Waxing Moon in Scorpio

Today, as the Moon transits the last half of Scorpio, a shift is taking place. The Scorpio Moon's awareness of hidden things, and her willingness to follow the thread to its ending, help us maintain focus.

The Eastern Gown by William Orpen

Yesterday's connections among the Moon, Mercury, Pluto and Venus offered a chance to look at ourselves, our relationships and our creativity in deep, possibly transformative ways. Today, Venus in Scorpio herself moves into a flowing sextile with Pluto in Capricorn, taking insight into action. Things we might prefer to ignore may become painfully obvious.

On the other hand, perhaps we faced whatever we saw in Scorpio's mirror, however uncomfortable. Now what do we do? The Venus-Pluto sextile can uncover the next steps for integrating and expressing what we've learned.

The Moon and Sun for their own sextile today (exact at 3:06pm EDT), another sign of increasing clarity. Now in the waxing crescent phase, our New Moon intentions take on a clearer shape. We understand a little better what we really asked for, and how our wishes might manifest.

Then, at 7:09pm, Mercury goes direct. Communications, thought, plans, and our relationship with technology begins to smooth out, moving forward again with greater ease. No longer forced into a time of reflection, review and reworking every step, let's not forget what we've learned but instead put it to practical use, Virgo fashion, as we work toward our goals.

The Scorpio Moon challenges the Neptune-Chiron conjunction in Aquarius overnight (exact at 2:57am Monday), asking for a dynamic balance between looking ahead to the new (Aquarius) and remembering the lessons of the past (Scorpio), planning for the greatest good for the greatest number (Aquarius) and realizing that the needs and drives of each individual are powerful engines of change (Scorpio).

A Mandelbrot set: Picture of the Day

The Moon and Neptune are both planets of dreams and vision. Tonight's dreams may remind us that however quickly we move into the Aquarian future, we still bring our Scorpio Shadow with us. The presence of Chiron may show us exactly where that Shadow is, and also how to heal its wounds.

The Moon's final aspects in Scorpio are flowing trines to Uranus (exact at 6:58am Monday) and Jupiter (exact at 7:53am). Revolutionary Uranus and expansive Jupiter are in Neptune's sign of visionary Pisces, and so this trine echoes the Moon-Neptune-Chiron square in a more flowing way. Having faced the challenge of the square, Uranus now offers a flash of intuition, a way out of our own box, so we can move on.

The trine to exuberant Jupiter signals the Moon's void-of-course period while initiating the Moon's new energy: She steps with enthusiasm into Sagittarius, Jupiter's home sign, at 8:52am EDT Monday morning, full of energy for the journey to come.