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Full Moon in Libra 1 April 2026 Don’t Look Away

30 Monday Mar 2026

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The striking thing about this Full Moon (perfecting at 7:11 PM PDT at 12 Libra 21) is the way the Sun-Moon opposition forms a Cardinal T-square with Jupiter in Cancer. We’re hit with a tricky concept: an overabundance of opportunity, an onslaught of possibilities, more (even an unhealthy amount) of what we care about, that comforts us, that soothes, delivered through a problem, difficult circumstances, tough personal choices, or in conflict with others. The energy is compelling; we’re likely to feel we must do something, either individually or in concert with others, that recognizes some set of facts or potentials that could hold the keys to abundance, good fortune, and an expansion of our world. The Moon quincunxes Mercury in Pisces, bedeviling our minds with all manner of what could be, what we should do, augmented by our own imaginations as well as the Universal creative energy that can make us feel that anything is not just possible, but possibly in our ideal future–and this feeds the impetus of the T, perhaps sending us into action before we’ve gamed out where we’re going (or at least intending to go).

The reality, though, may be that we’re not seeing ourselves or our circumstances clearly. Saturn is still in range of Neptune, distorting or otherwise veiling the reality picture, and though the signal is stronger than in the recent past it’s not without interference; there are still things we misperceive, probably from deeply wounded sensibilities formed from past experience that we may not be entirely conscious of, but that permeates relationships and anything we are deeply invested in (Venus square Pluto, Pluto quincunx the South Node). These are intellectual takes rooted in sense and security issues, not fully processed and so not yet full understood (Venus in Taurus, Pluto in Aquarius).

This could make for difficulty comprehending this Libra Full Moon, as we are invited to draw conclusions around relationships, partnerships, artistic endeavors, matters of approach and negotiation (diplomacy and manners in all their forms), and aesthetics, and yet have a lot of subtle and unconscious material influencing our perceptions; we’d do well to remember that Libra carries a certain modicum of judgment inherent in its emphasis on interaction and assessment of that interaction. That is to say, we may be judging ourselves and others even though we think we’re dispassionate, assessing situations according to our accepted standards, not realizing that those benchmarks are deeply personal, based on our own ideas of what’s appropriate, rather than on some larger Universal measure–and that means we’ll be largely unaware of our own biases, our own shading applied to interpretation of what’s around us, which state inevitably leads us to at least some misunderstanding, some misperception, and so some choices we may later wish we’d done differently.

Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius sextiles the Libra Moon and trines the Aries Sun–and that may be our way out of the lingering fog. This suggests facts or information we’ve forgotten, ignored, hidden from ourselves, or denied, that can ease the way, both with our own choices and within partnerships. It’s in what we’ve willingly (or willfully) looked away from that we find the knowledge needed to make our choices (Aries Sun) about how we’ll interact and share (Libra Moon). Excavating and acknowledging this info is key overcoming the problems associated with the T-square and so accessing the opportunities and abundance we’re seeing.

The Full Moon Sabian is, ‘Children Blowing Soap Bubbles’. The Sun offers the light that makes the Full Moon phenomenon in the first place; the Sun’s Sabian is, ‘An Unexploded Bomb Reveals An Unsuccessful Social Protest’. This is what I’m seeing here: The Full Moon offers us pleasure, in some way, something light, a positive and enjoyable benefit (the potential of the Jupiter square), but we shouldn’t lose sight of a fundamental fact: that this positive interlude is necessary, even generated by, a genuine danger, a situation with potential energy as yet unreleased that represents something objectionable within the social fabric. It may be a situation where we take our benefits, our pluses, where we find them; we certainly can’t (and shouldn’t) stop living simply because problems exist–but we shouldn’t ignore them, either. We can prosper and expand, gain rewards and find new venues of expression, even as we remain focused on what must be fixed, what must change. Black Moon Lilith is instrumental to gaining the Jupiterian opportunity available with this Full Moon, and it may be that this is the Black Moon’s moment. BML is a well, our internal repository for what we can’t, at the moment, handle; using this Lunar energy successfully means willingly accessing what we’d rather not, what we normally hide even from ourselves. In essence, we’ll be practicing/ developing our courage to face what we find difficult–this Moon tells us it will definitely pay off.

Have a wonderful Full Moon!

The Lunar Light: A New Moon Experience 18 March 2026

17 Tuesday Mar 2026

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The New Moon (6:23 PM PST at 28 Pisces 26) forming so late in Pisces, with a sextile to Uranus, tells us definitively we just won’t know–Higher Mind may rebel at the idea there are creative forces out there acting on what is and what occurs, and so feeling out of control and perhaps way past comfortable for most of us–or that we’ll be shocked, surprised, at what coalesces and comes forward, images out of the ether, things we’ve only imagined, or never conceived, fantastical (and so, in their own way, unbelievable)–but what the New Moon will deliver with a certain creative optimism (and an inclination to compare the real with the ideal) is a glimpse of the new, what’s modern, the shape of what we’re headed toward, and we may not believe that, either, simply because we may not be able to draw a line from here to there to into the future–and so find it exaggerated, silly, weirdly cold, not of any worth (Venus in Cardinal square to Jupiter, this energy also suggesting we may want to do something about what we value, love, treasure, or want more of–that’s our Will speaking, with Venus in Aries–but find things–Jupiterian things, like facts and hubris-filled authority figures and worldly realities, getting in the way).

