by Robert Wilkinson
The Full Moon at 17 Taurus-Scorpio has a lot of aspect activity, with a mix of harmonious, frictional, and specializing activity that will expand some things, bring a death blow to others, and offer some extraordinarily serendipitous gifts and circumstances. Sun conjunct Jupiter with a few tredeciles promises a new day is dawning, so stay open to unusual opportunities and interactions!
As I told you last month, this period through August promises some major activity related to last June’s Gemini Solar Eclipse. A very heavy influence that has shown us the way to free ourselves from the ghosts of the past, I gave you a link at the end of part 1 of these Full Moon articles.
Please check it out if you want to know what energies will dominate the next 3 months thanks to Venus and Jupiter. Jupiter will also play a very heavy role in the coming Solar Eclipse at 1 Gemini in a couple of weeks, so expect a roller coaster ride that could be very fortuitous for many of us!!
In 2011 we had opportunities to embrace a greater freedom and effectiveness in new life roles, and are now stabilizing many things into a steady groove of understanding and accomplishment. Though we’ve left a lot behind, we’ve also seen a new vision, and are now completing our philosophical understanding.
Forming aspects show things to come, while separating aspects show things in the past. At this Full Moon, all the planets make some very important forming aspects which indicate a period of specialization, protection, opportunities, and as I noted, some very unique gifts and circumstances that will be extraordinarily favorable for those who have gone through their crises with courage, determination, clarity, and kept their good nature.
The Moon biquintiles Venus, quintiles Mars, opposes Jupiter, and septiles Pluto, while the Sun tredeciles Mars, conjuncts Jupiter, and noviles Uranus. This sets up a period of powerful and beneficial expansions and opportunities, with some very unique and favorable circumstances and ways to fulfill the promise with efficiency and centeredness.
Among those benefited are charts with planets around 11-16 Aries, 16-20 Taurus, 23-28 Gemini, 28 Cancer- 2 Leo, and 5-10 Virgo, 10-14 Libra, 17-22 Scorpio, 22-26 Sagittarius, 29 Capricorn- 3 Aquarius, and 4-8 Pisces. As you can see, these zones affect everyone on Earth to some degree, depending on where your outer planets are. In any case, gifts, unique circumstances, and very favorable interactions are on the way if you have any of these zones active in your chart!
The Moon is triggering the Grand Irrationality due to being in the Scorpio zone and septile Pluto, even though it is out of orb to Neptune. As it was just recently triggered due to the Sun’s transit through the Aries zone, and will be in full play most of the Summer due to transits, please re-visit what I’ve written about this long wave irrational phenomenon affecting everyone on Earth for years to come.
Other important forming aspects in this Lunation include Mercury tredecile Pluto, Venus trine Saturn, quintile Uranus, and tredecile Neptune, Mars semisquare Saturn, quincunx Uranus, and trine Pluto, Jupiter semisquare Uranus, binovile Neptune, and sesquisquare Pluto, Saturn sesquisquare Chiron, and the looming intensity of Uranus square Pluto. Overall, stabilizing, specializing, annoying, and showing inner crises around dying forms and emergent individuality.
Mars quincunx Uranus indicates adjustments in methods of how we live life on multiple levels, with productivity around seeing how unconscious or subconscious factors are involved in our interactions, seeing what has to be eliminated and/or regenerated, so that a new freedom, a new cosmic emanation can come forth, freed from old conditions, rules, inertias, and limitations. This will take very clear shape beginning early September, and will dominate the entire period from then through August 2013.
Through Venus trine Saturn we are seeing how to open to many ways of interacting with others with choice and clarity of sight due to how we’ve integrated the many facets of our lives. This will be very harmonious for those with planets between 20-30 degrees of Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. Mercury is very supportive here, and being the dispositor of Venus, shows that much that we’ve been waiting for since April 2011 is now on the move.
Mars trine Pluto continues to show us how to achieve a lot with efficiency and precision. A new quality of being is being revealed at present, enabling us to be of greater service to humanity in our own gentle and simple way. This will be very harmonious for those with planets between 4-14 degrees of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces. This will make it easy to use “the in-between” times effectively, so that no time, energy, or money need be wasted as long as there is no fear and we pay attention to details.
Mars semisquare Saturn brings a death blow to the old Mars-Saturn cycle forms, and prepares us for the new duties and responsibilities on the way commencing at the next conjunction in August at 25 Libra. Of note is that Saturn in this chart is on that exact degree, so whatever we learn from Saturn the next two weeks is showing us basic structures of what everyone will be learning for the 2 years between Summer 2012-Summer 2014.
