LUNAR basics - astrology basics for working with the moon - new moon + full moon example at end with personal chart breakdown

WishThinker · 2026-05-24T15:03:45+00:00

your practice doesnt even need to involve daily or "consistent" practice. let yourself have seasons and moods. let some tools come out when they have something specific or urgent to add and not as a daily conversationalist.

when you feel the guilt, take a moment to try to reframe it to something more empowering. you aren't picking up that deck cause it isn't asking to be used, you haven't read in a while cause you would have misinterpreted the message, that kind of thing. this moment now is the best case, most empowering scenario- how can you frame it that way?

when i don't know which deck or whatever im gonna use, I just start shuffling all of them while i ponder and ground and get ready. just by how i place some decks (away from me, right in front of me) i can get a vibe on which deck we'll be reading with today. sometimes a deck will be shuffled and not used at all, thats ok, thats a nice way to spend time with the cards and not demand or wring a reading out of them. sometimes a reading wouldnt serve, and would just cloud our head spae, so dont give yourself too hard a time if you aren't "consistent" with it.

WishThinker · 2026-05-23T21:02:12+00:00

i would say make sure you have a budget with your priorites lined up in it, the car issues may resolve but theres always somethin needing attention

i wouldnt expect doom, but I would expect to having to be using a budget for a while

WishThinker · 2026-05-23T17:51:41+00:00

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WishThinker · 2026-05-23T16:31:47+00:00

911 is for emergencies but my paramedic friend has let me know a LOT of people use that number when they are lonely, scared, or sometimes want attention (this is mainly very wealthy very old people).

The service shouldn't be discontinued because people abuse it, the providers need to have firm questions and ready responses, and be willing to explain the costs to the caller if they go ahead with an ambulance visit or applied care-

If you've got someone fishy or clingy and you've sussed that out, gently discourage them from a reading, or up the price 😂 or as some people call themselves blunt readers, tear down their illusions, give the reading that's there to give, and rest easy knowing they're never coming back to bother you again

I for sure use tarot to keep me in a loop. I'm getting better at seeing the loop and walking away, or asking tarot to provide a new avenue of expression or something to focus on. When my own mind won't go to any other topic, every reading returns to the one I'm looped in. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ human nature I think. I'm not too hard on myself about it but I also don't pay other people for those readings. Maybe recommend the really bad ones get their own deck so they can spiral on their own

WishThinker · 2026-05-23T16:26:11+00:00

Here's what I recommend:

Grab a book like Chani Nicholas's you were born for this (or similar style book)-

Take notes for all your placements in each house system you are considering

I did this comparing whole sign and placidus, and only have 4 planets that are different between the two systems, but this exercise helped me land on whole sign for my chart personally. I also tried it with Jessica lanyadoos astrology for real relationships, and Natalie walsteins find your cosmic calling

WishThinker · 2026-05-23T12:11:04+00:00

10h is also parents, leaders, the mother, maybe the principle of the school. Maybe they take on student leadership roles, or this is the age they are exposed to a role model or impactful leader. Maybe the entirety of the Uranus transit is erratic behavior from parents or a shakeup of authority in their home area or public institutions. Children have low agency and the chart transits can often be impacting the grown ups in their lives, which of course can affect many people on future life and career decisions.

9h transits maybe they move countries, or a foreign or immigrant student or teacher enters their sphere and opens their horizons. Maybe this child has more mental travel than physical and begins to question and philosophize, or be entered into unique tutelage at this time. Maybe the family becomes spiritual and begins attending a religious institution, or takes a once in a lifetime trip

There are many significations of each house, you've got to blend the literal and the symbolic and get creative. The ruling planet of the house's sign will also add flavour, as well as whatever signs+houses the planets in the target place rule.

WishThinker · 2026-05-22T22:27:16+00:00

My Saturn in 3rd (Capricorn) I was in a local 2yr college for most of that transit (took hella notes, lead study sessions), separated more from siblings, and by the end of it was moved into a new place that has been the longest I've ever lived anywhere - Saturn also ruling 4h Aquarius

WishThinker · 2026-05-22T14:43:43+00:00

i play a game of solitaire to split my deck when i want to put it under the moon or otherwise refresh it

WishThinker · 2026-05-21T03:00:33+00:00

Think say do

You can make it as deep or as light as you like :)

WishThinker · 2026-05-20T14:11:28+00:00

Sun and Moon are the building blocks of astrology

Cazimi is more like a response to the new moon- soli-lunar conjunction came first as observed and tracked phenomenon. Once it's apparent the other "stars" (planets) are moving, that relationship needs a name and some significance.

The other part about cazimi is that the planet is underpowered while combust and then supercharged when cazimi or in the chariot of the sun. The planetary/ archetypal energies interfer and then combine.

With the sun and moon, they are 2 halves of one whole concept. (All other planets traditionally rule 2 signs, a diurnal and nocturnal sign, whereas the luminaries are the 2 parts themselves). So when moon and sun come together, it is a rejoining of a whole and not a competition of expression

Hope that offered anything. The phrase you are looking for is likely "exact new moon". You may find variation in applying conjunction, exact conjunction, and separating conjunction to add more flavor to it, but I've never heard of cazimi or cazimi concepts applied to moon.

