The Sagittarius-Gemini Full Moon of December 2009 - Body Wisdom Moving Us into New Horizons of Development

by Robert Wilkinson

This "Reverse Christ Fest" Full Moon falls at 11 degrees Gemini-Sagittarius, which fulfills the seed of the past New Moon in Scorpio. The Sun biseptile Uranus and Venus biseptile Mars along with Jupiter septile Pluto shows the Grand Irrationality continues in full play the next two weeks, with unique alchemical interactions and major turning points in multiple life areas.

This visionary and expanding Full Moon falls on December 1, 11:30 pm PST, 2:30 am Dec 2 EST, 7:30 am Greenwich. A quick look finds 10 Virgo rising in Santa Monica, 9 Virgo rising in Vancouver, 14 Libra in Washington DC, 7 Sagittarius in London, 10 Sag in Amsterdam, 16 Sag in Berlin, 16 Sag in Tallinn, 11 Capricorn in Istanbul, 9 Aquarius in Johannesburg, 18 Pisces in New Delhi, 20 Pisces in Trivandrum, 18 Aries in Bangkok, 13 Gemini in Tokyo, 26 Aries in Perth, 18 Taurus in Melbourne, and 3 Leo rising on Maui.

Because the New Moon preceding the Full Moon always represents the seed forms that are brought to surface at and after the Full Moon, please check out The New Moon in Scorpio - What's Happening November-December 2009. This can help focus what blessings and seeds are being offered to us in the near future.

This continues a pattern of the recent few months where the Full Moon falls in a different sign than the previous New Moon. This indicates that this 2 week period of fruition of the seeds of the previous lunation in many ways anticipates what is to come.

This phenomenon indicates that what is released as realizations in the Full Moon period actually "prepare the ground" for the coming New Moon seed. Strange reversal of function, since usually the New Moon provides the seed for the next Full Moon. But this works the opposite way.

This Full Moon falls at 11 degrees Gemini and Sagittarius. It is said that the middle third of any sign deals with the social levels of life, and being the second decan of those signs, invokes a sub-influence of Libra and Aries. Since the Moon always focuses the light of the Sun in specific forms, the degree symbols for both are important. The Sun degree is the illumination or enlightenment of the lunation, whereas the Moon shows us the potential forms that enlightenment will take.

The Solar degree Sabian Symbol is "The lamp of physical enlightenment at the left temple." This is a degree of "activity dominated by fate," "power of primordial images of Unconscious," and "influence of social mass upon the individual." Rudhyar says this degree is one of "relying upon organismic responses in meeting life's challenges."

He goes on to state that this phase in the 360 degree cyclic process concerns "the value of the 'return to the body'... in order to balance the stress on intellectuality and objective consciousness." It is a degree of deconditioning our consciousness that is too dependent on intellectual concepts, quantitative values, objectivity, and conformity to cultural patterns.

This is a symbol of enlightenment through trusting our instincts, where forms of ancient wisdom can be seen as primal symbols. Here we may need to pay homage to Goddess energy or the power of Gaia in order to experience our individuality in higher ways.

Dr. Jones says the keyword is RECONCILIATION and when positive it's said to be a degree of "personal effectiveness through an intelligent capitalization on past achievements." So this Full Moon will demonstrate the light of our instinctive wisdom through experimenting in new modes of self expression.

We are told this degree is one of "enlarged understanding" through an inner spiritual outreach where we balance consequences and meanings in our activities and relationships. Here we can see the world as a "laboratory for the soul," providing us with alternative fulfilling realities.

The formula is Manipulating, Practical, Original, Specializing, Spiritual and Experimental. Rudhyar states the degree is in the Span of Receptiveness, in the Individual-Mental level of Abstraction.

The Lunar degree symbol is "A New Path of Realism in Experience." This is a degree where we find a "new vista of concrete, conscious development," "renewed and enlarged opportunities," and must heed "Nature's call for the pioneer spirit."

Rudhyar comments that this phase is where we see "the power and joy of new beginnings," potential areas of new development for "full and effective individualization," and virgin fields of consciousness and activity. Here we show how we have transcended our past and our willingness to rise to some occasion where we demonstrate our ability to master natural or social energies.

