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10 May 2010: Entering the Dark with Aggressive Balance

10 Monday May 2010

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The Moon in Aries urges us to seek on our own behalf, but what are we seeking? In general, we’re looking for expression of our own Will, and as the Moon moves forward and aspects different energies, we apply our Will to whatever’s put before us. The next aspect our Aries Moon makes is a quincunx to Pallas 11:30 AM-ish, followed by an opposition to Zeus, around 1:30 PM PDT. These suggest we may try to adjust our actions and ego expression to what we know to be wise, and for some this may involve offering guidance (just as Pallas Athena would do) that ends up bringing us into direct conflict with the desires and ambitions of another, possibly someone with whom we are (or think we are) partnering. This may be somewhat surprising or even shocking (Uranus @ 29 degrees) as our choices seem to us to be truly benign–but two factors may be at work: our own egos, pushing to feel relevant to others, and/ or the sense on the part of those affected that what we’re saying and doing actually threatens their own choices and life direction (Moon T-square with Nodes, 3 PM or thereabouts).

At the same time as the Nodal contact the Moon sextiles Juno, suggesting that each of us will feel some emotional propulsion to empowerment–meaning that it may feel both important and possible to push for the position that makes us feel secure–and anyone with placements @ 13 degrees of the Cardinals and/ or 13 degrees of the Mutables may be strongly affected, as if, momentarily, at least, existence itself sits in the balance–but we’ll only be successful if we’re willing to adjust our attitudes to what we know to be the smart course (Finger of God Juno/ Moon base apex Pallas).

We ruminate on this mini-power struggle/ escapade through to about 9 PM PDT when the transiting Aries Moon trines Mars. Now we may insist on acting, and unless we are very careful we could make a passionate stew out of all the energies. At this point the Moon will still be within range of a Grand Square involving the Nodes and the Moon/ Juno opposition, and this means that if we can balance the interests of others’ with our own we may make excellent, major leaps forward.

By 2:30 AM-ish PDT the Moon moves into range of sextile to Venus and quincunx to Earth. This brings emotional and intuitive attention to matters of the material, physical surroundings, and reward and earnings. Needed adjustments will be crystal clear–for my compadres who will with any luck be sound asleep at this point, careful perusal of dreams the morning after may reveal something very useful that hints at what must change. We need to take a lot of care at this point, as the Sun will be exact to Sedna tomorrow, and we are within a window of extreme difficulty pinpointing our own purpose, the point to all that we do. As I mentioned previously, don’t react too strongly to this influence, and don’t make decisions based on it, or presume that you’ll be served by deep introspection–all of this is best avoided right now.

Also of note: Ceres is within one degree of Pluto at present–power struggles, or negotiations, will just be part of the landscape long-term. Learn much much more on Ceres (including how she may play a big role in autoimmune diseases/ sensitivities) here http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-eclipse-spring-2010/ Includes 3 Months of Forecasts and ‘What You Won’t See on the Blog,’ info on New and Full Moons you can’t get anywhere else! New Moon occurs May 13th at 6:04 PM, meaning the Dark of the Moon begins this evening (the 10th) Pacific time-be aware that once this begins we’ll be at fundamental odds with the prevailing Universal energy that counsels us to retreat and receive–that’s why we must enter this pre-New Moon period with aggressive balance, so that both energy mandates can be honored.

A Word on Merc Retro, and Weekend Action Plans

08 Saturday May 2010

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It seems that there has been something sinister at work the last few days.  Quite by chance, I ran into an acquaintance.  When Mercury is NOT retrograde, I go out of my way to avoid this person.  When Mercury is retrograde, I get sucked in.  This person is emotionally abusive and something about Mercury retrograde makes me forget until I’ve been given a verbal beating.  The day before, I came across a mama duck w/ newly hatched ducklings, about to cross a busy street.  Believing I was being a good samaritan, I herded her to a different pond, where she was immediately attacked by a male duck of a different species.  Upon researching online, I found that she HAS to go to the pond across the street to find her mate or she won’t be protected.  Man, did I feel terrible.

Twice in a row, good intentions blown to pieces.  Boom.

