Getting to Know a New Set of Lunar Nodes ~ 9 Aug 2026

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Virtually while we weren’t looking, the Universe installed a new set of transiting lunar nodes - Aquarius north node, Leo south node... a shift from the recent era of the Pisces-Virgo polarity. To boot, this shift commences with a north node trine to Mars and Ceres in Gemini for a brief interval to get things gassed up. Gassed up as in? Find your thing and stick with it. You know, the current new hot button thing, per the nodes in the allegedly most humanitarian sign available that ranges slightly more than a year and a half. Find and define your renewed cause. Verify its purposefulness, legacy-orientation and ensure that it is something you’ll be happy to report you engaged when the time comes for you to pass through those proverbial Pearly Gates, whether they’re real or not.

Coming off the Pisces north lunar node it is time to shed thin skin, especially if putting yourself out there in the collective and subject to those packing buckets of outrage - both real and fabricated. Go for the point within the cause. Ensure your point and cause are Universal - the kind of thing whose merit cannot be denied by any breathing, semi-cogent individual. Define the plan you have for the campaign you’re undertaking and execute it flawlessly, complete with taglines, clever phrases and descriptors that tantalize the intellect and all good sensibilities out there.

This nodal shift kicks off with continuing themes in play, Pluto in Aquarius sextile Neptune in Aries; Pluto also trine Sedna and Uranus in Gemini. With these in place emphasize the following:

What you do must be good for you and all those in your realm.

Portray confidence perfectly and inspire others to engage their creative surges.

Take on the real world and its requirements for your life as your primary responsibility.

Embrace changes required to ensure your spirit’s smoothest trajectory to fulfillment.

Mars soon migrates to Cancer (11 August). Between his Cancer ingress and 19 August he takes on a square to Neptune in Aries, semi-sextile to Sedna and Uranus in Gemini and quincunx Pluto’s transit of Aquarius. During this time it is critically important to attend to all instinctive sensorial clues. What is that creaking noise? Why does this smell odd? Does the pattern in front of you optically distort your perception or are you correctly tuning into the tracking of the moment? With Mars in Cancer, add your gut check to the prompts at hand. How does this sit in your belly barometer? This latter element remains particularly strong between now and when Mars aligns with the brightest star (other than our Sun), Sirius on 1 September.

Include in all this the need to perceive reality accurately. While the dream seemed real of the Viking battle on the location where Los Angeles’ main airport now exists, it never happened. So, too, consider all input that attempts to arouse you into action and follow causes that may not be well founded. You know, like algorithm-based prompts and the chatter of AI that basically disguises reality with a plethora of compliments that cause even Neptune in Aries to blush... that sort of stuff.

Ceres calls Cancer its temporary home the next day (12 August). Ceres also engages the same transit patterns as Mars above, operating through 27 August to complete the semi-sextile to Uranus. Take on what Mars decides warrants conscious attention. Take it on well and thoroughly and consider the Sun in Virgo soon manifests the axiom “any job worth doing is worth doing correctly.”

About a day (26 August) before Ceres and Uranus mark the end of the Ceres to distant planets, as the Sun transits the south lunar node, and opposes its north lunar counterpart. As the Sun insists conscious collection of all personal attributes recently noted into a tidy package, keep in mind that Ceres is believed to have once roamed the solar system skies amongst the dwarf planets in Pluto’s realm. Because of her grievance with Pluto regarding her daughter, Core/Persephone, Jupiter interceded and gravitationally relocated her in the inner solar system so she could enjoy some “out of sight, out of mind” time to refresh her sensibilities. Gravity is one of those irresistible natural laws, you know. And, truly, Ceres does need an occasional day off from constantly working to heal the world and its state of affairs. The Leo energy of the Sun, about to shift, so signals a sensibility check and self awareness reset as the current month concludes.

The current nodal stimulation trend wraps up with Chiron retrograding in Aries, and in so doing, with this ingress, he sextiles (it’s in orb) the north node on 18 September. It’s a chaotic push in the moment. Ideas and information swirl about and require consideration to ensure Chironic alignment: Does this work for me? Am I up for it? Does this initiate my next life chapter or distract from it? In the interrogation lies the answer.

In slightly more than six weeks, Ceres in Cancer aligns with Sirius (23 September). Here, based upon your personal check-ins with that ever so important belly barometer, you’ll have even more experience and accumulated wisdom achieved while listening to your gut. As a result, when you encourage others to tune in and do the life status gut check, they’ll accept your input far more graciously and look within, thus benefitting their efforts.

As we advance through the next through weeks, trust yourself, do what you know you must do with exceptional grace and before you know it, improvements will be perceptible. How cool is that?

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