Jupiter semisquare Uranus is the first “crisis of emergence” for the new individuality we’ve all been trying to get a handle on since Jupiter conjoined Uranus in June 2010. With Jupiter also sesquisquare Pluto, this will trigger a lot of octile series points, creating a lot of friction and/or agitation for those with planets around 5-12 Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, as well as 20-27 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius.
When you compare the other degree zones heavily activated by these aspect series, it would seem the coming two weeks will be very unique, one of a kind, with some dramatic twists and turns, more than a few crises, but with a lot of harmony, clarity, and many gifts. Still, Uranus square Pluto is bugging everyone with a very heavy vibe, so decrease nervousness, eccentricity, temperamentalism, and extremism whenever these show up.
More on how Uranus Square Pluto Is Ramping Up Radical Energies!
As I’ve told you, we’re all learning to manage the “out of control” energies of Uranus square Pluto. I’ve discussed this aspect at length over quite a few articles in the archives. Use the site google box to find out more about this years’ long disruptive revolutionary influence. Welcome to the 21st century of upheaval, transformation, and titanic collisions between a new world being born and an old age that’s digging in even as it’s dying.
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!!
Uranus is on a degree of us seeing how to live on multiple life levels and find fulfillment and even happiness in multiple ways and dimensions. It is showing we can live in the world of duality and find a lot of awareness from all the facets of our life, regardless if these work together smoothly or not.
Like the last one, this Lunation will definitely free us from old limitations and roles so we can express more cosmic or universal truths and values by seeing our challenges as “character building” exercises where we protect what needs protecting and tame what needs taming. Still, we will find a sense of relief as we do this, as well as see our lives as a continuity of being perfected to manifest something of social value.
Uranus square Pluto will show us how to embrace the invisible world and get rewards that we don’t need to “earn,” while still challenging us to get beyond fear, see things from the past differently, and find relief through expressing the Higher Self that’s been “cut and polished” in past months. We can 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. As noted, through the harmonious Mars trine Pluto, we can see how to “cut to the chase” through efficient functioning.
Separating aspects, showing things already happened or accomplished, include Moon tredecile Neptune, Mercury sextile Venus, opposition Saturn, septile Neptune, and semisquare Chiron, Venus decile Sun and biseptile Chiron, Sun quintile Neptune and trine Pluto, Mars biseptile Jupiter and opposition Neptune, Jupiter triseptile Saturn and quintile Chiron, and Saturn quintile Pluto.
Overall the separating aspects indicate we’ve just gone through a productive time when we got some very timely intuitive flashes, or insights into the collective consciousness. While the separating Mercury opposition Saturn did give people a hard time (through pessimism or overly controlling situations), it also helped open a time of preparing to enter a new world, and anticipate powers and skills that are yet to mature at present. Still there were many gifts, major choices made at critical social turning points, and on the whole we’ve been “shown the way” and now just need to “let go and let God.”
So Just What Was the New Moon Theme for this Period?
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 that we have entered revolutionary and exciting new life conditions, where many will have some form of “cosmic visitation” and the Grand Irrationality is on the move! Venus has been very powerful the past two weeks, and shows us the way to adapt pleasantly so we can integrate a lot in “the upper chamber of our consciousness.”
Here's more about the seeds being release by the current Full Moon. Briefly, from the New Moon article covering this period,
Over the next 4 weeks, the New Moon in Taurus indicates we will all get a “cosmic visitation” wherever we have early Taurus in our charts, and need to communicate with others to compare and contrast our experiences. It’s a time that will bring us all to major turning points in our lives due to two powerful septile-driven configurations, one of which involves the Grand Irrationality. Have faith, since this New Moon promises some great things!... the next 4 weeks will be filled with innovations, renovations, and revolutionary ideas and perceptions that help us synthesize much that’s been awakened over the past two years. This will open our imagination while showing us how to live our lives on multiple levels simultaneously and “find fulfillment and happiness” in various realms of life.
Overall, the general theme is that... we can expect a lot of stabilization and/or harmony in practical matters, where things that have been on hold for several months… can now move forward according to plan... when we combine faith with practical works and can accomplish a lot while having a fairly good time of it!
... this will bring cosmic influences into clear focus, helping us be practical in executing plans we’ve formulated these past several months, and move beyond old fears... through imagination we may be able to envision higher and wider dimensions of vision, effectiveness, and personal evolution helping us get a jump on new ways to dance with this highly volatile global energy...