April

Hi April, Here’s the thing about Merc retro: logical thinking doesn’t work; putting together the pieces doesn’t work. ‘Sinister’ of course just means ‘of or to the left,’ and suggests that old saying, ‘The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing,’ perfect for this period. ‘Good intentions’ are meaningless, while ‘true’ intentions come through. What it all works to do is expose reality in a way you can’t ignore. In the case of your acquaintance, only wanting to see yourself as ubercivilized and pretending interacting with mud won’t get you muddy is at work, while with the ducks it seems to signal a Ceres-like tendency toward inappropriate control, in this case you thinking you know better than Mother Nature. We’re given an instinctive warning system that should keep us away from the snake in the grass, or the poisonous berries, but we get all big-brained and opposable thumb-y and believe we can outwit everything–and Merc retro offers us a time to reconnect through the feelings and the senses–and if we don’t take it, we suffer the consequences.

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Thus endeth the Merc retro lesson for today; my thanks to April. Mercury goes direct on the 11th at 3:26 PM PDT; you have that long to wallow in brain down time that will allow for a much less restricted flow of information and intuitive and feeling experience. What you bring to your ‘regular’ life after Merc direction from these periods can be very useful, so take advantage of the extraordinary access to what some might call our animal brains, but that I call ‘fun’!

Moon in Pisces and she stays there until the 9th at 2:29 PM PDT. With Merc staying out of the way and our instinctive Selves in high gear, what magic isn’t possible, what escape won’t we try this weekend? Do it now, because the Moon enters Aries tomorrow afternoon Pacific and things become, well, focused, stern, and pretty frustrated, as Merc will still be retro and Mars has a hard time getting what he wants when he can’t think straight. Plus it will swiftly square Pluto, suggesting some taking your lumps, getting to the bottom of things energy around. Just have a one-pointed plan of attention for the early Aries Moon, something Arian and safe, like swordplay or wood-chopping or working at a forge, you smithy of the Soul, and you’ll make it through just fine (and fashion a great set of horseshoes to boot!)

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7 May 2010: Wisdom Makes It Happen

07 Friday May 2010

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Today seems to focus energy through a Finger of God with apex of a wide Juno/ Venus conjunction in Gemini, which goes a long way toward explaining why our minds are preoccupied with trying to make the most of things–and yet for most the thoughts are easily distracted from their targets, not surprising with Moon in early Pisces. With a Finger of God configuration, the apex energy is the final one to be expressed; the base energies must first successfully work together, and this takes some effort (the sextile). Here the base is the North Node and the Earth/ Pallas conjunction. I know, some of you don’t count the Nodes as points in configs–ok, so don’t, but I’m going to.

We need to pull together the intended life direction (NN) and make it work with the wisest material arrangement possible (Earth + Pallas). Not the material circumstances we wish we could have–don’t confuse ‘most desirable’ or ‘ideal’ with ‘wise’–but the physical and asset situation that is the smartest for implementing our life path/ intended life direction.

What if you don’t know your life path, your intended direction of development? A glance at your natal North Node should at the very least give you a general subject and area for manifestation range that implies whether your current life choices, in the most broad terms, serve this direction. You don’t have to know precisely where you’re going–who does?–you just have to have a feel for it–and let things unfold from there. For instance, a natal North Node in the 3rd in Virgo implies something Mercurial, likely with several facets of this energy. That covers a lot of ground, but you know in an instant if your life is generally proceeding with a lot of Mercury-related emphasis or not.

So, successfully combining the intended life direction energy and wise material surroundings/ circumstances and you will be able to funnel the energy to the Juno/ Venus apex point, with a likely result of empowerment, enrichment, and a strong, positive relationship dynamic at your fingertips.

Also of note: the T-square involving apex Mars with the Sun/ Earth axis is still in effect. This promises to show us precisely how and where the ego and Will are conflicting with the life direction. Should show the ways in which we sabotage ourselves; but will we listen, and do something about the Self-destructive behavior?

And Jupiter quincunxes Vesta, suggesting that the social sphere must adjust to what’s truly sacred, the Gulf oil spill protests being one way in which Gaia is mustering some to speak for her, and ask for a reassessment (Merc retro) of our thinking on issues of material exploitation.

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Today’s Link: Today I liked this http://cosmiclifecoach.wordpress.com/ and here’s a new addition to the Blogroll http://effectiveastrology.wordpress.com/

5-6 May 2010: How Do You Mend a Broken Blog Post?

