by Robert Wilkinson
This Lunation ushers in an intense time of friction, awareness, purification, sensitivity, and practical adaptability. Be honest, but flexible.
Important Chart Factors
This Full Moon is where the take the “World Teaching Buddha Wisdom” distributed over the past 2 months and anchor it in a personal way. The next two weeks are intensely emotional and require a high degree of self-discipline so we don’t go too far, or overshoot the mark. While many things may seem to be spiraling out of control, there are ways to manage the flow!
As I told you earlier in this series, of primary importance is that the Moon, Saturn, and Mars pretty much rule the setting, forming a chain of dispositors that govern all the other planets except Mercury in Gemini and Neptune in Pisces. We’re still growing into a new set of skills and responsibilities, and just have to be flexible in how we exercise power.
The Lunation builds through the just separating very tight sextile and trine to Neptune, favoring precise planning and aiding the emotional understanding. However, the Lunation is also in a semisquare and sesquisquare to Venus conjunct Jupiter, adding to the agitation and ego amplification. The good thing is that Venus conjunct Jupiter in Leo is very strong, and aided by the trine to Uranus made active again through the forming double sextiles made by Mercury in its home sign of Gemini where it is very strong.
Jupiter is now moving forward briskly, and we’re all in a phase where we can practice a new creativity, love, spontaneity, and enthusiasm based in the training we did between December and April when Jupiter was retrograde. Be at peace as you express your heart with enthusiasm and joy!
The favorable combination of Fire and Air involving Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus assists our ability to unique, inventive, and innovative. Due to the productive sextiles to Jupiter and trine to Uranus, opportunity is still all around for those willing to move into a new heart strength and expression, expressed through a vision of a greater truth or wider, freer future.
Keep showing humor, vision, and go for the loving protection of the heart when called upon to express yourselves. This is the power of the mature heart interacting with others in elegant ways, life as art and art as life. Because it’s Jupiter, to paraphrase the great wit Wavy Gravy, if you don’t have a sense of humor, it’s not funny!
Everything Jupiter in Leo has promised, and continues to promise, is being activated by Venus in that sign before it goes retrograde at 1 Virgo in a few weeks. Then it will re-trace its steps, encountering the Sun and Mercury also in Leo, reinforcing this loving creative energy. Then it goes direct in early September in mid-Leo, conjunct Mars also in Leo!
Whatever Jupiter in Leo has brought us since Summer 2014 will be in play throughout the entire Summer, and promises some great loving experiences. As I told you in previous Lunation articles, we’ve had a sequence of events that put the spotlight on 15 Leo.
There was the Moon conjunct Jupiter on that degree in February’s Full Moon, followed by Jupiter on that degree in the March Full Moon. This has “primed the pump” for the Venus station conjunct Mars on that degree in early September. In this Lunation Jupiter is at 14 Leo, “setting the stage” for further expressions of the qualities of these degrees associated with “the Lion Point” at 15 Leo.
Remember that Jupiter’s larger teaching through this July involves us seeing how we’ve tamed and trained our animal nature so we can now “put on the show,” or maybe how we need to train our lower ego to express the love of our Higher Self. So keep learning to be skillful in utilizing the powerful energies of your vital nature, allow everything to “rise above the commonplace,” and show your virtuosity.
Major Aspects and Configurations
As noted in earlier articles on this Full Moon, we have a mixed bag of harmonious and frictional aspects dominating this Lunation. Overall, productivity, but with a sense of intense pressure involving the need for a lot of emotional intelligence and purification of action, feeling, and thought.
We are still in a period heavily influenced by Jupiter going stationary direct in April triseptile both Neptune and Pluto, setting the Grand Irrationality into immediate action. We are now in a phase of major shifts in collective consciousness, as well as the renewal we’ve all been called to since the Summer of 2014.
This is a long wave configuration that will be highly active for the rest of the year. It will be reinforced each time an inner planet transits any of the 7 hot zones of the Grand Irrationality, so as the inner planets move through the 10-14 Leo zone all Summer, prepare for things to get weird, heavy, and in a peculiar way, very natural, authentic, spontaneous, and creative!
If you’re new to the site, briefly, the Grand Irrationality in play for about 20 years, and it has affected various generations at different times. Everyone has been touched at some point in huge ways. Spirit walks with this configuration, as well as any major septile series aspect between the planets.
