Pratyahara exercise: preparing for meditation and entering into meditation
Άσκηση Πρατιαχάρα: ως προετοιμασία και εισαγωγή σε διαλογισμό
New Moon of May 2026
by Anastasia Melidou, MATP
The upcoming New Moon of May will take place on the 16th, at 22:01 pm CEST. I picked Strasbourg as the point from where I will try to unravel the dynamics that this event wovens in our unconscious realms. The New Moon manifests at the conscious planes through a fiery Lilith conjunct Part Fortune in Sagittarius. Humanity’s hidden chest of exiled vital energies and forces, the instinctual life force giving powers of Shakti, is being brought to our perception to access it. Our bodies will be able to sense this intensity and our mind will contrapose it by bringing forth our individual or community memories of misunderstandings, false fantasies and hopes, and restrictions or cruelty we may have endured in our family lines and our land of origin. Pluto retrograde will gift us with the opportunity to re-create our individual reality by the words we choose to speak now consciously without judgmental passions but with our inner truth. Pluto gives us a chance to manifest our will based on our inner truth and potential (Small Trine: Lilith conjunct Part Fortune conjunct AC, Neptune conjunct Saturn in 4th, Pluto in apex in 2nd).
Ketu (South Node of the Moon) in Virgo, in the 9th, sends via a Yod figure, all the historically collected, through lifetimes, knowledge on traditional healing techniques to be expressed in less traditional, holistic types of healing where the shadow work that is needed for the former figure dynamics to manifest can take place. Rahu in the 3rd is fierce - unstoppable when it comes to expressing and communicating in the ways this energy intuitively perceives that is needed in order to heal us individually and collectively (Yod with Ketu in Virgo in 9th – opposition Rahu in 3rd in Pisces, Pluto in 2nd, Neptune and Saturn in 4th). The Yod formation assists the initial intention of the Small Trine above with the power of the unapologetically, intuitively expressive, active hunter and warrior of our inner healing in this position, Rahu (North Node of the Moon).
The Moon and Sun conjunction is simultaneously conjunct with Mercury and Uranus in Taurus, in the 6th. Moreover, both luminaries and the two reflections of these two planets, constitute the center of a Psychic Eye figure which collects in any claircognizant way possible all the information that arrives from Mars conjunction Chiron in the 5th , in Aries, and Venus in the 7th, in Gemini. The focus is being turned inwards to the inner sense of self while our awareness of another’s sense of self might get as clear as possible now to be perceived (Moon exulted). In this process of introspection, our mental capabilities absorb and organize information that stream from realms beyond the obviously observed with the assistance of heightened psychic sensitivity, creating new contexts of perception for the dipoles inside one’s own self and outwardly in relational or social manifestations of the masculine and feminine. The wounds of the forceful activity of the masculine by social constructs and familial conditioning, and the theoretically accepted aesthetic receptivity by the social norms (restricting most of the expression of this capability) of the feminine, push into the shadows our more profound and deeply rooted life force experiential expressions. All these failures to experience our essence are now being communicated as if an ancient list of events appeared in our mind that somehow on its own kept recording everything, every moment of untruthfulness or misalignment and which transits from the unconscious realms to the conscious information gathering Mercury and his creative genius ancestor Uranus, only with psychic activity (utilizing one or more of our clairs).
The Psychic Eye shape of dynamics and the New Moon appearance serve from the 6th house the ability of implementing our healed inner will, which is aligned with our inner existential truth. The Psychic Eye in other words, also points to/assists the process of Pluto in the 2nd, as all the information from the Eye are stored unconsciously to be used creatively, when we are perceptually and experientially healed enough, into a larger than life Grand Trine shape of i) Pluto in the 2nd, ii) conjunction of Moon, Sun, Mercury & Uranus in the 6th, iii) MC in Libra. How could we reform, rebuilt our ego consciously to be alignment with our inner sense of being? How would we move in order to express an Ego and a Will that would be in alignment with our inner truth and with this serve our community and our social personas? Those are the questions that this New Moon will initiate us into.
