by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon opens the door to healing on many levels if we’re willing to embrace the educational adventure with an eye to a promise to be redeemed in 2017.
Important Chart Factors
Given the lack of forming oppositions in this chart, polarization is diminished, while the powerful quincunxes between Mercury and Venus with Neptune show hard adjustments in collective attitudes. There are fewer forming aspects at this Full Moon than any other in recent history, but the ones we have are very powerful.
All of the aspects which made for the “Great Fracturing” in June are finished except for Saturn square Neptune. Even though it’s slightly separating, Venus pulls it together via the aspects she makes to both planets. This major square reveals the widespread chaos in our world, but also opens doors to new developments, the ending of old ghosts, a need to combine imagination with practical engineering, and many mysteries will be unveiled these next two weeks. When unclear, narrow the focus of your activities and relationships to get a better handle on the whole of things.
Mars is direct, and rapidly finishing its stay in Scorpio. It features energies of adaptation and efficiency, while Jupiter opens doors to adventures even if we feel the equipment is inadequate in some way. Venus promises relief and release once we see things in the past with different eyes, and find a new way to interpret past images and give them a new meaning in our current lives.
Because we’re in a Splay pattern, the energies are spread out widely and irregularly. It may be that lots won’t quite fit together in a neat and clean way these next two weeks, so take a wide view, and again, focus on the healing potential via the play that’s been a dominant but subtle energy since the last New Moon on July 4. Jupiter continues to show us the need to be practical, precise, and functional within a larger vision, and show humor when overcoming any limiting beliefs or circumstances.
Major Aspects and Configurations
As I mentioned, there are not that many aspects in play. The Moon actually makes no forming aspects, major or minor, before it leaves Capricorn. That is so rare that it defies the imagination, and I suppose it may be one of the few truly “Void of Course” Moons we ever experience. Of course, as I have noted previously, those of us with planets at 28, 29, or 30 degrees in a sign will not experience this “VOC” effect, since the Moon is definitely aspecting planets in our charts!
Mercury makes a powerful biseptile to Mars, a decile to Jupiter, tredecile to Uranus, quincunx to Neptune, and triseptile to Pluto, triggering the Grand Irrationality, discussed in part one of this series. Venus is novile Jupiter, trine Saturn, tredecile Uranus, quincunx Neptune, and triseptile Pluto. The Sun is septile Jupiter, and Mars is bielftile Jupiter and back into septile with Pluto, thanks to Mercury collecting the Light. Moving into the outer planets we see only Jupiter binovile Saturn, Saturn sesquisquare Uranus and decile Pluto, and Uranus trielftile Pluto.
Mercury and Venus triseptile Pluto activates the 7 zones of the Grand Irrationality I discussed in part one, and besides those degree sectors, affects planets and houses involving Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, and Capricorn. Mercury biseptile Mars affects all areas just noted.
Sun septile Jupiter is the closing turning point in the Sun-Jupiter cycle that began last September when they conjuncted at 4 Virgo. This one begins the disintegration of that cycle, and the formation of the seed that will be renewed in late September this year when they conjunct at 4 Libra. This septile puts the Light and the Promise into dynamic shift, and most affects those with planets or angles near 26-30 Cancer, 18-22 Virgo, 9-13 Scorpio, 1-5 Capricorn, 22-26 Aquarius, 13-17 Aries, and 5-9 Gemini. If you have one of these zones active, your life is about to his a major turning point in how and where it expands.
Deciles and tredeciles are 10th harmonic specializing aspects, noviles and binoviles are 9th harmonic aspects, septiles, biseptiles, and triseptiles are 7th harmonic aspects, and all the elftile series are 11th harmonic aspects. I have articles explaining these aspects in the archives, as well as the other aspects. If you want to know more about these 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 definitely in play in this Lunation, as are two other major septile series aspects involving a total of 6 planets, thus influencing a lot of areas in all our charts! 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 ninth 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. As Jupiter is still conjunct 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, 3 in Water, 3 in Earth, and 0 in Air. This continues a general emphasis of a lack of Air for most of 2016, and for the next two weeks indicates a preponderance of Fire (inspiration), Water (feeling), and Earth (Practicality), with diminished relatedness due to a lack of Air (communicating).
This indicates a balance between inspiration, feeling, and practicality. We’ll continue to be short on Air (except for the Full Moon in Aquarius) until Jupiter enters Libra in September. And we now have a LOT of fire since Mercury and Venus have entered Leo! August will bring a preponderance of Earth, with major conjunctions of Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter coming toward the end of that month.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, feelings are very high, with the practicality of the Earth planets keeping things grounded.
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, we’re still dealing with the “mundane square” between Aries and Capricorn. These two planets are now in a trielftile, showing they’ve taken us out of the dynamic square and into a spiritualizing relationship where we have to find a synthesis of understanding despite the dualities of the friction.
Their angular relationship grows wider until October when they again begin to re-trigger the square. By late October they’ll be 96+ degrees apart, and by Dec-Jan they’ll be 93 degrees apart. This sets up a “dual-pulse friction” for the next few months, since as planets move through mid to late Cancer over the next few weeks, each will oppose Pluto and then make a square to Uranus about a week later.
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 moved back to a brief quadraelftile in late May on its way to making its current 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.
Thinking, then Deciding, then Feeling 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 is a different pattern than the one offered by the recent New Moon or any other recent event.
As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience involves leading with our deciding or acting, and following that with feeling or experiencing what follows that decision or action. Then after you feel what you need to feel, don’t simply go back to more actions, but instead move into new ideas, a new vision, new understanding, or a communication so that you come to a new way of viewing what’s going on.
So over the next two weeks we’ll lead with our decisions and actions, after which we’ll need to reference our feelings and experience about those decisions and actions. After we decide or act and then feel, we then need to find newer, more up to date information so we can get a new way of viewing those actions and our experience of those actions.
So get it in gear, and then go to your feelings and check in about how you’re experiencing those decisions and actions, after which find a new view, a new understanding, new information, and new interactions that can help you see clearly what must be done and how. Then do it, and again feel what you must on the basis of that decision. Periods of solitude may be required after a critical decision or action. After that direct experience of feelings the results of your decision and action, then find the information from which a new understanding or vision will arise.
See what needs eliminating, and do it quickly. Take a look at the magnetism in situations, and focus, adjust, find a new perspective or balance, and organize or reorganize as needed. Use the lessons around how to play you’ve seen since the New Moon, and use play to heal what must be healed in your life. This is a time of high specialization and interactive blessings.
Now that Mars is direct, show efficiency and adaptability as you get centered in the NOW and find ways to express your faith. Much will intensify when Mars re-enters Sagittarius in August, so you regard this as a preparatory time. Anticipate what’s coming, anticipate what actions you will have to do, and be willing to link your energies with others as you stand on the threshold of a new adventure in consciousness.
The months’ long Jupiter trine Pluto coupled with the Great Fracturing throughout the month of June showed us that we had to let go of some things and people, as prelude to new activities to begin in late August. 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 for this third post that is clear and helpful. Certainly the collective is going thorough a learning time and synthesis is a need. It is a good time to see and learn what is behind many of the disruptive events everywhere in the world. That, is a step forward.
Blessing be to all.
Posted by: Nic | July 21, 2016 at 03:17 AM