LIBRA FULL MOON 2020

This Sun is currently in Aries, so our full Moon on 7 April at 10:35 PM EST is at 18 degrees Libra.
The polarity between Aries and Libra is a Cardinal trajectory. These two signs are beginners of things. Fiery Aries Sun, ruled by Mars, uses instinct to drive its way through situations. It is ruled by the head, and it butts it’s way, trusting it will make its way to the horn of the issue. Once there, it may sniff the air, crop the grass, and reassess what it has done so far.
Libra, an air sign, of the mind, is making its first forays into relationship. It is using relationship for reference and observation of others – to discern what it is itself, what it is not; what it does and does not want to become or experience itself.
Libra also will look for what it does not have in its own toolkit. It will observe who might have what it wants and make an alliance in order to procure it.
With a Libra full Moon, we may be looking outside of ourselves for emotional shoring up, support and reassurance we aren’t, at the moment, able to supply to ourselves.
We are experiencing and evolving new ways of being on our own, and new ways of being with others.
With the natural square of Aries and Libra to Cancer and Capricorn, ruled by the Moon and Saturn, respectively, we may be looking to shore up an area of the emotional body that has been historically weak, wounded, and perhaps affected by the authority/oppression by others.
At times of significant change and realignment like the ones we are now experiencing, attention to how we care for our emotional body is of primary importance.
All evolution starts with the moon, with the emotional body.
Attending now to how our instincts are guiding us, and how our searching for emotional succor is leading us, will guide us to ways to comfort and heal and rebuild our system on firmer and firmer ground.
The Full Moon/Sun are square to Pluto, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. The Pluto and Jupiter conjunction is in Capricorn. We experience expansion and contraction. We experience an enormous sea change in power, law and societal structure. Even the societal structure of the home is restructured, reconsidered. Our path to internal empowerment is being catalyzed from a place of external confinement.
Saturn and Mars are now in Aquarius. Aquarius holds the internet, the group mind. The ways we find to serve with our inspired ideas and physical energy, not just ourselves, but the greater whole, can enlighten whole societies.
My local community gardens usually grow food for and with our local Senior citizens. Now, the seniors are at home. The community gardeners are phoning the seniors, emailing them in their isolation, to offer comfort and to see what they might need.
That is adaptation. That is evolution. That is service.
The square of all four planets to the full Libra Moon rubs us from the inside like the follicle and the egg, causing internal stirring, fertilization, awakening, transformation/evolution.
This conjunction of Saturn/Pluto in Capricorn will be in orb for a good part of the year as we participate in a naturally ordained shut down of outmoded systems. The earth is taking a rest, giving the ground and air and water something more streamlined, efficient and sustainable.
That said, Saturn has, for now, moved into Aquarius where we are making new ways of being. The structures of society are for the common good. The commitment confinement and physical distance is for the good of people we may never meet or know. By confining ourselves to our homes, we could save their lives.
With Aquarius we are thinking of the greater good. In our isolation we are feeling the greater connection we have to all that is.
It is a good time to meditate alone but also to join group meditations online or just through the desire to connect.
We see the bigger picture of natural law and man made authority with Saturn in Aquarius. I might see some of the unfolding picture, and another sees another piece of the puzzle and when we join together the jigsaw puzzle pieces fall into place. We start to see the beautiful picture coming more clearly.
Saturn will begin a retrograde cycle on May 11 at 1 degree 57 minutes Aquarius and will resume forward motion on September 29 at 25 degrees
The hallway can be drafty, this place in between. We can prepare our own elemental systems at this time: our bodies, minds, and homes.
Maybe the store shelf doesn’t have that comfort food, so we borrow it from a neighbor, or we learn to make a healthier version or we make something entirely new.
As we are more insulated from the outside, the structure of our days leading inward, Inspiration has a way in to our minds, hearts and voices. We can practice acting on the intuition we innately have which now is increasing.
Aries Sun lives by its instincts. The full Libra Moon learns and assimilates ways of being from observation.
We are learning from our feelings, from our experience and from seeing how others are responding to their experiences and emotions.
We are in this life experience together. We are in it in isolation and we’re sharing it with the world. Stay in touch.
Love, Lydia
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NEW ARIES MOON
The first new Moon of the astrological year is at 5:28 AM EST on Tuesday, March 24th 2020.
Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. It is fire. It is Cardinal- a beginner of things. Aries has a best friend - it’s intuition.
It might be a fun time to make a relationship with your intuition that you can see.
Make a collage, a drawing, a playdo or clay or flour and water sculpture of your intuitive body. Hold it to you, invite it to be awake within you.
We are animals and animal intuition helps to steer us in the safe and right direction, at the right time.
It can lead us to the right time to make a phone call to a friend who is in need, to know which vegetables we should eat and in what combination.
Aries is courageous and loves the unknown. Excitement and fear are two sides of the same coin. We can choose which wave to ride.
We have a reset button st the new Moon. Aries is the initial reset. Certainly the world doesn’t start over and effects of things coming before may be with us.
And the reminder is that I can, in my mind, heart, and body start my day over again at any time.
I can approach my day anew. I can approach the tools I use to help myself and others to move through the day anew.
I have spent many years learning practices and reading spiritual, self improvement, astrological and psychological texts and YouTube videos to get help, answers, and to frankly, calm myself down.
When I get into my cozy routine, I sometimes let those teachings and practices fall away in search of new hobbies, activities, and general lounging about.
With this new Moon in Aries, meaning the Sun is in Aries, too, I begin again.
I dust off my old and disused texts and practices and teachers and I begin again to deepen my practice.
My hands instinctually go to the pile of books, to wise friends, to meditations I once faithfully practiced.
I start again. The muscle memory kicks in and I find myself feeling more grounded and more prepared to engage in the next minutes and hours of my life.
A beginner is curious and a beginner may be teachable.
A beginner can also think it knows it all and run headlong into all sorts of experiences.
We are all beginners at some things and we all have a back catalogue of wisdom we can turn to in these times.
Chiron, Hercules’ teacher, the wounded healer, is conjunct this new Moon. Right where we think we are most flawed, where our “ouch” point is, we can be most useful to others.
When you get the instinct, inner urge, nudge, or shove to reach out to a certain friend, perhaps one you haven’t contacted in ages, do it! The may be in need of just your brand of healing.
The polarity point to Aries is Libra, which is all about partnerships and the steps we make toward union with our human family.
If we can’t reach others by the usual modern methods, we can quiet the mind and reach out in prayer or meditation and wish the best for the other.
The New Moon is square to the moons nodes: south in Capricorn and North in Cancer. We take the knowledge of structure and authority we gained in the Capricorn South Node and bring it home with ya in the North Node in Cancer. We are, many of us, at home most of the time. We are reflecting on family of origin and our histories.
We are nurturing ourselves as best we can and nurturing others perhaps from a distance.
Saturn, Capricorn’s ruler just moved into Aquarius. We take our awareness of structure and authority and we move toward new structures. Aquarius is in charge of community, and the internet and Zoom meetings and finding new ways to serve while the world changes around us and within us.
We will, together, find new ways of being and new ways of being together.
Venus, ruler of Libra and Taurus, is in Taurus and is trining Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto in Capricorn. Taurus knows how to calm itself. It knows how to hunker down and make lemons from lemonade and how to make a game from a cardboard box. It knows how to make new romaine lettuce sprout from the bottom of and old romaine heart by sticking it in a pot with soil and watering it.
Taurus also knows how to tell a goofy joke to break up the tension.
We can start our day all over again in Aries.
We can breathe and calm ourselves and reach out to a friend. We can use our intuition, make friends with it, and grow the ability to know what to do, and when to do it. It will also tell us when to stay put and do some jumping jacks.
Lots of love, Lydia 💗🐏
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VIRGO FULL MOON
Experiencing Totality
The Virgo full Moon is on Monday March 9 at 1:48 PM EST.
The Pisces/Virgo axis invites us to experience the spiritual through the physical. The Sun in Pisces energy highlights the energy of all of the astrological signs as it is the last of the twelve.
Pisces’ ruler, Neptune is conjunct the Sun at the full Moon emphasizing the fact that we are all made of water and that, as humans, we are all swimming in the same pond, breathing the same air, sharing dreams and visions.
If we are porous in our energetic fields, we may share the emotional run off of others.
The Full Virgo Moon can help us to put the focus on ourselves, to see where the run off of other people’s dreams, fears and anxieties can be sidestepped. We can then have a look at our own mind and what is moving through it.
