreting/ understanding presented by New Moon events. Opportunity/ choice, and the chance to hurt or heal (ourselves or others) still lies in the near future, at New Moon time; our task coincident with the Lunar event is simply to understand, as completely as possible, the options we face, and what, if any, steps we must take for our own peace of mind.

The Sabian symbol for the New Moon is, ‘A Gardener Trimming Large Palm Trees’. Attending to palms is specialty work; not every gardener would be capable of a shinny up a palm, nor would they necessarily know what to do when they got to the top! The image suggests the New Moon may call on particular skills each of us have, relative to the work we’re doing in this life (and that may be anything, any area where we own a special ‘touch’, a flare, a gift, an ability. Use it, and you become more healthy; your growth will benefit.

On Some Recent and Coming Aspects

Much was made of the recent Venus-Jupiter conjunction, though I find it less than positive, simply because the starry-eyed optimism it engenders consistently leads to excesses everyone then regrets! Too, in Cancer it can make for the worst kind of sentimentality, where overstepping sees users take advantage of those who care and big emotional investments can be made in paper-thin romanticized scenarios that don’t last, thanks to the changeability of the Lunar influence. I don’t mean to be cynical, so much as point out that there’s no such thing as a uniformly positive or negative aspect in astrology, especially when it comes to conjunctions. More enjoyable potentials for Venus-Jupiter include being enveloped by an enormous and genuine sense of Love, gaining opportunities for Love or Money through others caring about you, you about them, or through matters you care about, and receiving an emotional ‘payoff’ from having ‘the facts’ or one’s beliefs confirmed. Venus-Jupiter is, more than anything, ‘a chance’–how you use it is up to you.

Already within orb and sure to gain concentration like a bolt of lightning is the T-square of Uranus to the Nodal axis. Expect unanticipated changes, surprises, revelation, and revolution to the life direction, where we take an accounting of the past (South Node in Virgo) and assess how that may affect our spiritual Path ahead (North Node in Pisces). The electric spirit of Uranus puts us in touch with what we have gleaned from prior experience (Virgo) and charges a creative current we can ride into the future (Pisces). It’s a conduit that connects us to both our own abilities and their best use in the coming days–and all of it arriving through the unexpected and the shocking. Be ready, be open, don’t let it disorient, and thus undo, you.

Full Moon 31 May 2026 The Wisdom in Feeling

30 Saturday May 2026

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The Moon and Sun perfect opposition at 1:44 AM PDT at 9 Sagittarius 55 (Luna) and 9 Gemini 55 (Sol). A Full Moon in Sag brings revelation via facts, a long journey, exposure to new cultures, customs, or information, or through the ritual of religion or education that acts as its own means of widening the individual viewpoint, as it relates to what others have experienced, gathered, or accumulated to the benefit of those who follow. Sagittarius expands the world, and does so firmly fixed in reality; the imagination gives way to the particulars of things as they are, enlightening through experience of what is. At this time we’re likely to be at least a little uncomfortable with the undeniable, the hard edges of things, but we need to remember: knowing where we stand supplies the materials for accomplishment, and for genuine change.

The Moon is past a recent trine to Neptune (mere hours before), suggesting we’re done, one way or another, with any emotional illusions we’ve been entertaining; with Neptune in Aries those illusions were likely about ourselves, about our inherent feeling nature and how it may affect our actions and choices. At the Full Moon, illusions, delusions, and the nebulous give way to the facts, to knowledge, in a process of reaching out or exposure to others and their ways (Sag). At the Lunar event the Moon is in approaching trine to Saturn in Aries (12 Aries), which is itself still conjoined Pallas=what we learn at the Full Moon offers emotional wisdom grounded in who we are in the real world, not just who we think we are, or think we could be. We see the hard reality behind what we were just hours before confused or misinformed about. Check the House of the natal chart where this Full Moon falls–the subjects of that House, along with any contacts to natal bodies, will tell the story of where and how that wisdom presents itself to you.

The Moon’s closest aspect other than the Solar opposition is a quincunx to Mars at 9 Taurus 17=The Will must adjust choices and action to both feeling and material circumstances–charging forward without taking all facets into account will only make circumstances where we must re-adjust again and again. Jupiter (23 Cancer) is sesquiquadrate Luna=we may find those who surround us (even the social order or larger public) pushing us to ‘do it their way’–specifically, to reflect their attitude through our own feeling nature–and that pressure may cause real discomfort, as the assumption will be that we should feel the same as the social arena in which we move. We’ll likely find ourselves hiding our feelings, to some extent, and that’s magnified by both the presence of Jupiter and Chiron’s current position at 29 Aries–we’re stressed, and it’s about ourselves! is the general atmosphere we swim in already–the Full Moon makes it just a little harder to navigate, though openness to both ‘the facts’ and reality really, really helps.