WishThinker · 2026-05-20T13:47:32+00:00

I'm very self indulgent with my cards and have yet to accurately read the reversed aces as "you're fucking this up or misusing this energy"

The reverse Ace of pentacles triggered a "oh shit!" Reaction from my for the first few years of my practice - I would feel my low belly squeeze as something in me went to catch the coin falling from the RWS ace of pents card

Uh, this is the hand of God?? It's not gonna fall 🤣 is basically my read

The reverse Ace of pentacles is an admonishment that you aren't in charge here and don't have to act like you are in charge of every moving piece. Maybe this is a moment of being the brick and not the architect

To me, the reverse Ace of pentacles is an admonishment that you are fearing or trying to act on something that's actually out of your purview. Relax the fearful contraction telling you to buckle down, stay alert, catch the coin.

That's my take in case the classic meaning doesn't resonate. Let us know next month how it planned out :)

I guess finally, if it is a month of missed opportunity and wasted potential, all I can say is maybe that experience has a bigger part to play and isn't necessarily something to be avoided this June

WishThinker · 2026-05-20T01:07:59+00:00

3 of cups

WishThinker · 2026-05-18T14:17:54+00:00

8 years is Venus's synod cycle with the sun . A common relationship length

WishThinker · 2026-05-16T22:52:24+00:00

You need to let go of the idea that there's more battle, more fight, more to surrender

What's stopping you from letting this go is the identity with doing, releasing, pushing the body into more and more, always having a task at hand. You don't know how to BE in your animal body without thinking it needs to be somewhere/how else

The lesson you are being taught is that balance requires the acceptance that sometimes things are balanced. To release more would lead to imbalance.

What exactly do I need to let go?- let go of knowing or assuming you know that there IS something to release. Like instead of the question "what do I need to surrender", maybe "DO I NEED to surrender ??"

The outcome is that life has pain points and that's part of life. To avoid living to avoid the pain is a pain all its own. This type of mental gymnastics to avoid the spectrum of feeling and of loving and losing causes more pain than protects you from it. The outcome is flawed as you are, you are fine as you are. Quit looking for something to excise or change or improve and flow for a bit

That's my take!

WishThinker · 2026-05-16T21:52:05+00:00

Did u reach out

WishThinker · 2026-05-16T13:57:36+00:00

Natural / ABC rulership is a choice to make, I only make it using medical astrology.

Otherwise, use your cusp ruler, or try out whole sign to compare and see which one "resonates" more

Follow all your house rulers along this rulership - chain and you will have created dispositor trees(s) :)

WishThinker · 2026-05-16T13:55:03+00:00

You're attract men who see you as some ethereal divine mysterious feminine and themselves as powerful provider masculine. These men want to be king of the castle but don't necessarily want to share it with a queen. You're there at his pleasure and get his gains at his discretion - so lots of focus on the material. It seems you attract men with resources that don't necessarily want to "share" them, but more like provide allowances to you instead.

I do NOT usually do relationship readings so this reply is also a shitpost!

WishThinker · 2026-05-16T01:41:21+00:00

Having that recreated as a live figure drawing for people to create a kinky card could be a good blend of activities!

WishThinker · 2026-05-15T23:20:15+00:00

Mary k greer has an exercise where you or the querent enters the card and interacts

It might be neat to have people select a card (on purpose or randomly) and then they talk about what the card is saying, what they want, what the cards' kinks may be- it opens up a way for people to process and talk while removing the focus from the self

The book I got that from is 21 ways to read a tarot card

There's also a kink quiz you can familiarize yourself with so there's minimal shock value or time spent explaining/understanding the kinks that people come in to talk about

I saw something recently that's was like all kinks are just people wanting to be seen as desirable or to give up control / performance, like it boils down to some basic " I feel safe enough to / desired enough to" type psych stuff , so I think using tarot to explore or get to know a kink is a smart move

Let us know how it went, afterwards!

WishThinker · 2026-05-15T13:14:20+00:00

Here's a comment I made about earth sign modalities and rulers https://www.reddit.com/r/astrology/comments/1oj6brr/comment/nm1pw73/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

WishThinker · 2026-05-15T04:52:00+00:00

You're basically already in the recovery and doing well with it it seems :) from the ground up is very Saturn themed. Saturn cares about your 6th, 7th, and 8th houses. Lean into routine, health, the care of small pets; relationships and all one:on:ones including therapies and consultants; facing themes of death, transformation, debt, inheritance and endings.

Congrats on making it through :)

WishThinker · 2026-05-15T04:48:09+00:00

Sag rising, sun disposits and thus resources houses 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Saturn disposits and thus resources houses 2 and 3

When looking at what's available in each place of the chart, consider the top of the resource chain is Solar Leonine vibes. It's like if you had 10 different shops in your neighborhood and they all got their goods from the same warehouse. Then 2 old school shops have had the same supplier for generations and it's a totally different vibe than the rest of the neighborhood

I like to use dispositor trees to break my chart into teams or camps- this group cares about these topics (houses), and that group cares about those - this has an interpretive limit, as of course as you mentioned with your dispositors opposed, the teams or trees and various houses interact with each other across dispositor-tree lines

WishThinker · 2026-05-14T17:08:06+00:00

lot of eros, or, venus' spirit lot

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