The start of something in Pisces, like a New Moon, is akin to watching life form in the primordial soup: we don’t really know what we’re looking at, but it’s clearly lively, imbued with generative energy, bubbling around and combining to make the expected plus the unanticipated, and this tends to prime the mind, encourage observation informed with potential for all that could be–and so we start to think about the possibilities, and as our focus shifts so does our connection to reality, away from the likely to the barely possible, and what do we typically end up with? The outlines of a dream to be pursued, if we’re lucky, and a mirage if we’re not.

Saturn and Neptune are still speaking and Pluto is insinuating itself by sextile more and more strongly into the reality picture every day as Saturn moves to perfect the aspect. As Neptune and Saturn separate we’ve been thinking we’re getting a grip, or at least successfully sorting reality from fantasy and deception, but Pluto says otherwise, threatening us with obliteration if we push too hard to clear out the illusions. Don’t listen to that initial Plutonian grumble; the courage to eliminate what’s illusory, misleading, and outright false is where power lies–and Pluto will deliver that power personally, once we step up and show we’re not going to be buffaloed, or worse, pacified by what’s untrue.

Mercury is conjoined the North Node in Pisces; once it goes direct (12:32 PST of the 20th) the mind and thought processes may emerge as our most efficient and effective means of understanding where all this creative and generative energy may take us, what kind of future it’s shaping in the now. Don’t worry about the shadow period–too much is made of this, in my view arising from the familiarity that occurs as a planet re-traces the territory it traversed once forward, then again in retro motion. The hangover, so to speak, is in that we’ve been there before, with what’s lingering or holding us back, though it can feel like minor retro energy, is really just the ennui of much-wrestled-with material.

The Sabian for the New Moon is, ‘Light Breaking Into Many Colors As It Passes Through A Prism’. We may have been seeing things in a singular light; the growing reflection of a New Moon offers to sort out the contents of that single light, that single way of seeing, to break it down in ways that show us the combination of influences that make up the whole. If we know what distinct things make up the reality before us, we’re much more likely to be able to act effectively, to address things accurately, to know, in the most elementary way, what it is we’re really looking at.

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.

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!

Full Moon 9 August 2025 In the Wind

06 Wednesday Aug 2025

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‘Boys Flying Kites’ Attributed to Nicolaes Maes c1670 {{PD}}

The Full Moon peaks at 00:54 AM PDT of the 9th at 16 Aquarius 59, and the most striking thing might be the tidy Kite configuration that doesn’t involve the Moon, though Luna does share a sign with one of the components, and another of the components rules the sign the Moon is in. That’s a tenuous connection but not an insignificant one; it suggests oblique links where Full Moon emotional outcomes may funnel through the shared-sign factor (a sign being an expression attitude), which just so happens to hold Pluto. That’s a naturally intense planetary energy ripe for projection or overreaction even in its most positive forms, and so all the more susceptible to being swept up in prevailing emotion. The fact that ruler of Aquarius, Uranus, is also part of the Kite only reinforces the prominence of the Waterbearer’s energy, which can surprise, shock, or show us something completely new.

So if there’s a Lunar wind behind that Kite, of what does it consist? A Full Moon is a culmination of feelings and perceptions that cohere into an event, realization, or completion related to the sign in which the Full Moon occurs; this may also engage matters of the House in the personal nativity where this falls, and/ or in the House or other placements ruled by the Moon or matters related to the sign ruler, in this case, Uranus, so potentially the House where natal Uranus sits or aspects it makes or other energies it rules. That’s a lot of places the Lunar energy can touch and the Moon moves fast; that’s why tight aspect orbs and a clear picture of what it involves, and what it leaves out, is so important. You’ll notice many of those factors are personal ones, dependent on the Full Moon’s interaction with your chart. Here the focus is on what’s consistent for everyone, as far as possible.

Aquarius tells us the Lunar event delivers revelation or revolution, and with Pluto a conduit for the Moon energy to the Kite, that may consist of ‘the Truth’, of secrets dug up and revealed, or the dawning of the need for change (along with its commencement), not to mention the possibility of an event that removes something or someone from our world, abruptly, and we are left to pick up the pieces and sort out what it all means. Things may be ‘in the wind’, that is gone, beyond our control. What Aquarius/ Uranus offers will always be something that expands our sense of understanding or our mind, that is future-oriented and signals ‘the coming thing’. That’s the wind that propels the Kite–but what is the Kite?

