On Wednesday, July 23rd, the collective "mood" shifts from the practical, slow, steady energy of (sidereal) Taurus (earth)
into the quicksilver ideas and events of youthful, chatty, changeable (sidereal) Gemini (air) at 8:17 am (San Diego - pdt) 11:17 am (New York) 4:17 pm (London) 1:18 am (Sydney), July 24.
Mood (Moon in Gemini) For the next few days there is a focus on issues relating to youth, children, learning, local (quick) trips and travel, networking, news, gossip, negotiation and communication of all kinds (air).
Sun in Cancer: Home, roots, feelings, emotional foundations, nurturing and needs, where is "Home", where do we belong?
Take advantage of opportunities as they arise over the next few days as they tend to come and go quite quickly with the Moon in (sidereal) Gemini.
We are currently in the Balsamic Moon Phase.
You can read more about the bigger picture of current planetary activation for this week here. (week of July 20-26)
All times listed are Pacific Daylight Savings (pdt - San Diego).
The Moon is in the Lunar Mansion (nakshatra) of Mrigashira as we move into Gemini, moving into Ardra at 9:25 pm (San Diego) and finally into Punarvasu at midnight (San Diego) on Friday, July 25.
On Wednesday, while in Mrigashira, the Gemini Moon makes harmonious connections with Earth Mother Ceres (12:05 pm) devotional Vesta (3:03 pm) and Mars, the spiritual warrior, (5:53 pm) all in the partnerships, communication and karmic-rebalance of diplomatic (sidereal) Libra.
The Moon remains in Mrigashira until 9:26 pm (San Diego), moving into Ardra.
With the Moon in Ardra we move into the dark moon (12th Solar House) at 10:30 pm with the moon in tense aspect to Saturn (authority figures, rules, regulations, owning our own authority)
Venus trine Neptune is exact at 4:09 am (San Diego).
The Moon in Gemini (Ardra) activates the Venus-Neptune trine on Thursday, Moon trine Neptune, exact at 10:03 am (San Diego) and Moon conjunct Venus, exact at 10:43 am (San Diego)
Sun conjunct Jupiter is exact at 1:43 pm (San Diego) Mercury square Uranus is exact at 5:07 pm (San Diego) Mercury trine Saturn is exact at 7:10 pm (San Diego) Moon opposes Pluto at 7:24 pm (San Diego).
The Sun (10:40 pm) and Mercury (2:41 am) both activate Chiron.
We move into Punarvasu just after midnight (San Diego) on Friday, July 25.
Moon square Uranus at 4:49 am Moon trine Saturn at 5:08 am. Moon trine Chiron at 6:15 am.
This activates the triangular (Uranus-Saturn-Chiron) aspect pattern between Uranus (quincunx) Saturn (trine) Chiron (semi-sextile) Uranus (more here) that is already being activated by the Sun and Mercury.
The Moon moves into Cancer at 7:58 pm (San Diego) on Friday evening.