Materials used for this analysis:
Cathar Software
Aspect Pattern Astrology by Bruno & Louise Huber, Michael Huber
Interpreting the energies of the collective unconscious following the phases of the Moon for April 2026
Full Moon (Pink Moon) of April 2026, on the 2nd at 5:11 am:
The energy dynamics during the full Moon, on April 2nd, 2026, as any viewer could guess by witnessing the above chart, are going to be unique and complicated. There are going to be two opposite Projections with two oppositional Psychic Eyes on their base, one Kite, one Rightfulness Rectangle, one Dominant Triangle (retrograde) and two complimentary with each other Achievement Triangles bringing forth the expression of their active energies like a supersonic spacecraft from a parallel reality. Hard to ignore, as much triggering as it would be, Pluto, the creative power of superconsciousness, being in conjunction with the Ascendant. Much of the action will be transferred from the 2nd house that was unraveling in during the last New Moon to the 1st house, meaning whatever happens subconsciously during this Pink Moon, we will definitely feel it, consciously in our body.
The theme of this Full Moon deals with being able to recognize our hidden pain and strength on the projection screen we might call the other - striving for recognition of respect of the other as we grand it to ourselves. Our rejected, deeply hidden emotional impressions that we project on to others. Recognizing them and thus, be able to view the Sun coming out from another with the same ease that we allow it to shine through us and acknowledge it on ourselves.
The Kite demands from the Sun at the 2nd to transform what might seem as the Moon at the 8th, into an equal Sun. Why we can only perceive the other as a reflection of us and not as just another, unique beam of self-luminous light? We see the other under the moonlight but that moonlight may be the rays that reach him/her from our Sun, thus illuminating another with our projections or the rays that manage somehow to shine outwardly from his/her inner Sun. We can never experience or witness completely the Sun (Soul) of another but the progressive, evolutionary thought step is to assume whenever we see some moonlight radiating somewhere around us that definitely, even if we cannot perceive it at that moment, there is a Sun source beneath it.
So, how all the previously mentioned dynamic structures work together during this Pink Moon to bring us forth this realization?
The Kite consisting of the Sun conjunct Neptune and Saturn in opposition with the Moon and Lilith and Part Fortune at the other ends of the structure, brings forth an opportunity to acknowledge our narcissistic tendencies and what we may project and by that to realize how if we restore in us our pushed away or just outwardly powers we may evolve into experiencing a more complete sense of self. The labels we put on to energies are just another psychological trick we choose to play while stalling our development towards a whole Self. Lilith is bestowed with the monstrous, fearful label when it is serving our ego to stay put in whatever has been life for it so far. In the same sense, our Part Fortune, our blessing and psychic treasure box lays always away from us and it is a subject of regret and sorrow when we handle it to another person to use it in our behalf. The opposition of the Moon during this Full Moon pushes us to witness the mode in which: i) what we project onto another person is our own subconscious experiences and self-knowledge that we give away freely (Moon in 8th), ii) our explosive drives and powers to manifest our experiential liberation and unique expression are granted to our societal settings (Lilith in 10th) and iii) our potential and emotional, psychological, mental, corporal, spiritual resources can be accessed and offered to us only by someone else’s hand (Part Fortune conjunct Descendant). All the above need to be integrated back into the self by overcoming the judgments, labels and projections of our narcissistic ego parts and bravely evolve to a more wholistic experience of self towards the archetype of Self that the energies calls us for now. It seems we are close to a psychic developmental step as a collective at this evolutionary time. Our sense of self, the Sun, is ready to receive our integrations from the opposition of the Moon, Lilith and Part Fortune. Additionally, the Sun conjuncts Saturn to absorb any novel sense of confidence that has been integrated by the opposition and with Neptune to expand its sensed perception of unconditional love for the self and for another consequently, at the same sense. Any change in our sincere (radiating from within and thus, needing not to be forced on to others) self-confidence, self-acceptance and at any degree possible, love of all our inner parts, is reflected at and why not also expressed verbally by our personal value system, perceptions and beliefs, bringing forth a transformed self-awareness for each of us, again and again (Sun, Saturn, Neptune conjunct in 2nd, opposed to the Moon in 8th).
The Kite structure is not static, the light we ascribe to another, the Moon in the Kite, gets energized by a load of information coming from the two Projection and Psychic Eye structures, as well as the Rightfulness Rectangle. There is a lot to process and discriminate upon on our journey to a wholistic but truthful self-integration.
