This New Moon is part of a Cardinal T-square involving Mars and Jupiter. As such it is not an 'easy birth' but it certainly serves to effectively generate new beginnings. A new birth it really is. This lunation, although not smooth, is a 'kick start' or a 'bump start' to new energy and vibrant vision.

With this lunation we are midway between the unusual Hybrid Solar Eclipse on April 8th 2005 and the more 'usual' Annular Solar Eclipse on October 3rd 2005. The Saros energy of series 129 gives way to the Saros energy of series 134. We are at a point of 'karmic balance' in time. Momentous changes of direction could be the outcome of events now taking place.

This New Moon coincides with two momentous events happening in, and involving, the UK. The G8 summit meeting is planned to commence on this day, and the result of the 2012 Olympic Games bid, of which London is a key player, is due to be announced.

As if to recognise this the planets oblige in an awesome array of energy and angularity focused on these UK islands.

At the moment of New Moon (12-04 GMT Wednesday July 6th), Jupiter is exactly rising on UK horizons. The Sun and New Moon in Cancer are aligned to the Mid Heaven of the United Kingdom. A mystic rectangle involving the current and ongoing conjunction of Mercury and Venus (in Leo) at one vertex, Neptune (in Aquarius) at the opposite vertex, and the local horizon of the UK with Jupiter rising and Mars setting, completing the rectangle, dominates the skies. This pattern is compounded with a 'finger of fate' pattern as Uranus provides a focus for the tight Mercury Venus conjunction sextile Jupiter and UK Ascendant.

No apologies to non-astrologers reading this, the technical detail supports the writers conviction that this is a 'magical' time. This little island is leading the way. Our rock stars have now moved to a position 'beyond sainthood'. The good music and the golden vision starts here. The astrology here is also 'part of the scene', as vital now as the rock and roll, another conscious raising experience to complement the global forces of care and concern just invoked by Live8, to enhance our understanding of what is going down right now, and to help us all on our way.

After the New Moon, Venus tightens on an optimsitic sextile aspect with Jupiter peaking today at 18-52 GMT.