Deeply unsettling transformations that are occurring at the level of the ideas and ideals prevailing in collective thinking and informing societal practices and processes impact how we share, process, or respond to the shift consciously as well as how we feel, as indicated by the consistent water formations (12th house/Capricorn on the Cusp New Moon in Aquarius, 6th house/Pisces on the cusp New Moon in Pisces, and again 12th house/ Pisces on the cusp New Moon in Aries Conjunct with Neptune). New Moon in Aquarius and in Pisces offered water images, that is, waterscape (Aquarius) and underwater (Pisces). Following suit New Moon in Aries also seems to be daring anyone who ignores that this is not about how things stand separately, it is about that which, like water, is constitutive of everything that exists, as well as of what is in between.

How does one respond to the silent plea that resonates louder than a thousand thunders, right there in the deepest crooks and cracks, where you can’t really tell what comes through from what comes from you? Today at 7:45PM EST, the New Moon in Pisces, in the 6th house, reminds us that every opposition can also be read as complementation, that what is not is also that which is needed or else nothing really holds together. As, for instance, the case of atoms that compose every existing thing, whose stability depends among other things on a correspondence between the number of electrons (negatively charged) and protons (positively charged). Hence when one loses an electron or more and becomes electrically charged, even that which seems impossible become henceforth imaginable, thinkable, and even doable.

An underground river system is the image that comes to mind when thinking of how at the 0 degree of the New Moon, the ascendant, Sun, Mercury, and the Moon meet in Aquarius, on the 12th house on January 29, 2025. They met after having passed over Pluto, which is hanging at the 1st degree of Aquarius. New beginnings, a moment for reviewing and planning are the key words for the 7 days falling under the rule of the New Moon. Many report that New Moon periods are difficult, the energy is low, the horizons seem to have closed in on them. Today’s New Moon, in Aquarius, focuses the reviewing and planning on the outside, the collective, and in particular on any project for the betterment the social and ecological contexts. Not really in a  ‘comfortable’ place, when in Aquarius or the 11th house, the Moon is out of touch with the emotional. Now this  first New Moon of 2025, which also marks the start of the Chinese Year of the Wood Snake, is, however, in the depths of the psyche, the 12th house, a place  from where it reaches directly underground collective feelings and emotions. 

Because the new moon is happening in Pisces, which is also the last of the water signs, this announcement of the dissolution of the nation-state does not open a window to oblivion. Instead, as it recalls the many refugees from Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, who have knocked the doors of Europe over the years, it is a reminder of the many more and deeper interconnections between humans and nonhumans alike.

This announcement does not tell us what lies beyond the dissolution but invites questions that may guide us there, such as: What would become of the collective if it was no longer imaged as a grouping of individual dots? Would a nation-state still be thinkable when the multiple material belongings and entanglements we are composed of would be acknowledged?

This full moon gathers us in revision, which is another word for study, about service and in service, of each other, of ourselves and of the planet that sustain our lives. With Chiron in the 9th House in Aries, the revision we feel under this moonlight, has an ethical dimension to it. Full Moon in Gemini adds its deem light and render a bit more perceptible -- perhaps only subconsciously - the unusual collective structures the Saturn and Uranus Square has been teasing us to built.

How does the intensity of this moment allow us to sense each other, the planet, our body? what thinking becomes possible in this depth? As we go about contemplating the shadow we cast through this lunar eclipse, expanding intensity is the work.

Read this way, this full moon in Pisces comes an opportunity to confront the ways value is embodied both personally and collectively. How do abstract ideas of value shape the collective and its institution? how does value as felt appreciation gather and orient our movements, materialize our bodies and immediate geographies? Where are the resonances and dissonances between the two?

This New Moon (Sun and Moon) in Virgo is opposed to Mercury in Pisces on the Second House, and comes into effect as Jupiter and Saturn (in Aquarius) parade in a First House ruled by Saturn. That, to me, gives the sense that the auto-learning/auto-teaching allows for an emotional and intellectual appreciation of undoing, unraveling, unweaving the fabric, the threads, the molecules, atoms that compose the many layers of matter that is actual existence. At that level, in/as these deeper layers this scrutiny may expose that which is unanticipated because it constitutes the very fabric of existence and, for that reason, is not available (in spacetime) for scrutiny.

Something’s up, something is coming up and whatever it is, be it an idea, a possible way of existing, an inspiration, a bodily or earthly need (MC 0* Taurus), it appears with clarity and carrying a whole lot of depth.  This is the depth carried by the trine between Pluto, Uranus and Mars/Mercury, which makes the traces of the ongoing planetary transformation available as clues,  all already here in our material circumstances and immediate surroundings. 

This New Moon in Leo resounds inner complexity! More precisely – well, precision is not really relevant, or even desirable in this context – it recalls what can be thought, said, or related if, just for a moment, one entertains the possibility that everything that is possible, potential, actual, and virtual holds at the same time, inside, that is, within/as us and all other singular bodies and minds.

I like to read this full moon in Aquarius as an invitation to sense the continuity beyond and before the apparent duality of self and other, interior and exterior distinctions. If we turn with the astrological wheel, the interior and the exterior, as well as all the other complementary descriptors of opposing portions of the sky, all lie in/as a continuous surface of inhabitance.

New Moon in Cancer offers a precious opportunity for reconsidering how we reflect and study (given by its Trine with a 3rd House Retrograde Neptune Pisces). It invites a consideration of what can be learned, recorded, or proposed when thinking recalls liquid expressions of the sensible.

As it squares the Sun, the Moon transits the 6th house of health and conjuncts Chiron, also known as the wounded healer. In this configuration and in Aries, the Moon may show up as a push, a rush, a drive or perhaps a cry, towards healing itself. And yet, what does healing mean in the midst of a global pandemic that is strengthening and consolidating day by day the inequalities of this world? what kind of action would healing require?

What is it about the structure of this global capitalist context that becomes visible, that becomes knowable when looked at, not from the perspective of a person and their issues regarding home and their public image, but from this latest act against the already limited Indigenous rights to their traditional lands (Moon in the 4th house)? What would it have to to say about how we, each and every one of us, perceive ourselves reflected in the global context (Sun in the 10h House)?

Emerging from its darkness the Moon shines in the sign of Virgo, half lit by the Gemini Sun. The shift in thinking that re/turned in the last new moon has now an opportunity to find a creative expression of some sort, gifting us with a generative glimpse.

What is made anew, what re-turns when the Moon spends that brief moment, under its own light, with the Gemini Sun? Where the Sun accentuates that mode of thinking that thrives in duality and separability, which cannot but presuppose and impose unity, the Dark Moon invites a meditation on thinking itself – but not on content (the what) of thinking but on the manner (the how) of thinking.

The dim light of this watery moon is an invitation to reckon with the uncertainty, and perhaps with the fundamental indeterminacy of our existence. As scary or anxiety-filling as this might sound, the Sun in Gemini conjunct the North Node in the fourth house offers a glimpse, a fleeting intuition or perhaps even a strong sense of what grounding and belonging could feel when not attached to formal notions of identity and unity.