by Robert Wilkinson
We’re now going deeper into our life Mystery, tearing away from the familiar as we learn to use mind and heart in alternating rhythms of response. This one brings forms of “hope for a rebeginning,” so use your imagination to see what you need to make your new life real.
Much has been shed since our “escape from a narrow destiny” that began 15 months ago, and we’ve all integrated a lot during the Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto T-squares that dominated the landscape between November 2016 and August 2017. We said goodbye to whatever we couldn’t take into a new life and stepped through new doors in the Spring, and went back to the roots to find a new creativity.
Our “Summer of Love” featuring the Grand Fire Trines stabilized our heart fire, and since then we’ve renewed the new trajectory and balanced and refined a lot to make our lives more well-rounded and pleasing. Now we train our minds to play in new ways as we express new social skills and forms.
Major Aspects and Configurations
The aspects in this Full Moon are abundant and overall feature just enough friction to make the other favorable aspects work great! We had an extreme number of hard aspects in the Cancer/Capricorn Full Moon, and then an extreme number of harmonious aspects in the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of Leo/Aquarius. We had a mixed bag of harmonious, frictional, and specializing aspects in the Virgo/Pisces Full Moon, and friction, high specialization, and hard adjustments in the Libra/Aries Full Moon.
This one tilts the balance back toward high specialization, emotional understanding at deep levels, and a removal of old ideas as new understanding and views come into focus. We can see a new way of presenting ourselves in public situations, and find deep and profound revelations as new forms of spiritual understanding come forth in our view of our life and what we’re here to realize and act on.
As I gave you before, we have only 1 tight forming opposition, the Lunation. Of course, since Venus is only 1 minute of longitude separating opposition to Uranus, that certainly qualifies as an active opposition! And though the Moon is in mid-Taurus and Mercury is in late Scorpio, 15+ degrees is a bit of a stretch to call an opposition.
So the effective span of intensity of “the Tension of Opposites” involves planets between late Libra through mid-Scorpio opposing late Aries through mid-Taurus, spanning the third decan of Aries and Libra and the first two decans of Taurus and Scorpio. Wherever that falls in your chart is sure to provide many realizations of how past, present, and future are a continuum.All oppositions provide us an opportunity for genuine spiritual breakthroughs through the need to resolve and transcend “the Tension of Opposites.” Where oppositions fall, the signs they’re in and the houses ruled by the planets in opposition are subject to profound tensional awareness, leading to realizations and healthy polarizations in many areas of our lives. The task is always to find the appropriate third and fourth energies and approaches to achieve healthy productive movement with maximum awareness.
Inner planet forming aspects other than those mentioned include Moon biquintile Mars, vigintile Uranus, and trine Pluto; Mercury septile Mars, quindecile Jupiter, and biseptile Neptune; Venus out of sign conjunction with Jupiter, sesquisquare Neptune, and binovile Pluto; and Sun decile Mars, pentelftile Uranus, and bielftile Pluto. (Of note are the extremely closely partile separating aspects, which indicate those aspects are past, but still highly active in the NOW. These include Moon sextile Neptune; Mercury septile Pluto; Venus vigintile Mars, Mars sextile Saturn, and opposed Uranus; and Sun trine Neptune.)
Outer planet forming aspects include Mars quintile Saturn; Jupiter semisquare Saturn and trine Neptune, Saturn trine Uranus and quintile Neptune; and Uranus trielftile Pluto. Again, closely partile separating aspects include triseptile Neptune, Jupiter quintile Pluto, and Uranus semisquare Neptune, which I believe is at the root of the current widespread chaos and crises.
Just as last month’s Full Moon had a very closely partile separating Jupiter opposition Uranus and sesquisquare Neptune that brought the configuration I’ve termed a “Rhombus Diamond” to its conclusion after weeks of disruption, Venus now activates 3 points of the configuration in this Full Moon. The final trigger of the full planetary diamond octile was when Mercury opposed Uranus and sesquisquared Neptune with the Moon in mid-Virgo creating a perfect Rhombus Diamond. Venus indicates the through its unique “department of labor,” we can expect more "cutting to perfection" involving grinding and polishing!
Other than this Venusian “cutting and grinding” configuration, we have only Jupiter semisquare Saturn in our friction this month. That means all the other aspects in play dominate the overall atmosphere, making it stabilizing, relatively harmonious for those who cultivate the right types of understanding, and offering many opportunities for productive “self-gathering” and many special gifts and circumstances released by the friction as well as releasing their potential through the grinding and polishing.Taking into account Mercury septile Mars, biseptile Neptune, and barely separating septile to Pluto, the Grand Irrationality is in full swing these next two weeks! This involves the rulers of houses and planets where we have Aries, Gemini, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Pisces, and includes the signs of Libra and Capricorn. AS I gave you in part 1, expect very powerful decisions and potentially life-altering changes if you have planets or points near 13-17 Leo, 4-8 Libra, 25-29 Scorpio, 17-21 Capricorn, 9-13 Pisces, 1-5 Taurus, and 22-26 Gemini.
