I've read a few columns about how this New Moon is the "soulmate" influence. My first reaction is cynicism -- I have the Capricorn Moon tightly opposite Cancer Saturn in my own birth chart, across the fourth and tenth house axis. Nesting and working are difficult, solitary work, you guys! No one is going to do something like help you, for goodness sake. And even if someone offers to help, s/he probably will exact a pound or two of heart's flesh as price.
In the interest of questioning one's assumptions, I will now give my kindest, most charitable interpretation of this so-called soulmate New Moon.
Scorpio Saturn in the seventh house of relationships is one corner of a water grand trine. Water can be the loving element of life in the desert of Saturn's survival tactics, certainly. And this seventh house is ruled by gentle Venus, with partnering Libra on the cusp. Scorpio Saturn clears the way for new growth by strictly pruning away the old. Also, Rahu of the new lessons is in this seventh house. Good enough. Saturn also rules the midheaven, and no doubt soulmates would be public figures, if only by taking endless pictures together to post on Facebook.
Saturn usually presents obstacles, but He is in that flowy water grand trine with generous Jupiter and imaginative Neptune. Jupiter in nurturing Cancer, lending His broadening philosophical ideas to how we can take care of each other in the third house of daily life and communication, with its own sign, Gemini, on the cusp. Traditionally Saturn was known as the greater malefic and Jupiter the greater benefic; the good and bad in life are harmoniously combined here and given a voice by Gemini and the third house.
Third corner of the water grand trine is Pisces Neptune, imaginative and visionary at home in His own sign. Neptune gives the eleventh house of friendship and group endeavor an even more idealistic sense of grand vague vistas, possibly with the intuition to back up these feelings. The eleventh house has its own sign of Aquarius on the cusp, ruled by innovative Uranus. Revolutionary Aries Uranus is found in the twelfth house of secrets and hidden motives, perhaps the kind that lead us to fight alongside idealistic friends.
Speaking of fighting, there is another grand trine in this chart. Gemini Mars in the third house is also trine Saturn and Neptune. Maybe soulmates are the people you fight with but still stay friends. You might be fighting intensely over philosophical ideals; Capricorn Pluto is opposite Jupiter and in the ninth house of philosophy and religion, home of Jupiter twice because of its Sagittarius cusp. Pluto's intensity is softened a bit by the gentle sextile with Neptune. But the sextile with Saturn and square with Uranus are not comforting enough for an optimistic column as this should be.
Oh, and this is about the Cancer New Moon. New opportunities for nurturing! And the nurturing happens every day, all around us, in the third house of the neighborhood and daily communication. Our ability to learn is nurtured here, and learning is the root of all human existence. The Moon/Sun conjunction is conjunct the imum coeli, the very root of the chart. Mercury retrograde, ruler of the third house where we find the Moon/Sun, is in the fourth house of nesting and nourishment. The Moon rules that fourth house.
So maybe these rosy how-to-call-in-your-soulmate interpretations are warranted. Conversation, caretaking, free flow of ideas for how to nurture are all present in this New Moon chart. Charming Venus, ruler of that seventh house of partnerships, is in the fifth house of fun, romance and creativity.
This New Moon could be fun, at the very least. We'll see. I'm not interpreting those three big warning t-squares here, and I didn't say anything bad about Saturn in the seventh house. So there.
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