The New Moon will take place midnight Sunday on the west
coast and early Monday morning on the east coast and Europe. This phenomenon happens
in the middle of both sensitive Cancer and of the Mercury Retrograde period,
coming along at one extreme peak of the entire Mercury Retrograde – during this
lunation, the Sun and Moon are in conjunction with Mercury, moving backwards
through Cancer, accompanied by the grand trine of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune
in Water signs, while Saturn stations to direct motion.
The Mercury Retrograde is intensified by the station direct
of Saturn – an extremely significant event – especially since it takes place a
mere two hours before the New Moon. This station is the reason why the trine
between Saturn and Neptune lasts so long, only one half of a degree of exact
trine since the beginning of June being between the two planets, closeness
which lasts all the way through to the end of July. Saturn and Neptune are
responsible for two rather contradictory influences on our day-to-day lives: on
one hand, they bring grounding to our dreams and schemes, and on the other, our
meticulous concrete planning is marked by fuzziness and overly imaginative
thinking.
The above-mentioned factors are likely to stretch over a long
period of time, not only as long as the Mercury retrograde will last – from
late June to July 20th –, but also for two more weeks after this planet’s three
weeks of backward motion. The emphasis on Saturn, together with the specific frustration
of the Mercury Retrograde period, leads to a slightly increased degree of difficulty
when it comes to making our plans materialize.
During this period, through July to past its middle, the
grand water trine is particularly active. Jupiter is only a few degrees off the
trine in relation to Saturn and to Neptune, and closing. As the strong Water
emphasis symbolizes, this will impact our own perception and understanding of
ourselves on a deeper level, and it may possibly lead to loss of faith in what
we considered the foundation on which we could rely.
However, there is also a positive aspect represented by the probability of putting our faith in the largely unseen and – on a conscious level at least – in the unknown elements which are part of the bigger picture of our lives, hidden in the very depths of our souls and minds. This symbolism is also reflected by the collective, as secrets are uncovered. Take the NSA wiretapping scandal, for example, in which confusion as to what both the government’s and the (maybe idealistic) whistleblower’s motives were (Saturn) and deception (also Neptune) are brought together, potentially involved at either end of the equation.
However, there is also a positive aspect represented by the probability of putting our faith in the largely unseen and – on a conscious level at least – in the unknown elements which are part of the bigger picture of our lives, hidden in the very depths of our souls and minds. This symbolism is also reflected by the collective, as secrets are uncovered. Take the NSA wiretapping scandal, for example, in which confusion as to what both the government’s and the (maybe idealistic) whistleblower’s motives were (Saturn) and deception (also Neptune) are brought together, potentially involved at either end of the equation.
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