The Kite energies are set to work very smoothly together, though they are offshoots of a difficult central theme, in this case, an opposition between Saturn-Neptune in Aries and Mars in Libra. That’s the fulcrum across which we try to balance the individual needs and wants and those demanded by partners and all others, whether we are in a cooperative relationship with them or not. Saturn-Neptune can suppress the dream or give it concrete manifestation, warts and all, and the Aries placement says each of us is dealing with defining what and who we are, the ‘I Am’ attempting to sort our potentials from our pipe dreams, and learning just what we must do to make those dreams happen. This is faced, so to speak, by Mars, ruler of Aries and so of the individual Will and ‘I Am’, specifically as this quest to define and pursue the expression of the individuality relates to the Arts, and to others: do we need their cooperation to make ‘it’ happen? will fulfillment of our dreams change our interaction or relationships? is our Art, whatever that may be, and our expression of it more important than our connection to others, or is it dependent on it, in the sense that we may need ‘an audience’ or others’ participation to complete the dream’s existence?

So, the ‘spine’ of the Kite is this broad question; now we look at the other influences. Saturn-Neptune is at the midpoint of a trine between Pluto and Uranus, with these trine Mars. That means each Kite holds a Grand Trine, this one in Air, suggesting that if we can find the balance within the I vs. Them equation, we can activate an equilibrium among the need for change/ discovery of Truth, our understanding of the new, and our own efforts and drives.

The Moon offers its influence more directly through a sesquiquadrate to Mars, and a square to the Black Moon Lilith point. These are difficult aspects and will probably be the first energies we encounter in this process, as we find the problems and inadequacies of our current methods and approaches (sesq. Mars) and how our buried, denied, or angry feelings are causing conflict, and realize we must deal with these before we can move forward.

Mercury is still retrograde, so despite the way the feelings are front and center, we need to remember that revisions to Higher Mind and Uranian understanding may still need review, even after this Full Moon. Also note that Venus and Jupiter meet in mid-Cancer from the 9th through the 15th, and offer a lovely, feeling-centered energy that implies if we always keep in mind what it is we genuinely care about, we won’t stray too far off our goals, or take a misstep, something I think all this Lunar energy can be overly fearful of.

The Sabian for the Full Moon is, ‘A Watchdog Stands Guard, Protecting His Master And His Possessions’. I think this is a little of that Martian energy, the watchdog that wants to guard what we already have–but recall that Pluto is in the mix, and that could mean the loss of things, no matter what. The best approach may be to embrace the impermanence of all things–and put our energy not in fretting over the present state of things and their potential loss, but in efforts to give the future the shape we desire, no matter what is delivered to or taken out of our grasp. The Sabian for the Sun, the ‘triggering’ energy that makes our waxing and waning Moon possible, is, ‘A Volunteer Church Choir Singing Religious Hymns’. This is a symbol of unity, of like-minded faith that unites people. It may speak to those Mars in Libra energies–for don’t we all seek our place in the larger community?

New Moon in Leo 24 July 2025 Truth Bomb

23 Wednesday Jul 2025

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The Sun and Moon meet at 12:10 PM of the 24th at 2 Leo 08–which puts the New Moon in close opposition to Pluto in Aquarius, trine Saturn and Neptune in Aries, and sextile Uranus in Gemini. That sounds like the recipe for a bomb. The question becomes: is the bomb one of unanticipated revelation, one that removes restriction (especially around what we think) or acts as impetus for individual initiative, or does this destroy our understanding, our capacity for change and embrace of the new, instilling fear of authority as well as eliminating our own trust of ourselves? That may be an individual matter, depending on how the Lunar event contacts your natal chart, but in either case, the presence of Neptune in the equation suggests that the basis of any effects rests in whether we know ourselves, or find our own workings a mystery; whether we’re honest with ourselves, deceive others, or hold to our highest ideals. That’s the nub of it: our energy surges, born anew with the combining of Solar and Lunar power, and so will take a creative direction; it’s up to us whether that creativity is of the productive or the destructive kind.

A few things of note: Mercury is retrograde and will meet the Sun in Inferior Conjunction on 1 August–we know this meeting, much like a New Moon, as an inception point, a new start to something, and considering the players, we’ll either see the beginning of whatever is conceived at the NM, or we’ll see a ‘new’ idea emerge from the mix of events and influences occurring now; Saturn and Neptune both retrograded earlier in July; Uranus just entered Gemini for the first time since 1949–so will be ruled for some time by Mercury (and Uranian energies then may have more ‘swing’ when under the sway of the oft-retro Mercury–like they need more instability). All this suggests there is a newness, a rawness, to so many energies involved with the New Moon, both from their locations in early degrees of a sign, and because of the several recent turnarounds, symbolic of a pulling back, a hesitation, a need to reassess territory one has already traversed. The subtle involvement of Mercury through rulerships and its own retro cycle emphasizes the messages we send others, and what we tell ourselves, at the heart of all that happens, with this Lunar event setting off a kind of ‘Truth Bomb’, a situation, gift of information, or realization that we meet with our current level of ‘truthiness’, that allows us to discover something more about ourselves and where we stand, about who we are at core and where we can ‘shine’ (Leo).

