Today is Friday July 29, 2011. The Moon is in Cancer all day today and then ingresses Leo after midnight, around 2:14am EDT on Saturday. This puts the Moon in the same sign as the Sun, giving us the New Moon of tomorrow which happens at 2:38pm EDT in early Leo. If this has been a rough week for you, take heart: the weekend brings an opportunity to release, regroup and restart with the Moon.
The Sabian symbol for the New Moon degree, which is 8 Leo, is “An Activist is Stirring up Discontent by Spreading his Revolutionary Ideals.” This is a hint of not only what kind of seeds we are sowing for the next two weeks, as the Moon waxes, but indeed the next 6 months — until the Full Moon in Leo in February 2012.
The Uranus-Pluto squares are getting closer, moving within one degree, initiating us into an “Epoch of Revolution” as Rick Tarnas has called it. After passing the recent lunar eclipse degree, Mars is now “out of bounds” — which is to say beyond the ecliptic or path of the Sun — and also transmitting energy from the Galactic Core. Add in the activist energy of this New Moon in Leo and it is clear that we are passing a threshold. There is some serious potential for moving ‘outside the box’ here. We’ve been waiting for this, sensing it, sussing out the possibilities. Now it’s time to surf the wave.
How do we do this? How do we just up and jump on the back of this monster wave? I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating. We don’t have stars in our charts. We are Stars. With the New Moon in Leo we must set our intentions to live like stars. What does that look like? It looks like the “star nursery” photos we’ve seen from the Hubble telescope. It looks like creation, precisely because that’s what it is. Creation. It’s in you. You were created in the image of a Creator.