by Robert Wilkinson
This stabilizing, questing, and regenerating Full Moon at 23 Scorpio-Taurus will help us see the light of the lessons of 2013-2014 and let go of outmoded things so we can get clear about what is of value. It will help us to find concrete expression of the concentrated doses of spiritual energy we’ve received since May. Like last month’s Full Moon, this one also renews, repairs, and helps us embrace new ways and new experiences. Since Jupiter still leads the Sun, take an abundant view and you’ll see the way to the light.
At a Full Moon, that which has opened since the previous New Moon surfaces in a public form, and heads toward the culmination and fruition symbolized by the second half of any cycle. First half, birth into form and field. Second half, culmination and completion of the purpose of that cycle.
That’s why it’s important to regard the New and Full Moon charts as “God’s Footprints in Time,” since one follows the other in an unending sequence of births of newer and newer seeds. The New Moons show us the seeds that will flourish under the reflected light of the Full Moon.
Full Moons heighten feelings, due to the opposition of the Moon and the Sun. This particular Lunation has one other forming opposition, showing the coming long term “tension of opposites” created by Jupiter opposing Uranus. While that opposition is resolved by Saturn in Sagittarius, the Full Moon has no third point to resolve the tension. Still, Jupiter sextile Saturn in a wide opposition to Uranus offers the next glimpse of using those energies to turn the tension into productivity and specialization. This anticipates the 2017 configuration involving these three planets.
Dispositors - What's the Backdrop to the Energies?
The Moon is in Taurus, making Venus in Capricorn its worldly ruler and TransPluto in Virgo its spiritual ruler. The Sun is in Scorpio, making Mars in Aquarius its worldly ruler, and Pluto in Capricorn its spiritual ruler. Obviously with both worldly rulers in signs ruled by Saturn, it makes Saturn a major player behind the scenes at this time.
The Capricorn planets and Mars in Aquarius are ruled by Saturn in Sagittarius, which is ruled by Jupiter in Libra, which is ruled by Venus in Capricorn, which is ruled by Saturn. That makes this the primary “chain of dispositors” disposing most of the planets in the sky, since all the other planets except Neptune at some point come into this chain. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to Astrology Class – What Is A Dispositor and What Is Mutual Reception Between Two Planets?
The Sabian Symbols for the Full Moon
This Full Moon falls at 23 Scorpio and Taurus. It is said that the last third (decan) of any sign deals with the individual, mental, and spiritual levels of life, and as the Lunation is in the third decan of those signs, invokes a sub-influence of Cancer and Capricorn.
The Sun is the Light, while the Moon gives form to that Light. With the Sun in Scorpio, we are illuminated by going deeper, looking at the magnetics at work in any situation, and fearlessly feeling the emotions we share with others. The Moon in Taurus shows the Light of Scorpio will take form through the Taurus qualities of holding firm, holding steady, keeping it simple and agreeable, and honoring the worth of Self.
Since the Moon always focuses the light of the Sun in specific forms, the degree symbols for both are important. The Sun degree is the illumination or enlightenment of the Lunation, whereas the Moon shows us the potential forms that enlightenment will take. Though I’ve given you a sense of what this is about up to now, here’s where we go into detail.
The Solar degree symbol for the 23rd degree of Scorpio is "A bunny metamorphosed into a fairy.” In "the Astrology of Personality," where Rudhyar uses the original Dr. Jones' class notes on the symbols, 23 Scorpio is said to be a symbol of “Revelation of unexpected vital urges latent in all beings,” “Great creative potentialities,” and “Capacity for self-maintainence.”
In the Astrological Mandala, he says this degree involves “the raising of animal drives to a higher level.” He states the rabbit symbolizes the procreative processes (and a lot more, but I can’t go into those extensive symbolic meanings here) while the nature spirit symbolizes a “higher aspect of life energies …controlling the growth of … the vegetable kingdom.” He offers that “this symbol refers to the transmutation of the generative power into a more … subtle form of potency.”
He offers that “the instinctual urge can be raised to a new level” and gives us the keyword “transubstantiation.” He says it falls in the span of Appreciation and it’s the synthesizing degree of the emotional-cultural level of the scene of Faith in the Act of Group Integration.
According to Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, the degree is one of “the inner or creative values of everyday living,” and “the kaleidoscopic capacity of (our) imagination, or the extent to which (we) may mold and remold the everyday reality with which (we) deal.” He says “here is poetry of soul as it mirrors each person’s ongoing achievement in character and skills.”
He offers us the keyword of TRANSITION. He states that when operating in a positive manner, this degree is "the thorough self-conquest by which an individual subordinates (their) naïve and animal impulses to (their) ideals and aspirations.”
So we enter a two week period of seeing the Light in some synthesis and transmutation of the animal to the super-natural, where we find new ways of personal transformation and “mold or remold” our reality. This is the light new creative potential with an accompanying self-maintenance.
