#lunation

Without further ado, welcome back to another lunation analysis using the Sabian symbols! Just as our lives create a progressive storyline, the same is true of a moon growing to full before retreating back to another new moon. The initial, dark moon took place last month in the sign of Aries on April 17, 2026 at 04:42 pm PDT, or 8:42 pm EDT for those on the east coast. If you’re in need of a refresher on the New Moon energy that preceded this Full Moon, I’ve included the link to that article below.

Now two weeks later, this full moon brightened in the sign of Scorpio on May 1st, 2026 at 02:02 am PDT, or 05:02 am EDT. Let’s jump into a quick review on Sabian Symbols, as well as the lunar cycle, before discussing how we can use this imagery to uncover what symbolic threads this particular lunation set might be tugging on.

Moon in Gemini | April 1–3

The air crackles with code.

Quicksilver thoughts. Omens in algorithms. Secrets in the scroll.

A thousand tabs open — but one message coming through.

The Moon now a collector of static and sighs.

A transmitter of timelines, broadcasting in riddle-core.

The air is pulsing.

Curiosity becomes ritual.

Mercury’s the ruler. He’s backstroking through Pisces.

Half-drowned in Venusian waters, tangled with the North Node, and exiled—his own undoing.

This isn’t logic.

This is liminal linguistics.

It’s a séance in syntax.

Your thoughts aren’t yours.

You’re channeling a new script.

April 1 — Moon sextile Neptune in Aries (0°)

He’s found fire.

Traded his mist for a match.

New illusions spark inner uprisings.

Your fantasies grow fangs.

The Moon slips into sextile and your nervous system lights up like divine Wi-Fi.

April 1 — Moon trine Pluto in Aquarius

Carl Jung’s hard drive is humming.

This isn’t shadow work — it’s a psychic root canal with a clipboard. It’s ancestral debugging: your great-grandmother’s grief next to that embarrassing crush you had in 2009. Your shadows got receipts.

Every memory you tried to bury just updated its firmware — and added emojis.

Ask:

What patterns are keeping me programmed?

April 2 — Moon sextile Sun in Aries

Clarity strikes — like a match to gasoline.

Gemini says: “What if?”

Aries replies: “Try me.”

This is insight with a pulse.

Your logic meets your instinct and they make out in your frontal cortex.

Ask:

What idea won’t leave me alone — even if I don’t know where it’s going yet?

April 2 — Moon conjunct Jupiter in Gemini

Jupiter inflates every idea until it’s a balloon animal or a religion.

You’re not overthinking —

You’re oracling.

Write it down.

Whisper it to the mirror.

Tattoo it on your dreams.

Divine assignments:

Dream decoding.

Tarot journaling.

Channeling messages through memes.

Pulling cards in the cereal aisle.

Talking to ghosts via Spotify shuffle.

You’ve been initiated.

Not by ceremony, but by curiosity.

Not by answers, but by asking the weirdest question in the room.

Ask:

What if your confusion is a chrysalis?

Now channel that.

In a reel. In a rant. In a spell.

In your eyebrows.

Visiting some new worlds...

I suck with heights don't mind it 😭

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Happy Saturn day and, for me, oh what a Saturnian day it is! Over the last 24 hours, we have been given our clean slate, entering Virgo season and immediately being thrust into this powerful lunation. This New Moon is our final lunation before we dive into eclipse season in September, and its presence at 0°23" Virgo is truly a force to be reckoned with when it comes to new beginnings. I mentioned this being a Saturnian event for my personal chart, and that is because my natal Saturn lies at 0°23" Taurus, forming a perfect trine to the luminaries that is even more accentuated by transiting Saturn's presence in his separating conjunction with my natal Aries Mercury, ruling over my 1st House and this New Moon. In a nutshell, there's a lot of energy buzzing about for manifestation and kickstarting Mercurial projects, but I can feel the disciplined fist of Saturn finally granting me the workhorse mentality needed to dig deep into what I want to see come to fruition through these transits: practical, consistent writing.

But enough about me! Let's look at the astrology at large.

