After tomorrow, two New Moons remain until natal Progressed New Moon, personal end and beginning of a new 30-year cycle. This particular New Moon also is preceded by transit today to the USA North Node of the Moon, and is two days preceding our anniversary of the Midwest 2020 derecho.
Tweets observed today feel alarming: people wonder whether we have reached the too little, too late state of climate change. Fires like never before burn in Siberia on this saturnine Saturday in a fire-sign Moon. An essay by Barry Lopez’s widow read yesterday haunts with its theme of denial. Shopping for fall prairie order today is the only consumption feeling appropriate to the moment, and even edits to that list defer to shorter stature plants with less tinder potential.
Saturday, August 7th, local, CDT:
Moon conjunct USA North Node of Moon 14:56
Moon sextile natal Midheaven 15:22
Moon conjunct natal Mercury 15:30
Image: “Seismograph from Aug 10, 2020 in the Des Moines metropolitan area with derecho impact (10:26am) and end (12:08pm) times annotated. The seismograph registered intense vibrations from the extreme winds produced by the August 2020 Midwest derecho.” National Weather Service, public domain.