Moon In Cancer. For Your Enjoyment.

 

Moon in Cancer began May 10, 8:12pm PDT until May 13, 3:36am PDT 

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Astrology Week of May 7 - May 13

 

Our Taurus New Moon began on May 7.   We are looking at what makes us feel grounded.  

 

This focus:    How do I find solidity?   Where do I need to build something from the ground up?   Where do I get comfort?  How do I relax?   Where do I need to slow down?   How can slowing down and doing one thing at a time serve me?   Where am I investing my energy?  

 

Special note:

5/6: Sun sextile Saturn.   Practical application of a system strengthens things that are weak.     When faith is tapped, resources grow. 

 

Crescent Moon Phase

May 11, 2024

7:41am PDT 

 

Focus on: What are you learning about your feelings?   What are you learning about your childhood?  What are you learning about your family?   How does everything you are learning connect to your stability now?  How does everything inform your ability to be grounded?  

 

Special Focus

5/13: Sun conjunct Uranus.  Dynamic energy has practical results.   There is a electric energy that can be revolutionary when slowing down to experience it.  

5/13: Venus sextile Saturn.  Love and values are amplified by faith and systems that tap spirituality.  

Dancing with Pluto - This Round

 

Fred Astaire in Swingtime 

Pluto Stuff 

May 13:  Moon in Leo oppose Pluto 

May 17: Mercury square Pluto 2 Aquarius 03

May 18: Moon in Libra trine Pluto 

May 20: Moon in Scorpio square Pluto

May 22: Sun trine Pluto 2 Aquarius 01 

May 25: Venus trine Pluto 1 Aquarius 59

May 27: Moon in Aquarius conjunct Pluto  

June 2: Jupiter trine Pluto 1 Aquarius 53

June 2: Moon in Taurus square Pluto 

June 3: Mercury trine Pluto 1 Aquarius 52 

 

Since Pluto entered Aquarius in January, we are beginning to get an itty-bitty view of this new twenty-year cycle.   We’ll can get a feeling for this journey when we pay attention to the moon aspects with pluto and any inner planet aspects to Pluto.   

Because the moon moves quickly, the lunar aspects can be sharp and focused but also not a lengthy experience.   Note anything that comes up on those days.    

As for the other planet aspects.      

 

One of the big contacts happening this cycle is Jupiter trine Pluto on June 2^nd.   This is not a rare aspect but at the same time it does not come up that often.  The last time was summer of 2016.    Jupiter is a glorious, dynamic planet with a huge gravitational pull.   Pluto is transformative, it is extreme and prefers an all or nothing approach.  The trine is of course a beneficial aspect.   There will be opportunities around effective communication.   Curiosity is important.  Sharing knowledge that is current and not stale from another long dead POV.  Going deep on learning.   Diversifying experiences and pushing the intellect.   Leaning into; new technology, new groups of people, finding the like-minded, trying a unique path, all which amplify evolution on some level.    We will feel this aspect most of June.    

 

On May 13, Mercury leaves its shadow point from the previous retrograde.  Then on May 17, Mercury squares Pluto.   Mercury always likes to think it has the upper hand with any planet because it is so dang smart.  But Pluto holds its powder until it is ready to shoot.   Watch the news to see who thinks they are the smarty pants and who shows them they are not.  Our own thoughts can be sinister and dark, perhaps about the subject of new technology or corrupt big money.    

 

Then on May 22, the Sun in Gemini makes a harmonious trine with Pluto followed by Venus doing the same on May 25.    Novelty, finding fun conversationalists, being moved by celebrating the ordinary.  All of this speaks to Pluto who rewards with a new sense of power.   Also,  we all know the people who can travel thousands of miles and visit a wild exotic location but when they come back and tell their story, eyes go half mast, people start thinking about their to-do list.  Then there are others who go down the street to the market and come back and tell a story about someone they saw, and it is as a professional raconteur is relaying the anecdote.  Everyone is riveted.  This is the week we all find our inner Mark Twain.    

Jupiter enters Gemini. May 25, 4:14pm PDT

 

Jupiter enters Gemini 

May 25, 4:14pm PDT 

 

The last time Jupiter was in Gemini was June 11, 2012 – June 25, 2013.  

