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.”

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.

The New Moon on Feb. 17, 2026, at 28+ degrees of Aquarius is an annular solar eclipse and it is the first eclipse of the year. The unprecedented Saturn-Neptune conjunction at the Aries Point is about to become exact within a few days. The eclipse squares Uranus in Taurus.

A solar eclipse can take place only when there is a New Moon. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is at or near its furthest point from the Earth, and the Moon appears smaller than the Sun’s disk. The golden ring of the Sun stays visible around the Moon during the eclipse. The astrological trends that the solar eclipse shows are valid about the next six months. The current eclipse is at the future oriented North node of the Moon.

This eclipse is a member of the Saros series 10 North. The initial eclipse of this Saros was tightly conjunct Mercury, and Saturn was on the midpoint of the New Moon and Neptune. So Saturn and Neptune were involved in determining the quality of the original eclipse too. Bernadette Brady has delineated: “There is a very strong emphasis on communication and, at the same time, frustrating or inhibiting events may come into the person’s life via news, paperwork or a young person. The person may feel tired and drained, and this is therefore a good time to take things quietly and work through the difficulties one at a time.”

The conjunction of Saturn and Neptune takes place roughly every 36 years. However, since the beginning of the common era this is the first time that it is happening at the Aries Point, the first degree of Aries. Neptune entered Aries on Jan. 26 and Saturn followed on Feb. 14. Now the conjunction is developing to its full precision at the Aries Point. The historic Saturn-Neptune conjunction takes place on Feb. 20, 2026. The energies have been felt long before the peak moment.

The Aries Point is the starting point of the zodiac. It strongly symbolizes new beginnings. Saturn and Neptune operate in opposite ways. Saturn builds boundaries while Neptune dissolves them. No wonder that the world is in chaos now. The rebellious Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, is shattering the structures of Saturn too. The eclipse forms a challenging square to the unpredictable Uranus. We are unlikely to get relief anytme soon and Uranus keeps offering us surprises.

The eclipse is opposite the peace planet Praamzius in Leo. The Sun and the Moon in Aquarius, Uranus in Taurus, and Praamzius in Leo form a t-square. A new round of peace negotiations has just begun in Geneva between the Ukrainian, Russian and US officials. Since communication, negtiations and making deals fall under the dominion of Mercury, which is strongly colouring this Saros series, I had a quick look at the charts of Ukraine and the European Union too. Ukraine has a triple conjunction of Venus, Mercury and Jupiter at 25-28 degrees of Leo, which receives the transits of the eclipse and other points of the t-square. The eclipse and the t-sqiare also transit the Moon-Mercury square of the EU.

At the New Moon at 28+ degrees of Capricorn there was a cluster of planets and minor planets in late Capricorn and early Aquarius. The New Moon is sextile to Saturn and Neptune in Pisces and trine to Uranus in Taurus.

The Sun and the Moon were in conjunction with asteroid 5 Astraea, also at 28+ Capricorn. Astraea was the fifth asteroid discovered. The first four (Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta) were considered first as planets, but rapidly after the discovery of Astraea in 1845 more asteroids were discovered, and it became apparent that these were members of new type of celestial bodies. Astraea was a Greek goddess of justice, who was the last of the immortals to live together with humans during the idealistic Golden Age, when no evil existed in the world. But when humans became crueler and more corrupt, Astraea abondened humanity and went to live among the stars in the constellation Virgo. Astrologer Martha Lang-Wescott describes the meaning of Astraea excellently with these phrases: “it ain’t over ’til it’s over”; “go down with the ship”, “wait until the dust settles”; “the famous final scene” (Martha Lang-Wescott, Mechanics of the Future).

Mars and Mercury at 26+ Capricorn are in conjunction with another Astraea family asteroid, 8273 Apatheia, discovered in 1989. In Stoic philosophy, the concept of apatheia refers to a state of mind in which one is not disturbed by the passions. It was the quality that characterized “the sage”, someone who had attained wisdom.

Asteroid 1566 Icarus and centaur Hylonome are in the first degree of Aquarius. Among the keywords of astrologer Juan Revilla for centaur Hylonome are “lost innocence” and “the cry of the poor.”

Asteroid Icarus was discovered in 1949. It is a potentially hazardous asteroid with an extremely eccentric orbit. It comes closer to the Sun than Mercury and goes further out than Mars. It was named from Greek mythology after Icarus, the son of Daedalus. They attempted to escape from prison with wings that Daedalus constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus ignored his father’s advice not to fly too close to the Sun. The wax melted and Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. Astrologically Icarus likes to take risks and wants to escape limitations.

