by Robert Wilkinson
Over the next 4 weeks, the New Moon in Gemini indicates we will all find a new form of expressing ourselves wherever we have Gemini in our charts, and need to communicate with others so we can sharpen our aim, and receive blessings from the invisible world. Check out your expectancies, monitor your longing for “the visitation,” and stay open to returns and renewals.
This New Moon in Gemini will give us new perspectives on potential futures, and make some of us wait while others will be rewarded for waiting up to now. This is almost an entirely forward-looking time, with new ideas, new communications, and productive groundwork getting into motion.
This period begins a shift in ideals for us all, as well as our vision of what can and cannot be accomplished with the preconceptions we have and what we’re willing to learn, or not. Based in what decans the planets are in, it'll be a time of very action oriented productivity with an individual-spiritual emphasis. It’s time to consolidate, integrate, and be resolute and patient as we demonstrate our skill within a social setting.
The New Moon occurs at 29 Gemini on June 19, 2012, 8:02 am PDT, 11:02 am EDT, 4:02 pm Greenwich (20 June in Tokyo, eastern Australia, and New Zealand). When a Lunation is on one of the angles of a chart, it is said to be particularly powerful. This month the Lunation is culminating in the east coast of North America and South America, setting in Cairo and Johannesburg, on the nadir in Hong Kong, Tokyo, western Australia, and Melbourne, and rising in Maui.
The Lunation finds 28 Cancer rising in Santa Monica, 3 Leo in Vancouver, 8 Virgo in Montreal, 4 Virgo in Washington DC, 1 Libra in Rio, 28 Libra in Lisbon, 1 Scorpio in London, 4 Scorpio in Amsterdam, 10 Scorpio in Berlin, 13 Scorpio in Tallinn, 22 Scorpio in Sofia, 5 Sagittarius in Cairo, and 25 Sagittarius rising in Johannesburg.
Moving into Asia and Oceana, we find Ascendants at 10 Capricorn in Abbottabad, 17 Capricorn in New Delhi, 26 Capricorn in Trivandrum, 18 Aquarius in Bangkok, 2 Pisces in Hong Kong, 6 Aries in Tokyo, 13 Pisces in Perth, 8 Aries in Melbourne, 15 Aries in Brisbane, 1 Taurus in Wellington, and 18 Gemini rising on Maui (19 June.)
This is the first in a sequence of New Moons that fall in the sign preceding the Sun of the following Full Moon. This reverses the sequence of the past 20 months that all had the New Moon in the same sign as the subsequent Full Moon. That pattern is now reversed for many months to come. I explain this phenomenon and what it means in the Full Moon articles, so I’ll elaborate on this new beginning that reverses “the natural order of things” in the next Full Moon articles coming in about two weeks.
The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced in Libra, purified in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.
This New Moon at 29 Gemini, like last month’s Solar Eclipse in Gemini, puts the focus on learning, communicating, discovering, and perceiving new ideas and ways of relating to others. Much that we focus on during the next 4 weeks will be a truth or teaching opening new futures for us in June 2013 when Jupiter crosses this degree point, a lot like the adventures that have begun now that Jupiter has entered Gemini and crossed last month’s Solar Eclipse point at 1 Gemini. It’s definitely a time of an acceleration of the eclipse effect!
This Lunation jumpstarts Gemini energy wherever it falls in our chart. As I mentioned earlier, this period involves us taking “collective material” and shaping it so it reveals something of our inner life and purpose to the world. This period involves turning a corner on old ways of interpreting and communicating, with new understanding challenging and/or releasing new ideals, and requires some degree of Divine Discrimination around knowing what’s core and what’s peripheral, as well as the ability to fit things into a larger Truth and/or future while keeping our sense of humor.
It’s a time to communicate with others so we can take careful aim at whatever target we desire, and open to receiving blessings from the invisible world. New worlds are a-borning in the voids left by what has ended the past year. This will help us learn new skills, new perspectives, new understanding, and new ways to communicate our needs and feelings.
Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo, and as such is a major player in terms of influence in this Eclipse. It’s in Cancer, forming a power septile to Jupiter and just separating off an equally powerful biseptile ot Uranus. This will bring major turning points and forks in the road of our destiny wherever we have Aries, Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces prominent in our charts. Major hot zones of influence are 7-11 Aries, 29 Taurus-3 Gemini, 20-24 Cancer, 12-16 Virgo, 3-7 Scorpio, 25-29 Sagittarius, and 16-20 Aquarius. If you have planets in any of these zones, it’s a major shift in direction for you, so choose carefully!
This New Moon has an individual, mental, and spiritual focus. As it falls in Gemini, as I just noted Mercury is the ruler of this New Moon. Mercury is in Cancer, ruled by the Moon, and the the Moon is in Gemini. That makes the Moon and Mercury the rulers of all the other planetary energies, since they are in Mutual Reception. The only exception to this broad rulership is Neptune, in its home sign of Pisces.
Still, Mercury’s solid influence is not to be underestimated, especially since it’s the direct dispositor for the Moon, Sun, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, no small thing! Mercury in Cancer is mind infused with feelings, so expect to be sensitive to perceptions, words, opinions, and views that you might now ordinarily take note of. Mercury sextile Mars will promote efficiency, but again, it’s the non-rational aspects that take the stage in this Lunation.
One major factor in this Lunation is that the Moon and Sun make no forming aspects to any other planet. That implies that whatever the next 4 weeks are about, it’s already been set into motion before now. It also makes this Lunation “Void of Course” (VOC), which I’ll explain more in depth in part two of this New Moon set.
Neptune and Chiron at the Cusp of the Age:
Other than the brief look we had in mid-2011, this is only the fifth New Moon with Neptune in Pisces for the next 150 years. We had Neptune in Pisces for the 3 New Moons for May, June, and July 2011 which gave us a front end look at how Neptune will function through 2025.
Between August, when Neptune retrograded back into late Aquarius, and the recent January New Moon, we were given one last look back at a greater ideal, and the changes of the last half of 2011 helped many to break out of our "chrysalis" and transform how we live and all our relationships. That is now established in the collective consciousness, as well as a growing sense of the larger light field in which all sentient Beings live and love.
If you want to know what's coming for many years to come, take a look back at the intuitions and sense of belonging to a vaster interrelated whole you were shown in May, June, and July 2011. It may help to give a sense of our collective lesson in dissolving our separateness as we finish this transition through "the Winter of the 21st Century" on our way to Spring, beginning in 2025!
During those months that both Neptune and Chiron were in early Pisces, we were offered chances to learn about bargaining and trade-offs, with the ultimate payoff a deeper and larger feeling of being connected to others. During the last half of 2011, Neptune retrograded back to 29 Aquarius, the degree where humanity was forced to emerge from its "chrysalis" as a new world is being born.
Chiron retrograded back to 1 Pisces. So those two dancing together kept us attuned to elements of this transitional span of experience for all of 2011 as we prepared to cut loose into the Neptune in Pisces era for many years to come. During 2011 both Neptune and Chiron revealed our unique part to play within a larger light/life field.
During that time, these planets at the beginning of Pisces and end of Aquarius occupied degrees representing "the Cusp of the Age," the span where the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius meet. From one point of view, where we were collectively between February 2011 and March 2012 revealed what the period of (approximately) 1990-2140 is all about in the broader context of human evolution. I suspect that future generations will look back at 2011 and 2012 as being crucial in showing long range patterns of larger evolutionary necessities.
Neptune and Chiron dancing between signs on "the Cusp of the Age" had the effect of making it seem like we have all been occupying a very weird dreamscape which we'll be navigating for years to come. The trick for us is to apply our new strengths and understanding freed from the ghosts of the past, and by riding the waves of intense (but curiously steady) pulses of spiritual energies shaping our minds, we can find techniques where our efforts will lead us to forms of good fortune.
