New Moon on Monday Astrology

Transits  happen to us everyday.  The Moon moves through all 12 signs of the zodiac each month, making significant contact with every one of the planets in our birth chart at least 8 times each within that 30 days.  The Sun does the same within a year, as do Venus and Mercury. These transits, from the personal planets, repeat themselves over and over every year of our life. But since the planets move so fast, they each only affect us (typically*) for a day or so at a time.  

At the same time, the outer planets are also transiting our chart - but since the outer planets move so much slower, they stay in the same territory for months, or even years at a time - and therefore affect us for just as long.  When Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto is transiting a major planet or point in your chart, the manifestations tend to be fairly major and life-changing.  They happen gradually, but suddenly. All of a sudden you’re in a completely different place - but in retrospect you can very vividly see all the steps that got you there.  Outer planet transits are often the chapters that are pretty much a drag at the time they’re happening, but later when you look back, you can see exactly why you needed them. 

Let’s say Neptune is conjunct your Venus (in plain English,  Neptune today is in the same place that Venus was at the moment you were born):  Neptune tends to fog what it touches and fill it with fantasy.  Venus represents what you’re attracted to. Neptune moves so slowly that it can stay in that same place (where your natal Venus is) for up to two years.  One possible manifestation of that transit could be that you fall fantastically (Neptune) all sorts of in love (Venus) with the dreamiest (Neptune), hardest to pin down (Neptune) most nebulous (Neptune) character you’ve ever come across.  But a few years later, when Neptune moves on, that fantasy could very well fall off of his pedestal. 

These days (and through 2013) I’ve got Pluto squaring my natal Moon.  (Pluto is in cardinal Capricorn 90 degrees away from my cardinal Aries Moon).  Pluto is transformation.  Powerful transformation.  Pluto transits basically strip you of things you’re super attached to and think you know for sure you really need.  Pluto transits make you find your power, and they typically hurt (all the more to make you better my dear).   

The Moon represents your emotions as well as where you come from.  On a very basic level the Moon is your mother, it’s where you feel safe.  In these times that also translates to what you consider family and home. A square is a challenge, it forces an outcome. 

A square between Pluto and the Moon means compulsive (Pluto) moods (Moon). Check. 

It’s also deep transformation (Pluto) to what you consider and/or what is home (Moon). 

For the past 9 years I’ve lived on Scott Avenue in Echo Park, Los Angeles.  That’s a longer stretch than I’ve ever called any one residence home.  There’s been hundreds of good times and sad ones and stories to tell but more than that, it’s just become completely familiar.  It’s my world and I love it and I never thought I’d leave. 

But, you know, circumstances. 

Gradually, and suddenly (as outer planets go), I couldn’t find a job, or even enough gigs to make it work. Pluto makes things collapse, and that’s exactly what happened to my life (home/Moon) in LA (which I’d held on to by the thinnest of strings for years because I loved it so much).  Time for transformation, brand new chapter, happens to the best. Time to leave my friends and my Love and my home and redefine them: Pluto square Moon. 

Last week I moved to Colorado, where I’m from, to try and start fresh.  My mom and dad are about an hour south, so technically this is “home”, right?  

Pluto squaring the Moon forces transformations with the way you relate to your family and where you come from and how you feel about that and what you get from it.  I’m just on the beginning of that road.  The major move has happened, but the repercussions are just about to begin playing out.  

In the meantime, I miss my life and LA sunsets and the people I saw every day and loved so damn much.  I’m in this beautiful place with so much history, but I feel so out of place and old here and don’t know a soul and it’s weird and who knows what’s going to happen next.  There’s plenty of good stuff and I can see that and goddamn do I want to appreciate it.  But it’s Pluto workin’ on me - and that’s always about taking away the things you’re the very most attached to. It’s like peeling off a painful scab as slowly as you can. 

You know, circumstances. 

Without a doubt there’ll be a day I look back at all this so very thankful for how things ended up.  That’s Pluto. 

What’d they say about a butterfly? 

Adeline

*Mercury and Venus can both affect your chart for longer than a day or two when they’re going through their retrograde phases, thus staying in the same territory for several weeks, rather than several days a time.