Plutino Arawn is in conjunction with Venus at 1+ Aquarius. Arawn was the ruler of the Celtic otherworld, Annwn. Arawn was a shapeshifter, who switched places with a mortal man. Van Morrison (the Sun conjunct Arawn) has said: “What’s your original face? Know what I mean? Who are you really? There’s so many different kinds of healing but, if you are in alignment with yourself, then that in itself is going to be healing. If you’re trying to be something other, like something superficial, trying to be someone you’re not, then that would take you away from your true centre.”

At 3+ Aquarius there is Pluto, the Greek ruler of the underworld, who kidnapped the maiden Persephone and made her the queen of the underworld.

In Cancer, opposite the New Moon and the cluster, is Cardea, one of the quasi-moons of Earth. It is an asteroid discovered in 2004. A quasi-moon is an asteroid that actually orbits the Sun, but if you watch it from the Earth, it looks like it’s orbiting our planet just like the Moon does. Cardea is named after the Roman goddess of the hinge, the goddess of doorways and transitions, symbolizing the guardianship of thresholds.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19, 2025. The comet was at 10+ degrees of Virgo conjunct the South node of the Moon and cubewano Aya. Aya was named last summer from Akkadian mythology after the goddess of dawn. She was the wife of the Sun god and called the “morning-maker”. The Sun was at 27+ Sagittarius, exactly at the Milky Way’s Galactic Center and in conjunction with cubewano Varda. We remember that comet 3I/ATLAS originated in the direction of the Galactic Center. Varda is named after the Star-Queen in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional mythology. She created the stars and constellations and also set the vessels of the Sun and the Moon upon their appointed courses in the sky.

At the New Moon in Sagittarius on Dec. 20, comet 3I/ATLAS was at 9+ degrees of Virgo. The New Moon is always a conjunction of the Sun and the Moon, so the Moon was now also at the Galactic Center and conjunct Varda.

On Dec. 21 is the Winter Solstice. The Sun enters Capricorn and the days start to slowly get longer from now on. In the solstice chart the Sun is still in a tight conjunction with Varda. The Moon at 17+ Capricorn is in conjunction with cubewano Máni, another large object named last summer, and asteroid Vesta. In Norse mythology Máni is the personification of the Moon. Vesta is the brightest asteroid seen from Earth. It is named after the goddess of the hearth and keeper of the sacred flame. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is at 8+ degrees of Virgo.

The days have been dark and short, and the Moon is invisible at the New Moon. Professor Emeritus of Space Astronomy Esko Valtaoja has recently stated that seeing light requires conscious effort. Let us seek the light.

Retrograde Mercury meets the New Moon at 28+ degrees of Scorpio. There is an awesome and complex Grand Cross in the fixed signs.

Mercury turned retrograde on Nov. 9 and re-entered Scorpio on Nov. 19. The New Moon occurs in conjunction with Mercury and several trans-Neptunian bodies, all either in the same degree with the New Moon and the retrograde Mercury, or within two degrees.

The Sabian symbol for the New Moon is Scorpio 29 An Indian squaw pleading to the chief for the lives of her children. “This is the symbol of the stark sacrifices the self must make in the common interest and of the high responsibilities the group must accept for the welfare of each individual, as these factors together create a functioning society and enable man to control his everyday world. Here is emphasis on the give-and-take in human allegiances, and a call for a balancing of rights and wrongs as a result of direct experience with the problem of self-fulfillment.” (Marc Edmund Jones)

The trans-Neptunians at the 28+ Scorpio are Deucalion, Dziewanna and Typhon. Deucalion is a cubewano with the orbital period of almost 296 years. It was named from Greek mythology. Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha were the only people who survived a great flood. An oracle told them to “throw the bones of their mother” behind them. They understood that their mother is Earth and her bones are stones. The stones they then threw over their shoulders became people who repopulated the world.

Dziewanna is a scattered disc object with the orbital period of 592.5 years. Dziewanna was discovered during the Polish Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment of Warsaw University, and there were a couple of Polish astronomers involved in the discovery. So the planet was named after the Slavic goddess of the Moon, wild nature, forests, and hunting. She is a maiden goddess having much in common with the Roman goddess Diana.

Typhon is a scattered disc object and a centaur, when using the extended definition of a centaur. Typhon was the first known binary centaur. The orbital period is almost 237 years. Typhon was a giant monster in Greek mythology, associated with typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and hot winds.

