Today is Wednesday, December 14, 2011. Hopefully you’re feeling a noticeable reduction in any tension, mental fuzziness and miscommunication now that Mercury has righted itself in early Sagittarius and is moving forward again. Mercury stationing direct can come with surprisingly obvious and sudden indicators – like someone mentions a crucial detail (as in, ‘the truth’), that missing email (or your car keys or a memory) finally turns up, or your car immediately stops making that disconcerting noise. Even if you have not noticed anything that striking, hopefully you will have a sense of increasing clarity as the day and the next few weeks progress.
In one sense, the whole sky is lending a sense of momentary calm, transits to your natal chart notwithstanding (and they may be asking for your attention in challenging ways). But without looking at the slew of obscure minor planets, pretty much the only major body making new aspects that are exact today is the Leo Moon. There are other aspects getting close and some just past their peak; we may be feeling both. But to some degree, we have kind of an ‘everything void of course’ day – and it’s fitting. We’ve just come through a series of thresholds in rapid succession – all focused on a sign known for going deep and far. Congratulations for riding the wave to where you are now – seriously. Now with Mercury finally direct, we have this day that’s a bit like an open field, and we’re kind of standing on its edge, still getting our bearings and remembering how to breathe.
The aspects that the Leo Moon is making are pretty interesting – and they actually serve to connect the phase we just went through to the next one approaching. The Moon makes a fire trine to the North Node in Sagittarius and a simultaneous sextile to the South Node in Gemini; on its way there it opposes Pallas Athene in Aquarius. On the surface, this looks like some level of strategizing how to work with the karmic/dharmic (consequences/right action) insights you’ve just come to, versus how you feel about how they make you look to others. In other words, the lessons of the eclipses and Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius were about your inner journey; the Leo Moon making these aspects is aware of how you present your new self to the world and how it feels to do so.