The Lunar Light: A New Moon Experience 18 March 2026

17 Tuesday Mar 2026

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By Kádár Tamás – Own work, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72408086

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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‘Seal Rock, California’ By Albert Bierstadt c1872 {{PD}}

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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Martin Johnson Heade ‘Blue Morpho Butterfly’ c1864 {{PD}}

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!

New Moon 18 January 2026 Reality Check

16 Friday Jan 2026

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‘Reading Tea Leaves’ By Harry Roseland 1906 {{PD}}

We exit the Dark of the Moon when the New Moon perfects on 18 January 2026 at 28 Capricorn 43; it does so with both Luna and Sol having just passed over Mercury and Mars, and on their way toward Venus and Pluto. It may feel like stepping out of the darkness directly into a fully-formed scenario that reads as a current status quo that is exactly what we’d expect from recent thinking, actions, and choices–not only ours, but everyone’s, a Capricornian stage set, a predetermined structure, a set of rules and boundaries presented with the assumption that we’re all players with assigned roles and scripts–but will we play the parts into which we’ve been slotted, and more importantly, should we?

First we need to understand what that stage is populated with and by, and that starts with recognizing what happens when we’re dealing with energies very closely conjoined or in very tight aspect. Typically that means we can’t tell the difference between them, or in the case of a non-conjoined aspect, we find them working in concert, each abetting the influence of the other, and again, difficult to sort. A New Moon has something of this character anyway: what draws our attention at the time of the event (represented by the Sun) is seen through an emotional or intuitive lens (the Moon) with all of it, both what’s spotlighted and the emotional atmosphere, reflecting the sign in which the meeting occurs.

For this New Moon we have that Capricorn structure, that framework and those rules, recognizable as they issue from the status quo, current authorities, and our own lives, and we see Merc and Mars tightly configured and just having influenced what shows at the New Moon. That influence was one where we thought we were acting and thinking, choosing and reasoning, practically, according to what is–but here we need to note: what we were seeing was what we expected to see, with the Moon in Capricorn and the involved energies all converging there, as well–and that suggests we’ve been seeing our expectations as reality, rather than taking in what’s around us in a more dispassionate light.

Other contacts are tight, but the closest is the Saturn-Uranus sextile, with Saturn conjoined Neptune (which itself is in crisis at 29 degrees of its own sign) and both in contact to the New Moon. Confusion reigns–or maybe personal illusion does–as we (continue) to try to sort reality from fantasy from lies from wishful thinking. Two additional things exert their influence here: the way our creative and imaginative energies, and the ideals we carry, are at a point where they’re so stressed that we may succumb to zoning out (not even trying to determine where they stand, anymore) or confusion may settle in such that it seems like a permanent state; and the unexpected, unanticipated, the shocking, especially as it pertains to material and asset situations and our place within the group, may quite suddenly exert a significant effect. Something we didn’t see coming changes the picture–flexibility and adaptability will help us deal.

In fact, all major aspects the New Moon forms are contained within 120 degrees (here’s where I’ll say they’re well past opposition to Jupiter in Cancer, making that, symbolically at least, ‘last week’s news’–we’re not exaggerating now, not basing our views and reactions on philosophy or beliefs or what we’ve learned–and optimism has dropped away, dreams of our own furthering of plans having dropped away, for now–we’re just trying to keep the ground we have, under this Capricorn influence).

Within that wedge we also find, conjoined the New Moon with Sun and Moon yet to make direct contact, a conjunction of Venus and Pluto in Aquarius. This may describe that sudden influence that changes the landscape, since Uranus rules these two: something love/ relationship and/ or asset related that threatens (at least, this change may feel threatening, with Pluto) to destroy, alter, resurrect, or remake that Venusian reality–or the Venusian facet itself may be the agent of change or destruction, and we react to that. This may involve our Higher Mind concepts around relationships, assets, or love, so that the challenge may be as much to how we think of and assess these things as it is to their existence–but of course, if we change how we think of things, that changes our reality, doesn’t it? This comes in the immediate future, and may pile on the stress or act as a distraction from determining the real-world situation and the constraints and limits it’s putting on us.

Really, this New Moon asks us to see the world in which we’re operating clearly but then throws lots of confusion and distraction and doubt, both internal and delivered by externals, into the mix. Outside that tight trine of New Moon to Uranus we see, besides the already discussed Jupiter, are the South Node, and Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius, suggesting that the two factors we may miss/ ignore/ undervalue are the past and all it can tell us, and those facts and knowledge that we’ve buried or devalued, dismissed out of anger or a desire to forget, to look away. Keep those things in mind, especially what we’ve learned from the past (perhaps most especially what we’ve learned from parts of the past we’ve long forgotten or disowned or dismissed as not relevant).

