by Daniel Giamario | Feb 16, 2025 |
The week begins with a quite special, waning Full Moon with the star Spica, and the continuing visible planetary parade. Let’s explore.
The Moon with Spica
45 minutes or so before sunrise in Western North America on the morning of Monday, February 17, the still very full looking Moon will pass just 0.39degrees SE of the important star Spica, the star most central to the eternal mysteries of the sacred feminine. In Asia, where I live, this will be seen just before 11PM Monday evening. They join together at about 24 Libra. As I have written about over the years, Spica has been considered as a stellar stand-in for Venus. Over the course of a solar year, the cycles of Spica are analogous to the 584 day synodic cycle of Venus.
5000-6000 years ago, the Sun-Spica conjunction happened in mid-August. The Catholic Church fixed the date of August 15 as the date of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, that many centuries earlier was the Spica solar conjunction in the Underworld: death and rebirth, corresponding to the descent of Venus into the underworld and her exterior conjunction with the Sun. Nowadays this happens in mid October. Also 5000-6000 years ago, due to precession, the Full Moon aligned with Spica at the Imbolc (Candlemas) cross-quarter that happens in early February. As the feast of the goddess Brigit, this Full Moon was the expression of the full radiance of the sacred feminine, as a Fire Goddess and autonomous Solar feminine. This was analogous to Venus at her maximum elongation and/or maximum brightness. Interestingly, this weekend, Venus IS at her maximum brightness. Again, due to precession, the Full Moon with Spica will now happen on April 12 at 23Libra20, a good two months past Imbolc. Nevertheless, this week’s conjunction is the closest Moon-Spica conjunction in resonance to their closeness to Imbolc. This, and the Moon-Spica conjunctions of March and April give us an opportunity to contemplate our ancient roots and the eternally radiant love and inspiration from Brigit-Sophia. I will not forget!
The Dazzling Planetary Parade Continues
This has been very much the buzz! Possibly not as rare as you have been led to believe, it is nevertheless a wonderful opportunity to connect with 4 visible planets in the evening sky. As of Sunday evening, Mercury is not visible on the other side of the Sun.
From west to east, leading the way is Saturn at 19Pisces10, about 21 degrees from the Sun, at a steady magnitude of +1.12. Saturn is now rapidly descending into the underworld, soon to be off the world stage, and still to be found in the stars of the Water Bearer and Fish constellations.
Next in line is Venus at 7Aries27, about 39 degrees from the Sun, and now also descending into the internal underworld. She is at her maximum brightness of -4.86 in her Crown chakra portal-gate, and can be found in the Fish constellation.
Jupiter follows at 11Gemini31, with a bright magnitude of -2.41, about 103 degrees from the Sun. Jupiter is visible along the right horn of the Bull constellation, close to the Royal star Aldebaran.
Last in line is Mars at 17Cancer23Rx with a slowly diminishing magnitude of -0.67. About 139 degrees from the Sun, Mars is nestled in the stars of the Twins constellation, just to the right of Castor and Pollux, and still within the hoop circle surrounding the Galactic Edge.
All four are now within a trine of 118 degrees.
There is no excuse to not take this chance now to directly connect with these planets and to get your own transmissions and guidance at this most powerful and accelerated time, leading up to the March eclipse season, the March equinox and the end of the Kali Yuga.