BLUE-MOON mother moons
As Jupiter makes his first morning appearance and our moon growing eggier but faraway, the first of 2 Capricorn Full Moons is coming this weekend at 1 CAPRICORN 07’. The second full/blue moon @29CAP08’, will be with Pluto, wrapping the collapse-capitalism, hedge fund degrees. Mercury’s retrograde alchemy at the beginning of this year from blind-spot, most-violent Facies to serpent-rider, Ophiuchus, tried to help prepare us for current global extremes.
Just how much control one has, when Moon is debilitated in Saturn’s sign of Capricorn, requires formidable emotional intelligence. Yes, Sun is with Moon-ruled Cancer at the upcoming solstice. We’ve come to know Cancer is way less ‘emotional’ than moral, their central sentience well-guarded and ‘mother-of-it-all’ holy.
For this reasoning, it is important to note these 2 Saturn Moon culminations. When a planet is debilitated, it doesn’t function in ‘normal’ ways and needs help. Moon tracks the inner world and the unconscious, as well as the ‘people’ in charts of collective experience.
Moon is birthing once in her rulership in Cancer, on 6 JULY, 0h57 @14CANCER23’, in the rays of sharpest blue Sirius @13CAN24’, brightest star in our night sky. Jupiter will be with strongest-integrity Aldebaran, the mighty red eye of Sky Bull Taurus and Venus will be an emotional peacemaker aspecting Chiron in Aries via a cardinal opening square, asking wounded selves to step back enough to allow conditions conducive for each one of us to be a living-loving being.
Venus @22CAN57’ will furthermore be on Saturn’s heliocentric north node @23CAN, emphasising this karmic task SHE bears, with a grand trine in water linking to strategist Pallas Athene with Ophiuchus, the healer and serpent-rider and Saturn at sea in mutable, changeable Pisces.
Lord of Time Saturn rules Capricorn and is the hardest of task masters, telling you things that cut you to the bone, but wrinkling your innards wise. Saturn in Pisces is preparing now to station retrograde 1JULY @19PISCES25’. Midnight star will be 8SEP @16PISCES01’and direct station happens 15NOV @12PISCES41’; this Saturn cycle completing only in mid-February 2025.
Saturn will be in fall when it enters Aries, crossing the AP (Aries Point) between May 2025 and February 2026, at the same time as Neptune crosses into Aries. Saturn and Neptune meet officially on 20 FEBRUARY 2026 @0ARIES44’; that delicious degree of ‘begin-again’ desire and selkies.
((Previous Saturn-in-Aries: 1908 – 1911, 1937 – 1940, 1967 – 1969, 1996 – 1999 >> 2025 – 2028))
Saturn-in-Pisces is known sometimes as an ‘absent parent’. He now has a second chance to upgrade Venus’ place of exaltation. We are done with the negative father complex compelling us to work harder and harder for our own enslavement. This is Saturn on a spiritual mission, that requires all leaks to be sealed and all sails to be at the ready. Clean-up and ship-out to where your waters run clear, when and where needed.
Moon then culminates in fullness twice in Capricorn, where Moon in detriment struggles to feel good in herself. First moon up is this Friday night, but more precisely on Saturday 22JUNE 3h07 @1CAP07’ and second moon will be 21JULY 12h16 @29CAP08’.
Law-and-Order Saturn’s first moon this coming weekend squares a grand cross involving Sun-Moon squaring Neptune on the last degree of Pisces, about to station retrograde on 2 JULY and Black Moon Lillith just into Libra with relating phobias and plenty commitment issues.
Moon’s second Capricorn full moon happens with Pluto-Mars trining at renewable in air zero degrees, as Vesta-Venus on Neptune’s heliocentric north node and place of redemption sextiles Jupiter, the KING, but scrambled in mental-overload Gemini.
Venus will be returning to the evening sky during this time, from 21-29 JULY. What has been happening behind the scenes will be out in the open; seen and known by all, including what all yin workers and inner-light, peace practitioners have been safeguarding. In Leo, Venus is no longer the cute cub who first emerged in September 2023. She knows how to hunt for her pride now.
21 JULY also begins Mercury’s retrograde fire alchemy in LEO with Alphard, to complete in early September. Alphard is Alpha Hydra, heart of the serpent/water snake. Hydra, the largest constellation in the sky stretching from Cancer to Scorpio, receives souls in her belly and gives them new life, the stories say. Yes, we know many snake charmers, intense and vicious in this stark cold reality, but so too serpent-riders navigating both far greater changing spaces and more exquisite subtle-body magic. Alphard offers great wisdom to those who resist their desire to strike back/out.
We are all being reminded of just how deep and wide this being human can go; how fragile and reckless, feckless and feeble, fun, flippant, furious, fast, fotonic and focussed we can be to glimpse the infinite potential; not a doomsday glitch, not god on guns, not what you think, but yet on some quantic level already known. May we remember. Cancerian memory is so ancient it always has the last word; mother words and healing herbs.
Safe passage on your moon journeys,
Natasha Rightford
17 June 2024, the day we found 2 red-tongued silver water snakes in the garden pond.