Finally, the Full Moon sextiles Juno (10 Aquarius)=here we have a hint about how to handle all those feels: making choices and reaching out based on what feels empowering to us is essential to processing this Lunar event successfully. Rely on your strengths, particularly intellectual or creative/ inventive/ innovative ones, to use that Sagittarian energy in its most helpful and potent form. Holding emotions at arm’s length, giving some intellectual distance to our own situation (for instance, by thinking of how we might advise a friend who faces our own challenges) can give a reality-based perspective from which we can definitely benefit.

The Moon’s Sabian is, ‘A Theatrical Representation Of A Golden-Haired Goddess Of Opportunity’. This image suggests the emotions and feelings engendered by the Full Moon present ‘Golden Opportunities’–and that they may come in somewhat dramatic forms (though the circumstances are playacting, and so not to be taken too seriously–that is, they may appear extreme or intense, but they aren’t the point–the feelings they cause are). The Sun, light-giver that causes Moonshine in the first place, carries the symbol, ‘An Airplane Performing A Nose Dive.’ Is it acrobatics, practicing technique, or a failing system plunging those in the plane to their deaths? The Full Moon is either illuminated by skillful use of talents, or by something quite frightening, an emergency springing from failure of some kind. Either way, we need to pay attention not just to what’s happening, but how we feel about it. I’m guessing too many of us have been pushing our feelings down lately, being overly concerned with remaining calm and ‘reasonable’, with trying to get along with those who have no intention of getting along with us. The Sagittarius Full Moon says, ‘Now you know what to do–and you’re empowered to do it.’ Have a great Lunar event, my friends–

New Moon 16 May 2026 Making the Adjustment

13 Wednesday May 2026

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Leading up to this New Moon we’ve had a profoundly useful influence from the transiting Moon and Sun, as each (the Sun days ago, of course, the Moon during the Dark of the Moon time preceding the Lunar event) has quincunxed the Black Moon Lilith point, offering to bring various ignored or denied facets of the past to the surface. They’ve also semi-squared Neptune, making us uncomfortable with real-life play-acting, with those who ask us to agree to their deceptions. Now, the past (South Node) is excavated courtesy of a quincunx to Pluto and Neptune, which are sextile each other, making a Finger of God that can’t help but show us that the destruction of the unreal and nebulous in our lives is necessary to escape the past, and this is supported at the time of the New Moon by a semi-square of both Luna and Sol to Saturn, suggesting that as rough as it might be, we’d be wise to prefer reality to fantasy.

So, having modified our figurative Plutonic house with a much-needed cleansing, and released deception in favor of living our ideals in at least one area, we meet the energy of the New Moon in Taurus, forming at 25 Taurus 57 at 1 PM PDT of the 16th, a crisp and sensory-packed influence that speaks to us and will continue to communicate eloquently as both Sun and Moon proceed in the sky to perfect their conjunctions to Mercury, sitting just ahead of them in the zodiac as they meet. A New Moon in Taurus focuses us on how we feel about the atmosphere (in the broadest sense) that surrounds us, and the way it satisfies and comforts, supports and nourishes, fulfills the artisanal impulse and the appetites–or fails to. Are we secure in our present position? becomes the question, and how much that situation does or does not nurture our material, physical, and sensory needs is measured over the coming two weeks, until the ‘answer’ we receive at the next Full Moon.

The New Moon itself has only a smattering of contacts, keeping the energy homed in on the Taurean vibe and our own feelings. Above all, communication is what’s happening: through our surroundings, through creature comforts, through the sense of stability–and if we find those missing, we need to know that the Moon means to draw our attention to what we really need in those departments. It’s notable that the New Moon is conjoined Mercury, and that Mercury is conjoined Uranus, brand-new in Gemini, though the New Moon is not in contact. That suggests a spontaneity and uncertainty in the communication picture that may tempt us to see the info we receive as transitory, or not as meaningful as we would otherwise–but that’s an illusion, urging us to not take seriously what is unusual or unexpected–and that would be a mistake, as what’s presented may be inspiring, and an instrumental part of what grows from this Moon.

