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!

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