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!

Solar Eclipse 17 February 2026 Endings and Beginnings

11 Wednesday Feb 2026

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Look at the way that, of the major planets and lights, this alignment of Sun and Moon, such that the Moon appears to blot out the Sun, occurs when both are latest bodies by degree, at 28 Aquarius 49. Eclipses are resets, wipe-outs, complete changes in tone, shifts in the stream, abrupt and definite disruptions to the flow of time, the manifestation of place, the utilization and direction of energy; when this happens at latest degree we see the event as the end result of the current scenario laid out by the positions and interactions of the other celestial bodies–that is, we see the Lunar event as a conclusion, rather than as the ‘new start’ a New Moon usually shows us. Of course, inherent in a conclusion is a fresh beginning, or at least the clearing of the decks that makes room for new developments, but when we see a beginning as an ending . . . then we’re bound to believe we’re finished with what occurs, rather than at the start, and that means we may miss the significance of what unfolds before us, and especially, that we may dismiss what we really should be preparing to deal with further.

An eclipse in Aquarius removes our certainty around Higher Mind beliefs and concepts, making us question guiding principles, things we’ve been certain of–are they only academic? we may ask ourselves, have I been living according to theories, rather than real-world tested values?–and we may suddenly see our relationship as an individual to the group in a much different light. Our sense of responsibility to the Collective may undergo revision, and our attitude to our own unique qualities may change: either we lose our tolerance for our unusual inclinations, wanting abruptly to fit in, or we may embrace our originality with new gusto and appreciation, positing cutting-edge ideas in areas where we have skills, expertise, talent.

With this eclipse semi-sextile the close conjunction of Saturn-Neptune at the Aries Point, we can guess that the confusion over endings and beginnings is part of the current fabric of reality itself; what the status quo is, what we imagine it to be, what we see as ideal, and the creative and spiritual acts we believe we’ve been held back from or denied the expression of, somehow, are both part of the illusion, and part of the reality–but how do we divine the real from the deceptive? It’s important we do, as what we sort and set in place now won’t just echo over the coming six months, as with a usual eclipse pattern, it will also act as a new inception point describing how we’ll interact with the world, how we’ll meet it, and specifically, how we’ll muster our creative and spiritual energies to deal with matter, restriction, rules, and form.

The eclipse occurs in square to sign ruler Uranus in Taurus, and in wide sesquiquadrate to Jupiter in Cancer–and even though 5 degrees is a big orb for a sextile, I think we should consider this relationship to Chiron in Aries, not least because a wider orb contact can reverberate like an echo, subtly permeating events though not fully inserting its energy into the overall picture; in this case it adds to our sense of vulnerability, our memory of past wounds around our own Self-assertion and choices made, making us hesitate, an instinctive Self-preservation response that may or may not be justified–and we’ll have a hell of a time telling whether it is, considering how confusing and deceptive the real world (Saturn-Neptune) seems to be, right now!

The square to Uranus emphasizes the sense of conflict: between the individual and the group, the Higher Mind and the mob mentality, between originality and conformity, with all the internal dichotomies reflected back to us through material circumstances (Taurus). Our surroundings will be our mirror: what we observe will mimic what’s happening within, and vice versa–so at least in this regard, we can rely on the world around us to be communicating–it’s only our ability to accurately interpret what we’re shown that may suffer.

The sesquiquadrate to Jupiter points to adjustment, continual and born of irritation, springing from emotional reaction–but, with Jupiter’s ruler part of the eclipse event, we may find a chicken-and-egg quandary presented: do our feelings come in response to eclipse events, or have our feelings triggered or fueled eclipse events? Again, considering the Saturn-Neptune state of the environment, we may be unable to tell what’s the engine here, what’s the response–and so suffer the sense that our emotions are out of our control, that we are feeling victims of the wider world, of larger forces (with Jupiterian exaggeration enlarging our emotional responses even as what drives our feelings masquerades as facts or knowledge, conveying an unwarranted solidity and realism to those reactions).

The eclipse Sabian is, ‘A Butterfly Emerging From A Chrysalis’. This should be our model for the ending and beginning we’ll face. It’s an entire new world for the emerging pupa, the end of all it’s known–and a genuine new beginning, as a completely different entity, within a completely new mode of being. Don’t be surprised, then, if that world met through the Aries Point treats you as if you are a totally other Being than ever before. Embrace it, and the sense of freedom (perfect for an Aquarian New Moon) one can derive from a new, re-made identity.

