How to Navigate Progress After the New Moon 🌚

Mars in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn

Venus in Sagittarius opposite Jupiter in Gemini

Venus in Sagittarius trine Chiron in Aries

Mars ingresses Leo

When we have to face the limitations and losses that Pluto tends to impose upon us, we can get frustrated and angry, either at others or at God or the universe. But when Mars shows up in the story opposing Pluto, we can really get angry. Granted, there can be good that comes from this typically difficult and volatile aspect, but usually it creates exactly that: difficulty and volatility. We have to be prepared for this possibility today. Is there anything at all that would set off an emotional outburst in our lives, whether by us or by someone we spend time with? Maybe it is best to remind ourselves and those we love that today is bound to be a sensitive day that needs to be dissected with as much emotional maturity as possible so that it does not go south quick.

Fortunately, this tension is highest in the morning, so we should feel at least a little relief as the aspect separates and the day saunters on. As it does so, we should do our best to analyze any frustrating issues that arose during the morning or even last night. Was there an emotional matter that needed to be released in order to be presented, even if it was released aggressively? The Venus-Jupiter opposition that follows the Mars-Pluto opposition is one that can sincerely help us better understand the purpose behind whatever the former brought into our lives. There are answers waiting for us if we are not too distracted or disturbed by what came first. 

Taking all of this as gracefully as possible will likely require some patience, breathing, and constant reminders that we have lessons waiting for us around every corner. Residual pain and angst stemming from unresolved emotional disturbances that may have been plaguing our lives lately needs to be discussed and sorted out. It can feel like there is little time left to get these kinds of things off our chest. What exactly are we trying to get to the bottom of? And what are we hoping to accomplish once we get there? Hopefully we have positive intentions to make things better, even if we feel compelled to point our finger, or worse, at someone in our lives. Let’s stay hopeful, cool, and collected!

Sun in Scorpio trine Saturn in Pisces

Moon in Sagittarius opposite Jupiter in Gemini

Moon in Sagittarius trine Chiron in Aries

Moon conjunct Venus in Sagittarius

The more mysterious and uncertain items on the agenda of our lives, whether we are conscious of them or not, often play out before we are aware of what happened. What have we been putting off, procrastinating, and intentionally not addressing in our lives? Is there a secret that needs to be revealed? Is there an ulterior motive behind something we are doing that we are afraid to admit to? Mysteries can reveal themselves today and expose what must be seen in order for right progress to take place. We should not take any messages from friends or loved ones lightly. If someone says they need to talk to us about something important, we should heed their call and go be by their side. Hopefully if we need someone to be there for us that can be facilitated. 

There can be emotional reminders today about what may have been revealed yesterday in our relationships. We may have faced something necessary, however reluctant we might have been to face it, and now we have to process it. How does it truly make us feel deep inside? Are we scared? Are we relieved? Are we excited? Are we hurt? We may feel a combination of things today, but most importantly we should allow ourselves time to process and integrate what we learned carefully and consciously. Our reactions should be dissected and analyzed for clues about why we feel the desire to react in those ways. We always have so much more to learn, and today can bring a lot to the surface to make amends with.

Moon in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces

Moon in Capricorn square its Nodes

Lots of things can confound us in life, and today will be no exception. Election day in the US, especially these days, is almost always fraught with conspiracies, uncertainty, confusion, and disillusionment, so we should expect the same throughout today. The enhanced likelihood of unexpected or ridiculous antics in the political world are sure to present themselves, but we might also be undergoing some overwhelming or confusing moments in our own personal lives, despite how passionate we may be about this election cycle. 

Decisions are bound to take longer than normal, and if we do come to a decision about anything we should be prepared to not feel the same way about that decision when we revisit it in the near future, perhaps even an hour or two later. Because of these possibilities today, it may be best if we go vote and then find something calming, relaxing, and pleasurable to escape into for the rest of the day. Perhaps some spiritual practice or just a meditative saunter through the forest can help ground this otherwise hazy-minded kind of day.

