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Traditional–August 1
Lunar–Full Moon in Aquarius, August 1-2
Solar–August 6
Lughnasadh is the festival of first fruits, when we see how good the harvest will be. It's a time of festivals that celebrate abundance, of games and races, of contracts and marriages, of music and dances.
We're in the season of Lughnasadh now, with the traditional August 1 date of Lughnsadh behind us, as well as the glorious Aquarian Full Moon of last night, and the astrological Lughnsadh a few days ahead, when the Sun reaches 15 degrees of Leo, the midpoint.
This year's Lughnasadh chart points to a time of abundant energy moving into manifest form. The energy jumps off the chart: The Sun at 15 Leo in close trine with an Aries Moon, and a wider trine to Uranus. Mercury, still retrograde in Leo, closely trines the North Node in Sagittarius. The Moon is waning now, just after Full––this is the time we receive, and see the fruits of our labors.
Jupiter at 11 Gemini and Ceres the Grain Mother at 16 Gemini, sextiling both the Sun and Moon and trining Mars at 19 Libra point to a superabundance of whatever we're harvesting. All that firepower is a tremendous resource that wants to go somewhere––the question is, where?
You know, the whole free will thing really messes up our ability to predict what people will do with the energy in their charts. We choose, every day, to flow with the energies around us or resist them, and likewise choose the means and the ends.
The Pluto–Uranus square is still there, pushing, prodding, poking, not letting us alone. Chiron is semisextile Uranus and sextile Pluto, reminding us that no choice is also a choice, and that hurting and healing are choices, too.
Choices are not necessarily easy. Crops have had a tough summer around the world, experiencing drought in some areas and drowning rains in others. For farmers, this time of first fruits will be challenging.
There are choices to be made.
Following on the illuminations of mind and heart offered by the Full Moon in Aquarius, the Lughnasadh sky shows us the sky's the limit. All bets are off, anything can happen, and we can participate.
These are the dog days of summer, the hottest, edgiest times. Leo Sun–Aries Moon with Uranus nearby could bring explosive anger. We could say, "Bring it, show me what you got." Explosions can really shift things around, but leave a lot of destruction behind. Cleaning up the mess takes way longer than pressing the button.
In ancient Egypt, the dog days were the days when the Dog Star, Sirius, rose with the Sun. This star added to the Sun's heat, raising temperatures, and also signaled the time of the annual Nile floods, which assured the ongoing abundance of croplands along the river.
And this is Lughnasadh, the time of harvest and celebration. This year, we celebrate choice. There are always options. Jupiter, Ceres, and Venus all in Gemini offer an abundance of perspectives, lenses, windows, portals, connections, and ideas.
You don't like what you have? Toss everything into the air, and instead of letting it crash to the ground, juggle. Try a bit of sleight of hand. Shift your perceptions just a little, and see a whole new world come into focus.
Feel the fire of life, know you have amazing amounts of energy at your fingertips, celebrate your choices.
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