The first Projection veers our attention to the conscious persona we have chosen to represent ourselves to the world together with elements of our wishful thinking of what we could become (Mercury conjunct North Node in 1st). This combination of partially integrated self-image is additionally receiving energetic inputs by superconscious levels that assist us reinvent ourselves, not easily as each reconstruction of so far accepted self’s information needs to be destroyed first (father Pluto conjunct Ascendant) and by the confidence and self-love we have already distribute to ourselves (Neptune conjunct Saturn). Mercury in the 1st (our persona we mentioned above), moreover struggles to accept that its image so far was also a result of past events and hear breaking, karmic relationships with others (South Node conjunct Vertex in 7th). The truth is that the responsibilities for our character that we have attributed to the world and the events that made us restrict our self to that confined, overtly functioning persona have only drifted us away from who we may be. An amazing structure is being formed during this New Moon of two oppositional Projections with their own Psychic Eyes, as if an “Hourglass” structure is being invented for the collective. As time passes either consciously or subconsciously, a grain of sand is dropping on its own due to universal laws and by passing from the untouchable in any other way Higher Self to add to our self-awareness. This motif is supported also by the Righteousness Rectangle that gets provided with all the information the Psychic Eyes are collecting with every parapsychological ability each one of us has developed, on: our self-esteem, self-love, ability to recreate ourselves out from the ashes, our repressed/projected psychic material and our potential talents to serve life with that we keep double locked, deep in our treasure boxes. This rectangle of the mystic accepts the flow of life, keeping always patiently its inner impression that a change in consciousness will come when it is time. It seems that the formation of this “Hourglass” sets an initiation point for a change of consciousness in a collective level. This change will come eventually by our inner work, our shadow work or without our conscious permission by the events that will unfollow in our life from now on. Venus in Taurus forms again, as she did during the New Moon, a retrograde Dominant Triangle with Pluto conjunct Ascendant and South Node conjunct Vertex in the 7th. This time, she has let her weapons down with relief. She most probably is laying down around the waking flowers at a prairie on the mountains of Europe, letting mother Earth heal her for that last New Moon’s role she was assigned was needed but the least preferred. The retrogration of the past triangle asserts us that this new position of Venus has integrated some kind of tangible knowledge as she moved to Taurus. The retrogration of the current triangle implies that a lot more is awaiting us to be experienced to move our self-perception further forward developmentally, beyond our past significant encounters and life event memories to a superconsciously advised reconstruction of ourselves.
The overall felt sensation from all these energy formations is suggesting that our strife for results of our evolving self-awareness, at last is being cosmically supported and thus, it is a matter of life experiences, upcoming events beyond our human control and Time, to start observing apparent changes at our collective consciousness.
Lastly, the two Achievement Triangles underline the areas of life that most of our energy would be channeled practically for any developmental step in collective consciousness to be applied. Those areas would be i) our social service section of life which would be highly charged with overcoming our limitations to serve society as uniquely as possible (Lilith in 10th at the Apex) and ii) our personal healing that will be very much influenced by world philosophies, striving for a deeper meaning and wholeness on what we may perceive about ourselves (Jupiter in 6th at the Apex).
The activity of the two Achievement Triangles, as analyzed above, will be easily observed by the collective. A grate amount of forcefully expressed energy will be deposed in our social actions and personal healing work. The two Achievement Triangles together, starting from the Full Moon towards the conscious self, resemble a supersonic spacecraft from one of our parallel, unconscious selves that is now landing on our heart to be felt.
