by Robert Wilkinson
The next two weeks (and 6 months) requires that we demonstrate a higher wisdom and understanding based in the integrity we’ve experienced since the last Solar Eclipse. This one brings a lot of friction which will dislodge a lot of old stuck material!
We’ve just finished the Sun opposition Mars, showing we’re past the midpoint of Mars retrograde. The slowed pace of the past 8 weeks has helped us take a break, get at some internal frustrations or resistances, and allowed us to slow down and rethink our plans. As this Eclipse falls on the exact axis of “the Tension of Opposites” involving Leo and Aquarius, we should be getting very clear about the strategies and tactics we assume would help us get what we want, or achieve some goal.
We seen some goals have to be adjusted, while others require a different method of approach. Keep reworking things, since the pace will pick up from here. Keep developing those things which will support your efforts the rest of this year once Mercury goes direct and it too picks up speed.
We’ve found we don’t like some of the things we used to, and are planning anew as more important things are pending. This Mars RX continues to bring echoes of eclipses past since we had 8 in 2008-2009, including one at 7 Aquarius in January 2009 with the North Node at 10 Aquarius, the exact degree of the recent Mars station. We continue to remember, reawaken, and re-examine past events that brought us to the here and now.
This Eclipse is the newest member of the “Cosmic Recycler Club” to come into play. (I gave them to you in this Eclipse 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 January 2018 Solar Eclipse at 28 Aquarius and the Lunar Eclipse at 12 Aquarius/Leo in play, as well as the recent Solar Eclipse at 21 Cancer, which expand the areas where we continue to eliminate things with no more potential wherever those Eclipses 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 very mixed bag of aspects in play at this Full Moon, with a lot of so-called “minor” aspects guaranteed to accompany some major life-changing events! 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 quadranovile Mercury, sesquisquare Venus, conjunct Mars, binovile Jupiter, square Uranus, and novile Neptune; Mercury is vigintile Sun, quadranovile Mars, binovile Jupiter, quadraelftile Saturn, tredecile Uranus, and biquintile Pluto; Venus is semisquare Sun, sesquisquare Mars, biseptile Saturn, sesquisquare Uranus, and trine Pluto; and the Sun is opposed Mars, quincunx Saturn, and pentelftile Pluto.
Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Mars binovile Jupiter, semisextile Saturn, square Uranus, and semisquare Neptune; Jupiter is septile Saturn, trine Neptune, and bielftile Pluto; Saturn is trine Uranus and quintile Neptune; and Uranus is semisquare Neptune and biseptile Pluto. Obviously the aspects made from Jupiter out are long term influences.
In this chart, there are only two forming (or tight partile) oppositions, the Full Moon and Sun opposition Mars. This makes “the Tension of Opposites” specific to a tight area of Leo and Aquarius. Wherever this fall in your chart is sure to provide many realizations of how past, present, and future are a continuum as we accept forms of healing, or the emergence of new “healing powers” within. Tap your ancestral wisdom, and take a lesson from Nature about the time and patience any long-lived effort takes.
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 in short supply. Mainly, the Eclipse/Mars axis is part of the octile-driven Fixed T-square because Mars is forming square to Uranus, and The Moon is sesquisquare Venus, while Venus is semisquare the Sun and sesquisquare both Mars and Uranus. The Mars, Uranus, and Venus configuration is known as a “Hammer of Thor” with Venus as the nozzle, while the Moon, Sun, and Venus create three points of a “Rhombus Diamond,” generating a “cutting, grinding, and polishing” effect wherever we have the Eclipse, Venus, and Neptune in our charts. I discussed these powerful configurations in both parts 2 and 3 of this series if you want to know more.
I also mentioned Jupiter septile Saturn in part 1. Zones most affected by this Lunation’s conjunction and opposition with Saturn are around 12-16 Scorpio, 3-7 Capricorn, 25-29 Aquarius, 16-20 Aries 8-12 Gemini, 29 Cancer- 3 Leo, and 21-25 Virgo. If you have a planet or point in these zones, this septile has been putting pressure on your as you stand at a fork in the road of your destiny. Build lines of communication, finish what needs finishing, and say goodbye to many things as you move into unfamiliar creative-expressive realms.