Virgo is ruled by Mercury. Mercury is in charge of our day to day thoughts. Virgo organizes the mind and decides what can stay and what can go.
Mercury resumes forward motion at 11:49 PM EST at 28 degrees Aquarius. Mercury will move forward back into Pisces on 16 March.
Uranus, ruler of Aquarius, helps us to detach enough from the small mind to see ourselves from the outside in and to define where we are as individuals, separate from the herd.
Venus is conjunct Uranus in Taurus. The call is to use the higher mind and the wisdom of the whole to care for ourselves, to be aware of our personal safety and security. Uranus conjunct Venus, ruler of Taurus can jangle our electrical system, our sense of physical security. Grounding exercises are key at this time.
Uranus’ realm is the individuated unconscious, with all of its memories, including repressed and traumatic memories. Uranus also holds the concept of our future individuated selves.
If we can take the time out, separate from others, that we are being offered at the moment due to circumstances that are fast going global, we can take time to see what and who we are. The subconscious mind may reveal old thought patterns, memories or wounds that can be healed and released for our improved health. It is like a virus running in the background, impeding the whole system, slowing it down and we don’t know why. When we have time out, the subconscious offers up its hidden bounty and we can engage, and heal.
Saturn rules restriction, timelines and rules themselves. The 12th house and Pisces rule incarceration and/or-isolation from others.
The 12th house can be the monastic cell relished for quiet rest and contemplation or the prison cell or the psych ward. During a time of self-isolation or quarantine that many may face in the coming weeks, how will it feel to each individual?
Virgo likes to have a routine and an organizational structure.
Virgo rules health. Virgo rules how we take care of the physical vehicle we are given to navigate the time on the Earth plane.
With many planets still in Capricorn there is a sense of responsibility in caring for own physicality.
Will all of these self-isolated, quarantined humans take this time out to do a big spring clean of the home and the mind?
No doubt the dusty thoughts and feelings brought up by our own sublimated memories of trauma, global nerves and attempts not to bite our nails or touch our face in any way, 😆 could use some rest, relaxation, review, and release.
Pisces likes a time of quiet reflection and a Virgo Full Moon is happy to use the time to get some things straight on all levels.
Virgo can organize the mind , emotion and physicality to a freeing and useful effect.
We can only bring so much into the home. We live, much of the time, in our minds. We can only truly focus on one thing at a time. What we choose to focus on, to think about, is more important than ever. When we find ourselves nervous, afraid, swimming in a sea of the unknown, redirecting thoughts to something soothing and useful can be a true lifeline.
At the moment, or in the near future, in many people’s cases, we will be encouraged to sit there with all of that stuff we brought in, created, accumulated. How will each of us respond when our stuff, day after day, is staring us, literally, in the face?
If there is room in our home, in our hearts, in our minds for anything else, what are we making space for during this time?
Are we moving to calibrate our energy in a way that allows us to receive intuition that will allow us to move through this unpredictable time with as much grace, ease, and toilet paper as possible?
Socrates invited , “grant me a beautiful soul in which the inner and outer self are united as one.”
Pisces Sun and Virgo Moon know how to answer Socrates’ request. The calibration of all of our whole selves, one to the other to the other – the physical, mental, spiritual, worker, friend, family member, dreamer, consumer, joiner, isolater… on and on we go.
We go on, one moment at a time, with a breath, with a conscious step, with a repeated soothing word or phrase --
I like “all is very well” as a statement I can run aloud or in my head to preempt or override any other recurring, less than helpful thoughts.
Calming, breathing, and letting the excess energy flow out the bottoms of the feet into the earth for recycling can be a useful pattern to run whenever the mind gets carried to distracted places.
We are all swimming in the same pond, but we are propelled by our own fins, flippers, instinct, intuition, conscious and subconscious minds.
We have a choice about how to react to any situation. Virgo has the beautiful ability to take a breathe, Assess any situation, see what is needed, roll up their sleeves, and dive in.
Pisces gives us the guidance, the faith and the vision to carry on, one moment at a time.
Lots of love to all you fellow walkers, swimmers and dreamers. 🍃🐠🍃🐠
Lydia xxx
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PISCES NEW MOON
The Pisces new moon takes place on February 23 at 10:32 AM EST. It takes place at 4 degrees 29 minutes Pises. Pisces is a mutable water sign. It is the last sign of the zodiac and contains the energy of all the signs. It is a culmination of the entire wheel of the year.
