Waxing Moon in Aries

This note covers the Moon's transit through Aries, today (Tuesday) through Thursday morning.

The Moon moved into Aries overnight, energetic, pioneering, ready to take risks. In this waxing half of the lunar cycle, time of growth and expansion, we feel the urge to act.

Mars, Mercury, Pluto and the North Node all stand together, a focused concentration of transformative power crying out for attention. Today, the fiery Aries Moon squares those positions. She's already reached her square with the North Node, and touches Mercury (10:57am EST), Pluto (11:43am) and Mars (12:32pm) in the next few hours. We feel challenged to take up the reins and drive in bold new directions!

But wait ...

We're deep in Mercury retrograde territory. Heading into the darkest days of the year, the sense of light slipping through our fingers is palpable. Perhaps we're already experiencing the dropped connections, incomplete communication, and missed steps this retrograde in Capricorn can bring.

What do we do?

old projects

This Moon transit through Aries is a time of action, with tremendous energy available. At the waning of the year, we can channel that power into finish work.

What projects have you been putting off because you didn't have the energy to tackle them? Which ones were set aside because you weren't sure what the next steps should be? Maybe there's a project or two that raises anxieties, because they call for risk taking, new directions in creative work, or facing old fears. Now's the time for those projects.

If we dive into difficult old projects today, we may see real progress tomorrow. At 9:44am Wednesday, the Aries Moon opposes Saturn in Libra: emotions and responsibility, drive and steady effort, self and other, in dialogue. At 2:32pm, the Moon reaches her trine with the Sun, a time of harmony and balance on the way to our Full Moon goal. We find our balance point, and move forward.

Overnight on Wednesday, the Moon contacts the outer planet dreamers, semi-sextiling Jupiter and Uranus, and sextiling Neptune and Chiron. Dreams this night may bring messages from beyond, rewarding our efforts to tie up loose ends in our lives with visions of the future.

At 6:41am Thursday, the Aries Moon rests in a time-between-times for about seven hours, before emerging into calm and patient Taurus.

These next few days with the Aries Moon are perfect for digging out unfinished projects and tackling them with enthusiasm and drive––one more way we prepare for the Full Moon to come.