Also sextile the New Moon and conjoined Uranus are asteroids Psyche and Sappho, and object Sedna*; these bring to mind passionate relationships (and these can be relationships to groups or to a vocation or life subject/ path) where some knowledge or denial/ lack of acknowledgment (for a variety of reasons) may be involved. Too, with Sedna there’s the potential for this attraction/ interaction to sit in one’s ‘blind spot’, suggesting we may feel strongly but not be completely aware of our feelings, which may read like instincts or suppressed knowledge (as in, Psyche sensed there was something different about her lover Eros, but wasn’t conscious of it until she finally made the decision to light a candle so she could observe him at last). This New Moon is ‘lighting the candle’, about something we might already be knowledgeable of to some degree, but not have in the forefront of awareness. Linked to Uranus, this may contain Higher Mind knowing, or may have the purpose of disruption to the current order; in any case, our relationship to it is unique to us, original in the way we see, approach, and interact with it.

Hekate in Scorpio is square the New Moon=the Lunar event is a ‘way shower’, but either the way is difficult or seeing the direction we must go causes conflict. Lilith in Pisces is quincunx the New Moon=are we seeking to wield our power simply to express ourselves, or are we seeking vengeance? An important issue to sort before proceeding. And finally Dionysus is conjoined the New Moon but out-of-sign, from 29 degrees of Cancer=the stress response to all this might be to go wild, party like it’s 1999, or try to escape in whatever way will let us hide from our feelings (Cancer placement)–and we all know that’s never a good move.

The Sabian for the New Moon is, ‘A Middle-Aged Woman, Her Long Hair Flowing Over Her Shoulders And In A Braless Youthful Garment’. I firmly believe that everyone should dress the way they want; this description, however, hovers close to judgment, simply by the details it chooses to include, details that suggest, with use of the designation ‘youthful’, that how this woman has chosen to present herself is inappropriate, because the first thing mentioned is that she is not, in the estimation of the image assessor, youthful. Is she dressed inappropriately? No, she’s not, and make sure you hear that: just because someone else thinks they get to judge you, doesn’t mean they actually have any business doing so. That kind of thing is the opposite of the ‘Truth Bomb’ the New Moon will set off.

The Truth, rather than ‘out there’, is ‘in here’, in our own hearts and minds. This New Moon brings something that helps us discover it, and no matter how stunning, shattering, or powerful the event or idea (or how subtle–we can’t forget the porousness of the unconscious, or the influence we tacitly accept without realizing it)–we do best to welcome it. And if the ‘bang’ doesn’t come with the New Moon, keep an eye on the Inferior Conjunction on 1 August.

Have a wonderful New Moon, my friends!

*Sedna is an SDO (Scattered Disk Object). These are small bodies located beyond Neptune’s orbital path that have eccentric orbits themselves, which is what distinguishes them from Kuiper Belt Objects.

Full Moon in Capricorn 10 July 2025 Beginners

08 Tuesday Jul 2025

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‘The Cobbler’s Apprentice’ By Frank Duveneck 1877 {{PD}}

The Moon’s opposition to the Sun perfects at 1:37 PM PDT of the 10th at 18 Capricorn 50–which, of course, is conjoined the Earth in the flat chart. The first thing that jumps out is the way within a few hours the Sun will trine the North Node point (and even more quickly, the Moon will sextile the South Node), casting current events as both echoes of past emotional experiences and direct precursors to our futures, suggesting we may need to be as conscious as possible about where we put our attention (the Sun). The Lunar opposition could tempt us to bury or shut off input from the emotional or intuitive realities we’re feeling (Capricorn), especially those things we find restrictive or that deny us what we need, or that ask us to show restraint or to comply with structure or rules; in response we may be tempted to substitute what we claim to care about. I say ‘claim’ because we need to remain aware that what receives the Sun’s spotlight at any one time is what garners our attention; we tend to accept that as reality, no matter what else is going on or what other perceptions we’re having.

In this case, the Sun in Cancer makes us feel that the whole world is taking note of what we’re nurturing, what we care for, or are sensitive to–and that may make us feel so vulnerable that we reflexively push down our real concerns in order to present a caring scenario/ picture we believe is more presentable. Our genuine Lunar concerns are Capricornian in nature, and we may feel that hard-nosed examination of emotional territory for its actual effects on the structure of our life and relationships doesn’t play as well as the stereotypical sentimental soft touch of Cancer–which is a shame, as giving our emotions a stable and controlled arena in which to express is actually very important to our health and relationships, and should be honored.

Luna forms a wide sesquiquadrate to Venus in Gemini, but I count it because the Moon is moving toward perfection of the aspect (and that’s why with a Full or New Moon portrait I don’t count an aspect that is significantly past perfection, such as the trine the Moon made to Mars before the Full Moon occurred). Other than that, providing we keep to our relatively tight aspect requirements for a Lunar event, there are no other contacts–but we do see some interesting asteroid involvement.