The New Moon is also widely sextile Jupiter in Cancer, amplifying the feeling perceptions and showing us what we genuinely care about, while the NM is also semi-square Saturn in Aries, suggesting that what we see within the reality picture may be a little tough to take, or seem too restrictive or limiting, but that clarity of vision positions us perfectly to do something about what we feel, see, and know. As the components of the New Moon move forward they will each briefly be caught at the midpoint of a Venus in Gemini sextile to an exact (at this time) conjunction of Mars and Chiron in Aries, but at the time of the NM both will be within generous orb of this midpoint. That’s a portrait of the individual Will, powered by hurt or by a desire to heal, attempting to achieve, in some way, what we think Love is–and the NM offers us a specific instance in which to manifest this (or at least begin to, probably through matters of the House in the natal chart where the New Moon falls).

In fact, the exact Mars-Chiron conjunction doesn’t give us a choice: we can’t help but embody our wounds or our Chirotic gifts in our ‘I Am’, in the way we choose and act at this time. This is a dynamically assertive combination, especially in this sign; know that you are reaching out, announcing who you are, what you are, and that this drives all you do–there’s no hiding motives, or the hurts and gifts that shape your efforts, so an embrace of openness and honesty will be the least stressful, and most productive, stance you can take.

The Sabian symbol for the New Moon is, ‘A Spanish Gallant Serenades His Beloved’. Singing is so Taurean–and the beloved we are ‘courting’ at this time is, I think, the truest form of ourselves we can bring forward. We’re seeking our own authenticity, by being open to what’s communicated, from within and without, and through an assessment of what surrounds us, and how thoroughly it meets our needs. The only way it matters, though, is if we’re willing to adjust our lives according to what we discover–so that’s the goal, this New Moon: adjust, adjust, adjust.

HOT SPOT: If you have natal placements at 26-29.5 Scorpio, that body or point will be apex to a Finger of God with base of Venus and Mars-Chiron. Your idea of Love and/ or relationships as they manifest in your live, interacting with that ‘I Am’ statement driven by wounds or gifts, will combine to deliver a version of that natal energy at the apex. In this case, being totally honest about who you are, what and whom you love, and what you want, may (quite literally) save you.

Full Moon in Scorpio 1 May 2026: Putting Your Finger On It

30 Thursday Apr 2026

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The Sun-Moon opposition perfects on the 1st at 10:22 AM PDT at 11 Scorpio 20, with the Lunar component also acting as apex to a Finger of God with base of Venus in Gemini sextile Saturn in Aries, catching the Solar sphere at their midpoint in Taurus. The Finger configuration asks us to facilitate the cooperation of the base energies–in this case, Venus and Saturn–in order to ‘receive’ or create the apex results, which here are those offered by the Scorpio Full Moon. Culmination of Luna in Scorpio brings the Truth to the surface, uncovers what was buried, reveals what’s hidden or obscured, and lets you know exactly how you feel about it, in a flood of feeling that can be overwhelming. Reduction of all matters to the emotional level can bring forward overreaction or can disorient, which may tempt us to act or choose precipitously, thanks to all that Aries energy flexing in our faces, especially that Chiron-Mercury conjunction that could make us brood on our wounds, though it’s separated enough from Mars that it’s (less) likely to trigger acting on those hurt feelings alone–it’ll take something more, and that something may be the base sextile of the Finger.

How you combine Venus and Saturn is up to you. Venus is in Gemini, boosting pleasant, profitable, or worthy ideas or communications, ones in the best interests of relationships, our bottom line, our assets, or what we value, tangible or intangible. This can involve sexy talk, Arty concepts, profitable networking or information sharing/ exchange, collaboration with like-minded others for everyone’s benefit or advantage, ‘pretty’ words, the unspoken power of beauty or Nature and what it communicates, and Saturn in Aries says our own Will, actions, choices, and drive can make that Venus focus manifest in concrete terms or forms, that it’s our own initiative that takes Gemini-flavored Venusian energies from the mind to the real world–or, in few select cases, that takes Venus concepts like jealousy, envy, and greed and shapes them, blocks them, contains them in a more acceptable form, or completely stops them from manifesting.

