The Full Moon in Pisces on Aug. 28, 2026, is a partial lunar eclipse. The Sun in Virgo is in conjunction with Mercury. Uranus in Gemini forms a t-square with the Sun and the Moon. The Moon in Pisces is in conjunction with Gonggong and Damocles.

Gonggong is the fifth-largest known trans-Neptunian object after Pluto, Eris, Haumea and Makemake. It is approximately the size of Pluto’s moon Charon. It is a scattered disc object in a rare 3:10 orbital resonance with Neptune. There is only one confirmed object besides Gonggong in this rare resonance state. Gonggong has an atmosphere. It has a satellite.

Gonggong has tended to hide its true nature.

Gonggong was discovered in 2007 and it was long without an official name. At first, Mike Brown was not interested in naming it because he thought the object was not noteworthy and interesting enough. The discoverers nicknamed the object “Snow White” for its presumed white color. However, it turned out to be very red.

In 2019, the discoverers hosted an online poll for the general public to choose between three possible names: Gonggong (Chinese), Holle (German), and Vili (Norse). Objects like Gonggong must be given names related to mythological figures that are associated with creation. The winning name was Gonggong from Chinese mythology. Gonggong is a water god with red hair and a serpent-like tail. He is known for creating chaos, causing flooding, and tilting the Earth.

I have never been comfortable with the name Gonggong. There were rumors that someone had manipulated the poll by using a vote spamming bot. Even if this is not true, I find it hard to see Gonggong as a creation deity, even though by tilting the Earth he created the change of the seasons. Rather, he is described as destructive.

In Norse mythology Vili and Ve are Odin’s brothers, and together the three created the cosmos. Some say that they actually represent the same entity, the threefold form of Odin. The name Vili means “will”, the conscious intention, which is also needed in the creative process. At this lunar eclipse we can purposely choose to move forward as our authentic selves.

The centaur-like Damocles was discovered in 1991 on an orbit that was completely different from all others known. The orbit reaches from inside Mars to outside Uranus. Damocles is now the namesake of a group of objects, the damocloids. Damocloids are believed to be inactive nuclei of long-period and Halley-type comets that have lost their volatile material and are dormant.

“The Sword of Damocles” is the metaphor for the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. It is often used also in a broader sense, and simply means an unexpected peril.

Damocles’s orbital period around the Sun is nearly 41 years. However, astrologically it spends most of it, around 30 years, in Aquarius, and then hurries through the rest of the eleven signs of the zodiac in about ten years. Damocles has recently started a new round and is now in early Pisces.

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King Harald V of Norway, Europe’s oldest living monarch, is in an extremely serious condition in hospital in Oslo. He was hospitalized ten days ago and his condition has worsened. According to the doctors, it is necessary to prepare for the worst. The members of the royal family have gathered at the hospital.

The lunar eclipse is transiting King Harald’s Sun in early Pisces and his Midheaven at 5+ degrees of Pisces.

During the past weeks you probably have heard about the Barbault Basket, the rare astrological alignment consisting of the slow-moving outer planets Jupiter (growth and optimism), Uranus (liberation and sudden breakthroughs), Neptune (idealism and sensitivity), and Pluto (transformation). The planets in the pattern form a chain of three sextiles, and Jupiter in Leo and Pluto in Aquarius are opposing each other. Now the Full Moon – the opposition of the Sun and the Moon – aligns tightly with the Jupiter-Pluto opposition and activates the planets.

The basket configuration described above is also called a cradle pattern, where four planets are linked together by one opposition, two trines, and three sextiles. The tension of the opposition is balanced by the softer aspects. Astrologer Howard Sasportas (1948 – 1992) called Uranus, Neptune and Pluto as ”the gods of change”. Each planet works on its own distinctive way. He wrote: ”But no matter what specific kinds of conflicts, traumas, paradoxes or dilemmas they bring, these planets all have one thing in common: they don’t want to leave us the same way they found us.”