04 Tuesday May 2010

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UPDATE: In visiting my page this morning, I realize that WordPress managed to drop at least two paragraphs between me pressing the publish button and it appearing on the page. My apologies, as it reads like nonsense at this point! I’m going to add some material that fills in what I meant. jd–Okay, I hope what I’ve added fills in the missing gaps. This isn’t the first time paragraphs have disappeared, but I don’t really know what to do about it. jd

I don’t have much to say about our lovely Aquarius Moon, as most of the aspects it makes for a while will be mildly pleasant ones, at best, and our reactions and thought processes will clip along in Higher Mind, Water Bearer-fashion, essentially continuing the rather thin-feeling atmosphere that exists right now–I say thin as people still seem a little discombobulated from yesterday’s wallop (seems to have left us all reeling with draining and yet mostly unexplainable experiences), and the thinness of the air is like being at very high altitude; we’re talking, smiling, going about our business, and yet immensely distracted, ready to retreat to sleep or giddiness at any moment. Such is the Aquarian Moon tendency to encourage retreat (or perhaps better said as rebellion from day-to-day realities) when we are feeling stressed, or just sense the elements of life pressing too close.

A Grand Cross is formed starting around 4:30 PM PDT today, the 5th, with the Sun/ Earth (+ Pallas) axis, the Moon, and Mars in Leo. This suggests the emotions will contradict (or maybe even light up and get going) the action urge–no matter which, we’ll see that our feelings and ego aims will not serve our intended direction. Should just generally make each of us feel at odds with our efforts, as if the timing is off, or as if we’re missing a piece we need to successfully go forward (and that’s probably Merc retro). All we can do is try to minimize the internal (and possibly external) discord by making sure our emotions are aboveboard and aligned with our goals.

1782 JE Bode Wassermann/ The Water Bearer

The Cross lasts through about 10:30 PM PDT. The only other aspect that draws my attention is the exact quincunx at this point of Vesta and Jupiter, with the Moon opposing Vesta starting around 2 PM PDT on the 6th. This suggests the slower aspect (Vesta/ Jupiter) provides some ongoing need for adjustment between the social arena and the things we hold most vital (and this can mean we need to adjust our own ideas of what’s sacred–for instance, not treating our own words and thoughts as inviolable, as this may go beyond Self-respect to completely unreasonable). The Moon comes along and adds emotions and intuition, perhaps in the form of resistance (the opposition) to the need to modify what we believe is above modification. This generally sounds like we’ll all be asked, one way or another, to consider that something we treat with kidd gloves needs to be reevaluated–whatever it is, it’s received a position on our personal altar–and it doesn’t belong there!

There’s a coming conjunction of the transiting Sun to Sedna, window imo starting the 6th and lasting through about the 15th, and this includes the period of the New Moon. If we can’t see the light, well, how do we know what’s what? Mostly, we don’t; this says expect a period wherein our very reason for being may be elusive. The remedy is to stick to what you’ve formulated prior to this, to what you know yourself to be when not under this influence, and continue–it’s not a time for deep Self-questioning. More Forecast available below with ECLIPSE. (This is a wider time span than I gave the transit in the mag, but I’m now feeling that it’s much more noteworthy than I first thought).

 And here’s a little flashback to a previous Mother’s Day https://juliedemboski.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/the-mother-of-them-all/

Today’s Link: an excellent examination of the underappreciated 6th House and the effect of its ruler placement http://astrofix.net/post/571677262/ruler-of-the-6th-house-in-houses

And of course, don’t forget to get your copy of the Spring issue of ECLIPSE! with more stuff (that’s terribly descriptive, isn’t it?) than ever before! Includes 3 Months of Forecasts, material on Uranus into Aries, Chiron into Pisces, and the many faces of the asteroid Ceres http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-eclipse-spring-2010/ Purchasers of the mag may contact me for a brief assessment of Ceres in their own chart; this is my ‘Thank You’ for your support! Please be patient–I’m handling the Ceres requests in the order they come in, so it may be as much as a full week before you receive your reading. Thanks!

3-4 May 2010: Wanter Beware

03 Monday May 2010

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Bromidi 1865 While Neptune drives, Venus helps lay the transatlantic cable, which could be a euphemism for what she's doing now with Zeus

The trine that will be in place between Venus and Zeus through the 6th of May is a good place to start today. Both are in Air, and both have a big stake in coming across well to the opposite sex (or to the sex in which they’re interested!) Venus, of course, is anima oriented, and Zeus is animus aligned, and this means that the way one will approach this aspect interaction will be keyed to one’s own primary viewpoint. Now, what does it promise?

