Yes, it's Friday, but today's Moon sails through Gemini without significant aspects, tomorrow's New Moon happens really early (7:14 am EDT), and this New Moon is a complex powerhouse ... so let's look at the New Moon.
The New Moon is a time of new beginnings. A cycle is ending, a new one begins, and the seeds we plant now will grow and bear fruit. At this time of great change, signaled by the move of Uranus and Jupiter into Aries, the New Moon in Gemini is most fitting. Mercury, ruler of Gemini, is the herald of the gods, and this New Moon can act as conduit and messenger for the new emerging energies.
The New Moon is a time for setting intentions and making wishes. Focusing on areas that connect this particular New Moon to our birth charts makes the wishing powerful.
At each New Moon, the Sun and the Moon are conjunct – together in the sky – placing both in Gemini. With Mercury in Gemini as well, information and communications of all kinds are sure to flow. Any wishes we make at this time will be transmitted! If you have intentions in areas related to communication: speaking your truth, communicating clearly and easily, connecting with the people and resources that can be most helpful to you, finishing your novel ... these are all supported.
Gemini is all about networking, and the aspect patterns for this New Moon dense and complex. The patterns reflect both support and challenge, and no one is left out.
I like to see where the supports are, so we'll look first at the trines:
The New Moon trines the Neptune-Chiron conjunction straddling the Aquarius-Pisces border, creating an easy flow of energy and information about healing, creativity, spirituality, and visioning. Bringing your dreams into reality is supported by two other trines: Mercury in early Gemini to Saturn in late Virgo, and Mars in Virgo to Pluto in Capricorn and Ceres in Sagittarius. An intriguing out-of-sign trine from Venus in Cancer to the Uranus-Jupiter conjunction in Aries suggests a path for the shocking newness of Aries to be nurtured, touch our hearts, and find a home. Wish for the right words and images to express your creative vision. Wish for your best dreams to come true!
There are challenging aspects as well: Ceres the Grain Mother, in Sagittarius, opposes the Gemini Sun and Moon, reminding us not to sacrifice depth for breadth, or avoid grappling with thorny issues by keeping things light and superficial. Saturn continues to oppose the Uranus-Jupiter conjunction, as Mars opposes the Neptune-Chiron conjunction: challenges from the ordinary, pragmatic, physical world to the most cosmic of planets to keep things real. Wish for your creative vision to manifest in physical reality, or to release any tendency to get lost in bright ideas and dreamy visions. We all need to walk our talk.
The same emphasis on keeping things real is reflected in some of the squares happening with this New Moon: Saturn squares the New Moon as Pluto squares Uranus-Jupiter, Mars squares Mercury ... all reminders that creative vision and physical reality need to inform each other, each is empty without the other.
Mercury squares both Mars and Neptune-Chiron, suggesting that the key to balancing the visionary and the physical worlds lies in communicating and networking ... creating a web that connects and sustains both. Wish for the skill and insight to cross boundaries easily, bringing the best of both worlds together.
Ceres the Grain Mother squares both Saturn and Uranus-Jupiter. Perhaps she is telling us that the balance point between old and new, tradition and innovation, lies in natural cycles of fertility, growth and death. Wish for the skill and insight to let go of what needs to be released, while keeping the vitals seeds for the new season.
This New Moon also includes two intriguing yods, which overlap each other like those optical illusions with two images in one set of lines. Pluto-Ceres and Neptune-Chiron are in sextile across the bottom of a yod pointing at Venus, while Venus and Saturn are in sextile across the bottom of a yod pointing at Neptune and Chiron. Two destiny points saying 'you first' ... 'no, you first' as we look from one to the other.
Each yod connects Water and Earth across the bottom and points to Water at the apex, where we are meant to find the solution. Yet the Water connections are inconjuncts, not the easy trines we expect within an element, so adjustments are needed here. Perhaps the message is that making our dreams real (Earth) requires that we honor both the close-to-home, close-to-the heart feeling of Venus in Cancer and the otherworldly, creative visions of Neptune in Aquarius and Chiron in Pisces. Not an easy course to steer! Wish for the wisdom to find a way.
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