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This lunation chart was drawn up at the exact moment of the Sun/Moon conjunction on September 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:
All 1st decans of cardinal signs and 3rd decans of mutable signs
Do you need to sort out?
We have seen that the previous New Moon at the end of August had rather “complicated and conflictual” social and relational energies, we can hope that the Libra influence of the moment which settles at the end of September will be more “soothing” or conciliatory, with less confrontation and more of a search for compromise/mediation.
That being said, as I began to explain in the previous lunation as well, the mid-term background period is indeed marked by several retrograde phases.
Mercury has just gone retrograde around the 2nd ten days of September, in early Libra, right where this new moon is happening!
And Mars is also gradually entering its stationary phase before retrograding into Gemini at the next Scorpio lunation…
Then there are also the 2 social planets, Jupiter and Saturn, which are also retrograde in the background.
In short, these energies remain quite complex in terms of externalization/extroversion, they can be more conducive to reflection, to analysis, to taking time for this, to better sharpen our arguments in a negotiation for example, or also to return to things that may have originated in May (we can see that Jupiter finds exactly the same position in this period thanks to its retrogradation).
There may be, always socially and relationally on this lunation, a notion of “sorting the wheat from the chaff” as we say (purge/purify), perhaps also in a sense of showing “more realism”, because the Jupiter/Neptune conjunction of spring 2022 may have raised many things, different emotions or aspirations, but the big task of the coming months will be precisely to materialize/concretize all that (I will have the opportunity to come back to this at greater length)
In the shorter term, we must analyze what has been going on since the lunation at the end of August, because with the Martian retrogradation that is starting to set in, this could resurface in different ways in November/December, and certain correlations of cycles seem to indicate that these things will not be resolved before February 2023, so once again we must not expect to “settle everything” during this lunation alone! (we must integrate this notion of medium term to all our projects, or relational and social activities)
I would advise against signing most contracts over the period (with a few exceptions, depending on your own natal strengths), as the mid-term period is quite “stuck”.
Mercury will return to its direct course around the beginning of October, but as they say, “one swallow does not make a summer”, and this will not be enough to reverse all the trends (at most, it will favor a better analysis, a better pragmatism, or the fact of finding a short-term agreement in the conciliations mentioned above, but be careful, because this may not last!)
The Full Moon of October 09, 2022 could help in terms of “revelations”, awareness, especially at the relational level, including the emotional one, for example it could allow an interesting meeting, or the fact of situating ourselves differently in relation to a person from there.
Beware of what is at stake around October 14, the Moon is in contact with Mars and can form a particular trigger factor which is linked to the future retrogradation of the planet, this will be analyzed according to the birth chart of each one, but can be linked to the forces of desire and action (including in the sense of frustrations, or difficulties to manage these impulses, which are likely to mark the whole end of the lunation)