by Robert Wilkinson
This third “High Moon” distributes the “Buddha Wisdom” of last month’s Wesak to the world as a World Teaching for us all. This one intensifies things to the max!
Important Chart Factors
Given the number of oppositions in this chart, there are more than a few polarized energies in play, bringing a lot to the surface. Try to find peace amidst the many oppositions, since Mars is directly activated by this Full Moon. This Lunation (and by extension, this year) will make a compassionate wisdom available to us all, with many confronting a break point in making overdue decisions. This is an extremely important Full Moon in the larger gestalt, since it happens just before Mercury goes stationary direct and the Sun opposes Mars, which is the midpoint in the Mars retrograde cycle.
This is the final Grand Earth trine involving a planet in Taurus making trines to Jupiter and Pluto, as well as the final trine from Jupiter to Pluto. We have a host of spiritual aspects going on, and faith will play a huge part in helping us resolve dualistic situations. And gifts are on the way!
The Mutable T-square continues to dominate the global pattern for the next few weeks, now that Jupiter is again direct and squaring Saturn as Saturn continues its long term square to Neptune. It’s most affecting those with planets in the middle degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, including those born in the first week of March, June, September, and December. Adaptability and the ability to suspend judgment while exploring all there is to explore without wanting too much order are the keys to success.
Because Jupiter in Virgo is the handle for the “Bucket” pattern, it is extraordinarily important in how to get a handle or focus on things. Be practical, precise, and functional within a larger vision, and show humor when overcoming any limiting beliefs or circumstances. The opposition from Pisces to Virgo counsels us to stay alert to seeing the bigger picture, and learn how to give things an occasional push so they prove in our long term interest.
In some ways, this is the end of a collective submergence, with new service and newer, more effective ways to live demanded within the collective dreamscape. So it’s both the end of the end of an old way of relating to others and even to our life story, even as newer necessities break the surface in a cacophony of possibilities thanks to the Mutable T. There are great integrative possibilities for those who can hang out within the dilemmas, so make sure you’re hanging in there to receive the rewards you’re due.
Major Aspects and Configurations
The Mutable t-square will stay strong through this Summer, and shows the Great Fracturing to come when the Sun, Venus, and Mercury move through Gemini and make a Grand Mutable Cross. This fracturing will ultimately be tremendously beneficial in clearing out some limiting attitudes and circumstances so we can find the knowledge that ensures us forms of wealth and power in the future.
Jupiter square Saturn gives us the opportunity to bring much to completion. 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.
Jupiter is now separating from its opposition to Neptune, but the T stays strong due to the two squares involving Saturn. Jupiter’s had a long term trine for several weeks thanks to Mercury being in mid-Taurus during that time, giving stability as we learn to “get a grip” on whatever Jupiter in mid-Virgo has been teaching us for many months. Because both of these planets are forming Earth trines to Pluto, this is the time to go to the core and see the openings that are obvious.
This favorable productive building awareness can be released through Saturn, which is the driver of the 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. The stability of the Grand Earth Trine can be released in find style via Saturn, as long as the Sagittarian expression has both simplicity, practicality, and versatility!
Besides the powerful Mutable T-square releasing the positive stabilizing energy of the Earth trines, there are some very intense and polarizing factors in the Lunation. These are mostly associated with the Moon conjunct Mars with the Sun opposed to both, as well as a wide but significant Moon conjunct and Sun opposition Saturn retrograde, adding another layer of the retrograde effect to the picture. Due to Mars and Saturn both retrograde, look within to find peace and poise as you navigate the oppositions focused through Moon conjunct Mars.
These conjunctions and oppositions act mainly as a portent for things to come later in the Summer. This is a “back to the future” type of configuration, since a time lag will have to take place before something moves forward in August when both Mars and Saturn are in direct motion in Sagittarius.
Other frictional aspects include Moon semisquare Pluto, Sun sesquisquare Pluto, and a forming out of sign opposition from Venus to Mars. The octile series aspects made by the Lunation to Pluto will keep the pressure on us to actively integrate some things in our lives, despite a heightened sensitivity. For those who are feeling insecure or defensive, go to the internal core of the matter and depersonalize while finding a bigger view and a larger scope of possible futures.
While there aren’t a host of harmonious aspects, we find a number of spiritual aspects. These include Moon pentelftile Mercury and binovile Jupiter, Mercury vigintile Sun and pentelftile Mars, Venus pentelftile Saturn, bielftile Neptune, and quadraelftile Pluto, and the Sun novile Uranus and binovile Neptune, “collecting the light” and bringing the Uranus novile Neptune back into activity.
