Waxing Moon in Pisces

This note covers the Moon's transit through Pisces today and tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday.

Early this morning, the Aquarius Moon joined Neptune for her last aspect in this sign. She is now void of course, awaiting her emergence into Neptune's own sign, dreamy Pisces, at 1:40pm EST. If you are fast asleep as I write, you may wake to memories of rich and varied dreams.

Dore's opening illustration for Dante's Inferno

Mercury is now retrograde in Capricorn. April Elliott Kent's essay, Mercury Retrograde, Pluto, and the Darker Woods, explores the Sabian symbols associated with this time of revisiting, reevaluating, and releasing. The Moon in Pisces supports this, ready to dissolve whatever does not serve us.

With that in mind, the Moon flows energy in sextile with the Capricorn planets this evening. Beginning at 7:50pm EST, she sextiles Mars, then touches the North Node, Pluto and Mercury.

Each time, the Moon asks, what can we dissolve in order to step into our best future? With that dissolution comes comfort, as we rest in Pisces' waters and flow with the cosmos.

Overnight, the Moon flows energy in trine to Venus in Scorpio, Water and Water communicating, supporting this work of insight, integration, and release.

But, wait ... isn't the waxing cycle meant to be a time of growth? Yes, and again we see the paradox of this season. In the Northern hemisphere we're in the darkest time of year, waiting for the reemergence of light. Now in the realm of the fierce Holly King, we await the battle in which the more open-handed Oak King challenges and defeats him.

In the darkness, new growth begins. In this lunar cycle, heading for a Full Moon that coincides with the Solstice, we are asked to prepare. This is a time of keeping vigil, of readying ourselves for a powerful transformation. The Moon in Pisces offers her support for meditation, stillness, and surrender, as we await a vision of what is to come.