This makes the Pisces New Moon a great time to look back at the previous 12 months and forward to the coming year.
As Pisces is ruled by Neptune, this new Moon invites us to dream, and to envision what we want to attract; where we want to spend our time and energy.
With Pisces we can also look at where we have been deluded, waylaid or sidetracked by ideas that may not be what we truly want.
We can be sidetracked by outmoded ideas, by thinking we want a life presented by social media that would, in truth and practice, not suit our disposition at all.
Getting a clear look at who we are and how we want life to unfold can be aided by meditation, by writing, by consulting oracles, by vision boards, by dream journals…..
Mercury is still retrograde in Pisces. It will dip its toe back into Aquarius to 28 degrees before resuming forward motion on March 10.
The bulk of the retrograde time is spent in Pisces, inviting us to see where we are foggy, where we are clear and where we might want to stay in the mist of potential until clarity arrives.
Saturn, lord of karma and timing, is getting ready to end the two year journey through Capricorn, the planet’s home sign. Saturn will move into revolutionary, ground breaking, rut shaking Aquarius on March 22.
Before Saturn leaves Capricorn, it will make some parting shots.
At the time of the new Moon, Mars is at 4 degrees Capricorn and Jupiter is at 18 degrees Capricorn. Pluto is at 24 degrees Cap and Saturn is at 27 degrees.
The South Node is nearly conjunct Mars at 6 degrees Capricorn.
We are face to face with the structure of our lives — the physicality and the plans and the timing.
What needs to be let go can be taken or shaken from our very hands at times like this so that we can be present for a deeper experience, the one we’ve been planning for with our higher selves.
We’ve been sitting in the Higher Self’s tree house, with a Guardian angel and our soul and a stick scratching out plans in the earthen floor that our ordinary selves may know nothing about. Perhaps only a glimmer or a nudge til now.
The part of us that visits with other realms while we are sleeping or doing the shopping or making plans for greatness has been quietly been plotting for an unfolding beyond our simple human imagining.
The sudden appearance of these machinations of our higher selves can pull us up and out of the every day.
I have seen it happening with several people I know this very week.
A healing crisis, the addiction that finally gets big enough for the job to be lost and for recovery to begin. These are Pisces/Neptune meets Capricorn experiences. Where we are lost from life, we are called back to the light of day.
The path we truly desire opens up in perhaps a sudden and possibly shocking way - where part of or all our whole existence may need to be reconsidered— Mercury retrograde in Pisces and Aquarius. Uranus in Taurus trining Mars in Capricorn can flush us from our rut to find deeper value in our activities and relationships.
Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn in Capricorn are square to Venus in Aries at this new Moon. Venus is the lower octave of Pisces’ ruler Neptune. Aries is led by instinct. Both Pisces and Capricorn are Cardinal signs that want to begin and begin again. Aries may break down barriers with its head to get the soul moving on the next leg of the journey while the personality is left rubbing the resultant lump and trying to keep up.
Pisces is the dream and delusion. It is also a culmination readying for another turn around the wheel of the year. Capricorn is the timing and structure. Uranus/Aquarius is the group and the lighting bolt that sets our pants and mind on fire with change of body and ideas.
These energies are all at play this new Moon.
While sitting in the dark of the Sun/Moon conjunction in Pisces, we can relate to the alternate awareness the fish has naturally that we can tap into. We are all swimming in the same pool of spirit that is beyond time and space. We are able to feel the ripple of what is approaching— sometimes hard by, sometimes many moons away. Both may be relevant to the here and now. The sense we used to pick up on these ripples may be intuition, instinct and connection to our Higher Self, rather than, or in addition to sight, sound, taste etc.
Expansion into love of self and love of each moments variety of experience is the best friend at this time.
When the waves come, by diving deeper we find stillness, comfort and wisdom.
Love, Lydia 💜
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LEO FULL MOON 2020
Creative Fire
The full moon at 20 degrees Leo brings home our creative expansion.
With the Sun in Aquarius we are on the trajectory between our personal creative self expression and the way that expression can be shared and enhanced with the group.