A trine is ‘easy,’ meaning the two energies will co-operate without any effort; in this case, the woman, beauty, assets, earnings, what’s of worth, envy, jealousy, greed, luxuries, what’s reproductively oriented, the cost of what we want, will be caught up with the man, the ambitions, the Will, the lust, the desire, the wound of the ‘lost’ father, what one wants without regard to cost, and this interaction could be the start of any number of ‘new’ concepts, ideas, mental outlooks, relationships, or other connections (Air, networker Gemini + partnership/ relationship Libra).

I guess I’m saying: watch out what gets going, starting about two days ago, right through the 6th, as the spark of contact may create something larger than the two parts from which it begins. We could see a lot of babies conceived, passionate acts perpetrated, lusts exposed, and episodes of falling in love, with any variety of person, thing, or goal. Earth and Pallas are exactly conjunct; if we can stay tuned to the material reality, aware of the actual circumstances of our lives, we won’t be swept into something inextricable by the romance (Venus) and lust (Zeus) of the influencing aspect. Uranus is in the 29th degree of Pisces, pushing us in the most nebulous way to express our most unique qualities, and the pressure to act up, show off, or make a splash will squeeze the subconscious and perhaps propel us forward when at another time we might be content to sit back and let events take their course without such strenuous, even desperate, input.

 This is one of the most important influences imo for the coming few days, and each of us should consider how this influence might work itself into our lives. Be prepared: we could be setting up a situation where we receive rewards for going after what we want, where we create something new and bigger than the current elements might imply on their own, where the cost for our ambitions or lusts is not taken into account, and/ or where we change irrevocably our relationship to something or someone else, and the influence of what happens right now could stretch far into the future. Good luck everyone!

Once again, I’d like to express my gratitude to those who are supporting the new issue of ECLIPSE. All who purchase the Spring issue are invited to contact me at juliedemboski@hotmail.com with their birth data (one person only; you can submit info for a friend or relative instead of yourself if you choose) and a few salient details (are you a mother? an artist? do you work with or have a special connection to nature? have allergies or digestive ailments? are power relationships a ‘big deal’ in your life? do you negotiate successfully within your life, or do you tend to negotiate away power or responsibility?) and I’ll provide a personal portrait of Ceres at work in your natal chart. This will likely be comprised of a few paragraphs discussing its placement, its relationship to other placements, and the possible role her energy plays in your life, the positives and pitfalls. If you’d prefer, you may instead choose Zeus (star of the first issue, and a better fit for most male readers).  Thank you for all your support!

Today’s Link: immodestly, I list the new issue of ECLIPSE! Features useful forecasts for the coming three months, material on the Sun as a core identity indicator, synastry in action, Earth as our material purpose, Ceres, and much more! What are you waiting for? Only $2.95! http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-eclipse-spring-2010/

2-3 May 2010: Determining the Source

02 Sunday May 2010

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At 2:59 AM PDT on the 2nd the Moon enters Capricorn, and immediately sextiles Chiron. Sextile is a soft word, an ‘easy’ aspect, so shouldn’t we see this as positive? Well, maybe; it brings emotional illumination to the Chiron concept. A transiting energy is the pure form of the energy; unlike our natal Chiron vibe, the one the Moon ignites is Archetypal, meaning we will feel that Archetypal vibe enlivened within us, and unless this Moon or Chiron is aspecting something in our natal chart at the time they form aspect, we will experience it largely as a general Chiron energy of either hurt or healing. Illumination with a Moon aspect comes by the unique mechanism of reflection, meaning that what’s ‘lit up’ shines by what comes from a third party or source, and this implies that emotions and/ or intuition ‘get the shine’ from something else, but feel Chiron in response. This is true of all transiting Moon aspects, but it’s important to point out right now as we should know that the hurt or healing isn’t coming from the perceived (third party) source, but from within, from our own concept of Chiron that we carry ourselves. We can get a little glimpse of what Chiron means to us, a look at how we process the Chirotic challenges and energy, and it may give some insight on our natal Chiron situation, if we can separate Chiron from the emotional source.

