by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon is distributive, intuitive, and opens the door to a much clearer compassion and forgiveness despite (and maybe because of) some serious crosscurrents between past and future. There are hidden powers to be made manifest, so allow whatever inspires you to transform your everyday life.
The Sun in Water and Moon in Earth shows a time of mutable water (feelings and experiences) of Pisces expressing its far reaching understanding of our commonality and need for closure through the mutable earth (practicality and grounded action) of Virgo. As noted in part 1, the inner planets have already begun a new year cycle with Saturn, Pluto, and now Neptune. Mars has now launched a new Jupiter cycle, and is still closing in on Saturn and Pluto. We’re now in the thick of several months of conjunctions between the inner planets and the outer planets. Harvests abound these next few months, so make the most of it!
Why Are Full Moons So Important?
At a Full Moon, that which has opened since the previous New Moon surfaces in a public form, and heads toward the culmination and fruition symbolized by the second half of any cycle. First half, birth into form and field. Second half, culmination and completion of the purpose of that cycle.
That’s why it’s important to regard the New and Full Moon charts as “God’s Footprints in Time,” since one follows the other in an unending sequence of births of newer and newer seeds. The New Moons show us the seeds that will flourish under the reflected light of the Full Moon.
Full Moons heighten feelings, due to the opposition of the Moon and the Sun. The Gemini/Sag Full Moon was the last Lunation for many months with an opposition that doesn’t involve the Moon. At this point, we won’t have another opposition involving a planet until mid-April, when Venus in Taurus opposes Jupiter.
Dispositors - What's the Backdrop to the Energies?
The Moon is in Virgo, making Mercury in Pisces its ruler. The Sun is in Pisces, making Jupiter in Scorpio its worldly ruler, and Neptune in Pisces as its Spiritual Ruler. This makes both Jupiter and Neptune very powerful backdrops to the other planetary energies, especially as Mars is in Sagittarius and Jupiter is in Scorpio, creating a mutual reception which is a very powerful “closed loop” of self-reinforcing energies.
We also see Saturn is in its home sign, thus ruling itself. So Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus are ruled by the Mars/Jupiter MR, and the Sun, Mercury, and Venus are co-ruled by Jupiter and Neptune, with Saturn in Capricorn ruling itself and Pluto, with Neptune as a standalone final dispositor of itself.
By looking at how “chains of dispositors,” “final dispositors,” and “mutual reception” are in play between the planets, we get a clear picture of the backdrop for how each planet operates. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to Astrology Class – What Is A Dispositor and What Is Mutual Reception Between Two Planets?
The Sabian Symbols for the Full Moon
This Full Moon falls at 12 Pisces and Virgo. It is said that the middle third (decan) of any sign deals with the emotional, social, and cultural levels of life, and as the Lunation is in the second decan of those signs, invokes a sub-influence of Cancer and Capricorn.
Since the Moon always focuses the light of the Sun in specific forms, the degree symbols for both are important. The Sun degree is the illumination or enlightenment of the Lunation, whereas the Moon shows us the potential forms that enlightenment will take. Though I’ve given you a sense of what this is about up to now, here’s where we go into detail.
The Solar degree symbol for the 12th degree of Pisces is “An examination of initiates.” According to Rudhyar’s notes from the Marc Jones class, this degree is one of "inner ordeal before every true seeker,” “the individual facing collective wisdom,” “re-affirmation of purpose,” and “God-revelation.”
In the Astrological Mandala he states this degree is one of "the ever-repeated challenge presented to the individual by the group in which he has claimed acceptance – the challenge to prove himself and his ability to assume responsibility effectively.” He offers that this symbol shows us that at some time we must “stand up clearly and unequivocally to the ideal (we) have declared publicly our own.” He speaks of controlled testing, since we are a part of “an integrated field of mental-spiritual activity” and are controlled by the structural order of the group.
He continues that by this stage we are no longer seeking, and must do what we must do to prove ourselves able to fulfill some function. We states at this stage we are no longer “free,” as we are “a part of an integral Whole operating under structural principles of immense antiquity.” This is a phase of being bound “by collective laws and traditions,” where we must “prove our worth” and our qualifications to execute our duties. He states this degree falls in the Span of Innocence, Act of Capitalization, and Scene of Federation on the Individual-Mental level.
Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this is a degree of “life’s demand that (we) continue at all times to prove ourselves,” in terms of our “ideals and spiritual aspiration.” Here we seek “immortal understanding,” and in the process we must be dedicated “to values far removed from the gross appetites and transient jealousies” of others.
He states we reveal ourselves through potentials we develop and share with others. He offers us the keyword QUALIFICATION, and explains that when operating in a positive way, this degree is “instinctive conformity to the highest expectation of everybody concerned in each new situation of consequence.”
So this is a degree of proving our willingness to live our values and ideals as we move through ordeals of testing, so we can re-affirm our purpose and find a higher revelation. He we stand up for our spiritual values, and in the process find a higher understanding and values removed from human folly. This Light will help us be more at ease in the spiritual role we have claimed for ourselves before now.
The Lunar degree symbol for the 12th degree of Virgo is "A bride with her veil snatched away.” In the original Jones class notes Dane Rudhyar published in The Astrology of Personality, he states this is a degree of "disclosure of the hidden fruitions of nature to him who dares and who loves,” “full appreciation of life,” and “penetration.”
In the Astrological Mandala, he goes on to say that this degree symbolizes “the penetrating and unveiling power of the trained mind.” He goes on to state that this represents the Yang force overpowering the Yin, forcing it to yield its secrets. He says the marriage is a symbol of training, bringing a “sociocultural factor” into the mix, with “the teacher-guru (representing) the priest who has performed the ritual.”
He offers that here “the masculine act balanced the feminine dream visualization” (of the previous symbol) and gives us the keyword “unveiling,” which can include “an unveiling of mysteries, long protected by secrecy.” He says this degree falls in the Span of Idealization, Act of Stabilization, and it’s the second degree in the Scene of Characterization on the Individual-Mental level.
Dr. Jones says this is a degree of “life’s demand that (we) continue at all times to prove (ourselves) in accordance with the claims” we assert in our relationships. He offers this shows us the need that we “continue along the path of experiences (we) have chosen … since the fact of (our) choice indicates a capacity for profiting from the consequences.”
He offers us the keyword INVITATION. He states that when operating in a positive manner, this degree “is absolute purity in motive and a completely unconditioned fullness of self-giving as a prophecy of high reward.”
From these symbols it seems we can see the light of seeing what we stand for and what we are qualified to do spiritually expressed through some sort of unveiling of a mystery, or an act that reveals something hidden before now. Through proving our worth, we can express our purity of motive and reap fortunate consequences.
TransPluto, Divine Mother, Neptune, and the Polarization in the Collective Atmosphere
Both Neptune and TransPluto represent very vast fields of feeling and connectedness beyond individual control. Neptune is the oceanic field of collective consciousness in which we all swim, and TransPluto is an almost incomprehensibly vast Divine Mother energy which redeems all things, brings grace to all circumstances, and is beyond even Death itself. When these two planets make an aspect, it shows us how the collective field is relating to Divine Redemption.
Many important collective developments related to these themes began to surface between 2009-2012, when Neptune in Aquarius was in very close opposition to TransPluto, or Divine Mother. That’s a major factor in why things became so polarized during those years, where the “tension of opposites” began to bring forth lessons in our Oneness, our need to share, and the human collective consciousness faced its need to embrace compassion and learn Viveka, or Divine Discrimination, especially when TransPluto was at the first degree of Virgo. Since that important opposition, we’ve all experienced intensified opportunities to join together in the Great Mother and realize our interrelatedness on a feeling level with All-That-Is.
In terms of the larger Era, we’ve now ended the TransPluto (Percephone, Parvati) in Leo era that we knew from September 20, 1935 through July 4, 2014. The transition period where this planet danced at the last degree of Leo and first two degrees of Virgo began October 2011 and ended July 4, 2014, when TransPluto left Leo for many centuries to come, and entered into Virgo for the next century.
TransPluto, or Divine Mother, danced between 1 and 2 Virgo between July 2014 and Oct 2017, showing us the larger view of what we are learning about how we conceive of God the Mother. The symbol for 1 Virgo is about how our ideas and ideals shape the outer forms in our lives, as well as how we act. It’s about picturing “the salient features and the overall meaning of any life situation,” as well as the Path of discipleship and other forms of training.
