Sunday, DECEMBER 26

Mercury forms a sextile to Neptune today, stirring our imagination. We can experience a sense of knowing and understanding with minimal explanation or instruction. Intuition is highlighted or awakened, and we apply it to practical matters creatively. We appreciate subtleties, which aids our understanding of others and situations. We are more readily inspired, and we might inspire others with our words. There is psychic openness in our interactions, and our communications are notably gentler or more compassionate.

The Moon continues its transit of Virgo until 11:25 AM EST, after which it moves into Libra. The Last Quarter Moon occurs at 9:25 PM in Libra, and this phase of the Moon points to a possible crisis of consciousness. After basking in the awareness symbolized by the full light of the Moon at the time of last week’s Full Moon, we begin to see what works for us–and what doesn’t–in preparation for next week’s New Moon when something new is born again. It’s not the best time to start a significant project, as the decreasing light of the Moon symbolizes descent into unconsciousness. We might begin to finish up the details of whatever we conceived at the last New Moon. Ideally, we’re arriving at a more mature view of a project or situation.

The void Moon occurs from 3:40 AM EST, with the Moon’s last aspect before changing signs (a trine to Pluto), until the Moon enters Libra at 11:25 AM EST.