If you want to know more about novile and the various elftile series aspects, when you’re done here please go to The Spiritual Aspect Series – The Novile, Septile, and Elftile Harmonic Aspects where you’ll find more about the meaning of these aspects and the glyphs associated with them. Also, remember that all of these set up harmonic resonance void points all over our charts.
As I mentioned earlier, the Grand Irrationality is not in play in this Lunation, but will be in less than two weeks when Venus and the Sun begin their transit through the Gemini zone of that configuration. Occurring just after the Great Fracturing indicated by the Grand Mutable Crosses happening throughout June, this will allow everyone to move in a new direction, or at the very least, order what’s left of the old into a new plan that will pick up speed as Mars goes direct.
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 seventh 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 revisited last 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 in Libra symbolized our line of greatest development from Feb 2014 through November 2015. Therefore, the lessons we learned when Saturn was in Libra between 2009 and 2012 were sources of great development during 2014-2015.
Since November 2015, the North Node has been in Virgo, where we are getting pulled to growth through Virgo emphases. This is helping us grow via the Saturn in Virgo lessons we experienced between September 2007 and July 2010. Because Jupiter is still in close conjunction with the North Node in this chart, those who learned their Saturn lessons well back then are finding truth and/or opportunities of expanding in that direction.
Because Jupiter and the North Node are conjunct in Virgo, we can move into great growth by having faith in practical methods, higher forms of service, learning about health on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels, and moving into whatever “venerable standards” Saturn helped us choose to live as an example to others back in 2009. “Expansive attention to detail,” or being educated by experimenting with social service could describe this conjunction.
Element Balance
Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 4 planets in Fire signs, 1 in Water, 4 in Earth, and 1 in Air. This indicates a preponderance of Fire (inspiration) and Earth (Practicality), with the lonely but pervasive single presence of Neptune in Water (feeling), and the re-emergence of the Air element (communicating) as the Sun enters Gemini.
This indicates a high degree of inspiration and practicality, with a vast amorphous feeling and the beginning of the Light of relatedness. As Venus and then Mercury move into Gemini and Cancer, Air and Water will again be front and center, with less Earth.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, feelings will run fairly high, with the practicality of Earth keeping things grounded. Because Mercury in Taurus rules the Sun, and Jupiter in Virgo rules the Moon, the Earth element is very prominent, and Venus in its home sign of Taurus as final dispositor should keep the peace despite the conjunctions and oppositions to Mars in fiery Sagittarius!
More on how Uranus Square Pluto Has Ramped Up Radical Energies!
As I’ve mentioned off and on over the past 4+ 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 past, it’s still active since it’s only separating by 5+ degrees, and so is triggered each time anything moves through 16 to 24 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn. It was triggered nonstop through all of April due to transits through Aries. The good news is it’s growing wider until September of this year. The bad news is it will be triggered as dual-pulse friction when planets move through Cancer in early July, each opposing Pluto followed by the square to Uranus about a week late.
By October when the inner planets move through Libra, Uranus will be 98 degrees wide from Pluto, but the planets making the square to Pluto followed a week later by the opposition to Uranus will “collect the light” and bring the T back into play, throwing the void into Cancer. Pay attention in July, find the right balance, proportion, or sense of fairness, and it will help you navigate October.
I’ve discussed this aspect at length in many 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’ve been dealing with this for a few years, and it certainly introduced us all to a very “electric and eclectic” revolution unlike any seen since the 1960s!!
Uranus is now moving through a span of degrees it hasn’t transited since 1932-1934. Given what was happening then and the parallels to what’s going on now, stay alert to those who are impatient or petulant in wanting to change things in a hurry, as well as those who are willing to wage ideological war against others. There are promises to be redeemed later this year, as well as greater ones in 2017, but using blunt force to push will destroy the good that could come.
Saturn was trine Uranus earlier this year, but is now moving back to make a brief quadraelftile in late May on its way to making a sesquisquare. This will prevail in June, July, and August, and promises substantial “fire by friction” for the world. This will spur us all to mobilize in some way, under the pressure of an influx of spiritual energies that will reshape all our perceptions. By September when Mars moves through Sag and trines Uranus, we should see things in motion related to the promises to be redeemed in 2017.
By late September Saturn and Uranus will again be in quadraelftile, and by mid-October approaching their long term trine. This Fire trine will predominate all of late 2016 through 2017, and then they slip into an Earth trine in 2018. Great for blending the old and the new, the innovative with the structure!
Saturn trine Uranus 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.
The Fire 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. The trine earlier in 2016 set an inspirational pattern wherever we have the middle degrees of the Fire signs in our charts, and this 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.
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.
Feeling, then Deciding, then 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. This one introduces a different pattern than the one offered by the recent New Moon.
