Overnight, we enter the Balsamic phase. It’s time to consider what to hold on to and what to let go of. What is complete? What is no longer helpful?
Most important, what do we really want?
The Moon in early Cancer is strong, nurturing, and focused on offering care. What do we care for? What are we willing to protect and defend as a mother would her child?
This Moon is in a strong trine to Saturn retrograde in Pisces. Saturn rules the first decan of Pisces, where we learn that even the mysteries of the cosmos have structure.
There are ways we can move in accord with these structures, and ways we will find obstacles. Again we are asked, what do we want?
The Sun and Venus are close to their conjunction. The cazimi will occur August 13 in early morning, just after dawn. Venus is hidden from us and also strong in her proximity to the Sun. Emotions run deep, moving on hidden tides.
These last weeks with Venus in Leo have dragged up past, present, and future desires. Which ones do we still hold on to?
The Sun and Venus separate from a square to Jupiter. Jupiter wants us to think about what we’ve learned, what we know now we didn’t know before.
Sun and Venus apply to square Uranus. We’re being shaken, in some cases right to our core. We can taste change in the air but cannot quite make out its shape or direction. Are we anxious or exhilarated? It depends on what we want.
Mercury and Mars are in the same situation in Virgo, with trines. They separate from trines to Jupiter, who offered tutoring in the steps to be taken to accomplish our goals. They move into trines with Uranus, who might toss careful plans out the window while asking what we authentically want.
The Moon in Cancer might feel tempted to keep it all, everything we want, everything we think we might want later, everything we wanted before and might want again. This would be a Cancerian approach, but not, I feel, the best preparation for the New Moon in Leo.
Can we find a way to focus on what we truly, authentically want and let the rest go?
