by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon requires our willingness to do what we must to purify our material, emotional, and psychological existence to find happiness by going deep within to find ways to release our spiritual potential.
Major Aspects and Configurations
While there are a few forming oppositions in this chart, the polarization is resolved through other planets creating very favorable, productive, and specializing configurations! The Sun makes a tredecile to Pluto, and the Moon makes a quintile to Pluto, resolving the oppositional tension into unique gifts and serendipitous events to those with planets in the last 8 degrees of Virgo and Pisces and the middle degrees of Cancer and Capricorn. Others who will benefit have planets near 1-3 Taurus/Scorpio, 7-9 Gemini/Sag, 13-15 Cancer/Capricorn, 19-21 Leo/Aquarius, and 25-27 Virgo/Pisces.
The other opposition involves Venus in Libra opposing Uranus in Aries. This line of awareness is made very productive via Mars in Sag, since Venus is sextile Mars and Mars is trine Uranus, throwing very favorable energy to those with planets in the early degrees of the third decan of Aries and Libra, as well as the same area of Gemini and Sagittarius. Anyone with planets near 20-26 degrees of Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius will benefit.
All of the aspects which made for the 2016 Mutable T-squares leading up to the “Great Fracturing” in June are finished now that Saturn square Neptune is separating. Of course, we’ll still be dealing with it each time the Moon makes a square or opposition to those planets, but whatever has fractured this year is now in the past. This major square is associated with the widespread chaos in our world, but also has opened doors to new developments, the ending of old ghosts, and a need to turn the momentum with skill, showing the power of mind to overcome its problems. When unclear, narrow the focus of your activities and relationships to get a better handle on the whole of things.
Inner planet forming aspects besides those mentioned above include Moon triseptile Venus and opposed Jupiter (oos - out of sign); Mercury decile Venus and trielftile Mars; Venus semisextile Sun and sesquisquare Neptune; and Sun conjunct Jupiter (oos), quintile Saturn, and pentelftile Neptune. Other than those already mentioned, outer planet aspects include only Mars quintile Neptune, and Jupiter quadranovile Uranus and biseptile Pluto.
The Moon triseptile Venus is important, since that aspect is one of non-rational, cooperative collective energies. This means many of us will see the end and/or beginning of important relationships that will open doors to a more elegant service to those who thirst. This aspect affects 20-24 Libra, 11-15 Sagittarius, 2-6 Aquarius, 23-27 Pisces, 15-19 Taurus, 7-11 Cancer, and 28 Leo-2 Virgo. If you have a planet or Ascendant in one of these zones, you can bet your relationships will be taking some interesting turns these next 4 months!
So really, there are very few forming frictional aspects, with many aspects by the spiritual harmonic series. The two septile-series aspects belong to the 7th harmonic series. The novile series aspects are the 9th harmonic spiritual series, while the elftile-series aspects belong to the 11th harmonic series. The decile, quintile, and tredecile are all in the 10th harmonic series. If you want to know more about these aspects, when you’re done here please go to The Specializing Aspects Pt. 1 – Quintile, Tredecile, Decile, and Biquintile and 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 in an earlier article, the Grand Irrationality is activated by Jupiter’s biseptile to Pluto, giving expansive force to whatever was triggered when Venus was in early Libra for the Solar Eclipse. Venus then, Jupiter in this Lunar Eclipse, with ongoing developments to come during the last week of September and early October when Mercury moves through 1-6 Libra. Destiny has been in motion in September!
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 eleventh 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 experienced “gain through loss” since then so that we could have faith, go deeper, and receive impressions from higher planes.
Saturn in Scorpio from October 2012 and December 2014 and the Summer of 2015 helped us intensify our striving in structured ways so we could unveil a life Mystery we’ve been chasing for quite a while. This anchored a deeper emotional stability and magnetism in those who did the hard work of making Saturn their 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 we also have a stellium in Virgo in this chart, those who learned their Saturn lessons then have been finding truth and/or opportunities of expanding in that direction.
Thanks to a year of Jupiter conjunct the North Node in Virgo, we’ve been in a long term growth pattern of learning ways to expand our lives and effectiveness through 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,” and finding the order and priority in plans and actions will now begin to give way to new openings related to when the NN was in early Libra, since Jupiter is now activating that sector of degrees.
Element Balance
Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 3 planets in Fire signs, 2 in Water, 3 in Earth, and 2 in Air. This marks the end of a long period where we’ve had little or no planets in Air signs except the inners, and at this time we have a fairly good balance between Fire (inspiration) and Earth (Practicality), supported by strong Air (communicating) and Water (feeling) due to Venus in its home sign and Moon strong in Pisces. After a long period of strength due to Mars in Scorpio, Water (feeling) is now diminished for the rest of the year except when the inner planets move through Scorpio.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, everything should be well balanced, with practical inspiration and inspired practicality at the forefront.
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 in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn. For more than a few years, they have symbolized the global collision of ideas at this point in history, and from time to time have been 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 back in a separating 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 is narrowing, and by late October they will again begin to 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 which will be triggered by the Moon 4 times a month, and the inner planets transiting Libra.
As planets move through mid to late 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 a T-square back into play, throwing the void into Cancer. How we handle that T-square will have major implications for the seeds that begin to sprout when the inner planets conjunct Pluto and then square Uranus.
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 a sesquisquare that dominated June, July, and August, representing the substantial “fire by friction” in our world. We have all had to mobilize in some way in order to reshape our perceptions so that we can redeem a promise in the future. Now that Mars has made its trine to Uranus, it’s jumpstarted events that will become part of our life structure as Saturn moves into the trine to Uranus, when we will redeem promises from earlier this year.
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. As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience involves leading with our thinking, then deciding, then feeling. Due to Mercury being retrograde, don’t be surprised if you find yourself reflecting on the past, or remembering a way you used to listen to your inner voice. Just don’t overthink things.
So lead with your vision, understanding, and what’s being communicated and move those 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.
A New Look At Mercury Retrograde
Because we’ll still be dealing with Mercury retrograde through September 21-22 (and to some extent for the 2 weeks after that while Mercury is still in its shadow zone), if you’re new to the site and haven’t already obtained your copy, you can find out all you need by getting a copy of my award winning 2nd edition of A New Look At Mercury Retrograde. It offers in-depth information about Mercury retrograde in the various signs and houses, and what the Mercury Retrograde phenomenon is about.
By knowing more about 2014's Mercury retrograde periods in Pisces/Aquarius, Cancer/Gemini, and Scorpio/Libra, as well as 2015’s Mercury retrograde periods in Aquarius, Gemini, and Libra, you may see patterns in what was going on in your life, what you were taking a new look at and why, and how this "looking back" influenced your choices as you moved through past events. And taking a look forward beyond the current retrograde we see Mercury retrograde in Capricorn and Sagittarius in December 2016 and January 2017. It’s all in the book!
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Summing it Up
Sun conjunct Jupiter, quintile Saturn, and tredecile Pluto brings strong Solar force to this Eclipse, promising it to be a very favorable force helping us recycle a lot, eliminate a lot, and remove the clutter of our lives on whatever levels we’re operating. Mars trine Uranus anticipates the very powerful Fire trine energies already in motion with both Saturn and Uranus in Fire signs. This would seem to make now through next year a time of renewed optimism, confidence, and heart strength, so surrender whatever you need to in order to find or demonstrate the power of the radiant heart.
We eliminated a lot earlier this year because of what we learned between late 2012 and the Summer of 2015. That was necessary, 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. That was the benefit of the Mutable squares and oppositions up to now. Now a new season has begun!
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
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