The Full Moon in Pisces-Virgo in February 2016 Pt. 3 – Aspects, Configurations, and More

by Robert Wilkinson

The recent Full Moon ushered in a time of seeing a vaster Light of interconnectedness that hold the potential for extraordinarily organic and natural practical self-expression, holding the promise of cosmic mutations that will free us from local conditions. Stay honest, keep a sense of humor as you live your integrity, and release whatever you need to as you stand on the threshold of a new awareness within the larger field.

Important Chart Factors

As I’ve told you, this Lunation will result in our ability to see a vaster perspective in ours and others’ evolution, and pull us toward venerable standards we’re supposed to be living. This will call us to free ourselves from old inhibitions, and embrace the training for group work that may challenge us, but will yield big rewards this Summer.

Because the Moon in Virgo leads the occupied sector of the “Locomotive,” it takes on a doubled importance as the symbol for how to get a hand on things, or how to initiate some form of practical activity. Mercury sextile Saturn and Venus quintile Mars promise major productivity and unique interactions as Mars triggers the Grand Irrationality from a degree showing efficiency and adaptability in while moving through changing conditions.

Major Aspects and Configurations

There are mostly harmonious and spiritual aspects in this Lunation. The friction comes solely from Jupiter square Saturn and quincunx Uranus. This square will stay strong through June, so if you feel that some effort is not worth the price, it’s an opportunity not to fall into discouragement or set your sights too low, or allow unnecessary rules and limitations to put you off your goal. Make sure your values and ambitions are reinforcing each other, and you’ll develop the strength to hold the focus under pressure.

Even though it’s still wide, the Jupiter opposition to Neptune and trine to Pluto gives a lot of favorable momentum coupled with balanced awareness. This throws a very favorable void into the second decan of Cancer, giving us the power of self-mobilization on our own behalf to gather what we need to secure something in our life. We will see how we’re being shaped into a more perfect and socially valuable form, with strong growth involving personality integration as we finish one chapter of a life quest.

This favorable productive building awareness can be released through Saturn, which is the driver of the wide but forming Mutable T-square. Be a good juggler and communicator, find different ways of viewing things to shift the momentum, and you’ll find your expertise has led you to a different realm of activity.

Venus septile Saturn shows it’s an emergent point for all of us in terms of relationships. This is totally future oriented, and gives us moments of pause as we prepare to be ready to act, breaking free of old rules and dependencies. This will manifest as the power of unrealized potentials “cracking open the cosmic egg” so that we can get a sense of who we are outside of local conditions.

This will impact the houses where we have Taurus, Libra, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Aquarius. 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 14-18 Sagittarius, 5-9 Aquarius, 26-30 Pisces, 18-22 Taurus, 10-14 Cancer, 1-5 Virgo, and 22-26 Libra.

There are so many spiritual aspects in this Full Moon that we will be seeing all kinds of revelations, emergent awarenesses, and opportunities to overcome various dualities by making leaps of faith. These aspects are Moon binovile Mars, Mercury bielftile Uranus, Sun pentelftile Jupiter and binovile Saturn, Mars bielftile Jupiter, and Uranus novile Neptune. Obviously these set up harmonic resonance void points all over our charts, which may prove an interesting guide to what’s going on with each of these.

As I mentioned in an earlier article, the Grand Irrationality is in direct play in this one, thanks to Mars transiting the Scorpio zone of that configuration. This sets up triggers between now and early August that will triggered each time the Moon transits any of the 7 hot zones of the Grand Irrationality. The configuration will also be in focus as the Sun, Mercury, and Venus all make septiles to Pluto over the next few weeks, as well as when these go through late Aries and early Taurus throughout April and early May, making biseptiles to Pluto and septiles to Neptune.

If you’re new to the site, briefly, the Grand Irrationality in play for over 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 fourth 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.

This Lunation shows the North Node exactly conjunct Jupiter, indicating growth is in having faith in our ability to grow in practical ways, and move into those “venerable standards” we’re will to live as an example to others. “Expansive attention to detail,” or being educated by experimenting with social service could describe this conjunction. It will also show us the benefits of what we learned in the Autumn of 2009.

