by Robert Wilkinson
The Full Moon at 19 Aquarius-Leo has very favorable aspects indicating steady growth and harmony of understanding across many life areas. Show tenderness, and surrender to your greater purpose for being here. Open to your freedom, let go of rules that keep you up tight, refocus on what you value, and find ways to move with precision into a greater life.
The Eclipses of 2011 indicate that as things continue to shut down in several life areas, we are again on the move. We’ve begun to move into ways to attain a greater freedom and effectiveness through embracing higher roles, and are now stabilizing many things into a steady groove of understanding and accomplishment. We’ve left a lot behind, been educated in basic survival skills, been encouraged to walk the walk, and now can grow into a new law, new vision, and complete our philosophical understanding.
To sum up the major aspect patterns, we have a strong Moon opposition Mercury, Mercury and Sun quincunx Mars and quintile Jupiter, and the usual outer planet activity, including the Jupiter trine Pluto, Saturn triseptile Uranus and quintile Pluto, and Uranus square Pluto. Of note is the the Lunation makes an opposition-quintile-tredecile with Jupiter, promising major harmonized productivity, with some highly beneficial and serendipitous unique circumstances.
Productive areas created by this configuration include 19-22 Aquarius/Leo and 1-4 Taurus/Scorpio. If you have a planet anywhere in these spans, you’re going to find yourself in some highly specialized and favorable conditions. Even if it is very strange, unique, and you wonder if you should take a chance, by all means go for it!
This represents a mobilization that will lead you to your “pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” so please release whatever needs releasing, see how to simplify to substantiate what needs being made real, and open to more intense and ideal life conditions. There are multiple gifts and specialized circumstances shown by this configuration, so go with the flow, even if it’s totally unique and you’ve never quite seen or done it before!
Besides those mentioned earlier, other forming aspects include Mercury novile Venus, Venus conjunct Uranus (out of sign), Sun and Mercury conjunct Neptune (wide, out of sign), and Sun novile Pluto. Mars is very active as it makes a sesquisquare to Jupiter, novile to Saturn, quadranovile to Neptune and tredecile to Pluto. Taken together, some agitation, but overall many realizations coming forth after a time of gestation, while other things are in a holding pattern for a while so that some other things can get done or reworked.
To revisit four big aspects mentioned earlier, we have Jupiter trine Pluto, Saturn triseptile Uranus, Saturn quintile Pluto, and Uranus square Pluto. The first shows that as we keep it simple and steady, we’re going to pierce through the inertia and find ways to overcome preconceptions that allow our genius to come forth. The second I’ll discuss downstream in a bit. The Saturn quintile Pluto will bring forth some very unique insights about the core of things, and the Uranus square Pluto, well…
That square represents the ongoing revolution of our times, with innovations and pioneering energies in conflict with restrictive and controlling power structures. We’ll be dealing with this for a few years, and it promises to make this year and next very “electric and eclectic,” moving the world through a revolution unlike any seen since the 1960s!!
At least Uranus is on a degree of finding a way to identify with a larger life so we can become a potential source of inspiration, so the square can signify our need to grow beyond narrow views through attuning to the invisible helpers that are all around us, and grow into a larger role when we’re confronted by old Pluto roles, coercions, and heavy-handed corrosive behavior. We can use this square in two big ways, both now and into the future.
We can exercise good Pluto function to put the brakes on negative Uranian manifestations, and good Uranus function to put the brakes on negative Pluto manifestations. Look to the harmonizing aspects to each to show which is building and which one is the release point for those energies.
Separating aspects, showing things already happened or accomplished, include Moon quintile Saturn sesquisquare Uranus, Mercury just finishing the Superior Conjunction with the Sun, tredecile Saturn, semisquare Uranus and novile Pluto, Venus novile Sun, opposition Mars, quincunx Saturn, and binovile Pluto, Sun tredecile Saturn and semisquare Uranus, Jupiter opposed Saturn, and Saturn trine Neptune.
Overall the separating aspects indicate we’ve just gone through a time when we had to use unique interactive conditions to come to a philosophical completion while closing out an old law in our lives. Many things can now be seen in their true nature after a period of waiting, and we’re now done with the “wet blanket” of Jupiter opposed Saturn challenging us to find creative challenges while not getting discouraged. Saturn trine Neptune should have helped us come to harmonious completion of certain relationships and ideals, where we could understand a new life standard we could live up to in the future.
Remember that the qualities of the Full Moon express whatever new directions we were shown at the previous New Moon. You will recall its theme is turning away from false roles, or socially determined behaviors that are not true for us at the root of our being. We’ll all begun to enter an “unknown zone,” where our minds will be introduced to the Soul realm.