The result of this Venus-Saturn interplay is the Full Scorpio Moon; it brings an intense, deep, ripe experience of feeling, possibly made up of emotions steeped in thoughts, beliefs, and passions we didn’t know we carried. That’s the thing with a Scorpio Moon: between its depths and its watery nature, we’re bound to discover something in us, some sentiment or urge, we were to now unaware of. Scorpio’s a sign of sensation-tinged contemplation and reverie, offering us a glimpse into our own depths, our own personal inner workings–just take care, as Saturn’s presence can be powerful, both for potential denial of possibilities, and for its ability to make those Venusian thoughts or concepts take solid form, right before our eyes.

The Sun is necessarily at the midpoint of Venus-Saturn, suggesting that our attention during the Lunar episode may be drawn in the exact opposite direction than ‘where the action is’–that is, into Taurean areas like comfort, security, dependability, and the satisfying of appetites, with an emphasis on taking a hands-on, artisanal approach that could make us think we must carefully craft our emotional reactions to Scorpio Moon events rather than simply let them wash over us, experience them, and in so doing, discover ourselves.

A few other notables: the North Node point currently sits in Pisces at the midpoint of the ongoing Neptune-Pluto sextile=at this time what we choose to destroy, and what we choose to create, will very strongly and overtly shape the life direction, much more directly than usual, through a kind of Universal alchemy, that makes synchronicities, creative visions, spiritual goals, and the entanglement of all things extra responsive to both positive and negative expressions. Chiron and Mercury are tucked together at 27 degrees of Aries=difficult to sort out hurt feelings, especially hurt ego, from pure thought–don’t mistake one for the other. Mars in his own sign of Aries is square Jupiter in Cancer and trine the Black Moon Lilith point in Sagittarius=the tension is between charging ahead with what we want and being considerate of others’ needs–which side of the equation we come down on is determined by what we’ve ignored or denied, and how willing we are to acknowledge it. And lastly, Jupiter is conjoined bodies Hades and Kronos. We’re talking about the guy who feared losing power so much he ate his own children, and the guy who runs the Underworld. The social arena (Jupiter) is full of these types right now, and that may make us feel there are more of them than there really are. That can be discouraging, if we see opportunity (Jupiter) overrun by bullies, mobsters, the unscrupulous, and the Self-interested, but never fear–as distorted as things can become, the Universe is all about balance–Karma takes care of the rest.

The Sabian for the Moon is, ‘An Official Embassy Ball’. Sounds a lot like the visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla of Great Britain just this week–a visit that should remind all Americans how much we need, and owe to, our allies. On a personal level, that suggests that concepts around diplomacy and the honoring of those ‘Others’ with whom we interact may be a good thing to keep in mind over the next two weeks (through the next Lunar event). For the light-giving Sun the Sabian is, ‘A Young Couple Window Shopping’. ‘Young’ and ‘Window Shopping’ both suggest to me a potentially low-level of resources. It may be that we’re all feeling depleted right now, shining simply because we have to, forced to carry on when we could use a chance to re-charge, recuperate, gather resources for what we really want to go after. I think many of us feel like we have to keep all the balls in the air, that we don’t have a choice; maybe what we need is to let a few things we genuinely don’t care about drop, and let others who might think they’re owed our efforts handle it as they may.

Have a great weekend, my friends!

Uranus in Gemini

28 Tuesday Apr 2026

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When one of the outer bodies changes sign we feel a shift in viewpoint and perception, a change in the background noise, in how we process the symbolized energies, that permeates and interacts with everything else, altering us and the Zeitgeist irrevocably. Sometimes we’re more likely to notice this change in the world around us, in externals, as things suddenly seem to have shifted their viewpoints and priorities right before our eyes (often associated with the transiting body changing sign above the horizon in the personal chart); sometimes the shift is internal, where suddenly we are seeing things in a new light (when the sign change happens in the lower half of the personal chart). The subjects and energies we associate with the transiting body seem re-made, presenting facets of themselves we hadn’t noticed before, or that we hadn’t seen as active or prominent, and if the body goes retro (as all the heavies do for substantial portions of the year) before progressing very far, we get flashbacks to what was, drawing contrasts, shaking us up (with hope for a return to the old, or a fear of that), and it can seem, for a time, that the change we thought we saw was just a mirage.