Around 10:30 AM PDT the Moon conjuncts Ceres in Capricorn–this can be a point when we feel a strong entitlement to express our authority in a situation, but it can also be that we feel a right to exceed our normal boundaries. The urge to power and the desire to communicate it becomes even stronger as the Moon quickly follows with a conjunction to Pluto and a trine to Mercury. Likely subjects center on the material world; things and their disposition seem vital. Determining that you’re not the source for others discipline or authority is key. Try to ride this influence out by not taking circumstances, and especially yourself, too seriously, and definitely consider pulling back if you find yourself giving orders or critiquing another’s choice.

The taste of Chiron, Ceres, Pluto, and Merc drawn out by the Moon lasts all day (Pacific time), even when the aspects are past. Sometimes it seems aspect effects echo well beyond their time, usually when nothing else comes along to fill in with a new energy, and this is one of them, at least as far as our Moon responses are concerned. It isn’t until the 8-9 PM hour PDT that the Moon gets out of her rut, with quincunxes to Juno and Venus in Gemini. Here the idea is to adjust the emotional landscape to accommodate a genuine period of ‘woman power,’ your own or another’s. The Capricorn Moon may at first resist giving it up for the ladies, but she can be talked (or thought) into it (Gemini)!

By 2 AM PDT on the 3rd the mood breaks as the Moon trines the Sun and squares Zeus. The emotions shine out, and bring conflict with the ambitions and Will of others. Just conduct yourself so that it isn’t payback for earlier in the day!

3:30-ish AM on the 3rd the Moon conjuncts the North Node, quincunxes Mars, and sextiles Pallas. If you’re awake (no matter where on the globe you are!) you’ll see quite clearly where you’re headed, and you can easily muster energy to modify course and to do it wisely. This lasts through the day of the 3rd Pacific time, so enjoy it!

The Spring issue of ECLIPSE is here! Featured articles are on Ceres, the Sun, Earth, Synastry, Forecasts for May, June, and July, with commentary on Chiron in Pisces and Uranus at the Aries Point, ‘What You Won’t See on the Blog’ for New and Full Moons/ eclipses, and more! Check it out here http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-eclipse-spring-2010/  Also see more on Chiron and how it appears in your life here http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com

Today’s Link: Kelly gives a perceptive analysis of Taurus energy and inspires us in how to handle it http://karmictools.com/InspirationPoint.html

The pic is ‘The Mirror of Venus’  Edward Burne-Jones 1875 {{PD-Art}} Wikimedia Commons

30 April-May 1 2010: Finally!

30 Friday Apr 2010

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And by ‘Finally!’ I mean finally the spring issue of ECLIPSE is here. It was true labor–yes, of love, and it was work, but I mean more like birthin’ a baby labor: hot, sweaty, and owww, but look what you have at the end! So, if you’re interested, you can get my baby here http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-eclipse-spring-2010/ The Winter issue is now at a back issue price, if you’d like to catch up with the masses! http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/eclipse-in-depth-astrology-for-the-21st-century/

Moon in Sagittarius bachelors on, minding his own business, wandering hither and yon; the atmosphere will likely be one of mostly pleasant keeping-to-oneself, with mind and feet busy carrying us forward into adventure. This lasts until about 5 PM PDT on the 30th, when something tickles Sag’s ambitions and/ or Willfulness (and possibly his desire nature!) and he must act (sextile Zeus, trine Mars). The emotions, then, will support making an assertive move without giving it much thought; that thinkin’ cocoon Sag likes to hang out in, where we’ve been mentally all day, didn’t exactly prepare us to do ‘it’–and the result is that we can thrust ourselves into the midst of something that can be way more than we anticipated. Look before you leap would be the admonition for evening Pacific time.

Just after 7 PM PDT the Moon quincunxes the South Node and we get nostalgic. In my experience, few can be as susceptible to a nostalgia-wallow as can a natal Sag Moon, and when the transiting Moon is traversing there we all get a little misty-eyed for what was. Under this influence we can talk ourselves into all kinds of ‘forgot why I left that alone in the first place’–and the last thing we want to do is relive the past. Take real care, as the next aspect is a quincunx to Sedna  (beginning about 9:30 AM PDT May 1st). This can be like taking a memory-loss pill; between the two quincunxes and a sentiment-susceptible Moon, we can get ourselves into a real fix, the kind we suddenly ‘wake up’ from with no idea how we could’ve wandered into such uncharacteristic circumstances.

