LIBRA NEW MOON 2020
The New Moon is at 23 Libra on 16 October at 3:30 PM EST.
Libra is a Venus-ruled cardinal air sign.
It is the first sign above the horizon of the chart. The first five signs of the zodiac are more self centered — building a way to be safe an operate at a baseline in the world. Virgo is a transitional
Archetype – preparing, refining, rearranging the self that has been built up to put on its “public face” for the first time.
In Libra we start to see what kind of self others have created and to observe our reactions to them. We compare ourselves to the other to see what we may or may not want to adopt as our own. That is why Libra is such a visual, as well as mental sign.
We look at others and may be struck by their beauty, the way they carry themselves, the way they dress.
It may seem superficial, but the colors, the flow, the smells, and sounds can all be deeply affecting. The initial attraction may indicate whether we feel safe enough to approach.
We learn, as we go out in the world, to see if people are as they appear. Perhaps what appears to be a sheep is really a wolf wearing a fleece who is looking for an easy meal.
Appearances and realities matter in nature and they matter to us humans.
Venus may or may not like what it sees, and we may make some adjustments to our own public face in response or reaction. If a person speaks in a rough or coarse way, we observe others joining the ruckus or turning away. We see the effects of appearances and behaviors.
The person who does not bathe may become repellent.
The person who wears high heels on a hike may struggle with the terrain. I give high relief examples here, but in Libra we learn to refine behavior and appearances in reaction to what we perceive to be working for others. We observe and adjust… or not.
We have, at this new Moon, Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, dipping back into Libra before forward motion is resumed on 2 November.
Mars is still retrograde in Aries until 13 November.
Mercury in Scorpio retrograde while the sun is in Libra will be looking beneath those outer appearances for the motivation behind the public façade, the pretty/not so pretty speeches - the result of actions of those observed on the world stage.
Many people are in varying degrees of isolation, observing through a variety of screens. We have time to see/feel how the appearances and actions of others affect our mood, our nerves and our own self perception.
Mars is the foot soldier of Pluto. Mars is retrograde in Aries opposing the Sun/Moon. We are seeing outward evidence of our internal power surges. Our energy field is being attracted to what is going on around us – at work, at home, politically.
Oppositions ask us to look at how events and emotions evoked by the outer are affecting how we feel and behave. That is why making healthy responses to life’s challenges an integrated part of our muscle memory is so key right now. Making a habit of helpful responses and reactions is not only possible it is necessary for our well being.
Mars is squaring Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn at the new Moon making what is happening on the outer feel very personal. The beasts that are roaming the world at large are very real in an instinctual level to Mars. This is important to note, because Mars retrograde in Aries will shoot that beast and drag it back to its lair. Mars retrograde in Aries will skin it, dry it, eat it, and make a coat out of it. So we had better be willing to get cozy with the ideas, the rules, the fears, the power struggles, and the actions that we are engaging with and bringing home with us just now.
Mercury is retrograde in Pluto-ruled Scorpio. The insight granted in Mercury retrograde can align with the revelation about how we have been spending our energy, our life force and our motivation with Mars retrograde.

ARIES FULL MOON 2020
The Full Moon on 1 October is at 9 degrees Aries at 5:05 PM EST.
Aries’ ruler, Mars is currently retrograde in Aries. It will continue retrograde motion until 14 November.
Jupiter and Saturn have resumed forward motion in Capricorn, releasing some optimism and authority from the depths of the psyche into the outer.
Chiron, the wounded healer, is conjunct this first of two full moons in October.
We can help to heal from the place we have been most wounded. Even if we meet others who don’t share the same wounds, we can have compassion for others’ pains as we have had our own version of them.
Aries is a fire sign that rules the head. Aries is also pure vitality and unbridled life force. It is the first sign of the zodiac. It has a Cardinal, initiatory energy. This can be a more internal Martial/Martian energy with the retrograde. There is a welling up from within of vital life force that wants to emerge.
Any kind of moving meditation can be helpful at this full moon – walking meditation, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, sound meditations that can clear and invigorate the mind and the skull that encases it.
Some may feel they could implode with the internal nature of the Mars retrograde full Moon, so letting energy out through the limbs and the voice can be beneficial. Watch out for anger turned inward and instead find helpful ways to move the energy.
