By Len Wallick
Today the Sun enters the sign of Sagittarius. Mercury, which has been in Sagittarius for two weeks, crosses the point where it will station direct once its December retrograde ends. The Moon in Gemini wants to talk about it, but making sense of it all just yet might be too much to expect. These subjects will be the focus of our Monday astrology.
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It might be fair to begin by asking if there is any focus to be had at all. Yesterday’s Full Moon took place in the last degree of Taurus, opposing the Sun in the last degree of Scorpio. The anaretic or last degree of a sign, for the luminaries especially, is a territory that carries a sense of accumulation and culmination, the release of which is felt upon crossing the cusp.
The Full Moon has very much the same interpretation regardless of its axis. It is generally recognized as the climax of Luna’s monthly cycle and has all the dynamic that one would expect of an opposition between the two brightest objects in the sky. So, we had something of a perfect Sunday storm. Both luminaries in the last degree of their respective sign, opposed to each other at the same time. There was only one problem, the nature of the accompanying anticipation was not clear to most, if any. In addition, what most surely must have in some way precipitated yesterday with the Moon and then today with the Sun changing signs has not found expression for many. That may have something to do with a conjunction in late Aquarius.
Neptune and Chiron are the remnants of a stellium that goes back several years. They have what could be called a history. Neptune is challenging at best. If it expresses as confusion and delusion, the result is frustration. Chiron on the other hand, can see the forest and the tree, but, as antidotes go, it verges on the emetic. In reluctance and necessity the best-known centaur and outermost gas giant have formed a perfect storm of their own, publicly expressed as private tension. Unlike that of the luminaries, however, this storm has seemed to be without end.