by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon pushes and pulls us into being aware of the difference between needs and wants, and gives power to those who have courage and are willing to get beyond feeling trapped in oppositional thinking or relationships. This tests our self-confidence, so get around inhibiting views and conditions and “break on through to the other side!”
In March and April, we changed how we view relationships and said goodbye to old memories. In April and May, we realized the need to leave the near past behind, or see how a past we left behind at some point opened a new door. All of us embraced a “new quality of being which renders the old patterns obsolete.” Consciously or unconsciously, we returned to “ancient sources of being” showing us how old attachments had to fracture so we could find a newer more creative future.
Since late May, we’ve seen the power of words and/or images, and demonstrating efficiency. We’ve been introduced to a new “wisdom form” in the past few weeks, and found a lot of peace and beauty in the process, despite the hard adjustments we’ve also had to go through. We’re still in the middle of a process of receiving and sending out Solar Fire initiated love, radiance, creativity, and courage.
If you haven't had a chance to visit the first two articles in this series, when you're done here please take a look. Pt. 1 has an overview, planetary distributions, and the Jones Pattern. Part 2 features the Sabian symbols, dispositors, and TransPluto.
Major Aspects and Configurations
The aspects in this Full Moon are hard as nails! It’s a rare Lunation with NO harmonious aspects and almost all frictional ones, so expect a wild ride and some very polarizing energy to be in the air these next two weeks. The oppositions between Cancer and Capricorn are the axis of the tension of opposites, so embrace the concepts of “enlightened Self-interest” and back away from clutching at things, as well as others who clutch at things.
Inner planet forming aspects include Moon sesquisquare Venus, opposed Mars, and conjunct Pluto; Mercury sesquisquare Saturn and trielftile Uranus; Venus is semisquare Mars, and the Sun is conjunct Mars, triseptile Saturn, binovile Uranus, and opposed Pluto.
Outer planet forming aspects include Mars binovile Jupiter, quincunx Saturn, square Uranus, and opposed Pluto, Jupiter opposed Uranus and square Pluto; and Uranus semisquare Neptune.
The numerous frictional aspects will keep things agitated, and the oppositions between the “strong force” planets of Sun, Mars, and Pluto will definitely yield movement and awareness about many things, not always in comfortable ways. The Mars quincunx Saturn shows hard adjustments in those signs and houses, as well as the interrelationships of planets we may have in the signs those planets rule. And the Sun triseptile Saturn shows critical interactive forks in the road in this year’s Sun-Saturn cycle. Zones most affected by the triseptile include 16-20 Cancer, 8-12 Virgo, 29 Libra-3 Scorpio, 21-25 Sagittarius, 12-16 Aquarius, 3-7 Aries, and 24-28 Taurus.
Besides the numerous frictional aspects with no harmonious sextiles or trines, AND no 5th or 10th harmonic specializing aspects, we have several “spiritual series” aspects, including 2 binoviles and a trielftile. This indicates that amidst all the friction, if we know what’s emerging, and what to postpone for a while, we’ll do okay.
All the novile series aspects (9th harmonic) represent entry or exit points of periods of gestation which can bring forth possible spiritual developments, and the specializing aspects (5th, 10th, and 15th harmonic) bring forth unique conditions. The 11th harmonic aspects involve situations where there is a need to transcend and master some form of duality by making a leap of faith. The various aspects in all these series indicate points where the theme become clear in unique circumstances.
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 3 planets in Fire signs, 3 in Water, 2 in Earth, and 2 in Air. This Lunation therefore shows a reasonable balance in the elements, with heightened inspiration and feeling taking a slight lead over practicality and interactivity.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are in a perfect balance, with Air feeding the Fire, but with Water and Earth opposing each other. Beware of feelings getting in the way of practical progress, as well as extremist practical views opposing what you know you need to take care of.
More on how Uranus Square Pluto Has Ramped Up Radical Energies!
Even though it’s separated and they are temporarily not in an aspect, a “mundane square” will be activated each time a planet transits between 19-29 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn. It’s been triggered off and on since late last year by Jupiter, as well as the Moon or an inner planet. Each time it’s activated, it brings the lessons we’ve been learning for the past 4+ years back front and center!
Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn are volatile, “out of control” energies. 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 long past, we’re still dealing with the “mundane square” between Aries and Capricorn which is now re-activated by Jupiter going direct and again forming the square to Pluto and a wide opposition to Uranus. Uranus is about to go retrograde, and Pluto is already retrograde, so Jupiter is again pulling together the tension of the Aries-Libra axis released through the square from Capricorn. This will be triggered each time any of these planets is conjuncted, squared, or opposed for the next few months.
Their angular relationship is now as wide as it will be this year, though it will get even wider in 2018. In this chart they are 100+ 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, and when the planets transit through mid-to-late Cancer. Jupiter will not finish squaring Pluto until September, so remember what I told you earlier about how to handle these volatile energies. Beware of opportunities that are against your best interests, and don’t get into secret agreements or risky activities of any sort.