I gave you the zones of the very powerful Uranus biseptile Pluto in part 1. Please pay attention to the choices and changes being forced upon all of us during the time this aspect is in play, since how we consciously use these spiritual forces of radical transformation determines how effective we’ll be as Spiritual units of Consciousness in the body of Humanity in the future.
Venus biseptile Saturn is the next step in the unfolding of this year’s Saturn lessons related to Venus-ruled areas of our lives. This shows the next few months will put us on a new adventure, even if we feel the “equipment is inadequate.” Be joyous as you “adventure with faith” into a new realm of skill or expertise with others. Zones most impacted are 2-6 Capricorn, 23-27 Aquarius, 15-19 Aries, 6-10 Gemini, 27 Cancer-1 Leo, 18-22 Virgo, and 10-14 Scorpio. In this configuration, Venus does not septile Jupiter, since the orb is too wide. So Jupiter is included through the long term septile with Saturn that is already out of orb.
Besides the Hammer of Thor and Rhombus Diamond in action, friction and sacrifice are indicated by Sun opposition Mars and quincunx to Saturn. This shows a strong need to go slow, don’t act on subconscious impulses until you’ve examined what’s driving those urges, and be patient and flexible. Growth comes through letting some things fall apart so they can be recombined at a future time, and navigating traffic jams in human relations to come out of forms of discouragement.
There are quite a few spiritual aspects in play at this Full Moon. We have one septile, two biseptiles, one novile two binoviles, two quadranoviles, one bielftile and one pentelftile. Specializing aspects are represented by one vigintile, one quintile, one tredecile, and one biquintile.
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 and Water sign emphasis, with Air and Fire deficient during the next two weeks. Of the traditional 10 planets, there is 2 planets in Fire signs, 2 in Water, 4 in Earth, and 2 in Air. As you can see, we have a very heavy emphasis on Earth, with a good balance of Water, Fire and Air.
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 skewed element balance, with a major emphasis on Earth (Practicality and Grounding), with Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels), Air (Relatedness and Communications), and Fire (Inspiration and Light) evenly distributed. This month the Light of Creative Inspiration and Integrity is lighting up our healing and our wisdom, even as we become clear about the people and things we’ve withdrawn from, or need to withdraw from.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are slightly more cool. 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.
Uranus Square Pluto Is Over!
After the square of many years, we’re now living with these two planets in a fateful biseptile, putting the entire world in a very irrational energy field! The square was fully active these past years, even when separated, since transits continued to make a “mundane square” activated each time a planet transited between 21-30 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn. Now that Uranus is in Taurus, the mundane square is over, even though these energies will be active one last time from November 2018 through early March 2019 when Uranus retrogrades back into the last degrees of Aries. After that, Uranus and Pluto make no frictional aspect until Uranus in late Gemini sesquisquares Pluto in mid-Aquarius many years from now.
Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn were volatile, “out of control” energies, occurring during the global collision of ideas over the past several years. From time to time, this square was activated and associated with the hard edge of the conflict between control systems and the forces of individualization that have been calling everyone to a greater spiritual individuality. Now that Uranus is in Taurus, it diminishes the “dual-pulse friction” of the times when planets make hard angles to Pluto before making them to Uranus, since the mundane square from Cap to Aries is no longer happening.
Uranus is in direct motion, currently at the degree of “the electrical storm” that is shaking the Tree of Life pretty vigorously right now! Now in a biseptile, we’re in a very important season of radical choices and changes! Most of the current major friction involving Uranus now comes from Mars, which just completed its first square from 1 Aquarius after Uranus entered Taurus at the New Moon on May 15. This was 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. This square welcomed the 21st century to 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 represented 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, when these two powerhouses made numerous conjunctions in mid-Virgo!!
Uranus is now moving through a span of degrees it hasn’t transited since 1934-1936. 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 learned to master Uranus square Pluto, we saw the true causes of any social disorder, constructive versus destructive justifications and motives, and where mistrust and mischief-making originate. This allowed us greater power to deal with Pluto coercions and heavy-handed corrosive behavior. We now know how to use any tension between Uranus and Pluto in two big ways in the future, exercising good Pluto function to put the brakes on, or turn the corner on, negative Uranian manifestations, and good Uranus function to put the brakes on, or turn the corner on, negative Pluto manifestations.
