Summertime Moon Mail
Selenodromion
As a part of the Moon Mail that I created throughout the year, here is the latest letter for the Selenodromion subscribers.
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Sweet Selenodromion reader, Welcome to the Summer of 2026.
Summer 2026
This letter has been hard to begin, mostly because there are so many threads weaving around me that I’m not sure which one to pull in closest to share with you. I also know that this letter will be longer than the last few months. It feels like all of summer is collapsing into one ball of energy. Is this happening to you too? Is it that summer encourages everything to grow fast with wild abandon? I love that phrase “with wild abandon” because it invites our innate nature of freedom & joy to take the wheel (or rather it encourages the proverbial hands to free the wheel).
We are in a Wheel Year.
In simple numerology, the year 2026 adds like this: 2+0+2+6= 10. The # 10 card in Tarot is the Wheel of Fortune. You can simplify this number even further to get the #1 card in Tarot,The Magician. 1+0 = 1. So 2026 is a Wheel Year with the Magician secretly behind the scenes. A Wizard of Oz vibe. The Wheel of Fortune relates to Fortune, the realm and nature of the Moon. The Moon fluctuates, isn’t to be relied upon for steadiness like the Sun in the Solar realm. The Moon translates our fate, waxes & wanes like we do. The Moon is a reflection of our sunny spirit.
To provide some tarot/astrology correspondences for reference, meet The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a British secret society, based in Rosicrucianism & Hermeticism. The correspondences they established in the late 1800s are ones that we still use today. The creators of the foundational Rider Waite Smith tarot (the one whose images most people recognize as “tarot”) were members of the Golden Dawn order. For better or worse, what that secret society channeled 140 years ago are still magical & relevant today. The Major Arcana Tarot cards, the ones with names like “The Fool”, “Justice” or “The High Priestess”, are each associated with a planet, an element or a sign. If you know your Big Three (Sun, Moon & Rising) in astrology then you can find your Big Three Tarot cards.
Aries Sun, Virgo Moon and Capricorn Rising? That’s The Emperor, The Hermit & The Devil cards.
Taurus Sun, Sagittarius Moon and Aquarius Rising? That’s The Hierophant, Temperance and Star cards.
Sorry, side tracked. The fluctuations of the Moon’s realm always does this to me.
I do give fusion readings bringing tarot cards into chart readings, if you’re ever interested!
Back to the Wheel:
The Roman goddess Fortuna is the daughter of Jupiter. “Pars Fortuna” or the “Part of Fortune” is a mathematical point in a natal chart that speaks to fate bestowed upon each of us. This part in a chart shows a sensitive point of fate. It shows that sometimes things just happen to us, that they are fated despite our attempts to encourage or thwart the tides.
Fortunes rise and fall, the Wheel turns, we all ride.
While the Wheel of Fortune speaks to the realm of the Moon, the card itself is associated with the planet, Jupiter. What does the realm of the Moon have to do with Jupiter?
Ancient astrological techniques include establishing the “dignity” for each planetary body. Dignity isn’t a moral branding, it is a way to describe how well a planet can express its natural significations. Ancient astrology was more interested in relating to the seasons, the natural cycles (including human’s cycles) than modern astrology is currently concerned. Jupiter, in the dignity scheme, exalts (meaning it has a VIP treatment) in the sign of Cancer/the realm of the Moon. During Cancer season, the earth is abundant and giving. The flowers are blooming, the rivers are rising, the fields are fertile. There is more than enough for our communities, so we share and make parties to celebrate the abundance of our safe, warm season of summertime. In the Wheel of Fortune, we have the planet Jupiter relating to the natural cycle of when we thrive. Jupiter is elevated during the time when we are primed to enjoy the fruits of our labor, when we are called to share with each other. I confidently assume that Jupiter in Cancer rules potlucks & picnics.
Jupiter is a grand planet, I had a dream once that he was an enormous peacock. Jupiter is the BIG BOY in the sky and many modern assumptions about Jupiter are that it goes around like an astro Santa Claus handing out only good things. This is not accurate. Jupiter isn’t to be trifled with and doesn’t want people to ask him to help them win the lottery. The abundance of the garden comes from the work of the gardener. Do not come asking favors of Jupiter without real need, without offering something yourself and without respect.
Jupiter speaks to how we rise and fall in our own fortunes and that there are greater cycles that we all participate in. It is a planet that acts as a teacher, there to support us but requires us to act within our own means for growth.
“Pride comes before the fall”
In the story of King Arthur, on the eve of his final battle, Arthur had a dream (or vision) of a powerful king that sat on top of a wheel. As the goddess Fortuna turns the wheel, the king gets crushed underneath at the bottom. The natural cycles that we are fated to experience, despite our efforts to resist, will always pull us toward fate. The tide is stronger than the ocean spray. It is also a reminder that when you feel that you are at the bottom of the Wheel, maybe it wasn’t exactly all your fault. Maybe just the luck of the draw for this season, this year, this life. But there are some negotiations we can have with fate, with Fortune, with The Moon and with Jupiter: prayer.
