{"id":25821,"date":"2010-06-10T01:44:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T06:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=25821"},"modified":"2010-06-10T01:44:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T06:44:03","slug":"a-message-from-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/a-message-from-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Moon is trying to tell us something. Last weekend when Jupiter made its historic transit across the Aries Point, Luna was right there, doing the same thing within the same hour. Today when Mercury makes an auspicious entry into Gemini, the sign it rules, the Moon will be less than two degrees behind. Next week when Venus links with Leo, same thing, the Moon holding her train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Once a fluke. Twice a coincidence. Three times a pattern. Cycles and their patterns and how they synchronize, that’s what astrology is about. Hence our subject for today. Observations on what our closest celestial neighbor and constant companion may be whispering of current synchronicity.<\/p>\n

We may do well to start with the basics of a sign transit. Planets major and minor, have their symbolic identities. Like human personalities, these are layered, multiple, hierarchical and dynamic. The older ones are more set in their ways, rooted in myth, familiar. The newer ones are in development, rooted in their discovery charts, on a path of individuation.<\/p>\n

No planet is an island. Constantly in motion, the context of expression is subject to cyclical change. The syntax will shift. It all depends on where it is at, what direction it is moving and its angular relationship to other celestial bodies and points. Among the most fundamental considerations is the sign placement of the planet in question. Each sign also has its own character. Each sign also is associated with one of twelve houses and with a ruling planet. Any planet transiting a sign takes on some of the character of that sign, the associated house and the ruling planet. Its expression changes. In return, any body passing through brings its own cachet to the sign, house and dispositor. So a sign change is a big deal.<\/p>\n

The day of crossing is especially so. It is a threshold event. Very much like the major and minor thresholds we all cross in real life. Going in and out of doors, into and out of relationships, or occupations, or residences, or earthly life itself. Crossing a threshold changes each of us. Each of us also alter the place we cross into. Each place we leave is not the same. Finally, our relationship to everything else shifts.<\/p>\n

As was the recently the case with Mars, Mercury has just spent a disproportionate amount of time in one sign because of a retrograde. It entered Taurus back on April 2nd, if you can believe that. It went retrograde on April 18th and stationed forward on May 11th. Nine weeks in one sign is a long time for the Fleet One. But that’s not all.<\/p>\n

The last degrees of a sign are always associated with a time of trial. In the case of Mercury in Taurus, especially so, forming a trine to Saturn and Virgo followed by a square to retrograde Neptune. Talk about stress. Wherever you have Gemini or Virgo influence in your natal chart has probably felt pretty darned overwhelmed in the last 48 hours.<\/p>\n

And now for something completely different. When it comes to signs and rulers Mercury and Gemini are as good a match as any. Both have both of them, so to speak. Yup, there is that duality in each. That’s a good thing, understand. Remember the last time you shot off your mouth or an e-mail without thinking? Ouch. How about the occasions you cannot for one reason or another speak your mind? Oy. Now we have a chance to engage both sides and it may well be quite the liberation. With poetic apropos, that’s both good news and potentially, bad.<\/p>\n

Add the Moon and we add an emphasis on the personal. That also has a double edge. Moon conjoined with Mercury in the first degree of Gemini implies self-expression unbound. Intellect makes room for instinct. Inhibition opens up to possibility. That’s all good news as well. The question is where the balance will come from. Do we really want to learn the truth about too much of a good thing? There’s enough learning in the next few days as it is.<\/p>\n

First of all, please remember that the Sun is also currently resident in Gemini. The ingress of the Moon means that their conjunction, otherwise known as the New Moon, cannot be far behind. Indeed, that is the case this coming Saturday, June 12th. In the twenty-second degree of Gemini. 11:15 am, UTC, 7:15 in the morning on the east coast of the United States and 4:15 on the left. But not before….<\/p>\n

Before the New Moon, LunaMerc (the hottest new celebrity couple) will experience two key aspects. This morning it will be a sextile with the separating but still functional Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in the first degree of Aries. That’s where the good news part might come in. It may however, require a steady hand and discerning judgment.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the other edge. Later today Mercury forms a square to Chiron, retrograde (whoa, when did that happen?) in Pisces. And that’s just a set up for tomorrow’s square with bada-boom Mars in Virgo. The Moon, of course will be close behind on both counts.<\/p>\n

Bad news? Not necessarily. Depends on who you are. One thing seems probable, however. As overwhelming as the last few days have been, the next few promise to be proportionally revelatory. It just may be when we begin to hear what the Moon is trying to say. If you are inclined to listen to your decrepit amateur reporter, his advice would be to remember that discretion is the better part of valor.<\/p>\n

Stick around. Let’s compare notes on Monday.<\/p>\n

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