For nearly eight decades, the sextile of Neptune and Pluto has been present in most birth charts, in various signs and within various orbs of exactitude. And this week’s exact aspect between them is the first in a series that will last through Feb. 2032, when it finally wraps up.

We could be forgiven for thinking that it’s so common, there isn’t much to say about it. But in fact, it’s a chart signature that binds us together, a point of commonality. Even something like a slow-moving Pluto transit in a particular sign doesn’t last as long as this sextile has.

We’re publishing on a reduced schedule this month, and this episode needs to cover a lot of territory. Two weeks’ worth, in fact, including the Cancer New Moon, the much-ballyhooed cradle configuration, rare aspects like Neptune’s exact sextile to Pluto, Uranus’s sextile to Neptune and trine to Pluto, the Lunar Nodes entering Aquarius and Leo, and, believe it or not, much more! So, hold on for a super-sized episode and a lot of aspects.

At this Cancer New Moon, I wish you a good dinner at a strong table with people who care about you. And if you don’t have those things, go ahead and set your table, make supper, and invite someone you know to share it with you. We’re strangers, most of us, but we’re sitting at that big table together, just waiting to become a family.