by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon at 7 Sagittarius-Gemini opens two weeks (and 4 ½ months) of opening to new experiences that widen our lives and ideas about what will result from our efforts. This is a very heavy and productive Eclipse, even if it will seem like “a quickly passing matter.”
This Eclipse shows that whatever is shut down over the next 4 1/2 months shows us the way to adapt to a greater love and sense of being alive, and by whatever residual ideas we have left behind, or need to leave behind, we can find our way to a new freedom of the mind unhindered by the chains of “mental slavery.” We are moving into a future with different rules, requirements, and skills than what we’ve shown in the past, so find the knowledge you need to ensure your future well-being!
We are challenged to decrease our attachment to outer appearances when real necessities require attention, and open to new paths of freedom in action and understanding. Here we can be aroused to a new love in our lives, and see the renewal of our faith through the nourishment that comes our way.
As pointed out in previous articles, this Lunation is mainly distinguished by the powerful Yod, or Finger of God, made by the Venus sextile Mars conjunct Pluto with all three quincunx to the Moon at 7 Gemini. This multiple “expansion through sacrifice” configuration will squeeze out a lot that doesn’t matter, and gives us a Lunar “rehearsal” for the major Yod made in December when Jupiter is quincunx Saturn and Pluto. What we can focus through the Moon in the next two weeks will help us when Jupiter is in the Yod later this month and off and on for the first 3-4 months of 2013.
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 quite a few harmonious and productive aspects, though there are a few that will require us to make major adjustments.
Beside the Lunar Yod, other major forming aspects include Moon conjunct Jupiter, Sun opposed Jupiter, Mercury sesquisquare Uranus, Venus biquintile Uranus, Mars quincunx Jupiter and septile Neptune (triggering the Grand Irrationality!), Jupiter sextile Uranus and Saturn sextile Pluto. Again, taken together there is a lot of productivity with some degree of nervous agitation and a lot of sacrifices and adjustments to further the productivity.
Those who are willing to grow will find themselves focused and accelerated in their experience of the growth pattern. However, as I noted earlier, this quickening will be accompanied by a need to let go, once and for all, the ghosts of the past that are preventing you from fully enjoying the new world of experience you’ve already entered into. This is a time of lighting up life through “distributive Fire” that has already inspired you to a new line of growth that is freeing, opening, or seems like some sort of adventure.
It’s important to note that Full Moons heighten feelings, due to the opposition of the Moon and the Sun. This particular Lunation has only two other oppositions, one involving the Sun opposed Jupiter and the other being the larger but subtle Neptune opposition TransPluto, also discussed in other articles. To note, the Neptune opposition is why the larger atmosphere is so polarized, with those under Neptune’s delusions and fogs opposing the redemptive and forgiving energies of Divine Mother.
Separating aspects show things already past. This chart has a separating Moon quincunx Saturn, sextile Uranus, and square Neptune, with separating Mercury septile Mars, triseptile Jupiter biseptile Neptune and septile Pluto, showing that the Grand Irrationality was in major motion in the recent past. We ALL hit forks in the road of our destiny, and now are doing the follow through.
Other separating aspects include Venus conjunct Saturn and trine Neptune, Sun trine Uranus and square Neptune, Mars sextile Saturn, square Uranus, and conjunct Pluto, Jupiter biquintile Saturn, biseptile Neptune and triseptile Pluto, and Saturn quincunx Uranus and trine Neptune. As noted, we’ve been moving through an intense, productive, destiny-producing time in the recent past, where decisions we made will have important effect down the road.
So the Grand Irrationality is in full action over the next two weeks (and 4 ½ months) via the Mars septile Neptune, which activates the Neptune energies of the larger configuration. As I’ve put forth in many other articles, this is a long wave irrational atmospheric field generated at this time in history. It began in the mid-90 and will last a few more years.
It’s why there’s such a hard edge to things, and a lot of obsessive-compulsive behavior dominates in society. Certainly there’s much that makes absolutely no sense right now.