About 1:30 PM PDT on the 1st the Moon trines Vesta and squares Jupiter, and our slow motion wake-up begins. On the one hand, we feel we’ve been making choices that are totally in line with our most sacred ideals; on the other hand, the social sphere, or our own store of knowledge, tells us that this, whatever it is, is not quite the thing for us. Which to believe, our happy-go-lucky, out of the blue choices, or those things that anchor us and tell us who we are? Hmm.

By 10 PM on the 1st Pacific time something starts to give; the Moon creates a T-square with the Saturn/ Uranus opposition, and sextiles Neptune. This brings a kind of showdown between our future and our past; those who are flexible and able to imagine what comes with going with one side or the other will do best in choosing (don’t worry, it’s just a temporary choice, to help us re-orient ourselves after our atypical weekend).

Void begins at 1:09 AM PDT on the 2nd of May. Moon enters staunch Capricorn at 2:59 AM PDT on the 2nd. Now comes the ‘choice hangover.’

The Scorpio Full Moon 28 April 2010

28 Wednesday Apr 2010

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This month’s Full Moon occurs at 5:18 AM PDT on the 28th at 8 Scorpio 06, and the first thing we notice is that this coincides with the Inferior Conjunction of the Sun and Mercury in its retrograde course. This makes this Moon, symbolically, both an energy culmination and an energy seed point (‘What You Won’t See on the Blog’ for April Full Moon in ECLIPSE adds a bit of detail to this dual energy–and right here I should apologize to readers as the time cited in ECLIPSE is one hour off–I didn’t leap forward!); endings, then, will be Scorpionic, while beginnings will be Taurean, linked to the Sun’s position as it meets Mercury. The Sun’s Sabian, ‘A Fully Decorated Christmas Tree,’ implies that a life symbol, adapted from various systems (the Druidic, the nature cults) to another (Christian), takes on its own meaning as it represents tradition, the significance of the tree devoid of many of the specifics from which it sprang; this symbol also suggests the notions that rest behind the custom of placing delicate and beautiful objects on this representative of everlasting life (of the spirit in its most natural form), showing the way mankind may add her own theories about life and existence to what is essentially unchanging. So, the beginnings we encounter for the Full Moon period will, in some way, recognize that the spirit is unchanging, eternal, and that there are ways offered through our culture (tradition) for us to deal with, ritualize, and incorporate change and new developments into our lives (and these will be material–Taurus). The presence of Merc retro marks this as a seed time for something that will develop through to the Superior Conjunction (the conjunction of the Sun and Mercury when Mercury is direct), and this matter will directly link to (or demand from us) recognition of the persistent and consistent nature of the core spirit (Soul).

Of course, this seeding takes place simultaneous to the culmination we expect from a Full Moon. The Moon’s Sabian is ‘A Dentist at Work.’ This image suggests a trained individual applying skills in the appropriate situation (we’ll assume this dentist is doing his or her dentist-thing in her or his office!) This is, perhaps surprisingly, an image of doing, of application of knowledge and experience in the right place. When we check the Full Moon chart using our strict 2 degree orb, we find only one aspect to the Moon/ Earth conjunction: a quincunx to Juno. This helps; it tells us that this Moon promises that correct application of our skills (for this is the very thing that empowers Juno, using her skills in the right way in the right situation) will give an appropriate result, a resolution of some kind, which will bestow a sense of empowerment and positive feelings (the Scorpio Water placement).

We are left then with two branches to this Moon energy, one of which is the unusual instance of a beginning, usually reserved for the New Moon. There is the suggestion in all this of a step up in the challenges we will face, in more skills being required and more efforts made at the same time; where previously we would face a difficulty, now we’ll be handed two. And we have the strength and abilities to deal with it.

See the Sabians neatly presented here http://www.cafeastrology.com/sabiansymbols_degreemeanings.html

UPDATE: dateline Seattle, 9:05 PM 28 April 2010:

GET READY! The new issue of ECLIPSE will be released in about 24 hours, around 9 PM on April 29th! See a preview here http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com

26-27 April 2010: Emos Under Wraps

26 Monday Apr 2010

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After the Moon’s moment of truth with the Nodes, all’s quiet until post midnight PDT, when the Libra Moon quincunxes Sedna. The big influence here is that our own emotions (in fact, the emotions of everyone) will be hidden from us, with the danger that we’ll act and make decisions, especially in relationship (Libra), without being aware of how we truly feel–and worse, our feelings may come out, uncontrolled and uncensored, and if we’re normally circumspect with our feelings we may be embarrassed, horrified, and/or those we interact with may be–so it’s a time to perhaps stick to the facts, and the well-worn emotional path, just for safety’s sake.

