The Full Moon of Aries-Libra in March-April 2008

by Robert Wilkinson

I just did a fairly good talk on this Full Moon which I'll try to link here in a few days. Until then, a few observations about this Full Moon, the first one of the new Solar year. This is said to be the first of the "3 High Festivals" indicated by the Full Moons of Aries-Libra, Taurus-Scorpio (aka the Wesak Festival) and Gemini-Sagittarius, aka "The Christ Fest."

This Full Moon occurs at 11:40 am PDT on Friday, 21 March, also marking Good Friday and Purim. This Full Moon shows a SeeSaw chart, which continues the polarizing oppositions of Mars with Capricorn planets and Saturn in opposition to Pisces planets. Interestingly, this creates an off-set Rectangle, a configuration indicating we can "turn every knock into a boost," and every opposition has its productivity, understandings, and in this case, high specialization derived from Mercury and Venus in Pisces quintile Pluto.

The Rectangle opposition from Mars in Cancer to Pluto in Capricorn is also very important in the Cardinal Cross made by the Moon at 2 Libra, Sun at 2 Aries, Pluto at 2 Capricorn, and Mars at 7 Cancer. Though the hot spot is 2 Cancer, this one is close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades, as it is said. While T-squares are integrative, Grand Crosses diffuse energies. Think 4 forces each pulling against one other and at odds with two others.

The coming two weeks are directly under the influence of this Moon. It promises objectivity through humor expressed as a knowledge of cycles governing the appearing and disappearing of forms. This will bring a new understanding of cycles that can yield inspiration and a new sense of process.

The Full Moon brings the seed of the New Moon to fruition, and what has been building for two weeks will now be demonstrated into mid-April. The previous New Moon has brought Uranian circumstances forward due to its conjunction with that planet. We have all been challenged to bring forth a new, unusual, or unique form of our Pisces inclinations in whatever life area that sign occupies in our charts.

The past New Moon showed a major biseptile from Mars to the Pisces stellium at the exact void point created by this Full Moon T-square between the Lights and Pluto. This anticipated the current Grand Cardinal Cross. The productivity of this time comes from the Pisces sextile to Jupiter, an influence that will pervade most of this year.

Despite the Grand Cardinal Cross of this Full Moon, this coming period should show progress in the midst of fragmentation, disintegration, and new perspectives arising from giving up a limited search field and gaining elevation in higher dimensions of consciousness. Besides the world heating up again, hitting another turning point in its relationship to violence, it's time to say goodbye to many things, and accept higher responsibilities. We will find that which nourishes as time conditions catch up to us to the degree we have prepared the past two years.

We have all received "a communication" of some sort showing where we need to be obedient. Now it's time to synthesize, putting it all together in a new view. Re-shape your expectations and beliefs as you get a broader, more integrated view of things, figure out basic steps to take to secure what's already in motion, and forgive a lot. It's the end of the end and the beginning of the beginning, so take a deep breath and move into the future with good humor.

Find the central anchor to help you reference your core as many things swirl around, and don't fumble the deep truths you glimpse. Be self-disciplined as you go deeper into your core, maintain self confidence even though it could get weird or obscure at moments, avoid extremes, channel your enthusiasms, and don't get aggravated when too much is going on. Just learn how to extricate yourself from getting overwhelmed by sensitivities, maintain perspective and a balanced point of view, and be dispassionate as you teach from your experience.

This is about knowing how and when to wait in calm confidence, busting any illusions and being willing to face things as they really are. Fortify your bodies and minds with good food and good cheer, get a clear vision of a plan, and get ready to act when the time is right. Spring is here, and we will all find a measure of peace and well-being in the near future.

© Copyright 2008 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Aditya]

Hi Robert, I celebrate my Solar Return in about 7 hours. I feel positive compared to this time last year, thanks to you.

Best regards

[Deborah]

I am a Pisces (born March 12) with the sun, moon and mercury in my 12th house and Aries rising. I, too, have been sick every month this year (which is unusual for me) and everyone around me seem to be having bad luck! I feel things very deeply and am sensitive to other's, but am usually upbeat and have a positive outlook on life. Can you tell me if the rest of the year looks brighter?

[robyn]

you've said the right things, and they've spoken to me.

"its about knowing how and when to wait in calm confidence and being willing to face things as they really are."

[aa]

Hello again! I just left a forlorn post on the 30 pisces message. sigh. but spring has sprung so life goes on! I noticed this full moon is conjunct my natal jupiter at 2 libra. My jupiter is in the 8th and is the apex of a kite/grand fire trine combo (mc/sun/chiron)... Uranus is next door at 1 libra. Do you have any suggestions on the best use of this energy or how it might manifest? thank you again for your sage advice...

