Sabian Symbol, Jones Pattern, Evolutionary Configurations, and More.

New Moon at 7 Gemini: Astrological Insights for May 26

Beloved Ones,

This article covers significant aspects, degree symbols, and other important factors in this New Moon at 7 Gemini on May 26. This brings the Light of using knowledge and faith to find something hidden. We’re moving into the Saturn and Neptune in Aries era!

Energetic Shift to Aries and Gemini

This month jumps up from the heavy energies of Pisces to the light and bright energies of Aries and Gemini which dominated the next 4 weeks. Be open! Turn to the new, turn to the future, turn to discoveries, and focus on distant possibilities which will soon be within grasp. Enjoy this burst of Aries and Gemini which will continue for the next 3 months, joined by Uranus entering Gemini in about 6 weeks.

The span between 6-10 Gemini is about “discovery” on social and emotional levels of life, opening to new ideas about interactions with others. This will open us to seeing and knowing things as a result of faith in the knowledge we’ve acquired and the need to open to unique ways of releasing old “social rigidities.”

The Planetary Spread

In this chart, because the inner planets are between late Aries and the Lunation in a 45+ degree span, that’s the main focus for the next 4 weeks. At this point, we have planets occupying half of the zodiac between Aquarius and Leo with none in Cancer, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Pisces. This creates a Bowl Jones pattern. At this time we have planets in Aquarius, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and Leo.

Depending on the position of the Moon and the inner planets relative to the outer planets, different months bring us different Jones Patterns. These patterns operate their own independent influence, regardless of which planet is in which sign.

Currently, the outer planet occupied span begins with Pluto in early Aquarius, and proceeds through Saturn and Neptune in early Aries, Uranus in late Taurus and ends with Jupiter in late Gemini. (We don’t include TransPluto, since Jones didn’t use it in defining his patterns). Because we have 5 signs represented with an empty span of about 165+ degrees, we have a perfect “Bowl” Jones Pattern.

Understanding the “Bowl” Jones Pattern

This type of spread, with all the planets occupying approximately half of the signs with an empty half opposite the occupied half, creates a “special type of conscious selfhood,” which Dr. Jones says “marks the Bowl type of temperament. He goes on to state “Fundamentally it is an extreme self-containment,” which “holds things, and a Bowl individual is one who always has something to bear.”

He goes on to state that with the Bowl, “the whole dynamic of man, his total power of achievement, arises in his instinctive realization that he is set off against a definite part of the world, that there is a complete segment of experience from which he is excluded in some subtle fashion. The Bowl not only holds something, but also places whatever it holds into relationship with a larger consideration.”

Dr. Jones continues that “the occupied segment of the Bowl horoscope reveals the activity and organization of the self, since planets are significant according to their place by sign and house, and the unoccupied segment becomes a challenge to existence, or the need and emptiness to which the native must direct his attention. The outstanding characteristic of the Bowl temperament is its marked sense of what is self-contained in contrast with what the self cannot hold, and this take an everyday form in an advocacy of some cause, the furtherance of a mission, an introspective concern over the purpose of experience.”

He concludes his explanation of how the pattern works with “The Bowl native always has something to give to his fellows, whether literally or psychologically, whether constructively or vindictively, because his orientation to the world arises from division; that is, frustration and uncertainty. The leading planets, determined in exactly the same way as for the Locomotive pattern, give a point of application, and shows where and how the native seeks to carry out his mission or gain his everyday justification for existence.”

He brings up another important point of analysis, as he states “the leading planet is of secondary importance in the Bowl pattern, unless it is found in a strong opposition or cosmic cross. The fundamental attack on the problems of life by the Bowl individual is indicated more significantly by the tilt or house-position of the Bowl-segment.”

He concludes this section by stating “the Bowl character is definitely more self-expending, or self-seeking, and more practically interested in what things mean and what they are. It continually throws the emphasis from the signs into the houses. It a general way the Bowl tends to ‘scoop up’ things and initiate experience when the position of the leading planet ranges from the fourth cusp, up and over the ascendant, to the Midheaven cusp, and then inclines to “capture” things or consummate various phases of life when the leading planet is placed similarly from the tenth angle down over the descendant to the nadir.”

