by Robert Wilkinson
This is a Full Moon where things that were stuck go into motion, and new group work is in the air. Just evaluate your yearning to make sure you’re as effective as you can be.
This stabilizing, purifying, sobering, and productive Full Moon bringing rest for some and activation for others, helping all to simplify and stabilize on the emotional and social levels occurs at 5:52 am PST. 8:52 am EST, 1:52 pm UT November 14 and falls at the 23rd degree of Scorpio and Taurus. As with all Full Moons, use the light you’ve been seeing and expressing since the New Moon, and give it form and focus through cooperating with others in your own unique way!
Today’s Full Moon post will be an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In parts 2 and 3 we’ll cover the Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.
This is the sixth Full Moon where the Full Moon Sun is the same as the Sun sign of the previous New Moon. I’ll explain the importance of where we’ve been and where we’re going later in this article. Because the New Moon preceding the Full Moon always represents the seed forms that are brought to surface at and after the Full Moon, this begins the fulfillment of the theme of the recent New Moon in Scorpio. To learn more about that Lunation at 8 Scorpio, please check out the recent articles The New Moon at 8 Scorpio Pt. 1 - What’s Happening in November 2016 as well as The New Moon at 8 Scorpio Pt. 2 - Signs, Sabian Symbols, and What It All Means.
An Overview
This Full Moon brings forth forms of fulfillment of new developments in how we relate to others, based in lessons related to what has awakened since 2014. This transmutes the natural into the magical, and offers awakened healing powers for those who have done their integration practices. This will harden some ideas, with learning and being alert when it’s time to act as primary themes.
This chart is a mixed bag of aspects which I’ll discuss later in the series. There is a “tension of opposites” set up by the forming opposition of Jupiter in Libra with Uranus in Aries, as well as the Lunation opposition. This Full Moon initiates the strong opposition-sextile-trine of 2017 that will be made by Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Very good for rhythmic building, and this shows us how to do it.
We are now in a time when we’ll have a stable Jones Pattern for many months except for when the Moon is outside the occupied span, which begins with this chart. So the Bowl is modified by the Moon, and that means this chart is an imperfect Locomotive, as the Moon doesn’t make the trine to Jupiter.
Is the Grand Irrationality A Factor in this Full Moon?
The Grand Irrationality, along with the other non-rational configurations that happen off and on, indicate that we’ve been living in an era of very heavy decisions determining the future destiny of humanity since 1993. To refresh you, the Grand Irrationality is a long wave configuration set into motion every time a planet makes a conjunction, septile, biseptile, or triseptile to Neptune and Pluto. Septile series aspects show us points in time when our future destiny is precipitated by critical choices made in the present.
This Full Moon triggers the Grand Irrationality via the Sun septile Pluto. That means destiny is on the move magnetizing seed forms, killing some and sprouting others, over the next two weeks. And as I noted in the last Full Moon, due to the Grand Irrationality being set into play by the recent eclipses, the energies are in motion for many months to come. At this time, the current seven “hot zone” spans that trigger the Grand Irrationality are approximately 10-14 Leo, 1-5 Libra, 23-27 Scorpio , 15-19 Capricorn, 7-11 Pisces, 28 Aries-2 Taurus, and 19-23 Gemini.
We’re now slowly moving out of the configuration, and within a few years Neptune and Pluto will be back in long term sextile, as they were for most of the last half of the 20th century. At this time, the Grand Irrationality gains strength as we move through Autumn and into Winter, and will again lessen in strength in the late Winter into the Spring and Summer.
As I’ve explained in other articles, that means that in the Autumn and Winter (in the Northern Hemisphere) they operate as a simultaneous “pulse,” since they’re both aspected near the same time. But in the Spring and Summer we experience it as a rolling influence, with first Pluto aspected, and then Neptune at some time after that, depending on which planet is doing the aspect to these planets. In this Eclipse, the Plutonic energy part of the equation is set off by Jupiter.
Because this configuration involves Neptune and Pluto, the outermost spiritual planets, they show a long wave evolutionary crisis for the entire human race. Since 1993, at one point or another, everyone on Earth has experienced a nonstop energy of having to choose, at the bottom of our beings, the path to evolution or devolution, progress or regress, love or fear, joy or control. It’s why things have been so weird, irrational, and hard-edged.
