{"id":59281,"date":"2012-07-16T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=59281"},"modified":"2012-07-16T17:01:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T21:01:57","slug":"gemini-moon-void-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/gemini-moon-void-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini Moon, Void of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we’re in the first few days of Mercury retrograde, and approaching the Cancer New Moon. Soon after, the Sun will be in the last days of its run through Cancer and be heading for Leo, where it arrives Sunday, July 22. The week has the feeling of things coming to closure, in part indicated by the last days before the New Moon, and the last days of the Sun in Cancer. With Mercury retrograde, I suggest an easy does it approach to existence.<\/p>\n

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Moon’s ingress to Cancer Monday evening EDT. You can also see the Sun in Cancer, Mercury retrograde in Leo, and two other points — Transpluto and the Vertex — in Leo (though those are local factors and vary by region).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today the Moon is in Gemini. After the Gemini Moon has separated from its trine (120-degree) aspect to Libra Saturn Monday morning at 6:56 am EDT, it spends most of the day being what’s called void of course. I know we use this term from time to time on Planet Waves, though I’ve never written an article about it. When the Moon is void of course, that means it’s no longer making major aspects to major planets<\/em> while it’s in its current sign. This can feel disengaged, and also like we’re able to connect with ourselves on a deeper level. I have found that it’s a good time to go to therapy and even write horoscopes, both of which benefit from some inner perspective.<\/p>\n

As for the air-to-air trine of the Moon and Saturn Monday morning — given some of the astrology running in the background, this is a moment of relative emotional ease, where feelings (the Moon) and the authority principle (Saturn) are in harmony. There’s a ‘let it slide’ feeling to this aspect, particularly as the Moon goes void of course right after the aspect separates. It’s a good time to worry less about your outer environment and focus inwardly.<\/p>\n

Notably the Moon is currently in Gemini, which is ruled by Mercury. Mercury is still newly retrograde (that began Saturday night EDT and lasts until Aug. 8; Mercury will be in Leo the whole time). It may take a day or two to get accustomed to that new quality of energy. You might be the “slam the thing into four-wheel drive and keep going” type, which means you might not care much about the subtleties of Mercury or astrology for that matter.<\/p>\n

However, if you’re the more thoughtful type, you’ll want to observe your mental environment and take it slow for a couple of days as Mercury picks up momentum in its new retrograde direction. This is the time to pace yourself, watch your expenditures and to focus on being true to your word. Also, be mindful of any new information you acquire. This Mercury station has had a particularly strong “the truth comes out” quality, which we’ve seen in at least two significant national news stories that have broken since Friday — the report on Penn State, and the one about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spying on its own scientists for years to the benefit of General Electric<\/a>. The FDA’s spying spread to critics of the agency, including journalists. We have been tracking many stories involving the FDA turning into a kind of gestapo — issues to watch as Ceres (agriculture) and Jupiter (justice) lurk around in a conjunction.<\/p>\n

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As for the Moon void, in effect from early Monday morning (I would say around 8 am though your astrology calendar may say 6:56 am) through the time when the Moon ingresses Cancer at 8:31 pm EDT Monday. This is a phase where the Moon is making no new aspects to “major” planets while it’s in Gemini. The Moon being done making new aspects in a sign can have a drifty feeling to it, where it’s difficult to access a certain kind of focus.<\/p>\n

Yet this Moon void will be good, I think, for working through difficult psychological baggage. Part of the challenge of doing that is the looming authority presence of parents and early caregivers, who can hang around our emotional bodies like a haunting. You might discover that you have one night of respite from that, enough time to work through some questions and make up your mind about not being wrong for existing. Consider that you don’t have to face the consequence of what you didn’t do<\/em> — you just have to deal with the results of what was done to you<\/em>. There’s a big difference.<\/p>\n

The Moon spends its last degrees in Gemini making an aspect to an odd point called Transpluto. That’s a caution against being too self-critical. There’s also something in here about the fear of being known for something that you would rather keep secret. One approach to that is to make peace with this something being known by everyone, or at least considering that sooner or later it will. The chances are you will get some relief from exploring that possibility.<\/p>\n

When the Moon ingresses Cancer, it’s officially in New Moon phase. The exact Sun-Moon conjunction is Thursday, July 19 at 12:24 am. More on that in Tuesday’s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week we’re in the first few days of Mercury retrograde, and approaching the Cancer New Moon. Soon after, the Sun will be in the last days of its run through Cancer and be heading for Leo, where it arrives Sunday, July 22. The week has the feeling of things coming to closure, in part … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}