[lisbeth]

Hi Robert, I have been reading on this site for a long while; as well you know your spiritual gifts are not only insightful, but so exquisite; praise to your generous heart in sharing them so freely. I don't wish to take up too much of your time, but for a long while, I have been in a stuck position. I hope soon to manifest a new vocation, one that feels to be destiny calling, but there is still much that is not clarified. If you would be willing to shed light on this...I am a Leo sun ( born 3:01 pm August 20, 1954
in Newton, Ma. ), Sag. Asc., with Merc./Leo Mars/Sag. Venus/Libra Jupiter/Cancer Saturn/Scorpio Moon/Taurus..and of course, the outer planets you would already know. I would so appreciate your guidance. thankyou! lisbeth

[Christine E]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for this posting...tomorrow is my birthday so I am extra excited for this full moon!
Peace & Joy

[Henry]

Hi Robert.

My life has experienced a radical change and renewal in just two weeks.
Just awaiting for what's next in the middle of the nowhere.
This Full Moon occurs in my 11th house.
Does this house placement suggest something?, in a simple way -I know there can be thousands of readings-.

Henry.

[Jim Damodara Scott]

Thank you for this clarification. Intuitively I felt a strong astrological significance of this Good Friday falling on full moon, and found you by searching Google. I used to subscribe to Panchang.com, which used to provide daily astrological, personal time forecasts for each day, but unfortunately it has stopped operating, and I miss it at times like this.

[Larissa]

Hi Robert - I need to rbing some clarity in my personal affairs with someone and I would like to address it the sooner the better. Is it a good day today for this? is it a good time to clear it all up? I read it is a Grand Cross and I feel it through my skin. It is overwhelming for me to leave it as it is, because I do feel coerced somewhat by this tension, and it would not be me if i don't address it once and for all. what a heavy day. Should I wait for tomorrow or next week, because things piled up in my head and need to be sorted out with that particular person. Thankyou

[Your Enchanted Gardener]

8:47 AM
March 21, 08

Welcome to Spring 2008 Every Body!
Thanks to Robert and all for lifting my spirit with all this great information.
I did some excerpts on the Plant Your Dream Blog...click Your Enchanted Gardener
in Robert's Artist...column to the right of this page to see!

The Garden is filled with fragrance this morning here in San Diego.
The orange tree is full of blossoms, and the Camillias and nectarine trees
are have their say.

What an incredible weekend with the Full Moon, Purim energy, Easter energies
and Spring Equinox!!! Purim is about getting so intoxicated with Life that
we cannot tell up from down. Good Friday is about moving the obstacles out
of the way and coming into Life. I will be on the internet radio tonight
from the Universal Temple of Higher Consciousness and will refer to some
of the insights from Robert. See link on the Plant Your Dream Blog, 9-11
PST.

Your Enchanted Gardener,
Leslie

[Robert]

Hi Aditya - May the next year bring even greater blessings and positive movement in your life. Even if the Cardinal T/Cross is active, you can find peace and security in multiple realms and do quite well.

Hi Deborah - Your comment inspires me to repost an important article on what you're noting. Look for it in the near future. The future is as bright as we choose to see the light and not the darkness, without being fooled. Difficulties help us overcome old patterns and generate new ones, while fulfilling old karmas so we don't perpetuate them. Jupiter should give ample opportunities to you this year if you're willing to take responsibility to work and generate self-organized behaviors.

Hi robyn - Glad to be of service.

Hi aa - Your Jupiter should acquire a more balanced perfect form expanding your originality and unique genius the next several weeks, revealing a larger process of your own perfection. Renew, regenerate, get a larger view of the interconnections of the process of rhythmic manifestation and dis-integration leading to the next process of perfection.

Hi lisbeth - Thanks for your kind words. You should already be seeing opportunities "at a distance" but readily available. You were done with the old as of last August/September, and since then been learning or relearning what your long range goals really are, figuring out who your allies are, and recently started movement forward. Jupiter will benefit you this year if you get a plan, and by Summer you should be doing just fine. This is the fulfillment of an old vision, and you'll turn to deeper things and a more appealing ideal as of September with a practical understanding of how to engineer it.

Hi Christine - Happy Birthday and Solar Return! Mine's coming soon! You'll get a much wider, more elevated view this year, and succeed in keeping a lot of things going that will be rewarding on multiple levels.