Leading and Closing Planets

Pluto at 4 Aquarius is the leading planet on a degree of “A Hindu healer.” This means that as we enter opportunity or experience, we will go through major purifications related to the collective Aquarian seeds being sprouted. Some will experience life changing events which involve a revelation of some sort of latent healing power, or offered an opportunity to “consciously utilize divine potency.”

This entry to the Bowl tells us we are all being exposed to the seeds of an inner divine potency if we choose to sprout them. Pluto in Aquarius encourages us to share ideas in a spirit of fellowship and strengthen inner magnetism and external bonds with your spiritual Sisters and Brothers.

With Mars at 19 Leo closing the Bowl, we’ll finish experience with a sense of dramatic releases of old “rigidities” so we can enjoy life more. It is on a degree of fellowship which can make life “freer and happier.” So we begin a healing process which ends with feeling freed from old rigid patterns. This Mars position can be dramatic, strong, and powerful in how it expresses love.

This leads with actional contribution, and closes with actional release. Because the leading edge is Aquarian Air, approach experience with a sense of vision, cooperation, the uniqueness of each part of the whole, and willingness to rise to an occasion. Because the closing edge is Leo Fire, by the time you’re done with a given experience, you’ll have a new power to sustain your outreach.

The Sabian Symbol for the New Moon

A New Moon sets the seed forms for what the following month will demonstrate. This Lunation falls at 7 Gemini, and it is said that the first third (decan) of any sign deals with the physical, material, and actional levels of life, and being the first decan of Gemini it has a sub-influence of Gemini/Mercury with an added dose of Jupiter. With the dispositors, this is a time of being open to different and more expansive views. While I've given you a sense of this degree up to now, this is where we go into depth.

The Sabian symbol for the 7th degree of Gemini is “An old fashioned well.” In the original notes from the Marc Jones class on the symbols published in The Astrology of Personality, Rudhyar says this degree is one of a degree of “deep and mature relationship between man and the basic life-giving reality of his environment,” “inner assurance,” and “poise.”

In The Astrological Mandala, he offers that this degree is about “Man’s primordial faith in the hidden sustaining power of life.” He goes on to state that this is “the image of the eternal search for that which is at the root of all living processes, i.e. water,” and that a simple natural effort when we see the signs of the existence of that source will help us enter into cooperative relationship with Nature.

He goes further to offer that it’s good for us “to develop the intuitive sense which enables (us) to feel this presence and to make it effectual in (our) daily life.” So it’s about “the power of the collective and bio-spiritual energies which sustain” which can result in “a fundamental trust in and cooperation with life.” He says this degree falls in the Span of Zeal, Act of Differentiation, and is the second degree in the Emotional-Cultural phase of the Scene of Discovery.

Dr. Jones says this is a degree of “the unimpeachable source of life on the side of personal self-renewal and simple organic integrity.” He speaks of our purity as a determining factor in our character, and of our ability to be ourselves as we enter relationships where we assimilate what we are to learn. Here we continually “draw in and give out the substance” of who we are, and are rewarded by Nature for “continuing to be.”

He offers us the keyword RECOMPENSE. He states that when operating in a positive manner, this degree “is absolute self-reliance and uncompromising faithfulness.”

So the theme of the next month involves sensing what could nourish us and then do some simple, natural effort to cooperate with Nature that strengthens our faith and trust in life, seeing how we can cooperate with Nature and it will cooperate with us. This is about our growing into a deeper relationship with “the basic life giving reality” of our environment that can lead us to “poise” and “inner assurance.”

That implies that this symbol is about our ability to combine our intuition, perception, and willingness to do what we need to find hidden things that nourish us from “Nature’s well.” It could be an outer “well,” or an inner “well.” Sense the water and learn how to bring it up to the surface.

Important Aspects

Remember that in reading a Lunation chart (as well as a horary, inceptional, electional, or any event chart) the forming aspects show things to come, while separating aspects show things already past. Partile separating aspects show what’s been going on in the Now. This section covers only forming and partile separating aspects. Out of sign aspects are indicated by (oos).

The Lunation is conjunct Mercury, semisquare Venus, quintile Mars, and bielftile Saturn and Neptune; Mercury is semisquare Venus, quintile Mars, quindecile Jupiter sextile Neptune, and trine Pluto; Venus in semisquare the Sun, trine Mars, bielfile Jupiter, and decile Uranus; and the Sun makes the same aspects as the Moon.

