Moondays Report—Mars Enters Cancer, 20 Leo New Moon Solar Eclipse
Moments in the flow: Astrological Forecast for August 10th -August 16th
Hello again,
A focus on the Moon is appropriate for understanding the flow of the week’s energy. In the old days they said, “The Moon Tells the Tale.” It is told in the aspects the Moon makes as it moves quickly through each sign. In daily forecasts, the Moon’s sign and phase colors the mood of the day and what activities are supported.
About Your Personal Moon
Knowing the Moon Sign and Phase at birth is helpful as this combination describes your instinctive feelings and responses to the environment. And this also lets you know when you will have a personal Monthly Lunar Return when the Moon returns to the degree and sign it was in at birth. Those charts can be very helpful for planning ahead and understanding the focus for that timeframe.
When someone books a reading with me, I always look at where the Moon will be during the reading to get information about the client’s most important issue.
In progressions to your birth chart, we will find your Moon is in a different sign, phase and location. This is also good to know as it shows deeper and longer lasting effects. In a similar cycle to Saturn, there is a full chart Lunar Return near ages 27, 54, and 81. Knowing this gives more information about the signs, houses, and phases of the progressed Moon which reveals where feelings and changes are most pronounced and when the location and signs shift.
The Week Ahead August 10-16
When important Planetary and Lunar Events occur, the section after the Daily Forecasts will give more information on the nature of these events.
This Week’s Moon Cycles
· The week begins in the waning 4th Quarter Phase. In this phase we make choices about what has to change or be released and what seeds we would like to plant as goals for the new lunar phase. Moon is in the Dark or Balsamic Phase unseen as it moves closer toward the Sun.
· When the Leo Moon joins the 20 degree Leo Sun at 1:37 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, the the New Moon Total Solar Eclipse arrives. We can do intentions for the next cycle but we need to honor this moment and acknowledge that we will see a change in the outer world, for ourselves and for the collective. You may know what that is likely to be, or you may receive a message about this today. See more in the Planetary and Lunar Events section.
· Thursday, Moon enters the waxing 1st Quarter Phase. In this phase we look for places to plant the seeds of our intentions where they will grow. Moon is in the Waxing Crescent Phase. The Moon will remain invisible until a sliver of the crescent appears after sunset in a day or two.
· Moon Signs this week: Cancer, Leo, Virgo and Libra
DAILY FORECASTS
The Cancer Moon begins the week. Cancer Moon brings the instinct to create a safe space and others who will help us feel secure emotionally, nurturing for both self and others, protecting sensitivity, protecting the nest and the financial nest-egg. Pitfalls: Over sensitivity, over-protective, over-eating, hoarding, losing focus on present time.
Monday Cancer Moon completes the square to Saturn at 3:30 a.m. EDT, and with no further aspect we may feel a lowered energy and some pessimism as we approach the Solar Eclipse. Moon is void of course until it enters Leo.
Leo Entry, Tuesday 4:38 a.m. EDT Leo Moon brings the instinct for giving affection, providing, self-expression, creativity, entertainment and receiving attention. Pitfalls: dramatic, demanding, over-spending, attention-seeking.
Tuesday Mars Enters Cancer at 4:30 a.m. EDT. The Leo Moon has a cascade of aspects starting with a conversation that may be about romance, children, financial investment, and is followed by a challenge from someone who wants freedom to choose for itself. Creativity and a welcome supporter moves us into lunchtime in EDT and humor with insight brings optimism as we move into the later evening hours EDT. There is support for receiving information about how the Solar Eclipse will manifest in outer world change as we move through late night and into the early morning on Wednesday.
Wednesday Leo Moon joins the Sun at 20 Leo at 1:37 p.m.. We may feel lower energy and relaxation is welcome if possible. We set intentions for the new lunar cycle keeping the Leo issues in mind and with an eclipse and south node in this sign, one intention could be seeing where the negative attention-seeking and desire to be special is holding us back and what the effect of giving and coming from the heart can do to improve our life. Moon is Void of Course until it enters Virgo.
Virgo Entry Thursday at 6:18 a.m. EDT. Virgo Moon brings the instinct to perfect, organize, analyze, stay healthy and serve others. Pitfalls: Over-serving, being critical and judgmental of others and self, strict rules.
Thursday Virgo Moon completes all the aspects it will make in this sign. The day is amenable to getting work done around the house and having conversations about home and family or making a purchase for bedroom or kitchen until 9:00 a.m. EDT. But as we go on through the day, we are heading for an aspect in the afternoon EDT that will upset Virgo’s careful planning with surprising news and/or change. Virgo Moon is Void of Course for a long stretch of time after this.
Friday and early Saturday Virgo Moon is Void of Course until it enters Libra. In void of course, Virgo Moon will have no interference in getting office work done and working on the home. But planning ahead more than a day or two is not advised under void of course moon as there will be unforeseen changes in plans. “Nothing will come of it,” is an old void moon aspect phrase.