Element Balance

Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 2 planets in Fire signs, 3 in Water, 3 in Earth, and 2 in Air. This indicates a very balanced set of elemental energies in play these next two weeks, with a slight preponderance of Earth (Practicality) and Water (feeling), with a slight underrepresentation of Fire (inspiration) and Air (communicating).

With the slight emphasis on Water and Earth, we have a combination of strong feelings and practical grounding, but keep in mind that Earth plus Water equals either mud or bricks, depending on how you work with the material. So while some will find a sensitivity as they organize things so they further an “enlightened self-interest,” others will find themselves “stuck in the mud” of defensive calculations.

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 practicality of Earth, and the feelings of Water.

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.

Even though the exact square is just past, it’s still very intense since it’s only separating by a degree, and so is triggered each time anything moves through mid-Aries, mid-Cancer, mid-Libra, or mid-Capricorn. It’ll be triggered nonstop in late march through all of April due to transits through Aries. After that it will not be much of a factor until late November 2016 and January 2017.

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. In 2014-2015, it went stationary retrograde and stationary direct on a degree where we’ve been learning to retire with dignity from dramas we don’t need. As Uranus is now moving forward, we can use this power of revolution and innovation to find a new perspective and balance in our actions, getting focused in how we express our potential.

Because Saturn is trine Uranus, it shows a time when there is a possibility of harmonizing the old with the new. It indicates a time when what’s established can accept innovations and individualizing impulses to open doors to a wider effectiveness in the future. This one takes what is possible and synthesizes it within a greater law of uniqueness or pioneering initiatives.

This trine opens heart fires, and over the long run we’ll see this aspect unleashing a new type of artistic intensity, even for those who are not artists. This is setting an inspirational pattern wherever we have the middle degrees of the Fire signs in our charts, and will take clearer shape from October 2016 on through December 2017.

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 rid of our inhibitions so we can let loose our spontaneity. Have a sense of humor about how this is going on in your lives, and keep showing the “tender care” for your fresh dreams, hopes, and projects, since we’re still getting Mercurial signs and signals about Pluto via Mercury’s recent direct station a few weeks ago.

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 over the past few months. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses.

As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequences” for moving through life and experience involves first feeling our way into ideas, perceptions, view, and interactions. Once we’ve gotten a new idea, vision, or understanding, then we have to make a decision and act on it!

Try not to overplan too far into the future. Take your feeling-knowing one step at a time, and keep things in balanced motion, even if they go all over the place at times. Move from experience to knowledge, communication, or vision. When you feel something, then get the information you need that allows you to see the one step you need to take to move everything forward one step.

Once we’ve made a decision and acted on it, then a new feeling will naturally arise showing the next thing to learn about, communicate, or understand. So feel, flow, and experience, since these will lead you to ideas and views that will in turn lead to the next decision which will naturally lead you to the next experience.

Our integrity can help us release a lot of the past these next two weeks. We have some remarkably favorable aspects that show many overlapping spiritual realizations are there to be had. Because of the nature of the planetary positions in this Full Moon, we can use the power of the Lunation to express our innocence, and free ourselves of old prejudices.

Rise above contrasts, and work and play at fellowship. With Mercury exalted in Aquarius, we can see the larger sweep of our evolution, and Venus offers us an introduction to the better angels of our nature which can free us to embrace our cosmic potential freed from lesser things and considerations.

We can use the awareness of the Full Moon to express positive Piscean energies, which will affect our atmosphere in positive ways. Because there is a lot of collective heaviness in the air, generate positivity, healing, and heart-felt goodwill whenever you can.

While sometimes having to say goodbye to older, lesser ways of life can be a drag, it is important to remember that even 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 2016 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Nic]

Thanks for the three post on this New Moon. What you say certainly makes senses with what I am experiencing and rings a bell on many things. These is of great help to keep on moving forward as life does.

Blessings be to all.

[helina]

I made my first police report of unsuccessful VISA payment refund. While sun and neptunus conjunction, hard to expect too much of justice. But I have done my part.

[sw]

Thank you, Robert. These posts help alot.