As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience involves leading with our thinking, communicating, understanding, and envisioning, and following that with knowing what we feel or are experiencing about that vision or understanding. Then, after the vision or information has led to a feeling, we must follow that with decisions or actions based in a fundamental fact.
So lead with your thinking, communicating, and envisioning, and then feel your way to decisions and actions. After you find the basic fact that allows you to focus on the single act that can move everything forward one step, then go find newer ideas, information, and visions that can help you find a new way to experience your feelings.
Due to Mercury coming out of its retrograde period at this Lunation, you may find the information or vision has its roots in the past, or involves something you’ve already confronted before. So take a new look, feel your way into new experiences, and pay attention to hunches about decisions and the need for action. When you find a fundamental fact that allows you to decide and act on that decision, you’ll naturally find new information and views which lead to new experiences and new actions to be taken.
Our sense of purpose can keep a lot integrated in the next few months despite the multiple fractures in front of all of us. This is a time of “favorable disintegration,” and by the time Mars goes direct in late June we will not feel as blocked as we have in the past.
Use the enthusiasm you’ve been generating or confronting since the New Moon, and go with the intensification that should be the natural expression of the gifts you’ll receive. A lot will be made manifest from this point on, sometimes in a hectic or disorganized way. Again, some of it can only move forward when Mars is direct and re-enters Sagittarius in August, so you may want to regard this as a preparatory time. Anticipate what’s coming, anticipate what actions you will have to do, and be at peace as you continue to cultivate character.
Because of so many planets still retrograde, keep it slow and steady, take a new look or a new approach to whatever you need to, and based in the simple, practical, and enjoyable period of the Earth trines just past, move forward with gentle deliberation, refusing to be pulled into oppositional struggles with dualistic people, distractive arguments, contradictory views, or contentious and rigid dogmatists. Everything about the wisdom we’ve learned through deliberate, slow, and steady action will move forward now as we begin a phase of seeing our “challenge to transformation” indicated by the coming Mars stationary direct point.
The Three High Moons of Spring
This Christfest Full Moon is said to be the third of the “Three High Moons” of Spring each year. The second “High Moon” was the Wesak Festival which released a year-long global wisdom teaching that will now expand its influence at this Full Moon, also known as the Festival of the World Teacher. I gave you a little about the importance of these Three High Moons and their importance in the evolution of the global human consciousness in the recent article on these High Moons.
This Full Moon coincides with World Invocation Day. The wisdom-forms for the coming year are sent forth around the world on this Full Moon each year. May the blessed angel of peace prevail on Earth, cleansing our internal fires that we may leave old hostilities behind.
With the Earth trines to Pluto, we now understand why we’ve had to let go of some things and people, as well as what we still have to let go of. Because a full glass cannot take in new contents, but an empty glass can be filled, from time to time we must create space in the material, emotional, mental, and spiritual parts of our life so we can embrace new actions, feeling responses, thoughts, and spiritual practices in the next season.
Because life seems to be a never-ending experience of out-breathing elements of the past and in-breathing elements of the new, it is useful to remember that when we are moving through major changes, when something is introduced into our lives, something else must leave, or has already left, to provide space for the new to be embraced. And lesser wisdom must give way to greater wisdom, and old forms give way to newer realities.
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
Thank you so much Robert for the three post regarding this very important Full Moon. Brilliant and enlightening stuff. Truly helpful.
And, in between the three post and good one on the Who! Great.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | May 20, 2016 at 08:10 PM
Thanks for your May 21 full moon articles, Robert. We had Solar eclipse at the same degree - 1.15 Sag back in 2003. I wonder if there would be any connection between 2003 Solar eclipse and this full moon, cause I have my Asc at 1.20 Sag.
Posted by: Aleksas | May 20, 2016 at 08:55 PM
Hi Nic - Sure. I think this one will bring gifts from the invisible world. The trick will be not to play to the Mars edginess in the air!
Hi Aleksas - You're most welcome. Because of the RX Mars, it's entirely possible that we will get echoes of what passed out of our lives in 2004-2005, or see how we've been repressing some of that, or internalized it and now can let it go. Your old self image passed away during those years. Now you can see how those losses shaped your self image, and given you a "weightier" character now that Saturn's been camped out there for about a year and a half. You clearly had to eliminate something so you could take on this more responsible sense of self in the past 18 months.
Posted by: Robert | May 21, 2016 at 02:14 PM
Thanks, Robert. That is exactly what I had experienced back in 2003 - 2005 and in the past year and half :)) Sending best wishes your way for Sagittarius/Gemini energies ahead!!!
Posted by: Aleksas | May 21, 2016 at 03:48 PM
Thanks dear Robert,
The feeling of healing from the planets through your words...
Nostradamus century 2-16 New tyrants!
Posted by: sue | May 22, 2016 at 08:42 AM