Waxing Moon in Scorpio

Today's incisive and insightful Scorpio Moon asks us to consider where we are on our life path. We each have skills and dispositions we are good at, ways we act, feel and think that are comfortable. Those familiar skills are often valuable, to us and to our communities, but may not bring about the personal growth that makes life meaningful.

Other areas of life draw our attention, intriguing and challenging us, bringing us in to experiment with new ways of being we might pull away from when they feel too different from who we are. Today is a good day to look at where we are balanced between the familiar and the challenging, what we know and what will help us grow.

This path is marked in our birth charts by the Nodes of the Moon, those points where the path of the Sun (our yang, solar self) and the path of the Moon (our yin, lunar self) intersected in the sky. The South Node, where we've been, is the tail of the dragon. The North Node, where we're going, is the dragon's head. The sign and house placement of your Nodes of the Moon (always exactly opposite each other) show the characteristics of each. Stepping away from the safe familiarity of the South Node often creates discomfort, yet if we take a deep breath and step toward the challenge embodied in the North Node, deeply meaningful experiences unfold.

Today, the Nodes of the Moon are being challenged by squares from Venus and Mars, together in Libra, the sign of balance. The searchlight of the Scorpio Moon is turned on this T-square as the Moon flows energy in semisextile to Venus (exact at 11:15am EDT), and then to Mars (2:26 pm), and flows energy to the Nodes with a trine to the South and sextile to the North (exact at 1:05pm).

Remember that old song about friendship? Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other is gold. Our Nodal axis is like that, a place where we find the balance between appreciating who we already are and what we offer the world using skills we've mastered, and who we are becoming and what the world will discover through us as we break new ground.

The bicycle path in Hungary, taken by Lhgergo, and the painting Picking up Silver and Gold by Alexander Mann are available through WikiMedia Commons.