Outer planet aspects feature Mars septile Jupiter, binovile Uranus, saesquisquare Neptune, and pentelftile Pluto; Jupiter is square Saturn (oos), semi-sextile Uranus, and biquintile Pluto; Saturn is sextile Uranus (oos) and conjunct Neptune; Uranus is sextile Neptune (oos), and Neptune’s finally again sextile Pluto for the first time in 30 years!

This month the friction is provided by 3 semisquares, 1 square, 1 sesquisquare, and 0 quincunxes. While squares challenge “right action” at a turning point of a cycle, the semisquares are more about internal decisions and movement with personal inner crises, both public and private, which we must deal with.

Sesquisquares on the other hand create friction, agitation, and irritation in our world that involves others. In my experience sesquisquares are not necessarily associated with times of crisis, but they do seem to be times of no rest and spurs to act that may be inconvenient and aggravating. They definitely aren’t calm! And quincunxes force adjustments and sacrifices.

Special Configurations in Evolutionary Astrology

This month we have the rare situation of having only 1 special evolutionary configuration.

1. Mercury is sextile Neptune and trine Pluto. This is a herald of things to come this Summer when Uranus in Gemini sextiles both Saturn and Neptune in Aries and trines Pluto in Aquarius.

This activates 3 points of a “Great Sextile Merkaba 6-pointed Star pattern, promising multiple harmonious and productive ideas, insights, and communications these next few weeks. This primarily affects planets and points we have in the early degrees of the Fire and Air signs, and offers opportunities to attune to the new collective atmosphere while seeing to the core of any matter.

While there are no more three point configurations there are two aspects of special note. We have the Lunation exactly quintile Mars, yielding a harmonic specializing resonance around 5-9 Gemini, 17-21 Leo, 29 Libra-3 Scorpio, 11-15 Capricorn, and 23-27 Pisces. If you have something in one of these zones, expect unique and favorable conditions to come forth in those houses.

We also have Mars septile Jupiter, bringing forks in the road related to how free we are from old social rigidities and our readiness to reach out to a larger existence. Areas most affected include 4-8 Taurus, 25-29 Gemini, 17-21 Leo, 8-12 Libra, 29 Scorpio-3 Sagittarius, 21-25 Capricorn, and 12-16 Pisces. If you have something in one of these zones, it’s about to hit a fork in the road of how you express it.

Explaining Harmonics

Aspects in the same series are considered to be various stages of “harmonics” for each series.

The novile (9th harmonic), septile (7th harmonic) and elftile (11th harmonic) series all feature spiritual aspects. All novile series (9th harmonic) aspects indicate things which need to be put on the shelf for a while, or that which has been waiting can now move forward. They represent gestative energies that can lead to great spiritual realizations. Septile series aspects represent forks in the road of destiny, while the 11th harmonic elftile series indicate that faith is required to deal with transcending some dualities, issues and points of evolution where we must make a leap of faith to attain a form of mastery over that type of duality. This series tests our faith. Both the 7th and 11th series involve non-rational aspect values, bringing an element of irrationality in behavior and circumstances.

The quintile and biquintile (5th harmonic) and related 10th (decile and tredecile), 15th (quindecile), and 20th harmonic (vigintile) aspects are all specialization aspects. You can find more by going to Astrology Class on the Specializing Aspects Pt. 1 – The Quintile and Biquintile, and Astrology Class on the Specializing Aspects Part 2 – The Decile, Tredecile, Quindecile and the Vigintile.

You can find out more about the spiritual aspects (septile, novile, and elftile series) by referencing this brief overview of Astrological Aspects – the 7th, 9th, and 11th Harmonic Series Aspects and their Symbols. I did a much lengthier exploration and explanation of how each of the 11th harmonic series aspects work in the article The 11th Harmonic Aspects in Astrology – the Elftile Series of Faith and Transcendence.

Element Balance

This month shows a seriously imbalanced distribution. This is the first time since February 2003 that we haven’t had at least one planet in a Water sign! We’ve had Saturn, Uranus or Neptune in a Water sign since March of that year.

