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This lunation chart was drawn up at the exact moment of the Sun/Moon conjunction on October 25, 2022. It gives the “general” astral trends for the coming month mainly based on the Aspects and Signs of the zodiac.
This study should be nuanced by connecting it to your birth chart and to your Transits and Progressions using predictive techniques.
If you would like more help here, read my article on the interpretation of the New moon and Full moon in houses.
Main signs impacted during the lunation:
Fixed signs, all the 2nd decans, and mutable signs, especially the 3rd decans
Liabilities to be settled, but action hindered
It’s a New Moon Solar Eclipse, which is naturally the counterpart of the New Moon of April 30, 2022 in Taurus (joint to the North Node), it’s very energetic with a whole stellium surrounding it, the South Node, Venus, Mercury, and moreover in the square of Pluto, its ruler of the moment!
And it can be correlated to things that started in May 2022, on which it is necessary to “come back” (we see Jupiter in particular which finds the same configuration with its retrograde motion).
There are a lot of quadratures that express themselves on the period, which confers to the Sky a rather “violent” charge not to be neglected, full of notions of confrontations, of power struggles, of charge against what can represent an authority, or a force of domination, of possessiveness…
But it’s a violence that can also remain quite “internal”, which can be more difficult to externalize and be quite “suffered”…
This can be seen as well at the social and relational level, which are a priori the two sectors most strongly impacted by the period, and which can require a form of balance of the past.
It can be good in the present, to ask ourselves who or what (which people or situations) prevent us most from moving forward? And if so, what battles should we fight? What chains must be broken? What energies need to be purged/purified?
Let us note that there is not any “new creation” in the period, it has more to do with a state, a situation, that we have already been aware of for several months and that can reach some form of “saturation”.
Unfortunately, this new moon eclipse could therefore mark the next 6 months and will not let us settle everything “in the moment” during this single lunation, several clues point in this direction, so we shouldn’t expect any “unblocking” before at least the beginning of 2023 (first quarter), starting with the retrogradation of Mars which will settle in the medium term.
Mars is transiting in stationary phase the 3rd decan of Gemini and will indeed go retrograde at the end of October, I will have the opportunity to come back to this in a specific dedicated article, but this can clearly mark the period in the background, and include a notion of “confusion in action” (especially as it insists on the square of Neptune), in any case the 3rd decans of the Mutable signs can get quite a bit worked up (also Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces)
Uranus in conjunction with the North Node in the medium term may still mark an important struggle for emancipation, to break certain forces of dependence, of attachment, and perhaps the Plutonian forces of the moment can help to move through the stages on this (at least in terms of awareness), especially towards the Full Moon of November 08, 2022 which is right on the axis of the lunar nodes (marking a lunar eclipse this time).
What may be important, and not to be overlooked, is that the Saturn/Uranus square, which has been very prominent over the last few years, and which I have mentioned several times, is finally going to relax, as the Saturnian transit is starting to pass progressively through Pisces over the next few months, this is the last time it will be so “exact” in orb degrees!
Therefore, around this configuration there is a form of purpose to be given over the coming months, probably a form of independence on which to decide or risk-taking to be concretized, and which will greatly occupy this end of the year.
This can be fully linked to the Neptunian energies that have emerged since last March/April/May, they have brought forth emotions, ideals, perceptions, intuitions, aspirations, and therefore, at the end of this year, there is more strongly a “step to climb” in the realization of this (a need to listen and concretize these receptive parts).
Once again, this new moon will not be devoted a priori to the creation of “something new”, it will ask especially a lot from there and at the end of the year, an integration, a reconfiguration, a completion, of the various points awakened the previous months…
There is in any case a contrast that remains very strong over the period, between a past or liabilities to be hindered, but with forces of action partially hindered, which requires “time”…