What can guide us? Originality, what strikes us as unique or forward-thinking, provides a beacon, and probably our most reliable one, as our own truly unusual facets will be our greatest assets, and certainly our most dependable ones, in the immediate future. Perhaps don’t worry about the specifics of what’s beginning, what’s ending, instead simply paying attention to and responding to what is reflected back from the environment, and taking that as indicators of what’s happening inside. The internal landscape can thrive when recognized as legitimate, as being as real and important as anything outside ourselves–and that may help us adjust to our new position as individuals within the larger, often confusing, current Collective.

Full Moon in Leo 1 February 2026 Immersion

30 Friday Jan 2026

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All Full Moons are opposed the Sun; that position is the whole reason the event exists, and once a year, when that Full Moon is in Leo, we have the Lunar energy blooming to fullness in direct opposition to its own ruler. It creates a kind of emotional co-dependence between our senses and feelings (the Moon) and the source of both our identity and the energy for the event itself (the Sun). That means flow between, and potential confusion as to, the origins of what we’re perceiving, and especially of what we’re feeling, and I think this interplay is drawing my attention right now (even though it happens once a year with every Leo Full Moon, this time at 13 Leo 03) because the Sun is currently sharing Aquarius with so many other bodies, including assertive Mars and heavy-hitter Pluto. All this emphasis in the atmosphere on Aquarian mental perceptions, Higher Mind functions, the intellectual approach, academic assessment (particularly of what might be better met with the instincts, the emotions, the intuition, or other non-verbal faculties), and a cool, distanced eye contrasts directly with a Sun-ruled Full Moon that calls for complete personal engagement via the emotions and sensitivities, in fact, that requires immersion in those sensitivities, interpreted through a highly Self-focused feeling lens.

That’s the first thing we need to be clear on: our own feelings, viewpoint, responses, are center mass right now; it’s appropriate that we’re reading the room, ourselves, the world, through our emotional responses to it and the place our identity holds in the larger scheme of things. We’re right to put ourselves at the center of our considerations–so remain aware that others or circumstances that try to minimize your presence in the equation are, most likely, trying to distract you for their own reasons from what you should be assessing, judging, weighing. The impact on you, and what you are called to do because of Lunar events, need to be your main focus, in order to make the most of the Leo Full Moon’s perceptions and insights.

I’m going to allow for all of these bodies in Aquarius, through a chain reaction kind of contact, to be interpreted as opposed that Leo Lunar energy. Though normally I prefer a more precise picture, so that we can sort the Moon’s influence from everything else, here I think having so many influences rooted in the intellect and in the wider social Zeitgeist makes for an atmosphere that encompasses the Lunar event, rather than is just peripheral or background to it. Again, it’s that sense of immersion, so that the Full Moon needs to be read in the larger, Collective context. Here the overall picture says, ‘We’re living in our heads, in our intellectual interpretation of things, and we need to think about our identity and the roles we play in terms of larger events, and what those mean, and especially what feelings those roles create, in and for us.’

The span of placements through Aquarius is from Pluto at almost 4 degrees to Mercury at 21. The Sun sits roughly equidistant between Mars (already contacted by transiting Moon and Sun) and Venus (already passed over the Sun in Superior Conjunction, but not yet opposed by the Moon)=this may give a more mundane face to events, as we’ll tend to focus attention at a micro-personal level, on ourselves and our role within relationships or finances, and our own associated behaviors, choices, and culpability. Those perceptions aren’t inaccurate, but they may distract from the very important order in which we should process influences, and may keep us in ‘navel-gazing’ mode, rather than creating a larger awareness of ourselves within the bigger picture.

By the time of the Full Moon, Luna will have just completed oppositions to first Pluto (a purge of feelings, ‘housecleaning’ led by intuition, the senses, and instinct, pondering destruction or elimination of what doesn’t serve the identity or doesn’t feel good), then Mars (what to do about the feeling landscape, after Pluto’s done his number, and assessment of what’s our personal responsibility, emphasizing our choices as an individual). Then the Lunar event of the 1st, a culmination of our feeling about ourselves (Leo) within the larger group dynamic (Aquarius), followed quickly by oppositions of the Moon to first Venus (who am I in relationships, what are my assets, now, after these Lunar revelations about who I am), and opposition of the Moon to Mercury (working out the contrasts between thoughts and feelings, reconciling the two for some sense of harmony, in order to move forward). It’s notable that just after that the Moon will trine Chiron, perhaps making it too easy to focus on our wounds, what we feel we and others have done wrong, and could cause defensiveness as we try to protect ourselves from real or imagined hurts.

