by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon requires our willingness to transform ourselves, and knowing our integrity as physical agents of Divine Mother energies, express the Light we are in concrete, grounded, gentle and determined ways. Many will demonstrate unsuspected healing powers.
Major Aspects and Configurations
While there are only two forming oppositions in this chart, as I mentioned in a previous part, the polarization of one opposition is resolved through Saturn, while the opposition of the Lights has no third planet making any aspect whatsoever to the Moon. Yes, this Moon makes NO aspects to any other planet. No major aspects, no minor aspects. That’s extremely rare!
As mentioned earlier in this series, we’ve now entered a very long term Jupiter opposition Uranus with Jupiter sextile Saturn and Saturn trine Uranus. This should help us bridge past and future, established and innovative, and throws a lot of very favorable energy into Gemini. This powerful building configuration will be released via the Cardinal T-square made to the Jupiter opposed Uranus by Pluto in Capricorn. This will certainly shake a lot up, especially for those with planets anywhere near 12-23 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.
The Cardinal T will be very volatile, since these are frictional energies involving the expansive principle, the revolutionary principle, and the annihilating, purifying, and transformative principle. This requires all of us to be clear, open, and above board in making specific demands on situations so they are in our best interests. No secret agreements, no hidden agendas, and beware of opportunities that are not opportunities.
Things can be misrepresented under this, with expansive ideals likely to be derailed by realities beyond the control of the ones trying to expand. (An example of this is the utter inability of the current president-elect to deliver on the false promises he made during his campaign. All those pie in the sky ideals he sold the gullible have now been revised or scrapped.) Uranus square Pluto requires that we see things in terms of motives, be alert to malcontents with no positive ideas, and interpret how and why the social order seems to be the way it is.
Other major forming aspects include Mercury sextile Mars, septile Jupiter, conjunct Saturn, sesquisquare Uranus, square Neptune, and novile Pluto. Also highly active, Venus is binovile Jupiter, vigintile Saturn, tredecile Uranus, sextile Neptune, and conjunct Pluto, and the Sun is novile Jupiter and septile Pluto.
We now turn to the outer planet aspects. Besides the T-square Jupiter is also biquintile Neptune, Saturn is trine Uranus for many months to come, and Uranus is novile Neptune.
There are an abundance of spiritual aspects in this chart! All the novile and septile series aspects bring forth possible spiritual developments, and we have some very powerful ones at work here. As I told you in a previous part, the Sun septile Pluto triggers the Grand Irrationality in a big way during this closing phase of the year cycle. Affected zones were offered then.
Mercury septile Jupiter opens another 7 zones of radical choices and changes wherever we have early Sag and mid-Libra, affecting all houses and planets we have in Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Those with planets or angles near 13-17 Libra, 4-8 Sagittarius, 25-29 Capricorn, 17-21 Pisces, 9-13 Taurus, 1-5 Cancer, and 22-26 Leo will be most impacted.
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 in a big way by the Sun septile Pluto. Given it’s been in non-stop activity due to recent eclipses due to Venus and then Jupiter’s biseptile to Pluto, which gave expansive force to whatever was triggered when Venus was in early Libra for the Solar Eclipse. Venus in the Solar Eclipse, then Jupiter in the Lunar Eclipse, with developments triggered during the last week of September and early October when Mercury moved through 1-6 Libra. Destiny was in motion in September and early October!
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 thirteenth 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 were 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. Thanks to a year of Jupiter conjunct the North Node in Virgo, we were living 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.
This past year we began to expand into the “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 mid-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. We now have left the long term period where we had few if any planets in Air signs except the inners, and at this time we have a fairly good balance between Fire (inspiration) and by Earth (Practicality), supported by Air (communicating) and Water (feeling).
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, everything should be well balanced, with inspiration and practicality slightly stronger than idealism and emotional energy.
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 and approaching the square. The good news is that the square will be “frustrated” since Uranus will not go back to the exact square. The bad news is that each time either is conjuncted, squared, or opposed for the next few months, it will trigger the square.
Their angular relationship is narrowing, and in this chart they are 95+ degrees apart. 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, with Jupiter setting up a strong dynamic when it squares Pluto and opposes Uranus for months to come.
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. When Mars trined Uranus in September, it 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.
Saturn and Uranus are now in a forming trine, which be their relationship for many months to come. 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 deciding, then thinking, then feeling. This will help us all to get it in gear, make decisions, and act on those decisions. Once we do our decision or action, these will lead us to a new understanding or vision on the basis of the action.
Once we get the understanding, communication, or vision, then we must learn to sit with the feelings and experience them, and get clear about what we’re feeling and why. So lead with deciding and acting, then move into a vision or understanding, and then name what you’re feeling. That way nothing will get bottled up through underuse, and you can move through experiences with power and clarity.
Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend
Because Saturn will be increasingly in the spotlight over the next few weeks, and that part of our inner makeup is critical to our ability to take command of our lives and destiny, I’ll take this moment to remind you that if you haven’t already gotten your copy, please considering acquiring my new book, Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. It’s the first groundbreaking work on the subject in 40 years, and guides the reader into a new understanding of what Saturn means in our larger path to Self-realization.
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.
Summing it Up
This will be a time of radical transmutation of the animal into the subtle and magical, so learn what you need to learn and don’t fall into distress at not knowing what’s coming. Use this time well, since it’s a cosmic moment of pause where we get to relax a bit and adjust to the rhythms of Nature. The next two weeks will throw many things into gestation that will develop through the Winter and explode into public view early next year!
As I said earlier, some will reveal healing powers, or at least the beginning of what will be healing powers in the future. This is a threshold Lunation, which secures some things, blows some other things wide open, and will mobilize millions to figure out what is in their best interests, and how to take care of themselves and what matters to them. Find the right rhythm, the right perspective, and take some time to get some rest and relaxation, since the Cardinal T-square will mobilize the future in dynamic ways.
The Fire trine involving Saturn and Uranus is already established, and we’re moving into a period of blending the old with the new, the traditional with the innovative. This begins a year long period of renewed optimism, confidence, and heart strength, so accept a new identity, a new love, a new spiritual awareness, and a new spiritual expression, following through in finding and demonstrating the power of the radiant heart.
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
Thanks fort the three post on this Full Moon. As I commented before, your words bring a sense of equilibrium to current events/perceptions. This is so enlightening: "This Full Moon requires our willingness to transform ourselves, and knowing our integrity as physical agents of Divine Mother energies,..."
There is much to do and awareness and opening to what is out there is essential at this time. Thanks again.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | November 16, 2016 at 04:00 AM
Dear Robert,
I came across your site today, looking for insight on Saturn about to cross my natal ascendant 20 degrees Sagittarius. Moon is at 24 degrees so I'm in for a lot of reassessing in my life. My daughter and niece will follow me shortly thereafter at 24 and 27. I read your article on the election and I was blown away by your incredible writing and observation on the media demagogues etc.
Thanks, I will follow you. You're amazing! Penelope
Posted by: Penelope Stephensen | November 17, 2016 at 08:02 AM
Hi Nic - Well, evolution goes on, even in the midst of the white noise of the world. Glad my words resonate with your Higher Self.
Hi Penelope - Thanks for your kind words. You probably could benefit from checking out my new book on Saturn, since part two goes extensively into the conjunctions, squares, and oppositions to planets and the Ascendant. It may help you to guide the young ones through what will no doubt be a serious time of growth and awareness.
Posted by: Robert | November 17, 2016 at 08:29 AM