by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon is initiating, inspired, stable, organized, and fulfills our ability to use our creative imagination to master circumstances. Over the next 2 weeks, we can take the adventure underway since the New Moon, and find strength and Light by trusting the process. We are all being mentored to visualize carefully what we want to see made manifest in the future, so dream well as you prepare to act in a new role!
The Sun in Fire and Moon in Air shows a time of cardinal fire (self-initiating inspired action) of Aries expressing its immediacy in balanced forms that serve as archetypes for transfiguration through the cardinal Air (relatedness and active ideals) of Libra. As noted in part 1, the inner planets have already begun a new year cycle with Saturn, Pluto, and Neptune.
Mars has now launched a new Jupiter cycle, and is still closing in on Saturn and Pluto. Venus has completed its transit of the outers for the year, and now moves us into emerging Taurus energy. We’re now nearing the end of several months of conjunctions between the inner planets and the outer planets. Secure what’s emerging, and enjoy the ride!
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 Dec 2017 Sun in Sag/Moon in Gemini Full Moon was the last Lunation with an opposition that didn’t involve the Moon. At this point, we’re beginning to move into a different era, since we have Venus in Taurus opposing Jupiter coming soon, which will be followed by the Sun and Mercury also opposing Jupiter in May and opposing Saturn in June.
Dispositors - What's the Backdrop to the Energies?
The Moon is in Libra, making Venus in Taurus its worldly ruler, and TransPluto in Virgo its Spiritual Ruler. The Sun is in Aries, making Mars in Capricorn its worldly ruler, and Pluto in Capricorn as its Spiritual Ruler. Venus is in its home sign of Taurus, so it’s very strong as its own final dispositor. Mars is exalted in Capricorn, its sign of greatest growth. With Venus and Mars in trine to each other, this should be an extraordinarily enjoyable and stabilizing time, despite the hard changes indicated by Mercury square Mars and Saturn, with the retrograde bringing the separating exalted Sun in Aries square both these planets back into focus.
We also see Saturn is in its home sign, thus ruling itself. So the Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto are ruled by Saturn in Capricorn, the Moon and Venus are ruled by Venus in Taurus, and Neptune is 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 11 Aries and Libra. 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 Leo and Aquarius.
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 11th degree of Aries is “The president of the country.” According to Rudhyar’s notes from the Marc Jones class, this degree is one of "fine stewardship of collective racial ideals,” “good and necessary, but unimaginative conformity to standards,” and “idealization.”
In the Astrological Mandala he states this degree is one of "the power resulting from the formal integration of the collective desire for order.” He offers that this symbol shows us this stage is about some sort of order “which transcends and seeks to rule the emotional and instinctual drives of the individual,” but also how that order is “ruled by collective pressures.”
He continues that “a desire for a larger type of integration has now emerged. It is no longer biological-impulsive … or emotional-personal, but social-collective and institutional.” He states “the integrative principle is the limited, more or less narrow ‘I am’ realization,” related to personal ego, and that this degree “indicates a centralization of power.” We are told this falls in the Span of Realization, and is the initial degree of the individual-mental and spiritual level of the Scene of Desire in the Act of Differentiation.
Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this is a degree of “high ego on the impersonal side, evident in the complete and naïve dedication of the individual to some part (we) choose to play.” Here we select a role that “will have maximum breadth of recognition,” so we can find ourselves in “a reality which (we) would be quite unable to sustain by (ourselves).”
He states this is about our “subordination of all other considerations to one primary act of individual assurance.” He offers us the keyword IDEALIZATION, and explains that when operating in a positive way, this degree is “the self-sacrifice required of anybody who would become the creative representative of eternal value.”
So this is a degree illuminating our ability to embrace a formal order requiring self-sacrifice and perhaps conformity to standards, with the Light of rulership to be administered wisely as a good steward. This lights up our ability to play a power role and become a representative of something of “eternal value.”
The Lunar degree symbol for the 11th degree of Libra is "A professor peering over his glasses.” In the original Jones class notes Dane Rudhyar published in The Astrology of Personality, he states this is a degree of "cooperation of genuinely superior agencies with beings less evolved,” “glad willingness to assist and protect,” and “kindliness.”
In the Astrological Mandala, he goes on to say that this degree symbolizes “problems attending the transmission of knowledge in a special cultural setup.” He goes on to state that this symbol is about how to get information across to others, where we must look beyond the knowledge and see others as human beings.
He offers that this symbol “deals at the intellectual level with the teaching of accumulated collective knowledge, and the problem posed by the acquisition of that knowledge,” and he makes a distinction this deals with issues of instruction, “not to be confused with ‘education.’” He says it falls in the span of Expectation, and it’s the initiating degree of the individual, mental, and spiritual level of the scene of Transfiguration in the Act of Group Integration.
Dr. Jones says this is a degree of “high ego on the personal side,” and the “naïve self-confidence by which an individual is enabled to continue the role of superiority (they) have elected to play.” He offers this is about a “refinement of self in whatever particular phase of excellence will promise recognition for itself, and also the acceptance of the form in which it is manifest.”
He states this degree is about “a subordination of all other considerations to the immediate dramatization of responsibility. He offers us the keyword SPECIALIZATION, and states that when operating in a positive manner, this degree “is a quiet mastery of events through a developed insight or depth of understanding.”
From these symbols it seems we can see the light of being the representative of a form of power and worldly order expressed through an expertise and/or command of knowledge that must be transmitted to others. Through shining the light of stewardship, we can transmit information in a balanced way. Having launched a new adventure through creative visualization and imagination since the New Moon, at this Full Moon we can find strength in being a good steward of collective standards, trusting in the Light we've seen and known.
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 has now retrograded 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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