by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon requires our willingness to see the honest truth in self, others, and circumstances, and integrate our understanding as we transition across the threshold to a new life. This helps us see patterns being pre-formed.
Major Aspects and Configurations
There are only two forming oppositions in this chart, as I mentioned in a previous part. The good news is the polarization of Jupiter opposition Uranus is resolved through Saturn, while the opposition of the Lights is resolved through the very favorable Mars in Aquarius. This sets up favorable voids across most of the degrees in the last half of Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius, where inspired ideas and contacts can be known and understood.
The Moon trines Mars, while the Sun sextiles Mars. This helps for visions of highly effective activity, and ways of “measuring” things so they can be seen in a larger context. It throws a lot of very favorable energy into Leo, and will be very favorable for those with planets or angles near 22-27 of the Fire and Air signs.
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 activated by Mercury in Capricorn triggering the T. This will certainly shake a lot up, especially for those with planets anywhere near 11-23 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. Positive Cancer energy represents the solution to any conflict that may arise.
The Cardinal T driven by the Mercury-Pluto conjunction will be very volatile, since these are frictional energies involving the expansive principle, the revolutionary principle, and the annihilating, purifying, and transformative principle set into motion by Mercury, the Guide of Souls. 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. 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.
With Mercury in its shadow zone, our ideas should be scrutinized, and those that lead to life embraced, and those that lead to decay should be eliminated. This will be an excellent Full Moon to cultivate a self-transcendent mental discipline, given Mercury’s dispositorship of the Moon in the very disciplined, concentrated rigor of the Capricorn Pluto.
As this is the first of Mercury’s three transits over the transformational degree of 13 Capricorn, prepare for the theme of self-transcendence to present itself from many angles over the next two weeks. The themes of this Full Moon will be seen from many different angles due to Mercury going retrograde soon. Welcome old memories and take a new look at power experiences that shaped your life in core ways.
Mercury now offers our minds an organized discipline that could allow us to transcend many old fears and deep emotional conflicts based in Plutonic core seed material. Again, this will squarely affect those with planets or angles near 11-23 Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, as well as 26-30 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, and 1-8 Gemini, Virgo, Sag, and Pisces. If you have something in these zones, expect dynamic changes and/or challenges that will require you to exercise good Saturn skills.
Other major forming aspects include Moon quadranovile Mercury, Mercury quindecile Venus, semisquare Mars, square Jupiter, quindecile Saturn, trielftile Uranus, and conjunct Pluto. Also highly active, Venus is exactly semisquare the Sun, vigintile Mars, and quintile Uranus, while the Sun also quintiles Neptune.
We now turn to the outer planet aspects. Mars noviles Pluto, Jupiter makes the aspects listed above, Saturn trines Uranus for many months to come, and as it makes a binovile to Neptune, creates an entire 9th harmonic set of voids that will bring forth many realizations that have been cooking for a looooong time. When we add the novile between Uranus and Neptune, these spiritual aspects primarily affect planets and angles near 1-2 degrees of the Air signs, 8-12 degrees of the Water signs, 18-22 degrees of the Fire signs, and 28-30 degrees of the Earth signs.
So there are an abundance of spiritual and specializing aspects in this chart! All the novile series aspects bring forth possible spiritual developments, and we have a lot of them involving both inner and outer planets, showing the world is going through a spiritual passage right now. When you have Moon, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all involved in novile series aspects, you know a lot is cooking and will come to fruition during this time!
Of the specializing aspects, we see Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune with at least one. 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, The Specializing Aspects Pt. 2 – The Quindecile and Vigintile, 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 not activated in this Lunation. 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.
The North Node
This is the fourteenth 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.
When Jupiter was in Virgo, 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 is now giving 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, 1in Water, 2 in Earth, and 4 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 heavy Fire (inspiration) and Air (communicating) emphasis, with some Earth (Practicality) and almost no Water (feeling).
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, everything should be a bit “up” as well as pragmatic, but not much connectedness in the atmosphere, except for the continual navigating the fogs of Neptune.
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 an approaching 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 94+ 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
Saturn will be increasingly in the spotlight over the next few weeks, since it leads the Sun in this Full Moon and is involved in the strong opposition, sextile, and trine dominating current and future months. Since 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, and offers ways for you to “make friends” with this part of our existence and take command of your destiny. As you read each chapter, you’ll become more aware of all the factors assisting Soul growth through understanding how Saturn relates to Dharma and various types of karma, and how it represents the Ring-Pass-Not, or that part of us which must learn certain lessons so we can find purpose and meaning in each chapter of life.
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 important 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!
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Summing it Up
The next two weeks will bring forms of love through fulfillment, and honesty will be of paramount importance. So will the lack of it. We can follow the Light across the threshold of transformation, where we can integrate our personality and know its relationship to our functional Higher Self. Saturn leads the Light on a degree of preparing for the future in mature and organized ways that open doors to more productive pathways than those that have already closed.
With Jupiter leading the occupied half, fairness, justice, balance, and a sense of what must be protested against because it is inherently unjust or unfair is expanding now. The productive sextile to Saturn shows many things and groups getting organized for the long haul, followed by the Light. Capricorn shows self-transcendent power is active that begins the Mercury retrograde period of releasing old inhibitions, self-purification and/or self-confrontation, and getting a whole new sense of the relationship of the body to the mind and Spirit.
Venus shows us future patterns in the making, while Mars requires that we do a “check-up” on our skills, ideas, and ideals. Get ready to sail into more productive views, relationships, and actions. Just remember to follow the established plan, and as Larry Wilmore sez, “Keep it 100.”
The tide has already shifted. This Full Moon is about honesty, and speaking the integrated view of a facet of Truth. What do you care about? What do you need? Who is your community? Who is your family?
Be strong and flexible. Those who are open and willing to get their body, feelings, and mind all on the same page will find their integrated personality filled with Soul energy. It will be a great time to see how everything in the past was perfect for your integrated awareness right here and now.
This is another threshold Lunation, and continues to keep things moving forward, blowing some things wide open, moving us in instinctive directions toward our “spiritual family.” It’s a time to know what is in our best interests, and how to take care of ourselves and what matters to us. 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
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions for positive Cancer energies. I would need them so much tomorrow 15th. When I (we) will have to resolve the situation.
From the given degrees I see are impacted my natal Mercury, Jupiter (Venus is also close, I guess I can count it), Mars, Neptune, Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, North Node, MC and DC (what is in direct opposition to my 1° Leo sun)...I honestly don't know what to make out of all this. It kind of explains, though, why everything seems to happen in the same time.
Few days ago repeated shocking event from the same period in 2014. The 2014 one triggered action toward change. But this change is still not completed (it's not under my power to complete it). I guess, all happens again that to push us to act and maybe this time to complete the change for better circumstances. Maybe if everything goes smooth we're not going to move. While the universe shakes us up that to place us where we should be.
I'm shocked to realize in what society we are living in. Society where if you're not the average population person, if you are somehow different, it tramples you, because you don't fit in their boxes. Ok, I survived for 40 years, and will continue doing it :), but when it happens to your children it hurts. That's why I'm wondering if there is such right/proper place.
Posted by: Maggie In Het Sprookjesland | December 14, 2016 at 02:20 AM
As usual very informative. I also found it to be beautiful too.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | December 14, 2016 at 03:57 AM
I just started reading your Saturn book, Robert. It really is exceptional and it is addressing a lot of personal issues I'm dealing with right now. Thanks very much for writing it and urging us through these pages to read it!
Posted by: Elizabeth Cohen | December 14, 2016 at 10:00 PM