Perhaps this finally is a turning point in the war that has gone on for far too long in Europe. Ukraine’s position is now stronger than ever since the war began. Relations between president Zelensky and Trump have improved. They met yesterday before senator Lindsay Grayham’s funeral, and according to Zelensky they had a good meeting, where they also talked about restarting peace talks.

The Full Moon and Pluto are transiting in conjunction with president Zelensky’s Sun-Venus conjunction in Aquarius. The current Sun-Jupiter conjunction has just passed over Ukraine’s Chiron in early Leo. The trans-Neptunian peace planet Praamzius is now at 26+ degrees of Leo. It is transiting Ukraine’s triple conjunction of Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus in Leo.

The slow-moving outer planets of change do not only bring conflict and trauma, but also offer potential for growth and development.

This is an intense New Moon. The Moon is in its home sign Cancer. When a planet is in the sign that it rules, it is in a strong position and able to operate powerfully. The Sun and the Moon in Cancer are in cojunction with Mercury retrograde and centaur Eurytus. In Capricorn opposite the New Moon is cubewano Máni.

Máni is one of the large bodies named last year. It is named from Norse mythology after the personification of the Moon. Máni controls the course of the Moon and rules over the New Moon and the Full Moon. The astronomical cubewano Máni has some extreme features in its physical properties. There is a mountain peak among the tallest known and a crater among the deepest known for bodies of the Solar System.

A New Moon is always a conjunction of the Sun and the Moon. At the time of the Full Moon, the Sun and Moon are opposing each other. Now that the Moon is conjunct the Sun and Máni is opposite the Sun, it evokes the image as if both were happening simultaneously.

Centaur Eurytus reminds us of the Centauromachy, the famous battle between the centaurs and the Lapiths in Greek mythology. The battle is said to represent the struggle between civilization and barbarism. The centaurs were guests at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia. Eurytus was the fiercest of the centaurs, and he tried to abduct the bride. All the other centaurs were up in a moment and tried to seize the other women. The centaurs were beaten, many of them were killed, and the rest were driven off by the Lapiths. One person’s toxic behaviour led to serious consequences when the crowd reacted.

The Moon rules the masses and crowds, things of public nature, and collective reactions, and the fast moving Moon can act as a trigger. Keep your calm!

The Moon was full just a few minutes before midnight (UT) on June 29, 2026. The Moon in Capricorn was in conjunction with Ixion, the fourth-largest plutino (after Pluto, Orcus and Achlys). The Sun in Cancer is in conjunction with the trans-Neptunian Xevioso. Mercury is stationary and about to turn retrograde in Cancer.

The sign changes of Mars and Jupiter coincide with this Full Moon. Mars entered Gemini the day before and Jupiter enters Leo the next day. Chiron is in the first degree of Taurus. It already entered Taurus on June 19.

Xevioso was discovered in 2002 and named in 2025. The earliest known precovery observation is from 1989. Xevioso’s minor planet category is obscure. Xevioso is a trans-Neptunian object located in the inner edge of the Kuiper belt. It can be considered a classical Kuiper belt object, a cubewano. It can also be technically considered a centaur. The orbital period is about 230 years. Its diameter is between 490 and 640 km. Xevioso was nearest to the Sun in 1926.

Xewioso was named after a thunder god in the mythologies of the Ewe and Fon people of Western Africa. He is the god of thunder, lightning and rain. He is one of the children of Mawu and Lisa. Mawu-Lisa is a creator goddess associated with the Sun and the Moon. Xewioso is a righteous god. Death by lightning is considered a punishment in West Africa. But if a person survives being struck by lightning, he is is considered spiritually chosen and the direct incarnation of Xevioso.