This month the 10 traditional planets occupy 5 signs. We have 4 planets in Fire (inspiration and warmth), 1 planet in Earth (practical grounding), 5 in Air (relatedness and communicating), and 0 in Water (feelings and experiencing).

Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, it’s slightly more cool than hot, with an emphasis on inspired ideas and ideas which open inspiration. This will be a fairly ungrounded month, so focus on keeping it steady, pleasant, and renewing!

The Current Sequence at Present of Deciding, Feeling, and Thinking

We’ve been through several different sequences over the past few months. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses. This continues last month’s pattern. For now, as a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience over the next four weeks involves beginning activity with feeling, then thinking, and then making decisions.

This pattern initiates activity by feeling its way into ideas, perceptions, and information. Let your hunches lead to new knowledge. Then, after a new idea, vision, or understanding, then make a decision and act on it! Try not to overplan too far into the future. Take your feeling-knowing one step at a time, and keep things in balanced motion, even if they go all over the place at times.

Once we’ve made a decision and acted on it, then a new feeling will naturally arise showing the next thing to learn about, communicate, or understand. So feel, flow, and experience, since these will lead you to ideas and views that will in turn lead to the next decision.

This pattern is sensitive to others’ feelings, and when healthy usually offers a positive and encouraging take on things. It is said this pattern has the best “bedside manner,” and can be a good sounding board to bounce all kinds of things off of until everything’s been discussed and processed so that a clear decision can be made. This pattern offers us that the journey of a thousand miles is truly one step at a time.

So if you’re wondering what to do, go to your feelings from a place of objectivity and compassion and site with them. Once you have “retreated to compassion,” then find your vision or understanding you need to execute an action or make a decision.

What are you experiencing which can help you feel what you need to know before you act? If you understand something but don’t know what to do, what are your feelings telling you that you must do? If your actions aren’t bringing you clarity, what internal feelings are blocking your vision? Let your feelings lead you to clear ideas which help you make decisions.

Summing Up

This New Moon will bring visions of the future and opportunities to practice “thinking in the future.” Open to repositioning yourself to get into position for what’s coming while also shedding old ways of being rigid. While we’re solidly on the threshold of what’s coming in 2026, because of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all retrograding back into Pisces and Taurus this Autumn, we’ll still be between the old and the new, and will be until February 2026 when we move through a time portal. We’re still clearing old ghosts of the past while entering the new world we’ve been waiting for.

We now are in a convergence of past, present, and future, learning to be strong and resilient in expressing the love we ARE while leaving something from the past behind. It could be an idea, or a behavior, a ghost from the past, or an attitude which made us rigid or defensive. Be open and not closed. This month faith, effort, and accepting a renewal and the power it brings are the keys to success. We’re moving into a vaster world these next few weeks, and we’ll all turn a big corner beginning the middle of June.

Purify, love without inhibitions, and enjoy fellowship “in an effort to make life freer and happier.” This is a time of understanding that applied faith coupled with knowledge can help you find the hidden resources you need. Enjoy the Summer Fire and Air energies, since you could find yourself uplifted in sudden or unexpected ways.

In the past 2 years we’ve said goodbye to old ways, places, and people, However, this created space for new experiences since there’s more potential than there is in whatever has left. Celebrate the uplifting energies at play in your chart, and let go of memories which don’t serve the flow into the future. Feel the lightness of your unique evolutionary dance through space and time. We’re all moving from the interpersonal to the transpersonal level of focus.

Neptune is giving us new Neptunian experience of Aries for the first time in about 150 years. For now, practice sensing the flow and simultaneity of knowing and experiencing a vaster connection to the collective field.

We have been moving into a new life or a new way of living the past year and a half, and now have the understanding we need to embrace a new role, see a new archetype, or find a new way to express our understanding on the stage of life. For better or worse, we’ve all fulfilled a dream (or a nightmare!) and now stand facing an entirely new vista of possibilities on the world stage.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn now begins to exert its understanding and authority in Aries, the realm of direct self-initiated action, it is showing us the way forward. Because it’s ruled by Mars in Leo instead of Jupiter in Gemini, expect Saturn to be more direct and inspired in the next few months. We now begin a restructuring of spiritual force wherever we have the first 3 degrees of Aries in our chart. Saturn has taught us a Master Class in compassion and forgiveness practices and now it’s time to take the initiative in some way.