The Moon’s Sabian is, ‘A Human Soul Seeking Opportunities For Outward Manifestation’. This puts emphasis on the active way we’ll approach the Full Moon experience: we’ll want to do something about what we discover, and what we feel; we’ll also look to create effects/ change in the material world–but take care, don’t fool yourself into thinking that change is, at this point, necessarily something one can hold in one’s hand or see with one’s eyes–it can instead be Soul-deep, the catalyst of what will come, as much as what is. The Sun’s Sabian is, ‘A Train Entering A Tunnel’. Sorry, just got to LOL at that classic symbolism, in this instance perhaps suggesting completion accomplished at least in part by taking a (minor) risk, that is, by plunging into an arena where we can’t see what’s ahead. That may, actually, be what we do when Luna contacts Pluto, and so carry that chancy bit, that tiny risk, with us into manifestation of the Full Moon. Even though we’ll be ‘on track’, we’re going into darkness–but the Moon’s image tells us don’t be afraid–we’re guided by the Soul, so in the midst of the material situation, moving toward exactly what we need.

That Doesn’t Look Like Anything To Me: Neptune Enters Aries

28 Wednesday Jan 2026

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‘Bergziegen (Mountain Goat)’ By Franz Marc 1913 {{PD}}

The Aries Point (00 of Aries) gets hyped as the ‘Fame Point’, how you may be publicly acclaimed, but I think we need a broader (and so more applicable) lens through which to interpret it: it’s the point in the chart designating where and how (by House and aspects) one ‘meets’ the world–that is, enters into the sphere beyond the Self–and in being so suggests a constant about each individual, a statement: here’s where I start; within the essence of who I am, here’s what I bring to humanity.

Now we have Neptune entering the sign of individuality, autonomy, personal responsibility, ego, and action and choice, bringing its influence to the Aries Point, where it will linger relatively briefly (and won’t return in retrograde), leaving by February 28th. That suggests the time between entry to the sign and movement to the next degree offers a unique experience–but of what?

Neptune’s initial hit to anything can stir a variety of reactions in us: confusion, elation, a creative surge, or it can prompt an embrace of the fantastical or unreal as reality itself, can mislead or deceive in such a way that we have a hard time letting go of the illusion we’ve accepted as truth (maybe most especially when that illusion presents an ideal we carry as real), or it can set us adrift from our moorings, as if what we know to be our world and our anchors dissolve under us. No matter what, disorientation may be the immediate result; it’s an abrupt awakening that has all the hallmarks of a dream.

At the Aries Point, Neptune may carry an especially broad influence. Usually when Neptune changes sign, we still have a solid idea of who we are, but right now Neptune comes along and obscures the very thing, our personal identity, we use to navigate all change–and the idea that the Self is dissolving isn’t just disorienting, it’s terrifying.

If you saw the series ‘Westworld’ you may remember the tell to the limits of programming for the entities that filled the parks for the amusement of humans; it was also your sometimes shocking clue that the individual you were observing, wasn’t, as you’d thought, a human being, but one of these amazingly humanoid creations. When one of them was presented with something they weren’t programmed to understand, they’d say, “That doesn’t look like anything to me.” That was always a heartbreaking moment, seeing an intelligence meet the limits of its ability to interpret the world–and, at least for a little while, we might have a similar experience as Neptune transits that initial degree of Aries. We may not have any reaction at all to what comes at us; or, deciphering our experiences and what’s before us may be beyond our understanding, or at least the kind of understanding that allows us to fit that thing into a niche in our lives, to classify and so to some extent control what’s happening to us. Words and concepts may fail us, and emotions won’t be far behind, too slippery to grasp and keep a hold on, too nebulous to let us settle on one idea of how we feel.

This nebulous quality will be remedied when Saturn enters that same degree in mid-February. We may see an end to our uncertainty as the real world makes itself felt, or we could find boundaries drawn or a distinct end to things that seemed boundless or unending, or we might see the dreams we entertain, specifically those involving our own role and involvement in the larger scene, come to reality–and that can include manifestation of the nightmares we entertain at this time, too.

My thought is to do our best to flow with this energy, to refuse to panic if we find ourselves adrift–adrift isn’t sinking, it isn’t drowning, it’s just a temporary surrender of control. Focusing the creative energies, allowing yourself to imagine, and choosing according to your highest ideals will all make good use of the energy, and serve both our own needs, and those of the Collective, as for this Neptune transit of Aries we must find our new place, new role, new identity within the vastness of the Universe. What will we as individuals creatively generate? That’s the question we face.

Full Moon report to follow!

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