Astral Weeks
July 29 – August 4, 2018
For everyone who survived the longest and most-hyped by the
media full lunar eclipse of the 21st century on July 27th,
Sunday July 29’s void of course Moon in Aquarius feels like a little bit
of breathing room in a dizzying schedule. Inhale! Exhale! Focus on hope and reject lingering fearful thoughts. Let some of the tension that has built up around all the energetic activity dissolve. Practice the Aquarian superpower: detach and keep moving.
The Moon moves into Pisces Sunday
evening, enhancing sensitivity and empathy. Last week’s planetary activity was
so jarring, we need tender connection to each other more than ever right now. Monday’s
Moon in Pisces trine Jupiter in Scorpio invites deeper intimacy, followed by
the Moon conjunct Neptune in Pisces in the wee small hours of Tuesday
morning. That’s when boundaries and borders between intimate partners become porous
and dissolve. If you are smart and you are lucky, you’ve had a pajama party
with your most beloved partner going on since Sunday night.
Take advantage of
the relative down time because mellow turns to fierce and fiery when the Moon
goes into dynamic, courageous, impulsive, brave, energetic, and sometimes
headstrong Aries on Wednesday morning. The emotional energy gets ramped
up but may run into a log jam when Retrograde Mars and Uranus make a direct square
Wednesday evening strongly in the fixed signs of Aquarius and Taurus,
respectively.
Uranus is the modern planetary ruler of Aquarius, so square his Fixed
Air (Establishing Thought) home sign in the Fixed Earth (Establishing Manifestation)
sign supports the possibility of revolutionary energy come up hard against the status
quo of the establishment. Uranus is also called by some “the higher octave of
Mars.” The connections between Uranus/Mars/Aquarius continue to ripple through
the end of the week, energizing (perhaps shocking, perhaps merely surprising)
the comfortable out of complacency.
Thursday might feel like power struggles of the heart
when Aries Moon trines Mercury Retrograde in Leo, and squares Pluto in
Capricorn. Pushing and bullying others to get your way will only result in a
complete system shutdown. When you’re tempted to be forceful beyond the
spectrum of customary politeness, realize you’re about to cross the line of
perhaps not such a quick return.
Friday sees the Moon enter Taurus, making a
conjunction to Uranus in Taurus in the evening, joining Uranus’ supportive
trine to Retrograde Saturn in Capricorn. The Last Quarter Moon in Taurus on Saturday,
August 4th marks Shabbat Parshat Eikev, a recount of
the many blessings the Israelites were receiving as they prepared to enter the Promised
Land, and exhortations to remember that their blessings were because they were
beloved, not because they were deserving.
This consciousness of humility and
dependence on Divine Grace is important to keep in mind always, never more so
than during this time in our collective history. Saturday is also Shabbat
Mevarchim, during which we announce the molad, the date and time
of the upcoming Rosh Chodesh, the new Month of Elul, which will occur on
Shabbat, August 11th, at 7:33 (and 9 chalakim) PM, Jerusalem
time.
A Closer Look at the Skies:
During this week, Retrograde Mars and Retrograde Saturn are
inconjunct in Aquarius and Capricorn, respectively. In classical astrology, Saturn
is the ruling planet of both Capricorn and Aquarius. Saturn (“Shabbtai”
in Hebrew, from the same root as the word for “Shabbat,” meaning Sabbath) is
said to be the ruling planet of the Jewish People.
Symbolically speaking: Mars (aggression) in
Aquarius (humanitarianism, idealism) inconjunct (on a completely different
wavelength, invisible to each other) Saturn (the classical ruler of both
Aquarius and Capricorn) in Capricorn (traditionalism, ambition, assertive
persistence, materialism). It’s like a perfect symbolic picture of the
simmering struggle between American and Israeli Jews over the direction the
State of Israel is taking, politically and religiously.
The total lunar eclipse
in Aquarius on July 27th conjunct Mars in Aquarius stimulated a
series of events that may climax in December of 2020, when Jupiter and Saturn
make their conjunction in Aquarius. Following this event, Saturn and Pluto will
make a conjunction in Capricorn in January of 2021. The events of this month
are the kickoff to the developments climaxing at that time, which according to Jewish astrological tradition (see last week's edition of "Astral Weeks") have a direct bearing on the nation of Israel.
May the One Who keeps Israel neither slumber nor sleep!
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