Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005 THANKS FOR the incoming feedback on the gray cover format. Planet Waves is in its entirety an experiment...and I appreciate your participation. We're in the extreme waning phase of the Moon at the moment. As of late Tuesday night, the Moon is in mid-Scorpio. The Sun is in Sagittarius, so that combination means the New Moon cometh. Earlier Tuesday, there as a Moon-Jupiter conjunction concurrent with a Moon-Mars opposition and a Moon-Neptune square, which may account for some of the emotional intensity percolating around. Mars is retrograding into an exact opposition with Jupiter, getting ready to spark up version 2.0 of the fixed grand cross, at its most exact on Dec. 5th -- but in reality, happening as we speak. When you have a standing aspect like this, even though some of the planets seem to be "out of orb," the Moon can blow through town quickly and set off the whole arrangement, which is precisely what's been going on today. Moon-Neptune can feel like a deep and sticky emotional bog. The Moon continues to make aspects, about to trine Vesta, sextile Venus, conjoin Mercury and sextle Chiron all in the next 24 hours or so, and all from the sign Scorpio. I would say keep your cool, but I realize this is hopelessly impossible so I won't bother; freak out all you need to and when the Moon is sprung into fiery, optimistic Sagittarius (after stewing in Scorpio and getting brief flambé from an aspect to Chiron) you'll feel a lot better, if you're not having a great time already. Extreme waning lunar phase can be emotionally tense. The feeling is approximately premenstrual. Guys cannot relate, unless they have a lot of experience doing detailed interviews with extraordinarily articulate women in the 24 hours prior to getting their period. Given the number of contradictions contained in that sentence, we can only hope to have small samples of this occult knowledge. But here is the feeling, boys. I'll tell you. Just imagine you've gone to a party and eaten a piece of candy that contains some mushrooms. You have the psychically overwhelming experience that your emotional body is like a water balloon that's slowly filling up. You want it to burst, but it won't go. The harder you try, the worse it gets. It just keeps filling. And hanging there, heavier and heavier. But it's all an illusion. None of it's really happening, and you know it, which makes it all the worse. Finally, when it does burst, the feeling is not explosive but rather subtle and a gentle return to normal consciousness. And then you may wonder if everyone is still your friend; but they are; it was not nearly as intense for them as it was for you. The moment of the shift is when the Moon reaches Sagittarius exactly 24 hours from this writing -- at 11:32 pm CET. That means the Moon is moving at the rather fast clip of about 14 degrees per day. Chiron dangling on the edge of Capricorn and two inner planets getting ready to make stations (Mercury first, on Dec. 4, then Mars, on Dec. 11), are all contributing to the edgy effect. That's the basic feeling -- and it can be extremely useful if you figure out what to do with the energy. Catch you tomorrow, and on http://Cainer.com where the daily horoscopes continue.