Saturn, now direct, and Pluto, which goes direct on 5 October, are square the full moon. Squares are the internal grist for the mill of growth, change, initiation and new beginning. In Capricorn, the planets of authority/structure and power/evolution continue to ask for us to assume personal authority and to evolve the way we use/assert our power.
While the year has an air of restriction, confinement, and reflection, it has, too, great demonstrations of restructuring and assertion.
We are opening up in many ways where things had been sublimated and painted over.
The veneer cracks to reveal more levels of yellowed varnish, then a layer of paint, then wallpaper we never knew was there. When will we be stripped back to the bare wood? We might need a bigger sander.😊
Revealing and refinishing lifetimes worth of hardened habits and beliefs doesn’t happen overnight.
We need to chip away, taking lots of coffee breaks and rubbing scream into sore hands.
We may want to chuck the whole project at times. That’s when we take a walk and let a friend do some sanding for a while.
The Sun is now in Libra, a Cardinal Air sign. Libra is the first of the relationship signs. We learn how and who we want to be by watching and engaging with others. If we share the load, or watch others’ approaches to problem resolution, politics, personal development or health, we may find new/ different avenues that could work for us. Engaging with new ways and ideas broadens our world, helps with understanding, and increases cooperation. It helps us to see “yes I want to be like them, or no, I don’t want to proceed like that person.”
This is the energy of Libra. Libra is Venus-ruled and it runs the yes/no/maybe of how we want to relate and who we want to be WHEN we relate— through the mind.
Aries is the fire of the head and Libra is a cool breeze lifting up and informing what is going on inside the noggin.
Aries leads the charge and Libra is seeing what its comrades and what its opponents are up to so it can learn some new tactics and strategies.
Mercury turns retrograde in Scorpio in October 14th, so a review of the power of our words and the words of those we choose to listen to will be interesting and transformative. Choosing the information we attend to and repeat is more important than ever. To speak what is true and desired gives direction to our thoughts.
Tides of all kinds are turning. Marshalling of energy and being conscious of how that energy is spent, and with whom are paramount at this full Aries Moon with Sun in Libra.
Trust and be informed by the the instincts. Learn about others by observing their actions and correlating what that means about what they stand for. It will help to refine, then, what we, the observers, are made of and how we want to proceed.
Love, Lydia
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VIRGO NEW MOON
This New Moon takes place on 17 September 2020 at 7:00 Am EST at 25 degrees Virgo. Virgo is a mutable earth sign ruled by Mercury.
Virgo is in charge of work, health, daily routine and service. Virgo is fun-loving and is so good at time management, it knows how to make time for fun. Virgo knows that work is service and work is live in action – regardless of the task, it can be attended to with reverence. A Virgo new Moon is a good time for an attitude check/adjustment on our lives, how we spend our time, and how we feel about how we are spending/giving our time. It’s a good time to look at the direction of our thoughts since our actions will often follow those thoughts.😊 Mercury is currently in Libra, so making peace with our thoughts and living the words that are flowing through our minds and out of our mouths is especially beneficial.
Jupiter in Capricorn has now gone direct and some feelings of expansion and optimism are being expressed, coming out of the subconscious into the light. It’s a good time to expand and act on ideas that may have been back burnered since springtime. Jupiter is still traveling through Capricorn along with retrograde Saturn and Pluto.
The New Moon makes an Earth trine to all three of them.
So we can dig deep to expand on our expression of personal power and authority. We can expand and fill up the space on our lives that has been made by isolation, less in person socializing, and a decrease in general restless errands and running around.
The three Capricorn planets also square retrograde Mars in Aries. The structure of everything we know is up for review – nature, government, our personal authority, work, daily life, family operations. Everything.
Mars in Aries wants to get on with it. Retrograde Mars in Aries needs to find a way to befriend its inner fire and instinctual life force. It needs to physically balance that inner fire with the whole physical system. It needs to be the strong composed warrior who is preparing for future engagement. That warrior is strengthening and calming disciplining its mind. It is tending to the strength and feeding of its body. It is honing it’s intellectual skills of reasoning, problem solving and decisiveness.
The warrior at rest is honing it’s skills. It is keeping its uniform in good condition. It is tending to the tools of its particular trade and sharpening its skills. This is a good use of Mars retrograde energy.
The warrior’s pack is filled with food that will last a while and with clothing and coverings suitable to the season.
This list is a metaphor for being skillful, and for being prepared. Virgos are skillful, practical, adaptable, and prepared. It is also a recommendation to have a bag in the car and in a closet by the door to grab and go should the need arise.