The primary lessons of Mercury square Pluto involve integrating potentials as we see them apart from limiting conditions, and not letting other people’s negativity or narrowness distract us so we lose our sense of balance and proportion. We must learn to order things our way, find new revelations and discoveries, and be truly independent in our judgments.
A little more:
This New Moon falls at 2 Taurus, “An electrical storm.” ... According to Rudhyar this degree is one of “A sensing of the power and wonder of nature’s forces,” “complete transformation of the implication of all being,” and “Awe.”In the Astrological Mandala, he says this degree involves "the cosmic power able to transform all the implications of natural existence.” He states that “Back of every natural self-expression stands the tremendous power of the ‘Soul field,’ itself but one of the myriad aspects of the Creative Word that is the origin of this universe.”
He offers that from time to time this power awakens our consciousness and personality to accept “the spiritual potentialities of our ‘higher’ celestial Destiny.” This is a degree of a “cosmic visitation” that will affect us in the future, working itself out wherever early Taurus falls in our charts.
We are told it falls in the span of Experience and it’s the second degree of the actional level of the scene of Substantiation in the Act of Differentiation. So for the next 4 weeks this Lunation will teach us how to be moved into greater clarity around our resources, values, material things, and be awakened to a higher Destiny, or at least a greater practical spiritual effectiveness.
According to Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, this degree is a symbol of our “real power for making an effective impact on events, dramatized… by a completeness of (our) inward self-mobilization.” He states that ”here there is a catharsis… mirroring the capacity of every individual for discharging the whole complex of strain in (our) affairs... clearing the way for a more genuine progress ahead.”
He says that this is a critical moment, due to the “terror in the loss of aplomb whenever human personality rises to a moment of union with the universal forces.” He offers us the keyword of TRANSFORMATION. He states that when operating in a positive manner, this is a degree of our “genius for dramatizing both the values at hand and the potential ahead.”
So we enter a time of major transformational experiences which will be productively stabilizing and harmonizing as our personality witnesses something of our higher Destiny. While this may produce crises, the overall lesson is to overcome any lurking fear, and greet crises with harmlessness and kindness. We will certainly get to the core of many things, and any plans we have should be able to executed with precision, good timing, and simplicity.
(By all means please check out both articles these are lifted from, since there’s a lot more I didn’t include here.)
Like the last Full Moon, this chart shows a “Splay” Jones pattern, defined by the strong clustering at odd angles of the planets in the chart. This forces us to adapt, and stay centered despite the disparate influences swirling around us. Just remember that some things won’t blend well, and are only present because we are diverse people with diverse interests.
The November-December 2011 Eclipses indicate that over the past several months 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 close to "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, and is now at 3 Pisces where we can glimpse the indestructible elements in our existence.
Neptune in very early Pisces 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. This happened throughout 2011 into early 2012.
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."
Neptune first camped out on this degree from April through July 2011, and made it a “hot spot” through going stationary RX there in early June 2011. It then moved across that degree in February 2012, making it significant in the New and Full Moon charts for that month.
It will retrograde back to 1 Pisces in late September 2012, go direct on that degree in mid-November, and continue to occupy 1 Pisces until the end of December 2012. So besides the long range activation of the point via Neptune going stationary RX and direct there, it also played a big part in the 2011 Summer Solstice chart and will be active in the coming 2011 Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice charts.
So 1 Pisces describes where humanity as a whole is at right now in terms of the larger evolutionary arc between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius. 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.)
Venus and TransPluto rule the Sun in the Lunation, while the Moon is ruled by Mars and Pluto. Venus is preparing to go retrograde, while TransPluto has just retrograded back into late Leo. This shows a productivity between the worldly ruler and the spiritual ruler of the Sun, giving the Light of this Lunation a Gemini-Leo backdrop. There will be many forms of integration that will affect the illumination potential of the next two weeks.
The barely separating quintile between Venus and Mars shows a specializing harmony between the worldly rulers of this Full Moon, and the ruler of the Sun about to go retrograde indicates that much light will be found by looking back over recent Venusian developments and experiences. Other than this, there really isn’t much contact between the worldly and spiritual rulers of the Sun and Moon.
The Moon, ruled by Mars and Pluto, shows that the Lunar “gestation of the God within” theme has as its backdrop the highly practical effectiveness of Mars trine Pluto, showing a fundamental harmony and stability in how each functions. This will help the Moon express itself very harmoniously, and the Lunar biquintle to Venus and quintile to Mars helps link both to activate three points of a Great Quintile, or 5 Pointed Star. Most likely to receive gifts and special conditions are those with points around 15-19 Scorpio, 27 Capricorn to 1 Aquarius, 9-13 Aries, 21-25 Gemini, and 3-7 Virgo (as noted earlier in this article.)
