by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon at 13 Cancer-Capricorn has a powerful Yod, or “Finger of God,” with Pluto as the nozzle for the “expansion through sacrifice” energies. Attune and keep attuning to the invisible world and your helpers there. There’s tremendous productivity promised over the next two weeks, along with forks in the road of destiny and positive developments resulting from taking careful aim and being a good Zen archer. Use your clarity to achieve a new creativity!
As most of you already know, forming aspects show things to come, while separating aspects show things already in the past. This Full Moon has a lot of great forming aspects at work, along with the major league Yod that will help us all attune to the world of our invisible helpers. Of special note is the Moon biseptile Mars and Mercury septile Mars, setting up 3 points of a 7-pointed star pattern. This will bring many to critical forks in the road in areas involving Aries, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, and Capricorn.
Other favorable aspects include Moon biquintile Venus and binovile Saturn, Mercury sextile Venus (the base of the Yod), quintile Saturn, trine Uranus, and quincunx Pluto. There’s also a Venus sextile Uranus, Sun novile Jupiter, Mars trine Jupiter, opposed Uranus and quincunx Neptune, Jupiter sesquisquare Saturn and sextile Uranus, Saturn quintile Pluto, and Uranus square Pluto. (While Uranus square Pluto is technically separating, they’re so close that they must be considered in constant square during this time.)
So it’s maximum harmonious productivity between Mercury, Venus, and Uranus, with Mars and Jupiter also in a powerful harmony of an opposition, sextile, and trine configuration with Uranus. All in all, taken together these promise a lot a harmonious productivity in all areas ruled by these planets (which involve 8 signs!)
Mercury quintile Saturn with Saturn quintile Pluto should provide high specialization and some unique gifts wherever they fall in our charts. This will bring specialized conditions and unique events for those with planets near 8-15 Leo, 20-27 Libra, 2-9 Capricorn, 14-21 Pisces, and 26 Taurus-3 Gemini.
The Yod, or Finger of God, is made by Mercury at 8 Leo sextile Venus at 9 Gemini with both quincunx Pluto at 9 Capricorn. Though Venus is just separating by 2 minutes of motion, it’s so close that this will be a powerful focus wherever we have 9 Capricorn, with major productivity where we have those degrees in Gemini and Leo. So the next two weeks will involve expansions through sacrifices, with productivity in the Gemini and Leo sectors and adjustments in the Capricorn sectors of our charts.
Whatever is squeezed into focus over the next two weeks through sacrificing whatever is needed to achieve that focus will become the source of opportunity, imagination, and expanded life awareness and adventures when Jupiter crosses 8-9 Gemini between July 14-25. This will bring many a technique of attuning to the invisible world that will be useful when confronting events this coming October, November, and December.
The Moon biseptile Mars, with Mercury septile Mars, opens 7 zones of intense non-rational events and activity. These zones are around 7-11 Leo, 28 Virgo-2 Libra, 20-24 Scorpio, 12-16 Capricorn, 3-7 Pisces, 24-28 Aries, and 15-19 Gemini. If you have a planet or point in these zones, expect dramatic choices and changes in your life in the areas listed in the second paragraph of this article.
As with the Yod, we can expect significant developments evolving from the choices we make in the next few weeks when Jupiter is in the Gemini zone in September and October, as well as when Mars crosses the Scorpio zone the last 10 days of September. It would seem that late September is going to set some major events into motion that have their origin over the next two weeks! Pay close attention to when the Moon moves through these zones on July 6-7 (Pisces), July 11-12 (Aries), and July 15-16 (Gemini).
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 one of getting clear about what is true and what isn’t true, and finding multiple angles of approaching perception and information.
This one requires that we externalize some element of our individuality in a way that attracts what we would like to see appear. This time is entirely about clarity in who we are and what we’re externalizing. Other themes involve the “recapitulation of past opportunities at the threshold of a new cycle of experience,” and “realization of new potentialities,” and “the creative exuberance of the human soul in response to life renewals.”
Further, it’s about weaving “collective material” and expressing it so that we demonstrate our virtuosity to our environment and our world.” Rudhyar says it’s about "Expansion,” and individual mental Exteriorization in the Act of Differentiation.
It’s also a time of learning how our “aesthetic experience” strengthens our core through our “skill in imitation.” Here our “aspiration becomes articulate far in advance of (our) self-refinement,” where the promise is made manifest in extraordinary achievements. This is an attempt at self-revelation which enhances our roles in everyday life.
We are all quickening, and are in a time of opening to new ways of externalizing our skills, knowledge, and aspiration. The recent Venus retrograde helped us all to get new insights into what we like, why we like it, and why we liked other things and people in the past. We may have gotten insights into previous difficult situations which allowed us to correct our aim, use intensity to better advantage, and repair something that went off track through vagueness or a lack of clarity in some ways.
This Full Moon shows a "Splay" Jones pattern, showing a wide diversity of individualized activities, some of which may not blend well with others. This type of pattern is a very "wide footprint," and though some things may seem out of balance or the process may seem to get diverted from time to time, it still promises a lot of power to move many things forward simultaneously as long as we don't get distracted into needing "false harmony."
