I’m noticing that the Moon is in late Aquarius, having recently finished a conjunction to Neptune. Technically it’s void of course. Under the current rule, that means it’s not making any major aspects until it enters Pisces tonight at 7:26 pm EDT. A major aspect would be: conjunction (same place aspect), sextile (60 degree aspect), square (90 degree aspect), trine (120 degree aspect) or opposition (180 degree aspect).
For example, the Aquarius Moon is now applying to a quincunx (150 degree aspect) to Saturn in Virgo and in theory that doesn’t count because the quincunx is allegedly an “inconjunct” meaning (that by an older set of rules) it makes no aspect. The 30-degree aspect also has that name; it too is called an inconjunct. I guess some contemporary astrologers would count those as aspects, which gives you a clue to the individualistic (perhaps arbitrary) nature of interpretation. In the end it all comes down to how important the task you’re predicting for is.
The more meaningful part is that the Moon is building toward the full phase, which is exact in Aries overnight Saturday to Sunday. But the relative calm, aspect wise, of the current Moon is taking a little of that pressure off. We shall see how the Pisces Moon feels through the end of the week, as it trines Mars and opposes quite a few planets in Virgo.
I’ll have more to say about the world spinning off its axis in Friday’s edition of Astrology News, wherein I take up this weekend’s Full Moon in Aries and everything that it represents in our glorious moment of creative chaos.
Not sure anyone here is interested in retrospect or even in the devastation that has recently happened in the Philippenes, Vietnam, Samoa and the South Pacific region, but, in case you are, somebody just triggered my memory of a group of galactic bodies in the New Moon chart (9/18) that were accompanying Saturn and the Sun/Moon in Virgo. I listed those here under the “Closing In On The Virgo New Moon” article on 9/18.
One of those bodies was Typhon (TNO) that was at 21 Virgo 25, the first of a chain of degrees (21 through 29) in Virgo that I thought meaningful in opposition to Uranus.
21 Virgo 27 is where Mercury went direct on September 29 about the time the massive storm was upgraded to a typhoon after hitting Manila and heading for Vietnam.
So Wikipedia says of Typhon, “a deadly monster of Greek mythology, rejected by all. He was thought to cause volcanic eruptions, hot dangerous wind storms, earthquakes and tsunamis”.
Anybody still have doubts about astrology, mythology and its ability to connect to the world we live in?
Thanks bkoehler for asking the question and thanks Eric for the answer. I was wondering too since the Aquarius void-of-course moon is conjunct my Moon.
I would say it depends on what you’re doing. The more important, dangerous, meaningful the subject matter, the more carefully I would do the astrology…what can wait would best be left alone…
Eric,
If you have a (major) planet in your chart that is in the last degree of a sign and it makes a major aspect to the otherwise void-of-course moon, is that enough to “avoid” the problems associated with the VOC?