Moon in Capricorn Today

At 3:20am EDT, the pragmatic Capricorn Moon will make an inconjunct angle of adjustment with Venus in dramatically creative Leo … not a comfortable place for either. But that is the only Moon aspect, allowing Capricornian determination to carry on unimpeded.

Today let's imagine the Capricorn Moon working steadily to unearth the influence of yesterday's Full Moon Eclipse in Capricorn, part of a Grand Cross that included Mercury, Pluto, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter. I ask you to join me in this imagining because I learned something awesome yesterday that I'm dying to tell you about.

So, I'm driving, listening to the Sounds True podcast of publisher Tami Simon's interview with Alex Theory, talking about sound and healing. Alex has created (among other things) four CDs that offer intriguing soundscapes (I'm not sure you'd call them music, exactly) based on the four elements, which he names light, air, water and earth.

The Earth CD is built around exact harmonic resonances of the sound of the Earth herself. Yep, the Earth makes a sound. It's called the Schumann resonance, named for Winfried Otto Schumann who predicted its existence in the 1950's, and it's been confirmed by satellites in space. The Schumann resonance is a very, very low, steady tone (7.83 Hz). We can't hear it, but we do feel it.

The awesome part is how the tone is created, but first, let me back up a little.

The Cardinal T-Square we're experiencing this summer is a Uranus-Jupiter conjunction in Aries opposing Saturn soon to be in Libra, both squared by Pluto in Capricorn. Its core is a push for radical change (Uranus-Jupiter in Aries), against an intense holding on to things-as-they-are (Saturn), as Pluto reveals the deep structure of life as we know it while asking for transformative, initiatory change.

Saturn and Pluto are both associated with Earth: Saturn rules Capricorn, Pluto is in Capricorn, and Pluto rules everything underground. Uranus is associated with revolutionary, immediate change … in the Tarot, Uranus is associated with The Tower, which typically shows bolts of lightning striking a collapsing tower. The flash of insight Uranus can bring is also often pictured as a bolt of lightning.

We're in the habit of thinking of the forces of radical change (lightning), and the forces of stability and tradition (earth), as fiercely and unalterably opposed … locked in a fight only one side can win. Consider this alternative image:

Scientists discovered that Gaia's tone, the sound the Earth sends out into space, is created and maintained by lightning. Every second of every day, somewhere on the face of our planet, lighting strikes. These bolts from the blue, repeated constantly and endlessly, maintain the sound of the Earth like touches from a wooden mallet to a singing bowl. The result is a standing harmonic wave, Gaia's humming.

This idea captivates me. It completely shifted my sense of scale … the Earth is much, much larger than any one lightning bolt, or any one storm. And while I may continue to dread the irruption of revolutionary change in my own life, there is something wonderful in knowing that the Earth's response to being struck by lightning is to sing.