This is a period that represents a “cosmic visitation,” where we need to find humor, objectivity, and a sense of who we are within a larger “light field.” We’re now in a period of receiving rewards for our courage, completing a larger understanding of a new set of standards to live by, and learning to attune to our invisible helpers so we can find non-linear means of communicating “at a distance.”
Here's more about the seeds being release by the current Full Moon. Briefly, from the New Moon article covering this period,
… the New Moon in Aquarius indicates we need to renounce old social roles, and step into a new individuality by reclaiming something of ourselves we lost while trying to play those roles. We can still get a tremendous amount of work done, as well as embrace "a cosmic visitation" that shows us the way to greater practical effectiveness and stability. This could describe the coming Year of the Water Dragon!...This New Moon in Aquarius will help us see a greater way to contribute to our society or culture, and provide power, even if it seems a bit unbalanced. This can help us figure out what the recent Sagittarius Eclipses and the follow up Capricorn period were all about, and shows us things to come in as we resume our path to a greater stability, harmony, and understanding of the new standards we aspire to live. Based in what decans the planets are in, it'll be a time of very action oriented spiritualizing and harmonizing understanding.
The Light of this New Moon shines on a greater ideal of group work or larger service, with tremendous growth through seeing how the past has fed this future, and reclaiming the power of timeless knowledge and wisdom as conditioning forces giving us a vaster perspective on what we're here to do. There is tremendous potential for coming to a clear understanding of how to make things work on practical levels, so keep it organized and balanced and you'll receive rewards for your courage in seeing the broader context of your life mission and executing what it takes to move toward that vision, or move that vision forward.
A little more:
…. due to two very powerful Earth trines and a very powerful Air trine, we can be educated by practical and efficient actions over the next 4 weeks, leading us to a new sense of our connection to allies, ideas, and a better set of life standards. Find balanced perspectives that help you come to philosophical completions, and continue to organize your efforts in ways that help you to secure your future and ensure the outcomes you desire.…. we've been looking for our place of greater service, let go of lesser duties and limitations, and found what we care about and a new heart strength to execute it. Recent unique insights put us at forks in the road of our relationships so we could make them more productive. It's definitely been a time of changing ideals for many.
So we enter a time of leaving behind old roles, old limitations, old duties, and old loyalties where we can step outside of old ways of life and reorient toward a more genuine set of loyalties and roles. Here we can act on and of our own authority to leave behind what we want and claim what we want regarding our larger group work and individual responsibility. Here we can do what we need to turn away from a false life, false dedications, and false relationships so that we can do our thing on our own terms with courage that at the very least we're reclaiming something genuine.
(By all means please check out both articles these are lifted from, since there’s a lot more I didn’t include here.)
This Full Moon chart shows a "See Saw" Jones pattern, defined by the Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries and Taurus energies on one side opposing the planets occupying Virgo and Libra. (As an aside for astrologers, it would be a Locomotive except that the span between Saturn and Pluto is very large.)
Where a SeeSaw pattern is present, stay focused and balanced at the center while taking note of the periphery of things, and don't get off on a tangent or limb. This offers a need to be able to see both sides of any given thing, especially where there are opposing trends or views. The strength is in an ability to triangulate to angles of approach beyond the polarity that allows for progress and understanding.
The separating Saturn trine Neptune should have brought us all a general harmony between current structures and larger ideals. This is where maturity, organization, patience, and some balanced calculations have helped us construct long term visionary plans that we'll be working on, with, and through between now and November 2012. Being in Air signs, we’ve all being educated in some realm of understanding, interpretation, proportionality, synthesis, and a larger sense of a higher standard we’re here to live.
The ongoing Jupiter trine Pluto continues to help us all move forward in simple, straightforward ways into a more enjoyable and stable life wherever it falls in our charts. This is definitely a “full speed ahead” type of aspect, and these two trines will make life fairly harmonious despite the impending tension of the Uranus square Pluto!
The December Eclipses indicate we’ve launched into a new collective vibe and adventure in deeper and vaster consciousness, and are now at the threshold of moving forward into clearer individuality, knowing who we are, ready to show up and do the next life chapter. We've all emerged from our cocoon, leaving old forms of protection and finding new ones, and growing in foresight to anticipate what's coming and imagining "future forms of supply."
As I've mentioned in other Lunation articles, a major factor in this season is that Neptune now stands on "the cusp of the Age." It’s now moved forward from its stationary direct transformational degree of 29 Aquarius where we have been collectively transfigured. In recent weeks it has occupied 30 Aquarius, a degree where we can see how our individual Light is part of a vaster “Light Field.”