The warrior is working on knowing how to marshal and process it’s emotions.
The warrior has made peace with itself and it’s Maker, understanding better than most that no one gets out of this Earth experience alive. When one has made peace with oneself and ones Maker, however that Maker is perceived, one is free to live in freedom, strength and confidence.
The warrior at camp is also tending to the development and nurture of relations with community members and companions. It is learning to quiet the mind so that it can be ready to act, to serve, when the time is right.
The Capricorn energy of Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter is a lot about timing.
Mars retrograde needs to learn the very important lesson of cooling ones own jets so that energy is available at the right time.
Jupiter squares Virgo’s ruler, Mercury, now in Libra at the New Moon. This can give rise to some new ideas. It can also illuminate understanding of ourselves through our ways of relating with others. The Jupiter/Mercury square can also help us to refine our daily routines so that they work better for us.
Virgo is a mutable sign. It is constantly finding ways to adapt to changes of all kinds. Virgo has the ability to see the new and different patterns in all aspects of life as things shift and evolve. Virgo can pivot in 3D and in real time. So with a clear head and an eye for the most efficient and health-filled way forward, we proceed with our dreams hopes wishes desires and our daily routines.
Much love to you all.
Lydia
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PISCES FULL MOON 2020
The full Moon is at 10 degrees Pisces is at 1:21 AM EST on September 2, 2020.
The Virgo/Pisces axis invites us to bring the dreams and visions into the every day.
Pisces helps us to calibrate our vibration to that which we would like to attract into our lives, minds and heart.
Virgo helps us to do a mental and physical housecleaning to make room for the dreams and visions to manifest.
Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto retrograde in Capricorn remind us of where we may have wanted to go, how we had considered wanting things to unfold, and how we may have reframed our dreams, wishes, hopes, and desires to match how we have grown, changed, and evolved. We can then start vibrating in time with our updated/upgraded visions for our time here on Earth.
Recent circumstances may have helped to refine what is important to us.
Mars in its home sign of Aries is square to retrograde Saturn in its home sign of Capricorn. These planets in cardinal signs want to find a new start. They want to restructure. There is a lot of pent up energy after months of being indoors, isolating, masked, reframing the whole way we work, socialize and even walk out the door.
Explosive energy is observed on the inner and the outer. At the time of the Pisces full Moon we can look at ways to transmute the frustration, fear, and grief that’s coursing through societal and personal systems.
On September 10th, Mars will begin a retrograde period. The vital energies will gain an inward focus. We will have a choice to nurture our instinctual drive as a fire in the belly that is growing toward a purposeful expression. Mars will resume forward motion on 14 November. It will be a time to martial inner reserves of energy in lieu of waging inner battles.
It is time to act as water flowing down as snow melts in springtime. When it comes to rock it flows around it.
It is time to find the your flow – less the Mars like bulldozer and more the Neptunian water flowing downstream… finding its way naturally down and around. The water still show the rock who is boss by wearing it down over time.
Destructive floods only come when there is a back up.
If we keep the flow moving with ease, it is more like having good feelings on tap - - a tap that can be adjusted and regulated.
It may seem like outside forces and authorities are in charge. When we can retreat – very Pisces – think monastery not prison — we can go within for the bigger picture and for guidance to see what comes next.
Remember, Pisces holds all of the energy of ALL of the signs. It is the 12th sign of the Zodiac.
So that means it has the embodiment of Aries and of Capricorn and Cancer and all of the signs the other planets are currently transiting. This is why the Pisces full Moon is so powerful. Going within and letting all of the puzzle pieces fall into place with wisdom and grace and ease is the most powerful action that can be embodied at this time.
The Pisces Full Moon helps us to look for spaces where grace flows in, illuminating the silver linings already present.
The Sun in Virgo helps us to find ways to transmute unhelpful patterns of thinking to forward-thinking ones. Virgo helps us to look for and to choose to pick up useful tools and daily habits. Virgo helps us to find a clear path to more suitable ways to work and to serve.
The Pisces full Moon may want to drown its sorrows in the usual suspects – distractions, diversions, and/or self-prescribed mood changers.
We can align with the full Moon to illuminate spots that need love, attention and transformation. Pisces’ ruler, Neptune, is widely conjunct the full Moon, amplifying the deep and transformative energy available at this time.