Thunderbolts seem to be the theme of this Full Moon. In Greek mythology Ixion was a creep who was punished with a thunderbolt by Zeus (Jupiter). Ixion was a king of the Lapiths. He killed his father-in-law and was reckoned the first man guilty of kin-slaying in Greek mythology. He became an outlaw. Zeus took pity on Ixion and invited him to dine with the gods. However, instead of being grateful, Ixion tried to seduce Zeus’s wife Hera. Zeus struck him with lightning and expelled him to Tartarus, the place where the wicked received divine punishment.

Ixion is a plutino discovered in 2001. According to the International Astronomical Union’s naming convention, all plutinos must be given mythological names associated with the underworld. The earliest precovery image of Ixion is taken in 1982. Its orbital period is 248 years and the diameter according to the latest measurement is 697 km.

Ixion is said to represent that which we are all capable of. Today, there seem to be more people than ever who cannot distinguish right from wrong. These ancient myths give us hope though. Even the most powerful in the world are not safe from the consequences of their actions.

Summer Solstice – June 21, 2026, 08:24 UT

The New Moon occurs at 24+ degrees of Gemini. There are two large trans-Neptunian planets in the same degree with the Sun and the Moon, ”Buffy” and Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà.

Buffy is a nickname given to (612911) 2004 XR190 by its discovery team. It has not been officially named yet. Buffy is kind of a hybrid. It is classified as both a scattered disc object and a detached object. It is the largest known highly inclined object with an estimated diameter of 335 to 850 kilometers. The inclination is almost 47° with respect to the ecliptic, which means that it is traveling rather up and down than left to right around the Sun when viewed edge-on the ecliptic. It has an unusually circular orbit for a scattered disc object.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a character who must battle vampires, demons, and forces of darkness. She is a protector.

Read more about Buffy here Full Moon in Gemini – Dec. 15, 2024, 09:02 UT

Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà was named from mythology of Jul’hoan people of Namibia in 2019 which was the International Year of Indigenous Languages, a United Nations observance that aimed to raise awareness of the consequences of the endangerment of Indigenous languages across the world, with an aim to establish a link between language, development, peace, and reconciliation.

Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà is the beautiful aardvark girl and a shape-shifter of Jul’hoan mythology who sometimes appears in stories as a python and sometimes as an elephant. She defends her people and punishes wrongdoers. An aardvark is a nocturnal, burrowing mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. ChatGPT told me that “the figure G!kúnǁ’hòmdímà appearing as an aardvark is significant because aardvarks are associated with strength, digging, persistence, and survival in the harsh environments of southern Africa. Their ability to create protective burrows may also symbolize shelter and defense, which fits the role of a protector defending her people.”

Read more about Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà here New Moon in Gemini — June 03, 2019, 10:02 UT

On June 21, 2026, the Sun enters Cancer and it is the Summer Solstice. The Moon will be at 23+ degrees of Virgo square to these tough defenders.

The Full Moon is in the enthusiastic and optimistic sign of Sagittarius. The Moon and the Sun in Gemini form a Grand cross with the centaur-like Damocles in Pisces and the trans-Neptunian Aya in Virgo.

55565 Aya is a large cubewano named from Akkadian mythology after the goddess of dawn. Aya is associated with morning light and the rising sun. Aya was the second-brightest Kuiper belt object known at the time of its discovery in 2002. It was named in 2025. Its orbital period is 324 years.

5335 Damocles was discovered in 1991 on an orbit that was completely different from all others known. Its aggressive orbit reaches from inside Mars to outside Uranus. It is now the namesake of a group of objects, the damocloids. Damocles, like other damocloids, are believed to be inactive nuclei of long-period and Halley-type comets that have lost their volatile material and are dormant. The diameter of Damocles is only about 10 km. The small size is probably the reason why Damocles has not been observed since 1992, and it is currently ”lost”.

The orbit of Damocles is stable for tens of thousands of years, but there is a good chance that it will become an earth crosser asteroid. According to the official naming citation, “Legend has it that Damocles, a courtier of the tyrant Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, was invited to a feast, where he was seated below a sword suspended by a thread. Intended to demonstrate the impermanence of power, the ‘sword of Damocles’ has become a symbol of impending disaster. This minor planet, in an unusual orbit of very high eccentricity and inclination and crossing the orbits of Mars to Uranus, could itself be seen as such a sword during periods of its orbital evolution when it becomes an earth crosser.”

