dim moonlight shower

June 2nd, 2021

In its last quarter phase, the bottom half of the moon is lit by the sun below us, reflecting its light onto Earth. As the Moon in Pisces enters a 90* angle with the Sun in Gemini, the Moon aligns with the direction of the Earth’s orbit: its dark side facing the direction we are heading towards, and its lit side mirroring back to us the dimmed light of the Sun in Gemini.

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.

The North node of the moon is one of the two imaginary points in which the Moon and the Sun’s orbits meet, and it is the one that traditionally gives direction to the work to be done. A work of articulation and communication of these re/newed sense of how we may exist in the world otherwise.

Even if this confrontation between a dissolving sense of self (Pisces Moon in the 1st house) and the re/imagination of what grounds and composes us (Gemini Sun in the 4th house) may play out at the personal level, its resonance is larger, thanks to the beneficial aspects from both Saturn an Uranus.

As you might know, Saturn and Uranus are spending the year 2021 squaring off each other, providing a good description of the ongoing global crisis and the de/restructuring it demands. Yet in this Last Quarter Moon the two planets aligns smoothly with both the Sun and the Moon, in an almost symmetric way, as if the information they each carry could be expressed through the personal, giving each of us a 'feeling’ of/for what this shift may entail.

Who knows what kind of root we may grow while showering under this dim moonlight?