The Daily Moon Feels (Friday 31st May 2024)
Preamble
Consider that you are the Moon. You are moving through the days of your life, interacting in different places with different situations and in relationship to others, that you experience in a subjective, emotional sense. You also carry within you the archetypal energies of the other planets, both personal and a relationship to the transpersonal planets, that bring collective as well as personal experience. It's an unfolding Play of such proportions that it is lived out, through all of us. Shakespeare wrote of this.
The Moon is both the Child and the Mother, and that whole relationship in all its complexity. The Moon Feels it's way through life, using a subjective lens of emotional perception; a 'felt sense' of things. It is more complex even that this, but for the purposes of The Moon Feels, and this daily and week by week look at its transit around the zodiac with the other Planets, consider and reflect 'as if' you were the Moon, while also relating with the other planets. In this way, we can sense the energies and dynamics of relationship between our Moon selves, and the outer world experience as it unfolds. Depending on your personal natal chart, you will either experience these transitory moments personally, or observe them in the lives of others and the wider human family. Knowing your own chart is valuable, so that you are riding the waves and seeing them coming, rather than being taken by surprise. You can connect with me for a personal reading by checking out 'The Natal Chart' page, but in many ways, this Moon Feels blog will offer so much that will be of use; this is why I do it.
I often make reference to dreams. I see them as the greatest gift between the waking ego state of personality and the deeper genius of the Unconscious, which carries all knowledge of the true state of our being. Our dreams connect with us through symbolic language to this knowledge, at those times when we need it. I will usually mention dreams if particular transit happens through the nighttime in the UK, which is my location. A dream journal is a critical element in remembering and holding on to dream material, which can easily be forgotten as we wake up into daytime consciousness.
The Signs This Week
This week's Moon transits through Saturday 25th to Friday 31st are, Mutable Fire Sagittarius, Cardinal Earth Capricorn, Fixed Air Aquarius, Mutable Water Pisces.
Aspects for reference
The Trine is an aspect of ease and flow between two points that share an element (water, earth, air or fire). Trines feel harmonious, mutually loving and supportive generally.
The Sextile is an aspect that can create mutual opportunity and support in our endeavours or projects. They share elements that are either Masculine (Air and Fire), or Feminine (Earth and Water), which can make them either more outwardly active or internally nurturing.
The Conjunction is where two or more planets join together in the same and degree of the zodiac, in a sign. In the conjunction there is a merging of energies and qualities, where the stronger one of two dominates, while the other lends its qualities to the conjunction but is not so distinguishable. There are times when more than two planets make conjunction together, which is like a group of people all talking at once. The energy of this grouping depends on the planets and 'how' they merge together.
The Square is an aspect that creates a growth point of tension between two planetary bodies. The larger, slower planet carries greater weight in the square. The faster moving planet breaks away from the tension point, but is first impressed or compelled to either act (first quarter square), or to integrate something important at a more internally experienced level (last quarter square).
The Opposition is an aspect of two polarities that face each other directly. This can be felt and experienced as a literal opposition, which forces a mirror experience and a reflection that needs to be understood and integrated. The opposition can also be experienced as a direct line of sight that illuminates a situation or a state of being, which is informative and can bring understanding of whatever the situation is.
The In-conjunct is an aspect that gives us a feeling of something being 'off' or we have a sense that there is something we can't quite connect with in an easy or direct way. Something is not straight forward. So the in-conjunct is called the aspect of 'adjustment' that requires some kind of shift of position of perspective in order to connect. Something is in the peripheral vision and it's not easy to see. This is the in-conjunct.