“The Sword of Damocles” is the metaphor for the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. It is often used also in a broader sense, and simply means an unexpected peril.

Damocles will reach its next perihelion on Aug. 23, 2031, in Leo. The orbital period around the Sun is nearly 41 years. However, astrologically it spends most of it, around 30 years, in Aquarius, and then hurries through the rest of the eleven signs of the zodiac in about ten years. Damocles has recently started a new round. In April 2021 it visited Pisces for the first time, made a visit back and forth between Aquarius and Pisces five times, and in December 2025 ingressed Pisces for good on the current round.

It is darkest before dawn. From a scientific standpoint this is not true. It is a proverb which reminds us that when things in life feel at their worst, a new beginning is just around the corner. Have faith, there is hope even in the worst of circumstances.

This New Moon in the earthy sign of Taurus is a fertile moment of renewal and perhaps the beginning of a soul journey. The Sun and the Moon are in conjunction with the trans-Neptunian Uni and the asteroid Ceres.

55637 Uni was discovered in 2002. It was named in September 2025 after the Etruscan goddess of love and fertility, which was the second time in a short period of time that I heard about this for me previously unknown goddess.

Katariina Souri, a Finnish author and artist, published her book Unimyytti, Joutsensukuisen suominoidan tarina Osa 1 (The Uni Myth, The Story of The Finnish Witch from The Swan Clan Part 1) in the spring of 2025. Her interdisciplinary and intuitive work maps the root causes that have eroded the communal way of life and, in particular, the value and significance of women. It explores the history and tradition of the Finno-Ugric tribes, especially the role of women in them. ”Past generations live within us, and we have a responsibility to carry forward the baton they have handed us,” she says. She thinks that a return to the matriarchal system is the only hope for humanity.

The Finnish word “uni” means ”dream”. In her foreword, Katariina Souri sheds light on the meaning of the book’s title. The work connects to mythologies. Some people probably think that the title refers to sleep and dreaming. By the term, she means something completely different. She explains the etymology of the word ”uni”. The word-forming element ”mono” means ”single, alone”, and refers to isolatedness, while ”uni”, in spite of meaning ”one, single”, refers to something which is connected to the whole. For example in the words ”monology” and ”monopoly” versus ”universe” and ”unity”. The title also refers to the ancient Etruscan goddess Uni, the giver of life and the renewer. According to the Etruscan myth, Hercle, a version of the Greek hero Heracles, drank the breast milk of Uni to achieve immortality. Heracles was given the task of completing twelve labors in order to achieve immortality and become a god. Heracles’s survival of the task is an example of the traditional monomyth, the symbolic hero’s journey. ”However, achieving the ultimate goal and becoming a god was not possible for even the great hero without the participation of the sacred feminine,” writes Katariina Souri.

Unimyytti Part 2 will probably be published soon. The text stems from the author’s personal journey of descending into the soul. We all have our own journey to make.

The trans-Neptunian Uni was named on Sept. 1, 2025, after the ancient Etruscan goddess of marriage, fertility, family, and women. This quite large cubewano has a diameter of about 660 km. The orbital period is 282 years. Uni has one known moon, Tinia, which was named together with Uni, after the Etruscan sky god and husband of Uni.

