​Today, the last day of January, the sky is lit up by a rare astrological phenomenon: a Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse that is also Blue (the second full moon of the month) and a Supermoon (perigee Moon).
The marvel happens at 11.37 ° Leo, opposing Sun and Venus conjunct in Aquarius. Lunar Eclipses in general emphasize an emotional and often relational turning point, although at times, especially on the Ego axis of Leo (self, personal)/ Aquarius (collective, impersonal), the relational switch is bound to happen on two levels: between two dimensions of the self (inner split-and-recompose), and also between individual and the collective (outer encounter with the power of the collective).

...FOR A BRIGHT NEW FUTURE.

THE HERMIT

Go inside.
Be quiet.
Praise your mind.
Seek counsel.
Help.
...and seek help.
Sit still until you understand.
Truth at all costs.
You need more.
Time for a quest!

The interesting part about this New Moon is the Tree Gate it creates. The Moon happens very early on the 25 degree, 25.07, so it makes  this connection from Sabian 24-25 to Sabian 25-26; both  Sabians carry a tree symbolism.
24-25 deg Gemini
A Gardener Trimming Large Palm Trees
25-26 deg Gemini
Frost-Covered Trees Against Winter Skies
​Gemini, with its Mercurial qualities, is a variety vs. selection sign. With the quality of intelligence, mental processes are aiming for quintessence. One definition for intelligence would be the ability to select the best solution, the best path, out of an input of variables. Here we have the action of “trimming” in the first Sabian, and reaching the essential (the bare skeletons of winter trees) in the next.

The solution is this narrow middle path, between the two antagonistic trees: a tree of the desert, a frosted tree in winter. Think of Boaz and Jachin, black and white, unflinching.  But the path, as Gemini  knows, is intelligently slipping between those, and standing on the threshold, for a while. Gemini, a master of acrobatics on thresholds.

This New Moon, a harbinger of seed sowing, encourages us to trim our thoughts and plans, ourselves, and to find the most enduring seed, one for the long future, then to take the narrow and secret Tree Path and plant it right beneath the Gate.
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