by Robert Wilkinson
This Eclipse, accompanied by a once-every-5-year comet appearance, promises major endings and life renewals over the next 4 months for everyone! That’s right – every single person will be benefited in some way by this Mystic Rectangle Eclipse.
Major Aspects and Configurations
As I mentioned in the previous article in this series, this Full Moon features two oppositions, each making multiple sextiles and trines to the other, creating a Mystic Rectangle that will help us all make solid progress regardless of oppositional or polarized trends in the larger atmosphere. This Rectangle is enhanced by Saturn in Sagittarius, part of a Grand Fire trine fed by the Air of Sun in Aquarius trine Jupiter in Libra.
The aspects in the configuration are Sun trine Jupiter and sextile Saturn, with the sextile to Uranus re-activated by Jupiter translating the Light; Moon sextile Jupiter and trine Saturn, with the trine to Uranus activated by Jupiter; Jupiter sextile Saturn and opposed Uranus; and Saturn trine Uranus, brought back into play by all the points that are triggered. This activates 5 points in a Great Sextile 6 Pointed Star pattern, with only late Gemini void and therefore highly active as a zone of learning, harmony, and interaction wherever we have late Gemini (or any other planet in late Fire and Air signs) in our chart.
These all-encompassing harmonious and productive energies will be released through the dynamic Cardinal T-square playing off the Tension of Opposites in the Aries-Libra opposition via the trigger planet at the apex of the T, in this case the extraordinarily powerful Pluto in Capricorn. Radical purifications, radical deaths and rebirths, journeys into and out of “the underworld,” and the sprouting of long wave seed forms involving group activity and accelerated growth.
The opposition of the Lights is also involved in an “octile” configuration, since it is cut into a semisquare and sesquisquare by Mars in Aries, throwing agitating energy into 22-27 degrees of the Fixed signs, and 7-12 degrees of the Cardinal signs. This will keep us hopping, so don’t get too comfortable! Demonstrating good Libra skills (balance, justice, a sense of proportion and perspective, and diplomacy) will be essential as you go through inner confrontations and external spurs to action.
So the endings promised by this Eclipse over the next 4 months will ultimately be extremely favorable for our spiritual growth, burning up old material that no longer nurtures us, and bringing us major movement in terms of new things to care about, new ways to live, and new ways to care and be cared for. Many will find a new family bond, with many interesting communications coming as well.
As noted yesterday, T-squares are great for achieving types of personality integration, which is an essential step in consciously identifying with our Higher Self so we may express the Light and Love of our unique Soul message in our life on Earth. So consider the friction you’re going through and going to go through for 4 months as a spur to personality growth as a vehicle for Soul contact.
The good news is that even though things are ending wherever we have late Leo and late Aquarius in our charts, we still can look forward to many months of the long term Jupiter opposition Uranus with Jupiter sextile Saturn and Saturn trine Uranus. This should help us bridge past and future, what is established with that which is innovative, and throws a lot of very favorable energy into Gemini.
All our Fire and Air sectors should be functioning quite nicely if we’ve done the social-spiritual work we needed to before now. Saturn is teaching us that we must be willing to take responsibility for shaping a more well-rounded and balanced future where we can express our hearts in natural, creative, and spontaneous ways. This Eclipse shows a new dedication, a new valor, and for the world, new standard bearers in various noble causes on every level of human existence.
Besides the aspects already mentioned, other forming aspects include Moon sesquisquare Mars, pentelftile Neptune, and biquintile Pluto. Mercury is sextile Mars, biseptile Jupiter, novile Saturn, quintile Uranus, and vigintile Pluto, and Venus is pentelftile Jupiter. Finishing the inner planet aspects, we see Sun is semisquare Mars, vigintile Neptune, and decile Pluto. Moving into the outer planet aspects, Mars is widely opposed Jupiter, biseptile Saturn, conjunct Uranus, and semisextile Neptune, and we discussed already the rest.
Mercury biseptile Jupiter indicates many Jupiterian developments are at a fork in the road, with potential conflict from increasing the pressure. There will be compelling moments to make leaps into the unknown, and some will awaken to their higher purpose. Active zones in this cycle of the relationship of the lower mind to the higher mind are around 22-26 Libra, 13-17 Sagittarius, 4-8 Aquarius, 26-30 Pisces, 17-21 Taurus, 9-13 Cancer, and 1-5 Virgo.
