By Len Wallick
Tomorrow, just before 6:30 am EDT, Luna completes her conjunction with old Sol in mid-Virgo, exacting the New Moon. Less than 24 hours after that, Venus moves into Scorpio where it will station retrograde next month. This coming Friday, retrograde Jupiter will return to Pisces until next year to make up for lost time. Finally, Mercury will station forward this coming Sunday.
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That is a lot of transition coming up. Even as the cardinal T-square is in the midst of one of its own, as reviewed in yesterday’s blog. The seasons as well are about to change with the autumnal equinox in about two weeks. But what about today? After all, this blog is called Daily Astrology. Indeed, as the Moon is in the process of applying towards its solar conjunction, there are some things worth looking at. One thing to note, Virgo’s retrograde ruling planet seems to pop up over and over again, no matter where we look.
First of all, Mercury gets real with the Moon today. Yesterday, as you may recall, Old Wing Foot formed meaningful aspects with the Capricorn lunar node and the mean lunar apogee in Pisces. Both the mean node and the mean apogee are abstract, hypothetical objects with location but not mass. In both cases, the location is determined by a sort of averaging process that finds the middle ground of Luna’s wobbly path, so the word “mean” is not to be confused as some sort of malefic. Both points represent a place where the Moon has been, will be or would be if it was there.