Disseminating Moon: Emerging Flame

lighting a new fire

Disseminating Moon in Aries: September 4, 2012

The Blue Moon in Pisces was intense, mystical, and for some, life changing. The sense of cosmic connection, of things sensed dimly through veils or in dreams, still lingers.

At this Disseminating Moon (the square-and-a-half that follows the Full Moon), the wheel turns. After the dissolving-into-all of Pisces, we experience the bright, sharp emergence of the new.

The Moon shifted into Aries, and it was like the first deep breath after being underwater; rebirth. The Moon reached conjunction with Uranus, and something unexpected came into focus. Now we reach the Disseminating Moon and we see more clearly what the Full Moon brought.

Can we take the revelations of the Full Moon into the world? This is the question we're asked.

At this Disseminating Moon, the Moon opposes Saturn in Libra as Venus in Cancer squares them both. The Moon is ready to begin something new, Saturn supports while urging caution, and Venus wants to know that emotional needs are being recognized and met.

Around the wheel, the many planets at 6, 7 and 8 degrees form an intricate pattern that includes action, intensity, transformation, healing, and attention to detail. With Pluto, Uranus, Chiron, Mars and Mercury involved, the questions of what to think, and what to do, in the face of great change, are put before us.

This Moon is eager to act, facing the future without fear, curious about what is to come. This spark lives somewhere in each of us, to be cradled gently until the tinder catches and the new flame is strong.

With this Moon, we can relight hearth fires that have gone out, bringing new light, new warmth, and new life to what has been cold.