The choices we make as a result of these non-rational aspects show us our “direction of destiny,” and determines if the Spirit will grow stronger and closer with you, or if you will move in directions away from Spirit. Given that most of this community is intentionally trying to live in harmony with Life, Nature, and each other, chances are that whatever you – yes, YOU the reader – are confronting will show you a deeper, richer, more powerful Spiritual life. Which is a good thing.
I’ve discussed the major aspects in previous Eclipse articles. They include the Moon making only a conjunction to Pluto, indicating an “orphaning” effect already covered. Mercury making a double sextile to Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus furthers all kinds of productive, creative ideas and communications, and connections between people should be quite beneficial as long as it stays light and bright, and doesn’t get bogged down in Earth/Water oppositions.
Venus has a hard time with a semisquare to Mars and square to Saturn, so keep it positive, keep your eye on the prize, and don’t submit to someone else’s rules that are gallingly limiting. Despite the Solar opposition to Pluto, it also makes a highly spiritualizing novile to Jupiter and binovile to Uranus, pulling in the just separating trinovile (trine) to Neptune. This makes for heavy spiritual developments for those with planets near 1-2 Aquarius, Libra, and Gemini, 10-12 Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, 20-22 Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, and 30 Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
Moving into the social-cultural planets, Mars is semisquare Jupiter, biquintile Saturn, trine Neptune, and opposed Pluto helping our past feed our future and bringing rewards for emotional intelligence techniques and skills learned last November and December. Jupiter makes aspects to both Saturn and Neptune showing a "faith dance." This brings huge if subtle opportunities to be mature in resolving dualities through making precise and structured leaps of faith that will lead us to forms of mastery, even if we won’t know it until next year.
Other Factors of Note
This is the seventeenth Full Moon with the North Node in Libra. When the North Node was in Scorpio between September 2012 and February 2014 we went through a long wave Scorpio process of learning to “shed skins,” and let go of echoes of memories of perceptions by taking a new look at what we used to believe. Factoring in the November 2013 Scorpio Solar Eclipse, we’ve all been learning “gain through loss,” so that we could have faith, go deeper, and receive impressions from higher planes.
The Saturn in Scorpio focus between October 2012 and December 2014 that revisits our lives this Summer has helped us intensify our striving in structured ways so we can unveil the life Mystery we’ve been chasing for quite a while. This anchored a deeper emotional stability and magnetism in those who have done the hard work of making Saturn your friend.
During the months of Saturn in Scorpio, we incorporated the old North Node in Scorpio lessons into our ongoing responses to life. Saturn also taught us to see a) how we have shifted our magnetism on relationships since then, and/or b) how we need to find a new view or way of understanding the losses and eliminations of the past we’ve been through.
The North Node is in Libra shows that sign symbolizes our line of greatest development. Therefore, the lessons we learned while Saturn in Libra are being developed at this time.
There are direct connections between our current growth and what Saturn taught us in 2010 and dominated our landscape by the Summer of 2011, since the degree of the North Node in this chart is the same as the degree Saturn went stationary retrograde in January 2010. Whatever Saturn taught us during those months will be part of our growth the next two weeks.
Element Balance
Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 3 planets in Fire signs, 4 in Water, 2 in Earth, and 1 in Air. This indicates a heavy emphasis on Water (feeling) supported by a good dose of Fire (inspiration). The Moon in an Earth sign brings strength to the Earth element (practicality), with the only Air (relatedness and ideas) being the strong but solitary Mercury in Gemini. With Water and Fire dominant, restlessness and high spiritedness will prevail.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, clearly things are more volatility than cool. Still, with so much Fire there is a quickening going on, so rise to the increased tempo!
More on how Uranus Square Pluto Is Ramping Up Radical Energies!
As I’ve mentioned off and on over the past 3+ years, we’re all learning to manage the “out of control” energies of Uranus square Pluto. They are certainly major players in the global collision of ideas at this point in history, and from time to time will be at the forefront of the hard edge of the conflict between control systems and the forces of individualization that are calling everyone to a greater spiritual individuality.
’ve discussed this aspect at length over quite a few articles in the archives. Please 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 now moving through a span of degrees it hasn’t transited since 1931-1933. It went stationary retrograde last Summer on a degree where we’ve been learning to retire with dignity from dramas we don’t need. As Uranus is at 21 Aries, where it will soon go retrograde, we’re learning how to generate power. This is a plunge into physical power, and the ability to focus our potency in social-cultural realms.