Dr. Jones says the keyword is IDENTIFICATION and when positive it's said to be a degree of "effective mobilization of the self's practical resources for the role it must play in daily living." We find it is a degree of "enlarged understanding" and of rewards for trying different ways of doing things. This is a degree of weighing pros and cons and determining values based in their "demonstrated usefulness." Here "selfhood is refined through its constant self-analysis."

The formula is Manipulating, Practical, Ingenious, Specializing, Spiritual and Experimental. Rudhyar states the degree is in the Span of Zeal, and the Individual-Mental level of Discovery.

From these symbols it seems we can see the light of our instinctive wisdom through enlarged experiments in self expression that seem dominated by "fate," and express them in life events showing us that we are separate from our past, or need to leave some element of our past behind. This will express in the ways appropriate to where it falls in our birth chart.

This Lunation will show us what we've cultivated of the energies of last Spring's Christ Fest, when the World Teacher took the Buddha Wesak Fest wisdom Forms specific to the needs of 2009 and turned them into a global spiritual teaching. This is now the reversal of that Lunation, where the Sun illuminates the Christ Fest Moon, and the Moon gives form to the Christ Fest Sun.

Here we solidify a Wisdom-form by what we care about and how we demonstrate it. We can see the light of our group, which will bring forth forms of what we've cultivated. This period will stabilize the new initiatives of the Scorpio New Moon.

As noted earlier, there are several major aspects showing "fork in the road" energies at work. We see the Sun biseptile Uranus, a turning point in our individuation and ways of demonstrating powers we may not have known before now. Venus biseptile Mars is a major turning point for values, desires, and interpersonal relationships, and indicates emergent contacts with our spiritual Brothers and Sisters.

We also have some very favorable configurations, including the Lunation quintile and tredecile the Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune stellium in Aquarius, promising interactive gifts and highly specialized conditions that should be perfect for our specific needs. Show gratitude in all ways and new openings and protection will be yours.

Other stabilizing and harmonizing factors include Moon trine and Venus sextile Saturn, Sun trine Mars, and Mercury sextile the Aquarius stellium. We also find Mercury binovile Saturn, Venus binovile the Aquarius stellium, and Uranus binovile Pluto. The binoviles will help all to find the common base to apparently contradictory spiritual realizations.

Releasing the above energies are Mercury square Uranus and the ongoing Saturn square Pluto, the latter mentioned in many articles over the past several weeks. If you're wondering how the Saturn square Pluto affects you, please check out what I've written up to now about the various birthdays and generations affected by this major aspect in play for many months to come.

The squares release energies, challenge us to "square" ourselves with our true Self, or create friction allowing us to turn critical corners in the areas affected by the square. The Mercury square Uranus will show most dynamically in the areas we have 22-26 Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.

It will obviously most affect those born in mid-March, mid-June, mid-September, and mid-December. This aspect challenges us to bring some form of "genius" or uniqueness to practical usefulness, and move from anticipation to accomplishment without getting lost in theory. Figure out priority of importance, and find integrated synthesized explanations for what's going on.

I cannot elaborate on how all the different aspects will affect each of us. Still, remember the septile series aspects will lead to more radical choices and changes that will propel those areas of our lives into a more defined destiny. Since we have septile series aspects that involve Sun, Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, you may expect strange events in all areas ruled by the first three planets, as well as where all 6 fall in your chart.

Since it is a See Saw pattern, stay centered, and try not to get lost in the margins even while exploring the outer limits of the field. If you find yourself seesawing between views or energies, try to find the way to mediate between opposing views by finding the third or fourth points that harmonize the opposites.

This time expands opportunities to demonstrate recently developed new powers and a new higher order in our life if we have gone deeper into our spiritual practice or found a way to bring more light(ness) to the process. It's time to focus while breaking through unproductive density and inertias as we break through to new duties and responsibilities of Saturn in Libra.

This is opening new energies in our Libra, Capricorn, and Aquarius sectors and releasing powerful Plutonian influences. This is a time of radical emergences and leaving behind old collective influences through significant life re-alignments that can give us higher, broader perspectives once we give up searching in old ways and places.

