NEW MOON WEEKLY FORECAST OCTOBER 2 TO OCTOBER 10
This is going to be a super interesting week! There is literally too much going on in the sky right now to describe here. I’ll try to get the main points across for you though. Definitely examine the mundane chart shown here so you can see the geometry of it all. If you can, suss out where your birth chart is connecting to it all too. (Call me, I love to reveal to people the insights in their charts) 😉 This month’s NEW MOON on October 2 is quite a conjunction mash-up in LIBRA. SUN, MOON of course, and also, MERCURY, LILITH and without much of a stretch the SOUTH NODE (That means an Eclipse). Whups! With a comet to boot.
Solar eclipses have traditionally augured big changes, falls of regimes, deaths or crises of some kind. Though nowadays astrologers don’t see them as necessarily dire they still mark nexuses in the plot of the year. A vibe or set that reflects the last eclipse in the Spring and foreshadows the next 6 months. We won’t see this annular eclipse in the Northern hemisphere, but its still there, indicating some kind of sea change that will initiate, then develop over the next 6 months until the next series in March 2025. Interestingly, many of those planets and points also moved through a GRAND TRINE with PLUTO Rx and URANUS over the last few weeks and days. This also lined up with the extended MINOR GRAND TRINE with NEPTUNE Rx sextile to PLUTO Rx and URANUS to form a Kite geometry. Something like a portal where the archetypes of the involved planets and signs synergize in a powerful flow. NEPTUNE Rx was at the apex opposite each planet or point as they passed from VIRGO to LIBRA giving the whole thing a transcendental and uncertain air.
When the MOONS nodes are closely conjunct the SUN we get an eclipse and since the SOUTH NODE represents our past and past lives it will tend to bring up material from our past to be faced, integrated and dealt with. So be prepared to work with old wounds, reaction patterns, family and relationship dynamics in order to encompass and transcend them. Do try to not just double-down on maladaptive patterns and entrench your conditioning. It is up so you can see it, ot just repeat it. Significantly, about the time that the next series of eclipses happens in mid-March 2025, the SOUTH NODE of our past Karma will hit the same point in the Kite opposite NEPTUNE and trine PLUTO and URANUS in their transformative Minor Grand Trine. So though the work is now the window really closes in about 6 months.
This firmly throws us under the bus of fate for the next 6 months. Hold on to your hats. VENUS ruled LIBRA is potentially a pretty nice sign to have this in if you look at its positive attributes; Working with the “Other”(relationships), Justice/Fairness, Beauty, Harmony, Agreements etc. Of course, it also has a dark side. It is associated archetypally with Persephone’s/Kore’s journey back into the underworld to join her husband Hades (PLUTO) for the Fall and Winter. LIBRA can be harsh and final like the Queen of the Dead once it decides it’s not going to get cooperation and harmony. It can also sometimes vacillate, wait interminably for more info, be passive-aggressive and obdurate. Things can go either way and likely will.
MARS is just starting to square the SUN which peaks on the 14th. Meanwhile Lilith squares it on the 4th and MERCURY exactly squares MARS on the 6th. Aggressive, impulsive, assertive, defensive and bold actions and communications anyone? Especially around all thing LILITH. LILITH is an indicator of the presence of the Dark Goddess, of rebellion against patriarchal dominance, control and materialism, the arising of things the desert religions pushed into the margins and shadows: feminine independence and power, conscious and unconscious sexuality, menstrual (and so astrological) cycles, the mysterious, occult and unknowable, etc, etc. That’s a lot of suppressed reality that must be reckoned with to be whole. LILITH being conjunct the NEW MOON with MERCURY opens a portal for this to come into discourse and manifestation. In fact, LILITH will go retrograde on the 9th just as it squares PLUTO Rx and will scoot back through LIBRA for another run through the whole VENUS ruled sign. Get your relationship right with the feminine principles, or else! Watch out for shadowy powerplays and unconscious moves, perpetrated by you or others.
VENUS is forming a GRAND TRINE in Water with SATURN Rx and MARS for the next week or so, pointing towards establishing boundaries or relational friction to hash out boundaries and plans. VENUS can’t ‘See” the eclipse/NEW MOON, being 30 degrees (Semi-sextile) to it. Accordingly, there may be both a personal circumstance and more worldly events that involve relations, finances, and changes to things we hold dear and sacred happening simultaneously. Seemingly unconnected but certainly affecting each other.
JUPITER is slowing down towards its retrograde on the 8th and so is sextile to CHIRON Rx for a couple of months, signaling all this turbulence is moving towards a healing crises, hard gained wisdom and healing of some kind. So, heavy as all this seems it is aiming towards something good in the biggest big picture. As the month moves on each one of the planets now in LIBRA will march through a trine with expansive optimistic and lucky JUPITER and an opposition with the healer CHIRON, perhaps giving us some welcome mitigation for the stress of the transformations we are going through.
In addition to all that, the comet visible around sunrise in the East for a few days, an asteroid and some fixed stars are definitely influencing this reading of this eclipse. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS happens to be visiting us on its 80,000 year orbit right now. Comets always have a reputation for portentousness, the advent of powerful movements, leaders and shocking events, as if we needed more omens of world evolution. The asteroid Makemake, named after the fertility god of the Rape’nui peoples of Easter Island will be conjunct the eclipse and fascinatingly, Easter Island is one of the few land spaces the eclipse will be visible from…Hmmm. Makemake has only been known of astronomically for about 20 years so its astrological attribute are TBD, but my research dug up that it is possibly associated with megalomania, hallucinations, spiritual ecstasy, genocide, extreme ideology, mass hysteria, UFO’s, social disassociation and the ilk. Not too positive, sadly, but this has to be somewhat speculative. We also have in LIBRA near the eclipse the fixed stars, troublesome Vindemiatrix (the widow maker!!), and Porrima (the goddess of prophecy) just to add some spice to the moment.
Overall, stuck or imbalanced circumstances can get very tense, volatile and ripe for explosion or resolution, especially relationships, intimate or international, now and for the months to come. Its looks like an epically destabilizing opportunity to begin to bring things into sustainable balance through Plutonic upheaval and transformation. This is just part of a long slow cycle we are in, years long. It’ll probably get worse before it gets better in many ways, though not all at once and not everywhere at once. For the moment we are all asked to be on our best, most courageous and compassionate game so we can navigate our internal and external connections towards a win-win. MERCURY conjunct the NEW MOON/SUN complex augurs providential thinking and intelligent communication if we don’t give in to negativity and anxiety. Take your time to think before acting or speaking. Recognize your shadow and suppressed parts when they try to take over the plot.
Don’t panic or give in to despair and nihilism. That is always a temptation with this sort of turning of the Wheel, Comets and eclipses Oh My! Remember, each one of us is really responsible for just our local realm of influence. Don’t get so distracted by far away things you can’t reach that you neglect your own arena. Peace starts at home and in the self. Also remember, it is never all dark and doom. Nurture the Good you do have, no matter how unremarkable and insignificant it may seem. The dark and light are ultimately co-emergent and dynamically balanced no matter what our fears say.