The Harvest Moon of 2018 falls on September 24, PDT at 7:52pm and happens just 49 hours after the Autumnal Equinox on September 22. Can you say portal? Equinoxes are places of both endings and beginnings. We end the dominance of light and day and begin the dominance of night at this gateway in the North, and its reversal in the South. This is the place where Demeter's daughter Kore, out gathering flowers in the field becomes Persephone as she begins her annual journey to be with her husband Hades in his underworld kingdom. Art by Lizzie Siddal on IG This Full Moon is at 2 degrees Aries conjunct Chiron, square to Saturn at 2 Capricorn. This plus Mars on the South Node squaring Venus in Scorpi
The Moon was new on September 9 at 17 degrees Virgo, which happened in conjunction with the Sun's annual opposition to Neptune, currently in Pisces, its home sign. This continued the theme of the last Full Moon in Pisces. To review: Virgo is the energy of dedicated focused and efficient work on the earth plane in order to better and improve things, to make everything function as optimally as possible. Virgo is the archetype of human intervention, as a part of God's plan. Neptune/Pisces represents God, nature and anything from our primordial beginnings, including where we came from and where we will return to when we shed our human skins and return to the cosmic womb. The combination of the V
