Ask the Oracle – June 15, 2011

The Moon definitely has a great deal to do with it in more ways than you may yet know. For everyone it is valuable to track one’s monthly Moon cycle responses in order to fully express and benefit from our exquisite senses and intuitive abilities. However, you are attuned to much more than the Moon’s monthly cycle you are currently observing. First, you were born with your natal Sun at 23 degrees of Gemini where the Full Moon eclipse will occur on June 15^th at 24 degrees of Gemini (an 18-19 year cycle); secondly, the transiting South Node of the Moon is currently conjuncting your Sun (an 18 year cycle); thirdly, your solar arc progressed Moon is moving into conjunction with your Descendant over the next 2 years where it will be prominently felt (a onetime event) ; fourthly, your secondary progressed Moon is only 4 months from opposing your natal Sun as it reaches its Full Moon phase (a 29 year cycle); and, finally, your natal Moon is 5 degrees of Pisces where transiting Neptune, its ruler, will conjunct it in a few years (a major transit you are already feeling and will be for several years). No wonder you are ever more sensitive. The good news is that you have always been much more sensitive, intuitive, tuned-in, connected and aware than you have known consciously; now you will need to know this ability consciously which may be confusing and unsettling now but will become second nature and very valuable as you integrate your feelings with your bright Gemini spirit. Of course, your Mars in Aries along with your Sun in Gemini at the Midheaven is free-spirited, impulsive, confident and naturally sure of yourself. Yet, you do have a Pisces Moon in Virgo’s 6^th house, Virgo rising and your natal Mercury squaring your Moon and quincunxing your Uranus. A bit of other-worldly, odd, second-guessing, confusion, and need for guidance or encouragement have always been part of your unconscious self. This is a time of awakening sensitivity which will be uncomfortable and unfamiliar at first but rich, expressive and empowering for your acting potential. With Jupiter exalted in Cancer in your 10^th house of career, your natal Sun conjunct the Midheaven, your progressed Sun moving to conjunct your 10^th house Jupiter in 2 years, your progressed Mercury conjuncting your Midheaven in a year and transiting Pluto moving into conjunction with your natal Neptune (the ruler of your 7^th house) in 2 to 3 years you will surely be successful. A Pisces Moon feels everything – your feelings at every level of consciousness, other people’s feelings also at every level of consciousness, the collective feelings of the world and the larger spiritual dimensions – this is your gift. However, you will now have to learn how to live consciously in this expansive feeling world, develop appropriate boundaries for your gift and direct this sensitivity personally and professionally. Good luck feeling!

ANSWER: Age 28 is a sign that points to the reason for your confusion as well as the solution and duration of that confusion. This fall as you reach your 29^th birthday you will experience your first Saturn return which you have been feeling for many months. It is natural and necessary to question and assess everything in your life at this time. Saturn stops us in our tracks and asks us where we think we are going, how are we going to get there and is what we are and have been doing going to support us on our journey to achieve that goal? If you are not questioning everything you many remain attached to structures such as a marriage, a career, a purpose, a location, a belief or anything that is not a true expression of who you have become over these last 28 years. This is the moment when we know enough to know what does not feel true, purposeful, and soul aligned. This is time to end and leave behind the skins that no longer fit our full, emerging, mature self. If your marriage is not working now, it is time for a divorce. If you are no longer sure about your course of studies, it is time to consider how to translate your coming degree into a career you could be excited about or to explore how to alter your degree program to move in a more desirable direction. Neither be afraid of nor diminish the challenges of the coming Uranus oppositions to your 12^th house Libra stellium and the Pluto squares to those same planets. Currently, Saturn/Uranus/Pluto are all either transiting your 12^th house Libra planets or they will over the next decade. This time will be uncomfortable, painful and liberating. With 4 planets in the 12^th house and 2 more within 1 degree of that house, you have a 12^th house chart. This is the time when you will develop your deepest, truest relationship with yourself, a partner, your work and your soul purpose; opportunities worth working for. Your current major fits your 6 planets in an intellectual air sign. The problem is that you don’t yet know why you are learning what you are studying nor how you will apply your knowledge. Teaching, writing, speaking, policy, politics, advocacy may all be avenues for your ideas as you come to understand and be guided to develop your North Node of the Moon in the 9^th house, your natal Sun/Saturn/Pluto conjunction, and your Pluto conjunct your Ascendant. Not only is your chart centered in your 12^th house, not only do you have mega transits to your 12^th house planets but your progressed Moon phase is in the balsamic lacing this time with the same, ending flavor. By late next year, your Saturn return will be complete, transiting Saturn will be out of your 12^th house beginning a new 1^st house phase and you will be enjoying a progressed New Moon beginning. This is a time of massive change for you to know that as you courageously change your marriage, explore your inner world, finish your degree and move out into a new life, clarity and realization will emerge. Trust yourself!