The Sabian for the New Moon is, ‘A Woman Reading Tea Leaves’. We’re all looking for signs, for indications of what’s coming, of what we should do, of how we should react. That’s understandable, and often provides a new perspective, a clarity that allows us to step to the side and observe more accurately; don’t, however, let shopping for omens or explanations detract from the reality around us–it’s not only in our surroundings, the involved facts, and the practical effects of previous choices where the important signs will appear, it’s the place to respond and remedy things, if we want to be successful, which I define as having an impact that takes us in the direction we want to go. This New Moon offers a point of clarity about where we actually stand, if we can avoid succumbing to fear, confusion, delusion, or distraction by the unexpected, and if we can look at the structures, boundaries, and restrictions that confine us and shape our world, and see them in the context of how they do, or don’t, support our safety, security, prosperity, and overall wellness. Intimidation comes in the form of being judged, or via those who assume authority (whether that’s legitimate or not). We have to ask ourselves, Whose structures, whose rules, do I want to live by? Despite appearances, it’s up to us, not a Saturnian ‘Them’. Choosing our own life structure brings important questions of autonomy and dominion at any time, but especially now–don’t be afraid to answer them.

Have a wonderful New Moon, everyone!

Full Moon 3 January 2026 Anticipation

02 Friday Jan 2026

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The Full Moon perfects at 2:02 AM PST at 13 Cancer 01, with the opposing Sun conjoined Venus and Mars and with Merc chasing from behind, all in Capricorn. The most startling thing about this opposition to the Lunar light is that these contacts are all in the future: the Sun has yet to reach Mars, and Venus and Mercury have yet to recently catch either of the others. It brings a sense of anticipation, a feeling of possibility–but the possibility of what? Since these energies are in Capricorn, we might be sensing a reorganization, new rules or strictures, changes in form and requirements and what is asked for from us to be part of the establishment or to find our niche within a soon-to-be-extant status quo. Alterations to the Capricornian scaffolding of our lives is inherently scary, even when we desperately want that change; add to that in this instance we are sensing/ feeling/ intuiting this change through the full, complete, flooding emotion of Cancerian perception, and we may feel as if our world is falling apart–but it’s not.

What we also may sense is the way the fast moving Moon will in only about half a day contact Jupiter. This makes our feeling seem immense, overwhelming, un-ignorable, and implies we may not be able to handle what’s coming, at least not emotionally. The energy may feel earth-shaking (Capricorn) and as if we’re drowning in emotional perception (Cancer)–but our reality is otherwise.

How would you feel if I said what we’re sensing as anticipation of things to come is really an echo of what’s already been? Would that remove some of the fear, some of the worry that things are out of control? The Sabian for the Full Moon is, ‘A Very Old Man Facing A Vast Dark Space To The Northeast’. The image suggests immediacy, all our experience in life (a very old man) confronted by the unknown (a vast dark space) I don’t know why the northeast, though these symbols were created/ channeled by two North Americans, and to me that says a kind of permanent cold (a nor’ easter)–so, tough conditions.

But, here’s our clue we aren’t standing at the edge of a frightful abyss: the Sun’s Sabian, which we always look at for a Full Moon, as it provides that Lunar light: ‘An Ancient Bas-Relief Carved In Granite Remains A Witness To A Long-Forgotten Culture’. Both the circumstances forming now, and our current fears, were created long ago, in a different environment, from a different way of thinking, and they surface now in a form of witness: to the past, to what we (as a Collective) have made, to who we were, and who we have become. This has lasted through time, and we are at a point of completion, appropriate for a Full Moon.

We are in a moment of acknowledgment, of recognition of the results of the past, good and bad, and the anticipation we actually feel is rooted in the amazing opportunity for a genuinely clean slate. That’s a rare thing, to bear witness to our past and then truly let it go–but that’s what we’re being offered with this Full Moon in Cancer–a chance to re-order our lives, and to commit to what we really care about.

I’m looking for a new blogging venue, after WP disappeared my links (and I’ve spent hours trying to reassemble them, to no avail), told me I have no more storage space, allowed Chinese bots to overrun stats, and just generally is more difficult to use with each ‘improvement’, so watch here for notice if I’m successful in finding a platform. I hope your 2026 is stellar–Happy New Year to All!

