Here is the chart for this New Moon. The Sun-Moon conjunct occurred at 7:28 PM on May 16th Greenwich Mean Time.

While there's a lot going on in the chart, with two grand crosses and multiple trines, there seems to be more happening in the span between the Part of Fortune and Mars. That span includes Jupiter, Pluto, Neptune, North Node, Uranus, and maybe Chiron (Chiron is an asteroid and fairly recent addition to the study of astrology).

To see if the Part of Fortune placement is valid for any chart anywhere, I put together a small collection of charts for the New Moon at roughly the same latitude in New York city, Chicago and Redding, CA. The Part of Fortune is a synthetic point derived from a calculation based on Sun-Moon-Ascendant positions (according to the Wikipedia, Day chart: Ascendant + Moon - Sun; Night chart: Ascendant - Moon + Sun ). The Part of Fortune is considered the point at which you are most fortunate. (Personally, I think of it as representing Earth.) As you can see from the collection of charts, no matter how far West you go, the Part of Fortune stays in basically the same position. Even when you go as far north as Anchorage, Alaska the Part of Fortune still sits on the Ascendant. After looking at all the charts I have, it appears that at the New Moon the Part of Fortune is on the Ascendant always, and at the Full Moon the Part of Fortune is on the Descendant (or cusp of the 7th house) always.

Going back to the span where there seems to be more happening, three things seem noteworthy:

• Neptune and Jupiter are in aspect (sextile) and they are a dyad representing reorientation. Their midpoint falls roughly at 19° Capricorn; Venus is positioned at 19° Cancer, the opposing point which represents the "release of the internal or spiritual meaning of the process" (Michael R. Meyer, A Handbook for the Humanistic Astrologer, Anchor Books, 1974). This suggests that what you like or prefer will be a trigger for changing the way you approach your career, your standing in the community, or authority.
• Neptune with his trident is keeping company with Chiron, the teacher. In opposition to their midpoint is Saturn in Leo, attempting to maintain control.
• Uranus in Pisces is square Jupiter in Sagittarius. Since Jupiter is in its own sign and in the first house, more conventional ways will win the day this 30-day period, but there may be grumbling and throwing of things among the iconoclasts, rebels and rabble-rousers.

In closing, let's remember: the New Moon sets the tone for the next 28- to 30-day period. What begins at the New Moon is completed at the Full. If you want to learn about astrology or study how it operates, observing how these two occurrences relate is an good place to start.

Journal entry dated 16 May 2007
Category: Whatis Aquarian