For astrologers, a final note regarding the aspects finds Mercury, ruler of the Moon, in sextile to Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune. As Jupiter rules the Sun, this provides very productive and inspirational energies to help us make progress wherever these fall in the birth chart. Mercury harmonizes the Mars opposition the Aquarius stellium, which will help us multi-task as we prune back unnecessary ideas and distractive tendencies.

Thus the rulers of the Sun and Moon in Fire and Air work together to build our ability to find productive understanding despite oppositions. Just don't get distracted by getting involved in disputes that don't concern you, refuse everything that is petty or petulant, and show a grand dramatic style if you must convince someone of something.

As with the last several New Moons and Full Moons, this is the final phase of claiming a form of collective power and an enduring vision. We are still growing toward doing a work that will outlive us, so in the midst of the melt-downs, remember this is necessary as a result of prior actions, and is the initial step in expressing your heart.

Say goodbye to whatever is hindering your individuation or courage in focusing your energies to express your Higher Self. Through the light of Divine Magnetism, eliminate whatever you need to in order to set the pattern of regeneration, and express it through adaptable multi-tasking experiments using many different points of view.

The last New Moon has helped us see through forms and understand the structural strengths and weaknesses in various life areas. This Full Moon opens the Adventure of the next step of living new forms, new understandings, and new ways of developing our individuality.

Those who open to a deeper wisdom will find new development. As stated earlier, appreciation and gratitude will go a long way to healing whatever needs healing as we find new ways of seeing our experience and expressing compassion.

Alchemy is in the air. Now is the time to join with our kindred spirits while continuing to leave internal and external limiting factors behind.

© Copyright 2009 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[preencess]

My dearest Robert,
Thank you for shining some lights on whats happening with the planets at this moment in time..am baffled as ever but trying to just playing it cool for now..
Is going with the flow the action needed in this period ?
Hoping to hear from you soonest...
cheers......

[WarriorLady]

"Now is the time to join with our kindred spirits while continuing to leave internal and external limiting factors behind."

Why, yes. Yes it is. I'm not letting anyone stand in my way. Um, peacefully? I won't be stepping on toes, either.

Eh-heh?

Robert, you're awesome.

[Siri]

I am laughing with delight about this. You just described my Thanksgiving weekend perfectly.

Thank you, Robert. For being connected to the Universe and sharing that with us.

[caliban]

This energy's got me baffled today. Oh well.

[ev]

This full moon falls on my 10th -Saturn in Gem. I have a legal case on that date which is expected to be very emotional. thrilling+nervous.

[reefaroundme]

This is an exciting post! Thanks again for all you share with us.

[Anna]

As always, your dissemination of the planetary positions & influences moves the current major dramas of my life from the "huh?" column into the "duh!" column.

As always, I am comforted, relieved and truly grateful for your offering.

Now if only you could do something about the other people involved...
(snort chuckle chuckle)

[lisa]

This is a strange time for my family. My grandmother on my mom's side passed away last month 3 days before her 97th birthday. then, my Grandfather on my dad's side passed away on Thanksgiving Day at age 96. His wife, my grandmother is also not expected to make it for more than a week, since she is in hospice care and just lost her husband (my grandpa) after 0ver 70 years of marriage! Amazing in itself, but can you imagine how it must feel to loose that person who is very much part of who you are?

Anyway, three grandparents in two months is strange is strange,since they were all so healthy up unitl a year ago, when all three of them ended up in nursing homes and having their health decline this fall.

Do you think their age group (all in their nineties) is being affected and taken away from the physical due to any of the aspects going on?
Is there anyone else experiencing multiple losses of people in this age group this fall? Just curious....and deeply saddened by my loss of such strong role models who have been there in my 39 years of existance.

[Valerie]

Hey Lisa, I couldn't help but to comment. Sometimes death comes in three's... old superstition... but really, you know that making it to 90 is a blessing, and then it's time to go. I've known many people who live on and on and suddenly, mysteriously, they go into decline. It just means it's their time. Robert recently said , "Bless the passing" and that's what you should do. You should thank the universe for the chance to know your grandparents, and cherish their memories. I can understand how you feel, truly, because I lost my dog, my mother and sister in a relatively short period of time. They were aged, except my sister, who had a health problem. The age in years is irrelevant. This has been a time of grief but also of development for me. You might take a look at Pluto, Saturn, the condition of your 4th, 8th and 12th houses, or the progressed Moon in your chart... I myself have a lot involving Pluto transits, and the progressed Moon. This is a phase everyone has to go through sometime and it must be your turn. Please accept my sympathies for your loss, and I hope this is helpful.