During the year they danced together in this critical degree span, they provided us a bridge to understanding the global lessons we all must embrace, and helped us graduate into a new view of how we are an essential part of a greater whole. I'll give you links to articles explaining more about "the cusp of the Age" at the end of this article.
In this New Moon Neptune is still on its stationary retrograde degree at 4 Pisces while Chiron is at 10 Pisces. This will help us heal anew through our positioning within collective consciousness, with a focus on healing into our Higher Selves through seeing what we’re dedicated to, what skills we’ve cultivated, what “call” we’ve heard, and how we’ve quickened our striving. While there may be symbolic “traffic jams” in the collective consciousness, we can learn to navigate them “flying by the seat of our pants,” demonstrating a mastery of obscure conditions and growing into a new consecration.
More About Saturn's Universally Important Influence
Though not as prominent as when it was the nozzle for all the other planetary energies (returning for the last time December 2012 through February 2013, but in Scorpio), we'll continue to put a spotlight on Saturn in Libra, the cosmic timekeeper, since it does symbolize the ongoing lessons and limitations within the larger field of existence. Saturn will remain in Libra through early October 2012.
Saturn continues to be a very powerful influence since it is in its sign of "exaltation." That means Saturn's discipline and personal power focus is able to become very effective as it shows balance, rhythm, moderation, and reasonableness in how we demonstrate it.
What we learned from Saturn in Virgo in 2007-2009 will have to be applied in forms of practical action as Mars transits Virgo between now and early July. Once Mars enters Libra, we then get to apply the wisdom forms we learned via Saturn in Libra beginning November 2009.
With Saturn retrograde since early February, we are reviewing how to repair or reconstruct things from the past to come to a philosophical completion between now and October 2012. This will involve not simply reconstructing something, but also seeing things from a holistic perspective that enables us to be more well-rounded in our understanding before we enter a deepened, more intense period beginning in October 2012 when Saturn enters Scorpio, introducing a new set of lessons.
During this period of coming to a holistic philosophical view, many will be able to read meanings in symbols and things, and will move beyond knowledge into true balanced understanding. We can recognize a cosmic order in things, and use that to reorder our world. Here we perfect our integrity, and in doing so find a gift for furthering what we want in the way of a more ideal reality.
As Saturn rules Pluto in this chart, it shows that when we are confronted with the need to deal with something or someone in an organized, efficient manner, reference Saturn in Libra and the lessons of balance, justice, proportion, and moderation in judgment you've been learning. Naturally, the usual Saturn keywords will be crucial to effective behavior - patience, discipline, organization, patience, maturity, wisdom, patience, authority, responsibility, and of course, patience.
So as you open to the sixth New Moon of 2012, take stock of what you've been learning and put it together in a larger holistic understanding. In 2011 we learned about karmic consequences from a wider angle of view, while playing by the rules of whatever system we've been dealing with, or acting within, showing as much balance, grace, and equipoise as we could, given Saturn's penchant for heaviness.
We are all learning a lot about Dharma during Saturn's stay in Libra, as well as what we should not be trying to prop up through a misplaced sense of responsibility or obligation. If we run into roadblocks or delays, it should tell us a lot about patience, as well as what limitations and burdens we can live with and what we cannot.
As noted in previous articles, Saturn continues to usher in allies, friends, fellow truth-seekers, more balanced views, and corrective actions as techniques for community building or group awareness. The transfigurations in our actions and relationships we've gone through since January 2011 have led us to do forms of "repair work," where we confronted the consequences of past actions, whether our own or another's. The repair work could as easily be in the realm of our inner self as in outer affairs.
Saturn in this Lunation chart is at 23 Libra, the degree where it will go stationary direct on June 25 at 1:01 am PDT, 9:01 am Greenwich. It indicates we need to be creative and joyous in opportunities to embrace a life renewal, since we stand on the threshold of a new day that is almost ready to dawn. This will be the platform for all of us as we enter into the second half of 2012, so get ready to salute the rising sun, anticipate what’s coming, find security in your Higher Self and Dharma, and go inward for “refreshment at the inner sources of ever-reviewed life.”
