by Robert Wilkinson
The next two weeks requires we rededicate our lives to a greater purpose, and join together with others to bring forth new group awareness. This brings a “compassionate wisdom” for the rest of the year, and requires openness, faith, diligence, and the ability to enjoy the trip through the world of ever changing perception against the backdrop of the permanence of Spirit.
This Lunation launches us into a time of direct action after the delays, reconsiderations, reviews and revisions of Mercury retrograde, and the Mercury degree in this chart is 13 Aries, the same as the Lunar position of last October’s Full Moon. That implies that the Mercurial factor of “the wisdom” coming forth at this Wesak is directly related to something that germinated then, and will be part of what’s to come. New identities are promised once we part the veil and enter the unknown thanks to Jupiter at 20 Scorpio.
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!
Add the recent Solar Eclipse at 28 Aquarius and the Lunar Eclipse at 12 Aquarius/Leo in play through this Summer, and we’ll continue to eliminate things with no more potential wherever those fell in 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, left some old expectations behind, found a deeper wisdom, saw a different future, and now have a period in front of us of undoing something or reworking something to prepare to move forward in many areas this August.
Major Aspects and Configurations
We have a lot of forming aspects in this Full Moon chart, with some very strong very favorable aspects! There are so few frictional aspects that we can expect this to be a very good period, with lots of productivity, gifts, and special circumstances facilitating the major themes we’ve already discussed.
As usual, there are a lot of barely separating partile aspects, indicating a lot has been going on in the immediate past and NOW. The major aspects in play involve the Moon triseptile both Mercury and Venus, quintile Mars, conjunct Jupiter, sextile Saturn, trine Neptune, and quintile Pluto; Mercury is septile Venus, binovile Mars, biquintile Jupiter, and binovile Pluto; Venus is sesquisquare Mars, pentelftile Jupiter, quincunx Saturn, binovile Neptune, and sesquisquare Pluto; and the Sun is tredecile Mars, opposition Jupiter, trine Saturn, sextile Neptune, and tredecile Pluto.
Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Mars square Uranus, septile Neptune and conjunction to Pluto; Jupiter is septile Saturn, quadranovile Uranus, trine Neptune, and sextile Pluto; Saturn makes no forming aspects at present, and Uranus is semisquare Nepune and trielftile Pluto. Obviously the aspects made from Jupiter out are long term influences.
In this chart, there are only two forming oppositions from the Moon conjunct Jupiter to the Sun. 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.
This month, these are numerous and very active! The Lunation is part of a “4 note chord” also involving Saturn and Neptune, creating very favorable voids between 10-16 degrees of Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces, and Taurus. Besides this very productive and stabilizing “power chord,” we also have the Lunation cut into a quintile and tredecile by Mars, generating unique gifts and circumstances around 21-24 Cancer and Capricorn, as well as 8-12 Taurus and Scorpio.
The numerous septile-series aspects show the Wisdom that pours out to all of us will bring us all to critical “forks in the road of destiny” involving many different areas of our charts! Regard the choices and changes of the next 2 weeks to be crucial in your spiritual evolution!! There are three different 7th harmonic aspects at work in this Wesak.
The first involves the Moon, Mercury, and Venus in very powerful cooperative-collective “coming together” aspects that impacts about ¾ of our entire chart. Mercury is septile Venus, and both are triseptiled by the Moon. This is a very powerful focus for our personality, where a) we will be tested about our compulsions involving these planets, the signs they’re in, and the houses they rule.
This will play out directly wherever we have mid-Aries, early Gemini, and late early Scorpio, but as the planets involved rule Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, and Libra, you can see this is a wide influence for all of us. The septile-double triseptile creates resonant points around 12-16 Aries, 4-8 Gemini, 25-29 Cancer, 17-21 Virgo, 8-12 Scorpio, 29 Sagittarius-3 Capricorn, and 20-24 Aquarius. If you have anything near these zones, choose wisely, since you could find those you’ve been wanting to connect with in deep ways.
We also have Mars septile Neptune and conjunct Pluto, triggering the Grand Irrationality (as discussed in part 1), and Jupiter septile Saturn, also discussed then. Much of what Mars is setting into motion at this time won’t show concrete results until 2020, the point of the “Grand Mutation” that happens when Jupiter conjuncts Saturn every 20 years. I’ll write more about this in the coming months.
Uranus semisquare Neptune continues to anchor two points of a “Rhombus Diamond” Octile configuration, with voids in mid-Virgo and late Libra. I also explained this in detail in part one, 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.
Venus sesquisquare both Mars and Pluto also brings an 8th harmonic octile energy to the mix in this Lunation. This is pretty frictional, and will grind many social situations into a perfection they hadn’t known before. This will impact those with planets or points near 20-24 Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, and 5-9 Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. If you have something in these zones, try not to get too agitated, and practice relaxation and de-stressing.
As Jupiter is now quadranovile Uranus, we have come to a point of realization after a period of waiting, and will likely have to make some choices related to what and who we need to accept as a result of our realizations, as well as what and who we must reject due to those same realizations. It’s the next phase of “Letting go, letting god” in the dance between the Divine Protector and Visionary and the Divine Awakener to the ever-new Now.
The first quadranovile was December 2017 with Jupiter at 15 Scorpio and Uranus at 25 Aries. This is the second one, from 20 Scorpio to 30 Aries. The final one will be in September from 22 Scorpio to 2 Taurus. These are points at which “the future gets sorted from the past.” Go with what the voice of your heart tells you. You’ll be clear about what to let go of and what to accept.
There are quite a few spiritual aspects in play at this Full Moon. We have three binoviles, one quadranovile, three septiles, two triseptiles, one trielftile and one pentelftile. Specializing aspects are represented by two quintiles, one biquintile, 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 continue our very heavy Earth sign emphasis, and welcome the reappearance of Air courtesy of Venus. Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 2 planets in Fire signs, 3 in Water, 4 in Earth, and 1 in Air. As you can see, we have a very heavy emphasis on Earth and Water, 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) and Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels), with a healthy dose of self-initiating Fire (Inspiration and Light) and breath of fresh Venusian Air (Relatedness and Communications). 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.
Still, remember that with so much Earth and Water, this combo makes either mud or bricks, depending on how you work with the material. So while some will find a sensitivity as they organize things so they further an “enlightened self-interest,” others will find themselves “stuck in the mud” of defensive calculations.
More on how Uranus Square Pluto Has Ramped Up Radical Energies!
Even though the square is long separated, a “mundane square” will be activated each time a planet transits between 21-30 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 97+ degrees apart, making a 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 just conjuncted Pluto 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 late April, they’ve been in the very favorable tredecile already discussed. They’re now at about 110+ degrees, moving to the return to their 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 the New Moon pattern that also dominated late February and early March.
As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience at present involves leading with our vision, understanding, and thinking, and follow what’s being communicated and understood into decisions and actions. Then after the decision or action, sit with the feelings and experience them, bringing them to the surface of your consciousness and get clear about what you’re feeling and why.
This time you feel and experience will lead you back to new information, new vision, new ideals, and new understanding, which will naturally lead you to see your next set of decisions and actions. Then again go deep, and name what you’re feeling. That way nothing will get bottled up through underuse, and you can move through experiences with power and clarity. Allow your feelings to follow your actions, and allow your mind to follow your experience, and all will be in proper sequence.
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.
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Summing it Up
This Full Moon is the entry to a new Wisdom that will dominate the next year. This is a “grounding while cutting loose” type of energy that will open us to a greater Life and service, as well as a stronger sense of what group(s) we should be in to have a deeper connection with our Spiritual Brothers and Sisters. As Mercury is direct in its shadow zone, jump into your “new identity” and give thanks that you or someone else’s “bomb squad” de-fused something that could have exploded.
Our openness has deepened our faith, and we now move forward into the unknown. You have nothing to lose except your fear, egocentricity, and lack of faith in yourself and your process of Self-unfoldment. Be courageous as you fling open “the gates to Spirit,” and embrace a nobler kindness and non-violent approach to all things. There are rewards for knowing when to surrender with dignity; try to find peace in knowing your specific arena of effective and joyous creativity, work, and play.
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 continue to remove some people and considerations from our lives, but only to create space to “join together with the band!”
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.
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 thorough and clear Wesak /Taurus Full Moon posts.
The best for Wesak to you.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | April 29, 2018 at 10:03 AM