One of the recently named cubewanos, Goibniu, is at 29+ degrees of Scorpio. The different populations of the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc are not always easy to distinguish. Goibniu is also classified as a scattered-extended object. The orbital period of Goibniu is about 271 years. It is named after the Irish god of metallurgy and hospitality. He made weapons for the gods and furnished feasts for them. Goibniu was the metalsmith of the Tuatha Dé Danann (“the people of the goddess Danu”), the race of gods who populated Ireland before the Celts.

Directly opposite this heap of planets is the unpredictable Uranus at 29+ degrees of Taurus (conjunct Sedna). There are two trans-Neptunians tightly in conjunction with Uranus, namely Alicanto and Lempo.

Alicanto at 28+ Taurus is an extreme trans-Neptunian object (ETNO) with the orbital period around 6000 years. Alicanto was named after a nocturnal bird from Chilean mythology. Alicanto has wings that shine at night with beautiful, metallic colors. A miner who follows it can find treasures, but a greedy one will be guided off the cliff.

Lempo at 27+ Taurus is a triple plutino named from Finnish mythology. The orbital period is 248 years. Is Lempo the goddess of love and fertility or the devil? The name Lempo is connected to fire. Erotic love has been described like a flame which flares up within a person. After Christianity came to Finland, the reputation of Lempo worsened. Love can turn dangerous, and even lead to destruction.

The other opposition of the Grand Cross consists of Damocles in Aquarius and Praamzius in Leo. Praamzius is a cubewano with the orbital period of 278 years. It is named after the chief god from Lithuanian mythology. He was the god of sky, peace, and friendship and played a role in creating the world.

Then there is Damocles at 28+ degrees of Aquarius. Damocles is a damocloid and a centaur. The damocloids is a group of minor planets which may be inactive nuclei of the Halley-type and long-period comets, tells the Wikipedia. The Sword of Damocles is an expression which describes the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. According to Wikipedia, “More generally, it is used to denote the sense of foreboding engendered by a precarious situation, especially one in which the onset of tragedy is restrained only by a delicate trigger or chance.”

The last degrees of the signs are called “anaretic degrees”. They are often referred to as the degrees of crisis. The late Finnish astrologer Raimo A. Nikula once noted that it’s precisely the 28+ degree of a sign that is often the most difficult one, not the last degree. According to him there is always a paradox involved in last degrees: they can be both punishing as well as be spiritually very rewarding, because the individual has in his possession the whole experience and extension of the sign. He said that the last phases carry the possibility to purify the soul so that new life experience is possible, but first the individual may have to face things that rise from the unconscious.

We have a rare visitor in our solar system. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered last summer, and now this oddity is in exact conjunction with the New Moon in Libra, in the same degree with the Sun and the Moon.

Long-period comets originate from the distant Oort cloud, whereas short-period comets come from the Kuiper belt. The recently discovered main-belt comets form a group of their own. They orbit in more circular orbits within the Main asteroid belt.

Our visitor came from interstellar space, the space between stars. Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object discovered, after Oumuamua, the “first distant messenger” in 2017, and the first observed “rogue comet” Borisov in 2019.

We don’t know where exactly comet 3I/ATLAS is coming from or where it is heading after its orbit around our Sun. It seems that it originated in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center. Astrologically the Galactic Center is often thought to be an intense energy point and symbolize the higher purpose or the door to deeper understanding. In the chart the Galactic Center is located around 27+ degrees of Sagittarius.

Comet 3I/ATLAS may be the oldest comet yet seen. It could be at least 7 billion years old – older than our solar system, which is about 4.6 billion years old. The diameter of its nucleus is not big, perhaps less than 1 km. Initially, the comet had a red coma. When the sky darkened due to the total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7, 2025, astronomers took advantage of the opportunity to observe the interstellar comet and found it to be green.

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025 (astrologically in the early degrees of Capricorn). It passed by Mars on Oct. 3, 2025. It will reach perihelion (the closest distance to the Sun) between the orbits of Earth and Mars on Oct. 29, 2025. Then it will pass by Venus on Nov. 3, 2025. It is expected to make its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19, 2025, but it will not come very close us. It will pass Jupiter on March 16, 2026, before heading back into interstellar space.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is in solar conjunction on Oct. 21, 2025, the day of the New Moon. It means that the Earth, Moon, Sun, and the comet are aligned with each other so that the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, and the comet on the opposite side of the Sun as seen from Earth. It is not visible from Earth’s perspective now, but space probes will continue to observe it.

