A New Constellation

The first quarter Moon passed late Sunday, and the Moon has just completed a conjunction to Saturn in Scorpio. The sky is now organized as a square pattern between planets in fixed signs Leo and Scorpio, with many supporting factors. The Scorpio cluster includes Vesta, Mars, Saturn and the Moon, square the Leo cluster of Jupiter, Mercury, the Sun and the mean lunar apogee.

These planets in the fixed signs are creating some potent tension in the sky — passion, a drive for action, and a new vision stoked by Jupiter in Leo and fueled emotionally by the potency of Scorpio. It is not the kind of passion that burns out, but rather the kind that sustains and renews itself. Not an impulsive kind of passion but rather a thoughtful and deep kind. In the style of Jupiter, the new vision to which I’m referring is both creative and practical. There is such a thing.

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