Venus in Cancer opposes retrograde Saturn in Capricorn at the full Moon.
We can balance our emotional body by making structures and routines that add to comfort and a sense of security.
Venus is square to Mars inviting us to examine our motivations and impulses and the emotions that accompany what we’ve done, what we aren’t doing, and what we may like to do.
We can find new ways to join with others and to unite our emotional bodies with our actions and reactions.
On 6 September Venus enters Leo. Finding new and creative ways to engage the vital life force for our own fulfillment and, in turn, the fulfillment of others will be a great way to channel the Mars retrograde internal furnace.
Mercury, ruler of Virgo, enters Libra on 6 September, inviting us to look at new ways to engage with others and to relate to them in a way that teaches us new things about ourselves.
Virgo Sun wants to go out with the old to make the best use of what we have chosen to keep. The Pisces Moon wants to give a luminescent sheen to our days and nights- to make the every day feel magical.
The illumination, reverence and even glorification of the every day is possible by practicing continuous engagement in the present, lovable, glorious moment. This moment is all the eternity we have.
Much love, Lydia
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LEO NEW MOON 2020
Conscious Creation is in Our Hands

We have a new Moon at 26 degrees Leo on August 18 at 10:41 PM EST. We have an opportunity for a reunion of the heart.
We can find our inner light and makes friends with it once again. Creative self expression is key with firey Leo. New inroads to our own way of being can be initiated and made habit here.
When the Sun moves into Virgo on 23 August, the daily relationship with our creative selves is on the way to being a nourishing habit, as Virgo rules daily life, good orderly direction.
On 23 August Mars in Aries will square Saturn in Capricorn. The Cardinal axis likes to begin and then step back and have a look. Mars in Aries charges ahead, head first! And Saturn has a look at what has been created so far.
On August 24, Venus in Cancer opposes Jupiter in Capricorn. Again, the Cardinal axis jumps in and then has a look at what it has created. How we emote in relation to what we love, how we relate, and how we create will be expanded by Jupiter so we can have a look.
We now have Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto retrograde. This is an inside job. This is an opportunity to apply the heart, mind, time and power to recreation, to evolution, to full embodiment our our truest Selves.
This can illuminate us and radiate outward a love that helps, heals and transforms.
How are we doing with friends and lovers and family? How are we holding ourselves emotionally in the personal realm vs the world at large? Where can we take a step back when things heat up? How can we increase the care in our communication— both with ourselves and with others?
How can we trust our intuition to know when to engage and when to relax on our own to enjoy the experience of our own energetic field?
On 1 September Venus in Cancer will oppose Saturn in Capricorn. We can see how we are doing in regard to the structure of our relationships- with whom and how much energy do we spend our time?
I am hearing a lot from friends and clients about how the fabric of relationships is been stretched, stitched, mended, up cycled or sent to recycling during these times.
Leo New Moon is definitely an “I” centered moment to bask in the sunshine of our own creative lives, and to tune in to what enhances that creation and what distracts or diverts or even discourages us from it.
Leo is a fire sign that relishes creative self expression. What we create is anything from dinner to children to a new coop for the chickens.
This new Moon could involve a meditation where we imagine the Sun as outward expression and the moon of inner expression meeting in the Solar Plexus, the Third Chakra and resting in the golden light that resides within. Allow the Sun and Moon to come into vibrational harmony with one another. This could include a conversation between the two about how and what we want to create. It could include a road trip that our emotional and personality bodies take together learning more about each other on the way.
One could go within, in meditation, inviting the Sun and Moon in LEO to be present. One could ask them to show what it is they have to tell us about our personal creative self expression that would most benefit our fulfillment and union with the Source of all that is.
Let it be a journey across a World known or unknown; a conversation with your inner Sun and Moon while lying on any beach anywhere while you see a swaying palm, guiding you into an even more relaxed place.
Let the imagination guide the meditation and allow yourself to come back refreshed and revitalized, knowing this union of Sun and Moon in Leo is available at any time to fuel your creativity and relationship with the Self.
Okay, May the heart be your guide. Be true to that heart. It beats for thee.
Lots of love, Lydia 🦁
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AQUARIUS FULL MOON 2020
EUREKA!
The Full Aquarius Moon is at 11 degrees 45 minutes at 5:58 AM EST on 3 August, 2020.
The Sun then, is at the same degree Leo.
Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, in Taurus is making a T- Square to the Sun and Moon. The empty leg of the T-Square is Scorpio. Scorpio as the empty leg of the T-Square calls us to engage with others – sharing resources and information in new ways.
Venus, ruler of Taurus, is conjunct the North Node at 26 degrees Gemini. We are asked to have a mature look at how we value ourselves and others through self talk and how we communicate with others.
With the Sun in Leo, the way we are able to creatively express as individuals with love for the collective is highlighted here. Keep an eye on what makes you feel radiant and open hearted. The Sun of Leo shines on all and can shine its rays with exuberance and generosity.
We may feel electrified. We may feel jangled. It can be fun to align with the electricity with a feeling of excitement, welcome and anticipation.
The Uranian energy of the full Moon reminds us to ground any excess energy so that the new information that is downloaded can link with associated subconscious memories.
Uranus rules the individuated unconscious. Uranus will begin retrograde motion on August 15th which will increase the ability to link with our own unconscious and work with what is revealed.
Uranus/Aquarius’ role is to speed up evolution and liberation from conditioning that has been ingrained over lifetimes. The upcoming Uranus retrograde cycle may pick up the thread dangled in the form of lightning at this full Moon. Keep an eye out for reactions/responses that may be conditioned habits rather than authentic interactions coming from one’s own being in the here and now.
The Aquarius full Moon can shake us awake, and the upcoming Uranus retrograde can reveal where liberation from conditioning – familial, genetic, nationalistic, cultural, religious is called for. The liberation is called for by the Soul that wants to evolve.
The union of Leo and Aquarius can make for some very creative solutions to questions we’ve been holding.
Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, in Taurus will ask us to walk the knife edge between security, routine, and the revolutionary.
Taurus can roll with change when it becomes accustomed to new routines and ways of doing things – especially if Taurus agrees that the changes are practical — especially if they enhance safety and security.
Mercury, the lower octave of Uranus, is in Cancer opposing Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn
At the full Moon. The ways we use our words of power and actions of authority is under reconstruction with Saturn and Pluto retrograde.
How can our thoughts and words help and heal and soothe this world as it is under massive renovation. Mars in Aries will square retrograde Jupiter in Capricorn on 4 August.
If we continue to ground during this time -- imagine roots coming from the feet being nourished by the Earth-- we can invite the intuitive, structured wisdom of Jupiter to inform the instinctual drive of Mars to make some exciting new pathways in our minds, in our hearts and in the physical body.
At this time, everyone on the planet has been learning new habits of communication, of personal hygiene, of daily routine. Mars loves to join the march, so be sure to engage the higher wisdom and the healthy instincts of the body when choosing where to enlist the energy of the day.
The Jupiter/Mars square can be used to make great new useful and healthy habits instinctual and kinesthetic.
Then we can move on to developing even bigger ideas, plans and projects.
We are in creative, inspired, evolutionary times.
See where that which we love to create can join with the needs of the whole as we roll into the new life.
All the very best,
Lydia
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CANCER NEW MOON NUMBER TWO 2020
Sometimes we will have a new or full moon in the same sign when the first one is very early in the sign and the other very late. We had the first Cancer new Moon on June 20th at 0 degrees.
This second Cancer new moon, is at 28 degrees Cancer on July 20th at 1:32 PM EMT.
Very shortly after that, the Sun will move into Leo.
Th water of Cancer and the fire of Leo make for a steamy new Moon. It’s great to imagine the evaporation, with the steam, of old emotional habits and sticky entanglements. This new Moon has an element of a deep steam clean.
We’ve done so much emotional work through this last cycle of eclipses and two Cancer new Moons sandwiching the Capricorn full Moon.
It’s time to let the old resentments, reactions and hurts float away and to allow the creative freedom to flow in.
The release of emotions that no longer serve us welcomes in the desire to creatively self express that comes with Leo.
We have the Sun/Moon opposition to Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn in Capricorn.
Cancer is learning how to be guided by its emotional body, but not to be overwhelmed by its emotional body.
The polarity to Saturn- ruled Capricorn- asks us to be guided by our emotions to greater strength, better boundaries, new ways of working, and an increased willingness to step into our own personal authority.
Cancer is where we “come from,” our family of origin and our home of homes in our hearts and souls.
Capricorn is who we are, as adults on the stage of the world. How do we make our mark? What makes us an authority, an experienced person in our field(s)?