Robert, please excuse us for digressing.. fine article about the full moon in Sag! Blessings to everyone... :)

[Sue Moon]

Hi Lisa and Valerie,
I experienced 8 deaths in 5 months this past year. Three of them were in their '80's. The rest friends 40-60 range and one stranger floating down the river, who later turned out to be the brother of a friend. Odd energies in '09.
Love your advise Valerie and Roberts too......Bless them and honor their lives here.
These deaths have helped me enormously in the area of "letting go", it just isn't as hard anymore.
So sorry for your deep loss Lisa, big hug.

[Richard Duda]

Hello Robert. Thank you for another wisdom-filled article.

I hope I haven't missed this in your detailed forecasts, but I have a question about what will happen later >>today<< when Uranus stations direct, since if I am correct, there will then be >>NO<< planets retrograde. (!?)

Isn't that super-auspicious or something?

Could you speak quickly to that, please. Thanks.

--Richard

[Damien]

Full Moon hits in my first house of Self. Definitely in need of individualizing. Still living at home and feeling anxiety when dealing with outer world.

[caliban]

Okay then, energy balance didn't work out at all like I expected. Surprise surprise, is that why gemini is ruled by the trickster. huh duh for me too.

[Alix]

Hi Robert!
I'm having this Full Moon happening with the Moon right on my Sun. I'm wondering what that means. There is this person I've been dying to get in touch with again, whose Sun (birthday is tomorrow the 2nd) falls right opposite to mine. We sort of rubbed each other the wrong way a couple of years ago and it was a bit confrontational, not outright aggressive but a bit awkward. This person never left my mind completely though. Apart from the confrontational side of it, there seemed to be a lot of attraction as well, would that be normal because we've got our Sun's in opposition? I don't know if this full moon could mean time is ripe for trying to renew this contact.

[Robert]

Hi preencess - I would say it's more like a leaving behind as we embrace the possible. Like letting go of "nouns" and moving into "verbs" to quote from another stream. Not losing our cool is always a good thing. And of course, the light force wanes in the Northern Hemisphere even as it waxes in the Southern.

Hi WarriorLady - I have found that getting out of my own way is useful to dance into a much freer point of view. And when we dance, sometimes we step on toes, or have ours stepped on. That's when we get to practice forgiveness and decide whether we really want to dance when toes are being stepped on. (And thanks for the vote of confidence!)

Hi Siri - Sure. Glad to be able to articulate things that make for laughter, joy, community, and individual and collective strength. Not a bad gig.

Hi caliban - Sometimes we just have to wait until we get perspective as a result of space of time.

Hi ev - Legal anything is usually a combo of "thrilling + nervous!" Sometimes dominion is a matter of asserting one's authority and experience without yielding to another's agenda.

Hi reefaroundme - You're most welcome.

Hi Anna - Well, I figure we all can know what's up and where to go or not go when there's a mapmaker pointing out the markers. Those "others" who aren't paying attention probably are missing out on something important.

Hi lisa - My sincere condolences on the loss of your grandparents. I had all of mine well into my adulthood. I even had the blessing of being very close to my great-grandmother since she didn't die until I was 25! I had both grandfathers into the 1990s, one grandmother until she was 96 (I was 50!) and in fact, just lost my last surviving grandmother earlier this year a few days short of her 101st birthday. The blessing that old people get from dying is that their world is already gone. Friends gone, old familiar frames of reference gone, old abilities gone, old body, feelings, and mind gone.

My father's mother lived quite a few years after her husband died, and while it disoriented her greatly, it also opened the door for her to move closer to my folks, which meant her grandchildren and great-grandchildren as well. With each loss a gain, each ending an opening, and all that.