With Uranus entering Gemini, what’s communicated is a shock–or knowledge, information, is, whether that’s an inner knowing we’re just realizing, or something that comes at us from others or our world. What’s unique, unusual, strange, is what we notice; it’s right in our faces, and may give us the idea that norms are no longer what they were, that the mentalities we usually deal with have taken a radical or outlandish turn. What we learn is unanticipated, and unless we’re comfortable with surprises, the odd, the radical and revolutionary, we may feel disoriented, even alienated, particularly from groups we’re affiliated with or those with whom we network or share contacts. Thinking we’re alone won’t be unusual; believing we’re rebels, as we compare our own thinking to the thoughts expressed by those around us, will also be common. What we need to remember is that with this transiting placement our minds will be sparking non-stop, generating perpetual low-level fireworks that not only inspire original ideas and efforts, but that wear us out–who can process their own genius 24/7? That’s a tall order that may in the end mislead us into thinking we must pursue every thought, every revelation. Rest and serene experiences will be a lot more difficult to come by than will unique visions and spontaneous creative impulses–so maybe we’ll need to adjust our priorities around those as goals, too.

I’ll be back in the coming days with more commentary on this transit. Have a great week!

Changing Your Mind: A Fleeting Kite

28 Tuesday Apr 2026

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There’s a Kite in the sky today (28 April), but only briefly, as one component is the swift-moving Libra Moon. I think it sets the tone for the day, though: we’re taking an informed look at reality today, one that sorts illusion from the real and solid; we’re assessing the value of things and relationships in light of our emotional and intuitive perceptions, and this institutes a kind of house-cleaning. We’ll have the discretion and good judgment to change what needs to change, to eliminate what’s no longer needed, and to resurrect what we probably shouldn’t have let die or go dormant in the first place. It’s an opportunity for course-correction, with the harmonious blending of that Moon with Venus in Gemini trine Pluto in Aquarius with Saturn-Neptune at their midpoint in Aries opposed Luna. At this point the change may all be in our minds–but that’s a great place for it to start.

New Moon in Aries 17 April 2026 The Healing Fight

15 Wednesday Apr 2026

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What have you been fighting for? This New Moon, at 4:51 AM PDT of the 17th at 27 Aries 28, pinpoints the exact origin of our recent struggles, causes, efforts. For those unaware they’ve been deep in the fray, pursuing what’s right, what’s owed, enforcing parameters around how things should be, this may be a shock, with the NM semi-sextile a 29 degree Uranus; all this time they thought they were innocently, passively, behind-the-scenes wishing things would get better, rather than trying to force them to. Their own aggressiveness is a surprise to them–but not to those around them, of course.

For those of us attuned to our assertive energies, that semi-sextile is more likely to bring revelation: useful, especially in the context of our own fight, our own efforts. But all of us, whether we ‘own’ our Warrior energies or not, may have a difficult time seeing our own actions and choices clearly, may find clarity of thought in short supply, and may have real trouble comprehending how our choices will affect the reality picture as it is right now. We have a loose stellium in Aries over a less than 5 degree span of Neptune, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn, describing for even the most well-grounded among us genuine trouble processing the current environment and our own place within it. Knowing with any certainty what to do, how to do it, and what consequences it might bring will all be nearly impossible to figure out ahead of time–so the question becomes, should you soldier forward with those efforts, or not?

The meeting of Sun and Moon in Aries conjoined Chiron says, ‘What begins here hurts or heals: the ego, the concepts around ‘I Am’, attempts at Self-assertion or aggression, and brings a first reaction to one’s choices and actions. It’s a starting point, as the world responds to who we are, and as such gives us a general attitude, direction, and stance toward the future, rather than a clear plan or detailed agenda. Are we good with simply finding out if what we’re doing needs modification, or offers us a healing moment? We need to be at peace with a particular quantity of uncertainty–if we can be, this New Moon offers a significant, potentially profound, instance of revelation or recovery centered on the individual role, identity, or motives for action. Note as well that the Lunar/ Solar conjunction occurs just after both bodies contact Chiron–we’ll get an early glimpse of what’s coming, in emotional situations and through what draws our attention.

The Black Moon Lilith point is sesquiquadrate the New Moon, and Mars and Pluto are sextile; if we add the Moon’s South Node to the mix with the latter aspect, we can call it a Finger of God. The sesquiquadrate suggests the New Moon event will arise from or spark the need to examine what we’ve previously ignored, hidden, denied, or been enraged by. We should see this as a good thing, as uncomfortable as it might be, because it tells us more: about who we are, and what we may be pushing away that could act as an obstacle to our growth or success. The Finger speaks of the power of our choices and actions, and with Mars as ruler of the New Moon, links directly to that NM inception. What results (South Node) is action driven by the past–so could be something prepared for, planned for, necessary or inevitable, or could involve attempts to rectify or build on previous circumstances.

