By Len Wallick
Continuing from yesterday, this is the last of over four consecutive days when Luna will be situated in a sign opposing the sign where the Sun is. That is an extraordinary length of time for that particular aspect to last. What’s even more impressive is how this functionally extended Full Moon is winding up. If we count only the conjunctions in Gemini and the oppositions in Sagittarius, our luminary of the night chalks up no less than 18 aspects to various planets, exotics and asteroids in one day. That’s one every 80 minutes. That’s more than one for every degree. Once again, that is counting only the Moon’s conjunctions and oppositions to objects in only two signs over the course of one day — today.
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Synchronicity would thus dictate that wherever Gemini and Sagittarius fall in one’s chart would bear witness to a fast and furious variety of alliances and confrontations. It could get confusing. It certainly looks taxing. It might do well to review how to deal with those two aspects. In the process of doing so we might find a singular, typifying extrapolation to simplify your day.
Conjunctions are when two bodies occupy the same degree of longitude from our point of view here on Earth. The orbit of influence that makes the conjunction functional will depend on the source you refer to. In general, anything less than five degrees apart is considered to be a single conjunction. That would make the early lunar sweep from Siwa to Diana to Psyche one committee meeting, merging the energies of all four with the sign of Gemini and the third house. Neatly opposing those three asteroids conjoining the Moon are three bodies in Sagittarius (in order): Pallas, Mars and an object that orbits out past Neptune named Quaoar.
As a way to sample and narrow things down, let us select the first pair of opposing asteroids the Moon encounters and see if we can find a theme. While the name Siwa is a way of saying Shiva in some parts of the world, it does not appear as if the Hindu god of creation and destruction is what the discovering astronomer had in mind. In 1874, when Johann Palisa identified this object of the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, he apparently drew upon a faded local mythology. In this case, Siwa was named after a fertility goddess of the orally-transmitted pagan tradition of the Slavic peoples.