SHEGOAT Full Moon

February 1st 2026, 5:08 pm Eastern

Full Moon 13* 03' Leo

11th Shape: SHEGOAT

8° 34' 17'' Leo – 21° 25' 43'' Leo

We are coming into really interesting current astrology, which means we have stepped into really interesting plot-lines, where the future and present begin to coalesce and reality undulates with a modulating novelty. Since last June, when Jupiter entered cancer, bringing coherence to what nourishes us, what brings about fulfillment, what makes us feel comfortable, quenched, satiated, well fed, both literally and metaphorically, have you grown in awareness of your body? Do you feel your being, the organism you are, which hosts a dynamic crossroads of energetics, feelings, emotions, impressions, sensations, understandings, impulses, thoughts, motions and behavioral patterns, in more lucidity than you may have before? Can you pick up on subtle changes in your system? Fluctuations in your biology?

It may be that inhabiting and maintaining a healthy body over the arch of life is less about interventions and more about this kind of automatic awareness and attention. The food you eat is important, but beyond -eat nourishing foods and don’t ingest poisons- there doesn’t seem to be any specific prescriptive diet that solves issues across the board. The body knows what it needs. Similarly, it doesn’t seem any particular routine of exercise can be applied to all humans, and that often less is more, that the more we try to solve our body's problems the worse things get, as we’re adding more baffling and incoherent patterns on top of already disharmonious patterns. Regulation seems to come when we have calm, rest, and space to carry on in a coherent presence with our body and allow it to adjust itself, to be, process, digest. This is essentially, the allowing of life so as to be continually adaptive as long as circumstances don’t require critical response. This is the regenerative baseline which contributes to the “alert calm” wavelength which most animals resonate on, but humans need to be reminded of, a state that will serve us well in 2026 and beyond.

The orthorexic and manic fitness tendencies of the modern moment, as we know run on rails of parallel media forms. The roller-coaster of scriptures, calendars, clocks, radios, televisions, computers and phones which have, over millennia, whipped humanity away from the organic surface of the world and whirled our nervous systems into inability to readily read the field take a manual effort to step aside from and adjust ourselves to living amongst such disregulating forces with some kind of grace. Across all social spectrums this likely swings the scales, and not only will we need to make personal shifts to filter the incendiary hype seeping into our orbs, but also social re-calibrations to organically reconnect us to one another in beneficial or meaningful ways which brings ethics and values into an entirely different focus. For now, we likely go out to come back in.

Meaning, we exit the extinct social order that has accumulated over the past several years, the defunct post industrial societal forms left over from the last 200 years' Earth period, like bombed out shelters of zombified institutions, as well as those warped seemingly progressive contemporary cultural amalgamations of the threshold period between Earth and Air and even early Air, i.e. everything since the internet. We might think of everything we now know of, say for instance social medias, apps, platforms, streaming services and so on, as grotesque prototypes, hideous deformities of human culture, collateral damage of the epoch shift, something to put into a museum and render our gaze upon it in a “how did that happen” type of contemplation to aid us in moving forward.

I’m not saying this as opinion per se, but attempting to hum along with what 2026 and beyond's transits might be singing. Right now we are set to improvise, pioneer, hypothesize, conceptualize, initiate, and enact in a way that makes yesterday’s "new" look quite "old" and move onward towards what we haven’t even thought of yet. This is not even necessarily technological, or at least, it is not about mass media, so it is not technology applied or distributed in the way we are used to, where we are all watching the same leviathan sized world story glob which smothers us asleep. This is very awake. We’ll be looking for things to keep us up to speed. We’ll have to ask ourselves if this ‘performance enhancement’ comes from within, or from external forces, whether this is what augmentation we ingest or what assistance we employ. Leaner can be meaner, but how do we know and where do we draw the line?

Are we choosing to be offline more or are we being corralled off, for now, like we were invited onboard in the past decade and a half? Why then, why now? "Why" is a tricky question, as the reply can’t be a singularity, or else we verge on insane, as in, all the things in the human world: society, culture, power, structure, media, etc, have all lost their center: welcome to the multi-polar we’ve all been talking about since the Saturn-Jupiter conjunction in Aquarius. The sooner we fully integrate a decentralized way of analyzing what’s happening the quicker we’re caught up to speed, even if that doesn’t help us know what exactly IS happening, it instantly reveals what ISN’T. Gone is the performative power of specific cynosures, maybe symptomatic like a mad Earth period hangover, where, hair of the dog, we need political celebrities to focus our enraged confusion on. We are now in an age of networks and syndicates in relationship with each other and innovating to communicate in curious new ways. This includes all kinds of exchange, be they of information or value, and that includes media, as it is a kind of transmission, from sender to receiver.