CORRECTION: An astute Reader informed me that I used the wrong Sabian symbol–and she’s right! The actual symbol is, ‘A Large Audience Confronts The Performer Who Disappointed Its Expectations’. To my mind this image takes the energy and turns it outward, in a sense ‘blaming’ externals for what’s not working–a mob mentality focused on another pleasing them–and the other, ‘wrong’ symbol centers the energy on the Self, and self-responsibility, with a positive outcome (“experiences a new love”) rather than a negative one (“disappointed . . . expectations”). Somehow I think the incorrect symbol works better–and puts our attention in a much more useful place. Thank you, K, for letting me know, and I’ll be leaving the other analysis in place–you can be the judge, of which works better for you.

The Sabian symbol for the New Moon is, ‘A Woman, Past Her “Change Of Life”, Experiences A New Love’. This emphasizes the Chirotic potential for healing and renewal, and implies it may come through the Plutonic resurrection of the past (SN) related to the Finger. What’s obvious is that we won’t be choosing and acting in a vacuum; the symbology of the New Moon says that excavation of the past, and particularly of those things we may have avoided or denied, may be the key to utilizing the Chirotic nature of the Aries New Moon in its most beneficial forms. Be receptive, even as you own your aggressive or assertive energies, look for the ‘new love’, and be willing to act without guarantees or promises or certainty of what will be–I think another name for that is faith.

Full Moon in Libra 1 April 2026 Don’t Look Away

30 Monday Mar 2026

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The striking thing about this Full Moon (perfecting at 7:11 PM PDT at 12 Libra 21) is the way the Sun-Moon opposition forms a Cardinal T-square with Jupiter in Cancer. We’re hit with a tricky concept: an overabundance of opportunity, an onslaught of possibilities, more (even an unhealthy amount) of what we care about, that comforts us, that soothes, delivered through a problem, difficult circumstances, tough personal choices, or in conflict with others. The energy is compelling; we’re likely to feel we must do something, either individually or in concert with others, that recognizes some set of facts or potentials that could hold the keys to abundance, good fortune, and an expansion of our world. The Moon quincunxes Mercury in Pisces, bedeviling our minds with all manner of what could be, what we should do, augmented by our own imaginations as well as the Universal creative energy that can make us feel that anything is not just possible, but possibly in our ideal future–and this feeds the impetus of the T, perhaps sending us into action before we’ve gamed out where we’re going (or at least intending to go).

The reality, though, may be that we’re not seeing ourselves or our circumstances clearly. Saturn is still in range of Neptune, distorting or otherwise veiling the reality picture, and though the signal is stronger than in the recent past it’s not without interference; there are still things we misperceive, probably from deeply wounded sensibilities formed from past experience that we may not be entirely conscious of, but that permeates relationships and anything we are deeply invested in (Venus square Pluto, Pluto quincunx the South Node). These are intellectual takes rooted in sense and security issues, not fully processed and so not yet full understood (Venus in Taurus, Pluto in Aquarius).

This could make for difficulty comprehending this Libra Full Moon, as we are invited to draw conclusions around relationships, partnerships, artistic endeavors, matters of approach and negotiation (diplomacy and manners in all their forms), and aesthetics, and yet have a lot of subtle and unconscious material influencing our perceptions; we’d do well to remember that Libra carries a certain modicum of judgment inherent in its emphasis on interaction and assessment of that interaction. That is to say, we may be judging ourselves and others even though we think we’re dispassionate, assessing situations according to our accepted standards, not realizing that those benchmarks are deeply personal, based on our own ideas of what’s appropriate, rather than on some larger Universal measure–and that means we’ll be largely unaware of our own biases, our own shading applied to interpretation of what’s around us, which state inevitably leads us to at least some misunderstanding, some misperception, and so some choices we may later wish we’d done differently.

Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius sextiles the Libra Moon and trines the Aries Sun–and that may be our way out of the lingering fog. This suggests facts or information we’ve forgotten, ignored, hidden from ourselves, or denied, that can ease the way, both with our own choices and within partnerships. It’s in what we’ve willingly (or willfully) looked away from that we find the knowledge needed to make our choices (Aries Sun) about how we’ll interact and share (Libra Moon). Excavating and acknowledging this info is key overcoming the problems associated with the T-square and so accessing the opportunities and abundance we’re seeing.