Leo is personal and wants to shine on its own merit. Our evolution starts with our emotional body. The full Moon gives a radiant point of self reflection and projection.
With the opposition to the Sun in Aquarius we can say, how does my radiance, my special and unique and NECESSARY shininess benefit the whole?
What does my presence – the way I hold my head, the way I walk into a room, the way I share my story, benefit the whole?
Aquarius loves its friends, its community, its shared vision. Together, we can be electrifying. But it’s the differences in our gifts and abilities and histories joined together that make a whole that can energize and transform and galvanize.
We have our first Mercury retrograde cycle of the decade starting on Feb 17 at 12 degrees Pisces. Mercury will resume forward motion on 10 March at 28 Aquarius. All other planets are direct until 26 April when Pluto goes retrograde at 24 Capricorn.
We may want to consider how our day to day conversations affect us and others. Mercury rules short distance travel. We could forego driving to the shops and walk instead; using the time to be mindful of the air, the signs of the ever-changing natural reactions to temperatures and sunlight.
The Sun enters Pisces on February 18, so the Mercury retrograde will have an extra Neptunian cast. We have to opportunity to gaze into the dream space, the land of wish and hope and desire. We can reflect on how life is unfolding and the direction we are taking. We can adjust the wish list to fit where we are today. We may want different things than we did a month, a year, a lifetime ago. Also, the trajectory of our dreams may have shortened thanks to our increased awareness, abilities and knowledge.
As Pisces also addresses delusion, we want to see where our ideas are not reflecting the clear, true light of day. What we see in dim shadow at 3 am is very different once the sun comes up. The practical Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus May give the wake up call to what, indeed, is what.
Venus is the lower octave of Neptune. Venus will be moving through instinctual and action-oriented Aries until 6 March. As we reflect on what we want, Venus in Aries may give us a sudden brainstorm on how to get it. Chiron moves from Pisces to Aries on 19 February. We may see how our wounds and dashed or amended dreams have lead to new shots, fresh growth and stronger visions that will suit better who we are now.
Lots of love and happy dreams.💗
Lydia
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AQUARIUS NEW MOON 2020
Recipe for a Moonage Daydream
We have our first new Moon of the decade, of the year.
The Aquarius Sun and Moon are together at 4 degrees.
The Sun and Moon are squaring Uranus at 2 degrees Taurus.
We are being asked to clear the decks to observe the revolution that is going on inside of each one of us.
The new Moon is such an internal experience. Our light and our night are unified to illuminate the our heart of hearts.
In the dark of the moon we have a quiet, a vacuum that lets us hear a different kind of quiet. The voice we can’t hear the rest of the year can be heard. When we tune into the frequency of Aquarius, we’ll hear what the Universe wants to say to us and to us alone.
This square to Uranus in Taurus makes it personal. Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury. It is the voice beyond listening with ordinary ears. We need to go inside and reach for it.
Uranus in Taurus says, listen to me now. I’m speaking to your skittish inner mouse or squirrel who wants to know it’s going to have enough hay for a nest and enough nuts to get through the winter. And Uranus in Taurus, with a message just for you, may say, forget the hay and the nuts for a minute!!! What have you got in that hidey hole of yours that’s going to feed your soul and your spirit and the part of you that wants to LIVE? What have you got going on in the heart of hearts that allows you to align your vibration with the song that the Universe sings just for you? When will you realize that the song is a duet?
All the wisdom is out there and the wisdom flows through a funnel and when that wisdom drips down to the core of our being it has been distilled into an elixir of illumination just for us.
So, go on, bask in the radical Aquarian black light of this new Moon. Burn some incense! Invite your whole self, inner child, higher Self, animal teacher, ancient healer, past and future selves! Aquarius likes the company. Bring all of yourselves inside for the journey.
The way to honor this full moon is to value the self. Get comfortable with all of our moving parts and shifting thoughts, and evolving emotions. Bathe in the atmosphere of your own vibration. Feel what is emanating, feel what your field is attracting. All of this can be experienced while lounging comfortably in one’s own bed or bath or couch.
Eyeshades can help the movement inward as can breathing and allowing the stars and galaxies to swirl around your insides giving a New Year New Moon cosmic cleanse.
