Dark of the Moon

 For the next few days, the energy wanes as we come into the next retrograde Mercury period and the New Moon, this means it’s a really excellent time to take it easy when possible, though the holiday season and the need for people to be selling things makes that a thing that we have to choose rather than fall into.

There is almost always a sense of speeding time before the retrograde Mercury period invites us to slow down, to pay attention, and to go back to things we have left unfinished or unaltered.  3 times a year we get this opportunity to look more carefully into ourselves, and what messages come, some of which are no surprise, but have just been put aside.

The time before the new Moon is finishing up a phase, looking backward at the previous month and is not as supportive of launching new projects, but of tying up the loose ends of previous ones. 

 There are many people who have New Moon and full Moon rituals, and I would recommend performing them just before the full Moon, and after the new, because the new Moon wave is like an ungerminated seed, so give it time to settle into your energy, and keeping intentions light, positive, and truthful.

Mars right now is in Sagittarius which wants to expand, reach out and be active, so it may feel like a stretch to not push forward.  

This New Moon in Sagittarius asks us to notice how we might best use this new month phase to put our ideals into action, to reach out into the broader world of ideas and beliefs, to open up more to inspiration.

For the next couple of days, as the Moon darkens, and squares Saturn, we’ll possibly be helped to slow down by Saturn’s characteristic banking of fires, and keeping things simple.

At the time of this post, the Moon is bringing awareness of disruption, with an opposition to Uranus, so it’s good to be generous with other people in our thinking and encounters, bearing in mind that so much of relationship is projection.  

Slowing down, listening, being gentle with ourselves over the beginning of this week will smooth things out.

This Full Moon

This full Moon is getting us ready for something.

It’s going to be a different trajectory for each of us, based on how we decide to deal with it.

I have come to see that My Whole World Lies Waiting Behind Door Number 3 is more than a lyric fragment in these times.

I know this is about the Full Moon in Leo this weekend, and I will get to it, but I want to start with the frosting, because sometimes, and this is one of those times, that is the first thing we will notice.

Uranus.  

The sky God, the presence of OMG in the turn of events.  There are varying stories about the god for whom the planet was named, so pick one, but the cycles delineate a tidal pulse of change.  Change is a constant anyhow, but when Uranus gets pinged by, oh, say a Full Leo Moon, the usual dynamism of fruition has unexpected flair.

One of the fun keywords about Uranus transits is “unexpected”.  This lets astrologers off the hook for telling all y’all how this will manifest. The one dependable thing that I have seen is that the Uranus cycle is a truth revealer.  

Uranus will be square [friction] the Sun [identity] and the Moon [mind/feeling] so here’s how I am breaking it down, and hope I’m near accurate…

The Moon in Leo when full, is interested in create a dramatic story, center stage energy with a triumphant hero, but this is at odds with how the part of us which steers through what we are pleased to regard as the daily life of facts and pragmatic management of needs.  

Meanwhile, The Lightning God appears, sort of out of nowhere, and illuminates something you cannot ignore.  “Hey, over here!” He suggests, as a bolt hits the ground and shows you elements you had not anticipated.

It means that this weekend will be a retooling of vision, intention and perception, as a result of new information.  With this, we have Venus [desire] and Mars [ how do I get that desire met?] working at cross purposes, and action taken can be out of proportion to the perceived need.  So, basically, slow down, back up, reconsider.

Mercury the messenger and Pluto, the hidden stuff, give us a chance to see more deeply into our projections, our shadows, and the dynamics we create as we move along our way.

And, if you are going to be in New England, wear a hat.