Today we float into the Disseminating phase with a Moon at the very end of Pisces conjunct Neptune.
How wonderful this is also the astrological day of Beltaine, the ancient Celtic celebration of life in all its generative beauty.
The Disseminating Moon is a time of release. The Moon disappears in the sky, preparing for the dark New Moon. At the end of the waning cycle, we let go of what is complete or no longer fits.
At the end of Pisces, we’re at the hinge of the zodiac, the moment of endings and beginnings.
The end of Pisces is a place of mad quests, the search for ecstatic experience. Our longings become urgent. We connect with what is beyond ordinary human perception and experience.
Beltaine is one of the big hinges in the Celtic year. We enter the light half of the light half of the year. Beltaine celebrations are times of ecstatic experience, great longings, and going beyond the human world we know.
How can we connect the release-into-the-dark theme of the Balsamic Moon with the glowing light of Beltaine?
Notice the South Node in Libra, who anchors this chart. This is a ‘bucket’ chart and the Libran South Node is the handle. The South Node is a place of release, just as the Balsamic Moon is. Libra is beauty, harmony, balance, and justice.
What is getting in the way of our capacity to enter the bright, ecstatic, fertile, magical time of Beltaine?
We need only look at the news to find enough negatives, challenges, distress, hatreds, violence, and despair to halt any celebration.
Can we let those go? Should we? If we, in our privilege, can ignore others’ needs, is that celebrating life or avoiding necessary work?
This Disseminating Moon + Beltaine offer a reframe.
Writers and activists bell hooks and Adrienne Maree Brown want us to embrace love and find joy as the key to changing the world. Their views of love embrace the fullness of life and humanity. They see joy not as areward but a path. Not only a path but a compass to help us find our way.
The world is changing. It needs to change. Perhaps this Piscean Disseminating Moon can help us let go of fear of the unknown. Maybe it’s time to stop clinging to the familiar and follow a new path.
What gets in the way of joy? Of a deep, loving connection to life as it is? If we can let those go, we will be free in new, vital, and generative ways.