Neptune has now just re-entered Pisces, which has major implications for humanity as a whole. I’ve discussed this phenomenon of Neptune dancing back and forth between early Pisces and late Aquarius in previous articles, opening the collective consciousness to the energies of this transitional period, this “time cusp” between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius.
In the larger precessional Age, our world is at 1 Pisces right now. Thanks to prior transits of both Neptune and Chiron to this degree, many of us have collectively awakened to a vast connectedness with all Life and all Time. This degree is one of joyously rallying as we begin the closing of a long cycle. Fairness is paramount in all dealings, and with Saturn in Libra, the scales are weighing many things right now.
Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, points out that the first degree of Pisces, the degree of Neptune in this Lunation and "the cusp of the Age," is "a symbol of full maturity in (humanity's) social estate, with an emphasis on the group integrity" facilitating each to develop their special patterns. This degree is about a willingness for each of us to do our part in the larger "common ideals of a community life."
Here we refine our ambition through "a consistent generosity toward the aims of others with a real intensity of effort directed toward its own ends." The keyword is COMMERCE, and when positive, this degree "is an exceptional capacity for organizing the converging and conflicting interests of many people in practical arrangements of mutual benefit."
So this is where humanity as a whole is at right now. I believe we will finally enter the Age of Aquarius sometime between 2045-2070, when we all will see the concrete manifestations of Aquarian patterns that were awakened by Uranus and have been dreamed into collective consciousness by Neptune during these planets' movement through late Aquarius. (Please also check out part one of that series since it elaborates on the transition between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius.)
Saturn and Uranus rule the Sun in the Lunation, while the Moon is ruled by the Sun, since it’s in Leo. Saturn triseptile Uranus shows the backdrop of the Sun is that the Light in each of us is at a critical fork in the road of Destiny, and we’re learning how to reach out to pioneering cooperative collective endeavors that will soon take flight. This triseptile is very important to the Lunation, and shows we can move through interactive forks in the road of destiny and find ourselves in some pioneering endeavors if we are blending our Saturnian and Uranian functions.
The Sun makes only separating aspects to its dispositors. That shows past events were highly specialized and uniquely interactive while also simultaneously productive of internal crises of change related to the past giving way to the almost future. As the Sun just completed the Superior Conjunction with Mercury, we now enter another phase of the Mercury-Sun cycle, preparing for Mercury to begin slowing down as it prepares to go retrograde in a few weeks.
The Moon, ruled by the Sun, is locked in tight to the opposition to the Sun and Mercury, showing we should be able to get ideas about how to release ourselves from old socially rigid habits while seeing clearly how to rise to the occasion that will reveal our stature and accelerate our ascendency to a different plane of functioning. It also makes all Solar aspects more important to how the Moon functions over the next two weeks.
In this Lunation chart, Venus and Jupiter are major players in this Lunation, as they are in Mutual Reception and the final dispositors for all the other planets except Neptune, also in Pisces. Venus is at 30 Pisces, the degree of the archetype and the dreamer who sets new laws, worlds, and manifestations into motion. When you’re done with this article, please go to 30 Pisces – It’s Time To Visualize Your Heart’s Desireas it covers some of what this important degree is about, when it’s been activated in the past, and contains a link to the original long article where I elaborate on the importance of the ability to construct thought forms when this degree is active.
To sum up, this Lunation gives us both a look back and a look forward. Just be careful and precise in naming the future you want to see made manifest, since the next two weeks sets many patterns that will play out through early April, due to Mercury’s transit over this degree multiple times in March and April.
Over the next two weeks, we can get a sense of a bigger picture and a more enjoyable way to live our lives, as well as find a freedom in newer, creative, playful, and/or loving relationships. Many will find their “pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” seeing how previous care expressed in “the garden of life and personality” last Autumn is now bringing rewards and a greater stability and sense of ease in doing important core activities.
Here we can shape the tenderness we’ve been feeling and demonstrating the past two weeks and through surrendering to the future already showing itself, will find a deeper and more straightforward sense of purpose. By using the deep compassion and intuition of Venus at the last degree of Pisces conjunct Uranus at 3 Aries, we can both sense and see the larger life we should be moving into, so that we can become a source of inspiration in some important area of our lives and relationships.
All in all, the next two weeks should show the appearance of techniques of managed energies within some group activity focused through techniques of releasing old patterns and demonstrating newer ones. This is a time to revisit the effectiveness of how we express ourselves through sharpening our sense of what we’re dedicated to, what standards we venerate, and how to synthesize the past into a clear vision for the future.