From mid-June through the end of August 2014, Saturn and Uranus were in quincunx, forcing hard adjustments, corrections, and necessary sacrifices preparing us for the release of pressure over the last half of 2014. We learned to sacrifice of old desires, attachments, and old limiting magnetism, while breaking into new discoveries and newer, better functioning by what was adjusted. We’ve all learned to see what we needed to withdraw from while maintaining our dignity and trusting our inner “God” or “Truth” to lead us to wisdom. This process will be complete by Jan 2016.
Pluto has now finished its years of teaching us harmlessness, kindness, and magnetism that brings forth a more gentle set of interactions through the deeper transformations going on in our lives. Keep purifying yourself in every way, since the less sludge we carry forward the lighter and freer we’ll feel. This Moon puts the focus specifically on these themes.
We have now been guided through deep experiences that taught us how to get beyond fear, see life as a science lab, and learn the principles governing what comes and what goes in our perceptual reality. This is the next step in learning “a valid historical perspective,” where we separate out the core principles from the events surrounding them. We now enter the next stage of self-transcendence, with the final exam September-October 2015.
As we learn to master Uranus square Pluto, we will be able to see the true causes of any social disorder, constructive versus destructive justifications and motives, and see where mistrust and mischief-making originate. This allows us to grow into a greater power when we’re confronted by old Pluto roles, coercions, and heavy-handed corrosive behavior. We can use the square between Uranus and Pluto 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. In this chart, Uranus is specializing many things in everyone’s lives, so go with the new rather than the established.
What's the proper sequence at present of deciding, feeling, and thinking, with an Overview of the Lunation
We’ve been through several different sequences since January. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses.
This Lunation shows we’ll be thinking, then deciding, then feeling. So lead with your vision, understanding, and what’s being communicated into decisions and actions. Then after the decision or action, sit with the feelings and experience them, bringing them to the surface of your consciousness and get clear about what you’re feeling and why.
That will lead you back to new information, new vision, new ideals, and new understanding upon which you can do your next set of decisions and actions. Then again name what you’re feeling. That way nothing will get bottled up through underuse, and you can move through experiences with power and clarity.
With Mars leading the Sun, it’s a time of activating our Spiritual Warrior! Illumination may be preceded by disruptions, or these could show us how we can let go of the past in ways that feed our future. We’re being crafted to some form of social perfection and/or value, and kindness will go a long way, as will flexibility.
While things may get intense and threaten to spin out of control, find self confidence in your self-reliance, move into unknown zones, show self-discipline and concentration, and you should make it through the rapids just fine! Get behind inhibitions, and win cooperation from those who are stuck in the mud.
With Venus and Jupiter dancing on degrees of world service, shared messages, and bringing concrete rewards for disciplines taken on late 2014, we can still release the power of the heart’s love. I believe this is another Lunation where we can remember that though life can be painful, we do not have to suffer. And as we learn to break the link between pain and suffering, we heal our part of humanity and the world.
For your contemplation, a final meditation I offer each month at the end of our Full Moon journey of exploration.
We are Light. All things are composed of Light in various frequencies that express as limitless forms. Some light frequencies are of greater density than others.
All shadows result from light hitting a dense object. Psychological shadows too. Therefore, it’s good to become as translucent and translucid as possible to dispel lurking shadows.
If you must look at and/or deal with shadows, whether your own or another’s, then refocus your Light on the object being illuminated, since that form is 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.
© Copyright 2015 Robert Wilkinson
Oh Robert, how very grateful I am for your guidance in leading us through these, to say the least, oh so interesting times! Your missives have helped me to refocus on what's really important and to "keep showing humor, vision & go for the loving protection of the heart when called upon to express yourselves". "Keep your eye on the prize & don't submit to someone else's rules that are gallingly limiting"...of great help to me when I start feeling anxious and want to go wackadoodle...in the corporate environment!
Posted by: Diane | July 03, 2015 at 04:59 AM
Thanks, again, for the clear territory you chart and that we can then beter face and make the most of.
Interesting and fast moving times at individual, collective and world levels. Indeed, higher heart energies are needed now in all these levels. HUmanity is moving forward.
Blessings be to all
Posted by: Nic | July 03, 2015 at 09:56 AM
Thank you for your comforting words.
Pluto makes changes, but in slow pace
it should go right. I wish and also try to
trust...
Just starting holiday with a lot of
unknown people. Staying in an island
and having yoga exercise.
And I am just a beginner...
First year have been "roller coaster".
But I am happy to have so talented teachers :)
Posted by: helina | July 03, 2015 at 12:03 PM