When cubewano Uni was discovered on Oct. 30, 2002, it was retrograding at 23+ Aries. The Sabian symbol for the discovery degree is Aries 24 Blown inward by the wind, the curtains of an open window take the shape of a cornucopia. Keynote: Openness to the influx of spiritual energies. (Dane Rudhyar, An Astrological Mandala)

A few words about asteroid Ceres, now in the same degree with the New Moon and Uni. Ceres is Mother Earth, the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility, and motherly relationships. The myth of Pluto, Proserpina, and Ceres tells of the changing seasons. Pluto kidnapped Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres, and took her to the underworld. Ceres searched for her daughter, and in her despair, let plants to die and winter to fall on the world. Jupiter forced the gods into an agreement: Proserpina would spend six months with Pluto and six months with her mother, Ceres. Now, in spring, we are living in the time of Proserpina’s return.

In Asteroid Goddesses Demetra George describes widely the mythology and the astrological meaning of Ceres. Among the Ceres astrological rulerships I notice this: ”Ceres values the family: deep family roots and ties, extended family systems, communes, clanship systems, tribes.” She also writes: ”Ceres symbolizes the principle of adaptation and survival of the species.”

Uranus entered Gemini on April 26, 2026. The Full Moon occurs in Scorpio, and in Taurus the Sun is conjunct asteroid 30 Urania, named after the great-granddaughter of Uranus.

Asteroid Urania is a large ellipse shaped main-belt asteroid with a length of 111 km and a width of 89 km. Its orbital period is 3.64 years. In mythology Urania is the heavenly muse of astronomy and astrology. She is often associated with universal love.

According to Demetra George, astrologically Urania represents the principle of inspired knowledge. ”In chart analysis, a prominent Urania indicates an affinity for astrology, astronomy, music (more theory and composition than performance), pure sciences, mathematics, measurement, or numerology.” (Asteroid Goddesses, 2003)

Asteroid Urania was discovered by English astronomer John Russell Hind in 1854 in London. He was a prolific asteroid discoverer of his time. John Russell Hind was born in 1823 in Nottingham, England. In his birth chart, asteroid Urania is at 19+ degrees of Cancer sextile his Sun at 20+ degrees of Taurus. His Sun is in tight conjunction with Arrokoth, a cubewano, which in 2018 was targeted for the space probe New Horizons’ next destination after it would have completed flyby of Pluto. The name Arrokoth means “sky”. Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator said in the naming ceremony, that “the name ‘Arrokoth’ reflects the inspiration of looking to the skies, and wondering about the stars and worlds beyond our own.”

There is a huge stellium in Aries. The fiery Mars entered its own sign on April 9, 2026, and there are Neptune, Mercury, Saturn, Eris, Chiron, the Sun and the Moon in Aries too. The exact Chiron-Eris conjunction took place in March, and now the New Moon occurs tightly conjunct the Chiron-Eris conjunction. In the mid-degrees of Cancer, Jupiter, which represents expansion and magnification, is in exact conjunction with the newly named centaur Eurytus, and they are squaring the Aries cluster.

A few days ago centaur 2012 VU85 was named from Greek mythology after a centaur who took part in the famous battle between the centaurs and the Lapiths, known as the Centauromachy. 463368 Eurytus was discovered in 2012 by Kazimieras Černis and Richard Boyle, the same astronomers who discovered and named the trans-Neptunian Praamzius. Eurytus is suspected to be a binary. The orbital period around the Sun is about 160 years and the diameter approximately 190 km.

The official naming citation sounds a bit mild compared to what we actually know about the mythical centaur Eurytus. Eurytus was one of the guests at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia, and he caused the whole conflict. The centaurs had been invited but they got drunk, and their untamed nature was unleashed. Eurytus, the most violent of the centaurs, attempted to abduct the bride. All the other centaurs were up in a moment, attempting to carry off the women. Eurytus’s ears and nose were cut off, and he and many other centaurs were killed. The defeated centaurs were expelled from Thessaly.

Ovid describes in Metamorphoses (trans. Melville): ”Eurytus, the fiercest of the fierce Centauri, was fired by wine and by the sight of that fair girl, and drink was in command, double by lust. Tables were overturned, the banquet in confusion, and the bride, held by her hair, was seized and carried off. Hippodame was seized by Eurytus; the others seized what girl each would or could.”