Mars biseptile Saturn indicates many Saturnine developments are also at a fork in the road, with the emergence of new worldly orders in our lives. These initial turning points will be seen in a new light in the last half of March, and the new dedication and valor this promises will be a living reality by mid-May. Active zones in this cycle of the relationship of our likes and dislikes to our duties and responsibilities are around 24-28 Sagittarius, 16-20 Aquarius, 8-12 Aries, 29 Taurus-3 Gemini, 21-25 Cancer, 12-16 Virgo, and 3-7 Scorpio.
All the novile series aspects bring forth possible spiritual developments, and the specializing aspects bring forth unique conditions. Of the specializing aspects, we see Moon, Mercury, Sun, Neptune, and Pluto 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.
Element Balance
Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 5 planets in Fire signs, 1 in Water, 1 in Earth, and 3 in Air. This month boosts the Fire and Air, making for inspired interactions and ideas! Lots of movement happens when these two elements are prominent, with a lot of inspiration and communicating and relating, , and almost no feeling or practical emphasis.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, it’s fairly balanced, with the Light of a greater vision in harmony with balanced expansion feeding the inspiration of the 5 Fire planets.
More on how Uranus Square Pluto Has Ramped Up Radical Energies!
Because this square is now active again for the next 4 months, just as we have been for the past 4+ years, we’re all learning to manage the “out of control” energies of Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn. This square has symbolized the global collision of ideas at this point in history, and from time to time has 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 which is now re-activated by Jupiter. These two planets are now both in direct motion, so the square is waning despite being re-triggered each time either is conjuncted, squared, or opposed for the next few months.
Their angular relationship is now widening, and in this chart they are 93+ degrees apart, which will last until late March. This sets up a “dual-pulse friction” for the next few months which will be triggered by the Moon 4 times a month, and when the planets transit through mid-to-late Aries and Cancer. Jupiter will not finish squaring Pluto until September, so remember what I told you earlier about how to handle these volatile energies.
I’ve discussed Uranus square Pluto 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 and Uranus are now in a separating trine until April, when the trine will form anew. Remember that the trine is triggered any time another planet makes a mutual aspect to these two planets. This Fire trine predominated all of late 2016 and will through 2017 before they slip into an Earth trine in 2018. Great for blending the innovative with the traditional and the inventive with current structures! Whether a revolution in structures, or a structuring of revolutionary ideas and actions, this will help us all see the truth of the new era.
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 began to take clearer shape in October 2016. This will continue to be a major influence 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.
The current sequence at present of Deciding, Feeling, and Thinking 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. We shifted patterns again at the previous New Moon. As a process of moving through events, this Full Moon shows us that over the next 4 weeks the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience involves leading with our thinking, then deciding, then feeling.
This pattern leads with a vision, or an understanding, or a communication, and then makes decisions and actions based in those things. While it is tempting to move back into more thinking, communicating, and envisioning, it is more important to move from deciding or acting into feeling what we’re experiencing as a result of those actions and decisions, and bring those feelings to the surface of your consciousness and get clear about what you’re feeling and why.
By naming the feeling or experience, it will naturally lead us 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.
Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend
Saturn continues to be a major influence during this month and next, since it rules the Sun and is part of the powerful “5 note chord” 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, 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.
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Summing it Up
The next two weeks (and 4 months!) will bring forth an understanding of how we must train to build an adequate personality vehicle that can be a channel for spiritual power down the road. We are moving toward a greater social or group work, and how we demonstrate our skill and “put on the show” will be the way to release our power. With Jupiter continuing to lead the occupied half of the zodiac, fairness, justice, balance, and a sense of what must be protested against because it is inherently unjust or unfair is expanding now. The productive sextiles and trines show many things and groups getting organized for the long haul, and Mercury will soon bring us information directly related to that.
The tide has already shifted, and this one cuts us loose from many old ways. This Eclipse will help sweep away all we no longer need while helping us make tremendous progress in a relatively short period of time. Be willing to do whatever it takes to get your body, feelings, and mind all on the same page so your integrated personality can open to a greater vision and ability to demonstrate Soul energy.
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 an adventure in higher awareness where we can demonstrate confidence and heart strength, so be optimistic as you live 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 2017 Robert Wilkinson
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, Robert. The days leading to this Eclipse have already been filled with such powerful energy that it feels we can truly start being the creators of our lives. <3
Posted by: Akasha | February 10, 2017 at 01:28 PM
Thank you for a very complete information and insight on this Full Moon and the Eclipse. (The Summary is wonderful as a synthesis of all the posts).
These are times of opportunities too and much is happening "behind the scenes" of our awareness, we need to enhance our ability to "see" and display what has been seen and put out at the disposition of group work and humanity.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | February 11, 2017 at 05:25 AM