by Robert Wilkinson
The next two weeks requires we be good stewards of impersonal collective values, and teach them to others with kindness. This will show us how we’ve prepared for what’s already in motion, and give us glimpses of a new identity we’ve already begun to live!
This Lunation launches us into a time of indirect action, or action that prepares us for something to move forward in the near future. While we’re still receiving vast feeling signals from the collective field, the more we can be clear in what we want to see made manifest in the future, and the quicker we forgive others, as well as ourselves, the quicker we’ll find the roles we were born to play.
Remember that we’re still under the influence of the numerous Eclipses of the “Cosmic Recycler Club” still in play (I gave them to you in this article) and we see that we are still “shedding skins” wherever we have 9, 19, and 30 Pisces, as well as 29 Leo, 10 Virgo, 21 Virgo, and 1 Scorpio. As you can see, that involves a large part of our charts! Through our losses, we’ve envisioned a new life, heard a deep wisdom, and quickened by shedding irrelevant things via the Pisces Solar Eclipses, and lost some expectations, stopped trying to live in the mind, and opened to being educated in a social or group context.
Major Aspects and Configurations
We have a lot of forming aspects in this Full Moon chart, with some very strong squares and trines! As usual, there are a lot of barely separating partile aspects, indicating a lot has been going on in the immediate past. The major aspects in play involve the Moon opposed Mercury retrograde, novile Jupiter, square Saturn (via collection of light by Mercury), pentelftile Uranus, and triseptile Neptune; Mercury is vigintile Venus, conjunct the Sun, square Mars and Saturn, and binovile Pluto; Venus is trine Mars and Saturn, quadranovile Jupiter, and semisquare Neptune; and the Sun is square Saturn, conjunct Uranus, quindecile Neptune, and binovile Pluto.
Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Mars semisquare Jupiter, conjunct Saturn, tredecile Uranus, and a weak sextile to Neptune and conjunction to Pluto; Jupiter is semisquare Saturn, triseptile Uranus, trine Neptune, and sextile Pluto; Saturn is tredecile Uranus and bielftile Neptune; and Uranus is semisquare Nepune. Obviously the aspects made from Jupiter out are long term influences.
While the semisquares are frictional on an internal level, the long term Saturn tredecile Uranus is one of high specialization and serendipity in unexpected events, as well as unusual or unique ways of redeeming promises offered since the Summer of 2016 if we were willing to shape our minds in ways so we could receive those blessings. We are in a time of awakening to a new identity and breaking free of any sense of isolation and loneliness. This charts boosts the action as Mars ups the power through its tredecile to Uranus!
You’ll note this creates several resonant void zones where gifts and unique interactions will be part of our experience. This will be with us for a few weeks, so enjoy the gifts and blessings! Areas of high specialization and gifts are around 3-7 Sagittarius/Gemini, 8-12 Capricorn/Cancer, 14-18 Aquarius/Leo, 20-24 Pisces/Virgo, and 26-30 Aries/Libra.
In this chart, there are only two forming oppositions from the Moon to the Sun and Mercury retrograde. This gives a very focused axis of “the Tension of Opposites.” Wherever this fall in your chart is sure to provide many realizations of how past, present, and future are a continuum as we move into pioneering new ways to live.
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.
Uranus semisquare Neptune anchors two points of a “Rhombus Diamond” Octile configuration, with voids in mid-Virgo and late Libra. I explained this in detail in part one, as well as the importance of Jupiter semisquare Saturn, so when you’re done here please take another look at that material, since this is a major source of tension and friction in our world, and will continue to be off and on throughout the year.
The squares set into motion by Mercury retrograde with the Moon, Sun, Mars, and Saturn in a Cardinal T-square throws the void into Cancer. Be aware of what you care about, don’t be defensive or superficial, do your homework, and try not to jump the gun or get hardened or rigid in responses. Make the decisions you need to make to integrate various factors in your inner and outer life, don’t get aggravated by “straw men” you don’t need to waste time on, and be flexible in your interpretations.
