The Sun ingresses from Aquarius into Pisces and makes a tight square to the first quarter moon during its waxing phase, a period of growth and externalization of spiritual energy. Six planets are in fixed signs and two are in mutable signs. Fixed signs finish things, yet mutable signs edit things. There is a predominance in air signs, showing us the collective need to connect and share new information with others. The Moon will be searching for answers and will be curious to find new avenues of knowledge and connectivity with the immediate environment.
Moon in Gemini at a Critical Degree: Searching for True Meaning
First quarter moons are minor crisis points, challenges to the creative manifestation of one’s psychic energies. In the sign of Gemini, which is ruled by Mercury (it’s still in retrograde, by the way), one’s focus centers on experimenting and thinking about higher solutions (Mercury in 9th sign from the Moon) to life problems. It’s in the first degree. There is a pure expression of the sign. It’s a time to take some action towards new ideas and inspirations, to search for things that will give you more meaning and general “fun” in life. Saturn is powerful. In times like these, life can feel like a monotonous and repetitive drain on one’s life force (opposite the Sun/Moon in original zodiac).
This is a good time period to start journaling and writing down your ideas for what you want the near future to look like. Separate yourself from what madness has possessed people on the collective sphere.
Because the Moon is so close to Rahu/North Node, it shows us that we must use this time to make decisions about what information, data, facts and “news” we allow into our consciousness and what we avoid.
Pluto aspects Moon from the 8th sign, which is a double indicator of transforming emotional indecision by externally expressing one’s mental energies in some way: writing or speaking to someone, etc.
The lord of the Sun in Pisces is Jupiter in the 12th Sign
There is a lot of 12th house/sign emphasis happening during this lunar phase, which represents the undoing of the very nature or qualities of the current sign. Aquarius represents collective action and being duty-bound in the world. This takes away from Pisces, which is about moving beyond the world into the non-material realms of pure unbounded awareness. The lord of the Gemini is Mercury, situated in the 12th house from the Sun and in retrograde status, conjoined with two benefics (both in neutral dignity) and a great malefic (in powerful dignity). This is a time to burden the sacrifices
As the Sun moves towards conjunction with Neptune, the individualized sense of self enters into the unknown, sublime collective space of pure transcended consciousness. Neptune dissolves and evolves anything it touches. The Sun, being the lord of ‘self’ and individuality, shows us a small window of opportunity for spiritual growth through self-sacrifice and the sublimation of personal identity. Pisces, being the 8th sign from the original zodiac that is governed by the Sun (Leo), shows us the transformation of identity by aligning with some higher divinity, principle or spiritual ideal. The Moon phase is occurring in the 12th from the original sign of the Moon, representing the uncoiling of emotional attachment through establishing clear ideas or thoughts that will add a layer of internal security for the coming month’s transit of Sun in Pisces.