At this time, the seven hot zones most impacted by the Grand Irrationality right now are 7-11 Capricorn, 29 Aquarius-3 Pisces, 21-25 Aries, 13-17 Gemini, 4-8 Leo, 25-29 Virgo, and 16-20 Scorpio. I have numerous articles in the archives exploring and explaining this long wave phenomenon, so use the site google box to check them out if you want to know more. And I’ll post more in the near future.
Jupiter is the worldly ruler of the Sun, while Neptune is the spiritual ruler. Mercury rules the Moon. That makes these planets especially important in this Lunation. Jupiter in Gemini gives Mercury an added influence, and it becomes the primary “backdrop” energy to both the illumination and the form. The Sun in Sagittarius will have a definitely Gemini shading, with Pisces as the Spiritual influence behind the Illumination. The Moon in Gemini will definitely have a Scorpio shading, with Capricorn subtones.
In this chart, Neptune is the only other planet in its own sign. The rest of the planets have as their final dispositors Mars in Capricorn in mutual reception to Saturn in Scorpio, a very strong influence. You can find out more about this phenomenon that strengthens each of the two planets by going to the article Astrology Class – What Is A Dispositor and What Is Mutual Reception Between Two Planets?
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 was about elimination and regeneration, stabilizing and deepening our faith, and adapting our desires and magnetism to attract what we need to on a social or emotional level.
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This Eclipse is entirely stabilizing and will deepen our faith in something or some part of our social self. This will help us concentrate, eliminate, and regenerate on the deepest levels of our lives. All Eclipses radically transform areas affected by the planetary positions, so look to where you have the last third of Scorpio to see what will be shut down, and what will be the focus of breakdowns as a prelude to new attractions.This one will help us get clear about how to build what we need in terms of both functionality and aesthetics, where we can participate in renovating or renewing something of practical value but also has beauty and style in its structure and composition. Just realize there will be some severe challenges and losses set into motion by this Eclipse, so get and stay clear about who you are and who you’re not, as well as what roles you are and are not willing to play. In any case, endure no putdowns!
... This New Moon Solar Eclipse at 22 Scorpio, like other recent Lunations, puts the focus on learning, communicating, discovering, and perceiving new ideas and ways of relating to others due to Jupiter being in Gemini supported by Mars in Sagittarius ruling the Lunation. Much that we focus on during the next 4 weeks (and 3+ years) will help us to a life renewal, and open up alternative truths and futures we may use to navigate our social existence.
This Lunation will bring echoes of Saturn in Libra lessons we began to learn in October 2011 that began completion and application August 2012. Venus in this Eclipse will help us let go of, or demonstrate, some traditional wisdom or eternal values to achieve a balanced understanding of self-expression.
As usual, while Jupiter is in Gemini we’ll continue to learn more and more, expanding the truths and new potential futures opened while liberating us from ghosts of the past that were indicated in the 2011 Gemini Solar Eclipse. As Jupiter continues its retrograde approach to the degree of that eclipse, it continues to be a time of an acceleration of the eclipse effect!
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A New Moon sets the seed forms for what the following 4 weeks will demonstrate, while as I've told you, the effects of this Eclipse will shows related effect for the next 3+ years. This Solar Eclipse New Moon falls at 22 Scorpio. While I've given you a sense of this degree up to now, this is where we go into depth.
The symbol is "Hunters starting out for ducks.” According to Rudhyar this degree is one of "aggressive quest for outer or inner sustenance,” “purposeful satiation of desire,” “tragic incorporation of ideals,” and “exercise.”
In the Astrological Mandala, he says this degree involves "the socially accepted release of an individual’s or a group’s aggressive instincts.” He states this degree is about socializing our “primitive instincts according to a cultural ritual,” where we may need to find a safety valve for releasing compulsions, aggression, or unregenerate energy.
So here we can find socially acceptable means of asserting ourselves, and in that, socialize our instincts. He says it falls in the span of Appreciation, and it's the second degree of the emotional-cultural level of the scene of Faith in the Act of Group Integration. So for this month, as well as the next 3+ years, this Eclipse will teach us how to discover new ways to find socially acceptable means of expressing our assertiveness, or help us eliminate toxic feelings and people in our lives that are needlessly aggressive.
