by Robert Wilkinson
This Lunation ushers in a time of training, practice, cooperation, and discipline. Those who know how to operate as a team will find many things quickly unfolding.
Important Chart Factors
As I’ve told you, this Lunation will result in us learning and/or teaching some basic human skill, and a return to some deep feelings and memories as we discover new parts of our personality that are below the surface. These two weeks will build on our recent purifications and show us the beauty and simplicity of what is permanent and what is transitory.
Because Jupiter in Virgo leads the Locomotive, this will show us truths, openings, and expansions based in recent developments set into motion by both Venus and Mars conjunct Jupiter in late October. See what needs to be done, get educated and willing to experiment, and by the end of the process you’ll have exactly what your heart values.
As I told you earlier in this series, of primary importance is that Jupiter and Mercury are in mutual reception, and therefore very important since they govern all the other planets except Neptune which is a spiritual rather than worldly backdrop, and Venus, which holds sway over Mars and Uranus. And the sheer numbers of powerful squares show there’s integration to be achieved in precise responses to things that seem to spin out.
Major Aspects and Configurations
There are a lot of frictional aspects in this Lunation, including the major T-square made by the Sun, Saturn, Moon, and Neptune, throwing the void into early Virgo. With Venus also afflicting the Moon, Sun, and Saturn, it’s gear grind time! We then add Moon opposed Mercury, Mercury square Neptune made by a Lunar “collection of light,” Mars opposed Uranus and square Pluto, and Uranus square Pluto, and it’s easy to see that friction is in the air, requiring a lot of faith, compassion, forgiveness, and the willingness not to become too critical, worried, or nit-picky.
The T-square to Neptune requires good navigational skills, and the ability to stay clear about what is peculiar or vague, our role to play, and the nature of our purpose. Because the Lunation puts the focus squarely on the Saturn square Neptune, be a good sailor through the fogs!
Positive aspects include Moon trine Mars, Mercury binovile Jupiter and trine Uranus, and Sun sextile Mars and novile Pluto. Overall, Jupiter is fairly favorable, and contributes a powerful triseptile to Uranus, triggering major forks in the road of destiny in terms of where and how to expand in some ways while finishing our “dignified withdrawal” from other people and circumstances.
The Jupiter triseptile Uranus requires a future-oriented sense of relatedness with other pioneers in cooperative collective group activities that might make no sense, but are important in the destinies of all involved. It puts practical action and training at a critical turning point with its own specialized function and will definitely impact the houses where we have Aries, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. Those most likely to find themselves at some or another “fork in the road of destiny” where a greater adventure in self-transcendence beckons have planets or angles near 28 Cancer-2 Leo, 20-24 Virgo, 11-15 Scorpio, 2-6 Capricorn, 23-27 Aquarius, 15-19 Aries, and 7-11 Gemini.
As I mentioned in an earlier article, the Grand Irrationality is not in direct play in this one, even if it will be active In December. It will be reinforced each time an inner planet transits any of the 7 hot zones of the Grand Irrationality, with the recent transits through the 8-14 Leo zone producing events that were 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.
Other Factors of Note
This is the first Full Moon with the North Node in Virgo. Let’s take a look back at what we’ve been learning from past North Node transits.
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 we’ve revisited this past Summer 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 symbolized our line of greatest development. Therefore, the lessons we learned while Saturn in Libra were been developed between February 2014 and October 2015. Now it’s in Virgo, where we get pulled to growth through Virgo emphases, and this Lunation shows the growth is in seeing the “gestative power of the Ageless Wisdom” as it’s brought us to this point in time. It will also show us the benefits of what we learned in the Autumn of 2009 and April through July 2010.
Element Balance
Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 4 planets in Fire signs, 1 in Water, 2 in Earth, and 3 in Air. This indicates a major preponderance of Fire (inspiration) and Air (communicating), with less Earth (Practicality) and almost no Water (feeling).
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are pretty balanced with an emphasis on the inspiration of Fire, so flame on!
More on how Uranus Square Pluto Has Ramped 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.
As they are again in a forming square through the end of the year, expect a wild ride from time to time! We’ve recently had the Venus opposing Uranus and square Pluto, giving us signs and signals about the coming Mars transit through Libra that already begins making the T-square n this chart. Integrate the friction through productive Cancer energy, and you’ll do fine.