The Sabian symbol for the discovery degree of Eurytus is Gemini 9, A quiver filled with arrows.

What to say about the current Chiron-Eris conjunction in Aries (2025-2026), one of the important astrological aspects of our time? There is still no fully agreed and established interpretation of Eris, which was discovered in 2005, and perhaps not even of Chiron, discovered in 1977. Their previous conjunction occurred in 1971-1972 also in Aries. From my point of view as a Finn, the conjunction that took place in 1917-1918 in Pisces is more interesting though. It occurred during the final years of the World War I. The Russian Revolution, one of the historic events of the 20th century, started in 1917. Russia abolished its monarchy and adopted socialism. Following the Russian Revolution, Finland declared its independence on Dec. 6, 1917. A civil war ensued in 1918. In the chart of Finland there is a stationary Chiron and retrograding Eris in conjunction at 25-27 degrees of Pisces.

In Amy Shapiro’s Inviting Eris To The Party: Our Provocateur In Unfair Affairs (2014) she writes about natal Eris-Chiron conjunction: ”As Chiron is the wounded healer, and Eris is discord related to inequity, those themes drive you in some way.” Eric Francis wrote in 2024: ”Chiron is an awakening principle. Eris is a chaos principle. Chiron individuates; Eris tribalizes. Their meeting could have a wide diversity of effects for whoever experiences it, and will have noticeable collective effects that feel like a mass uprising of some kind, whether helpful or not.”

Vernal Equinox – March 20, 2026, 14:46 UT

The New Moon in Pisces in the early hours of March 19, 2026, is followed by the Chiron-Eris conjnction in Aries later the same day. The Sun enters Aries on March 20, marking the Vernal Equinox and the beginning of the astrological new year. Mercury is stationary conjunct the North node of the Moon at 8+ degrees of Pisces, about to turn direct five hours later.

The New Moon at 28+ degrees of Pisces is in conjuncton with Neptune and tno Borasisi in the early Aries. Neptune is associated with oil and Borasisi with nuclear power, among other things. Both planets may also refer to a denial of the truth.

The Chiron-Eris conjunction at 24+ Aries shares its degree with centaur Okyrhoe, named after the nymph daughter of Chiron and Chariklo. She was a prophetess, whose ability to speak was taken. She revealed to Chiron his fate. Zeus tranformed her into a mare for revealing the secrets of the gods.

Astrologically Okyrhoe has been interpreted to give clairvoyance and abiliity to travel between different realities. According to Mark A. Holmes’s delineation, “Okyrhoe seems to indicate being criticized or attacked, being able to cope with attacks or unpopularity, ability to stand up for one’s beliefs or principles.”

This New Moon is in tight conjunction with Okyrhoe of the European Union at 29+ degrees of Pisces. The European leaders stood up for their principles despite of threats from Trump and rejected his call for help to reopen strait of Hormuz: “This is not our war.”

Silencing Okyrhoe can also be seen as a symbol of the restriction of press freedom and the free flow of information. When Trump was elected to his first term in 2017, Okyrhoe was in early Aquarius, caught by the Sun within a few days. Trump’s attacks on the American media and journalists began immediately. He has caused a significant decline in freedom of the press. In recent news we saw how the Pentagon has not permitted press photographers to take photos inside the press briefing room after taking unflattering photos of Pete Hegseth. There has been no free press in Putin’s Russia for a long time, but now Russian authorities have said that they are escalating internet censorship efforts by fully blocking the nation’s most popular social media platform Telegram in April.

I also consider the recent heated debate in Finland as an example of the Chiron-Eris-Okyrhoe conjunction. Our government proposed that all restrictions on nuclear weapons would be removed from the Nuclear Energy Act. The parties didn’t receive information about the government’s bill in advance. Broad parliamentary consensus on issues related to Finland’s security has worked successfully before. The assessment of such significant legislative changes affecting Finland’s security should take place in parliament.