We continue to be in a time where we can come to a balanced understanding leading to a greater vision of how we can serve the better interests of a larger reality. The powerful beginnings of March through May 2011 that began to be solidified in May have now established peaceful, gentle wisdom patterns that can slowly and steadily bring us to whatever we need to confirm to anchor a new truth and future.
If you’re interested, here are all the articles about the recent Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse, so you can refresh yourself about energies active between early December 2011 and late March 2012.
© Copyright 2012 Robert Wilkinson
with this post you have indeed touched my heart. thank you Robert. mary
Posted by: mary streets | February 08, 2012 at 07:27 PM
Glad to see you are in good form. Hope your health is also getting there.
Thanks for the light shared.
Posted by: Nicolas | February 09, 2012 at 03:26 AM
Your astrological information is great, Robert, thank you. However. One can not control thought forms, but one can participate with an outcome. The outcome is a trajectory of purpose, intention, and perception. It is perception through which we interpret the outcome. The only thing we can ever truly control is ourselves, or not. And, if there were such a thing as "controlling thought forms", there would only be one of us left. To believe that one can control the relationship is a delusion of power, is it not?
Posted by: Cheryl Ramcharan | February 09, 2012 at 06:16 AM
Hi Mary - Glad it resonates. May the best come forth.
Hi Nicolas - Yes, well, I suppose I'm just too ornery to stay down for long!;-)
Hi Cheryl - (I suspect this belongs in the article on Prayer, Meditation, and Thought Forms, but I'll answer it here.) Well, yes, we DO and must "control" thought forms, lest they take shape in ways that are not good for us or another. That's why a sloppy affirmation creates wreckage rather than what we intend. The outcome occurs whether we perceive it or not. That's why precision is important. It's not a delusion of power to take responsibility for our part of how any active intention, desire, and thought will be made manifest. While we cannot "control" how another will behave, we must take full responsibility for what we generate or set into motion. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" of Fantasia fame springs to mind. Don't set a magic mop and broom into motion unless you know how to stop them.....
Posted by: Robert | February 09, 2012 at 06:42 AM
Robert, thank you for your reply. Control and responsibility are two different terms with two different meanings. And, how does one take control of the "wreakage" effect upon another?
Posted by: Cheryl Ramcharan | February 09, 2012 at 09:52 AM
I have no other possibility than just watch what happens around me. Maybe seeing, listening and reading is the best action at the moment for my part. This "fenix" hopefully have all this Dragon Year 2012 to plan next step. As long as I can take care of myself....
Progressed new moon of mine is after a year, in leo and 11th house; new Dreams - new way of life. :)
Posted by: helinä | February 09, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Letting go of "The Old Story" so we can start to live "The New Story"
Posted by: Damien | February 09, 2012 at 03:01 PM
Robert does this one affect me if my ac it at 23 d 37? by chance
cause it feels like it
Posted by: Micheline | February 14, 2012 at 06:19 AM
Hi Damien, really like your comment. I so grok it.
Sometimes the pain of the last several years descends upon me like a nebulous cloud, but that's about all it is and it seems to dissolve upon my awareness of it before it overwelms me.
To the New Story. Cheers! :D
Posted by: caliban | February 20, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Hi Cheryl - We can only do as we must do to avoid or prevent abuse. Sometimes our actions do wreck the plans or intentions of another. Then we have to examine the assumptions, and see if they were warranted. If we thoughtlessly wreck another's life, it's one thing. If we are striving to bring forth a better life for ourselves and it wrecks the plans of another, then why is that the case? We can only take responsibility for our part in letting them assume something that led to the wreckage. And sometimes things get wrecked whether we have anything to do with it or not. Some plans can never succeed, regardless of another's assumptions or co-options.
Hi helinä - Well, I'd like to think that as conscious Agents of Spirit, we can do more than watch. You're right in that often listening, reading, contemplating are the best actions in a given moment. Enlightened self-interest is always a factor in the best way to take care of ourselves.
Hi Damien - As long as it's not "meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." On the other hand, often we confront situations akin to Putney Swope - "You don't want to rock the boat. Rockin' the boat's a drag. You sink the boat...." Then I suppose the trick is to learn to walk on water, and not fall into Peter's doubt and fear. New Stories and new myths for New Eras! Time to get beyond the old Adam and Eve myth.
Hi Micheline - Yes. It falls in your 6/12 axis.
Hi caliban - Ahah! A Water Brother/Sister! The pain of the past is a distant memory almost from the time we know it's there. And shining a light on our suffering usually makes it dissolve quickly, since that which suffers is without any eternal substance. To New Stories indeed!
Posted by: Robert | February 20, 2012 at 10:34 AM