The Full Moon Sabian is, ‘Children Blowing Soap Bubbles’. The Sun offers the light that makes the Full Moon phenomenon in the first place; the Sun’s Sabian is, ‘An Unexploded Bomb Reveals An Unsuccessful Social Protest’. This is what I’m seeing here: The Full Moon offers us pleasure, in some way, something light, a positive and enjoyable benefit (the potential of the Jupiter square), but we shouldn’t lose sight of a fundamental fact: that this positive interlude is necessary, even generated by, a genuine danger, a situation with potential energy as yet unreleased that represents something objectionable within the social fabric. It may be a situation where we take our benefits, our pluses, where we find them; we certainly can’t (and shouldn’t) stop living simply because problems exist–but we shouldn’t ignore them, either. We can prosper and expand, gain rewards and find new venues of expression, even as we remain focused on what must be fixed, what must change. Black Moon Lilith is instrumental to gaining the Jupiterian opportunity available with this Full Moon, and it may be that this is the Black Moon’s moment. BML is a well, our internal repository for what we can’t, at the moment, handle; using this Lunar energy successfully means willingly accessing what we’d rather not, what we normally hide even from ourselves. In essence, we’ll be practicing/ developing our courage to face what we find difficult–this Moon tells us it will definitely pay off.

Have a wonderful Full Moon!

The Lunar Light: A New Moon Experience 18 March 2026

17 Tuesday Mar 2026

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The New Moon (6:23 PM PST at 28 Pisces 26) forming so late in Pisces, with a sextile to Uranus, tells us definitively we just won’t know–Higher Mind may rebel at the idea there are creative forces out there acting on what is and what occurs, and so feeling out of control and perhaps way past comfortable for most of us–or that we’ll be shocked, surprised, at what coalesces and comes forward, images out of the ether, things we’ve only imagined, or never conceived, fantastical (and so, in their own way, unbelievable)–but what the New Moon will deliver with a certain creative optimism (and an inclination to compare the real with the ideal) is a glimpse of the new, what’s modern, the shape of what we’re headed toward, and we may not believe that, either, simply because we may not be able to draw a line from here to there to into the future–and so find it exaggerated, silly, weirdly cold, not of any worth (Venus in Cardinal square to Jupiter, this energy also suggesting we may want to do something about what we value, love, treasure, or want more of–that’s our Will speaking, with Venus in Aries–but find things–Jupiterian things, like facts and hubris-filled authority figures and worldly realities, getting in the way).

The start of something in Pisces, like a New Moon, is akin to watching life form in the primordial soup: we don’t really know what we’re looking at, but it’s clearly lively, imbued with generative energy, bubbling around and combining to make the expected plus the unanticipated, and this tends to prime the mind, encourage observation informed with potential for all that could be–and so we start to think about the possibilities, and as our focus shifts so does our connection to reality, away from the likely to the barely possible, and what do we typically end up with? The outlines of a dream to be pursued, if we’re lucky, and a mirage if we’re not.

Saturn and Neptune are still speaking and Pluto is insinuating itself by sextile more and more strongly into the reality picture every day as Saturn moves to perfect the aspect. As Neptune and Saturn separate we’ve been thinking we’re getting a grip, or at least successfully sorting reality from fantasy and deception, but Pluto says otherwise, threatening us with obliteration if we push too hard to clear out the illusions. Don’t listen to that initial Plutonian grumble; the courage to eliminate what’s illusory, misleading, and outright false is where power lies–and Pluto will deliver that power personally, once we step up and show we’re not going to be buffaloed, or worse, pacified by what’s untrue.

Mercury is conjoined the North Node in Pisces; once it goes direct (12:32 PST of the 20th) the mind and thought processes may emerge as our most efficient and effective means of understanding where all this creative and generative energy may take us, what kind of future it’s shaping in the now. Don’t worry about the shadow period–too much is made of this, in my view arising from the familiarity that occurs as a planet re-traces the territory it traversed once forward, then again in retro motion. The hangover, so to speak, is in that we’ve been there before, with what’s lingering or holding us back, though it can feel like minor retro energy, is really just the ennui of much-wrestled-with material.

The Sabian for the New Moon is, ‘Light Breaking Into Many Colors As It Passes Through A Prism’. We may have been seeing things in a singular light; the growing reflection of a New Moon offers to sort out the contents of that single light, that single way of seeing, to break it down in ways that show us the combination of influences that make up the whole. If we know what distinct things make up the reality before us, we’re much more likely to be able to act effectively, to address things accurately, to know, in the most elementary way, what it is we’re really looking at.

