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New Moon in Virgo 10 September 2026 Passive-Aggressive, or Just Aggressive?

10 Thursday Sep 2026

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The New Moon forms at 18 Virgo 25 on September 10th at 8:26 PM PDT, and makes only one solid major aspect, a sextile to Mars in Cancer: criticism, judgment, assessment, evaluation, rationalization, description, explanation, deployed out of restless dissatisfaction with the Self, or out of misplaced anger directed at someone/ something one cares about–and done with some ease, and/ or little thought (the sextile). The Self-assertive urge in Mars is decidedly unhappy in touchy-feely-soft Cancer, where those ‘I am’ energies to do and act are asked to pause and sense the needs and moods of everyone else, of the very atmosphere–and that kind of hesitation makes the energy pile up like a rear-end collision, a jolt that can’t help but shake that Martian surety and resolve. What we’re left with is a New Moon that stops us as we try to move forward, forcing us to doubt our direction and making us unsteady as a new colt.

But New Moons are supposed to be beginnings, and what we’re contemplating launching is, like a new colt, in need of the time, space, and safe environment to gain its legs and develop a steady gait and a sense of confidence. It’s something we’ve assessed as needed and necessary, our Virgoan critical measure of the matter already taken, so that the emotional and intuitive impact of New Moon events knocks us for a loop–and potentially either sends our energy careening in an unplanned direction, makes us the recipient of someone else’s misdirect, or perhaps both, with the added upset of feeling more hostile, more agitated, and more aggrieved than we admit or even know.

So how do we handle it? Wisdom lies at 20 Aries, quincunx the New Moon in the form of Pallas, suggesting that if we can ground consciousness in a sense of Self that is consistent with our personal cause (that is, our idea of who we are and what we stand for), then we can find our best options by assuming that mentality–but uh-oh, the combo of Kassandra and Ophelia are sextile and conjoined that stymied Mars, suggesting we may not believe ourselves (which of course is a matter of trusting ourselves, and this says we can’t, somehow) and we may succumb to despair, especially, in fact certainly, if we’re looking to someone else to save us.

Notable current influences include Venus in Scorpio at 00 opposed Chiron in Taurus at 00, with Mercury in Libra at 00 quincunx Chiron. That’s a whole lot of energies newly arrived in a fresh form of expression–and so still getting used to that sign style. Venus in Scorpio gets sexy, ruthless, or deep–and may be a little awkward at first, moving out of the (overly) sincere Libran relationship orientation into something more emotionally driven and dynamic. This is opposite the healing and wounding energy of Chiron as it goes from Self-absorption that emphasizes the Will to Self-absorption that fixes on assets, creature comforts, and a sense of security–with these Chirotic concerns occupying the thoughts (and centering that wounding/ healing around what relationships may require) via that Libran Mercury. Of course, the ‘new’ degree of Mercury may prompt us to base our relationship ideas around what we think others need, rather than what they think they need–a common issue of misunderstanding when an energy is new to a sign.

The Sabian for the New Moon is, ‘A Swimming Race’. This image points us toward the Water-associated bodies at present: Luna, of course, as symbol of feeling and sensitivity, but also Venus in Scorpio and Mars in Cancer, both Water signs, with Mars speaking as well to the competitive, ‘racing’ part of the image. Overall it implies that, especially around relationships, we’ll be immersed in emotion and feeling the urge to rush forward, to ‘win’–but what we’ve already seen is that this is inadvisable. We should remember that the Moon event is in an Earth sign–and that grounding ourselves and staying as steady and non-reactive as possible will be most productive.

A Virgo New Moon asks us to take a fresh look at things with a critical eye–but in this case that gaze will be informed by too much uncertainty about ourselves, too much stymied emotion, to launch something new right now. Instead try to sort the real-world wheat from the emotion-driven chaff, and ground yourself, and so encourage good judgment, by doing those things you consider healing, for yourself and others. It’s a moment to enjoy whatever makes up your current Virgo ‘harvest’–and to share that uncritically with those you care about.

Lunar Eclipse 27 August 2026 How It Really Works

27 Thursday Aug 2026

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With a Lunar eclipse, we’re observing Luna coming between us and the Sun right on the ecliptic, blocking (or at least partially blocking, in this case) our view of Sol, and so blocking the Sun’s light. Symbolically that speaks of emotion or intuition temporarily overwhelming our ability to see/ perceive, or to cause us loss of identity, awareness of our role, or loss of a familiar sense of Self. We lose the light we’re accustomed to, and we’re plunged into shadows that specifically stir an emotional reaction. This is the time when we might find those around us (or even ourselves) acting in a way we’d describe as ‘out of character’–but is it, really? There are very few times in life when we get to experience the extremes of our own individuality, so it’s only logical that any behavior originating on the peripheries may surprise or shock us, delight us (as it sparks other parts of the psyche), or horrify us–hence those ‘That’s not me!’ moments (or, in the case of startlingly positive behaviors, we may wonder if we can duplicate or sustain such a display of talent/ wisdom).

