Moon into Gemini: The Trickster Says "Really??"

Tuesday night through Friday mornin
Eastern Standard Time

Tuesday, February 28
Moon enters Gemini 10:27pm

Wednesday, February 29

Yajrayogini

Moon square Neptune (Pisces) 12:24am
Moon sextile Uranus (Aries) 4:50am
Moon square Chiron (Pisces) 9:35am
Moon semisextile Jupiter (Taurus) 12:34pm
Moon inconjunct Pluto (Capricorn) 4:54pm
Moon opposite the North Node (Sagittarius) 6:13pm
First Quarter Moon:
Moon square Sun (Pisces) 8:22pm

Thursday, March 1
Moon square Mars (Virgo) 3:54am
Mercury (Pisces) inconjuct Saturn (Libra) 1:33pm

Friday, March 2
Moon sextile Venus (Aries) 3:29am
Mercury enters (Aries) 6:40am
Moon trine Saturn (Libra) 8:14am
(begin void of course)
Moon enters Cancer 10:05am
Moon square Mercury (Aries) 10:33am
Moon trine Neptune (Pisces) 12:11pm
Moon square Uranus (Aries) 4:29pm
Moon trine Chiron (Pisces) 9:04pm

The Moon flies into Gemini tonight, the Mercury-ruled sign of mutable Air. This Gemini Moon will be at her trickster-ish best, ready to take on all comers, teasing the serious minded, challenging the dogmatic, and turning everything upside down in the quest for new connections and fresh perspectives. Looking at ongoing debates as comic theater, this Moon chortles at the emperor's new clothes.

gleeful satire

Wednesday, the Moon challenges everything we think we know, flowing energy with revolutionary Uranus while upsetting every other planet she meets. Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter, Pluto, and the North Node––all heavy hitters––no one is sacred. Caroline Casey invokes wild Voodoo Dakinis to awaken us all in these times. Today we feel their presence.

Wednesday closes with the First Quarter Moon, the square between the Sun and Moon when our commitment to our New Moon intentions is tested. We're getting the first glimpse of what we wished for: Are we on board?

Thursday, trickster energy continues as the Moon challenges Mars and Mercury, the trickster himself, challenges Saturn the Old Guard. Change is in the air, along with a hefty dose of the unexpected, the irreverent, and the satiric. Where are we taking ourselves too seriously?

Friday morning, the energy shifts into direct action as the Moon flows energy with Venus in wild Aries, Mercury enters Aries, and the Moon flows manifesting power with Saturn. When we embrace creative possibility, let go of certainty, and open to new connections, anything can happen!

The morning's energy boost is brief, though, as the Moon moves into the more emotionally guarded territory of Cancer. Mercury will turn retrograde in Aries in a few weeks as well, offering us time to integrate these new shifts in perspective.

With this Gemini Moon, over the next few days, we put on crazy glasses, look at the world with new eyes, see the wild improbability of everything and nothing, and shift.
     

Moon into Taurus: Earth Connection

Sunday morning through Tuesday night
Eastern Standard Time

Earth abundance

Sunday, February 26
Moon enters Taurus 9:30am
Moon sextile Neptune (Pisces) 11:14am
Moon semisextile Uranus (Aries) 3:36pm
Moon sextile Chiron (Pisces) 8:18pm
Moon conjunct Jupiter (Taurus) 10:43pm

Monday, February 27
Moon sextile Sun (Pisces) 1:53am
Moon trine Pluto (Capricorn) 3:55am
Moon inconjunct the North Node (Sagittarius) 5:35am
Moon trine Mars (Virgo) 5:09pm

Tuesday, February 28
Sun (Pisces) sextile Pluto (Capricorn) 2:15am
Moon semisextile Venus (Aries) 9:13am
Moon sextile Mercury (Pisces) 2:46pm
(begin void of course)
Moon inconjunct Saturn (Libra) 8:39pm
Moon enters Gemini 10:27pm

The Moon moved into calm, nurturing Taurus at 9:30 this morning for a day of healing and deep connection with the Earth. The Moon flows energy with visionary Neptune and Chiron the wounded healer today, closing the day by joining with Jupiter. There's an edgy connection with Uranus as well, making this a wonderful day to listen to intuitive messages, especially calls for healing our relationship with our bodies and the Earth itself.

Monday, the pattern of Earth connection and healing continues as the Moon flows energy with the Sun in Pisces, and trines Pluto in Capricorn. An edgy connection with the North Node might leave us wondering whether we should be moving ahead faster, while a flowing trine with Mars in Virgo reminds us that each step on the way deserves our full attention. We're being invited to change, to transform ourselves and how we relate to the Earth.

