In the predawn hours of Friday the 13th, we enter the Crescent phase. We watch the slim crescent Moon as she gains light each night. In this phase, we typically begin planning our goals for this lunar cycle. This time, we wait and listen.
The Sun squares the Nodes of the Moon, creating a T-square and introducing unsettling desires into the opposition between a focus on the creative self (Leo) and a focus on principles to guide the collective (Aquarius).
The South Node is flanked by Mars and Jupiter, all conjunct in late Leo. The North Node sits in late Aquarius. What can this Sun learn by turning its piercing gaze on this axis of fate? Will the Scorpio Sun tell us what it learns? Probably not.
The Mercury has the unfettered curiosity of a secure three-year-old with the concentration of a Jedi Master. Why do we do what we do? Why did that happen, and not this other thing? Whatever this Mercury wants to know, they will find out.
Mercury squares Pluto and sextiles the Moon. We’re far more likely to get solid intel from Mercury.
Venus in late Libra continues as one corner of the ongoing mystic rectangle. She opposes Chiron and Eris, sextiles the Leo group, and trines the North Node. She, too, had access to certain kinds of information.
An important event for Mercury and Venus during this Crescent Moon is, both station direct the same day we enter this phase. The full retrograde experiences on not complete until each planet completes its review––moving direct across the same degrees of the zodiac as each one just reversed over. This will be the end of November for Mercury and mid December for Venus. Still, over the next few days, we can gain clarity about what’s been going on.
The Moon in early Capricorn is keeping quiet and paying attention to everything going on. This Moon is deeply grounded, to the point where thinking gives way to sensation. Not necessarily sensation in terms intense pleasure, but simply the physical reality of being alive, of reconnecting with what it means to have a body.
This Moon is separating from a square to Neptune in Aries, and moving into a square with Saturn in Aries. This Neptune-to-Saturn shift is another indication of the need to reconnect with solid ground.
There’s also an intriguing yod, with Uranus at the top, and Mercury in Scorpio with the Moon in Capricorn along the base. Remember, yods are awkward because the three connected planets don’t share a language. No common element, and no shared mode. So we look to the point opposite the apex, which is early Sagittarius. We’re starting a journey, is seems. But we don’t yet know the destination.
We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. We have an ear to ground, we’re staying in touch with physical reality, and waiting for the signal we need to begin.
Title adapted from a photo by Shoeib Abolhassani on Unsplash
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