Moon into Sagittarius

Tuesday night through Friday morning

The Moon is a gateway. As mother, she's the door we walk through to enter this lifetime. Her home sign, Cancer, is the ancient entrance through which souls incarnated on Earth. Overnight on Tuesday, the Moon moves into the mutable Fire sign of Sagittarius for a transit that may open more gates.

detail from The Three Philosophers

The Moon's first aspect in Sagittarius is a square to Neptune followed by a square to Chiron. Despite the challenge of a square, this meeting looks more like scholarly debate than confrontation.

The Sagittarius Moon is a philosopher with deep reverence for ancient tradition, Neptune in Pisces carries the wisdom of the cosmos, and Chiron is the wounded healer and mentor. These three test each other, question and response. The philosopher gains new insights.

Wednesday morning, the Sun enters calm and steady Taurus, as the Moon trines Uranus the Awakener. Trines from Fire to Fire increase energy, but the newly Taurean Sun might keep things peaceful. Meanwhile, the philosopher Moon has a session with the other intuitive messenger of the cosmos, learning more about what is to come.

Through the afternoon and evening, the Sun sextiles Neptune as the Moon sextiles Saturn. Neptune-Saturn combinations are excellent for making dreams real, and with each in flowing aspect to a luminary, perhaps we'll see new things emerging Wednesday night.

Overnight brings an energy surge, as Venus enters Aries, the Moon trines Mercury in Aries, and the Moon trines Mars. This combination of thought and communication (Mercury), relationship, creativity and finance (Venus), emotions, the body, and tradition (Moon), and action (Mars) all in Fire, offers opportunities for insight and expression that are creative and passionate ... as long as we remember the Aries caveat and steer clear of anger.

Thursday morning, the fiery energy continues, culminating at 12:57pm EDT as the Moon trines Jupiter, a chance for expansion of mind, and of joy and grace, as the Moon in the philosopher's robes meets the philosopher himself.

After this, the Moon enters a void-of-course time, although this void period includes a conjunction with the North Node of the Moon at midnight. Here, we connect those Sagittarean philosophical insights to our life path. The Moon enters the responsible sign of Capricorn at 6:24am EDT Friday.