There are so many asteroids that one can find a placement in almost any degree in the sky, at any time–and that means that we must be discriminating in which asteroids we incorporate in any picture. First thing is that we need to understand they’re not a substitute for major planet contact; they refine the story, adding nuance, rather than new plot. Second, we should only work with energies that we’ve either studied over time, and/ or that contribute clear meaning that coalesces with the other energies via the stories associated with their names. Either can be helpful, though again, not a replacement for the major planet Big Picture.

So, we have a sesquiquadrate between the significator of emotion and intuition, the Moon, and Venus, planet of Love, relationships, assets, talents, and values, suggesting that what we’re feeling around our relationships or earning/ asset situation isn’t what we think we should be feeling (Venus in Gemini). Our mind wants to see the scenario in question one way, but Luna’s Cappy energy says, ‘Wait a second, this doesn’t follow the emotional rules, or this treatment or use of assets doesn’t mesh with the things that would support me, make me feel safe, or help me contain feelings in productive channels.’ We may be left at an impasse, not knowing whether to believe the feeling nature, or the mental assessment of the situation.

We have potential, though, for an illuminating Cardinal Grand Cross, if we use relevant asteroids: Moon-Earth is conjoined Sphinx in Capricorn, Eros and Kassandra are square and together in Aries, Nemesis is in hard aspect from Libra, and the Sun is conjoined Hera in Cancer–plus Amor in Virgo trines Luna-Earth. We note that Love is the easy (trine) conduit for conveying and receiving emotion, which suggests a certain amount of vulnerability via relationships–and that’s definitely where we’ll see the Full Moon activity (and this is so even if we look around and think, ‘Hey, I’m not having a relationship tussle’, to which I would answer, ‘That’s because you’re in the emotional box provided by the Capricorn Moon–you’re shut out of the current emotional reality, perhaps deliberately, though not necessarily consciously’.

The Cross paints the conflict picture (or really, the multi-directional pull of simultaneous energies all activated at once): the feelings, and the physical setting, are an enigma (Moon-Earth-Sphinx)–we can’t read ourselves, or maybe that’s our response to the Capricorn Moon, to isolate the feelings, so they don’t distract us from all the other things we’ve got to deal with; the sense of individuality, of relying only on the Self, is strong, as is the desire nature and the idea that communication isn’t working–no one believes us, and we don’t believe them! (the Aries setting for Eros and Kassandra); partners seem like (or maybe feel like) enemies, no matter the surface interactions (Nemesis in Libra); and our attention is on how much we care, and how much we’ve been wronged, disregarded, or stymied in using our position and power (Sun and Hera, the much disrespected sister-wife of Zeus, in Cancer–and this placement adds the frustration of the unappreciated nurturer, the carer who’s also a caregiver, who receives no caring themselves).

So, we may experience a number of emotional perceptions that our brains or our social arena or what we expect our relationships to provide and be directly contradict–and the Full Moon energy is the point when those come to a head, must be exposed, explored, expressed, and recognized. We shouldn’t expect to immediately understand what we feel–remember the Sphinx?–and sorting feelings from the real world circumstances may be challenging, at the very least.

This time, the Sabians hold the keys to ultimate meaning. For the Moon: ‘A Five-Year-Old Child Carrying A Bag Filled With Groceries’. We aren’t ready to undertake the ‘job’ (task, role, function, responsibility) we’re currently trying to perform. Yes, the advice is that blunt: we’re not ready, not mature enough, or just not physically (or in some other way) capable–and all this clash between the surrounding scenario and our emotional perceptions has been about avoiding seeing and acknowledging this. Though we can be helpful (all hands, no matter how young or small, can help carry groceries) no one in our position should be expected to perform this particular task or live this particular role (no five-year-old should have the burden of providing sustenance for themselves or others)–it’s that simple.

The Sabian for the Sun is: ‘A Priest Performing A Marriage Ceremony’. Aha! This is about discovering, acknowledging, accepting, and then incorporating or otherwise uniting with a necessary Other (which can be anything needed, from assets to learning skills to ‘maturing’ in some way to actually partnering with others). Something else is needed; we’re getting ahead of ourselves–and in that way, we’re being unkind to ourselves, judging and not extending the understanding we would almost certainly offer someone else in the process of developing their abilities and trying new things. Expecting ourselves to be completely formed, completely knowledgeable, completely ready for anything, is to forget that life is a process, one long experience of learning and re-learning and shaping and re-shaping who we are and what we can do. It may be a long time since some of us were beginners–but it’s the right time to be new at something, all over again.


Full Moon 11 June 2025 Hurts If You Do, Hurts If You Don’t

10 Tuesday Jun 2025

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‘The Wounded Angel’ By Hugo Simberg 1903 {{PD}}

The Moon reaches peak opposition to the Sun at 12:43 AM PDT of the 11th at 20 Sagittarius 38. A Full Moon in Sagittarius brings knowledge, an awareness of ‘the facts’, exposure to or a reveal of the influence of what’s ‘foreign’ or exotic, the moment of sharing or broadcast (of previously assembled materials) and the results this brings, or the realization of the impact of institutions, specifically religious or educational entities, in the life of the individual. This Moon brings in some form emotional adventure that enlightens, with a need to act (Sag is a Fire sign) on what we learn or discover (though when it’s Sag, the action can coalesce around the mind as much as in the physical realm).

The Sun-Moon axis squares the Nodal one, suggesting tension inherent in what is revealed with the Lunar event; with Sun in Gemini it’s possible what happens will be all talk, or maybe just inside our own heads, but that doesn’t make it any less real, or any less volatile. Our feelings gel into a coherent picture at the point of the Full Moon, and this may spur us to act on what until now was only a concept or inclination, a possibility–so be prepared to change your mind about how assertive you want to be in the areas where the Full Moon falls in your natal chart. You may suddenly find a fire lit beneath a choice or act you hadn’t taken seriously before, and you may find that you’re focusing on the state of the mind, rather than the facts, which could be a clue that you’re on the road to hurtful Self-talk, and so looking too much inward.

There’s a Fire Grand Trine that will perfect a few hours after the Full Moon. The Trine involves the Moon, Eris and Chiron in Aries, and Mars in Leo. That suggests our emotions, fears, and/ or intuitions are set off by hurt experienced through the Willfulness of others and our own actions and choices, especially those fueled by ego and ‘heart’, the latter signifying what we pour ourselves into. We feel intensely, and react intensely–and so do others–which may mean that everyone’s acting out and reacting, true communication is rare, and there’s a good chance that what we’re responding to isn’t so much externals but our (wounded) perceptions of ourselves and our position.

So, it hurts if we express ourselves, and it hurts if we don’t, and the question becomes, How conscious are we of what we’re thinking, doing, processing? If we recognize our typical vulnerabilities and our reactions to them, we can spot the familiar pattern of reasoning, and so short-circuit our usual ‘loss of Self-esteem’ loop. We can instead substitute the emotional facts the Full Moon offers, and the other influences in effect right now can steer us toward some rewarding efforts, should we be open to them.

The Moon sesquiquadrates Venus in Taurus, and Venus is sextile Jupiter-Mercury in Cancer and square Pluto in Aquarius. Big thoughts, big promises, centered on what we care about (Cancer). Serious transformation is a possibility, if we can implement two things: if we can formulate our beliefs so that we see the value of them, particularly the way they add worth to our way of thinking and communicating, and if we can adjust our emotional reactions to the Full Moon to the needs of our relationships–that is, consider what each relationship requires apart from our own Lunar needs. Venus also opposes the Black Moon Lilith point, suggesting that what we don’t acknowledge could hurt us, denying us reward or satisfaction in relationships, and tempting us to hide what we don’t want to acknowledge–in essence, saving up our hurt for later.

Saturn-Neptune in Aries squares Mercury-Jupiter in Cancer and needs mention (as it connects to the Moon via Merc-Jup sextile to Venus sesqui Luna) because some of us may find we’re pitting the facts that have expanded our minds/ thinking against the opportunity to make our real-world dreams a reality. This may present as someone saying they’ll deny you your dream (if projected), or you are acutely aware of real-world barriers to implementing ideals or dreams-come-true (too much awareness of Saturnian blocks), and we may let our emotional perceptions about the other’s/ external power dictate our beliefs (Jupiter)–essentially, we stop ourselves because we don’t believe we hold the power. In many ways, this Full Moon is a lesson in connecting to reality and then being responsible for that reality–beliefs vs. facts, and all of it at the least a little uncomfortable.

The Sabian for the Full Moon is, ‘A Child And A Dog Wearing Borrowed Eyeglasses’. Okay, I’ve got some questions: are they both wearing glasses? and borrowed ones, at that! That’s how the image reads to me: both are wearing spectacles that belong to someone else. When we’re in our ‘animal’ Self, or when we’re immature, we do use the lenses that others offer to measure the world. Growing up is about fashioning our own way to see. Maybe this refers to the tendency that may occur at this time to go with knee-jerk reactions, feeling states set in childhood, borrowed opinions and outlooks that appeal because they are familiar–and have never been examined. Watch for these kinds of prejudices within yourself, as they can stunt growth almost before it starts.

We always look at the giver of light, the Sun, for a Full Moon: ‘A Tumultuous Labor Demonstration’. Wow, shades of current events! We can’t demonstrate our support, or march for the way things should be, if we haven’t yet determined what we think that is. This image suggests it’s important we work it out, important we get the glasses that fit us, not leftovers from somebody else. This is just one more (important) step in embracing more fully what’s genuine to us as individuals.

Hi All! My apologies for being so late getting this out. I had a couple of vaccinations that knocked me flat. I’m all better now, and hope you’re enjoying June!