Eclipses are meant to disrupt–and in blocking the Solar light, they interrupt the sense of Self. It’s transitory, but begs the question, what takes the place of our usual Self-image? We can’t unsee or unknow what’s been revealed by eclipse extremes, once it’s over, but degree of integration depends on how we process things. Whether we’re capable of absorbing what we see, and whether we’re able to fit it into the existing Self-image, determines how much internal change the eclipse may require–and if we’re incapable of accepting what’s revealed, we may trigger external events that will force that acceptance or change. Every once in a while, eclipse revelations completely shatter how we think of ourselves–but if we accept that the new factors are just as genuine to our identity and Beingness as any other thing we see as ‘our traits’, we’ll much more quickly and deftly incorporate this new eclipse knowledge and put it to work to our advantage (and that’s doubly so if what is revealed is, at least at first glance, unflattering).

The Lunar eclipse occurs on the 27th @ 4 Pisces 54 at 21:18 (9:18 PM PDT), with the dominant dynamic aspect a T-square formed by Uranus square the Sun-Moon axis. Note that the Sun is conjoined Mercury, which is just past perfection of the Superior Conjunction; that suggests we’ve already had the ‘Big Idea’ or gotten the message (and it’s critical assessment, taking inventory, or sharing of ‘the harvest’, with Sun and Merc meeting in Virgo), and now the eclipse wipes out the old identity, or at least questions it, likely to make room for inclusion of what we’ve recently assessed or discovered. The mechanism for that wipeout may be harsh (the square), with Uranus in Gemini playing with our minds or our communications. What happens is a shock or surprise, unexpected and unanticipated, perhaps delivered by a group to which you belong or via a leadership position you hold, or possibly is delivered by a friend (or maybe frenemy?)

Neptune quincunxes the Sun and so semi-sextiles the eclipse–and at the same time, Neptune is sextile Pluto, with Pluto quincunx the Sun and semi-sextile the eclipse, and so the two happen to catch the eclipse at their midpoint, as well as forming a Finger of God with the eclipse Sun at its apex. This suggests a balance of creativity and willingness to change would be the ideal approach to events, with the Finger telling us that the result will illuminate and support the sense of Self, resulting in a practical and usable interpretation of the ‘I Am’–that’s very reassuring, should we fear losing something vital in the process of eclipse-keyed change.

The Lunar eclipse sesquiquadrates Venus in her Libra home, promising that, no matter how smoothly our personal integration of new material goes, relationships and possibly financial matters that involve others, will be the source of some wrangling and upset–or, these factors may present difficulties to the newly acquired viewpoint. But, Saturn in Aries is novile (a 40 degree aspect) the Lunar eclipse, and this may be the heart of the action: reality and our status/ standing as individuals is the key to successful exploitation of the eclipse energy. That implies that no matter what else is going on, concentrating our efforts on defining our own role in realistic and concrete terms is not just needed, but will be the source from which all other positive change/ accommodation/ modification flows.

The eclipse also makes a wide trine to Mars and a wide sextile to Chiron, flavoring the feeling nature with the urge to act, out of hurt or the need to heal–not a big influence, but one that offers a subtle undercurrent, to be used or disregarded at will, but which can act as a mobilizer should we find ourselves at an impasse–and certainly that’s possible, considering how we may hesitate to take on a new direction–and of course if we don’t make a move, the Universe will bring external pressures to bear, and eventually force our hand.

The Sabian symbol for the eclipse is, ‘A Church Bazaar’, while the Sun’s is, ‘A Man Becoming Aware Of Nature Spirits And Normally Unseen Spiritual Agencies’. The contrast between the two images suggests that, though we may see events as offering a casual opportunity to ‘shop’ for new assets to the personality that are in line with our beliefs (the ‘Church Bazaar’), we’re in actuality being given a glimpse of deep truths normally unavailable to our senses and perceptions. The message seems to be: value what lies behind what you are offered, value what it stands for, represents, or points you in the direction of, as you’re getting a glimpse of the way the Universe really works, and being given an opportunity to see what All-That-Is genuinely finds of worth–a privilege that can help us know our own place and purpose in things.

Full Moon 31 May 2026 The Wisdom in Feeling

30 Saturday May 2026

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

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

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

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

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

New Moon 16 May 2026 Making the Adjustment

13 Wednesday May 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30 Thursday Apr 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have a great weekend, my friends!

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 Gaze of Ottana’ By Yorsh95
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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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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!