According to Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, the degree is one of "simplicity of self-expression and the straightforward honesty of desire” in our lives, and of our need for “elbow room” in our worldly dealings. He states this degree offers freedom of action, and of a determination to have this freedom through any means.
He offers us the keyword of ENTERPRISE. He states that when operating in a positive manners, this degree is "a complete lack of personal frustration and a constant refinement of special and practical skills in the approach to daily problems."
So we enter a time of refining and socializing our instincts, or seeing how another in our life needs to do this. Through Mercury retrograde we’ll get new insights into old truths, philosophical approaches, and wider insights into broader views. We may get insights into previous difficult or hard to understand situations, and perhaps reconnect with someone or review something of the past that shows us the truths we’re willing to fight for.
Just keep clear about phases and stages of how a thing has or could develop, and don’t allow yourselves to be underestimated or taken for granted. Get clear about what role you want to play, and if you’ve strayed from that role recently, just get back on tracks.
The planets in this chart are again in a Locomotive Jones pattern. This "Locomotive" Jones pattern indicates an imbalance that leads to power if we can find the compensatory “weight” to make things move forward smoothly rather than rock side to side creating friction. Target what is needed, and provide compensatory energies accordingly.
The oppositions defining the See Saw influence show polarization and awareness, with occasional head-butting that can be resolved through positive Jupiter in Gemini sextile Uranus in Aries actions. Also remember to adjust and sacrifice when there is too much to fit into what must be done. Just stay centered amidst the opposing trends, and see the bigger picture while not getting distracted by peripherals.
With 2 planets in Air, 2 in Fire, 4 in Water, and 2 in Earth, we have an emphasis on feelings, with a great balance between inspiration, association, and practicality. Since Air and Earth are “cool” elements and Fire and Water are “hot” elements, things may be a bit more volatile over the next two weeks, but Moon in Gemini conjunct Jupiter can give us all a sense of humor as we navigate the shifts.
Mercury as part of a Scorpio stellium leads the Sun in this Lunation. That makes the area in our charts where we have Scorpio of extra importance, since it promises a maturing focus on taking responsibility for our likes and dislikes, as well as our communications, and what we’re willing to work on and what higher truths we’re glimpsing.
Structure the voids you’re creating, and be patient as you see what is attracted to fill that void over the next two weeks as well as 4 ½ months. Again, since Saturn leads the Locomotive pattern, be very clear about what responsibilities are yours, and which ones are not while eliminating fear by relying on your experience and understanding.
More on how Uranus Square Pluto Is Ramping Up Radical Energies!
As I’ve mentioned off and on over the past 2+ years, 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 learning about who we are by getting a higher elevated view of how to act on our own initiative to enter a new dimension of individual awareness. We are now at a threshold point, where we will again be showing concentration 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 aspects in play in this chart, there will be some adjustments to, and furthering of, recent productive understandings resulting from previous aspects in the New Moon chart governing this period.
Like previous Lunations, this one will continue to 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 must take the initiative to tune into the invisible world and our helpers there, and organize our own and their energies to repair something.
In the recent past, we’ve all been challenged to learn to concentrate to align with a deeper and higher power, and now we can enjoy playing a new role and living in new 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 Mars sextile Pluto, we can certainly “cut to the chase” and efficiency is up.
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 VERY close to "the cusp of the Age." It’s now moved forward from its stationary direct transformational degree of 29 Aquarius last November where we began to finish being collectively transfigured, and is now at 1 Pisces, the cusp of where the Age of Pisces gives way to the Age of Aquarius. We’re collectively there as a human race, and Neptune is showing us glimpses into the greater Way, Truth, and Life that we share together, expressed through the sign of compassion, forgiveness, and unity of feeling-awareness in the great “Ocean of Life.”
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.)