I’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 17, we’re finishing up withdrawing from problematic people and situations, finishing what we began in the Summer of 2014.
Because Mercury is trine Uranus, it shows a harmonized relationship between the ability to process specific information within a bigger synthesized picture, and I have no doubt that the heart fires that will be touched by some will unleash a new type of artistic intensity, even for those who are not artists. We’re now finishing up our lessons of seeing what we’ve been withdrawing from as offering us a chance to demonstrate dignity while trusting our inner “God” or “Truth” to lead us to wisdom. This process will be a big theme for the coming weeks, and 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 Full Moon helps us re-focus on getting a “valid historical perspective,” and letting go of nonessentials.
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 the larger theme of this year focusing on “a valid historical perspective,” where we separate out the core principles from the events surrounding them.
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.
As a process of moving through events, over the next 2 weeks we’re all going to be inclined to feel our way into decisions and actions. After we decide and/or act, it will be important to get new information to come to a new vision or understanding. Once we get the right view or understanding, then a new feeling-experience will naturally arise that points the way to the next action.
over the next 2 weeks we’ll still be leading with our feelings, then making decisions on the basis of those feeling experiences, followed by new information, new ideas, new interpretations, and new views. We’ll be “feeling our way” into new experiences, then deciding and acting on the basis of those feelings. After a decision or action, then we’ll have to find newer, more up to date information, facts, and understanding so we can get a new vision.
So learn and teach through anecdotes, seeing how others handled things practically, or how you handed things practically in the past. Let your thinking and communicating and envisioning follow your actions, and let your feelings follow a new understanding, a new perception, or a new view.
On a final note, this Full Moon has Neptune in Pisces driving the T-square, and doesn’t have any favorable aspects to mitigate. So while it’ll be good for busting through illusions and fogs, it’s also going to be a peculiar time that requires us to stay very clear about who we are and who we aren’t. We can use the building energy of Mars in a sextile and trine to the Lunation to build, and release through Neptune into the Virgo void.
Pisces is the sign of compassion and forgiveness. We have use the awareness of the Full Moon to express positive Neptunian energies, which will affect our atmosphere in positive ways. Because there is a lot of collective heaviness in the air, generate compassion and good will whenever you can.
While sometimes life relationships and others’ rules can be a drag, it is important to remember that though life can occasionally 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
Nice Full Moon meditation!
How do you Robert, find the 4 angles of illuminating?
JM
Posted by: JM | November 26, 2015 at 08:49 PM
Thank you Robert. I love the meditation. What are the 4 angles?
Or how do we find them?
Posted by: Abby Alderson | November 26, 2015 at 11:21 PM
As usual very interesting from many points of view. " 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."This, for example, could be a summary of much of what is happening or of what is behind what is happening at this time.
Thanks Robert and blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | November 27, 2015 at 10:21 AM
Thank you, Robert.
I appreciate your clarifying the astrology dynamics and for always writing in an optimistic manner which is inspiring!
Sherry
Posted by: Sherry Katz | November 27, 2015 at 12:25 PM
This is so jam packed for me I am printing it and putting on my writing table. I can easily journal away on this. A good write will do me good.
Posted by: caliban | November 28, 2015 at 10:24 AM
Haven't commented here in a while. Just rereading this article to see if I spot an antidote to being in the cross-hairs of this T-square. I've 3 personal planets in Pisces, including natal Sun @4Pi. Natal Saturn & Moon conjunct @12-13 degrees Cancer. With Pluto's help, the last 5 yrs have been radical.
Now, I'm just shell-shocked. Afraid to engage with bully bosses & loved ones alike. For Fear of erupting like a volcano w/o end. For Fear of the damage to other bridges nearby. For Fear of having no power to change troublesome situations.
Anyone have an antidote for an uber empath Pisces to prevent/discourage the absorption of negative energy/people? ...I do pray about these matters & carry obsidian w me.
...I also called two people with 3-4 degrees Virgo prominent. The result was, one upset me much more than the other. Have mercy.
Posted by: ThanQ | November 30, 2015 at 05:22 AM
It seems that already the full moon before the full moon at Christmas Day is very spiritual. I like the way you noticed the Percephone, mother earth. It was somehow hiding from my notice... Thank you for your very clear eye.
Posted by: helina | November 30, 2015 at 09:41 PM