New Moon 19 December 2025 It’s In Our Hands

16 Tuesday Dec 2025

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The Sun and Moon meet at 5:42 PM PST of the 19th at 28 Sagittarius 24, and what we find is that the formation of the New Moon proceeds from the recent contact of both bodies to Venus, with each on its way to soon conjoin Mars in Capricorn (the Moon in just under a day, the Sun in about 5 days). What begins now is something arising from the experience of Love (or the awareness of its lack) that we felt (and perhaps had a big ol’ spotlight shined on) as first Sun (awareness) and then Moon (feeling and intuition) touched base with Venusian ideals–and this has a Sagittarian flavor, offering perceptions based on the kind of knowing that arises from sorting belief from fact, at experiencing emotional realities that point out how our ideas of the world differ from (or support) the way we see the Universe and our concepts of what it is, how it treats us, and how it works. It’s a genuine reality check that makes the facts prominent and will show the shortcomings of every institution, belief system, and academic argument we may try to hide behind or use to justify our choices.

We should expect new approaches to present themselves, based on what we discover, what we learn–and after almost a week post-New Moon to consider how we feel, should be ready to take action, serious, controlled, constructive action, when the Sun reaches Mars–or we’ll be faced with a choice, a big one, at least in terms of how this will channel our energy and efforts in the near future. Our awareness may center on what we’ll be turning away from, but we’d do better to base our choice in what we want, and avoid mourning things that, let’s be honest, we may not really want in the first place. We’ll already know how we feel–we’ll have sat with that revelation for several days–and if we aren’t avoiding the world in general (because we’re overwhelmed, tired, or just plain afraid of what we might find), we’ll choose, embrace our choice and all its implications, and know what to do from there.

The New Moon is semi-sextile the Black Moon Lilith point, quincunx Uranus, and square Saturn-Neptune, with Neptune and the BML point at 29 stressful degrees. This suggests that what’s born at the New Moon is forged from imagination, creative efforts, and/ or ideals under stress–the good news is, that stress is Self-created, rooted in anger we’ve not yet dealt with, or in what we are denying or hiding from ourselves–so, though not necessarily easily handled, we hold the keys, and that means no matter what, we could address it. Uncomfortable circumstances bring surprises–or is it that our own discomfort at what’s happening draws erratic responses, unexpected reactions, and revelations that may make us squirm but will also be a treasure-trove of information? We can be the leader in our own lives–don’t squander this chance to call your own shots.

All this finding out, this new knowledge, comes at the expense of living in the reality we’re imagining we’re in–that is, we learn things that prevent us going on telling ourselves fairy tales about our own real-world circumstances. Painful, possibly, disillusioning, definitely–but only the unhealthy among us would seek to live within delusion, so count yourself both healthy and lucky if the veil is lifted. Knowing where we are in life and who we are is the only way to create the world we want to live in; it’s like having a map, knowing where you want to go, but the only way to get there, to plot a course, is to know where you stand now. Connect to reality–it wants to speak to you.

A word about a Cardinal square between Jupiter and Chiron, and a semi-sextile between Mars and Pluto. The square could persuade us our wounds are bigger and more important in the scheme of things than they are; the temptation may be to put on an aggressive armor of optimism and forced positivity. We may mistakenly believe this will shield us from further hurt, but it’s really a guise for our own desire to destroy, punish, or impose our Will, as expressed through Mars-Pluto synergy with no immediate outlet. Beware in ourselves (or in anyone you deal with) the hard smile, the pretense of positive energy wielded like a club, the demand for a happy facade that in reality denies the spectrum of feeling. An easy trap to fall into, if we tell ourselves we’re being cheerful, enforcing the holiday spirit, when we are in fact living in our heads, in our theories about life (Pluto in Aquarius) and angry that things are clearly out of control–or at least, out of our control (Mars in Cappy). The New Moon changes this, puts things in our hands. Merc square the Nodal axis guarantees we’ll be getting a lot of messages in this period, and understanding them will be instrumental in navigating our Path. All we can do is our best.

The Sabian for the New Moon is, ‘A Fat Boy Mowing The Lawn Of His House On An Elegant Suburban Street’. I take this as an image of privilege, comfort, plenty, but where the boy is doing his part to care for his surroundings. I think it’s a symbol of appreciation for what we have, no matter what that is–and yet we can’t deny there’s a hint of the spoiled and indulged, in calling the boy “fat” and the street both “elegant” and “suburban”. I’m not fond of that kind of built-in judgment that certain things are inherently inferior because of their origins, their lifestyle implications, or the privileges they convey. What amounts to a moral pronouncement in the minds of some is just that: it’s within them, not in the scene or the people observed, necessarily. Celebrate what you have, and care for it–gratitude is never wasted.

It’s time to think about astro calendars for the new year! Have a wonderful, wonderful New Moon!