Who do we look to as mentors and guides?
How do we mentor and guide others without falling into the trap of gurudom or despotism?
How do we examine the structure of authority in the world around us — be it at the family dinner table or on the corporate or political stage — and determine where we can take responsibility. Where can we take responsibility for our own reactions, our own fears (Capricorn rules fear), our own apathy, frustration, or our own willingness to embody what we feel is right?
Cancer is very much in the realm of the self. The evolution of the soul is guided by the moon, and by the emotions. The soul wants to individuate and embody an ever greater sense of personal authority.
Some of us may be scanning the horizon for the grown up who is going to take the current global situation in hand and offer guidance, hold our hands and offer reassuring words and magical, normalizing solutions.
Then I, for one, remember, No one is swooping in to say they will fix it for all of us. Don’t worry, this is all just a dream.
On one level all of the life experience can be construed a dream. Dreaming, with Pisces retrograde in Pisces, is appropriate on the visioning a new world level.
On the wake up level, we are being given an opportunity. As no one is rescuing us damsels from the tower, we all need to contribute ways through and into a new way of being.
We each have abilities, experience, knowledge, and awarenesses that can contribute to ways through our current situation.
This is where the Moon zipping right into Leo, with the Sun following on 22 July comes in.
Creative self-expression is Leo’s milieu.
When we meditate, write, and brainstorm, we open ourselves to ways forward and through, the ideas do come.
And as I’ll address at the next full Moon - Aquarius’ polarity to Leo asks us to come up with creative ways to go onward that will benefit the good of the whole.
So, at this new Moon in Cancer, we can breathe, relax, dip a toe in some water and gaze deeply into our inner pool.
We can ask our inner self, our higher self, not just who do I want to be, but how do I want to be?
How do I want to embody my suited and booted grown up self (yes I know, we are all still in our jim jams or bathing suits – but you know ). How do I want to feel as I navigate this earth plane as a fully- fledged adult embodying my ever-evolving authority and my ever more rich and safely held emotional body?
What step can I take today to be the embodiment of my richest (I’m not necessarily talking money here) self? My most relaxed self, my most at ease self? My most in tune self? Coming from an awareness of these feelings will net coherent results. We can walk forward as an integrated person, where no piece of the puzzle is left behind or lost or unincorporated.
It’s time to coalesce. It is time to assume the identity that we have been tailor making for ourselves in this life and perhaps have been building over multiple life times.
Now is the time and we are the ones. We chose to embody at this time so we are the ones to acknowledge our personal presence and that of our fellow travelers.
You may have noticed that some of our beloved fellow travelers are continuing their evolution from the other side of the veil.
They are no less with us, though we may sorely miss their physical presence.
I will choose to admit that I may not be fully cooked. I am aiming to be fully present. I am going to commit to the structure that my life is becoming that will enable me to share what I’ve learned, how I’ve felt, and what I’ve done so that I can continue to contribute to the puzzle we are all filling in together.
Much love
Lydia
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CAPRICORN FULL MOON ECLIPSE JULY 2020
Pick your battles

The Full Moon Eclipse is at 13degrees Capricorn at 12:44 AM EST on 5 July, 2020.
Jupiter and Pluto are conjunct at 23 degrees Capricorn. Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn, is their neighbor at 29 degrees Capricorn.
The lineup opposes the Sun at 13 degrees Cancer. In Evolutionary Astrology we use wide orbs.
Uranus at 10 degrees Taurus is trining the Capricorn planets and sextiling the Moon and Mercury, who is retrograde at 7 Cancer. Mercury resumes forward motion on 12 July.
Mars at 4 degrees Aries is making a Cardinal square to the Sun, Moon and Mercury.
We are. Ring asked to begin and begin again. Cardinal energy has a two steps forward, one step back dance. We begin, we review, we readjust, and we resume forward motion. We stop along the trail, adjust the backpack, jettison what we don’t need after all, on this journey, and get moving again.
Full moons bring things to fruition. This one is also the last in a three-eclipse cycle that will affect at least the next six months.
The signature of Cancer is management of the emotional body. Typically it is the personal emotional body for which we become increasingly more responsible, or the pain caused by not taking responsibility increases.
The hermit crab, when the old house on its back begins to chafe, migrates to a new, better fitting house. We can shed emotional patterns that have begun to chafe at this time. Maybe they’ve been chafing so much, for so long, we have some scars. This makes it even a better time to move to emotional practices that work better for us.