Venus and Neptune are conjunct – or close enough to it – to contribute to the dreamy quality of this New Moon. Mars in Sagittarius makes a mutable square to Venus/Neptune, kindling the heart fire and sparkling our Dreamtime to life. Breathe in the steam they make and breathe the 2020 self into being.
Saturn, Pluto, Jupiter and the South Node are all in Capricorn reminding us we know how to dream AND see the reality of manifestation. North Node in Cancer says the emotions lead the way. The New Moon is a great time to tend to what the emotions reveal to us. They tend to be illuminated when the Sun rides tandem with the Moon.
Mercury rides with the Sun and Moon in Aquarius, too. Upon arising from the reverie, you may want to make a note of any insights that revealed during your starlit repose.
Happy New Moon.
Happy Year of the Rat. 🐀
Lydia
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FULL CANCER MOON 2020

Happy 2020 to you all!
The first full moon lunar eclipse of the decade is at 20 degrees Cancer on January 10 at 2:21 pm EST.
This eclipse is penumbral, not clearly visible in the night sky, even if you live where it is “visible.”
In the sky at the moment we have Saturn conjunct Pluto at 22 Capricorn. Their conjunction is exact on January 12, but they are at the same degree at the new Moon, so close enough to contribute to the intense Capricornian energy in polarity to the full Cancer Moon.
We are feeling our history in Cancer. We are feeling who we are, at core; uniting ego and emotional bodies. There may be a feeling of pulling our emotional socks up resolving to a year of self care, self love, calmness and letting go of past hurts. The
Capricorn Sun calls us to stand in our strength, personal authority and authenticity as individuals.
On Jan 10, Uranus, the higher octave of Mercury, goes stationary direct at 2 degrees Taurus after having been retrograde since August 11.
Uranus holds subconscious memory and while it was retrograde for the last five months, our memories around safety, security, self love and value systems may have been distilled in such a way as to be brought to our conscious mind to be remembered, processed and integrated.
For instance, long lost memories of childhood trauma may have resurfaced to be examined, understood, healed, forgiven, and released. So now, at the full moon eclipse, with Uranus resuming forward motion, we have the opportunity to be liberated from old wounding, misunderstanding, alienation, fear of lack, or neglect.
Freedom from past hurts leaves a great space. We are no longer carrying as much weight of old wounds. We can use that freed up mental and emotional space to let in what is new, wanted, and expansive.
There is an opportunity for liberation from old subconscious wounding or habits. There is the opportunity to transform and evolve the way we operate on the earth plane for our own greater good and for the good of all.
We all participate, to varying degrees, in natural, familial, societal, economics and political structures.
We have the opportunity to actually use the universal wisdom that we have been downloading through our good intentions, meditations, careful action, kindness, and warm and happy thoughts.
These things aren’t just Instagram pics or bumper stickers. The good is real. Positive evolution and expansion are real. We simply need to choose them every time.
What is the best action or thought or mantra I can take, think, repeat in This present moment?
Pluto and Saturn are a power duo in Capricorn capable of real shifts of consciousness and action and structures in the real world.
The full Cancer Moon asks us to be responsible for our own emotional body. Do we direct our emotions to a better feeling place? Do we remember that no one can make us feel a certain way? We must remember that we are responsible for what arises in our own system. The Cancer/Capricorn polarity is about responsibility. Do we respond in a way that makes us feel good about ourselves and the choices we are making in our thoughts, words, and deeds?
The Cancer full Moon is about keeping our side of the emotional street clean. We can be a power of example for others by taking a beat and responding with care as best as we are able in every situation.
For many of us this is a work in progress. So each moment we can resolve to evolve.😊
Powerful people living in powerful times. Choose to respond in a way that feels true in each situation that arises.
Happy Full Moon and Happy New Year. All the very best to you all.
Lydia
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CAPRICORN NEW MOON/SOLAR ECLIPSE
The New Moon and Solar Eclipse will occur at 12:13 AM EST ON December 26th.
We approach the closing of the year and the decade with Capricorn’s New Moon and eclipse at 4 degrees 7 minutes Capricorn.
The eclipse amplifies the energy of the New Moon.
Jupiter will be within a degree conjunction to the New Moon. Jupiter definitely amplifies, or expands what it touches.
Now Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, traditionally is known to contract what it touches.
I like to think of Saturn as solidifying things it touches. It makes them real. The concrete sets, the jelly gels, the story starts to make sense.