In this Lunation chart, apart from the solitary final dispositor of Neptune in Pisces, we have a “Mutual Reception” that governs the rest of the planet. Mars in Virgo is disposited by Mercury in Aries. This “Mutual Reception” is strong, but as it makes no major or even minor aspects, it seems that the various planets will all operate against the backdrop of these planets as they are aspected by others. Faith in overcoming forms of duality to achieve mastery is one major theme of this Lunation, so take heart, move through the dualities, and even if some things don’t blend well together, don’t worry or sweat the small stuff!
To sum up, this Lunation gives us a chance to find tremendous power by releasing whatever past patterns we no longer have to fear or even anticipate living with, and find a much greater harmony in knowing we’ve made it through our crisis and now will receive messages from Spirit confirming we are in fact living a new day and a new life. This is the time to stop searching, and mobilize to embrace a new way to live, or a new place to live, or a new face to show the world.
Keep executing the long terms plan with efficiency and an eye to details. Get beyond fear, learn how to be more “harmless” in your interactions, and you’ll experience a new quality of being which will render the old patterns obsolete while giving you insights into why some things have become chaotic. This is the threshold of a newer, wider, more global dedication and/or role to play, and now is the time to carry things through to completion, seeing the power in releasing the old to find harmony and power in the new.
All in all, the next two weeks should show us how to anchor a new life adventure and/or set of values while mobilizing our Higher Self to break free of the inertias of past patterns. We’ve all been through a “trial of endurance” that has tested our strength of character. Now we get to integrate the lower vehicles into the Higher Self, while seeing a solid balanced understanding of how we can use a greater vision to serve the better interests of a larger reality.
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 last then 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.
Keep reaching out to allies with whom you could build a new future and a new collective reality. The repair and reconstruction work we’ve been doing the past few months will begin to yield results over the next few months, and much that’s was hanging undone in the first three months of this year is now moving forward with precision and efficiency.
Fully embrace your power to surrender to a greater life now that your crises are done, see the indestructible elements of your deepest connection to Spirit and humanity at larger, and heal into your Higher Self by seeing what you’re dedicated to, how you’ve heard a call, and have recently dumped all that was unnecessary to quicken your ability to achieve some goal. This will show us a larger integrated vision, show a path to a greater intellectual and practical harmony of function, and show us how to use a gentle grounded sense of humor and vision to achieve a more powerful way of doing our Being.
Get to the core of things, keep working the plan that you set into motion a few months ago, and let go of all that isn’t you, opening to a new pulse from Cosmos that shows you how free you are from past patterns. You have nothing else to lose but your fear.
For more on the Grand Irrationality, please check out:
21st Century Astrology – What is the Grand Irrationality and Why is Everything So Strange?
Here's part one of this "Wesak Festival Super Full Moon" with the extraordinary Sabian Symbols this one features -
© Copyright 2012 Robert Wilkinson
I'm in such great admiration for your words, Robert. Tonight Jupiter conj my AC and I feel so blessed to release and renew. You have been a consistently good light to me, like the super moon. Smiling-out-loud : )
Posted by: jan | May 07, 2012 at 08:26 PM
"Let go, let God!"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpOW4LLRRTA
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"No longer can I resist the guiding light
It gives me the power to keep up the fight
God...thy will be done
Since I have found you my life has just begun
And I see all of your creations as one
Perfect complex
No one less beautiful or more special than the next
We are all blessed and so wise to accept
Thy will love be done..."
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Tags: Uranus square Pluto, Persephone, Divine Mother, Parvati.
Posted by: Sagars | May 07, 2012 at 10:37 PM
Jan, "smiling -out-loud", SOUL!
(as compared to laughing-out-loud)
I was drugged on to Aquarius Papers with Jupiter/Chiron/Neptune triple conjunct my Ascendant. And the "spiritual anesthesia" hasn't wore off since then.
SOUL! :-)
Posted by: Sagars | May 07, 2012 at 11:12 PM
There was tremendous power all over the planet for this Wesak Ceremony. It seemed stronger than years past. The conscious connection between all the light workers globally seemed to be stepped up a notch. At first the sky was cloudy here in the Black Hills, but after the Ceremony the clouds dispersed and we were able to see the beautiful "Super Moon" of Wesak. It was indeed very magical. Thank you Robert for being such a trailblazer all these years. You are a guiding light for so many. Sat Nam.
Posted by: dcu | May 08, 2012 at 12:11 PM