Waning Moon in Scorpio

Today, the Scorpio Moon flows energy in trine with Jupiter in Pisces, sharing messages from the depths of the psyche to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, connecting psychology, spirituality, and intuition. Since Jupiter rules Sagittarius, sign of the coming New Moon, we're also invited to look toward that seed time.

Mars in Sagittarius challenges Uranus in Pisces in square today, another push to get moving on our journeys and expect big shifts.

What are we preparing for?

Sunday's New Moon is a time for Sagittarian wishes and intentions. Sagittarius, mutable Fire, is warm, inclusive, and tolerant, reaching across history and culture to explore anything new and different, whatever expands the mind and spirit.

Auntie Moon reminds us that Sagittarian explorations are not mapped every step of the way ... we need to meander, follow the path where it leads, and open our minds and hearts to whatever shows up. Like Bilbo, we recognize that anything can happen when we step outside our doors. We can be swept away to who knows where, landing in wonderfully unexpected places.

Sagittarius loves life, and is alive to its meanings. Simone Butler offers as her December theme, Find the Higher Meaning, and suggests we see our lives as mythic adventures, which of course they are. As we explore, we are drawn especially to images, ideas and themes that have deep meaning for us.

And deeper meanings certainly seem to be present with this New Moon! Its Sabian symbol, explored by Linda Hill, is Sagittarius 14: A Vast Panorama Of Sand And Time Is Unfolding: The Pyramids And Sphinx In Their Glory Rise Before The Eye. Sagittarian indeed, this symbol reaches deep into the past, reminding us not to forget what has gone before, or that powerful ideas and images endure.

Stephanie Austin, in the current print edition of The Mountain Astrologer, points our attention to the far future. She notes that the New Moon is aligned with the Great Attractor, an anomaly in deep space that appears to be drawing our Milky Way galaxy, along with our neighbor galaxies, towards it. 

Yet the Dark flow carrying our galaxy may actually be drawing us toward something beyond the Great Attractor, a dense cluster of galaxies called the Shapley Supercluster ... much as the mountain we think we are hiking toward proves to be the first stop on the way to the greater mountain range beyond it.

Today, let the Scorpio Moon carry you in her own Dark flow, into explorations of your own deep feelings that will help clear the way for the powerful seed time of the coming New Moon.