As Jupiter will make weak and strong triseptiles to Uranus for quite a few weeks to come, it opens 7 zones as “hot spots” where choice and changes will have to be made for those affected. These are around 21-25 Scorpio, 13-17 Capricorn, 5-9 Pisces, 26-30 Aries, 17-21 Gemini, 8-12 Leo, and 29 Virgo-3 Libra. These zones are all involved in a global “fork in the road of destiny” where we must learn to cooperate in pioneering endeavors.
There are quite a few spiritual aspects in play at this Full Moon. We have one novile, two binoviles, one quadranovile, two triseptiles, one bielftile, and one pentelftile. Specializing aspects are represented by one vigintile, one quindecile, and two tredeciles.
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, deciles (semi-quintiles) are 10th 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
We have again shifted in a huge way! Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 3 planets in Fire signs, 2 in Water, 4 in Earth, and 1 in Air. As you can see, we have a very heavy emphasis on Earth and Fire, with almost no Air at all!
During this year of Jupiter in Scorpio, we now can understand the pervasive fogs and mists of Neptune and harmonize our emotional experience on all levels of life. This will be in play through October 2018, so make the most of it! Because of January’s Mars conjunct Jupiter at 18 Scorpio, this too will provide completion, fulfillment, and transfiguration wherever we have mid-Scorpio in our charts.
So this month we have a very skewed element balance, with a major emphasis on Earth (Practicality and Grounding) with lots of self-initiating Fire (Inspiration and Light). Jupiter and Neptune provide the stable Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels), and after a total lack of Air (Relatedness and Communications), we finally have the Moon in an Air sign, providing some focus in relationships and ideals. In any case, we’ll need to come up with a sense of interactivity from within, since there isn’t much of it in the air!
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are in relative balance, through the energies are extremely “moveable.” This should be good for inspired practicality, as well as practical inspiration, even if some parts of these may seem to be at odds with each other.
More on how Uranus Square Pluto Has Ramped Up Radical Energies!
Even though it’s separated and they are temporarily not in a forming aspect, a “mundane square” will be activated each time a planet transits between 21-29 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn. 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 over the past several years, 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.
Uranus is again in direct motion, and from now on its angular relationship with Pluto will get even wider in 2018. In this chart they are still 96+ degrees apart, and in a few weeks will make another trielftile, showing 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 transit Aries between now and mid-May, they first square Pluto before conjuncting Uranus, bringing the UR/PL square lessons back front and center.
Pay attention to the seed forms emerging, don’t get talked into what is against your best interests, and don’t get into partnership with imbalanced, coercive, or corrosive people. Embrace the new, and all that will help you express your individuality. Interestingly, Mars will conjunct Pluto in late April, but won’t square Uranus until it hits 1 Aquarius after Uranus enters Taurus at the New Moon on May 15. This will be a harbinger of what is coming at the Mars/Saturn conjunction at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, as well as the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction at 1 Aquarius in December 2020.
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 in 2018, but using blunt force to push will destroy the good that could come.
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 harmonious with the Lunation, and Pluto is harmonized by Jupiter, a power player in this Eclipse. Inspiration, vision, and rehearsals of things to come are promised by this Lunation.
Saturn’s Dance With Uranus
Saturn and Uranus finished their long term trine between Sagittarius and Aries at the end of 2017. That trine was triggered any time another planet made a mutual aspect to either of these two planets, with Grand Fire Trines each time the Moon moved through late Leo! This Fire trine predominated all of late 2016 and 2017.
The trine will resume in the Earth element when Saturn is in Capricorn and Uranus is in Taurus in 2018 beginning May. January gave us a rapidly separating trine between Saturn in early Capricorn and Uranus in late Aries, allowing us to understand how to blend late Fire and early Earth energies in our life in the three chart sectors it affects.
Between February and early May, they are in the very favorable tredecile already discussed. Then they return to a trine in mid-May when Saturn is in early Capricorn and Uranus is in late Aries, preparing to enter Taurus. When the trine is in Earth, we’ll all have opportunities to ground the fire trine energies of 2017 into practical functioning stable structured innovations in our life.
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 opened heart fires, and over the long run we’ll see this aspect unleash 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 took clearer shape from October 2016 through December 2017.