Capricorn gives us the lesson of responsibility. In Capricorn we realized the limits of our personal authority and we may want to empower ourselves to increase our personal authority. Is this starting to sound like a current theme on the inner and the outer?
Typically, the Capricorn/Cancer axis represents the father/mother energy. There comes a time in the individuation process, that we can no longer simply look to our parental figures - government, corporations, schools, actual parents for how to navigate our lives - for how to behave. We must become the adult and bewill empower the individual and the collective.
With Pluto and Jupiter involved, especially, the intention is to expand our power and to take ownership of that increased power — like getting a superhero suit and experimenting with all of the cool stuff it allows us to demonstrate in the world.
Getting familiar with our own, bespoke superhero suits would be a fun exercise this full Moon.
We embodied this time to build and wear these suits that allow us to embody our own, personalized abilities, strengths and gifts.
This suit puts all of them in a package together to be utilized for the greatest evolution and service to the self and to the whole.
When we start to fully embody the truth of who we are, we may find some surprise features - strengthens and abilities that we didn’t even know we had.
These are a by-product, a bonus, that comes with the steps toward engagement and empowerment.
When we move into the fullness of life on all levels, life will move more and more in harmony with us.
May this full Moon continue to reveal the truth of who we are, the empowerment of the fullness of our being – on the individual and the collective level — for the good of all.
Love, Lydia
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CANCER NEW MOON SOLAR ECLIPSE
First of all, Happy Solstice!
The wheel of the year continues to turn.
The New Moon Solar eclipse is at 2:41 EST on June 21, 2020 at 00 degrees 21 minutes Cancer.
Zero degrees of any dig in a chart is particularly potent.
We have the opportunity to commune with, and heal our emotional body at this new Moon.
When the Moon is new, she is not visible to us. This can cause us to feel bereft.
We may feel a bit lost, and the remedy is to go within and commune with the eternal light of the hearth/heart within.
My own mother moved on to the wider realms this past week, so this Cancer new Moon is especially poignant for me.
We have all been asked, on the individual and as a collective, to find ways to calm and soothe the emotional body as the events in the world have unfolded.
We all have the baseline of the pandemic. The energy of ecological shifts and social revolution have been added to the experience.
On the individual level, life has proceeded – changes in career, in fortune. We have experienced births and deaths and the change from one season to the next.
We are human animals and all of these experiences call us to find ways to adapt and cope and soothe the emotional body so that we can carry on, and so that we can participate in the evolution that is under way.
The Moon, which is Cancer’s ruling body, leads the way.
It is useful to know where your Moon is in your natal chart to become familiar with how you experienced and process emotions. This is what leads us in the life journey.
At the moment, we have Mercury retrograde at 14 degrees Cancer. Old words or ideas may come back to haunt us. If they do, they have come back to enlighten and heal us, and to remind us that we have dominion over our own thoughts and feelings. How we felt about a conversation held years ago may be released.
The way to move forward is to give the mind and heart new and encouraging words, thoughts and feelings that invite us to start again in the way we wish to move forward.
Make a new dish that is inviting and delicious that you want to devour.
No more ruminating on the whys and wherefores of old conversations.
Proclaim it healed and invite in a new vocabulary and a new mindset that soothes the spirit. Give yourself permission.
The Cancer/Capricorn axis asks us to take up the mantle of our own authority and to be responsible for our own emotional bodies.
Venus is retrograde at 5 Gemini and will resume forward motion on 25 June.
As Cancer Moon is early home life and Gemini is our siblings, it’s possible that the family history could be up for review and healing. Secrets may be revealed.
Neptune, the higher octave of Venus will go retrograde on June 22 at 20 degrees Pisces. Saturn and Jupiter continue their retrograde motion.
A quincunx with the Sun, Moon in Cancer, and Saturn at 0 degrees Aquarius, will be a wild card asking for attention to how we experience and react to and process events involving authority and institutions.
Taking a vacation from social media and news at this time will be beneficial. The call is to the within, to examine what is true through the lens of our own inner authority.
The wheel of the year is turning. Our days in the Northern Hemisphere are now shortening, and the Antipodeans get to see the increase of the light. Many blessings to us all, in every realm and in every state of being.
May we feel love, May we feel compassion, May we experience ever deepening understanding. And as we experience a greater unfoldment, we will radiate these qualities to all.