Full Moon in Scorpio 12 May 2025 Configuring Emotion

08 Thursday May 2025

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‘The Icebergs’ By Frederic Edwin Church 1861 {{PD}}

The Full Moon perfects at 9:55 AM PDT at 22 Scorpio 12. At this point, Lunar energies (emotion, intuition, sensation, the concealed or obscured but felt, caretaking, nurture, mothering, the changeable and ephemeral) reach a peak, and in Scorpio this means things plunge into the depths. The Moon’s palette dovetails nicely with the Scorpionic; their watery emotional viewpoint unites them, as does the orientation of both toward perceiving the hidden or unseen, the unspoken and implied, and reacting to it through the feeling nature. Chances are this occurs unconsciously, with only the tip of the emotional iceberg perceptible to us, and that means that under a Full Moon in Scorpio feelings we didn’t even know we had can come to fruition–and our reactions to those emotions are reflected back to us through matters set in motion/ orchestrated by that current of feeling. Recognizing that our own emotions are the source of what’s presented at the Full Moon is vital; so is the need to read what occurs as if we’re sending ourselves important messages, things which may be too disturbing to the routine or status quo, or that we may be in denial of, to have delivered any other way.

This time the Full Moon is conjoined Juno and opposed, as always, the Sun, which is joined by Hygeia and Uranus=Personal empowerment, making ourselves felt in the world, is key this Full Moon, and if we neglect to claim our sovereignty, we’ll be faced with an unhealthy situation, one chaotic, surprising, or that demands we innovate or invent in order to survive, or in less extreme circumstances, in order to assert our individuality or uniqueness, to remain free of ‘group think’. Drama is a Scorpio specialty, exacerbated by the easy trine the Full Moon makes to Saturn and Ceres in Pisces (with Saturn conjoined Neptune in Aries, which is too far outside orb to be contacted by the FM)=we can be misled, deceived, or can simply allow wishful thinking to override a more concrete picture of how things are and what our personal power scenario is. Tuning in to reality is particularly difficult right now–things are fuzzy and motivations, thinking, and who holds what power is unclear, at least in terms of understanding realistic goals and potentials–and that means making choices can be harder than usual.

The Full Moon is part of several configurations, and we pull in little-used but illuminating points to complete the picture. There are two Fingers of God, one apex the Moon and Juno with base of Jupiter conjoined Hera in Gemini sextile Chiron, Sappho, and Eris in Aries=this suggests that either the belief system or what we believe we know is under strain within the larger social sphere, disregarded and disrespected, and this hurts, turns us toward those who choose as we do, and stirs up any latent discord that’s been dormant, with the result being an emotional lesson on where and how we are actually empowered (as opposed to where we thought we commanded power). The other Finger is Moon-Juno sextile Sphinx in Capricorn, apex Jupiter-Hera=here emotional empowerment is found in accepting mystery, acknowledging what is unknowable, right now, and moving forward anyway; the result is a broadening of our reach and potentially our knowledge, as well as the possibility of open acknowledgment by others as to where we’ve been wronged or not respected.

‘The Questioner of the Sphinx’ By Elihu Vedder 1836 {{PD}}

A T-square with the Full Moon opposed Uranus, Hygeia, and the Sun in Taurus, all square Pallas in Aquarius rounds out the FM picture=though emotional revelations and measures of emotional health draw our attention (and possibly our concern), what we need to remember is that, difficult as it is, what we’re being shown must be answered either with our innate wisdom or with a strong sense of practicality. ‘Make it useful’ could be our motto, at present; we might add to this a Cardinal T-square that could make its own waves by proximity, rather than direct involvement: Uranian Zeus opposed Eris, Chiron, and Sappho, both squared by the Sphinx=it’s useful to admit what we don’t know, or what’s unknowable, no matter what; when we do that in relation to our ambitions and desires, we disarm those who might want to struggle with us or hurt us, in spite of the way they are likely to be just like us. Taking ammo away from those who are looking to attack is a strong incentive for them to take their aggression elsewhere–or even to realize we’ve more in common than not, after all.

The Sabian for the Full Moon is, ‘A Rabbit Metamorphosed Into A Nature Spirit’. This Full Moon makes apparent the essence of what’s special and spiritual within. It’s there within our everyday, ‘rabbit’ form, but events now release what’s closest to Nature inside us. Expect revelations around feeling and purpose.

We also look at the Sabian for the Sun, giver of light: ‘A Jewellery Shop Filled With The Most Magnificent Jewels’. The more mundane face of this Full Moon energy shines on actual material matters–the spiritual essence we discover is reflected in these, but not derived from it. The wealth, and the payoff, really do come in an elevated spirit; the sense of prosperity or reward is just a nice extra.

There’s a great deal of feeling stirred up by this Full Moon, and so much of it we’ve likely been unaware of–our task is to give those emotions context, to configure them so they’re meaningful to us, and thus useful, and to remember others are having a similar emotional experience–again, seeing that we’re more alike than not can help bring down barriers that have been contributing to our sense of the ‘Other’ as invasive force, rather than as potential ally, collaborator, or partner.

