Moon into Aries: Igniting the World

Tuesday morning through Thursday afternoon

The Moon surged into Aries very early this morning, still glowing and full in the night sky. We reached our moment of realization with the Full Moon in Pisces, and now we're ready to take action! Aries is cardinal Fire, the sign that winds us up, gets our feet itching to move, and points us toward a desired goal.

Torch Lily, also called Red Hot Poker

It's good we had time to connect with our dreams at the Full Moon, because Aries can have a ready-fire-aim quality, and the Moon's first aspect this morning was a conjunction with Uranus the trickster. With those two is Aries, who knows where we might find ourselves?

Just after noon, the Moon squared Pluto, a challenge to the great transformer to bring it on, we're ready for anything. So I hope we are, because we're out of the gate and heading for that first turn.

These are challenging days for the careful, organized Virgo planets––the Sun, Venus and Mercury are all lining up ducks in Virgo these days. This afternoon, the Aries Moon forms an inconjunct angle with Mercury, the Moon ready to test the limits and push Mercury to commit, decide, act. Overnight, Venus forms an inconjunct with Neptune in Pisces, as Neptune pushes Venus to think outside the box and dream large.

If today, Tuesday, feels a bit edgy, Wednesday should bring balance and the stability to make real progress. Around noon, the Moon opposes Saturn in Libra, giving Saturn a chance to remind the Aries Moon to slow down. In the evening, Mercury trines Jupiter in Taurus, a very steadying influence that brings luck to those who take time to get things right. Then Venus enters Libra, one of the signs she rules, and our relationships and creative impulses can relax into beautiful harmony.

Thursday morning we reenter tricky territory with a Moon-Mars square. These two planets are in mutual reception, with the Moon in Mars-ruled Aries and Mars in Moon-ruled Cancer, which means the communication is easily understood. But with these two, we need to be careful easy flow inside a challenging square doesn't lead to emotional outbursts, or angry expressions of feeling.

Instead of emotional storms, we can channel the tremendous energy of Moon-Mars connection into bursting through personal blockages, making a leap forward with a stuck project, or diving into a task we've been avoiding. 

In the early afternoon, the Moon sextiles Neptune, an intuitive connection with the energy to move into new territories of innovation and revolution. This is the Moon's last aspect in Aries, beginning a void of course period that lasts two and half hours, until the Moon enters calm, peaceful Taurus at 3:25pm EDT.

These next few days will be filled with energy. It's our choice to scatter it, blow up with it, or channel it toward something we'd love to accomplish. Just do it!