Moon in Capricorn sextile Saturn in Pisces

Moon in Capricorn square Chiron in Aries

Today’s Capricorn Moon is bound to bring some official news and matter-of-fact realities crashing down upon us. It could very well be the election results that are shaping up one way or another, or it could be something entirely unrelated to society. Maybe we are coming to terms with something we have been avoiding and running away from that has to be addressed and dealt with. The pieces we pick up along our path through life create a puzzle for us to put together, but sometimes we pick up too many pieces at once and other times we forget to pick anything up at all. If we figure out what is missing we can go back and find those pieces so our puzzle is not so mysterious after all.

This process of finding what we need to make our lives function more productively can sometimes be rooted in accepting parts of ourselves that we have not wanted to accept. When we still hold contempt for things we have done or decisions we have made, we cannot fully love and appreciate ourselves for all we are. Those flaws and mistakes are part of the inevitably imperfect perfection that we embody. Wrongs done to us have scarred and traumatized us, but we are still here with the wherewithal to carry on, so what can we surmise here? We have what it takes to embrace all we have suffered and accomplished.

Moon in Capricorn trine Uranus in Taurus

Moon in Capricorn sextile Neptune in Pisces

Moon conjunct Pluto in Capricorn

Moon in Aquarius opposite Mars in Leo

The retribution of those who perpetrated against us at any point in our lives does not have to come from us. Cause and effect will play out naturally. Therefore, we can spend more time righting our own ship so our path is always improving and getting better. Working our way through the rather obnoxious fog and marine layer might not be our ideal course, but sometimes we have to experience what we cannot see coming. Today can feel just like that. 

This is the last time Moon will conjunct Pluto in Capricorn after over sixteen years of doing so every month. No one alive will ever experience this conjunction again in Capricorn. So, today is a milestone opportunity to embrace and understand the level of mastery we have achieved after all these years. How far have we come through all the dramatic intensity and karmic realities that have bombarded us since 2008? What have we learned about ourselves and how have we become better people? Hopefully we learned that hard work and excruciating lessons in truth and consequences have brought us full circle back to what makes everything work out in the end: Love! 

The new era begins preemptively with this evening’s Moon-Mars opposition in Aquarius-Leo. We are setting our sights on new bars, new levels, and new heights we hope to ascend to. The gusto we need to get to those lofty planes can be found in a supportive engine like Mars in Leo, so as long as we do not allow such a feisty opposition to get the better of our immaturity, we might be able to see the peaks of the mountains we hope to climb someday soon. Let’s be on the lookout for them in the west as Moon sets during its opposition to Mars.

Moon in Aquarius sextile Mercury in Sagittarius

The light-hearted and rather unemotional Aquarius Moon can keep us relatively distracted from the hullabaloo going on all around us today. This can help us learn more about what is driving us toward our goals and visions. There is an opportunity to put our minds into hyper focus mode so that we can accomplish a great deal. As long as we do not get too tripped up on the wires crossing hither and yon, progress can be found in the isolated realms of our imagination and inspiration. Making headway toward what excites us can be so uplifting and redeeming, especially if we have some awareness of what we are doing and how we plan to strategically get there. Overall, it is a great day to look to the future and what we want ours to look like.

Moon in Aquarius trine Jupiter in Gemini

Moon in Aquarius sextile Chiron in Aries

Venus in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces

Moon in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus

Moon in Aquarius sextile Venus in Sagittarius

As long as we are relatively unencumbered by emotional distress or manipulative behavior, we can envision how to make leaps and bounds of progress in the future. There is a lot of positive mental energy available to us if we can harness it properly and remain focused and true to our course. Is there something we want to add to our lives that can make it more fulfilling? Do we wish we made more time for something fun we have not done in a really long time? It is the perfect day to think outside every box we typically confine ourselves to for things that will not just elevate our perspective but also the amount of joy and excitement in our lives.

Relationships might face some confusion or misunderstandings if there happens to be anything remaining unresolved or unanswered for. The windows that open up onto the pastures of our lives may be cloudy and unclear, and what we need to do to clean them might feel like more than we want to accomplish today. But as long as we breathe in the fresh air all around us we can rest assured whatever is unresolved in any of our relationships will work itself out in due time. If there is any amount of disillusionment, however, we should prepare for the possibility of some tension or frustration. How can clarity be achieved when we are not even looking out the right windows? If we try to emotionally detach from our situation and see it for what it is, we can probably make those leaps and bounds much sooner than later.