Making friends with our inner Saturn is the most important thing we can do to fulfill our spiritual destiny. If you want to know more about your power to throw off oppressive chains, limitations, and fears, please give yourself the timeless gift of my book, Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. We all need to make friends with our inner Saturn if we would claim our power to fulfill our higher purpose for being alive as Spirits in the material world.

The book offers ways to take command of your power to steer your life in a conscious way, using Saturn’s strengths and skills to master life on your own terms. As Saturn is such a dominant energy in life, by owning our ability to demonstrate Saturn's virtues, we take command of our destiny and become the living purpose we were born to make manifest!

It was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers, and will assist your understanding of how your life experiences assisted your Soul growth and power to turn away from unhelpful karmic cause and effect patterns. Each time you re-read any part of it you’re sure to find undiscovered gems of insight helping you throw off attitudes which frustrate your ability to live your higher Purpose on your own terms.

And Now, on a Related Note…

Venus in Aries is very favorable to Mars and Jupiter for many weeks to come, giving us power to move forward into new relationships and new inspired interactions. This should be a very productive 4 weeks, with a lot of available power which helps us reorient and for some, get signs and signals of things to come enabling them to work with foresight to ensure supply.

Venus shows us what we like and why we like it. If you want to learn more about making all of your relationships more fulfilling, finding your heart’s desire and joyous relationships which fulfill your Soul, please consider getting your copy of my book, The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames. It’s the most comprehensive book on Venus ever written, and takes a deep dive into how our Venus shapes why we like or don’t like the people and things we do, and how we can change our patterns of attraction to make future relationships more fulfilling. It explains the world of relationship from the angles of psychology, astrology, spirituality, and worldly experience.

I’ve heard it helps people find strength to turn away from unhealthy relationships and understand how not to attract anything similar in the future. It examines the qualities in healthy relationships and friendships, and offers tips on how to create long lasting personal relationships and friendships, why Soul Mates come into our lives, and how to know the difference between a Soul Mate and our Twin Flame.

It has chapters on the qualities of each sign’s natural mate, the qualities of Venus in each sign, Venus retrograde, and when crucial choices and changes are made, affecting who we attract in the future. It was written for both astrologers and lay people, and as it has a thousand gems for better relationships, with self, others, and Source, please consider getting your copy by going to the link above! (And when you’re done, please leave a review on Amazon, since it helps the book and all other books on astrology as well!)

The Long View

In 2020 we entered a transition phase in human history. While we will be functioning within the Capricorn cycles we began then, we also have begun an era unknown to humanity since the 13th and 14th centuries. Even then, we were still in the depth of the Age of Pisces, so the awakening of new ideas then were relative to the old era, whereas what’s coming involves wave after wave of Aquarian energies, pushing us to the coming Great Age emerging in the second half of this century.

The long wave Aquarian pulses were initially set into motion by the Mars conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, marking the initiation of archetypal Aquarian preliminary structures offered by Saturn. The promise and potential of the new Aquarian pulse then began to expand into a greater social and cultural vision beginning at the Jupiter conjunction with Saturn, the Grand Mutation of the Solstice also at 1 Aquarius. So we have 20 years of Aquarian energies set into motion by that conjunction!

All Aquarian transits and conjunctions in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 have given a new impetus and new expression to the Aquarian structures which took shape in 2021. Each transit strengthens the Pluto in Aquarius “generation” of the 21st century which lasts until 2043. As there will be a Jupiter conjunction with Pluto at 15 Aquarius in 2033, we’ll see the “expansion of the Angels of the Age of Aquarius” at that time.

2021 opened a new adventure for all of us, and the “metamorphosis” we went through showed us what the coming Age of Aquarius is about. 2022 helped us remember we are Beings of Light, a Superstar shining the Light of our Eternal Love into our world. We’re now expanding our spiritual knowledge, understanding, and effective forms of service, and have entered a new phase with Mars in a new Sun/Mars conjunction cycle.

New groups of Spiritual communities have formed since 2021, and are being given a boost this year. Those which are Aquarian in nature will be “lifted on the wings of angels” in 2025. Trust the process. Revolution is in the air! And when you find things and people of eternal worth, value them with all your heart.

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