I like Jupiter and Saturn traveling together. Jupiter brings the vision, the expanding sense of possibility, the jokes.
Saturn brings the blueprint, the timeline, the storyboard and an outcome in real time.
It’s like the buddies in any tale of a journey. Both players can’t be Falstaff. And both players can’t be the one who gives all the reasons why it will never work.
We need walls to the house, a container into which we pour our grand ideas, recipes and designs.
Since Saturn is in charge of timing, we can take actions, after calm reflection and planning, and let go of the results- leaving the results in the lap of the gods.
Uranus, is currently retrograde in Taurus and makes a trine to the new Moon/Sun/Jupiter in Capricorn.
Uranus, the higher octave of Mercury, doesn’t necessarily care how we might feel about the earth shattering downloads of awakening or information it gives us at this new Moon. Keep a microphone, pen or some other device handy to record the revelation that may be available at this time.
Don’t hit the snooze again. If a jolt is given, it is a call the higher self is making to the physical receiver. It’s only polite to receive.
If we don’t, the next jolt could do more than simply get our attention.
Also at the new Moon, Saturn and Pluto are pretty close to a conjunction in later degrees of Capricorn- 21 and 22 degrees respectively. Saturn is The ruler of this new moon/eclipse.
Pluto is the ruler of our personal and soul’s transformation. In Capricorn, these two are saying, yah it’s time. Sometimes as we travel down the road with these two, the road may get more narrow. Superfluous interests may fall away. What used to seem important may suddenly feel superficial. We wil see what is truly important to us. Focus is enhanced. Focus is aided and guided by Saturn and Pluto. It could feel restrictive as the higher self guides us to important appointments with our own destiny.
Pluto is the higher octave of Mars, who is currently in Scorpio, who is ruled by Pluto.
We may feel that there are some things afoot that are just out of reach of our understanding. It is important to be prepared, through increased time of rest and reflection, to receive and assimilate information that will coalesce into understanding in perfect timing.
We are in a beautiful space where the dream, the idea, the possible — meets the probable, the achievable, the doable?
Saturn allows the hot air balloon of puffed up Jupiter potential to land on terra firma. We can tie the balloon down, alight from the basket and earth the ideas; we can make manifest the big picture that we envisioned from on high.
Funnily enough we started 2019 with a Capricorn new Moon and eclipse and now we end it with another one.
In the past year, I hope you have fine tuned the dreams and visions that are the unfoldment of our lives.
We say an uplifting word to a stranger at the grocery store, it makes their day. It saves their life.
We embark on a new project or hobby that enlivens us and that brightness blasts outward. It raises our vibration and the vibration of those around us.
We clear out old wounds, fears or habits and allow good feeling thoughts and actions that fill the resulting void.
These are all very Saturnian experiences. These are feet walking in a Good Orderly Direction types of Capricornian actions.
All the best to you all and see you in 2020.
Lydia
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lydia@soulastro.com

The Sun may be in Sagittarius and the Full Moon is in Gemini, but wow we must talk about Capricorn.
At this Full Moon on Dec 12 12:12 EST we have Pluto at 21 degrees and Venus and Saturn at 19 degrees Capricorn.
We have the South Node at 8 degrees and Jupiter at 2 degrees of the sign of the Goat with a serpents tail.
Since the ruler of Sagittarius is Jupiter and Jupiter is now going to spend a year traveling through Capricorn the two signs are finding their way together.
I happen to think they make a great pair.
Jupiter wants to expand and grow and can be prone to unbridled optimism and an almost grandiose expectation of good luck.
Capricorn and Saturn love growth and expansion, as long as careful planning and a good sense of timing are employed. We don’t want the wood to expand so much in the rain that we can’t shut the door.
It’s an opposites attract kind of situation in which the two temper each other.
We also have a mutable T square formed by the Sun, the Moon and Neptune in Pisces. We are dreaming in this square to Neptune. We are seeing where our dreams, hopes and visions have come to fruition. Full Moons are culmination points and a good time to take stock.
A good amount of time to look at is the last six months when the sun was in Gemini and the Moon was in Sagittarius.
This axis looks at the mind, communication, curiosity and Truth; and how we gather and assimilate information.