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 1933-1935. 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 this year, as well as greater ones in 2018, but using blunt force to push will destroy the good that could come.
Saturn and Uranus are now solidly in their long term trine. This trine is triggered any time another planet makes a mutual aspect to either of these two planets, with Grand Fire Trines each time the Moon moves through late Leo! This Fire trine predominated all of late 2016 and will through 2017, and will become an Earth trine when Saturn is in Capricorn and Uranus is in Taurus in 2018.
Saturn trine Uranus is 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.
Over the past few years, Pluto has taught us harmlessness, kindness, self-transcendence, and a vast perspective on our past. We have learned how to care for what we care about, let go of old inhibitions, and quickened to some needed task. These have led to deep transformations 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
We’ve been through several different sequences over the past few months. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses. We are now in a time of shifting patterns, and this Lunation offers as a process of moving through events, over the next 4 weeks the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience involves leading with our feelings, then make decisions, and then think last of all.
So this is a time to feel our way into decisions and actions, and then after we decide and/or act, it will be important to get new information to come to a new vision or understanding. Once we get the right view or understanding, then a new feeling-experience will naturally arise that points the way to the next action.
So lead with your feelings, then make decisions on the basis of those feeling experiences, after which seek out new information, new ideas, new interpretations, and new views. We’ll be “feeling our way” into new experiences, then deciding and acting on the basis of those feelings. After a decision or action, then we’ll have to find newer, more up to date information, facts, and understanding so we can get a new vision.
So learn and teach through anecdotes, seeing how others handled things practically, or how you handed things practically in the past. Let your thinking and communicating and envisioning follow your actions, and let your feelings follow a new understanding, a new perception, or a new view.
Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend
Because Saturn is important as the ruler of the Moon in this Lunation and a stable leg of the Fire trines happening during the coming season, opening up huge love energies via the transits through Leo, it’s a great time for seeing how to blend past and future together and craft your future destiny. Then you’ll be ready to stabilize that electric Fire and distributive Fire and express it in loving, creative forms during those times the inner planets move through Leo between July and September making Grand Fire trines.
As Jupiter will be in favorable aspect to Saturn for many weeks to come, it’s the key to specializing our Jupiter and Saturn relationship in our charts, and bringing forth gifts appropriate to the houses they occupy and rule. You can learn more about mastering the Saturn and Uranus part of generating your future destiny by taking a look at the material in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. Saturn helps us give form and structure to our quest for Self-realization, and in Sag, will help bring an “expansive structure” to the Uranian energies infused with concentrated doses of spiritual energy that is making our spiritual life come alive.
Our inner Saturn gives us the power to take command of our lives and destiny. Saturn shows us those things we must master to 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.
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Summing it Up
The next two weeks will yield great revelations to those who are open, as well as forms of protection and group work that will assist personality integration. Do what you must to ensure your well-being and supply of your needs, and seek to hear your inner voice that will lead you to your role in the Cosmic Choir. Many forms of wisdom are now being offered to all of us, and all of them will require some reorientation, or even examination of what movement will have to be done to ensure our future survival and well-being.
There is great power available to those with planets in the middle degrees of the Earth and Water signs, as well as those with planets anywhere in Fire and Air signs. So while the friction is all around, if we are aware of the forces involved, we can still make great progress despite the polarization. In any case, act from a view of “enlightened Self-interest” and you’ll do fine.
Try not to clutch or be too insecure. This is a purifying Full Moon, and accelerates our growth at the core level. Many things that have been suppressed or repressed up to now demand recognition, and we all need to examine the slogans, images, and propaganda we’re subjected to in order to break free from taking things for granted.
In April, May, and June we were released from old burdens we no longer needed to bear, even if we didn’t particularly like or appreciate the way those releases happened. We’ve now adjusted to the natural rhythm of the new life, and accepted a discipline that will help us master powers we’ll need to demonstrate in the future.
The tide has already shifted and is sweeping us all into the future. This one jars us loose from the past so we can surf life’s waves into a greater, wider truth and future. Recent Eclipses continue to sweep away all we no longer need while helping us make tremendous progress in a relatively short period of time. Because this is the next stage of inspiration and opening to Divine Mind and/or the global brain cut loose at last month’s Christ Fest Full Moon, keep your heart and mind open to understand how to get your body, feelings, and mind coordinated so you can demonstrate a stable and harmonized Soul energy.
The Fire trine involving Saturn and Uranus is already established, and we’re in a period of blending the old with the new, the traditional with the innovative. This is 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, and something new is introduced into our lives, it means that 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
Thanks for the three great post on this Full Moon.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | July 11, 2017 at 03:23 AM
Interesting that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was signed at the UN on July 7.
Posted by: Denise | July 13, 2017 at 09:29 PM