Have you looked at the chart for Sunday’s New Moon? I have, all year long. With the Sun, Moon, Venus, and Mars all clustered together in Libra and in good aspect to everything else in the chart, this is a pretty good-lookin’ chart – which is why I’ve recommended this weekend to any number of prospective brides looking for an advantageous wedding date. So yeah, if you’ve been standing around with your car keys in your hand, waiting for the right moment to jump in the car to zoom off to Vegas and get hitched, here it is.
Traditionalists argue that Venus and Mars are in via combusta – too damn close to the Sun, and in a very dicey zodiacal neighborhood – which will burn their energies to a crisp, astrologically speaking. I don’t know if I buy that, but it’s true that there are no planets in earth signs and precious few in water. Mercury and Jupiter are square Saturn (though in a chart with so many nice aspects, it’s sort of a relief to see some squares to give it a little bite). Hey, nothing’s perfect. But I must say that if ever a chart stood up and hollered “marriage!” to me, it’s this one. (Actually, I’ve been recommending charts earlier in the day to capitalize on the Moon’s approaching conjunction with Venus, although it means using the Moon in her balsamic phase and I practically NEVER do that. I really like to have an approaching Moon/Venus/Sun connection in a wedding chart, though.)
