Dear Friend and Reader:
We are within hours of the Gemini Full Moon, and we’re certainly riding out that peak of energy as the Sun journeys across Sagittarius and crosses the midpoint of the Great Attractor and the Galactic Core, close to where this Full Moon takes place.
Of note, Mercury has entered Capricorn and is making an exact conjunction to Pluto, newly arrived in this sign to stay. This conjunction has some dark shades to it: be aware of this as you move through your day, if you’re wondering what’s bothering you. We are witnessing, in news with a little extra personal impact, how corrupt government is with the Illinois senate seat scandal: very Pluto in Capricorn, and that Mercury conjunction indicates a mental obsession. Whether it’s about government or not, beware of that obsessive energy, which you might (for example) direct at the corporate system, banking, the Pope or anything else represented by Capricorn.
Though the Sun is in Sagittarius, this begins theВ Capricorn PointВ phase that I described several weeks ago; the first degrees of Cap being exactly square the highly sensitive first degree of Aries (the Aries Point, that odd thing that makes the personal and the political switch places like it was nothing).
This Full Moon is a grand cross, with the Sun and Moon forming a square to the Saturn-Uranus opposition that is working its way across Virgo-Pisces. This grand cross brings in all four of the mutable signs: nervous energy that wants to move but seems to wonder where it’s going. It needs somewhere to ground, and where it’s likely to ground is Mercury-Pluto.
The Sun is trine two planets at about 20 Aries — Eris, the dwarf planet, and 1992 QB1, the as yet unnamed first planet that was ever discovered in our solar system beyond Pluto. Both of these are what I will call fringe feminine energies. They both represent outcast or unacknowledged qualities of women that typically struggle to make their way into our culture; this trine at the moment of the Full Moon is like a cosmic gateway being swung open. Be mindful what you invite in; make friends with who and what you meet, if you can.
Yours & truly,
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PS re: “outcast or unacknowledged qualities of women that typically struggle to make their way into our culture”
It is no surprise now then, that a prayer just sent out to several girlfriends received almost instantaneous reply of gratitude from each of them. (At the time, the response was well, startling).