Last Quarter and Balsamic Moon

Monday August 26 With this Taurus Moon there’s a search for integrating playfulness with maturity. Issues of how to get out from under dark situations test our character. Independence is needed to follow personal patterns and shake off dusty images of oneself. At the same time it’s important not to neglect others who share our ideals. Fantasy bubbles can begin to pop about past social conditions as one zeros in on them. The Taurus part of us can shape a new environment but often clings blindly to the status quo. It often takes the promise of a new paradise to arouse the appetite of this sign and quicken the pace. Tuesday August 27 The Taurus Moon relishes in the good life. Today we are prodded into checking out what that means to us personally. For some it’s a pleasing social environment; for others, it’s a certain dreamy comfort on home turf. There are many variations on this, and now’s the time to search and identify what constitutes one’s special blend of the good life. At 4:58 pm, MT, the Moon voids herself of sensual Taurus for ten minutes of ultra-sensitivity and then moves into the learning world of Gemini at 5:08 pm, to seek out magical renewal. At 8:05 pm, energy gets a joyous boast as Mars moves into Leo. Wednesday August 28 Early this morning the Gemini Moon entered her last quarter phase when clarity comes about the personal meaning of this lunation about how we show off a trait. Life is a process of sifting through the data of experiences and learning how to enjoy it. Underlying messages come from an internal conversation that can turn around our focus if we let our feelings interpret our thoughts. What we come to understand depends on how we value the interdependence of whom and what comes into our lives today. At 10:44 pm, MT, the Moon goes void of course for over thirty hours of psychic communications until Friday morning. Thursday August 29 With this void of course Gemini Moon all day, conversations zigzag, never seeming to complete a train of thought. Eliciting a specific response will require the most detailed question. And even then, contexts might be shifted around to receive a many-pronged answer. Gemini tends to be rational, but with a lack of structure often accompanying a voiding Moon, it can be a delight to engage the trickster which Gemini can sometimes be. This archetype can create a magical reality full of fun and hopefully at no one’s expense. Dispersing rigidity with the excitement of flights of fancy might awaken a slumbering, worthwhile behavior. Friday August 30 The Moon moves into the private realm of Cancer at 5:33 am, MT. Even though Cancer and the Moon can represent the social containment of the family, it is each individual in the clan and each person’s unique development that is of primary concern. It’s a day for trying out new roles for a comfortable fit. The right behavior can be recognized by how it emotionally triggers interconnections. Be careful, however, about over-interpreting the significance. Listen to MoonWise tomorrow on the worldwide web at ksfr.org from 2:00 to 2:30 pm, MT, for the weekend Moon Minute. Weekend August 31 and September 1 The Cancer Moon brings a whole range of feelings from emotional self-confidence to being very easily hurt. If we’ve chosen to be safe and keep the status quo regarding behavior pertaining to how we parade an aspect of our selves, we may be susceptible to depression. If, however, we are alert for a chance to act on a decision to behave differently, we just might jump into it. At 6:06 pm, MT, the Moon goes void of course for almost twenty-four hours of washing off supportive Cancer. On Sunday at 6:29 am, MT, the Moon enters her balsamic phase, when it’s good to cocoon a bit to look ahead as to what new light might be shed on matters of familial patterning.