Planetary news this week: The SuperMoons begin!
Astrological update for the week of July 31 – August 7
Supermoons. If you’re subscribed to my Planetary Illuminations report you’ll read more about this tomorrow, but in August we are in SuperMoon season (™Richard Nolle). We have come to think of SuperMoons as being the giant white discs in the sky that occur at the Full Moon when the Moon is closest to Earth (perigee), but a New Moon can also be a SuperMoon. It’s the distance from the Moon to the Earth that creates the SuperMoon, whichever side of the Sun it happens to be on.
Full SuperMoon in Aquarius August 1. In August we have two SuperMoons, and one is this week. This Full Moon is in Aquarius, with the Sun in Leo – the polarity that requires a balance between the transpersonal (Aquarius) and the personal (Leo). When the Moon is full in Aquarius, it’s not all about me (that would be Leo). Under the Aquarius Full Moon we need to look past the personal to the needs of the collective.
The emotional and sensitive Moon is not always that comfortable in Aquarius, the sign of the transpersonal and the detachment of science and reason, and the Leo Sun carries the archetype of brilliant self-expression which is at odds here with the dispassion of Aquarius.
The Moon is the only planet in air signs right now (other than Ceres), so the objectivity of the air element has not been as available to us. This Full Moon asks that we seek a broad perspective from which to view the world, and forget about our own dramas while we learn to view the whole picture. A supportive trine from Mars (fire energy) to Jupiter (expansion […]