More gifts

Shamanic practitioner Sandra Ingerman uses the word "transmutation" to describe the process of healing ourselves and healing the Earth.

This process includes visualization, energy work, and shamanic journeying––and also how we eat, drink, sleep and walk on the Earth every day.

With the Moon in Taurus, our attention turns to the practical as well as the ethereal. How are we taking care of ourselves? When we're tired, hungry, in pain, do we offer ourselves the same compassion we might give our children or others around us? This Moon invites us to explore new ways to feel good.

Tuesday, the Sun flows with Pluto, illuminating more openings for visionary alchemy. We might feel a jolt of energy as the Moon semisextiles Venus in fiery Aries, followed by flowing communications from Mercury. Tuesday morning looks like a wonderful time for creative writing, teaching, or communication of any kind.

The Moon–Mercury sextile is the Moon's last classical aspect in Taurus, although she will also make an awkward inconjunct aspect with Saturn Tuesday evening. The Moon is void of course from mid afternoon until she steps into bright Gemini at 10:27pm.

Waking with the Moon in Taurus, we open all of our senses to drink in the world around us. Welcoming healing energy from the Earth, we offer healing in return. This is a time for doing good, and feeling good.
    

Moon into Aries: New Maps, New Territories

Thursday night through Sunday morning
Eastern Standard Time

Thursday, February 23
Moon enters Aries 9:48pm
Mercury (Pisces) semisextile Venus (Aries) 11:01pm
Moon semisextile Neptune (Pisces) 11:18pm

charting a new course

Friday, February 24
Moon conjunct Uranus (Aries) 3:26am
Sun (Pisces) conjunct Chiron (Pisces) 4:06am
Moon semisextile Chiron (Pisces) 7:55am
Moon semisextile Sun (Pisces) 8:14am
Moon semisextile Jupiter (Taurus) 9:43am
Moon square Pluto (Capricorn) 3:31pm
Moon trine the North Node (Sagittarius) 5:35pm

Saturday, February 25
Sun (Pisces) sextile Jupiter (Taurus) 5:32am
Moon inconjunct Mars (Virgo) 6:23am
Moon conjunct Venus (Aries) 2:00pm
Moon semisextile Mercury (Pisces) 4:16pm

Sunday, February 26
Moon opposite Saturn (Libra) 7:52am
(begin void of course)
Moon enters Taurus 9:30am
Moon sextile Neptune (Pisces) 11:14am
Moon semisextile Uranus (Aries) 3:36pm
Moon sextile Chiron (Pisces) 8:18pm
Moon conjunct Jupiter (Taurus) 10:43pm

"The map is not the territory" –– Alfred Korzybski

Tonight, the Moon lights a new candle in Aries, cardinal Fire, the beginning sign of the zodiac and of the Spring Equinox. During this transit through Aries, the Moon weaves in and out of the sky in a dance that touches Fire to Water, Aries to Pisces. Classically, these elements don't mix well. In Celtic and IndoEuropean myth, water holds secret fires that bring intense experiences of illumination. The Moon holds that fire.

Viking treasure hoard

The first aspects during this transit occur when Mercury in Pisces makes an edgy semisextile with Venus in Aries, and, shortly afterwards, the Aries Moon semisextiles Neptune in Pisces. Notice that the creative energies of Venus and Neptune are involved, as well as our mind (Mercury) and feelings (Moon).

In the early hours of Friday, we see another pairing as the Moon conjunct Uranus as the Sun conjunct Chiron. Aries and Pisces again. The Moon will semisextile the Sun and Chiron later Friday morning.

The Pisces New Moon raised the curtain on some new ways to see and experience the world. We still swim in this new ocean, feelings the currents and wondering where we'll be carried. This Aries Moon invites us into a passionate exploration of this new space. What do we want here? What can we do here? Who can we be here?

We need new maps and Aries can help us build them. Always the pioneer, Aries welcomes the chance to chart new waters. We know maps and territories are not the same, and yet we need guidance. We need to find our way around. The Aries Moon lights the way.

This in not an easy stage. The Moon challenges Pluto the alchemist, and connects awkwardly with Mars. Yet through the says of this transit, we see recurring patterns of Pisces and Aries connecting. We're beginning a new and exciting journey.

Sunday morning, the Moon opposes Saturn in Libra. An hour and a half later, she steps into calm and patient Taurus for rest and relaxation. With this Aries Moon, we dive into exploration, ready to reach for whatever treasure we find.