Today is this year’s largest (closest to the earth) supermoon. In recent years the supermoons have come in conjunction with the Full Moon, but today it is in conjunction with a New Moon so it will not be visible for the first time since 2009. This Supermoon will be the closest to the Earth for all 4 supermoons of 2017. This more powerful Lunar energy will be felt strongly on earth, affecting earthly tides in the days following May 25. There will only be one visible Full Moon, Supermoon this year occurring in December.
This New Moon in Gemini, stimulates new ideas that may not meet with the approval of others. The edgy emotional unpredictability is palpable and seems to be felt by most everyone. This energy carries with it an explosive tendency to express repressed feelings and deep emotions. So let kindness be part of your expressions. The current aspects with Mercury and Jupiter will be working to expand our vision of what is possible throughout the next few weeks. It is time to move beyond limiting beliefs and to accept that there are different perspectives. Good or bad, right or wrong, the global playing field has changed.
We all have Gemini energy somewhere in our chart. Gemini represents duality. Air signs in general (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) have the ability to see all sides of things. They can be very objective in an otherwise tunnel vision scenario. They are adept at coming up with alternate perspectives and viable ideas. Due to the increasing polarity in the political climates throughout the world, and given the fact that we will never return to how the world once was, it is time to factor in alternate points of view to help bring balance to the creeping insanity. These are the direct affects of the Uranussquare Pluto energy that has been infusing the world with dissent, chaos and change for the past several years, and it is still within its orb of influence. So don’t expect sweeping resolutions for some time to come.
Planetary aspects are not arbitrary. They are part of an elegantly designed system to push us to evolve. Governments that have already evolved past greed and corruption, who care for their people as a priority, are not experiencing what other countries are, whose governments are still struggling with these basic and moral issues. The evolutionary work must continue and it is up to each of us to do what we can to contribute to this painful process.
We are also feeling the difficult warlike fire energy from the trine between Uranus in Aries and Saturn in Sagittarius. Whenever Uranus and Saturn align it can signal the outbreak of war, and the energy of a trine, with these two malefic planets, just makes the challenging energy flow more easily. But, look for different options and new possibilities. Each challenge carries with it the solutions, usually within the shadows. When we look deep we can see that there are other possibilities and motivations just beneath the surface waiting to be found and acted upon.
This New Moon offers mental reminders that where there is healing, new possibilities come forward, possibilities that would never have existed before. Where love, generosity and an open heart can light the way; fear, pain and polarity can be reconciled and transformed.
Written by Wendy Cicchetti
PLAN YOUR OWN NEW MOON CEREMONY. Give yourself some quiet time in meditation to see where you need to seed new ways of becoming. List these areas within your life you want to change. What areas do you want to break free from the norm and become more productive and discerning? The NEW MOON is the time to manifest the personal attributes you want to cultivate as well as the tangible things you want to bring to you. Possible phrasing: I now manifest ____ into my life. I am now _______ . Remember, think, envision and feel with as much emotion as possible, as though you already have what you want. Thoughts are things and the brain manifests exactly what you show it in the form of thoughts, visuals and emotions. The Buddha said, and I am paraphrasing, “We are the sum total of our thoughts up to today. ” If we want to be different then we must change our thoughts. “If you always do what you’ve always done then you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” CONSCIOUS CHANGE is the key.