Be creative in sharing what needs to be shared, grow into a deeper sense of the ONE that holds all things within its magnetic field, turn from the outer to the inner, and “pay allegiance” to the core principles that hold your life on tracks even as you commune with others who share your various Ray and sub-Ray frequencies. This is a great time to get focused, eliminating all that is irrelevant to your long term growth patterns. Or perhaps you can use the energy to regenerate in some way so that you “take command of the Great Work” and perfect your various physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual “vehicles” to express exactly what you’re here to do.
What's the proper sequence at present of deciding, feeling, and thinking, and an Overview of the Lunation
As a process of moving through events, first get clear about what you’re feeling and/or experiencing, and then find the information you need to get a clear picture. Then make decisions and act accordingly. This is about learning to follow a feeling or hunch or experience into new information, new understanding, and new views, after which you decide and act on the basis of a fundamental fact you understand.
So feel what have to be felt, and if necessary name what you’re experiencing or feeling, and then allow those impressions to lead you to a new understanding or new idea about how to view or interpret or communicate something. After you’ve felt your way into a different idea set, then make decisions and act based in those ideas and perceptions. These decisions and actions will naturally lead to the next set of feelings and experiences.
To sum up, this Lunation will help us see and experience life on more intense and wider levels of enthusiasm and love so that we can find a new faith in doing what we need to do to receive the nourishment we need on our deepest levels. This can help us know things without thinking. This Eclipse is productive and stabilizing on the deepest level of our existence, allowing us to see what’s below the surface of daily life. Any study about how subconsciousness works will yield great rewards and insights.
Relax into playing whatever roles seem natural on the basis of previous purifications and transformations. Be receptive to illuminations showing you who you could be once you’re free of obsolete considerations and get clear about who you are and who you’re not. Eliminate to regenerate, do not clutch at old feelings, and look below the surface to get clear about how and what to reorganize. See this as a time where you are free to go deeper into the new life that you’re already living. Power plus productivity plus humor and love equals a time of cleaning out the old subconscious material and replacing it with something more “factually correct” for who you are right now.
This continues a new freedom and adventure that will fill the void created by the Eclipses of 2011. This solidifies a life renewal, a greater love, a deeper wisdom, and a new understanding of truth and mind. This Lunation promises liberation from something of the past, some of which has already been shed, and this is blessing the effort in some way and contributing to finishing that work.
We continue to get clear on the basis of past and current forks in the road of destiny which ones we need to take, and are now challenged to eliminate all that is obstructing our ability to achieve the results we want from life. Though some things will seem out of balance, do not equivocate or lose your balance as you learn the next step of tuning to the invisible helpers around you and begin a conscious walk between the visible and invisible worlds. Since the process of self-transcendence continues to be front and center, embrace it with focused clarity, and willingness to go beyond the superficial.
Release old views and interpretations and go deeper. Embrace the spirit of exploration that allows you to see the adventure of discovery as leading you to depth understanding about the relationship of the material to the Spiritual, the form to the energy behind and within all forms.
As with previous months, I’ll remind you not to take the larger tensions, pressures, and friction personally. Though the larger atmosphere is tense and conflicted, it’s really only the play of invisible forces leading us all to new forms of individualization that will block old shadows of control mechanisms that are useless anyway.
As I’ve noted in previous Full Moon articles, 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, and can act accordingly.
For more on this very powerful Lunar Eclipse Full Moon:
Astrology in November 2012 - On The Threshold of a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse at 7 Gemini
© Copyright 2012 Robert Wilkinson
There is humor in the pain. I have an understanding of what has shut down in my life and it is a good thing. Took me 20 years but it's good clean done. It's the past and I'm ready for the future.
I go to my first job interview and oh no, they want to know all about my past. Okay then, when I'm locked in to a job, at least I won't have to review the past over and over again.
Posted by: caliban | December 01, 2012 at 03:46 PM
Long time no write. Good article.
It has been a hectic few months - and I think much of it has been the intertwining of the June 2011 Eclipse, Saturn's moves, and the Jupiterian influences lately on my chart focused through Mars position recently and Mercury's communication.
