Waning Moon Moving into Gemini

Today's notes cover the Moon's transit through Gemini from this afternoon through Thursday evening.

The Moon holds her steady course in patient Taurus this morning, enjoying simple pleasures and sensual delights. My Taurus gift was the arrival of David Abram's new book, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. I love his first book, The Spell of the Sensous, and can't wait to dive into this new one, which opens with an invitation to "blending our skin with the rain-rippled surface of rivers, mingling our ears with the thunder and the thrumming of frogs, and our eyes with the molten gray sky." What could be more Taurean?

The Moon challenges the Neptune-Chiron conjunction today (Tuesday), squaring Neptune at 2:39pm EDT and Chiron at 4:32pm. The Moon in Taurus asks visionary Neptune and healing Chiron to stay grounded, channeling their intuitive energies into actions we can see, hear, taste, smell and touch.

At 7:13pm, the Moon flows energy in sextile with innovative Uranus, inviting the trickster and revolutionary to send his flashes of inspiration, but to send gently so we can absorb the message. With that, the Moon enters her time-between-times until she makes a sprightly leap into bright Gemini at 8:19pm.

Now the mood shifts! If you've been staying close to home, tending your garden and reflecting on life with Taurus, the Gemini Moon may bring the world to your door. Gemini energy is lively and social, connecting ideas and people, networking, and looking for the next new thing.

The Moon in Gemini is a great facilitator who knows how to work a room and enjoys doing it. Flowing energy in sextile with expansive Jupiter in Aries at 10:09pm amps up the sociability factor; this could be your night for skyping with friends and family halfway around the globe, updating all your social networking accounts with your latest projects, and stopping by the local coffeehouse for philosophical conversation.

Street Fair, WikiMedia Commons

The Moon sparkles in Gemini through Wednesday, energizing, connecting and networking. A flowing trine with Saturn in Libra (exact at 4:05am EDT) might help get some work done, as long as we remember that Gemini is also a trickster and his ruler, Mercury, continues to be retrograde. So use this trine judiciously and accept Saturn's reminder not to leap without looking.

At 1:22pm Wednesday, the Moon reaches her square with the Virgo Sun, signaling our entry into the last quarter of this lunar cycle. The Moon moves closer to the Earth now, and to Venus, as the energy shifts from sharing our Full Moon accomplishment with the world, toward understanding what this cycle has meant for us. The Gemini Moon, falling in this waning cycle during Mercury retrograde in Virgo, can help us make connections between what we intended, what we accomplished, how the universe responded, and what we are meant to learn.

Underscoring the need to connect our thoughts and our feelings, the Gemini Moon squares Mercury in Virgo at 7:17pm. This Gemini Moon may be more thoughtful and reflective than some, helping us to gather up all the threads of recent experiences and see how they can be woven together in beautiful patterns.

On Thursday, the Gemini Moon brightens Mars in Libra, flowing energy in trine at 12:30pm, perhaps pointing out the perfect idea or person you need to connect with now. At 6:46pm, the Moon reaches her trine with lovely Venus. This evening, conversation may sparkle as relationships and creativity flow easily. This Venus-Moon trine in Libra and Gemini may lighten hearts, reminding us how much we enjoy our connections.

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By 9:26pm, the Moon flows energy in trine with Neptune, opening the door to intuitive messages and listening for something new and intriguing. By 11:06pm, the Moon trines healing Chiron, receiving healing messages that might be unexpected innovative. A square to revolutionary Uranus at 1:40am Friday challenges us to think outside the box about the messages we receive, and also signals the Moon's entry into her time-between-times, before she enters her home sign of Cancer at 2:50am EDT.

The Moon's bright curiosity in Gemini offers the chance to survey where we've been. What new ideas and people have come into our orbit this lunar cycle, energizing our thinking and opening up new possibilities? If we don't like something, the Gemini Moon tells us to flip it over, try another angle, and look for a new perspective. Only connect!