A Little More About the Recent Past As Prologue
When Venus first transited the Gemini zone of the Grand Irrationality in the third and fourth week of April, it triggered that long wave influence, as well as set off echoes of the Gemini Solar Eclipse of June 2011 which also fell in the Gemini zone of that powerful configuration. We went through the second phase of that influence with more “irrational” destiny-producing developments (which could be good or bad, depending) when it next occupied 14-18 Gemini, as well as when Mercury and the Sun also transited this zone, between May 31 and June 10.
We’ll see further major developments in the near future, since Venus will again cross this zone during the third and fourth weeks of July. All we have experienced through the Sun, Mercury, and Venus filters will spring forth as major teachings, opportunities, or some other Jupiter expression from mid-August through late November this year, as well as in April and early May 2013. Prepare for major developments!
As long time readers know, the Grand Irrationality is a long wave non-rational influence that has put everyone on Earth on the unceasing edge of major choice and change, confronting inner compulsions and outer irrational behaviors. It is why things seem to have an unending hard edge, why so many choices are continually thrown in our faces that require immediate attention, and why reason seems to fail at critical moments of decision.
It’s a time when things don’t have to make sense, nor will they for some time to come. The only thing that matters is that we learn how to ride this ever-changing wave of very strange and weird human experience, and not get lost in our own obsessions, compulsions, and the general irrationality of our times. There are numerous articles in the archives about what this is all about, and how to deal with these very strange energies, so please take a look if you are so inclined.
Last year’s Gemini Solar Eclipse that triggered the Grand Irrationality for years to come has liberated all of us from some elements and ghosts of our past, freeing us from old preconceptions and chains of mental slavery. That intense activation of last June has shown as hectic intense bursts that often made no sense during the past year, and the current “off and on” patterns of other planets in irrational relationships is forcing us to choose wisely. We have now been challenged to find ways to liberate ourselves from unhelpful views and attitudes while staying on track with the new elements arising from the numerous conjunctions to Jupiter in Aries that have presented themselves over the past 14 months.
As I made clear for many months, Autumn 2011 was a time to cultivate the "plants in our garden of personality and life" that is what we’ve been drawing on to substantiate a new reality and set of values in 2012. Between June 2011 and February 2012 we experienced three "cosmic visitations" that changed our lives in big ways.
Jupiter expanded that theme in the 2012 Aquarius New Moon, accelerating a major transformation time that has had wide-ranging effects throughout the first half of 2012! As the Taurus New Moon in late April fell exactly on that same degree, in May many experienced spectacular developments related to the past times that Jupiter occupied 2 Taurus!!
Last August put us all through "a liberating ordeal," leading us to be freed from old social rigidities and finding joy in fellowship with new associates with whom we can work and play. Since then we’ve been practicing a new freedom, with efficiency sky high due to Mars in Virgo since last November.
This Lunation continues that efficiency, and with Mercury, ruler of the Eclipse, in Cancer, there will be a focus on what we care about, what we need to nurture, what type of a home we want or need, and many interactions and communications with family. We’ve acquired some of the assets we needed during Jupiter in Taurus, and stabilized a growth pattern. Now it’s time to continue to receive reward from the invisible world for our faith, so open to your blessings, and remember to leave Santa some good food and drink so he’ll be refreshed while he leaves you the gifts you’ve asked for!
Over the past year, Jupiter has shown us a new life dedication, how to find hope in the face of coldness or barrenness, and how to cultivate purity of heart and faith in a transformed future. We were also shown how to use knowledge and skill to anticipate the future, allow a new quality of being to supersede an old lesser order, and through releasing elements of the past, find our "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" where we have accepted the Divine workings that show us who we are and who we aren't.