Hi Henry - Your life is going through radical changes lately as a result of ending whatever ended last Summer. You've been finding more your unique expression. Of course the house placement matters; Sun in the 5th is good, and the T into your 8th should boost magnetism for you to capture what you need. Follow through while Mars advances upward, since you begin a way bigger cycle of activity once it hits your Sun and moves into Leo in May-June.

Hi Jim - You're welcome. Welcome to the cantina. This site offers what it can re: what's happening and what we can do to make the best of the tides of time. Please check back in regularly, since I post on all kinds of things.

Hi Larissa - Having been on the road, I couldn't answer you about whether yesterday was good for x, y, or z. I believe you need to be dispassionate and detached regarding anything that seems overwhelming in any given moment, since being overwhelmed is not a good mental or emotional state from which to make important decisions. Start with not giving that person so much power to put you into this state of indecision.

Hi Leslie - Glad I could lift your Spirits, and thanks for the link over at your site. LA was in full bloom, and I have no doubt that San Diego is awesome this time of year, having lived in Encinitas for a couple of years. Keep spreading the light/life, enchanted gardener! The Earth will eventually be restored to its natural beauty once we wake up and do what we must in this "winter of the 21st century" so that life spouts anew in Spring beginning 2025. Until then, we must prepare the ground, get good seeds planted or ready to plant, and keep the weeds from taking over.

[lisbeth]

Hi Robert,
Thanks for your response and confirmation that i am heading in the right direction, i.e., it's been very hard to implement a plan for myself ( although i am ), when the people on the other end of my life-fulfilling dream, at a distance, are not responding..very busy or afraid to trust? Though I do have an opportunity to move to Fla..visit, work, and regroup, for a feeling of renewal I sorely need. Yet, gifts from spirit have been realigning my path ever since i met someone immensely special, in Nov. '05. An experience where inner vision opens up and delivers an incredible vista of possibility that cannot be denied. So I believe my challenge is a matter of perfecting my own magnetism, that should come from a stable plan; it will be so refreshing when practical benefits begin to show! Again, thankyou so much for your response. Wishing you a wonderful Easter! lisbeth

[Larissa]

Hi Robert - THANK YOU!!! Gosh, I needed to hear this so much! I guess my scoprio moon overpowers me, boils... You are wise. and I am naive at times, as much as I am intelligent at work, I am so naive in personal matters so I act on my feelings. I just realized that I have given this person way too much power out of my generocity, I guess. I wish I could have gotten this message earlier, but I am cool now. Thank you.

[dcu]

Hello Robert and family. We had a very sweet Full Moon Group at our home Friday Night. It was very special, as it was the tenth anniversary of our full moon group here in South Dakota. We initiated this group on the full moon of Aries-Libra in 1998. As always, the first article in the packet that I prepare every month for the group readings is by Robert. I just wish he could be here sometimes when my friends read about some aspect and then look at me and say "What does it mean?" (grin)
It seems that the transition into the new age is definitely upon us. I am so glad that better days are ahead. Our glass is half full, not half empty. We also continue to send up prayers for the people of Tibet. Thank you again Robert for your insightful articles that you so freely share. And happy Aries natural new year.
dcu

[Bettyann]

Hi Robert. Did anyone else experience much fatigue just prior to & after the full moon? Saturday I cocooned the entire day just sleeping & watching movies. By Sunday, I started to move about. I'm just really curious.
Libra sun, mercury, venus, mars, neptune & scorpio rising & scorpio moon.

Blessings to you, Robert

[Robert]

Hi lisbeth - Sure. Sometimes people just can't respond for whatever reasons. Other times it's just not the right time. Many are moving now, reorienting for a new long range work. Sometimes practical benefits can only show as a result of our embrace of the unknown, along with patience and perseverance. Thanks for the good wishes.

Hi Larissa - Sometimes it's good to have a buddy to check in with so we don't get too far out on a limb we don't need to be on to begin with. We're all inexperienced in some ways, wise in others. That's why together we're definitely more aware and capable than any of us are separately.

Hi dcu - Great that the Full Moon gatherings continue. I remember the ones in Austin many years ago, so have no doubt that whatever is going on in the Black Hills is also a very good thing. And of course, I'm glad my words can provide guidance and hopefully some inspiration to those who gather in the name of the Earth and all our relations. If I'm ever in the 'hood, I'll definitely check in.....

Hi Bettyann - I'm probably not a good barometer here, since I just got off the road on Friday after 1000 miles in 28 hours and spent all day Saturday resting, which is natural after a lot of miles of hard road.

[aa]

Thanks again for all the light you give and your words of encouragement.