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 continues last month’s Full Moon pattern. As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience at present involves leading with our decisions and actions, and then searching for new information, new understanding, or a new vision that will help us to get clear about something, followed by the need to reference our feelings and what we’re experiencing as a result of those insights, memories, understanding, or vision.
After we decide or act and then think, research, revision, rehearse, or review our understanding, we then need to go deep within to feel the implications of those ideas and visions. So get it in gear, and then go get new information or new ways of seeing things, and then feel your feelings and check in about how you’re experiencing those thoughts, or that information or vision you are sensing.
This pattern is great for getting things done, but needs to move beyond just finding the information that confirms its decisions, and learn to feel the implications of the vision or information. Once the experience of the vision or understand has occurred, then it’s safe to act in ways that further that understanding.
So for the next 2 weeks, do what you have to do with focused intention, and then find a vision and/or understanding. Once you know what you need to know, then take time to go deeply into your feelings about what was done that led to that understanding or vision. This pattern reminds us that though our lives are filled with actions and ideas, from time to time we need to stop and feel what we’ve done and check in with ourselves about what we’re experiencing.
Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend
Because Saturn is now in its home sign of Capricorn for the first time since 1991, it is the final dispositor of all planets transiting Capricorn and Aquarius from now through 2023. It was the ruler of the last two eclipses, making it an important factor for the next few years, and it will continue to play a different and powerful part in world affairs between March and November because Mars will be transiting those signs during that time. That makes Saturn a major force to be reckoned with in 2018!
Add the fact that it’s doing a very interesting dance with Uranus all of 2018, and once they come back into trine between May and October involving Capricorn and Taurus, and it will be the next chapter in us learning how to blend past and future together and craft your future destiny. After the 2017 Fire trines between these planets stabilizing Electric Fire and distributive “Fire by Friction,” this will provide practical grounding to our efforts.
This will help us organize and simplify our Saturn-Uranus “dance of individualization” in our charts. You can learn more about cooperating with Saturn and Uranus to create 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 Capricorn, will help bring an “organized personal 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 how 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
This Full Moon is the final look back on the process that has brought us to a new life. This one is extraordinarily transmutational, with new identities popping up in roundabout ways, new perspectives suddenly awakened, giving us all the ability to understand what we’ve prepared to do and now we’re ready to do it! See the role to play that is most natural for you, tune into your invisible helpers, build in a delay before you give a firm answer to anything, and make sure you’re expressing your Soul, since it’ll lead to a shortcut in your evolution.
We’re now living a new cycle of deep transformation as a result of the January Mars conjunct Jupiter, with tremendous boosts coming in May and September. This is opening and expanding the Saturn associated transfigurations from the Summer of 2014 and early 2016. We’re all on a long and very intense wave of transfiguring our lives by eliminating all that would hold us back, and the Eclipses will definitely remove some people and considerations from our lives, but only to create space to “join together with the band!”
Again, there are blessings to be received, as well as blessings you’ve already received whether you know it or not. This is the time to review and “count your blessings,” showing as much gratitude as possible for what has been released that has brought you clarity and beauty in your life.
Chiron is mentoring us to dream carefully, “letting go, letting God” come to us in a vision of a better future. A great linkage has occurred since 2017, and this is a final “dress rehearsal” before we jump into action in mid-April!
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.
As I reminded you earlier, we are still within the effects of Eclipses from the past. These are shutting down major things wherever they fell. The good news is that Jupiter is expanding our opportunities based in the voids created by the Eclipses in Scorpio.
We had tremendous opportunities last Summer to express our heart, creativity, and joy, and have seen our Soul “speak.” We experienced courage and heart-felt radiance, and are now learning to 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 from the Summer of 2017, we now accelerate our expansion into the future. The Fire trine involving Saturn and Uranus allowed us to blend the old with the new, the traditional with the innovative, throwing us into an adventure in higher awareness where we can demonstrate confidence and heart strength. We now are living a new identity, a new love, a new spiritual awareness, and a new spiritual expression, so keep your mind and heart open and keep coordinating your body, feelings, and mind to 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 2018 Robert Wilkinson
Thanks you for a very complete and clear set of post regarding this important Full Moon in Aries, the Eastern Festival moon.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | March 30, 2018 at 07:03 PM