Even though they’re very wide, don’t underestimate the benefits to be found from Mars quintile Saturn, Saturn quintile Neptune, and the almost exact Jupiter quintile Pluto. Each of these gives specialized gifts, and with so many zones in play, ALL of us will be impacted by one or more of these very beneficial, “quintessential” angles.
Mars quintile Saturn affects 6-15 Libra, 18-27 Sagittarius, 30 Aquarius-9 Pisces, 12-21 Taurus, and 24 Cancer-3 Leo. Saturn quintile Neptune moves the affected zone out a few degrees to 23 Sagittarius-2 Capricorn, 5-14 Pisces, 17-26 Taurus, 29 Cancer-8 Leo, and 11-20 Libra.
So affected spans are actually 6-20 Libra, 18 Sagittarius-2 Capricorn, 30 Aquarius-14 Pisces, 12-26 Taurus, and 24 Cancer-8 Leo. The combination of Mars, Saturn, and Neptune will offer gifts if you have anything in the affected zones.
Jupiter quintile Pluto affects 5-9 Scorpio, 17-21 Capricorn, 29 Pisces-3 Aries, 11-15 Gemini, and 23-27 Leo. That fills in many gaps in the quintile zones created by Mars, Saturn, and Neptune, adding another cultural, transpersonal, and transformative energy to the specialization indicated by the quintile.
We then add Sun decile Mars to the mix, and it expands the specialization into more zones, adding an interactive level of serendipity and “happy turns of fortune” to this Lunation. These zones are 1-4 Virgo/Pisces, 4-10 Libra/Aries, 10-16 Scorpio/Taurus, 16-22 Sagittarius/Gemini, 22-28 Capricorn/Cancer, and 28-30 Aquarius/Leo.
As you can see, Mars is very important, both as a trigger for the septile series aspects, as well as the 10th harmonic aspects. Add that almost every single planets has nothing but good aspects of one sort or another, and this should be a very powerful and favorable Full Moon!
There are many spiritual aspects in play for this Full Moon. Besides the two active septiles and triseptile, (if we include the partile separating aspects) we have 1 binovile, 1 bielftile, 1 trielftile, and 1 pentelftile, as well as a host of specializing aspects, including 2 vigintiles, 1 quindecile, 3 quintiles, and 1 biquintile.
For those new to the craft, quintiles and biquintiles are 5th harmonic aspects, septiles and triseptiles are 7th harmonic aspects, noviles are 9th harmonic aspects, the elftile series are 11th harmonic aspects, the quindecile is a 15th harmonic aspect, and the vigintile is a 20th harmonic aspect. Each of these has a unique function in the phase relationship of the two planets in aspect.
The 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th harmonic aspects are specializing and bring forth partially or fully developed quintessential elements of the planets involved. The 7th harmonic aspects help us make choices to fulfill our destiny, and the novile series aspects (9th harmonic) represent entry or exit points of periods of gestation which can bring forth possible spiritual developments. 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 different harmonic series indicate points where the theme of the Whole Cycle becomes clear, whether through major developments or minor refinements in the process. Each aspect shows a phase relationship, specific to the special and unique circumstances of that particular Whole Cycle. It's how we can know when to work, when to play, when to create, when to imagine, when to have faith, and when to mobilize!
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 2 planets in Fire signs, 4 in Water, 3 in Earth, and 2 in Air. After a VERY long period of only Neptune in a Water sign, we now have arrived at a year of Jupiter expressing itself through the Water sign of Scorpio! Big changes, especially since Jupiter still disposits Saturn through the coming Solstice, making it powerful in the chain of dispositors that also includes Pluto.
So we have a well-balanced distribution between inspiration, relatedness, and practicality, with a heavy emphasis on feeling and experiencing life on deep and immediate levels. We now can understand the pervasive fogs and mists of Neptune viewed through the lens of Jupiter in Scorpio, and harmonize our emotional experience on all levels of life. This will be in play through October 2018, so make the most of it!
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are going to be somewhat hotter, with so much Water coupled with the power Saturn trine Uranus in Fire. Given the overall harmony of favorable linkages between Earth and Water, as well as Air and Fire, it should be a time when many things can be stabilized, or eliminated to create space for favorable attractions.
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 17-27 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn. It was triggered off and on from late last year to a few weeks back 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 was re-activated by Jupiter going direct, making yet another square to Pluto this past Summer and then a final opposition to Uranus, focusing the tensions of the “Rhombus Diamond” octile configuration each time a planet went through early to mid-Virgo.
At this time, Uranus is retrograde and Pluto is direct, and their angular relationship has been about as wide as it will be this year, though it will get even wider in 2018. In this chart they are 98+ degrees apart, technically a trielftile, showing we’re in a time of having to individualize and/or use power effectively by means of leaps of faith to resolve dualities.
