August 16: Aquarius Lunar Eclipse, 2008

Sol in Leo opposes Luna in Aquarius at the 25th degree. Neptune rules this lunar eclipse, so we are likely to feel that we are under the spell of Neptune in Aquarius in mutual reception to Uranus in Pisces. We may have idealistic dreams of ameliorating the human condition that seem to need grounding in the everyday workshop of the Virgo stellium of Saturn, Mercury and Venus.

Retrograde Jupiter in Capricorn is helping us to keep our daily routine stabilized in traditional philosophical sturctures that provide slow and steady material increase.

The spiritual is parent of the practical. -- Thomas Carlyle

On the other hand, we could feel unsettled by an agitating t-square consisting of Mars at 29 Virgo opposed by retrograde Uranus at 22 Pisces, and also by retrograde Pluto at the apex of the t-square at 29 Sagittarius. To balance this t-square, we need to concentrate on the Gemini void, using Mercury energy to keep us thinking logically.

Since Mercury is grounded by Saturn and Venus in Virgo, we should be able to easily and beautifully reach for the common sense option in any situation approaching chaos or violence. It would be best to avoid situations where radical ideology based in attitudes of racial purity or ideological fundamentalism could be espoused, and to instead work carefully and steadily to nurture any emergent seeds of humanitarian creativity planted two weeks ago at the Leo New Moon.