New Moon at 5 Taurus, 25 April 2009. I usually have trouble interpreting lunation charts. They usually don't speak to me and I end up falling back on generalisms and it's often not very satisfactory. This one is different. Having just looked at the chart I can see immediately a summary of the events in the UK this week - this is a text book new moon. I wish they were all this clear.
We start with a Taurus Sun Moon conjunction on the second house cusp. This is focusing on material wealth and, of course, it was in budget week. It’s trine to Pluto in the tenth house, the planet highest in the sky, and shows the fear and trepidation being propagated by the media. We don’t know who to trust, certainly don’t know who to trust with our money, and those in power don’t seem to be the same people we voted in. And that’s before we start to look at those in power who don’t even stand for election.Pluto is invisible, an unseen but very powerful force. This tenth house placement can symbolise both the actual individuals who are in power but can also be the situation itself. It’s bigger than us and we are subject to its whim. We have to deal with our situation and face up to the reality – Capricorn – of our predicament.
Taurus is a sign rooted in the real world. The new moon here bring a time when we can see the mess and begin to see what needs to be done. This is not a comfortable thing to do, we’re in deep do-do and we’ve got to reverse through the mess we’ve made – ably symbolised by Pluto staring down on us from on high.
As well as the Sun and Moon, we also have Mercury in Taurus and he’s square Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius. This is a stand off between ideas and physical reality, synthetic and natural and, in astrological terms, air and earth. It’s the tension between these two which underpins a lot of our current problems. It’s no use coming up with a great plan if it just doesn’t work like that in reality. Mercury moves quickly so this particular square will dissipate soon but the air/earth battle is reflected by the slower planets Jupiter and Neptune in Aquarius and Pluto in Capricorn and Saturn in Virgo even though they’re not in direct aspect.Saturn sits alone and unaspected on the descendant. Authority is isolated and without assistance.
So where are we with this now? Well Jupiter and Neptune will conjoin at the end of May and be close to conjunction for most of this year. These two planets together are not big on reality and are more than capable of creating their own virtual reality as they go. What is hopeful is that the Mercury aspect in this lunation hooks in a circuit breaker so they don’t get carried away with their own hot air. Mercury also has a sextile to the innovative planet Uranus. This allows an easy exchange of ideas, bringing together the unbounded genius of Pisces with the focus and grounding of Taurus.
Now this all sounds fairly optimistic – tough, but optimistic. The confounding variable is mars squaring pluto on 26th. This is an aspect which has a bad reputation and form to back it up. It is related to violence and tension but can also be extremely focused effort. The sign positions of the two planets points to a more favourable outcome. Mars is in its own sign of Aries and Pluto is in capricorn, the sign of mars’ exultation. These two understand each other, there may be tension but they’re working to the same agenda. The more violent expressions of this aspect seem to involve a lack of empathy between the two planets. It seems we have cause for hope. Lets hope the extreme exertion described is the London Marathon. Warm up thoroughly guys!