Much love, Lydia
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TIME FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE
SAGITTARIUS FULL MOON AND LUNAR ECLIPSE

We have the first of three eclipses in this twice annual eclipse cycle.
The full moon is at 15 degrees Sagittarius at 3:12 PM EST.
This eclipse cycle features two Lunar eclipses with a solar eclipse in between. This happens from time to time.
Eclipses affect the group, the community, those in authority, and the leaders, if we can identify them. They initiate energy for the next six months.
Mars in Pisces squares the Sun at this full Moon. Mars in Pisces connects us to our very souls on a visceral level. Actions and words may ease some tension but true union and interaction with the inner Self is the only thing that will steady and satisfy our inner fires.
Venus retrograde at 12 degrees Gemini is conjunct the Sun. The Venus, then also squares Mars. Venus retrograde in Gemini guides us to ways to review our self talk – how do we feed ourselves with care, love and the value we want and need?
It is a journey, Life, that we share with others. But it is in the quiet of the first morning light and how we greet ourselves on return from our nighttime sojourns in the cosmic pool that indicate the direction of self care.
Starting the day with a good morning to the self and then to our surrounding nature, pets, plants and partners is a good practice during the Venus retrograde in Gemini.
If we treat ourselves with care and consideration, the care and consideration will radiate outward to all we encounter in the course of the day — on all levels – physical, emotional, mental.
Gemini Sun wants information. Sagittarius Full Moon wants to find the Truth in that information. It wants to synthesize that information into a worldview that makes sense.
Sagittarius energy is learning to hold a piece of information and run it through the lens of its intuition. Does that feel true to me? Can I add that piece of information to others I am holding in my consciousness to make a cohesive story?
Telling a truth from a lie is part of the business Sagittarius/Gemini axis.
The North Node in Gemini is widely conjunct the Sun at the full Moon. We are asked to use experience, intuition and maturity when picking up, evaluating and sharing pieces of information.
We ask if it is helpful, is it true, does it advance the evolution of my consciousness and the consciousness of others who may see it and take it on board?
Saturn, presently retrograde at 1 degree of Aquarius is ready for a transformation in the structure of society and authority. We are experiencing this now.
We examine the information we see and evaluate ourselves to reveal and work through and release prejudices — we all have some.
We look at what is True with the full Moon eclipse in Sagittarius opposing Sun in Gemini.
Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, is squaring Saturn. Uranus, currently in Taurus, is the higher Mind asking us to value and care about information that is circulating in “the Field” of human awareness.
Uranus rules Aquarius – the sign of community, of equality, without small-minded compartmentalization.
Uranus is the larger mind, the Higher Mind, the detached mind that doesn’t have time for, or interest in, preferences or prejudices. Uranus knows what it’s like to be cast out and Aquarius wants equality.
In Taurus, Uranus asks us to value and care for all in a level playing field. Revolution ensues when Saturn enters Aquarius and the old authorities with their death grip on power are met with those who want to love all and serve all.
We are experiencing a round of this call to action and reformation.
Taurus rules the throat. It rules the throat. Uranus in Taurus and Taurus rules the throat. The current wave of the Civil Rights Movement was inflamed when George Floyd was lynched by a boot on his fifth chakra – Taurus.
This brought on a global, unifying outcry – Uranus.
We need to have a clear fifth chakra to breathe and to speak. Taurus is ruled by Venus and Venus is about Love. Venus is also about safety and value of the self. Venus is conjunct the Sun at this full Moon eclipse. Engagement with the retrograde Venus can mean sending healing to everyone who has been silenced, breath cut off, life cut short.
The color of the fifth chakra, the throat, is blue. Sending blue light to the throats of every being — forward and backward in time, starting with our own throats, is an action we can take to liberation, healing, freedom, unity.
We can speak up, speak out. We can admit what we know and what we don’t know. Gemini Sun wants to know more.
The Sagittarius polarity is about about Truth and Justice. We can shine a light on the lies and shine a light on the Truth. The Saturn dip into Aquarius says it’s time for the community of humans to gather for Truth and Justice.
We can Learn the Truth. Our intuition will guide us to information to enlighten and inform. We can share helpful information and we can support our friends who want to know more. Share what we learn. Share the love. 🖤 Black lives matter.🖤
Lots of love to everyone.
Lydia
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lydia@soulastro.com