The Sun carries the Moon into Virgo arm in arm this season, sharing this critical degree spotlight with Saturn currently in retrograde at 0° Aries. Lots has been shifting and shuffling around in regard to these extremely early degree planets, and the particular focus on outer planet ingresses in recent months has created a really pivotal starting point for a variety of different energies, and all sorts of new activity is happening in these respective Houses that hadn't been present for years prior. Think about it, this time six months ago, we had Saturn and Neptune still riding out their time in Pisces, Uranus was still in Taurus, and Pluto was still in in its earliest moments of Aquarius after spending nearly two decades in Capricorn. The shifts that these magnetic outer planets brought forth were seismic and weighted, and this New Moon creating tight aspects with all of these freshly ingressed planets is putting their themes and personal impact under a microscope. The Mercurial influence of Virgo is pushing us all to look critically at what steps we have taken to adapt to the changes placed before us, and what ways we can logically maximize the benefits and rationally assess how to overcome the challenges at hand. This feels particularly relevant with Uranus, residing in fellow Mercurial sign Gemini, with its retrograde on the horizon in mere weeks. Through this pre-eclipse season and post-outer planet ingress lens, now is the time to reflect and very consciously ask ourselves: What patterns and themes regarding our thought processes have changed recently? Are there more things you wish to manifest change towards through this lunation? Have there been any abrupt or sudden movements in your Mercurial processes through the impact of Uranus, or are you feeling more of the steady, longform evolution that planets like Saturn or Pluto are bringing to the table? All in all, now is the time for thought, reflection, and decision-making for how we are going to approach this next chapter and brace ourselves for any of the wide array of outcomes we could see unfolding in our lives as the eclipses revv up to force the changes we aren't always ready to face. My best advice to anyone experiencing a Mercury-heavy transit is to journal, journal, journal! Vomit out the words onto a page and just see what you can find in the freeform thought. Analyze and assess where you are, where you've come from, and where you want to go, and write out your goals as concretely as possible. There is so much power in word and in thought, and times like this grant us a keen ability to really zero in on where the faults in our thinking patterns lie, and how we can strengthen our own capacities for adversity to prepare for the tumult that arise from the upcoming eclipses.

I know for myself personally, I spent a lot of time early in the year in a very dark, anxiety-riddled place, and since Gemini season, I have been working hard to deconstruct my own harmful thought patterns and try to self-analyze as a means to understanding why I have upheld these longstanding fears, no matter how foundationless or illogical they may be. While I'm always an advocate for allowing space to experience and process feelings before rationalizing them, I do think it's important to practice using logic to pull yourself out of ruminations and endless thought spirals. I have had my fair share of incredibly difficult eclipse seasons (particularly the series that occurred in my 8H Aries in 2024 and 12H Leo in 2017), and I know that September's eclipses will hold a most of their weight against my most character-defining placements: my Pisces Sun and my Virgo Ascendant. I am taking this New Moon in Virgo to sit back, continue cultivating all that I have tried to grow, and continue learning and expelling what unhealthy behaviors and patterns are going to continue to hold me back. In doing this, I will work hard to maintain my sense of direction and inner peace as I'm anticipating a fair amount of interpersonal chaos to erupt of these eclipses in my 1st and 7th Houses. The battle of the self vs. the relationship, how I am perceived in my relationships, and what ways I can best adapt my communication styles to ensure that my needs stay met but my relationships don't end up neglected. The Hermit is the tarot card that represents Virgo, so while deep introspection and withdrawal is an essential part of how we process the themes brought up at this time, we must be cautious not to backslide into full blown isolation.

I'll reign in my ramblings for now, but I encourage you to focus on the power of willpower, self-understanding, and thought during this lunation. With Virgo being a mutable sign, now is the time for you to learn the limits of your own adaptability and ensure that you take time to reflect on yourself and your own personal journey, without over-extending yourself at the service of others. Easier said than done if you're like me! But practicing boundaries and introspection now will help guide you through balancing the highly emotional times ahead and provide you with the armor you need to maintain strength and vigilance through any obstacles thrown your way. Remember that there is no limit to the potential of the mind.

Happy New Moon!

The lunar eclipse in Libra signals that we are, once again, in an eclipse season. This lunar eclipse – the first eclipse of 2024 – is the third eclipse of the Aries-Libra eclipse cycle. It’s also the first lunar eclipse in that cycle – and the only lunar eclipse of that cycle – and that makes it a unique and special event. All full moons bring us to culmination, but lunar eclipses do so in a way…