by Robert Wilkinson
The next two weeks requires that we demonstrate a greater sense of fellowship, Brotherhood, and Sisterhood, and surrender our preconceptions to deeper, more authentic and compassionate ways to interact with other. We are in major transformation, so stay balanced and in touch with your integrity. This one brings a lot of friction which will dislodge a lot of old stuck material!
We’ve just finished Mercury retrograde, are finishing Mars retrograde, and will soon finish Saturn 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. We’ve also had TWO Solar Eclipses in the past 2 months in Cancer and Leo, helping us “put on the show” and let go of old “social rigidities” so we can become happier.
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 brought 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.
The last Solar 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 (both same as last month!), decile Mars, tredecile Jupiter, sextile Saturn and Uranus, conjunct Neptune, and semisquare Pluto; Mercury is sextile Venus, vigintile Sun, pentelftile Mars, square Jupiter, sesquisquare Saturn, biseptile Uranus, and triseptile Pluto; Venus is quintile Saturn, biquintile Neptune, and square Pluto; and the Sun is biquintile Mars, quintile Jupiter, trine both Saturn and Uranus, opposition Neptune and sesquisquare Pluto.
Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Mars quintile Jupiter, quindecile Saturn, square Uranus, and semisquare Neptune; Jupiter is semisquare Saturn, trine Neptune, and sextile 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 oppositions, the Full Moon and Sun opposition Neptune. This makes “the Tension of Opposites” specific to a tight area of Virgo and Pisces. Wherever this fall in your chart is sure to provide many realizations related to our preconceptions about people and situations, and how we need to get over them. We should find a broader feeling-response to subtle signals we pick up from collective consciousness.
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 all over the map, literally! The opposition between early Virgo and Pisces is resolved by Saturn trine Uranus making favorable aspects to both the Sun and Moon. However, the Lunation axis is also part of the octile-driven Moon/Sun semisquare and sesquisquare Venus, which is square Pluto, pulling both of them into 4 points of an “8 Pointed Star Pattern” generating tremendous friction wherever it falls in our charts!
So like the last Full Moon, the Moon is sesquisquare Venus and semisquare Pluto, while Venus is semisquare the Sun and square Pluto. This means the Moon, Sun, and Venus create three points of a “Rhombus Diamond,” generating a “cutting, grinding, and polishing” effect wherever we have the Lunation, Venus, and Pluto in our charts. I discussed these powerful frictional configurations in both parts 2 and 3 of this series if you want to know more.
So the Full Moon plus Saturn and Uranus form 4 points of a Great Sextile 6-Pointed Star pattern, but with Venus and Pluto they form 4 points of a Great Octile 8-Pointed Star pattern! And if these weren’t enough, we also see that the Sun biquintiles Mars and quintiles Jupiter, with Mars quintile Jupiter. This yields 3 points of a Great Quintile 5-Pointed Star pattern, and when we add the Moon decile Mars and tredecile Jupiter, we have 4 points of a Great Decile, which potentially creates a 10-Pointed Star pattern!
The Full Moon plus Saturn and Uranus creates great potential and productivity in the first 5 degrees of all the Earth and Water signs. The Full Moon plus Venus and Pluto creates major friction in early Mutable signs and around 17-22 of the Cardinal signs. The Great Quintile creates very favorable voids near 15-19 Scorpio, 27 Capricorn-1 Aquarius, 9-13 Aries, 21-25 Gemini, and 3-7 Virgo, and when we add the Moon and Mars, it includes all the zones opposite the ones just listed. If you have anything in these 10 zones, you’ll find an efficiency and skill you didn’t know you had, with deep connections to others, and high specialization and gifts.
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.
There are quite a few spiritual aspects in play at this Full Moon. We have two biseptiles, one triseptile, one quadranovile, and one pentelftile. Specializing aspects are in great abundance, and are represented by one vigintile, one quindecile, one decile, FOUR quintiles, one tredecile, and two biquintiles.
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 1 planet in Fire signs, 3 in Water, 5 in Earth, and 1 in Air. As you can see, we have a very heavy emphasis on Earth, with some Water, and very little 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), and very little Air (Relatedness and Communications) and Fire (Inspiration and Light). This month should help us flow into a greater stable practicality, and some will find “a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow” if they can get away from the known and familiar and hang out with others, freed from old social rigidity.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are very 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 has now gone retrograde, and though it’s still on a degree of letting things develop naturally, by Sept 14 it’ll be back on the degree of “the electrical storm” that shook our the Tree of Life pretty vigorously all of June! Now that Uranus is firmly in a biseptile with Pluto, 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 completed its first square from 1 Aquarius after Uranus entered Taurus at the New Moon on May 15. Mars then retrograded back to the exact square on August 1 from 3 Aquarius, and will make the third and final square on September 21 from 2 Aquarius. These all portend what’s 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 have been learning how 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 pattern we had at the last New Moon Solar Eclipse.