The Lunar degree symbol for the 23rd degree of Taurus is "a jewelry shop.” In the "the Astrology of Personality," where Rudhyar uses the original Dr. Jones' class notes on the symbols, 23 Taurus is said to be a symbol of “abundance of permanent spiritual values; or social display of traditional racial achievements” and “profusion of inner gifts.”
In the Mandala he offers that this degree is one of “the social confirmation of natural excellence.” He states this symbols involves both objects of social value, as well as the process by which Nature created them. He says both the gems and the artistry that created them are prized “and bring prestige to the owner of the jewels.”
He continues that “this symbol applies to any product in which culturally acquired skill has embellished or transformed the end results of a lengthy and demanding natural process,” which implies a “social process which brings about a certification of personal worth.” He says it falls in the Span of Enjoyment, and is the synthesizing degree in the emotional-cultural level of the Scene of Confirmation in the Act of Differentiation.
Dr. Jones says this degree symbolizes “the practical values of everyday living, and of the personal display by which (we) may cherish the rewards of (our) effort and so seek to give them an effective durability.” He states this is about the world “producing and reproducing whatever an individual may require in the way of immediate realities with which to deal.”
He continues “here is the luxury which mirrors any marked achievement in character or skills,” and offers us the keyword PRESERVATION. We are told that when positive, the degree is "a happy gift for shaping all vision to larger dimensions and directing all aspiration to more than trivial ends.”
So the Lunar degree should help us express the Light through forms of great social value which confirm our worth in some social way. This can give us concrete things of value which are the result of “shaping our vision to larger dimensions” as well as a sense of “profusion of inner gifts.”
TransPluto, Divine Mother, Neptune, and the Polarization in the Collective Atmosphere
In the Full Moon charts of 2009-2012, Neptune was in a very close opposition to TransPluto, the planet symbolizing Divine Mother Energy. That’s a major factor in why things became so polarized during those years, teaching humanity compassion and the need for Viveka, or Divine Discrimination. This has offered all of us opportunities to join together in the Great Mother and realize our interrelatedness on a feeling level with All-That-Is.
The energies of Divine Mother will only grow stronger throughout this century, and these will be demonstrated each time the planets make significant aspects to TransPluto. In this chart TransPluto is still at 2 Virgo, giving us another experience of the 2nd step in our entry into this new Virgo era where Divine Mother takes center stage and shows us the long term future of humanity.
We are now revisiting the lessons of the last times it occupied 2 Virgo. The first time we went through this “liberating ordeal” was between October 2014 and mid-January 2015, at which time it retrograded back to 1 Virgo. It re-entered 2 Virgo in early September 2015, and stayed at that degree until February 2016, when it retrograded back to 1 Virgo.
In mid-May it went stationary direct at 1 Virgo, and then re-entered 2 Virgo in early August 2016. It remains on this second degree of Virgo until the end of March 2017, when it again retrogrades back to 1 Virgo. As you can see, we’ll be dealing with themes related to 1 and 2 Virgo for a long time to come.
So we again re-visit the themes of 2 Virgo, where the Divine Redeemer is giving us ways to demonstrate a higher and broader level of discernment through accepting experiences that liberate us so that “compassion and understanding” may come forth. Give up all that suppresses your compassion and spiritual understanding, and you will find both inner strength and invisible help in the future.
In terms of the larger Era, we’ve now ended the TransPluto (Percephone, Parvati) in Leo era that we knew from September 20, 1935 through July 4, 2014. The transition period where this planet danced at the last degree of Leo and first two degrees of Virgo began October 2011 and ended July 2014.
On July 4, 2014, TransPluto left Leo for many centuries, and entered into Virgo for the next century. Because 2 Virgo symbolizes “a liberating ordeal” and the planet occupying that degree symbolizes Divine Mother energy, I would think that would mean we all will be tested to allow compassion and understanding to come forth as humanity stands at the crossroads of time.
Of some importance is that Saturn squared TransPluto from December 2014 through June 2015, and again in late September and October 2015. That severely tested our ability to be far sighted, compassionate, and discerning in seeing the larger redemptive possibilities of this time in history. However, the first two months of 2016 Saturn made a waxing biseptile to TransPluto, showing that time was a huge turning point in finding responsible, future oriented truth teaching ways to demonstrate this “Divine Mother energy.”
Mars biseptiled TransPluto the last 4 days of August and first 5 days of September, triggering previous Saturn in Sagittarius biseptiles to that planet involving lessons of huge “crisis of compassion and connectedness” for humanity. This activated the forming direct biseptile of Saturn to TransPluto of Jan-Feb 2016, the Saturn retrograde biseptile of May-June 2016, and heralded and activated energy that was structured in the final Saturn biseptile to TransPluto between mid-October and now, promising major shifts and “liberating ordeals.”