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 the need to concentrate to see the whole picture, showing us how to externalize our higher Self in new individual ways. It’s going to be the major theme for 2013, and given the trine from Mercury and the sextile from Jupiter, there will be major productive harmony across the Aries, Gemini, and Leo areas of our lives!
Like the last one, this Lunation will definitely free us from old perspectives and views so we can see our part to play using more cosmic or universal truths and values. Here we attune to the invisible world to express our individuality in new ways, and many will find relief in re-identifying with the source of their inspiration and wisdom. There are possibilities to find some basic truths of life, and use them for self-perfection in some form that is valuable and pleasing to society.
Uranus square Pluto will show us how to concentrate to align with a deeper and higher power, so that we can enjoy playing a role we were born to play and have already begun to live in preliminary ways. We are still being challenged 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. Given the lack of harmonizing aspects to either of these powerhouses, there won’t be much of a safety valve for the pressures unless we draw on the harmonizing energies from within us.
Separating aspects, showing things just past, include Moon triseptile Mercury, biquintile Jupiter, square Uranus, septile Neptune, and conjunct Pluto. Other aspects are Mercury sextile Jupiter and triseptile Neptune, Venus trine Mars, conjunct Jupiter, sesquisquare Saturn and quincunx Pluto, Sun biseptile Saturn, square Uranus, trine Neptune, and opposition Pluto, and Jupiter square Neptune and biquintile Pluto.
I can't possibly explain what these were all about, since there are too many planets in aspect to explore the possibilities. Just remember these symbolize things in the near past, so examine what's happened over the past weeks in light of these aspects.
Overall this indicates that we’ve had tremendous conflict and releases in the near past, as well as important understanding that forced us all to make major choices that will determine how we will exteriorize our destiny, or our responsibilities to come, in the near future. As a result of these past events, the two weeks in front of us is a time when we’ll stabilize future patterns through strength and flexibility as we transcend our old roles, old lifestyles, and old ways of experiencing life in its infinite potential. Though there may be many meltdowns, it’ll lead us to a greater stability and harmony of function.
The Cusp of Where The Age of Pisces Gives Way to the Age of Aquarius
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 subtle elements of our “indestructibility.”
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 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.)
The Moon rules the Sun in the Lunation, while Saturn and Uranus rule the Moon. The interconnecting aspects between these three planets show a spiritual emphasis, with awakenings and revolutions released through the endings of old dreams and assertions. Many power plays are no longer in play, and it’ll take an inward turned technique of attunement to see the whole picture in order to re-identify with source and receive the blessings we need to move forward into a more perfect form of self-expression.
As a process of moving through events, first get clear about what you’re feeling and/or experiencing, then decide and act with an eye to those feelings that have arisen based in prior interactions and value structures. Once you’ve felt your experience, then decided and acted on those decisions, then get new information or understanding so you can update your perceptual files. Pay attention to attachment to old interpretations, perception, and views, and get a new understanding or view of things.
To sum up, this Lunation will help us be flexible as we transcend old life forms. We can practice our archery skills as many old forms melt down, and be creative in the midst of the breakdowns and breakthroughs. While some old forms of control and deep fears related to control will come up, it’s all so that we can learn to attune to our Higher Self and invisible helpers in the midst of productively chaotic conditions. As both Venus and Saturn are now moving forward, a new day is on the way, along with new perspectives, new ways of interpreting sensory inputs, and new ways of sensing old control mechanisms and fears so we can squeeze them out of our lives forever.
This is a time to be creative in adapting your will to the need of the moment. Be open to discovering new ways to view what you can and cannot do, and how you do what you do. This is a threshold of getting new values, resources, and relationships that will fill the void created by the Eclipses of 2011. Soon there will be a lot of new activity and information, and this is the time to be an innovator, concentrate to see the whole picture, and step into the new archetypal roles you’ve been shown and practicing since 2010.
We’ve all gotten clear in the past two weeks about new ways to sing our song and techniques to share what we know and have experienced with others. Do not equivocate or lose your balance as you renew your commitment to the archetypal roles you’ve been practicing these past two years, and since the process of self-transcendence is front and center, embrace it with joy, creativity, the spirit of exploration, and see the adventure of discovery as teaching your poise and translucidity.
Though things seem tense and conflicted, it’s really only invisible forces leading us all to new forms of individualization that will block old shadows of control mechanisms that are useless anyway. Since all shadows result from light hitting a dense object, it’s better to become as translucid as possible to dispel lurking shadows. And if you must look at the shadows, then refocus on the object being illuminated, since that’s the source of the shadow.
Find the correct 4 angles of illuminating whatever you want to focus on, and all shadows will be dispelled. Then you’re seeing things with an illuminated mind.
© Copyright 2012 Robert Wilkinson
Thanks for this article; inspiring and educative!
Posted by: Ilse | July 04, 2012 at 11:42 AM