Full Moon 23 April 2024 A Kassandra Moment

22 Monday Apr 2024

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The Full Moon perfects at 4:49 PM PDT at 4 Scorpio 18, trine Vesta, sextile Juno, semi-sextile Pallas, square Pluto (which happens to be conjoined the asteroid Kassandra, more on that later), and not touching much else. It’s a picture of deep change–things are either swept away forcibly or we are put in a position that leaves us little recourse but to eliminate, restructure, resurrect, or annihilate–and this occurs even as we witness our own positive control of our power (Juno), our effective dedication to what we care about (Vesta), and the benefits of our partnerships and cooperative efforts (this latter via Vesta and Juno energies as so often involving–even existing because of or in relation to–the Other, particularly our Significant Other). So, in many ways we are experiencing the harmonious impact of our own power expression, our effectiveness at impressing ourselves on others and our environment–and yet there’s a serious power matter or elimination (Pluto) to attend to, one that the Universe refuses to let us go forward without answering.

A Full Moon is an energy culmination, and presents the collective result of, in this case, efforts in Scorpionic areas or activities, and/ or in the subject areas of the House in the natal chart where the Full Moon falls. We get the results of previously ‘digging deep’; we may put the story together, discover something new that knits scattered evidence into a whole, or we may see the wisdom behind what was removed, destroyed, or forbidden and so understand why what’s happened has happened (the last a product of a loose semi-sextile of the Full Moon to Pallas).

Here’s the kicker: Pluto conjoined Kassandra suggests that the Universe delivers a tough (square to the Moon) moment or incident that offers Higher Mind understanding (Pluto-Kassandra in Aquarius), but we won’t believe what is revealed/ shared. Kassandra, you’ll recall, was a priestess with whom the Sun god Apollo fell in love (and the Sun is actually part of this equation, as it opposes the Moon-Earth and so fills in a T-square with Pluto-Kassandra). Apollo offered her the gift of prophecy, hoping to win her favor; she knew what he expected from this gift (so it wasn’t really a gift, right? It was payment), but once she received it she turned him down, incensing the god. What the gods confer they cannot take back–but they can affect the working of that gift. Outraged at her refusal of his suit, Apollo condemned Kassandra to be always right about what she foresaw, but never believed by others.

That’s a particularly bitter outcome, when we receive what we need to hear, know, or perceive, and yet we are unable to see the Truth of it; that’s exactly what we should expect here: deep, intense perceptions that we will judge to be incomplete or inaccurate. How do we answer that?

We may not accept the power situation and/ or knowledge presented, but we do have a clear, strong influence of Self-confidence and personal autonomy aligned with highest values and commitments (Juno, Vesta) that, if we’ll accept our own emotional Truth (those things we know because we feel their Truth deep within–Moon in Scorpio) we’ll be able to go round the misleading Pluto-Kassandra square and so effectively make the ‘right’ decision, do what needs to be done.

The Sabian for this Full Moon is, ‘A Massive Rocky Shore Resists The Pounding Of The Sea’. The reality of the moment is a rocky shore: ‘What Is’, heavily resistant to abundant and persistent emotional assault of waves of feeling and upset. This is the Full Moon square Pluto-Kassandra. The Sun, light-giver that we always examine at a Full Moon, has the Sabian, ‘A Widow At An Open Grave’. ‘Widow’ describes a particular status: receptive, anima energies without their balancing animus, doing energies. This implies our energies are lopsided: too receptive, too passive, too ready to accept the way things are, too accepting to demand answers, or to insist we must know what that grave is for (and note: there’s not necessarily any connection between the woman’s status and the fact that an empty grave is before her–if we find ourselves looking without and connecting externals to our own internal state, we may be drawing parallels where there are none).

The suggestion may be that, when it comes to the Full Moon scenario, we’re too likely to see ourselves as helpless in the face of greater forces (like death–and Pluto can certainly feel death-like), to perceive ourselves as all feeling, no action–which is never truly an accurate perception, is it? Abdicating our own part in things, remaining passive, is its own kind of action, its own choice. Maybe this reminds us that to see ourselves as subject to outside forces (even to see ourselves as victims) is to pretend we have no part in what’s happening, and that this perception denies our responsibility for our own lives, our own fates.

PS Though there’s been a lot written about this week’s Jupiter-Uranus conjunction, I thought it worth adding that this is an aspect of ‘The Big Big Picture’; that is, a coming together of immensities, of large groups or populations, of huge ideas and all-encompassing concepts, of philosophies and facts and urges toward independence, toward free thought and expansion, toward the kind of impetus for shifts and change that comes in surprising and overwhelming ways. We’re talking about societal moments, rather than individual ones–but we can’t over look the way the social order affects each of us, in uniquely individual ways. Look at the matters of the two Houses in the natal chart that are ruled by Jupiter and Uranus=that’s where you see personal movement, in a blending of their subjects, delivering a dynamic message. If the conjunction aspects something in the natal chart (no more than 3 degrees variation) that is likely to expand that energy and activate it in big, surprising, exciting ways. But of course, it won’t necessarily make a big splash in everyone’s week, or month, or year, and you shouldn’t feel badly if this week has been on the less revolutionary side for you. For many, it will be as if they’re riding a current that after this point flows, just slightly, in a new direction, with the energies acting as a background to more personal, more immediate, developments.