Waning Moon Moving into Taurus

Today's notes address the Moon's transits today and tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday.

Golden Gate Park, San Franciso

The Moon moves through the final degrees of Aries this morning, spending her last hours with this bright, pioneering energy. She reaches a flowing sextile with the Neptune-Chiron conjunction in innovative Aquarius at 9:12am EDT, energizing our healing, creative imagination, and intuitive connection. Another opportunity for illumination here!

The sextile with Neptune and Chiron initiates the Moon's time-between-times, although within that phase she will reach a semisextile with Jupiter (exact at 12:03pm) and then Uranus (exact at 1:14pm) in visionary Pisces. Perhaps this communication with the planets of philosophy (Jupiter) and revolution (Uranus) will make this void of course an especially powerful time for reflection.

At 4:17pm, the Moon steps into calm, steady Taurus. In this sign, we slow down, take a deep breath, and experience the shifting seasons with all of our senses. Autumn has a feel all its own. In the Western mountains, aspen leaves turn a bright golden yellow. Desert nights are cooler now. In temperate woodlands, leaves swirl from the trees in fall rainstorms, revealing the form and texture of branches and bark that were hidden under summer's cloak. The wheel of the year turns.

In this waning time, we become more aware of what we are harvesting and how it has transformed us. The Sun in airy Libra challenges Pluto the transformer today in square, offering the chance to think creatively about how we balance who we are with who we wish to become. The Moon is inconjunct the Sun now, highlighting perhaps a place in our lives where our best plans and intentions (Sun in Libra) need to be made real (Moon and Pluto in Earth signs). A flowing trine between the Taurus Moon and Pluto in Capricorn allows us to feel the depth and strength of Earth in our lives.

Autumn Woods in Germany

On Sunday, the Moon reaches oppositions with Venus and Mars in Scorpio. The Taurus-Scorpio dialogue seeks a balance between the world so beautifully manifest to our senses (Taurus), and the world of the unseen, the hidden, and the unconscious (Scorpio). With Venus and Mars in Scorpio, we'e been examining our relationships and actions with great intensity this last week or so. Perhaps the Taurus Moon brings a gentle reminder not to go off the deep end, to ground our Scorpio awareness in everyday reality.

An inconjunct between the Taurus Moon and responsible Saturn in Libra echoes the call to stay grounded in our thinking and planning. This Full Moon has been an intense, blazing energy. The Moon's shift into Taurus invites us to stop revving our engines. In fact, go ahead and turn the motor off entirely, take the key out of the ignition, and get your feet on the ground.

Smell woodsmoke and damp earth in the air. Hear the shushing sound of leaves underfoot. Watch ground mist curling in the hollows of the land in the evening. Listen to the calls of migrating birds. Pick up a few acorns and trace their contours and textures. Our Earth is a beautiful Mother.