Now Saturn begins to make a tredecile to TransPluto from late November through early January 2017. This is also part of a long wave sequence of serendipitous relationship pulses between these two important planets. The first tredecile was made when Saturn went stationary retrograde in March. This activated when Mars made its tredecile to TransPluto from September 5-14.
The tredecile is an aspect of “serendipity,” and indicates some very unique and specialized interactive gifts. That means the earlier tredecile between Saturn andTransPluto set up what will happen when Saturn makes the tredecile again in November and December 2016.
Also, when Jupiter conjuncted TransPluto in August 2015 for the first time in Virgo, it began a new 12 year cycle of how these “Divine Mother energies” will manifest. It also began a new long wave era, since Jupiter will conjunct TransPluto in Virgo every 12 years until the 22nd century!
To finish this brief section, Venus also went stationary retrograde exactly conjunct TransPluto in late July 2015, setting up Venusian manifestations of Divine Mother that will show each and every time 1 Virgo is transited. That means the Venusian Divine Mother promise of late July 2015 was expanded, or set into motion somehow, by Jupiter's transit of 1 Virgo in mid-August 2015, and then took expression due to Mars’ transit of that degree in late September, and found “beauty of form” when Venus transited it in early October 2015.
Those two conjunctions have dominated the Virgo landscape in our charts since then, and were given new value, new power, and new understanding with the inner planet transits over those early degrees between late July and late August 2016. The Mars-Jupiter cycle set into motion in October 2015 in mid-Virgo will continue through their next conjunction in mid-Scorpio January 2018.
So we’ve officially entered a different Spiritual Era that will last through July 2107, when it leaves Virgo for good and re-enters Libra for the first time in many centuries, also after a few years of dancing on the cusp of Virgo and Libra. I offered you a bit more about this vast spiritual energy field in Astrology in the Age of Aquarius - Transpluto, a.k.a Divine Mother, Parvati, and Percephone.
Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend
Because Saturn is such a major player right now, indicating a moment of pause which presages change,” and teaching us to be alert and ready to act, not falling into distress at not knowing what’s ahead, I figure it’s okay to plug my new book “Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend.” This book takes an entirely new look at our inner Saturn and the power it gives us to take command of our lives and destiny. If Saturn represents all that limits us and holds us back, it’s only because we must master those lessons so we may become spiritual adults and fulfill our purpose for being alive on Earth. By knowing our Saturnian strengths, we can overcome fear and any sense of victimization or powerlessness.
It was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers, and gives the reader the power to understand why some things happened when they did. Throughout the book, it offers ways for us to “make friends” with this part of our existence and take command of our destiny. As you read each chapter, you’ll become more aware of all the factors assisting Soul growth through understanding how our Saturn lessons relate to Dharma (our Highest Spiritual Function) and various types of karma, both those we cause and those which are "Sacred Wounds" leading us to a greater compassion and understanding.
And as you've just sampled, we explore the concept of Saturn representing our Ring-Pass-Not, or that part of us which is limited while we learn certain lessons related to our understanding of who we are and why we can or cannot do certain things. As our Saturn expands its understanding and wisdom, then our Ring-Pass-Not expands so we can find purpose and meaning in each chapter of life. It is the secret to our power to guide our own evolution as we become conscious of the meaning of why we are on Earth.
The second part of the book examines how Saturn cycles mark major points of choice and change throughout life, and what we can expect when Saturn makes conjunctions, squares, and oppositions to our planets and Ascendant. There are tables assisting the reader to know when Saturn was in each sign, so even those with little or no understanding of astrology can track the timing on their major life changes. There is an entire chapter dedicated to the Saturn Return, perhaps the most important times in life when our decisions profoundly shape our future.
Part two closes with a chapter on one of the most crucial factors in our personal unfoldment: how the progressed Moon and transiting Saturn cycles track each other throughout life and relate to our emotional growth, and a chapter on a global phenomenon happening since 2003 impacting everyone on Earth. The Epilogue offers a few insights about living “the spiritual life,” and opens dimensions of higher and broader possibilities of personal evolution, regardless of which path to Truth we may be on.
This is a book you will reference many times for many reasons, and each time you pick it up you’re sure to find undiscovered gems of insight on each page. This book can help you throw off all the attitudes and memories which have held you back from finding and living the life and purpose you’ve been searching for since you were young. Welcome to the journey of self-discovery, and finding your power to live your life on your own terms, fulfilling your reason for being alive as an Eternal having human experiences!
Please order your copy today! You can go to the Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend page and order your copy of either the paperback or the ebook. I’ve been told that people who live overseas can get their copy much faster by going through Amazon. And if you would, please write a review on the Amazon site, since the more reviews, the bigger the boost on their site.
See you soon with part 3, covering aspects, planetary sequencing, and other important factors in this Full Moon!
© Copyright 2016 Robert Wilkinson
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