Still, because of their positions in Capricorn and Aries, it continues to create a “dual-pulse friction” for the next few months which will be triggered by the Moon 4 times a month. Please remember that as the planets have moved through Libra, they first square Pluto before opposing Uranus, bringing the square lessons back front and center. Continue to beware of actions that are against your best interests, and don’t get into partnership with imbalanced, coercive, or corrosive people.
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.
The trine will continue into the Earth element when Saturn is in Capricorn and Uranus is in Taurus in 2018. Between late December 2017 and mid-May when Saturn in early Capricorn and Uranus is in late Aries, the trine span will work across the zones of late Fire into early Earth, stabilizing our understanding of how to blend these two energies in our life in the three chart sectors it affects.
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, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience involves leading with our feelings, then making a decision and following through with acting as we need to. After we decide and act, then we must think, communicate, gather information, and come to a new vision.
So feel your way into decisions and actions, and then 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. Learn to recognize what you’re feeling and/or experiencing, and let that emotional intelligence lead you to the fundamental realization that helps you make a clear decision followed by definitive action.
Once we’ve completed that natural sequence, then we must search for the new ideas, new information, new visions that allow us to update our perceptual files and see a new way to view and understand things. This pattern is good for learning and teaching 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 both a stable leg of the Fire trines happening during this time, opening up huge love energies via the transits through Leo its promise of unique gifts and circumstances through its aspects, it’s a great time for blending past and future in unique ways to reshape your future destiny. It’s been part of the process of us learning how to stabilize electric Fire and distributive Fire and express it in loving, creative forms during this past Summer.
As Saturn and Uranus are keys to our dance of Spiritual Individualization and adulthood, 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 open worlds of “elegant interactions” as well as a deeper identification with the magnetism that “holds it all together,” both internally and externally. All good things are promised IF we know how to handle the Venusian friction from its opposition to Uranus and sesquisquare to Neptune.
Venus is the ruler of all the other planets except Neptune, so knowing when to show love expressed by the heart, and when to demonstrate skillful use of power directed by the mind, are essential to maintaining the “cutting, grinding, and polishing” power of the Rhombus to achieve the perfect forms being shaped. Neptune shows we must prove our ability to do the “spiritual job” we’ve declared we want to do, while Uranus cautions against going beyond safe limits in our new life.
Saturn offers us a great anticipation of things to come, and Chiron will mentor us by purification of the ego/personality so the Soul may shine forth in unique ways. A great linkage is happening right now via Saturn and Uranus, promising blessings after the death of useless things. We can all see our worth from a higher spiritual angle, and also the value of self-sufficiency as we cross the metaphoric desert of modern existence.
Humanity still moves through its “liberating ordeal,” but also has entered a time of discovering new strengths and powers within, as well as being assisted by Devas and Angels who bring “divine help when human efforts fail.” If new adventures beckon, you probably should leap to the opportunity, even if the leaping must be tempered by a moderate approach.
Given Venus is again triggering the Rhombus tensions, I’ll ask you the same questions I asked you last Full Moon. Are you annoyed? Probably, and so is everyone else. Are you apprehensive? Again, so is everyone else. Don’t be seduced by the collective dread, uncertainty, and conflict; be clear, courageous, diligent, balanced, kind, patient, and allow a newer better self-identity to take the place of any old weak or insecure parts of yourself that are being agitated to the point of getting your attention.
Remember also that we are still within the effects of Eclipses from this year as well as years past. These are shutting down major things wherever they fell. The good news is that Jupiter has now expanded our opportunities from those Eclipses and is about to expand our opportunities based in the voids created by the Eclipses in Scorpio.
We had tremendous opportunities this past Summer to express our heart, creativity, and joy, and have seen our Soul “speak.” We now have experienced courage and heart-felt radiance, and can anchor that heart power in practical actions of service, whether to our Higher Self or the world we live in.
We’re still breaking free of old rules and limitations, blending the past, present, and future in unique forms perfect for our evolving consciousness. Keep finding techniques to listen to your inner voice leading you to your role in the Cosmic Choir. Courage will be rewarded with an elegant camouflage.
Infused with heart power, we now accelerate our expansion into the future. The Fire trine involving Saturn and Uranus is already established, and as I mentioned earlier, 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. By keeping your mind and heart open, you will understand how to get your body, feelings, and mind coordinated so you can demonstrate a stable and harmonized Soul energy.
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 Robert for the three magnificent post on this coming Full Moon.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | November 03, 2017 at 09:04 PM
Thanks dear Robert, your inspiring words provide vision for the wisdoms to flow
Imagine had we learned from the start
Divine love flows through our feet to our heart
And wishful thinking is a sacred art
Powered by the Love that flows through our heart...
Posted by: sue | November 04, 2017 at 06:42 AM