Here is a chart for the new Moon on Sunday, 12 August 2007, 11:03PM (GMT).

Lisa Dale Miller at Astrowisdom.com tells us

Though Leo is mostly thought of as shallow-caring most about outer appearances-it actually carries an inner vision sourced in a deep desire to powerfully express personal creativity. More than any other sign, Leo rules creative actualization of the self; the ego. Ego is the self, knowing and creatively actualizing itself, in all its complexity and beauty� yes, complexity and beauty. The more we know about who we are the more complex our view of self becomes and consequently we begin to become more adept at skillfully dealing with a wider rage of experience.

This is what I call creative mindfulness: opening awareness to a deeper, yet broader experience of the ramifications of action. And in these last few weeks of Saturn in Leo, this New Moon finds Saturn in an exact conjunction with Venus (creativity and passion) and Trans-Pluto (point of fertility.) If you have had some creative project simmering on the back burner for the last couple of years, this is a powerful time to take it out, dust it off and see if it still has juice for you. If so, start to work with it again during this New Moon cycle.

Jeff Jawer at stariq.com tells us --

Let your inner lion roar on the New Moon in Leo as pride, will, creativity and heartfelt emotions are expressed dramatically. Celebrate yourself and the joys of life with play, romance and grand acts of generosity. Spiritual Neptune opposes the conjunction of the Sun, Moon and Mercury (resident scribe and gossip columnist) to add imagination and compassion to this ego-fest. While delusions of grandeur may produce fantasies that will never come true, the upside of this opposition is uncharacteristic sensitivity that tames Leo's all-consuming fire. Personal power and collective concerns can align to honor the individual while serving others.

Lisa in her description of this new Moon mentions the Perseids shower on the night of the new Moon. According to the wikipedia --

The Perseids (PURR-see-idz) are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. However, they can be seen all across the sky. Because of the path of Swift-Tuttle's orbit, Perseids are mostly visible on the northern hemisphere.

The shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the greatest activity between August 8 and 14, peaking about August 12. During the peak, the rate of meteors reaches 60 or more per hour.

Meteor showers occur when Earth moves through a meteor stream. The stream in this case is called the Perseid cloud and it stretches along the orbit of the Comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it passed by the Sun. Most of the dust in the cloud today is approximately a thousand years old.

Changing tack and looking at the U.S. chart, I see many patterns--grand trines, kites, mystic rectangles --that lack one aspect to be complete. This suggests a period of things almost making it to completion or symmetry, but not quite there. Also, I see transiting Mars in Gemini approaching (the astrological term is 'applying to') a conjunct with the U.S.'s natal Uranus in Gemini and the 8th house. Using Michael Munkasey's Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets (ACS Publications, 1991) to read this aspect:

In your personal life:

• Thesis: Your courage to persist with personal struggles against all opposition or despite the length of the struggle; your insistence on correcting what you perceive as wrong; energy for scientific or astrological activities.
• Anti: A busybody who interferes with other's lives and causes disruptions; a pushy troublemaker; a person with rebellious inpulses who does not want society to impose rules of personal conduct; annoying impulses.

In your relationships:

• Thesis: You are not one to allow any relationship to slip into routine; you seek a partner who brings an answer to your forms of excitement, both intellectual and physical; you admire people who are forthright.
• Anti: Others find your demands for independence and freedom in a relationship difficult to bear; you show unpredictable outbursts of anger destructive to self and others; you find it difficult to relate to others.

In politics of business:

• Thesis: Reforming a military organization; changes within the armed forces of the nation; modernization of basic energy or steel industries; groups formed to use or exploit energy resources; unplanned military actions.
• Anti: Malice or unrest accompanied by violence; using security forces to control strife; radical movements within the military; rebellions against modernization efforts; sudden attactks or outbreaks of hostility.

Since the conjunction is in Gemini and Mercury, the ruling planet, is conjunct the Midheaven, the Mars-Uranus conjunct may be about planning, forming policy, or just druthers. There is a spiritual tone to the Midheaven, as well.

Journal entry dated 12 August 2007
Category: Whatis Aquarian, Astrology