Gemini asks what is that? Sagittarius asks what does it mean? Intuition and inner exploration is the shortest way to find out.
All of the Capricorn energy says “it’s time,” as Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn says “when.”
This is the last full Moon of the decade. We move out of the teens and into the twenties. Like our century, with many planets in Capricorn, we are maturing.
What is nearing completion that has been a focus since the last eclipse cycle of Cancer/Capricorn in July of 2019? On December 26 we have a new eclipse cycle beginning- with the New Moon Solar Eclipse at 4 degrees Capricorn.
The dance with Jupiter in Capricorn will continue, so find a way to move with your own flow of expansion and contraction. When we know when to inhale and when to exhale, knowing each is a necessity, our breath can take us, in perfect timing, into The unfoldment of our lives.
We can only hold the lungs at full expansion or full exhalation for a short time. We need to expand and contract, expend energy and gather energy in a cycle that works best for us.
It is a busy time of year on the inner and the outer. Find an expansion and contraction cycle that works best for you and the responsibilities and the intentions will have a way of being met.
Love, Lydia
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lydia@soulastro.com

SAGITTARIUS NEW MOON 2019
ADDING THE EXTRA TO THE ORDINARY
The New Sagittarius Moon is on November 26 at 4:06 AM EST.
We move in to a time that can be more fluid, like our waistline when we eat at holidays.
Sagittarius is a mutable sign – able transmute ideas and things.
Venus has now entered Capricorn where it will travel until December 20th.
Sagittarius’ ruler, Jupiter, will move out of its own sign into Capricorn on December 2nd.
So our Sagittarius time will be tempered by Saturn.
Sagittarius is expansive and feels lucky. Capricorn contracts and wants to feel sure.
I like the combo of the two. Capricorn gives a good foundation for Sagittarius’ castles in the sky.
Sagittarius adds the fun factor, the embellishment, and the spirit to Capricorn’s blueprints.
But at this new moon Jupiter is still in Sag, and it is a good time to sit down and digest the year that is nearing its close. It is a good time to tune into how we have experienced these last months and to ask our higher selves how to integrate our thoughts and experiences and prepare the way, on the inner, for what we’d like to experience next.
Sagittarius’ business is to develop our own intuition, to develop our connection on a daily basis, with the energies, easily within reach, that can help us. There is so much more to life than what we can see and experience with the first five senses.
The way can be expanded by following our guidance on the little things. Then we have inroads when we need help with what seem like the bigger things.
When there is an inkling to drive home via a different route, just try it! The higher Self can see further down the road than we can with our ordinary eyes.
Perhaps we’ll see that there is a sale on at a shop that has just what we need.
Or maybe, by taking that different route home, we avoid a construction delay.
Sagittarius invites us to expand our inner life so that it meets the every day life and makes it extraordinary.
This inner life and the wisdom it conveys can be enhanced by tuning in to the natural world— whether it is the ground beneath the feet, the cat on the lap, the plants in the garden, or the snow falling outside the window.
Sagittarius calls for freedom and the natural world can remind us to release the constraints of schedules, to-do lists and alarms — even for a few hours a week- to attune to our own time to rise, time to move, time to eat.
This way, when we get the urge to make a change in our day to day life- job, diet, social life, exercise routine, well recognize how we want to respond to opportunity arising.
With Jupiter moving into Capricorn and Saturn, Pluto, and Venus already there, the structures and schedules of our lives are worth reviewing.
Saturn rules time and the order of things. Schedules that don’t work for us can change or feel like a prison.
If we find daily routines and schedules that work with our natural time clocks and rhythms, the schedules can be a freedom.
A new Moon in Sagittarius asked where do want to feel more free? Sagittarius wants to know it’s Truth. Sometimes it takes investigation to know what is true for us and to weigh what is important to us, and what we think should be important to us.
Where is the breathing room, even in a busy day?
How are the choices I make in work and routine allowing me to feel expansive?
Sometimes all that is needed is an adjustment in how we look at daily life.
Sometimes a bigger revamp is called for.
By tuning in to one’s own intuitive voice, we are aware of the what’s when’s and wherefores and the inner truth of our Being.
Thank you and may the Sagittarius new Moon be restful, reenergizing, and revelatory in just the right measure for you.
Lydia
www. soulastro.com
lydia@soulastro.com