Background: I lucked into a contract engineer position late September, while in school for refresher courses before attempting admittance to an MBA program. I had to choose: drop school and make a healthy wage for a short while, but be financial good, or plow on in courses that will not add to my resume that much. I chose the former. Later, in early November, the client hints to a longer term position. I get accepted to a mid-tier MBA program to start in Spring 2013. Client has me doing layouts, traveling (Jupiter in 9th is a focal point in my chart), but seems to hold off on the come - the offer of a job.
Now Mars conjuncts my MC at the eclipse - the big boss says he has a offer in the works! (But then I believe I pissed him off - by reluctantly agreeing to a facility move to be made in late December.)
Meanwhile, I want to publish a book I've held off on for now a year. Editing and format for ebook has killed me. School and GMAT study and now 50 hours a week on contract has me off task.
Roberts' blogs have been spot on to the culprit: the grand irrationality. 7-11 Capricorn (MC at 9 Cap) and 13-17 Gemini (17 Saturn on the cusp of 2nd/3rd house) and progressed Venus at 7 Leo - could be the irrational drivers for me!
I think I need a 2013 report!
Robert your insights are a wonder...it gives me some faith that astrologers/spirit walkers are indeed real!
Posted by: Jason P. | December 01, 2012 at 04:22 PM
Robert, you wrote in the Gemini 2012 report that a lot of things were put on hold for Gemini Asc 10-20 due to obsessive compulsive people or things. Will you address when that hold will begin to ease up in the 2013 report?
Thanks so much for your outstanding guidance!
Posted by: Diana | December 02, 2012 at 03:46 PM
Hey Robert, thanks especially for remarking that some things will seem out of balance, and not to take things too personally (for some of what is being purged in my life entails the sacrifice of dearly cherished immediate gratifications in the interest of cultivating longer term stabilizing structures)... though I have needs that want fulfilling in the short run and the long run, I must risk losing what I need in the long run if I indulge what I need in the short run. So it's better to be patient and not have a hissy fit.
Posted by: lee | December 02, 2012 at 09:08 PM
Saturn squaring MC, thus IC jup conjunction, trying to make the stress plus the pulsing of the contraction expansion work to give birth to best life possible... hoping it will work...
Posted by: Debbie | December 03, 2012 at 06:48 PM
This eclipse was conjunct my Ascendant! Hoping it will wrap up the story that first began with the June 2011 eclipse in Gemini (full moons are about completions, arent they?) The eclipse in June 2011 was brutal for me, delivering unexpected revelations about my significant other at the time. He was literally leading a double life (Gemini). The journey that followed over the past year and a half has been incredible: there were extreme low points in the beginning - the initial shock, the sting of betrayal, the rage unlike anything I've ever felt, and finally the grief of losing someone and something I cherished deeply - followed by a time of self re-discovery: being honest with myself about what my needs are and learning to fulfill them on my own, getting reacquainted with my likes and dislikes and just enjoying my new found freedom (and my own company). The healing process really went into full swing this past summer after taking a couple of months off to travel and visit long time friends, each of whom taught me about the beauty of close relationships. Now I'm ready to take this journey to the next level and forgive, move on and release the "ghosts of the past"... Maybe this eclipse conjunct my ascendant will help close this chapter on a high note and bring positive new opportunities? *fingers crossed*
Posted by: Laura | December 03, 2012 at 10:04 PM
Astounding, Robert. I have synched in again here. I like your thinking on the Pisces-Aquarius cusp and look forward to reading more of what you have already written on this. We are certainly well within the same ballpark - differing only by a Jupiter-Saturn cycle or two. Precise pinpointing may be less important than broader cusp dynamics, anyway. Your emphasis on the Neptune Pisces transit makes a lot of sense to me in this regard. I am very much seeing this Neptune Pisces transit overlap with the Aquarian transition in terms of vegan emergence and collective awakening to the atmospheric and oceanic methane crisis...combined with increased awareness of climate-induced hurricanes and flooding, as we saw with Superstorm Sandy. Many thanks.
Posted by: Jonathan W. Maxson | December 04, 2012 at 02:52 PM