Planetary Distribution
In this Full Moon, the span occupied by the inner planets (in this chart the Sun in Scorpio through Mars in Aquarius spans 71+ degrees. As the inner planets catch up to Mars over the next few months, then we’ll again begin to have significant clusters in a very narrow span.
For now, we have a focus of 7 planets in the 110+ degrees between Jupiter in mid Libra and Mars in early Aquarius, making Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Aquarius very active these next two weeks. At this time we have the 10 traditional planets occupying 8 signs, in a widespread distribution.
Currently, the occupied span begins with Jupiter in Libra, and proceeds through planets in Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, and Taurus. As noted above, this spread modifies the Bowl into an imperfect Locomotive.
The Locomotive Pattern and how it works
This type of spread, with all the planets occupying 2/3 of the signs with an empty third, creates an imbalance that leads to power if we can find the compensatory “weight” to make things move forward smoothly rather than rock side to side creating friction. Target what is needed, and provide compensatory energies accordingly.
As Marc Jones put it, “this type of horoscope reveals a balance of this sort in the life. A third part of things… consisting of a free span in experience, is set against a two-thirds part, embracing a related but limited span in experience…. The basis of the dynamic is found in the native’s resulting strong sense of a lack or a need, of a problem to be solved, a task to be achieved in the social and intellectual world around him.”
Dr. Jones states “The temperament reveals a self-driving individuality, an executive eccentricity that is not … unbalance but rather is power. It exhibits a dynamic and exceptionally practical capacity which is neither the broad universality of the Splash pattern, nor the special obsession with some particularly narrowed aspect of experience characteristic of the Bundle people.
He goes on to state “The Locomotive classification is … moved more by external factors in the environment than by aspects of its own character. The point of application for the powers of the self is shown … by the “leading planet,” or the one of the two in the empty trine which forms its aspect clockwise in the zodiac, irrespective of any distinction as “applying” or “separating.”
Jupiter is the leading planet in the Locomotive. Find a balanced way of following opportunities to learn, grow, and expand your life, while adjusting to the rhythms of nature. There may be a need to rest and relax a bit, since tensions are very high due to the Jupiter opposition to Uranus and square to Pluto. We will see truth, so keep it all as moderate and above board as you can. Get clear about what’s in your best interests, and find the right approach, knowing many small steps will be more appropriate than a few large ones. Because the leading and closing edge of the Locomotive are both in Venus-ruled signs, keep opening to a greater appreciation, new relationships, and signs that your worth is being confirmed.
As the Locomotive keeps things out of balance, Jupiter is now the front end to finding the way of initiating activity that must be accompanied by a compensatory “weight” to keep things moving forward rather than sideways. The more we work with the imbalances that can lead us to understand when and why we need a break from routine, the easier it will be to move through the transmutations promised by this Lunation.
Is the Sun Following the Moon, or the Moon Following the Sun?
We now have finished the pattern of the Full Moon Sun falling in a different sign than the Sun of the previous New Moon. This is the sixth Full Moon echoing the pattern we last had between September 2013 and September 2014, and we have left behind the “reversed pattern” we were in through May 2016.
So we’re now in many months of the “natural” order of Lunation Suns, since the last New Moon Sun was in Scorpio, and this Full Moon Sun is also in Scorpio. Since the New Moon offers us seeds in the first half of the month’s lunar cycle, and fulfillment in the second half, we now have the “Seed Light” of Scorpio that will come to a Full Moon illumination through the current Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Taurus.
See you in the near future with parts two and three, where we will explore the Sabian Symbols, aspects, and other important chart factors.
© Copyright 2016 Robert Wilkinson
As always interesting reading, but it also felt "warm" and provided a sense of stability. Much needed during current world events. Thanks Robert.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | November 12, 2016 at 04:56 AM
Super Moon huge earthquake...
...and Mother Earth said...I'm back from the abyss
Held talks with the toxic and planted Cosmic kiss
That evil greed guarantees denial of eternal Bliss
Stuck in stink and stagnancy will cease to exist...
Posted by: sue | November 13, 2016 at 08:29 AM