by Robert Wilkinson
We all know the Full Moon each month is special, where people seem more alive, more emotional, or more generally rowdy than other times of the month, with more parties and festivities as well. It does seem to be a time when our feelings are more aroused in many ways, and so we become more emotionally and mentally alert for signals that let our subconsciousness know we’re on to something.
A Full Moon brings to fulfillment what the seed form in the preceding New Moon promised. It is as though the New Moon shows us the beginning of the planting of the seed, full of darkness, potentiality and promise, while the subsequent Full Moon brings that seed to the surface, showing us an awareness of what is manifest, and what is to come.
The New Moon initiates the activity of the sign of the month representing the seed to be brought forth for that sign for this year, which is ever different from last or next year’s New Moon in that sign. Here the variables include the decan of the sign, the degree of the sign, and the aspects that New Moon makes to all the other planets in the Matrix of the whole Solar System. Each year’s New Moon in each sign offers us a different promise from any other New Moon in that sign, past or present.
Each New Moon chart shows harmonious and disharmonious, specializing and conflicted relationships between the planets. It is impossible that any given moment should be entirely free of conflict, as that is not the nature of life on this Earth at this time in history. The trick is to know how to turn the afflictions to best result, while using the harmonious aspects to further what good is already underway.
The Full Moon brings that seed, that promise, to the surface in a fulfilled form, during the two weeks after that Full Moon. Each Full Moon represents an archetype of some sort, different for every lunation since successive Full Moons fall in a different sign each month, except for those rare Blue Moons, the second Full Moon of a month, that occur very infrequently.
The Full Moon we’re about to experience is one of an unending sequence of lunations, as New and Full Moons are termed. Though it has power and meaning in its own right, it still must be considered in light of the seed that was planted about two weeks ago at the New Moon.
As with New Moons, the aspects each of the lights and planets make at the Full Moon must be considered relative to all the other planets, as well as the planets in the individual chart. Each succession of lunations falls in succeeding houses in the birth chart (unless there is a wide skew in house size due to being born at high northern or southern latitudes), and by what houses they fall in we may know what is accented in our individual lives in the period following the lunation.
So at this Full Moon, remember the New Moon that happened about two weeks ago, and understand this time to come as a fulfillment of that promise. In about two weeks, we’ll experience another New Moon, probably in another sign and house, and again plant the seeds of things to come, realizations that will pull us into our future like a magnetic beam always drawing us onward to our destiny.
Month by month, year by year, the eternal lunations show us the bigger beat we dance to, pulling us onward through the Divine Lela, the play of Spirit in this material world. And sometimes the music is defined as much by the spaces in between notes as what notes are played and when.
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