Moon in Pisces Moving into Aries

Yesterday, a day of Pisces Moon energy, I could not get on the internet at all at my conference hotel. After a week of intermittent signals and random connection, the service provider decided to fix the network, taking it offline in the process. Pisces is about connection, but not of the technological kind. Pisces is also about releasing, relinquishing control, and going with the flow ... I finished packing, and drove home through the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains.

Today will carry a different energy as the Moon moves through the end of Pisces, enters a void of course time, and bursts into Aries, joining Uranus and Jupiter. This shift into Aries happens as the Moon moves toward her final waning crescent.

The Moon now opposes Saturn in Virgo, engaging in a dialogue about the balance between practicality and vision, individual detail and the full sweep of the cosmos, physical manifestation and soul. This opposition comes exact at 7:18am EDT, after which the Moon passes into her void of course phase, a time I find myself wondering about as I continue this daily practice of writing about the Moon.

In the birth chart, the Moon has as wide an orb as the Sun ... the two luminaries, the lights in our sky, reach out ten degrees to embrace planets and points. Yet in transit, the Moon is said to fall into a void of course time as soon as her last aspect in the sign she is leaving comes exact. Why is this?

This pattern is especially noticeable now with so many powerful planets clustered at the very late and very early degrees. Saturn at 28 Virgo opposes Uranus at 0 Aries, and yet the Moon is considered void as she moves from her opposition to Saturn until entering Aries two and a half hours later. Where has the Moon gone during this time?

I'm wondering whether the void time has less to do with aspects, and more to do with the Moon herself shifting from one kind of energy to another, as she moves from sign to sign. How we feel, what we sense, and what we remember may all shift at this time, clouding our ability to make clear decisions.

At 9:45am, the Moon strides decisively into fiery Aries, ready to move, decide, and act. Moving to join the change agent twins, Uranus and Jupiter, she shifts the mood to one of celebrating the new.

Tomorrow, the Moon enters her last quarter, the time in the lunar cycle when we release what no longer serves us, in the days heading toward the next New Moon. The Aries Last Quarter Moon could feel ready to let everything go, ready to send the entire past off in a blaze of July 4th fireworks.

A square with Pluto in Capricorn at 5:30pm EDT can slow down Aries impulsivity. Pluto supports deep transformation, rooted in understanding. Quick change is not always lasting change, so Pluto's message might be, don't just do something, stand there.

As hard as it can be for Aries, today may be a day for holding the tension and exploring our feelings about what we're letting go of, why, and what will flow into that space.