So one of the two great themes Divine Mother has taught all of us these past several years was to see life as a whole, and find meaning in seeing the significant features of the whole picture. We have had to understand the value and function of differences, and seeing how our personal integrity has allowed us to make our ideals real through accepting some sort of responsibility.
TransPluto then made its first entry into 2 Virgo October 2014, and we began humanity’s “liberating ordeal.” That initial visit was between October 2014 and mid-January 2015, and began the themes of the “crucifixion” of our sense of ego-separateness so that compassion and understanding could come forth. We are told it symbolizes “eminence at the cost of struggle,”’ which certainly seems to be very much the case as humanity redeems the promise of its better nature.
It was at 2 Virgo between October 2014 and mid-January 2015, after which it retrograded back to 1 Virgo. It re-entered 2 Virgo in early September 2015, and stayed at that degree until February 2016, when it retrograded back to 1 Virgo again. In mid-May 2016 it went stationary direct at 1 Virgo, and then re-entered 2 Virgo in early August 2016. It remained at 2 Virgo until the end of March 2017 and then retrograded back to 1 Virgo between April and the end of June 2017.
It then again entered 2 Virgo until October 11, 2017, when it entered 3 Virgo, which we are told is a degree of “Two angels bring protection,” symbolizing inner powers and “divine help when human efforts fail.” Its occupancy of 1 Virgo is now complete, and this is the next phase in our collective “liberating ordeal,” promising relief, protection, as well as the manifestation of unexpected latent powers.
This should bring forms of security via “the simple and consistent convergence of all good things toward their own kind.” This is a type of conviction that guarantees “an effective fulfillment of our dreams.” With the planet symbolizing Divine Mother expressing help via guardian angels, it should provide us a welcome relief from some parts of our “liberating ordeal.”
It went stationary retrograde at the end of November at 3 Virgo, and is now retrograding back and re-entered 2 Virgo on Jan 19, 2018. It stays at 2 Virgo, going stationary direct in mid-May 2018 on that degree, occupying it until Sept 6, 2018, when it re-enters 3 Virgo again. As you can see, while we dealt with themes related to 1 and 2 Virgo for a long time, we’re now moving into themes related to 2 and 3 Virgo for many months to come.
The energies of Divine Mother will only grow stronger throughout this century, and these will be demonstrated each time the planets make significant aspects to TransPluto. One major set of cycles were set into motion when Jupiter conjuncted TransPluto in August 2015 in Virgo, beginning a new 12 year cycle of how these “Divine Mother energies” will manifest. It also began a new long wave era, since Jupiter will conjunct TransPluto in Virgo every 12 years until the 22nd century!
Related to this, Venus went stationary retrograde exactly conjunct TransPluto in late July 2015, setting up Venusian manifestations of Divine Mother that will show each and every time 1 Virgo is transited. That means the Venusian Divine Mother promise of late July 2015 was expanded, or set into motion somehow, by Jupiter's transit of 1 Virgo in mid-August 2015, and then took expression due to Mars’ transit of that degree in late September 2015, and found “beauty of form” when Venus transited it in early October 2015.
Those two conjunctions have dominated the Virgo landscape in our charts since then, and were given new value, new power, and new understanding each time the inner planets transited those early degrees in 2016 and 2017. Related to this, please take a new look at the Mars-Jupiter cycle set into motion by their conjunction in mid-Virgo between October 2015 and their most recent conjunction in mid-Scorpio a few weeks ago in early January 2018, since that will give you some clues about how this “Divine Mother” redemptive energy was made manifest in your life.
So we’ve officially entered a different Spiritual Era that will last through July 2107, when it leaves Virgo for good and re-enters Libra for the first time in many centuries, also after a few years of dancing on the cusp of Virgo and Libra. I offered you a bit more about this vast spiritual energy field in Astrology in the Age of Aquarius - Transpluto, a.k.a Divine Mother, Parvati, and Percephone.
See you soon with part 3, covering aspects, planetary sequencing, and other important factors in this Full Moon!
© Copyright 2018 Robert Wilkinson
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Posted by: sue | March 01, 2018 at 09:24 AM
Thanks. I continue to be amazed at how the Sabian symbols cut straight into truth and reality.
Posted by: Denise | March 01, 2018 at 10:37 PM
Beloved Robert
How beautiful and illuminating are your words!
My experiences of New and Full Moons are profound with very tangible Gifts from the Universe that confirm my Reality.
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