AUGUST 6 NEW MOON at 15 LEO, 5:51pm EDT, 2:51pm PDT, 10:51pm GMD
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Let’s have some fun amidst the daily grind. Let whimsy lead the way! Let’s surprise ourselves. Let’s add more JOY to our lives. This Leo Moon motivates us to enjoy the beauty of Nature, to appreciate her infinite creative capacity and participate in it. In other words, take some PLAY TIME. The inner child in our hearts so needs freedom of expression, which can, as a by-product, be incredibly therapeutic. Indulge in some creative therapy! Living life to the full is a radical act that channels immense creative life force.
A lingering challenge from Saturn can feel weighty. Re-creation time can stir up creative juices, evoking needed inspirations, shifting the weight into qualitative productive activity. How are you investing your life force? Vesta, Keeper of the Sacred Flame, tends to this New Moon. Make a space to commune with your heart and the Great Spirit each day. Recent astrophysics findings have detected a sweeping field of energy that connects our solar system with the galactic center, the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy. We know that! Now that science knows that, we can all feel that connection more consciously.
JUPITER OPPOSITE PLUTO is the single most powerful planetary dynamic of this New Moon. Jupiter’s yearlong involvement in the Pluto-Uranus square is in full gear now, signaling a profound cultural shift, seismic activity rumbling in the inevitable economic-political restructuring. The full implications will be clearer next winter into spring. As more of the ugly underbelly of current dysfunctional systems is exposed, we are stretched beyond sentimental or religiously rigid beliefs, nationalistic boundaries and greedy corporate clutching into a greater shared space.
Jupiter in Cancer indicates clear potential for the greater good. It may take more thousands in the streets in public uprisings, demonstrating leadership and democracy at work. It also happens up close and personal on a daily basis through personal interactions and community relations.
As Jessica Murray writes in AT THE CROSSROADS: An Astrologer Looks at These Turbulent Times, this period “is forcing long-unquestioned injustices, obsolete assumptions and mass delusions to the fore. With each new global event that arises, the healthy response is to resist the fear reaction, and get in touch with the intelligence and courage that is innate in each of us.”
Jupiter, as the Wisdom Keeper, is has a martial aspect with Mars nearby in Cancer, protecting hearth and home. Some may take this a little too far, protecting their turf in righteous ways. Look what’s going on in the legal arena for evidence. Yet, there is great goddess wisdom at work, with an inscrutability that may be hard for many to detect, as it goes over (or under) our heads. For this is not a heady kind of knowing, but a heart and soul stirring of a spacious sea of potentials.
On Thursday, the 8th, after this New Moon cycle opens, watch for the crescent Moon joining Venus in the twilight sky. The same day, MERCURY into LEO generates more creative fire and confidence. On the 11th, Mercury interfaces with Saturn. An important piece of news could determine next moves. It may be necessary to say something about a situation that needs to be addressed. A good day to state your case, draw a line in the sand or put your foot down. We are stepping up to the plate, as they say in baseball! Express from the heart!
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