Knowledge itself, which is information-sensation-intuition-experience all digested into a kind of accumulative understanding, is in a way outside this Airy spectrum. Jupiter’s home signs are opposite Mercury’s and from Cancer, Jupiter can’t see Gemini or Aquarius and is in a bit of an argument with Libra, even when it’s productive. By nature, Aquarius is “conspiratorial”, as it creates networks with like-minded nodes, and so is Pluto, which from shadow moves into the unknown to play power games, and if we want to be with this, to live adjacent to the societal leviathans, the roller-coasters of human invention, in a healthy way and not lose our lunch every other minute as our nervous systems are hurtled about, we in a sense also have to conspire, to “breathe together” with those around us, with our own bodies, with the multiplicities within us, from the community of biological and energetic beings which make up our own organism hosting our spirit outward to the ecosystem at large and the field in general. This is synergic concert, and if we don’t want to be macerated between conflicting forces, whatever they may be, we need to learn both the art of war as well as both passive as well as active collaboration.

This is, partly, at the end of the day, a matter of not running out of energy. They came for your land, they came for your labor, they came for your money, they came for your attention, they came for your intelligence, your psyche, and now they may have come for your energy. In an elemental sense when we say energy we also mean the medium within which your Spirit inhabits and expresses. When the body has. No more energy, the spirit has left the building. Spirit is to fire is to energy as Soul is to water is to emotion and Body is to substance is to flesh and Intellect is to air is to mind and so on. All these dimensions of self and of the world should conspire, should “breathe together”— with Pluto in Aquarius and Uranus moving back into Gemini in 2026, we will be challenged to do this inside and out, and also accept that is simply what is going on at large. The lungs help the heart regulate, and the quality of breath controls the lucidity of mind. Be deliberate.

I’m not on as much as a tangent as I may seem, as this attempt to summarize and synthesize much of the larger astrology we are whirling about within also bears upon what is contained within this particular subjective climax of lunar light. The PGM names this Shape SHEGOAT, but the word in Greek which is translated to that is literally ‘chimera’, let’s call it some ancient slang, and clearly there is more than one meaning as its passed down to us. Chimeras are composite beings, multiple kinds of beasts brought together in one body and able to operate as a single organism. What Shegoat suggests is likely the myth of nymph Amalthea, where infant Zeus was hidden away from his father, baby eating Kronos, and the nymph Amalthea arranges for a shegoat to offer nursing while noisy Korybantes (kind of semidivine, cultic, warrior-shamans) clash their shields and weapons outside the cave hide out blanketing his cries with the heavy racket. The goal is to allow him to grow and mature so he can overthrow his chthonic father and through his divine progeny stabilize the world and stave off the primordial chaos which always threatens to regain hold.

This is perhaps reality’s first psy-op with a behind the scenes resource delivery organized by a shadowed, inter-species cabal for the purpose of a shift in world power. On personal levels this is simply what happens, by hook or by crook, to assure you get the goods and continue thriving, and the semi-symbiotic set up which you find yourself in with whomever is accomplice to your existence. Before geopolitical meddling, let’s call it Venetian, or the dawn of the age of banking, this might have been familial, and before that in the pre-bronze age, whether by time or geography, perhaps tribal.

Picatrix calls this mansion “The Mane”, and sees there a “man riding a lion holding a lance in his right hand, a lion’s ear in his left”. Lion’s are typically the kind of the chimerical chassis, so there’s a hit, and this is Leo, so, but of course. The man adds a bit of combining beings and the lance adds some further augmentation to the equation. This looks like a chimera from silhouette perhaps, which can 'exquisite corpse' easily onto the sigil for the Grimorium Verum spirit which falls into this position, Claunech, who infamously brings riches, treasures, merchandise, wares and wealth wisdom. His Quimbanda counterpart is Exu da Pedra Negra, ‘of the Black Stone’, known for black market activity, the dark rock in the name may also point towards mining, where, as all earth elementals are aware, is how precious gems are found. Indeed, Picatrix elects for increasing allies wealth as well as trade and profit— furthering both the themes of resource delivery as well as conspiring or collaborating with others. Collaboration fits but isn’t conspiring more chimerical?-- as we’re practically sharing body space here.

