August 30th, 2023 at 7° 25 Pisces
“Girl-Scout, in camp, blows her bugle triumphantly. Fullness of life as it manifests in service to the whole. Spiritual socialization. Call to participate in the race work.”
Sabian Symbol, 8 degrees Pisces
Moon conjunct Saturn Rx, in Pisces
A Pisces Moon is a sensitive moon, whether that is someone who was born with that moon placement or a transitory moment in the sky. When Neptune rules a Moon cycle, we feel more sensitive because veils are lifted – we are meant to use the sensitivity to feel things we would miss otherwise. When that full moon is closer to Earth, such as during a Super Moon, those feels are felt even more strongly.
Conjunct Saturn Retrograde in Pisces, we’re feeling the continued effects of review of our spiritual structures, the end of the Age of Pisces. Saturn structures our lives, our society, our very body (through its rulership over our bones).
When Saturn turns retrograde, especially in boundless Pisces, there are boundaries missing. They don’t occur naturally or spontaneously, they must be intentional if they are to exist. If we do not choose to work with these energies consciously, we’re easily taken advantage of, our boundaries cross, our integrity breached. However, if we choose to work with these energies intentionally, we’re called to listen to spirit (Pisces) and build our own structure (Saturn). We develop inner power.
Saturn in Pisces could also be interpreted as a chance to make our spiritual practice real. By working consciously with Saturn’s push for pragmatism, practicality, and realness, when Saturn is in Pisces we’re given even more support to make our dreamy spiritual practices real and manifest on the Earth plane.
Pluto square the Moon’s Nodal Axis
When Pluto squares the nodal axis, we experience the phenomenon of “recovering missed steps” in our evolution. Reclaiming our time. Pluto rules our connection to our soul and our deep past, and channels it practically through the Moon’s Nodes. When these three points are at a tense square of 90°, we’re called to make up for lost time. What is the work that we have skipped? What issue was too hard for us to face, and what are we called to do at this moment to work on it? The cycles repeat until we do the healing and integrate the learning.
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek most famously stated that if a revolution is to be successful, it must vindicate all previous revolutions that were so violently stopped. Which fascinates me to ponder as Pluto ends its time in Capricorn and moves into Aquarius, starting a new generation. As planets reach their critical degree, the last degree in their sign, they reconcile the learnings of that sign through their own archetype. And those of us on the planet integrate those principles on a personal level. Pluto in Capricorn has been tearing down the old controlling power structures that no longer serve us – the misuse of power, structure, resources, will be reconciled. The last time Pluto was at this degree of Capricorn was the time of the American and French Revolutions, and we see reflections of those moments in the US and France still today (the wealth gap, among so many other examples).
Pluto, however, is not a sign that waits on us – it calls us to our evolution. The level of intensity and crisis we experience in a Pluto transit is relative to how much we resist our own evolution. With Pluto squaring the nodes in Aries and Libra, we’ll see issues of diplomacy, relationship, and mutual understanding at odds with impulsivity and violence. These are lessons that our society can no longer wait to resolve because war will not be tolerated in the Aquarian Age. Will we learn to hear each other? Will we learn peace and balance? Can we remember in our deep past lifetimes of peace and connection with the Earth? Connection with the Earth is what intuition is, when the voice in our head is her voice shining through. Can we hear her?
Chiron Rx conjunct North Node in Aries
Chiron is a dwarf planet located between Saturn and Uranus, connected in myth to the Centaur Chiron, who was a master healer and initiator of those who would walk a spiritual path. Chiron governs our connection to our deepest wounds in each lifetime, those eternal crises we just can’t seem to shake.
Chiron in Aries is the wound to existence itself: do I have a right to be? It can signal a lifetime crisis over the topic of taking up space in the world, or feeling like we belong. It can signal physical violence and wounding. All of these issues must be resolved (Libra), and Pluto will not wait (square).
When Chiron joins the North Node in Aries in the sky, we experience a collective call to healing of this wound. However this is painful healing unless we work with it intentionally.
When Chiron makes a full transit in the birthchart, around the time we reach the age 50 or so, we experience a Chiron Return if we are successful at handling the energy. Chiron Return is spiritual integration in the body. Chiron will soon be reaching its first full orbit in the sky since it was discovered, which means spiritual integration will be an even more pressing question in the coming years. Do you have the right to inhabit your body? To exist on the Earth? Can you accept that you do have these rights, and can you allow yourself to integrate spirit into your physical body, so you can ground your spiritual connection into the Earth?
This is the wound we face, this is the task we’re given. This is the healing that we’re being called to integrate.
Moon Counsel 
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