Gibbous Moon: What's in the Glass?

I heard a peal of delight and turned around
-- that's the picture at the top of this post.

Hilary Matfess, a young policy analyst, was jumping
up and down, yelling out details.

"The mandate is constitutional! It was upheld!
Roberts went for the swing vote! Yes! Oh my God!
The individual mandate survives as a tax!"

Did you work on passing the bill? I asked.

"No!" said Matfess. "I just have lupus!"

Gibbous Moon in Scorpio: June 30, 2012

Tomorrow morning the big-bellied Gibbous Moon arrives, pushing toward Full as she makes an edgy square-and-a-half connection with the Sun in her home sign of Cancer.

Something is pending, something is due, and the Scorpio Moon wants to peek behind the curtain and make sure it's ok.

The Sun highlights the ongoing challenges of the Pluto–Uranus square by opposing Pluto and squaring Uranus: a T-square with revolution at the apex.

How are we seeing this energy?

In the US, the Sun highlights transformation with the Supreme Court decision to uphold the individual mandate in the new health care laws, which feels like a blazing, wonderful revolution to some and a terrible tipping point to others.

Some on the right say the US has gone communist and they're leaving for Canada (which already has universal health care and gay marriage to boot) while one GOP leader calls for armed rebellion––not peaceful Occupy-style action, mind you, but armed and dangerous. Scorpio Moon stuff, here.

The Sun connection highlights where the personal and the global meet, illuminating stories of relief as those of us with preexisting conditions, and those summarily dropped from plans, and those who've seen costs rise and coverage shrink feel some hope for the future.

Yes, my sympathies are clear––I support going beyond the current health care changes to universal care. And the astrological point is, the aspects show seismic change and extreme reaction from all sides, with emotional valences based in individual viewpoints.

Meanwhile, the Scorpio Moon forms an out-of-sign opposition to the big, happy group hanging out in Gemini, clustered around the South Node. She's also in an out-of-sign, still-wide conjunction with the North Node.

What does the Moon see behind the curtain here? Are we looking back to the past and missing the present? Are we distracted by the shiny thing of the day and avoiding our life path altogether? The Full Moon arrives soon, and this Scorpio Moon wants to know what's going on.

So, we might be left with that odd feeling we're missing something important. We might take a second look, or third or fourth look, to check what's going on. We might even look over our shoulder, to see what's back there. Not a bad idea, with this Moon.