As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience at present involves leading with our thinking, followed by the need to make decisions or act on what we’ve seen or understood, and then getting in touch with our feelings, or how and what we’re experiencing based in acting on the vision or understanding.
So lead with your vision, understanding, and what’s being communicated 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.
That will lead you back to new information, new vision, new ideals, and new understanding upon which you can do your next set of decisions and actions. Then again name what you’re feeling. That way nothing will get bottled up through underuse, and you can move through experiences with power and clarity.
So for the next 4 weeks take a new look at your old ideas or ways of understanding things, and using your retrograde insights, continue to find new plans or new ways to execute existing plans. Once you’ve done what you need to do, then take time to go deeply into your feelings about what was done that came from the initial 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. Be balanced in your assessments, and your transformation will take on a beauty of its own.
Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend
Because Saturn is 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 again a major player since it is the final dispositor of the Moon. It will continue to play a different and powerful part in world affairs through 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 we’ve had numerous long term events featuring Saturn in Capricorn trine Uranus in Taurus, we’ve begun the next chapter in learning how to blend past and future together to craft our future destiny in conscious ways. Their 2017 Fire trines stabilized Electric Fire and distributive “Fire by Friction,” which led naturally to the Earth trine helping us ground our efforts in practical ways.
We are all learning to organize and simplify our Saturn-Uranus “dance of individualization” in our lives. If you haven’t already, I cover a lot of their dance guiding us to create our destiny in conscious individualized ways in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. Saturn helps us give form and structure to our quest for Self-realization, and in Capricorn, teaches us how to construct an “organized personal structure” to the Uranian energies making our spiritual life come alive.
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.
The second part of the book examines how Saturn cycles mark major points of choice and change throughout life, and what we can expect when Saturn makes conjunctions, squares, and oppositions to our planets and Ascendant. There are tables assisting the reader to know when Saturn was in each sign, so even those with little or no understanding of astrology can track the timing on their major life changes. There is an entire chapter dedicated to the Saturn Return, perhaps the most important times in life when our decisions profoundly shape our future.
Part two closes with a chapter on one of the most crucial factors in our personal unfoldment: how the progressed Moon and transiting Saturn cycles track each other throughout life and relate to our emotional growth, and a chapter on a global phenomenon happening since 2003 impacting everyone on Earth. The Epilogue offers a few insights about living “the spiritual life,” and opens dimensions of higher and broader possibilities of personal evolution, regardless of which path to Truth we may be on.
This is a book you will reference many times for many reasons, and each time you pick it up you’re sure to find undiscovered gems of insight on each page. This book can help you throw off all the attitudes and memories which have held you back from finding and living the life and purpose you’ve been searching for since you were young. Welcome to the journey of self-discovery, and finding your power to live your life on your own terms, fulfilling your reason for being alive as an Eternal having human experiences!
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Summing it Up
This Full Moon represents a new approach to Fellowship and Community, characterized by some very complex interactions which gift us and spur us, stabilize us and challenge us, to continue to bring forth a balanced transformational process which will demonstrate our integrity to ourselves and our world. We have all found an “ancestral wisdom,” and many have realized they need a form of healing to re-process and integrate some things from the past. We are still in a time of eliminating to regenerate, 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. 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.” Everyone has re-evaluated what they like and why they like it. If certain things no longer appeal to you or call to you, it’s time to let them go.
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
Thanks Robert for the very clear posts and information on this important Full Moon.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | August 25, 2018 at 04:09 PM
what was special about 21 Cancer through 19 Leo you mentioned in Pt 1 please?
Posted by: Adamsirius | August 25, 2018 at 04:49 PM
Hi Adamsirius - Both of those degrees had Solar Eclipses this year. It wasn't so much the time between the two, as much as the two Eclipse events were on either side of a very powerful Total Lunar Eclipse.
Posted by: Robert | August 25, 2018 at 05:14 PM
GOD said to the Angels before their mission to Mother Earth
"Eat cake and remain nameless...OBSERVE OBSERVE OBSERVE...
Speak to the Dead and the trees for the Wisdom you need
Find sacred places and plant Divine seeds
More KINDNESS must grow to overcome greed...
Posted by: sue | August 26, 2018 at 09:12 AM