Crescent Moon: The Bud Unfurls

tight in the bud

Crescent Moon: June 23, 2012

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ––Anais Nin

Today is the day. The Sun and Moon form their waxing semisquare. Something in us pushes to open. In some way, small perhaps but finally palpable, we are no longer who we were.

The Sun moves into opposition with alchemical Pluto. The tectonic plates of tradition, ancestry, the deep past push up against each other, looking for release. Revolutionary Uranus squares them both, ready for anything.

Meanwhile, Neptune and Chiron, vision and healing (and also lies and wounding) are squaring the Nodes of the Moon, and Jupiter, and Venus. Good fortune is allied with the path of fate––do we choose the Gate of Horn or the Gate of Ivory? Apocalyptic despair or visions of hope and beauty?

The Moon's only other aspect today is a creative, quirky quintile with Jupiter the Great Good Thing: With the Moon in Leo and Jupiter in Gemini, this quintile can expand infinitely in an amazing burst of creative fire.

Saturn remains at the apex of his Finger of the World: A square-and-a-half against Chiron and Venus, who square each other.

What breaks free now? When healing and balance, wisdom and love, challenge each other, what becomes real?

The Moon is visible in the sky again, her gentle curve showing the emerging path of growth. Where are we becoming, now?