Lunar Eclipse 3 March 2026 Which Ocean?

01 Sunday Mar 2026

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Like all Virgo Full Moons, the one on the 3rd, at 3:37 AM PST at 12 Virgo 53, asks us to come to critical conclusions, to analyze who is responsible, who deserves what, and to share our ‘harvest’ appropriately; this one includes the drastic measures of an eclipse and so demands a final accounting with the result likely being that the boards will be swept clean and a completely fresh weighing, judging, estimating, and accounting will occur. All the calculations we’ve made, the ideas we have of who owes what to whom, may go down the drain, replaced by a demand for a ground-up assessment that may or may not resemble what came before. This can be disorienting, as we struggle to keep track of what counts, what suddenly doesn’t, and the kaleidoscopic shifts of responsibility and obligation that will definitely go through some modification under this full Lunar light.

Add to this that despite the immediacy of what occurs and the direct demands it makes on us, we’ll suffer a sense of our ability to affect things, to make choices, as once-removed, with much of the Lunar energy flow seemingly beyond our reach. We see this in several areas of the eclipse picture, including the way the Nodal axis (always close to the Sun/ Moon axis at eclipse times) forms a tidy T-square with the Black Moon Lilith point=dynamism, emotional conflict, the flow of things/ time, pushed below the surface, exiled to the unconscious, ignored in favor of–what? What the Sun touches tells us where our attention goes at any one time: here Sol widely squares BML (and so dares us to be conscious of all we’d like to bury) and trines Jupiter in Cancer. That suggests we’ll be trying fiercely to discern what matters, what we care about, and that deciding these things will loom large–in fact, exaggeratedly large–in our consciousness. We’ll feel we must figure out what matters to us, must be aware so that we can choose and move successfully–but creating a mental list will be a futile exercise, a distraction, from what really matters: knowing which ocean we’re swimming in (the Pisces Sun).

I know it might sound counter-logical under a Full Virgo Moon, but consider that, during a Merc retrograde in Pisces, mental gymnastics, lists and criteria and details and specificity are exactly the wrong place to put our energy; we’re guaranteed to misperceive, to count incorrectly, to miss a trick, to miss something–so that an eclipse that appears to require this function of us is almost certainly nature’s way of misdirecting our attention so that we can be led to the correct environment by circumstance, coincidence, restrictions imposed, or the intervention of others. If we chose that environment/ ocean consciously, we’d choose the ‘wrong’ one, that is, one that doesn’t serve the needs that, for all our trying, we’re currently unaware of. So, it’s a Piscean ocean we’re to enter–one of creativity, imagination, ideals, the fantastical, made up perhaps of what we’ve only up to now dreamed of, fantasized, or believed unattainable–and we need to be ready to surrender ourselves and our conscious minds to the Neptunian influences, without struggling to define exactly where we are or what’s happening to us–and that may be hard.

At the time of the eclipse we’ll have four bodies arrayed across Pisces from 00 to 26 degrees, with the Sun at the midpoint. Mars will be of earliest degree, urging us (almost certainly prematurely) to act, with Merc retro headed toward Inferior Conjunction in less than a week and Venus sextile Uranus in Taurus. This scenario suggests we need, more than anything, patience: to allow the vision to unfold, to see what new and surprising things we might love, to discover the message behind the images and ideas, to imagine our ideal choices and course of action–rather than rushing forward just to feel things move.

The Sabian for the Moon is, ‘A Powerful Statesman Overcomes A State Of Political Hysteria’; the Sun’s Sabian is, ‘An Ancient Sword, Used In Many Battles, Is Displayed In A Museum’. I would say at the personal level this is a two-fold admonition: that a calm internal core strong in values can keep us from needlessly and fruitlessly succumbing to panic of one kind or another (that is, may keep us from acting precipitously or from trying to create the detailed accounting rather than indulging in the intuitive swim), and that we are adequately ‘armed’; we are already in possession of what’s needed, we just have to activate it. Our ability to assert and defend ourselves has been more passive than active of late, on display rather than ready for its intended purpose. We’ll need to remedy that.

Also at a personal level, any contacts being received by our natal Neptune at this time, as well as matters of the House transiting Neptune is moving through in the natal chart, should offer clues as to what may loom large, important, and full of information and creative energy for each of us at this time. Have a wonderful eclipse!

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