By 2 AM PDT or so on the 27th there’s a briefly formed Finger of God involving the Moon as apex and a base of Jupiter sextile Sedna. This adds to and exaggerates the previous effect, with a sextile to Vesta suggesting that the inclination might be to deal with those things most important to us, the worst idea we could have at this point–lay low, if possible–I certainly hope to be sound asleep!

Around noon on the 27th Pacific time the Moon trines Neptune and quincunxes Uranus, bringing forward a unique emotional response: we so want to go with the fantasy, with the delusion, with the lie, or with the expression of the dream or ideal, but our own individuality, or the group as a whole, gets in the way. How? It’s really a saving spark when it’s ourselves that cause the barrier or need for adjustment, as in allowing the Uranian influence we are allowing all that’s most unique within us to speak, and that’s good; if it’s the group that affects things, we can be sure that we’re projecting the effects so that we don’t have to be the one dashing those Neptunian temptations. Either way, an interesting go round.

12:46 PM PDT the Moon goes Void-of-Course, entering Scorpio at 3:28 PM. Right away there’s a trine to Chiron in Water (will our emo trials never end? see a few brief ideas on what we can expect from Chiron in Pisces in the Forecast portion of the new issue of ‘ECLIPSE’) The Moon trine Chiron may open our wounded Self wide, where our emotional nature searches for (Scorpio) the depth of and reasons for the hurt–and for some this will bring hurt out of nowhere–it’s just suddenly on our minds–but we need to respond with a willingness to transform the energies of whatever we’re presented with so that our skills are called upon; maybe easier said than done, but an attitude that’s willing to cope will be enough.

8:30-ish PM PDT and the Moon quincunxes Venus. We may be feeling the less-positive facets of Scorpio at this point, lashing out with a (probably) uncharacteristic sting, and the likely vehicle may be harsh words or even thoughts (Gemini) in relationship (Venus). Hold your tongue. By 10 PM the Moon sextiles Ceres, and by 11:30 PM it hits Pluto, and if we haven’t kept the peace we may be feeling the effects, with authorities and the powerful making easy pickin’s of our emotional chaos. I hate to be a broken record, but laying low may be the best choice.

Next up, the Full Moon!

26 April 2010: Energy Alignment Part 1

25 Sunday Apr 2010

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4 AM PDT on the 26th and the Libra Moon quincunxes Merc retro in Taurus; second thoughts and second feelings characterize this influence–but don’t become too enmeshed in finding the ‘right’ approach/ idea/ words–this is mildly distressing but transitory. By 6 there’s a sextile to Mars that makes us want to act on our feelings, especially in relationship; the sense is that there’s some urgency to making significant contact–that person needs to know how I feel! may be the thought–but that may be more about the Fist of God created by the South Node square the Moon and Zeus, and all sesquiquadrate Neptune. This config makes us feel that a chance is slipping away (and for an unlucky few it may feel like they’re being deceived). Know that this is actually an echo of the past, a feeling coming forward that once was, and it has nothing to do with what’s going on now; the feeling has simply been reawakened and has attached itself to an area where you have some anxiety now. This is really a gift, as we may not be aware of what we’re really worried about, thanks to Merc retro’s confusing energy, and this experience can help us sort it out.

9 AM PDT and the Moon conjuncts Zeus. This period is very useful in showing us what ambitions and goals our emotional support is actually behind–sometimes we tell ourselves we want one thing, because it’s more acceptable to us, when we really want another–and this contact shows us what we’re truly aiming for. The great thing here is that we have a chance to align conscious and unconscious intentions–and when those are aligned things move–so take this opportunity to get energies in harmony within.

Noonish PDT the Moon makes a T-square with the Nodal axis, and we’re asked to take stock of how well our attitude is serving our life direction. Again, it’s just information that can help us make the most of our own energy use. We must take every chance offered to make our energy output as effective as it can possibly be.

I’ll be back with the rest of the day later–