Ancient astrologers considered comets to be harbringers of doom, predicting the death of a king or some other disaster. Although comets are unpredictable, modern astrology sees them in a bit more positive light. Comets bring a message of change. Considering the current state of our world, a message from the center of the Milky Way, from the Source, is bringing hope and a broader perspective to humanity.

Autumnal Equinox – Sept. 22, 2025, 18:19 UT

The New Moon in the last degree of Virgo is a partial solar eclipse. The next day is the Autumnal Equinox, when the Sun enters Libra.

In August there was a kite configuration formed by Mars and the slowly moving planets Uranus, Pluto, Saturn, and Neptune. Now the Sun and the Moon have taken Mars’s place at the back of the kite. Full Moon in Aquarius – Aug. 09, 2025, 07:55 UT

Eclipses may bring events that feel “fated”. Now even more so, because asteroid 3811 Karma is in conjunction with the Sun, Moon and Mercury. Asteroid Karma was discovered by astronomer Liisi Oterma in 1953 in Turku, Finland. It is a Main-belt asteroid with a diameter of about 30 kilometers and an orbital period of just over four years. The concept of karma is universal and means the influence of cause and effect. All actions have consequences. Also the lack of action counts. The astrological meaning attached to the asteroid follows roughly the same.

Today the UK, Canada and Australia have recognised the Palestinian state. According to Finland’s constitution, our foreign policy is led by the president in co-operation with the government. President Alexander Stubb has said that he would be ready to recognise a Palestinian state if the government were to propose it. He would have liked Finland to be “on the right side of history”. Shamefully our right-wing government is not willing to do it, Finland is not recognising Palestine.

The solar eclipse and the transiting asteroid Karma are conjunct Finland’s natal asteroid Karma in early Libra and squaring Finland’s lunar nodes and Mercury in Capricorn.

The New Moon in the first degree of Virgo is in conjunction with the binary cubewano Sila-Nunam and square Uranus-Sedna conjunction in Gemini. The Sun, the Moon and Sila-Nunam form the apex of a yod pattern. Other planets involved in the yod are Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries. Potent forces are present.

Ukraine celebrates its independence tomorrow. The declaration of independence was issued on Aug. 24, 1991. President Zelensky, president Trump and European leaders met in Washington on Aug. 18, when the Sun was in exact conjunction with the peace planet Praamzius. However, there are no great hopes for peace. This New Moon is right at Ukraine’s Sun. The New Moon is also conjunct asteroid Cardea in the last degree of Leo. Cardea is named after the Roman goddess of doorways and transitions, symbolizing the guardianship of thresholds. Is Ukraine now at a hinge moment of history? Time will tell.

This summer Finland experienced a record-breaking heatwave with 22 days exceeding 30C. The heatwave would have been impossible without human-caused climate breakdown. There were dead reindeer in Lapland because of the heat. The climate is warming fastest in the north.

Also worrying is the news from Spain that Posidonia, “Neptune’s weed”, the most important carbon sink in the Mediterranean, is disappearing. Posidonia grows on the seabed and binds more carbon dioxide than anything else in the world. It is one of the oldest living organisms in the world, partly up to 10,000 years old, and grows extremely slowly. The warming seawater is a significant threat to Posidonia.

Sila-Nunam and Sedna are both named from Inuit mythology. The entire Inuit way of life is under threat as the sea ice melts. Sedna is the goddess of the Arctic Ocean, who created the sea animals. Sila is the god of the sky, weather, and life force. Nunam is the Earth goddess, who created the land animals and the Inuit people. The presence of these Arctic deities in the chart reminds us that despite wars and other serious problems, combating climate disaster should be our priority.

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More Kuiper belt planets have been assigned names.

On July 21, 2025, cubewano Ritona was named after the Celtic goddess of river fords. Ritona’s orbital period is 267 years and its diameter approximately 679 km.

Centaur planet Petraios was named on Aug. 11, 2025. The orbital period is around 91 years and the diameter approximately 77 km. According to the official naming citation, “The centaur Petraios took part in the battle at the wedding of Pirithous, a symbolic clash between primal chaos and social order. His name means ‘rocky’, evoking strength and stability. As Ovid tells, Petraios fell while grappling with the rooted Earth. Like this minor planet, he marks the edge between structure and upheaval.”

Chiminigagua is a scattered-disc object and a binary named on Aug. 11, 2025. Chiminigagua is the creator god of the Muisca people that inhabit the Andes mountains in the central part of Colombia. When the world was created there was only darkness and the only light was given by Chiminigagua. The orbital period is about 450 years and the diameter about 740 km.