The Moon right now

This is the sky itself: what the Moon is doing at this moment, and the same for everyone reading it. What it means for one particular chart is a different question, and the answer is further down.

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tldr: This month: 2 New and Full Moons and about 16% of it void of course.

This Month, November

A month is one turn of the Moon’s own cycle, the word is moon-th. It crosses 15 signs and makes 53 aspects in that time, so this is the shape of it rather than every moment. Clock times are in UTC.

The month carries a whole lunation: the New Moon in Scorpio on the 9th, then the Full Moon in Gemini on the 24th. A New Moon seeds and a Full Moon shows, so the stretch between them is the part where a thing is still becoming what it will be. The Moon crosses 15 sign-stretches on the way — more than twelve, because the month is long enough for it to come back round to signs it has already been through. It begins the month in Cancer (home, lineage, and what a person is made of) and ends it in Virgo — work, service, and the discernment that sorts one thing from another. About 16% of the month is void of course, in the pauses between those signs.

New Moon in Scorpio , Monday 9 November, 7:02am, a beginning — the dark before anything shows.

Taken together: the Sun and Moon together in Scorpio. A New Moon is the two of them in the same degree, the dark before anything shows, and it seeds whatever Scorpio governs — what is shared and what transforms, including the parts kept private. Mars rules it and carries the cycle it opens.

Beaver Moon, a Full Moon in Gemini , Tuesday 24 November, 2:54pm, the peak, and where something becomes visible whether or not it is ready.

T-square (and this eclipse is its base): Mars in Leo 29.5°, Moon in Gemini 2.3°, Sun in Sagittarius 2.3°, and Mars at the apex. Its loosest side is 2.89° from exact. A T-square is two planets opposite each other with a third square to both — a right angle at each end of a see-saw. The odd one out carries the strain of the other two and is where the whole shape has to discharge. The opposition runs along the Gemini–Sagittarius axis, the pull between the fact at hand and the meaning behind it. With Mars at the apex it discharges through action, and often through conflict — it does not wait to be resolved.

Minor grand trine: Moon in Gemini 2.3°, Neptune in Aries 1.7°, Pluto in Aquarius 3.4°. Its loosest side is 1.73° from exact. A minor grand trine is one 120-degree trine with a third planet sextile — sixty degrees — to both ends of it. Less effortless than a grand trine and more usable.

Taken together: the Moon full in Gemini against the Sun in Sagittarius, an axis that runs between the fact at hand and the meaning behind it. A Full Moon is the Sun and Moon at their furthest apart, so it lights whatever Gemini governs — talk, learning, and everything nearby — and shows it whole, ready or not. Mercury rules this Moon, and is the planet to watch for how it lands.

Week By Week

  • 1–7 November, Cancer → Leo → Virgo → Libra → Scorpio

    Five moods, the Moon lets go through the week, 60% lit down to 2% — the half of the cycle for finishing and clearing, with three void-of-course pauses in it.

  • 8–14 November, Scorpio → Sagittarius → Capricorn
    New Moon in Scorpio

    Three moods, the Moon empties to nothing on the 9th and starts again, so the week is an ending and a beginning in one, with three void-of-course pauses in it.

  • 15–21 November, Capricorn → Aquarius → Pisces → Aries

    Four moods, the Moon builds through the week, 27% lit to 91% — the half of the cycle for starting and adding, with two void-of-course pauses in it.

  • 22–28 November, Aries → Taurus → Gemini → Cancer → Leo
    Beaver Moon, a Full Moon in Gemini

    Five moods, the Moon fills to full on the 24th and turns, so the week builds to something and then begins letting it go, with four void-of-course pauses through it, so it is a week that starts and stops.

  • 29–30 November, Leo → Virgo

    Two moods, the Moon lets go through the week, 74% lit down to 53% — the half of the cycle for finishing and clearing, with one void-of-course pause in it.

What This Means For You

This is the month's sky, the same for everyone. Laid over your own chart it becomes which of your houses each of those signs sits in.