It is very difficult to lose several loved ones in a short period of time, but it gives us a chance to remember that death is a part of life, which is why it's important to maintain the love we have for all our relations on as constant a basis as is possible. When I lost about 10-12 loved ones this past Summer in a short period of time, in my posts I noted that was happening to quite a few other people who visit the site. It seems that in the past 6 months many have checked out, from their 50s to their 90s.

There are in fact times when great numbers of certain generations check out. And of course, being in one's 90s when we die is a great blessing of sorts, especially if we are in relatively good health up to that point! As for others experiencing a host of 90 somethings dying, that's probably pretty rare, since how many actually have the privilege of living into their 90s, much less a cluster of relations that old? You are truly blessed, and probably should expect to live quite a very long life, perhaps even 55 more years! Be seeing you when we're geriatrics!

Hi Valerie - You bet making it to the 90s is a blessing! Gotta go sometime, and if we're in reasonably good health, making it to the 90s is great, especially if we get to check out in a minimum of time with a minimum of suffering! The death of elders gives us a chance to claim our place in our ancient lineage that extends back through the centuries, and turn our conditional love into unconditional love. What you offered her is not a digression. Life and death are two things that preempt the playing field. And those in grief must be comforted by those who know about such things.

Hi Sue Moon - Yes, many of us are sharing what seem to be "too many" losses. The enormity of the experience, along with the seemingly constant basis of occurrence, can show us elements of our past that have moved on. This can offer good symbols of how we are in motion claiming new manifestations of those energies.

Hi Richard Duda - You're welcome. In past "Spiritual Astrology" articles I've addressed the phenomenon of the Outer Invisibles going direct and RX at various points, when all, some, or none are one or the other. RX and direct is not about "auspicious." It's about inbreathing and outbreathing, exploring frontiers or reviewing those explorations or using past reflections of explorations to master the future as we make it.

Hi Damien - It should already be revealing new areas of growth and development to you. You'll know more after Mars finishes its dance with these points in April.

Hi Alix - A form of your enlightenment or power should be nurtured during this period. Mars will definitely assist you for months to come since it makes sextiles and quintiles to your Sun. The turning point is between late February and early April at the septile points.

While opposites do attract, they show a dance of conscious polarization where we move the balance back and forth. As each sign externalizes through its opposite, it makes sense that you both are two expressions of a larger axis, or field of energy. As long as dominance isn't substituted for the giving and receiving of love, it's all good.

The one you mention is having a Solar Return, which will re-set his energies for another year. That gives you a good excuse to wish him Happy whatever. Just remember that we all deserve to be courted, and that takes a certain mutual consideration, respect, and friendly intention. When these are not present in both, no healthy relationship is possible. I would say see if there is a potential for a friendship, and then move toward that. By cultivating the friendship, all good things can follow.

[Alix]

Hi Robert,
Thank you for the answer. I've actually felt very fragile and emotional with this full moon, and with a much greater sense of responsibility for just about anything I may cause to happen from now on.
I've sent my opposite Sun a happy birthday, still don't know if he'll respond to that, and how my light with the moon covering it could be affecting him.

[Valerie]

Hi Robert, thanks for your wisdom and perspective! :)

[caliban]

So like Gemini aside, has the archer been eating his spinach or what? Some mighty powerful force behind those arrows. I feel swept into the force. Got myself some spinach to keep up.

[WarriorLady]

You make some fine points.

I dance but don't call myself a dancer. I've danced in crowded spaces without stepping on toes although I have accidentally stepped on toes before. I apologize and give my famous charming smile :)! It works.

[Robert]

Hi Alix - I suspect what you're feeling is more common than we think right now, since everyone I know is going through a similar vulnerability, accompanied by a deepening resolve and clarity about what must change (which brings more vulnerability!) I believe we all need courage right now, given what we know is coming on a collective level for each and all of us. Try not to get too emotionally invested in what is unclear, and regard what you're going through as one more step in coming to autonomous awareness. After all, it's just another experiment in truth.

Hi Valerie - You're most welcome. It's definitely a time that seems both overwhelming and portentous.

Hi caliban - It's definitely a strong time, full of promise but also a need for clear aim. Finality is all around.

Hi WarriorLady - Dancing is great for heart health! And dancing seems to be a key quality of Sagittarius.

[Alix]

Thanks again Robert! I'll pay more attention to where I should put these emotions.