New Moon: Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!

meteors! (the Geminids)

New Moon in Sagittarius
December 13, 2012

Oh, Sagittarius ... expansive, generous, hospitable, liberal-minded, open-handed, open-hearted. This is a New Moon to align with the lottery winner within, the energy of good luck, grace, and good will.

Sagittarius lives large, knows it all, has a system sure to work, bites off more than he can chew and swallows it anyway.

Where Sagittarius lives in our charts, we experience good luck and grace, and look out for inflation and smugness. Set your intentions accordingly!

This particular, special, one-of-a-kind Sagittarian New Moon is all about what we know: information, messages, intuition. Why do I say that?

Mercury is also in Sagittarius, just about to emerge from his retrograde shadow. In other words, he's almost at the point when he turned back, in November, and revisited Scorpio. So, he's gaining clarity and surging forward.

Mercury is trining Uranus, the Awakener, in fiery Aries. Just that alone points to big messages heading our way ... but wait, Uranus is stationing, and turns direct just a few hours after the New Moon. Take about forward momentum!

So, Mercury, the energy of our human minds and communications, is moving into new territory while signalling a major revolutionary Uranian shift.

Mercury is a busy lad at this New Moon––he also squares Neptune and Chiron, who have their own messages to impart.

Neptune can be misty, diffuse, hard to get a handle on, especially in Pisces. Think of the Mercury square, accompanied by a semisextile from Uranus, as a bright flashlight shining through the Neptunian fog, offering moments of clarity.

All this information is offered in support of our transformation, and our world's. Saturn and Pluto are sextile, pushing, pushing, pushing us to fix what we know is broke.

The tree-topper is a yod, a finger of fate. As Saturn and Pluto sextile each other, they form awkward inconjuncts to Jupiter, still retrograde in Gemini. What is this? The ruler of the New Moon remains reflective and thoughtful, still exploring inner structures and philosophies to be certain sure they're right––for us, for our times, for our needs.

The answer to a yod lies between the sextile corners and there we find ... Sagittarius. 

We're reminded that the New Moon is a seed time, a dark time. We can feel the surges of energy, we're tantalizingly close to a new place of clarity, and we're not quite there yet. We're invited to trust, to welcome grace, and to celebrate what will come, without knowing exactly what it looks like.

The Geminid meteor shower for 2012 peaks on the night of this New Moon. In the darkness, we see bright light showering down on us. Nice metaphor? Maybe... Nice message!