Moon into Gemini: Sleight of Hand

Wednesday afternoon through Saturday morning
Eastern Standard Time

Wednesday, February 1
Moon enters Gemini 2:15pm
Mercury (Aquarius) semisextile Pluto (Capricorn) 2:38pm

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Moon sextile Uranus (Aries) 5:54pm
Venus (Pisces) opposite Mars (Virgo) 6:41pm
Moon semisextile Jupiter (Taurus) 7:47pm
Moon square Chiron (Pisces) 9:40pm

Thursday, February 2
Moon inconjunct Pluto (Capricorn) 7:04am
Moon trine Mercury (Aquarius) 9:41am
Moon opposite the North Node (Sagittarius) 12:37pm
Moon trine Sun (Aquarius) 5:01pm

Friday, February 3
Moon square Mars (Virgo) 10:24am
Neptune enters Pisces 2:02pm
Moon square Venus (Pisces) 3:03pm

Saturday, February 4
Moon trine Saturn (Libra) 12:07am
(begin void of course)
Moon enters Cancer 1:04am
Moon trine Neptune (Pisces) 1:06am
Moon square Uranus (Aries) 4:44am
Imbolc: Sun reaches 15 Aquarius 5:22am
Moon sextile Jupiter (Taurus) 6:54am
Moon trine Chiron (Pisces) 8:22am
Moon opposite Pluto (Capricorn) 5:07pm

Ahhh, the Gemini Moon begins this afternoon, beguiling us into a world of intriguing ideas, scintillating conversations, enlivening connections, flirtatious engagements and tricksterish fun. With Mercury (ruler of Gemini) in Aquarius, the outside-the-box trickster in each of us peeks out, ready to play. Never forget, though, that creative play is all about deep learning.

Mercury gets edgy with transformative Pluto this afternoon, and Venus opposes Mars. These sounds like not-fun––more like challenge and work, actually. With Mercury and Gemini, fun is more about risk than safety. Where can we push the boundaries? Where is the new perspective? Mercury is the patron of thieves as well as merchants and loves question like:

"Which is the greater crime, to rob a bank or to own one?" 

(... a tricksterish quote often attributed to Marx, from Bertold Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Mercury at work again.)

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With Venus and Mars opposite in Pisces and Virgo, we're called on to balance heart and hands, soul and body––to keep our soft-focus, peripheral vision open to magic and mystery, even as we work steadily away at the task before us.

Thursday, the Moon continues her changeable path through Gemini, making her own awkward connection with the Plutonian alchemist as she flows energy with Mercury.

The Moon is opposite the North Node today, but Gemini doesn't sit still. Is she really opposite? Or conjunct? Or both at once? The day closes with the waxing trine with the Sun, a time of seeing our New Moon dreams begin to take shape. With all this mercurial energy about, that shape might look nothing like we imagined. Have fun with it anyway!

Friday, the Moon squares both Mars and Venus, bracketing the entry of Neptune once again, and for good and all, into Pisces. The Gemini Moon reminds us to keep our eye on the ball (Where did that rabbit come from? Was that the Queen of Hearts?) as we enter a new world of dreams and visions.

The Moon's transit through Gemini ends early Saturday with a happy trine to Saturn in Libra, a reminder that while some paths are quirky, full of twists and turns, we can still live our dreams and make things happen. Then, she moves into her Cancerian hearth to celebrate Imbolc.

By the calendar, Imbolc happens now, with the Gemini Moon. Astrologically, Imbolc is the moment the Sun reaches 15 degrees of Aquarius. As we celebrate this time of transition, feeling the stirrings of life in the stillness of winter, we remember that Brighid, the goddess associated with Imbolc, is a triple goddess of the forge, of poetry, and of healing. She contains all the energies we experience now.

With this Gemini Moon, we celebrate sleight of hand, here-today-gone-tomorrow, word play, quick-change artists, and transformations that happen even when we're looking somewhere else.