Materials used for this analysis:
Cathar Software
Aspect Pattern Astrology by Bruno & Louise Huber, Michael Huber
Interpreting the energies of the collective unconscious following the phases of the Moon for March 2026
Collective energies got orchestrated by the New Moon to have their Ascendant in exact conjunction with the Part of Fortune in 4th degree of tropical Capricorn. From there, both the Ascendant and the Part of Fortune form a square with the conjunction of the Moon, the Sun, Neptune and Saturn, at the 3rd house of learning and communication of knowledge. The New Moon conjunction (Moon, Sun, Neptune and Saturn) impulsively and instinctively attempts to retain the system of societal values as much as possible while at the same time trying to adapt little by little to inevitable changes of the societal values. This balance is achieved by throwing light like a lighthouse to the flow and interactions of the other dynamics of the chart. The information that come to light are being absorbed by the Moon’s conjunction for integration and subsequent use. The two sextiles of the New Moon with Uranus at the 4th house and Pluto at the 2nd house, constitute the up to now owned, personal and societal value and monetary systems, created by the male principle, and the appreciation of the land, the tradition, the material or cultural inheritance we were given by the female principle. The fact that Pluto, the superconscious father principle is at the 2nd house and Uranus, the superconscious mother principle is at the 4th, indicates that the subjects they represent as explained above, are receiving insights from the higher realms of the superconscious. Now, where the light of the New Moon with its supportive “hands” of Pluto and Uranus is falling onto and what it is enlightening us about the other dynamics in play for the collective: There is a Grand Trine of Mars, Jupiter and the Medium Coeli, a Dominant Triangle of Venus, Jupiter and the Medium Coeli, an Achievement Triangle of South Node, North Node conjunct Mercury and Lilith, and lastly a Small Learning Triangle initiating from the Ascendant conjunct the Part of Fortune, Pluto and the quadruplicate conjunction of the New Moon. So, what the New Moon help us to view and acknowledge by illuminating all these dynamic structures?
Starting from the Small Learning Triangle: a considerable emphasis is put on personal security, individual rights and unique expression, as means to evolve collectively. Pluto brings novice insights from the superconscious on how value systems may alternate to serve this purpose. The inner world of each of us gathers tremendous amounts of active energy at this period, reflected also on our constitution and energized bodily functions by the New Moon but mostly needing to find an external expression into the transformation of the paternal value system. The energies of this triangle when externalized point to and participate to the other formations of dynamics that influence this area of the 2nd house. The heavily felt sense, in such a degree that may get somatic, as well as the built-up dysphoria at a personality level, point out to a needed transformation of our value and monetary systems. This area of life is already being molded by the energies of the other formations of dynamics.
The most active of the other dynamic structures that take place at this time is the Achievement Triangle which builds up energies from the collective’s past unconscious habits that deal with our inner work and hidden potential and from the harshly verbalized needs to search for more truthfully abided to our nature ways of experiencing our self-value. This tension finds release to what we may offer as a service to society right now. These offerings will not be from the things we consciously know already but will stream from the exiled, fearful to the conscious mind, powerful parts of the Self (Lilith on the apex at the 11th house).
The Mercury, South Node conjunction is being informed in order to perform the above described role, by its conjunction with Mars from whom it is receiving any acquired and well-integrated knowledge of the Grand Trine. Now, what kind of knowledge has the Grand Trine integrated already for the collective in order to inform the active Achievement Triangle for it to externalize a visible outcome? The Grand Trine withholds everything that has been known by experience at the past when it comes to how we exchange wisdom with each other in order to form our self-respect and how that interaction and inner action/formation makes us show up in a societal setting.
Fortunately, that is not the only input from the Grand Trine towards the Achievement Triangle. The Grand Trine is getting informed by another formation and consequently, transforms slowly the knowledge it holds, as the retrograde Dominant Triangle experiences life by a pace of trial and error. The whole personality of the collective is being put into trial as it is being forced to experience different societal life events that result from the exchange of wisdom or the imposed opinions of one person towards the other. The criteria of what needs to be changed, even if it happens rather slowly on the path of lived experience, lies on Venus on the 3rd house. The wisdom, opinions or dictations of others that by proof again and again don’t serve at any level a truthful, heartfelt expression of a slowly healing, reflecting one’s self-love communication are being rejected now before being projected into or manifested as another real-life social interaction/situation. Chiron next to fiery Venus is not in a conjunction with her but he holds the memories of what was hurtful at the past just around her, allowing her to introspect and decide for herself on how she wishes to act each time at each new interaction with another while at the same time providing the knowledge of the pain and healing that has been achieved so far stored at the memory field of the sign of Aries.
Materials used for this analysis:
Cathar Software
Aspect Pattern Astrology by Bruno & Louise Huber, Michael Huber