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This lunation chart was drawn up at the exact moment of the Sun / Moon conjunction on August 27, 2022, it gives the “general” astral trends for the coming month mainly based on the Aspects and Signs of the zodiac.
This study must be nuanced by bringing it closer to your birth chart, and to your Transits and Progressions for Forecasts.
Think, to help you, to read my interpretation article of the New moon and Full moon in houses.
Main signs impacted during the lunation:
Mutable signs: Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius, Pisces
Complicated social and relational energies
This New Moon is still quite tense in the fast transits, almost all the personal planets form a quadrature, except Mercury but the latter is in stationary phase and will go retrograde in the first decan of Libra during September! (from the second 10 days)
As much as to say that at the social and relational level, even emotional, the period of this new period remains not very simple, and can lead to different conflicts, confrontations, more difficulties to be understood, to be heard or to understand others, and perhaps delays or setbacks to be expected.
The sky of the moment remains very marked by retrograde phases, whether it is Mercury in the course of its lunation which I have just mentioned, but also the 2 social planets Jupiter and Saturn are also retrograde, then again there is the transit of Mars which will begin to enter its retrograde loop before going retrograde at the very end of October…
This last point is clearly not to be neglected, because with this loop of Martian retrogradation slowly settling in, what will be awakened on September may have to come back on November/December to be treated (this may require more time, forming hesitations), the planet finding again the same part of the zodiac and marking tremendously all this end of year 2022!
There is always in any case on this new moon of the end of August a more prevalent notion of confrontation with authority and a charge of liberation, contestation, refusal…
It’s a sky that can express a lot of difficulties to “feel satisfied”, which can turn into a lot of “endless palaver”, the need to negotiate, to debate, to parley, to compromise, to go back on what was said, thus frustrating on one side or the other the parties involved, but where the forces of action (Mars) are likely to be quite “stuck”, and unfortunately for a large part of the end of the year at least (difficulties in matching the will with the forces of volition), especially for the Mutable signs for whom this may also translate more easily into conflicts, challenges, struggles…
There is always next to that a “reality/realism test” which is materialized by the transit of Saturn (square Uranus), and which requires in spite of everything to be very practical, concrete, pragmatic, empirical, to be able to “test things” in order to prove them and retain “what can work” (even if it’s certainly not “perfect”!), and therefore to adapt whatever the cost,to be in acceptance, to move forward (including for a new job, a new relationship or situation).
I would advise against signing a contract as much as possible in this lunation, however, there are too many tensions and retrograde phases (which will become entrenched in the period), and unfortunately few real windows of calm.
The Full Moon of September 10, 2022 coincides precisely with the start of Mercury retrograde on the 1st decan of Libra, perhaps there will be some kind of “revelation or highlighting” translating a halt to a negotiation for example, but this period doesn’t express a great change from the New Moon in terms of aspect : the social and relational energies remain complex…