 

Gentlemen and Gentleladies ---start your engines.   Jupiter is entering the fastest, busiest sign in the solar system.    Jupiter who is the biggest planet in the zodiac likes to bring expanse to a sign.  In Gemini we all are super busy.  Our calendars will have more action than the last year while Jupiter was in Taurus.   Book clubs will grow.  Social Media will be awash in more than usual postings and will be in the news.   Will everything out on the world wide web be truthful?  Nope.  But there could be a helluva lot more people with their magnifying glasses out determining what is fake and what is real.     Jupiter in Gemini is also how we learn to adapt.   We learn the value of pivoting on a dime.   We will be doing it a lot of pivots in this Jupiter in Gemini year.    Our intellect will be lit up.   We figure out how to uplift and zhuz our conversation skills.  We look for ways to freshen up stuff, we have little patience for anything boring.   While we will be seeking fresh and new and interesting we need to take care that we are not hideously superficial.     Shallowness can be a problem and we will all need to avoid the gossip.  If we can.   There will also be lots of short trips!   Even for those people who are not inclined to travel they will be figuring out a way to get there, wherever there is.   Much joy can come from Jupiter’s transit in Gemini.  For additional insights, think back to 2012-2013 and consider what came up for you then that speaks to Jupiter in Gemini.   There may be some echoes from that period to this year.   

Taurus New Moon: May 7, 8:21pm PDT

 

May 7, 2024

8:21pm PDT 

18 Taurus 02 

I am always excited for a new moon.  By the time we are at the last phase (balsamic)  of the 29 day lunar cycle I am ready for the new opportunities that come with the new moon.   That's my usual feeling.   But I gotta say the Aries lunar month that started with the Great American Eclipse and the 29 days that followed was perhaps too much energy even for me because I started to find myself longing for good, ol' sure and steady Taurus about ten days ago!  

Anyway, the Taurus new moon has a beautiful chart and there are many opportunities this month.    But a lot of it will come when we slow down.   Consider not juggling to the full force like we normally do.  Just sayin'.  You will find my whole report HERE.   Enjoy this Taurus cycle.   :)  

Saturn Semisquare Pluto. May 6

 

In January of 2020 Saturn began a new cycle with Pluto when the two formed a conjunction in the sign of Capricorn.   For those of us who remember January of 2020, let’s ask, hmm what could have been going on  that felt transformative and limiting at the same time?    Where was there loss?  Where was there mass experience?  Hmmm, what could it have been?   Oh, yeah, Covid.   

 

Saturn and Pluto do not form conjunctions that often because their odd shaped elliptical paths only cross 3 times every 100 years.    Such was the case this last century with conjunctions in 1914, 1947, 1982.   Once they connect through a conjunction, they begin a new journey that will usually have something significant come up around their squares and their oppositions.  For example, the window of 1980-1984 conjunction in Libra was followed by a square in 1992-1995 and an opposition in 2001-2002.      In the landscape of 1980-1984, the computer went from room sized blocks of tech in Fortune 500 companies to a two-foot box on a desk in homes across the world.    Pluto, never one to get lost in nuance also brought AIDS that also went across the world.   Then at the square (92-95) there was the First World Trade Center bombing and Bosnia and Rwandan leaders who were hell bent on destroying their population through genocide war crimes.     Of course by the time we got to the opposition (2001-2002) --- we got 9/11.    Okey Dokey.     

 

Once this new conjunction of 2020 took place we now put the upcoming squares and opposition on our radar which are: 

2028-2029:   Saturn in Taurus  Square 

2035-2026: Saturn in Leo oppose Pluto in Aquarius 

2044:  Saturn in Gemini Square Pluto in Pisces 

 

Saturn Semisquare Pluto is smaller but potent aspect that folds into these cycles as well which we are in the middle of one of those cycles: 

May 6, 2024 - Pluto 2 Aquarius 06

September 25 - Pluto 29 Cap 42 

January 26, 2025 – Pluto 1 Aquarius 53

 

In the United States, the Trump Campaign Finance Trial in NY and the student protests are pulling the focus of the media at this first hit of the aspect.   Perhaps there will be a tie into the events of now with events in September and January.    

Let’s watch this space. 

For more information in the conjunction, squares and oppositions of the past go to Jessica Davidson blog from 2019.