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I want to try to simplify these New Moon charts. It's not clear to me that they provide the same kind of detailed information that an ingress chart does, since they cover such a short period of time. On the other hand, it may simply be that I don't know how to read them yet-- and that's quite likely, since I'm still experimenting with Mundane Astrology.

And there is another issue, which is that there may be a distinction between what is predicted in a mundane chart and what is reported on the news, because news in America is largely about narrative management. If the media companies decide to start reporting on shootings in order to push gun control legislation, how will this appear in the chart? A mass casualty event is an Eighth House event, but mass casualty events happen all the time-- what determines whether or not they will appear in a chart? It seems that a media obsession with a mass casualty event should actually be forecast by a malefic in the Third House of newspapers, not the Eighth House of death.

So there are some open questions about how lunation charts work. So I want to simplify my discussion of them, in order to limit the number of items we have to track over the next month.

Here is the New Moon chart for April of 2021. This chart is operative from April 11, 2021 to May 11, 2021, the day of the next New Moon. Let's take a look, and see what we can find.

For Lunations, for the time being, I'm going to take the following approach.

We'll look, first, at the Lunation Itself, its House and Sign placements, and aspects; next, the Ascendant, and its meaning; the Luminaries, considered individually; finally, any other major placements that stand out.

1. The Lunation.

This month's New Moon takes place in the sign of Aries, in the Fifth House. The New Moon is conjunct Mercury and Venus and sextile both Mars and Jupiter, the latter of which are trine one another.

All and all, this is a very good set of omens. The Fifth House rules children and child-bearing; early education; arts and entertainment; and the stock market. A New Moon in this house ought to be very favorable in all of these areas, especially if well-aspected, and this New Moon is very well aspected indeed.

In our particular situation, I would expect the following:

1. The mobile energy of Aries and the benefic energies of Venus and Jupiter suggest children returning to schools.

2. The same, as well as the involvement of Mercury suggest that we'll see at least one major new hit TV show or movie-- success for Hollywood.

3. This is going to be a very good month for Wall Street. Aries says buy; Jupiter and Mercury are both excellent omens as well. If you were planning on piling on the latest stock market craze, this is probably a good time to do so. The presence of the Sun, plus the rulers of the Tenth and Eleventh Houses here suggest that the government is going to be involved in inflating the bubble as much as possible. This is not financial advice-- Bubbles always pop, and Mercury's movement toward conjunction with the Sun tells us that much of the activity on Wall Street is based in delusion. But the bubble won't pop this month.

2. The Ascendant and Its Ruler

The Ascendant is in Scorpio, which means that this chart is ruled by Mars. Scorpio suggests that public health continues to be an issue, and it also suggests anger festering under the surface. On the other hand, Mars is very well dignified in this chart, being trine Jupiter and sextile Venus, the Moon and the Sun. He gains power from these and also from the simple fact that four other planets, including the Lunation, are in a sign he rules, thus granting him rulership over them all.

Mercury and Mars are also in mutual reception in this chart, meaning that each is in the sign ruled by the other. One rule for mutual reception is that each planet can be regarded as being in the position of the other planet-- either in addition to or instead of its actual position. If that's the case, Mars is very powerful indeed in this chart. He rules the chart as a whole, and he is in his own sign, conjunct the Lunation and sextile Saturn.

Mars suggests conflict, but also energy. I suspect that what this chart is talking about is a combination of the usual expansive energy of Springtime with the explosive energy of people who have been locked up for more than a year. All that energy is coming out over the course of this month. Will it come out in a positive way, or as conflict? That's the question. Considering Mars on his own, I'd suggest that his energy is going to be expressed in economic activity and baby-making. But if you instead give him Mercury's placement, a slightly different picture emerges. He is sextile Saturn, who is himself in the Third House of media and the internet, and conjunct the the Lunation, casting his shadow over it. The conjunction to the Lunation has a blinding effect on Mars himself, though, because of the Sun.

It may be that a badly reported (Mars combust) news story (Third House) of a death (Saturn) will lead to Mars expressing his power through a return to last year's rioting, abetted by Hollywood (Fifth House). I would be surprised if this was the case, though-- Saturn's beneficial aspect to Mars in this chart suggests that he will provide a stabilizing force to Mars's energy.

EDIT 4/13/21: Welp....

3. Other Items

The ongoing story this year is the square between Saturn and Uranus. That aspect should, over the course of the astrological year (that is, March 2021 to March 2022), contribute to tensions, violence, economic disruption and unrest. Will we see an inciting event this month? If so, I wouldn't expect it in the next two weeks. On the other hand, the Full Moon on April 26 is directly involved in the Saturn-Uranus square, as Uranus conjuncts the Sun and opposes the Moon, and Saturn squares both. After that, we may see something-- until then, enjoy the sunshine!