Waxing Moon in Aquarius Moving into Pisces

The Moon is now in the late degrees of Aquarius, and with so many planets at the ends and beginnings of signs, there are many conversations going on.

detail from a Mandelbrot set

The Aquarian Moon forms a flowing sextile with Mercury in Sagittarius, which tells us the trickster is in the building. Aquarius and Mercury both love word play, perceptual tricks and new ways of looking at things.

Sagittarius makes everything bigger, and the Moon engages our emotions. Is something crowding your perspective this morning, or seems too far away to get a handle on? Turn the telescope around, twirl the kaleidoscope, and see how it looks now!

This new view is being applied to all Capricorn seriousness too, as Mars in Capricorn is neatly semisextile between the Moon and Mercury. With the Sun in Capricorn squaring Saturn, Capricorn's authoritative ruler, in balanced Libra, we're challenged to place our work, our drive to achieve, and our responsibilities in a framework that also balances our core self (Sun) and the needs of partners (Libra). The Aquarian Moon and Mercury can help with this, bringing lightness and humor to a heavy situation.

The Moon's last classical aspect in Aquarius is her conjunction with Neptune at 3:51pm EST, but there are other contacts to consider. The Moon will semisextile Uranus at 4:14pm, semisextile Jupiter at 5:01pm, and join Chiron at 5:57pm. These aspects make this afternoon a powerful time for seeking intuitive guidance, as the Moon heads into her time-between-times.

At 9:57pm, the Moon enters visionary Pisces, continuing the strong connection with intuition and psychic insight, and making this a wonderful night for dream incubation. We are growing our New Moon intentions now, and asking for dreams to guide us will be an excellent idea tonight.

Venus, long in deep, dark Scorpio, entered adventuring Sagittarius early this morning. As the Moon swims into Pisces tonight, her first aspect will be a challenge in square to Venus. What philosophical insights has Venus gained from her months of Scorpionic initiation? Perhaps tonight's dreams will point us toward a new quest in relationships, or in creativity.

With all this in mind––the heaviness and responsibility of Capricorn we've all been standing under for some months now, the intensity and deep change in our relationships signified by Venus in Scorpio, today's Moon and Mercury bracketing that Capricornian Mars, and the Moon's communion with the visionary outer planets––I'd like to offer you Elizabeth Gilbert's talk recorded at the TED Conference in February 2009.

Gilbert, author of many intriguing books and notably the wildly popular Eat, Pray Love, talks about creativity and genius and how we place extraordinary burdens on ourselves and each other to be geniuses, when a more gentle and (yes) creative view would be to realize that the genii are all around us. They are there for us to talk to, to commune with, to dance with. We just need to show up and ask.