Buck Supermoon, July 2023

The Buck Supermoon of July 2023 was a rare and striking sky-event: a full Moon at perigee, the technical perigee-syzygy, swelling the lunar disk larger than usual as our satellite swung closest to Earth. Native American tradition names it the Buck Moon for the season when male deer begin to grow their antlers. This one bloomed in the sign of Capricorn, and full moons always speak of culmination, of endings and the art of letting go.

Its chart carries a beautifully balanced signature. The Sun stood in Cancer in the tenth house, the father-luminary shining through the mother's sign at the very summit of the chart, lighting up career, reputation and public standing with a tender, protective warmth. Opposite it, the Moon in Capricorn sat at the base of the chart in the fourth house, its own home of roots and hearth, dressed in Saturn's sober, dutiful robes. So the whole moment lit the axis of work against home, worldly duty against inner belonging. A Libra Ascendant lent the event its balancing scales. It was a moment asking each of us where to hold, and where to gracefully release.