The Cancer Moon is between engagements at the moment, with her next contact not coming until 4:30 AM of the morrow PDT, and that with quincunxes to the very close conjunction (only 24 minutes apart, at that point) of Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius. Then we’ll see emotional pressure (or perhaps intuitive prompting) to deal with thoughts of hurtful fantasy, creative healing, or ideals and skills united and applied–your choice, if you’re conscious enough of the energy when it comes forward.

At the same time the Moon will trine Jupiter in Pisces and effectively create a Grand Trine with Jupiter and Pallas, with all components in Water. It’ll be like taking a Wisdom bath–will you open up to it, or perceive it as a distraction? This latter possibility is spurred by the Moon’s soon-to-perfect quincunx to Ceres, which for about half an hour makes a Finger of God with Moon apex and Chiron/ Neptune base, pointing out for us just how disaffected or misunderstood emotional energy might act as the outlet for unconsciously held Neptune/ Chiron energies. Avoiding both fooling oneself and dwelling on hurts is required for maximum, positive use of this energy.

By 6:30-ish AM PDT of the 2nd the Moon will square Vesta in Libra, implying a true emo conflict over values, the home, or the sex life (!), followed around 8 by the Moon’s aspects to Uranus, Pallas, Ceres, and Mercury. This excites a great deal of enthusiasm, mental energy, and the drive to take authority oneself and act–really, with some openness to adjustment, a tremendously positive energy to implement your own agenda.

Void begins 8:32 AM PDT of the 2nd, with the Moon entering Leo at 11:20 AM PDT. Then we see the Moon quincunx Pluto around 3 PM PDT, calling for adjustment of the emotional perceptions to something dark in our midst–this is very likely to have echoes of previous choices surrounding it, and reverberations we’re not yet aware of for the future (as the North Node moves steadily toward our anti-hero!)

Around 11 PM PDT the Leo Moon quincunxes the North Node and sextiles Saturn, perhaps asking us to accept reality and adjust our goals accordingly. The Moon sextiles the Sun in the 4 AM hour PDT, as if letting the Solar energy sitting in partnership know, ‘I haven’t forgotten about you, I’m just off on my own (Leo) for a while!’

So what do we do about the 1st and its long, open, Lunar aspectless stretch? We read ECLIPSE for the October outlook, the lowdown on Venus Retrograde, ‘What You Won’t See on the Blog’ for New and Full Moons here http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/ or we curl up with our computer and read about our own empowerment http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com and we check our natal chart with the expectation that wherever the Moon is passing, the matters of that House will receive some emphasis–and then we accept our Cancerian mandate (one that says we must examine what we care about), and we go forward and have a great day!