Tonight’s Balsamic Moon arrives with the Moon in early Capricorn. This semisquare to the Sun opens the phase of letting go before the New Moon.
This pragmatic, responsible Moon might feel caught between wanting to preserve the past (Capricorn is traditional) or lay new track to a better future, which could mean removing what’s in the way.
Four hours after opening the Balsamic phase, the Moon trines Uranus. This could be a push toward the future-oriented approach, even if it calls for removing obstacles. The trine could create a feeling of earth tremors, heralding shakeups ahead.
At the same time, the Moon squares to Chiron in Aries. Change can be painful. We can still get triggered by going through a process of deliberate letting go.
Five more hours go by and Mercury enters the throne of the Sun. This is the inferior conjunction, the retrograde cazimi of the Sun and Mercury.
Here Mercury learns something vital about the future, about the new age of Air, perhaps about principles and goals in the time ahead.
He won’t share the news right away, but again, we might feel the shift as new insights blaze through.
All of this adds up to our needing to see things as they are. For real.
We’ve been through more than we can process in the last year. Still, the future is unfolding before us and we need to step in.
What in our lives is working? Functional? Helpful? Keep that.
What in our lives has failed? What has lost its utility, its ability to support us in good ways? Let that go.
Must we be hard hearted as well as hard headed? Not really. We can let go more easily with compassion than we can with anger.
When we let go of what we don’t need or want, suddenly there’s more space for heart.
Image adapted from Matt Collamer
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