Jupiter went direct in motion last December, launching our 2012 Jupiterian adventure. During the last 5 1/2 months, we’ve all had opportunities to open to larger ideas, larger opportunities, larger understanding, larger ways to look at resources and values, and larger futures. We originally entered this phase of concretizing a better life between early June and late August 2011. We got a different perspective from August through December, and in March completed the third pass across the first 11 degrees of Taurus.
This helped us demonstrate mastery of what Jupiter's been teaching us in terms of opportunities to enter into a creative partnership with Nature Herself, and could see where we can naturally "pour ourselves out" into some way to manifest our Soul. So contemplate the wreckage of the last half of 2011 as necessary to make space for the future growth of the new initiatives and expansions originally set into motion between March and May 2011. Things should have become more solid and stable since late February, which has opened new worlds and new discoveries in June 2012.
Overall, due to the mix of Virgo, Libra, Capricorn, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer energies, this will be a very eclectic, spread out, and diverse New Moon period. The sheer quantity of planets in Gemini (Moon, Sun, Venus, Jupiter) may make for some rapid, multi-dimensional discoveries that will lead to sudden and important developments in the next few weeks.
During the time this Lunation is in force, practical action is accented so we exteriorize something unique or special in our understanding and capabilities. This time will open us to new knowledge, new skills that are somehow familiar or derive from old practices, and tremendous growth for those who are willing to learn “the rules of the game” and play by them.
The line of growth is through imagination that will lead to a greater, wider vision of who we are able to become, and a greater, wider, more open and free future. Especially with both Venus and Jupiter leading the Sun and Moon, this Lunation promises whole new truths, new understandings, new philosophical approaches, and new futures that are more enjoyable than anything we’ve had to let go of since June 2011.
In the next part of the series we'll discuss the various aspects at play in the chart, as well as some important degree symbols and other interesting elements affecting all of us for 4 weeks to come.
Here are two articles related to "the cusp of the Age."
Neptune Then, Neptune Now - The Cusp of the Age of Aquarius
Neptune Retrograde Into Aquarius - A New Look At the New Age This one has links to articles related to this theme, so enjoy following the breadcrumbs through the woods of time!
© Copyright 2012 Robert Wilkinson
I love working with the moon phases! Thanks for sharing, and explaining the benefits in more detail. I prefer new moons to full moons, I tend to get over emotional when its full, but feel a lot more motivated when the moon is new.
Posted by: psychic Holly | June 18, 2012 at 05:45 PM
Very cool. As the moon trines my nata sarurn which is posited in my 7th house at 29 aquarius!!! Venus went retrograde exactly on my natal north node in gemini at 23 d!!!!
My north node is conjunct my 11th house cusp
Posted by: Micheline | June 18, 2012 at 06:21 PM
Very clear and to the point.....and thus very helpfull!!
Posted by: Ilse | June 19, 2012 at 04:05 AM
Robert, could you please clarify "monitor your longing for "the visitation".
Thank you, Mary
Posted by: mary streets | June 19, 2012 at 07:59 AM
wow this is awesome.
i do have Gemini (Moon, Venus, Jupiter).... Cancer Sun... So i pretty much have a feel for this. I just have to say that the eclipse was pretty dark, and it's something I need to work through, because it is from that experience that i'm letting go, and into a new place where i'm learning that the old ways don't exist for the same reasons, and it's a lesson in relearning how to love and express myself.
"Tremendous growth for those who are willing to learn “the rules of the game” and play by them."
thanks!
Posted by: rogue12 | June 19, 2012 at 08:28 PM
Robert...so will this June & July be as bad as last year's May - July Grand Irrationality? We're ready to hide in the closet until it's safe to come out!! :-)
Posted by: Sandie | June 19, 2012 at 09:00 PM
Cancer sun 25´ having mystic experiences with lamas from tibet and dreaming about the fairyqueen..also suffering relatives.
Posted by: ull | June 20, 2012 at 02:15 AM