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 resumed in the Earth element when Saturn in Capricorn began to trine Uranus is in Taurus in May. We now have opportunities to ground the fire trine energies of 2017 into practical functioning stable structured innovations in our life. This is a harmony of simple organization, and organized simplicity, yielding clarity about the details of any plan or task to be done. It’s certainly providing an excellent practical stability to any planets we have in early degrees of Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces, and Taurus, even if the last in this list are going through MAJOR awakenings and revolutionary developments in 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.
As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience at present involves getting mobilized and 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. Then we need to reference our feelings and what we’re experiencing as a result of those insights, memories, understanding, or vision.
So after we know what to do and make our decision, we then need to think, research, revision, rehearse, or review our understanding, and 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 or understanding 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. Don’t forget to experience what you’re doing and seeing! Once the experience of the vision or understanding has occurred, and you’re clear about what you’re feeling, then it’s safe to act in ways that further that understanding.
So for the next 4 weeks (and 6 months), 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. And, due to the placements this month, Saturn is still one of the very powerful final dispositors for all the planets in the chart, with the Sun and Neptune being the only others.
It also was the ruler of three of the last four eclipses, making it an important factor this year and for the next few. It continues its powerful part in world affairs between March and November because Mars, ruler of Jupiter and Chiron, will be transiting those signs during that time, making Saturn a major force to be reckoned with throughout 2018!
Add the fact that it’s harmonizing with Uranus all of 2018, and as they are in trine through October involving Capricorn and Taurus, it’s 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.
We can now organize and simplify the 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 Total Lunar Eclipse represents a new vision, grounded and expressed through our ancestral wisdom and past experiences. Some will find healing powers within, while others will realize they need a form of healing to integrate some things from the past that need to be re-processed. This is a time to eliminate to regenerate, while allowing some things to grow naturally as a result of their “electrification” in the past.
We are still growing through admiring the differences in things, taking the best of all and rejecting that which is insufficient for a given task. The pressure increases, and we all are called to “officiate over our Mystery ritual” where forms of power need to be applied with wisdom. In recent weeks, we have been given a great new Wisdom Idea which continues to open us to a deeper chapter in our Mystery of learning to embrace 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.
Our openness has deepened our faith via Jupiter, and those who have done their work are on the threshold of a new “Law of Life.” Those who still have things to finish up should do so in an organized way despite the inevitable delays of Mars retrograde. Doors will open for those who complete what they have to. If you find certain things no longer appeal to you or call to you, it’s simply giving you notice that some things about your life will have to be reworked.
We’re now living a new cycle of deep transformation as a result of the January Mars conjunct Jupiter, with tremendous boosts in May and September. This is opening and expanding the Saturn associated transfigurations from the Summer of 2014 and early 2016. 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.” When new adventures beckon, embrace them with warmth, since you might find Spiritual Brothers and Sisters from past lives along the way!
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’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!”
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
Thank you for the great post on the Eclipse, the Full Moon and their relationship to what has been happening, to when is happening and the opportunities open for everyone.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | July 30, 2018 at 01:17 PM
Dear Robert...
Being in the midst of a change of great magnitude, I cannot thank you enough for the inspiration and encouragement you offer.
Your "Summing Up" is unparalleled. I hope all your readers will pause and reread it and take heart.
Love and blessings, jo
Posted by: Jo Garceau | July 30, 2018 at 02:13 PM
Dear Robert,
i'm writing to thank you for your work that you have doing all this years and to leave something that you wrote back in january 2018 and that i now just found on my lunation journal:
"find your way to embrace the adventure into a deeper soul connection, faith in action and courage as a magnetic force in life. This lunation organizes that powerful magnetic pulse into effective grounding power which will bring us to the "father shore" by this coming summer. You can take that to the bank".
And i did and i found it. Thank you too for the magnetic force in your spirit and all the work that you do.
Posted by: Maria | July 31, 2018 at 01:35 AM