Libra Entry Saturday 10:20 a.m. EDT Libra Moon brings the instinct to discuss, compromise, create relationships, create beauty, see all sides. Pitfalls: People pleasing, using charm to influence others, difficulty making choices, swinging back and forth in moods and opinions.
Saturday Libra Moon is on the way to a conflict with a passive aggressor in the afternoon EDT. There is a rebound and then confusion before dinnertime. The evening brings new ideas, interesting conversation, and flashes of intuition. Romance and agreements are in store for late night and into the early pre-dawn hours on Sunday.
Sunday Libra Moon fills the morning with optimism and enjoys a good conversation with a loved one in the breakfast hours EDT. But obstacles arise and peace is challenged by lunchtime EDT. Libra Moon’s next aspect will clear this when it arrives on Monday morning.
Moon Remains in Libra with an aspect completing in the morning on Monday
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PLANETARY AND LUNAR EVENTS
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MARS ENTERS CANCER
Fiery Mars can have lower energy when in any water sign, and this Mars can have difficulty feeling safe if expressing anger. (Of course, having a fire Moon, especially in Aries with this this placement, will not find Mars in Cancer as inhibited in this respect.) They will express anger in situations where others are not present…like driving alone in their car or being alone in the home. And when with others, they will adopt an indirect, strategic way to get their point across or their needs met. *
But Mars will also be passionate about home and family. If these areas are being challenged, Cancer Mars will do what’s needed to defend their territory. In fact, they want to be the one in control of the home, and any visitors need to have an agreed upon time to drop by. Most Mars in Cancer people feel safer in a home on the ground floor. Within the home, the bedroom and kitchen is where they are most active.
Which leads me to say, Mars in Cancer has a strong sex drive which may be a daily activity. Mars in Cancer can also have a passion for cooking and food in general. However, although they may like it, spicy food can irritate as the heat of Mars in Cancer already affects the sensitive mucous membranes of the digestive system. Repressed anger can also inflame the stomach.
Mars in Cancer may also be prone to sinus irritation and other inflammations in or near the mouth.
Since Cancer is the sign of the people of a country, Mars here can be strongly patriotic and expect others to be so, too. They like to have a large and secret nest egg, enough to see them through any eventuality.
During this transit we may also opt to take an indirect approach in situations and shy away from direct confrontations. While in Cancer, Mars will make or receive easy aspects to planets in Scorpio or Pisces, Taurus or Virgo. Stress aspects come with conjunctions to planets in Cancer and oppositions to those in Capricorn.
The house in the birth chart with this transit will be a place of greater activity but also potential argument. Homebuying, home improvements or buying for the home may also be accelerated.
Mars will be in Cancer until it enters Leo on September 27th.
*Note: people may call this ‘passive aggressive’ behavior but that is more properly known as a psychological diagnosis where the individual has unconsciously chosen to put their unacceptable feelings of anger a compartment of the mind where the anger plots and creates the irritation of another. This compartment is not known to the individual and that is why they react with denial and hurt when accused of doing something upsetting. It can be true of certain people with Mars in Cancer, but it is not true for all of them…and the psychological issue is not limited to any sign.
20 DEGREE LEO NEW MOON—TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
I posted an article on this event which has information and an attempt to find a good image for the many areas of the world that will be able to view the totality and the partial shadow.
If you have been reading my posts, you know I am not a fan of being under and Eclipse, Solar or lunar, and I note the house where it occurs and aspects it makes in the birth chart.
Aspects from 20 Leo will be easy with planets in Aries, Sagittarius, Gemini and Libra. More difficulty arises with planets in Taurus, Scorpio and Aquarius. And whatever aspects you have, we all have the south node transiting in Leo until March of 2028. We start on our serious lessons about the less attractive aspects of Leo along with the emphasis on the issues brought by the Leo Eclipse.
The Solar Eclipse influences conditions and circumstances of the outer world: cultural agreements and traditions, corporations, government, achievements and reputations. This brings a noticeable change we may view as negative or positive for ourselves and the collective. They have an orb of influence of up to 6 months.
If we have been paying attention, the change may not be a surprise. And the old saying, when one door closes another door opens, is appropriate here. Every end is followed by a new beginning.
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OUTER PLANET SIGN SHIFTS AND RETROGRADES
Entering the Retrograde Cycle of the Solar Year
We have Pluto retrograde, Neptune and Saturn retrograde. Uranus retrogrades on September 10th, Venus on October 3rd, Mercury again on October 24th and finally Jupiter on December 12th.
The largest number of planets in retrograde will be when 5 are retrograding at the same time:
1. When Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde (Pluto for 12 days but goes direct on Oct. 15th).
2. When Mercury retrogrades again on October 24th, with Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune retrograde.
See below for current information.
· Saturn is retrograde in 14 Aries
· Uranus is direct in 5 Gemini
· Pluto is retrograde in 3 Aquarius.
· Neptune is retrograde in 4 Aries
· Jupiter is direct and up to speed in 8-10 LEO
NEXT WEEK: THE WEEK BEFORE THE 4 PISCES LUNAR ECLIPSE, SUN ENTERS VIRGO
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