Each month the moon greets every planet out there among the stars, but it won’t always shed the same amount of light on these meetings from one month to the next, so it’s easy to imagine that the Moon is modulating our experience as it goes.
First the waxing crescent Moon met up with Venus. Then as waning gibbous, it swept past Saturn.
This week, the waning lunar crescent sheds the last vestiges of its reflected light into its final planetary meetings: first Jupiter, then Mars, and finally Mercury.
In order of planetary moods, then, the Moon started the month inspired by love. This lasted for nearly two weeks before deep Saturnian memories were stirred. This week there is the expansive promise of Jupiter on Tuesday, that meets the need for decisive action when Moon meets Mars on Wednesday, followed by poetic communications when the last sliver of lunar crescent meets Mercury, god of communication on Sunday. Then the Moon tumbles into the arms of the Sun in Virgo. This Moon signals the transition from the shimmering outer brilliance of summer to the deep inner radiance of mysteries carried within.
Virgo is often depicted as the pregnant virgin, and in this aspect may be she to whom the poet Dante addressed his prayer in the Paradiso of his Divine Comedy when he wrote:
… fixed goal of the Eternal Wisdom; you are She who made human nature so noble…
From love to memory, from promise to action, from sweet words to an inner sense of what is noble in the human being, all this from our singular satellite as its weaves through our days and nights.