The Moon Feels Today
Friday 31st May 2024. Today we start in the early hours of the morning with Mercury making conjunction to Uranus in Taurus. Mercury as the Messenger, is steady and reliable, grounded and connected to the values of what is held in the Taurus field. He also carries the message of the eclipse and Aries energies of the individual importance of each of us and the healing of the Chiron Wound. Now, Mercury meets Uranus and Uranus blends those messages with the 'out-of-the-box' intuition about what 'baby needs to remain in the bathwater' of change. Not everything is broken open with Uranus; some things that were forgotten in history and back in time, are now also re-connected with, and brought forward to lay the ground for what remains after the Uranus transit. Uranus is the lightning, the storm that changes everything but which does not remove all. Some things withstand the storm and the transformative passage of electricity. Mercury here may seem to disappear in the energy field of Uranus, but I think what is happening, is that Uranus is absorbing the knowledge that Mercury carries, channeling it into the electrical field as it touches the ground. This is a transference of knowledge, understood at an intuitive level and grounded into the earth. It also feels like a purification of Mercury. From now on and for a while, Mercury carries the imprint of the conjunction with Uranus. He will carry this energy forward and into Gemini (his own sign), where this can be disseminated widely in a network of communications. Social Media. Mercury will retrograde through Virgo, (also his own Sign) in August, where we will be able to reflect and make so much sense of it all. For now, Mercury is receiving all information and is 'impressed' and 'imprinted' with everything he connects with.
The Moon now in Pisces, makes a conjunction to Saturn in a closing phase. There is an ending and a beginning in this conjunction. All the impressions and felt senses of the Moon since it last made this aspect to Saturn, are under the microscope of Saturn. What has the Moon learned and how has the Moon grown? Saturn is softened, all his hard edges watered, and he is more sensitive to the Moon while in Pisces; open to receiving and listening. Perhaps without knowing it, Saturn is learning and growing also. It's always a two way street whether the greater appearing planet knows this or not. Can Saturn soften and open enough to receive what is needed? He must learn to let go also; be dissolved of his need to control everything. Every parent must also learn and grow. This is what it means to have children. We take responsibility for ensuring safety and education in the ways of the world and by example, help a child to know how to step into maturity and to become a grown up. Then at some point, there's a moment and a knowing that the child is safe enough to step into it's own adult self. Being a parent is a journey of becoming, just as surely as any other journey.
The Moon then makes a sextile to Uranus in Taurus. Change is coming; brewing. The Moon Feels the connection to an electricity that is potent and exciting. This Moon in Pisces, Dreams of Change and New Journeys in New Lands, where Innovation and Evolution calls. The Moon is pulled into the electrical field of Uranus; all potential, possibilities and future oriented.
Next, the Moon makes a sextile to Mercury who started the day with its own powerful experience with Uranus. The Moon is excited and imprinted with all the impressions and information that Mercury carries. They will meet in Gemini next week at 5 degrees, just hours before the New Moon conjunction with the Sun on May 6th. The timing of this seems synchronous with all the Change, and the Moon is pulled into electro magnetic alignment with the way things are headed. Personally, as the Moon, it would be prudent to align with your own values and create the journey in harmony with that. This is the Taurus field and the Baby in the Bathwater; the memories of what is important to re-connect with, like 'original values' and a reconnection to the authenticity of who we truly are (Aries eclipse/Chiron healing and teaching, the Mercury retrograde in Aries, Mars in Aries and the North Node which is where the future intention is focused). As we move into the future, remember the baby, the authenticity of you, and let the rest fall away. The storm will remove it anyway.
Synchronously now, the Moon makes a conjunction (an ending and a new beginning) with Neptune. Neptune has the very last say as the gatekeeper between the past and the future. We make our Bridge here. The Moon becomes as One with Neptune. My feeling here is that as the Moon, we get to feel and see and sense and become aware of ... all the ways of how illusion has held our attention, and the deceptive imagery that has pulled our subjective self into false illusionary reality. This is the past. As this process unfolds, we recover the treasure that lays deep in the Neptunian waters of the personal unconscious/the collective unconscious. This is also the Baby. Then, we visualise and reconnect with the Self; who we are authentically at the centre of it all. We are disillusioned, we are rinsed, and our true vision returns. We see the Bridge and step toward a New Beginning, as Aries (the authentic Self).
The Moon enters Aries in the early hours of the nighttime. DREAMS. In our beginning is our end and in our end, our beginning. This has been the story of the day. We end where we began, and we begin from there.
I can hardly express, just how deep and powerful and transformative, this day has been and will be.
Until tomorrow, Much Love
Amanda
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