The talisman is for pride and receiving good, to make people fear and respect you, and gain the favor of kings. Again we’d guess there's Leo influence here, but also the 11th Nakshatra is associated in the Rig Veda with Bhaga, the solar chieftain who is the distributer of goods and resources. The 11th Chinese Xiu refers to rats and tombs, desolate places haunted by ghosts in the wilderness, a place of cemeteries, undertakers, embalmers and mentions retribution from the unsettled qi of ancestors causing events which effect you beyond your control and warns to stay at home, strengthen family ties and protect children. Protect children? Inherited ancestral antagonism? This sounds a bit like Zeus being hidden from baby eating Kronos, his chthonic father, just interpreted from a different cultural context.

Also, opposite SHEGOAT is GARLAND, a Shape explicitly about tombs and the underworld bardo, as well as forms of restriction, or anything you might want to lock up to protect. In part we may be seeing a kind of preciousness hidden in the earth and protected by its crust. This might be personally reflective of what you want to keep in your own safe locked up and hidden at home, such as your inheritance, the family jewels. Bhaga’s associations include both marital and progenitive themes, which are kinds of combining bodies and beings to conspire and thrive. Maybe highlight those last two words, and to reiterate, the struggle or pursuit to collaborate so as to conspire to thrive in a locating of, unearthing and delivery of resources however is necessary against an antagonistic natural force which wishes to consume you and thwart your efforts bringing your reality into a state of uninhabitable chaos.

The order and stability of symbiotic conspiracy versus succumbing to chaotic forces? Thriving against the entropic agenda of the grave? Protecting yourself, and your resources via stealth as well as performing noisy, diversionary subterfuge. Receiving good, increasing not only our own wealth but that of our allies, receiving the favor of those who might be in position to distribute things of value to us. Also, aligning with what is actually of value, so, quality control. Getting downstream of what is nourishing, fulfilling, meaningful rather than toxic and polluting, even when it comes from an unexpected or unfamiliar source.

The world we’re leaving may have more filth than food to offer us at this point. Time to move on. The liminal limbo or purgatory place we’ve gotten used to waiting around in between the past and the future has also dried up in supply. We’ll have to dash to a more reasonable position, and engage on the fly with who we encounter in this yet to be traversed territory. Have your wits about you, people are not necessarily who they say they are. In bygone days you either chose to huddle close to the Institutions en mass, conforming to their strict codes of conduct and don a uniform to be admitted into the fold. If you chose to do otherwise, and make your way out in the unfamiliar and alien elsewhere, eschewing status quo security, you lived off of sheer cleverness, played unscripted, and resourced yourself in a more improvisational way, gaining power by familiarity with the obscure, arcane, interesting, and stimulating cultural experiences which were outside the standard, conventional, limiting and monotonous formats of institutional life.

This of course has all flipped. Modern people adhere to institutional security while simultaneously consuming the fringe cultural forms and exotic locations as wealth validated food stuff, like fetishistic collectors of cultural fragments which were once the mythological expressions of other people’s life fabric, only available by being apart from status quo security and consumerist prioritization.

In classical East Asian medicine it is thought that we are born with an amount of inherited qi which is difficult if not impossible to replenish, and additionally we require qi from food, water and breathing. The only other thing we need to survive is for our Spirit, or consciously-aware-minds, to be able to connect and communicate with other consciously aware spirit-minds. That is, we cannot live in isolation. What inspires us about being alive, being energetically animated and participating in the world, must be expressed to other beings who are in this same condition. If we are going to do this in a way that is healthy and sustainable energetically, we must learn to do so adjacent to the leviathan sized nervous system disregulating roller-coasters of human invention. We must co-conspire in our caves of protection, resourcing from the depths, and away from the noise so as to not be consumed by forces which have zombie-like appetites, or else there is no tomorrow.

Of course there is, in a way, automatically always a tomorrow. Nature will always have her way. But we might think of it as an act of intentional thriving, by being more mindful of what conspiracy you are choosing to participate in, and identifying if this engagement is actually a beneficial arrangement for you.