The Current Weather

11 Thursday Dec 2025

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Did you feel that? Over the last 8 hours or so, the Virgo Moon slid over its own South Node point, sending us all on a nostalgia trip–or at least dredging up issues and feelings from the past and framing them in their current forms and contexts–and maybe making us think that now and then are unrelated–but oh they are. Ruler Mercury is poised at 29 stressful degrees of Scorpio, conjoined the Black Moon Lilith point, telling us that what we’ve recently been reminded of is, in some way, on the verge of explosion–or maybe implosion, with Scorpio taking us into a deep, intense, collapsing cave of our own denied or ignored emotions. Add that Neptune is also at 29, trine Mercury from its own sign of Pisces, and we likely feel like it was all a dream, an aberration, or an illusion, not related to the real world–and that would be wrong, too. This interlude has been a preview of major personal stuff that must be addressed. We may tell ourselves we’re done with it (especially if, as it appears we have, we’ve tried to bury it more than once before), but it won’t be put to rest until it’s done with us. Face it as it comes, to minimize trauma and rid ourselves of something that we genuinely need to release.

One other thing I’d like to mention: Mars square Saturn-Neptune and quincunx Uranus. Our energies are hard to handle at this point, as we are prone to both misperceptions and to misunderstandings about actual, real-world situations and circumstances–and it doesn’t help that at the moment we are hair-trigger in our responses. Right now reflexes are faster than brains–they even beat the intuitive and feeling capacities, currently–great for rescues and life-saving quick-thinking, but also priming us to overreact and definitely misinterpret. Take everything with a mountain-size grain of salt, just to be safe.

Full Moon 4 December 2025 A Fated Crossroad

03 Wednesday Dec 2025

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Maybe that’s stated too strongly; this is just a Full Moon, like we have every four weeks, but the way it precisely squares its own Nodal axis resonates and focuses through the Air (Moon in Gemini) and Fire (Sun in Sagittarius), that is, through thought and atmosphere, action and choice. This influence presents us with a compelling dynamic to act based on what we know; that compulsion becomes pressure, when we put it into a personal context of our past (SN) and where we’re headed (NN). In particular, our destined direction (NN in Pisces) calls to our imaginations, showing us every potential we can picture, every possibility we can create–and that means there’s room for tremendous creative efforts, launching things we’d otherwise never try, but also room for fears, for the worst we can imagine, and for confusion arising from not being able to sort real from unreal. The Full Moon may trigger this, through emotional networking, contacts, or knowledge shared (Gemini) that illuminates the facts of the situation, and/ or our own and others’ beliefs (Sagittarius).

The Full Moon perfects on the 4th at 3:13 PM PST at 13 Gemini 03, and makes sparse contact. There’s a rough sesquiquadrate between Pluto and the Moon, and the Sun is loosely conjoined Venus; other than that, it’s all about the Cross. The Sun-Venus pairing suggests the spotlight is on relationships, finances, or our values and again, the facts of the matter (Sagittarius), while Pluto disturbs the emotional equation with the dark, dirty, and threatening disguised as Higher Mind or as a mere academic exercise (Aquarius). Even change and necessary evolution can be perceived as disturbing when delivered through the emotions by Pluto–so, something to remember, the doom scenarios may be exaggerated or merely fears seeping through cracks in the psyche, through the uncertainty of our world as it exists right now.

The Moon’s Sabian symbol is, ‘Bridging Physical Space And Social Distinctions, Two Men Communicate Telepathically’. This certainly fits the atmospheric nature of the Full Moon influence, and keys us in to extent of our own connectedness: we can hear one another think, perhaps whether we want to or not! For the Sun we see this: ‘The Great Pyramid And The Sphinx’. There’s wisdom to be had in this moment, some of it long lost to us, buried under the sands of time. Listen carefully, since it does factor in to our own life direction, and to our own emotional life.

One other thing I’d like to note. We’ve had that ongoing Grand Trine, but currently there’s a very tight one within that larger scenario made up of Water-placed Saturn, Jupiter, and the Part of Fortune. I know, I know–not everyone is okay with use of a Part within a configuration. As Ripley famously said, They can bill me. What I’m seeing is an influence that frames, within the larger reality/ world (Saturn) something of a Scorpionic nature that is fortuitous (Jupiter). I think this serves to warn us off overreacting to the shadowy Plutonic fears or changes we’re faced with; as Jung prompts us, when something bad happens, ask what good will come from it, and when something good happens, look for the bad that can follow. Asking the question alone can help stabilize our reactions, give us purchase on rough, uneven ground.

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