By Len Wallick
New Moon in mid-Libra today. That means the Sun and Moon will be at the same longitude at about 2:45 pm EDT. That’s a conjunction and it’s why you can’t see Luna. It’s walking next to Old Sol.
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Tomorrow, about 12 hours after the conjunction of the luminaries, Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio. Of all the planets, Venus goes retro the least often and spends even less time doing it. That’s a big event too, and we will get back to it. But this New Moon has been our focus all week long for good reason. Or should we say, reasons?
The “everything at once” quality of that outer planet alignment we called the cardinal T-square is very much a characteristic of this New Moon. Let us reiterate our previous blogs this week and count the ways. We will start with general elements, consider the sign and then narrow things down to this particular conjunction.
Most of what we call astrology comes down to two things, cycles and patterns. The most familiar cycles involve the Sun and Moon. A year is defined by how long it takes us to make one trip around Sol. Luna does her own thing but her orbital period around the Earth is very close to being a month on a solar calendar. Because the Moon’s rotational period is the same as its orbital, the same face is always turned towards us.