Moon in Libra and the Spring Equinox

Saturday afternoon through Monday afternoon

The Moon slipped into Libra soon after yesterday's magnificent Full Moon, opposing Uranus in Aries with a reminder that balance is beautiful and just. As more planets move into the blazing light of Aries, the Moon touches us gently, a reminder we're not alone in this cosmos.

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Sunday morning, the Moon carries the same message––remember the other souls who walk with us––as she challenges powerful Pluto in Capricorn with a square, and opposes Jupiter in Aries.

In the afternoon, the Moon joins Saturn in Libra. All this Aries fire could burn out quickly, and us with it, unless we recognize our limits and work (and play) within them. In art, the limits of form call out the creative impulse, shaping it into something of grace.

Sunday at 7:21pm EDT, the Sun shines into Aries, joining Uranus the Awakener at the Aries point and igniting the Spring Equinox. This conjunction between the Sun and Uranus at 0 Aries is rare, last seen in the early 1600's, and signals a new beginning of great power. What will be born, or reborn, for you this year?

The Libra Moon opposes Mercury, giving depth, shape and color to Mercury's cry in Aries, "I am!"

Monday morning, the Libra Moon trines Venus, and then Neptune, in Aquarius. These flows of energy among the Moon's depth of feeling, Venus' commitment to relationship, and Neptune's dreams, bracket the Sun's exact conjunction with Uranus. What wakes up in us this morning will be touched with the magic of the Moon, Venus and Neptune, the muses. Monday afternoon, the Moon slips into introspective Scorpio to explore the depths of this new world we find ourselves in.

Wikimedia's Media of the Day captures the energy of this fiery Equinox time of shaping and making, with Kuo Chang Shi, last professional sword maker in Taiwan, in a video from the Al Jazeera Creative Commons Respository: