by Robert Wilkinson
This initiating, organizing, revelatory and re-considering Full Moon organizing the wisdom teaching opened in the past 3 Full Moons occurs at 9:53 pm PDT June 27, 12:53 am EDT and 5:53 am BST June 28, and falls at the 7th degree of Cancer and Capricorn. As with all Full Moons, use the light you’ve been seeing and expressing since the New Moon, and give it form and focus through understanding the power to determine your own course in life!
Continuing the theme that proceeds at each Full Moon as they move through each polarity, this one gives us the ability to use the adventure that has led us to forms of integration in our Higher Self since the New Moon Solar Eclipse, and moving with the flow of changing allegiances, give it form and focus through seeing a new way to live. This Full Moon will bring the wisdom teaching into clear focus, with invisible helpers everywhere giving us what we need to move forward into a more limitless potential.
Today’s Full Moon post will be an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In parts 2 and 3 we’ll cover the Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.
An Overview
This Full Moon brings forth Wisdom, new responsibilities and social priorities, and magic for those who cooperate with their invisible helpers. This continues our social renewal, so join together with others at every opportunity, since Venus smiles brightly in the configurations at this Lunation. The larger skies are still lit brightly by various types of “electrical storms,” and sometimes weighing alternatives carefully helps us prepare for future adventures.
Obviously, Mars stationary retrograde is a major player in this chart, so we’re in a time to “plan anew” and ask ourselves what we really want, don’t want, like, and don’t like. What is worth our effort? Could something be done differently that will make it run more smoothly in the future?
Flexibility and examining our imagination to see if we really care about what we’re doing or how we’re doing it. What are you imaging forth? Time to pull back from the old projections and learn to see and hear clearly.
This is an exceptionally magical Full Moon for those in contact with their “invisible helpers,” and with the Moon in close conjunction with Saturn, our “Spiritual Master and Spiritual Friend” will be front and center on the stage of life these next 2 weeks! The outer planets are anchoring so many favorable aspect at this time that overall we’re in a fairly productive season. And as with the past several Lunations, we’re still in a time of a spiritual “separation of the wheat from the chaff,” with the entire world at a “fork in the road of destiny” due to Jupiter again septile Saturn.
The Grand Water Trine continues, allowing us all to understand the flow of favorable tides, leading us to a great “Mystery” of our own Self-revelation. This can prove very favorable in the realm of relationships, where much can be known through the astral (emotional) mechanism, bypassing the mental mechanism. Those who are involved in a larger service will experience forms of collective rebirth.
The Rhombus
As Uranus is still semisquare Neptune, anchoring the off-again, on-again friction Rhombus Diamond configuration, we’ll have to continue to deal with this “cutting, grinding, and polishing” quality each time the Moon moves through the middle of the mutable signs and the end of the cardinal and beginning of the fixed signs. The complete Diamond happened several times last year when planets transited mid-Virgo and late Libra at the same time, and will happen again this September when all four points will be occupied by 4 planets making two oppositions, two semisquares, and two sesquisquares to other planets in the diamond.
Get used to this agitation in the general atmosphere, since we had planets conjunct Uranus while semisquaring Neptune in April and May, culminating in mid-May when Mars entered Aquarius and semisquared Neptune and squared Uranus. This generated major friction!. The difference is that the semisquares are internal friction, whereas sesquisquares are external friction.
The first pass of Mars through these octile aspects gave us our first of three experiences of that friction. The next phase is coming in a few weeks when Mars is again in early Aquarius, and the third phase will be in late September when it makes its last pass over this trigger point of octile energy.
Jupiter Septile Saturn
We are now in phase two of Jupiter septile Saturn, marking a second point of decisions about which Jupiter and Saturn energies will be carried into the twilight of their long wave cycle. We had the first septile in late October 2017 with Jupiter at 3 Scorpio and Saturn at 24, both very important points. That "fork in the road of destiny" involved a more expansive connection with life.
The recent second septile featured Jupiter in the Scene of Faith on the actional level for the past few months. That was the second in the sequence during a period in time when the Jupiter-Saturn cycle which began with their May 2000 conjunction at 23 Taurus is beginning to disintegrate.
This series of septiles indicate another huge turning point of choice and change for humanity determining future karmas big and small. We now have arrived at the third and final “fork in the road of destiny” at this final septile. While it will be exact when Jupiter goes stationary direct at 14 Scorpio and Saturn’s at 5 Capricorn, in this chart Saturn’s at 6, and they’re 52+ degrees and getting closer. We’re still in the grand adventure!
Any time an outer planet hits one of its stations, we collectively experience a type of “sea change,” or a swirl that moves us in familiar but different directions than before, Jupiter is now on its stationary direct degree in the individual, mental, and spiritual level of the Scene of Communion. Communication is essential at this point of our journey during this season of "nonrational" options.
This is a time when the seeds of what will commence at the Great Mutation of 2020 are beginning to take shape. 2020 features Saturn conjunct Pluto at 23 Capricorn, followed by Jupiter’s two conjunctions with Pluto at 25 Capricorn that Spring and Summer, culminating in the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 1 Aquarius in December. I’ll write more about that very important period in coming months.
Is the Grand Irrationality A Factor in this Full Moon?
The Grand Irrationality, along with the other outer planet non-rational configurations that happen off and on throughout the year, indicate that we’ve been living in an era of very heavy decisions determining the future destiny of humanity since 1993. To refresh you, the Grand Irrationality is a long wave configuration set into motion every time a planet makes a conjunction, septile, biseptile, or triseptile to Neptune and Pluto. Septile series aspects show us points in time when our future destiny is precipitated by critical choices made in the present.
In this Full Moon, it’s triggered by Venus in a partile separating triseptile to Pluto. This “fork in the road of relationships” will be highly active as Mercury and the Sun both triseptile Pluto and then triseptile Neptune a few days later. So Venus has now brought us to the first point this Summer indicating another “fork in the road of destiny” for people and nations, based in where this falls in the chart.
Still, remember that this time of the year Neptune and Pluto are not in septile any more, being 56+ degrees apart. That is what makes this particular period stranger than it’s been, since Uranus is now biseptile Pluto while still semisquare Neptune. So it’s not exactly the Grand Irrationality as we’ve known it, but it’s still a “neverending revolution” now that the Cosmic Awakener has hit its “fork in the road of destiny” with the Lord of Transformation.
We’re now slowly moving out of the configuration, and we’ve already hit a point in time when Neptune and Pluto are beginning to form a long term sextile, as they were for most of the last half of the 20th century. At this time, the Grand Irrationality gains strength as we move through Autumn and into Winter, and will again lessen in strength in the late Winter into the Spring and Summer. (Right now they’re 56d 07m apart, and by early August will be 56d 39m degrees apart, closer to a sextile than a septile.)
As I’ve explained in other articles, that means that in the Autumn and Winter (in the Northern Hemisphere) they operate as a simultaneous “pulse,” since they’re both aspected near the same time. But in the Spring and Summer we experience it as a rolling influence, with first Pluto aspected, and then Neptune at some time after that, depending on which planet is doing the aspect to these planets.
Because this configuration involves Neptune and Pluto, the outermost spiritual planets, they show a long wave evolutionary crisis for the entire human race. Since 1993, at one point or another, everyone on Earth has experienced a nonstop energy of having to choose, at the bottom of our beings, the path to evolution or devolution, progress or regress, love or fear, joy or control. It’s why things have been so weird, irrational, and hard-edged.
Uranus Biseptile Pluto
As I offered back in May when Uranus first entered Taurus, “… they will soon make a biseptile, guaranteed to be a very unstable and irrational time! This begins at the end of June 2018 with Uranus 101+ degrees from Pluto, lasting through October when the orb gets too large. We then enjoy a brief return to the trielftile between December 2018 and April 2019. The biseptile comes roaring back between May and July, and again October 2019 through December 2019.
This is the first biseptile in the larger Uranus/Pluto cycle that began at their conjunctions in the mid-1960s. The waxing septile occurred 1989-1991, so this is the next point in that larger “Pulse of Destiny.” The hot zones, measured from the Uranus biseptile Pluto, are around 18-22 Capricorn, 10-14 Pisces, 1-5 Taurus, 22-26 Gemini, 13-17 Leo, 4-8 Libra, and 26-30 Scorpio. If you have anything near these zones, your life will have some abrupt transformational experiences this Summer!
As this aspect was in play during the Solstice, and will still be in play in the coming September Equinox chart, expect radical events in the coming two seasons! This is a major fork in the road for the entire world, and things may become extraordinarily irrational at times.
As I told you at the Solstice, if things don’t make sense, they don’t have to. The only thing that matters is to know how to focus and not get distracted by the craziness in the atmosphere. Sometimes, when we keep our heads when all around us are losing theirs, we come out on the other side looking and feeling good!
Planetary Distribution
In this Full Moon, the span occupied by the inner planets (in this chart the Sun at 7 Cancer through Venus at 17 Leo spans 30+ degrees. This span will be most active in our charts. There are no other clusters near this span, but there is a very active zone between Saturn at 6 Capricorn and Mars at 10 Aquarius, with 4 planets in that 33+ degree span, making it also very active. We hit maximum compression in March, with all planets between Jupiter at 24 Scorpio and Uranus at 27 Aries, making a very powerful triseptile between the bookends which I’ll discuss in the section on aspects.
At this time we have the 10 traditional planets occupying 7 signs, in an uneven widespread distribution. Currently, the outer planet occupied span begins with Jupiter in Scorpio, then moves through Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn, Neptune in Pisces, and Uranus in Taurus, with the inner planets now occupying Aquarius, Cancer, and Leo, with the Moon inside the outer planet span at 7 Capricorn.
With Saturn in Capricorn and Mars in Aquarius, we continue a stable pattern of dispositors. I’ll discuss the ruling dispositors in another article. The bigger shift is that at this time, no planet immediately leads the Sun, with Uranus a distant 64+ degrees. So I suppose this would indicate that after the “celestial display” indicated by Uranus, we would experience a gap in time before we’d “see the light” of the Illumination available at this time.
We’ve now moved into a time period of shifting Jones pattern. The patterns change mainly due to the position of the Moon, and at this Full Moon, we’re back in a “Splay” pattern, indicated by the Water trines.
So What is a “Splay Pattern” and how does it work?
Due to the way the planets are irregularly spread out among the signs, this type of spread which features all the planets in odd angles to each other with differing distributions among the signs, creates a “Splay” Jones Pattern. As Marc Jones put it, “the arrangement is neither even nor symmetrical,” revealing “strong and sharp aggregations of the planets at irregular points.”
Dr. Jones states “This suggests highly individual or purposeful emphases in the life, where the temperament juts out into experiences according to its own very special tastes.” This pattern “makes its own anchorage in existence,” and has a quality of “rugged resistance to pigeonholing, either in the near conventional compartments of nature, or in the idea-pockets of associates.”
He goes on to state this pattern gives a “persistent emphasis on individuality,” and the “spokelike emphases of the planetary groupings” are random, but have a “tripod” footing and approach to life circumstances. He says this pattern “reveals a very intensive personality who cannot be limited to any single steady point of application.” This temperament is “particular and impersonal in its interests,” rather than “universal-impersonal” or “particular-personal.”
This implies that affairs will be diversely spread out, some will not mesh well with others, and there will be a “hub and spoke" quality to what happens these next 4 weeks. This spread shows a wide diversity of things going on that promotes individuality.
Is the Sun Following the Moon, or the Moon Following the Sun?
Between June 2016 and the late July 2017 New Moon in Leo, the Full Moon Sun fell in the same sign as the Sun of the previous New Moon. Before then, the Sun was the same in both the New Moon and Full Moon between September 2013 and September 2014.
This is eleventh Full Moon since the period between October 2014 and May 2016 where we again are in a “reversed pattern” of the Sun of the Full Moon occupying the sign after the New Moon Sun. So we’re now in “the other” New Moon/Full Moon sign expression.
We finished the period of the “natural” order of Lunation Suns at the August 2017 Solar Eclipse in late Leo and began this other sequence, since that New Moon Sun was in Leo, but the subsequent Full Moon Sun was in Virgo. Since the New Moon offers us seeds in the first half of the month’s lunar cycle, and fulfillment in the second half, we now are in a sequence with the “Seed Light” of Gemini coming to a Full Moon illumination through the current Sun in Cancer and Moon in Capricorn.
Because the New Moon preceding the Full Moon always represents the seed forms that are brought to surface at and after the Full Moon, this begins the fulfillment of the theme of the recent New Moon at 23 Gemini. You can learn more about that New Moon in Gemini by going to The New Moon at 23 Gemini Pt. 1 – What’s Happening in June-July 2018, and The June 2018 New Moon at 23 Gemini Pt. 2 – Signs, Sabian Symbols, and What it All Means.
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. Because of the Moon in this Lunation, Saturn is the final dispositor for all the other planets except Neptune!
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 2018 because Mars is transiting Capricorn and Aquarius during this 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 now that they are back in a trine between May and October involving Capricorn and Taurus, we’ve begun the next chapter in us learning how to blend past and future together and craft our 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.
It was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers, and gives the reader the power to understand why some things happened when they did. Throughout the book, it offers ways for us to “make friends” with this part of our existence and take command of our destiny. As you read each chapter, you’ll become more aware of all the factors assisting Soul growth through understanding how our Saturn lessons relate to Dharma (our Highest Spiritual Function) and various types of karma, both those we cause and those which are "Sacred Wounds" leading us to a greater compassion and understanding.
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On A Final Note
See you in the near future with parts two and three on this magical and inspired Full Moon where we continue our adventure in hearing and cooperating with the World Teacher as that Being distributes the new forms of detachment, dispassion, discrimination, compassion, and our ability to generate positivity and “good will” in our world! We have been called to a greater dedication and greater consecration to humanity at large, leaving behind old personal considerations that no longer fit in our lives.
This Full Moon will require some flexibility as we learn and teach communication skills, and weigh and judge our possibilities using imagination and a sense of openness to the Wisdom we’ve already sensed for the past two months. So adjust as needed, bend but don’t break, sacrifice to achieve progress, and remember what’s permanent and what isn’t as you learn to let go of inhibitions and retire from old dramas, contemplating them from a place of peace.
I’ll see you soon when we’ll discuss Sabian Symbols, aspects, and other important chart factors.
© Copyright 2018 Robert Wilkinson
Beloved Robert Wilkinson
Thank you so much for this scintillating article!
There is so much I want to share. Like on this day, the 28th June 2007, I was INITIATED into the Virgin Realm, by Mother Mary, Herself! Which makes this Full Moon my 11th Anniversary. And 2018 makes an 11, just like our 23rd Wedding Anniversary on the 21st June 2018 makes!
I particularly appreciate these words:
"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."
Having found out that our Spleen is our Saturn within. Which the Taoists tell us is our Thinking Apparatus.
In divine friendship
Lady Shamla Rose
Posted by: Lady Shamla Rose | June 22, 2018 at 08:42 PM