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This lunation chart was drawn up at the exact moment of the Sun / Moon conjunction on May 08, 2024, 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:
All 3rd decans of Fixed signs in the first half of the lunation, and all 1st decans of Mutable signs in the second half.
Integrating Uranian dynamics
The important Jupiter / Uranus conjunction has only just taken place around mid-April 2024, so we’re still fully in a phase of integrating this now.
As the New Moon is still in the immediate neighbourhood of Uranus, the Uranian energies are easily enhanced during this period.
There can still be a very inflationary dimension around these forces, but it remains very useful for conquering emancipation, independence and liberation, even if it requires daring or taking certain risks to do so.
So, at the risk of repeating myself: try to really understand your own birth Uranus, because the current configuration is asking you very directly to realize it (in all that this planet implies).
On the positive side, it could be something to conquer; on the more dissonant side, it could be something to revolt against, or something to form a sudden and very nervous crisis.
The period can still lean heavily on a duality pattern between security and stability, simply because “we may not be able to have everything at once”, and we’ll have to be able to reconsider the old foundations that previously stabilized us, and make some divisive choices.
But “we’re not discovering anything new here” a priori, it’s something we’ve felt building up over the previous months, maybe even since the ‘2023 summer, it’s just that now we have to decide/finalize things.
Having said that, this New Moon setup is on the whole quite harmonic, it doesn’t form any major tensions to pick up on, so it seems that these things will happen “spontaneously”, instinctively, naturally.
In addition, there are other assets not to be overlooked, such as the trine of the Black Moon in Virgo, or the transit of Mars, well dignified in its Aries home, or Venus, well dignified in its Taurus home…
And it’s always good to have well-dignified fast transits, at least for the short/medium-term situation (a few weeks), as this can help to exploit/maximize the various strengths of the period as harmoniously as possible!
For example, in this case, we can assume that there are relational and emotional assets to be exploited, something that in any case strongly favors externalization and extroversion (which remains an interesting sky for initiating a project or a new relationship, for convincing, asserting oneself, seducing, etc.).
Note that Neptune’s transit is beginning to reach – “already” – the anaretic degree of the sign of Pisces!
I’ll have time to talk about this again between now and 2025, but Neptune will begin to reconfigure itself quite a bit in the colors of the sign of Aries gradually, and may have a greater recapitulation load to lead around what the planet will have been able to raise even since 2012 as it passed into the sign of Pisces.
So if you have planets in the beginning of Aries in particular, you can already start to feel these changes rising more strongly (which is my case, I have my birth Moon here, and I can confirm that I can see various corresponding “emotional” changes).
From the full moon of May 23, 2024, what may predominate is clearly the passage of Jupiter within Gemini, which forms a major elemental change of the period, not to be overlooked.
Of course, I’ll be dealing with this Jovian transit in a separate article, but let’s just say that the 1st decans of Mutable signs will feel it most strongly during this period.
It’s therefore advisable for you to wait until this second half of the lunation if you want to form a project or externalize yourself in any way, as this transit of Jupiter could help you achieve greater social recognition and integration (and thus mark a very important phase of the year for you).
Not everyone will be equally at ease with this sign’s mercurial Air, which can bring a certain lightness, but also superficiality, so much will depend on your own birth chart to maximize this.