by Robert Wilkinson
The next two weeks requires that we demonstrate flexibility and a sense of independence from the past, while allowing “electrifying events” to individualize us. We’ll certainly take a look back to see how certain “permanent elements” are now a part of our lives as a result of major shifts in late 2012.
This Full Moon will shake the Tree of Life in a big way! It is radically transformational, in a steady sort of way. It is electrifying, but also one of a strange peace about the past and how we got to be where we are. If inconveniences arise, be flexible, get mobilized, and take time to play.
Assert deep powers and insights you haven’t dared to before now. See the importance of the part you play in your personal “solar system” even as you say goodbye to lesser things. See what is urgent, and rouse yourself and others to the task. Welcome the unusual, and take a new look at old losses to see how you gained by the experience.
Excuses for non-action must be replaced with wholeheartedness in pursuing those things which really matter to you. Still, don’t jump to conclusions, and be thoughtful in your responses. If something unexpected presents itself, if it’s worthwhile, see the larger trend and go with the flow!
We’ve finished Mercury, Mars, and Saturn being retrograde, and approach the end of Venus retrograde and the beginning of the next Mercury retrograde. The slowed pace of the Summer helped us take a break, get at some internal frustrations or resistances, slowing down to rethink our plans. We also had TWO Solar Eclipses in Cancer and Leo, helping us “put on the show” and let go of old “social rigidities” so we can become happier.
Those Solar Eclipses, along with other ones still in play, are allowing us to “shed 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 2018 Solar Eclipses and Lunar Eclipses, and you can see we’re continuing to eliminate things we no longer need in those areas in our charts. Stripping away the old one layer at a time, we’ve seen a new life, heard a deep wisdom, left some old expectations behind, and have undone or reworked something so we can now move forward.
Major Aspects and Configurations
We have a very mixed bag of aspects in play at this Full Moon, with almost no frictional aspects and a lot of “spiritual” aspects linked to some major life-changing events thanks to the septile series configurations explained in parts 1 & 2. ! 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, opposed Venus, triseptile Jupiter, trine Saturn, conjunct Uranus, and biseptile Pluto; Mercury is vigintile Venus, trine Mars, semisquare Jupiter, triseptile Uranus, and biseptile Pluto; Venus is conjunct Sun, biseptile Mars, quindecile Jupiter, sextile Saturn (via collection of light), opposition Uranus, and quadraelftile Neptune; and the Sun is biseptile Mars, quindecile Jupiter, sextile Saturn, opposition Uranus, and widely quintile Pluto.
Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Mars binovile Jupiter, semisquare Saturn, quintile Uranus, quindecile Neptune, and semisextile Pluto; Jupiter is decile Saturn, triseptile Uranus, tredecile Neptune, and septile Pluto; Saturn is beginning its very wide conjunction by sign with Pluto; and Uranus is semisquare Neptune and biseptile Pluto. Obviously the aspects made from Jupiter out are long term influences.
In this chart, there are four forming oppositions; Moon opposed Venus and the Sun, and Venus and the Sun opposed Uranus. This makes “the Tension of Opposites” specific to a tight area of early Taurus and Scorpio. Wherever this fall in your chart is sure to provide many realizations related to our values, relationships, individual genius, and the past as it shaped the more permanent elements of our lives at present.
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, the oppositional awareness axis is resolved harmoniously by Saturn, throwing very favorable energies into early Cancer. So we build through the early degrees of all the Earth and Water signs these next two weeks. This should provide stability to all the realizations we have these next two weeks.
Besides this dynamic configuration, this Lunation features the Moon triggering the Grand Irrationality as I explained in part 1. We also have a particularly powerful biseptile from the Sun and Venus to Mars, activating yet another zone of non-rational activity impacting areas where we have Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Libra, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Active zones include 1-6 Scorpio, 22-27 Sagittarius, 14-19 Aquarius, 5-10 Aries, 27 Taurus-2 Gemini, 18-23 Cancer, and 9-14 Virgo. If you have a planet in one of these zones, expect for some areas of your life to take dramatic turns!
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 one septile, four biseptiles, two triseptiles, one binoviles, two quadranoviles, and one quadrelftile. Specializing aspects are in great abundance, and are represented by one vigintile, three quindeciles, one decile, two quintiles, and one tredecile.
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 are now again in a radically imbalanced element distribution. Of the traditional 10 planets, there are no planets in Fire signs, 5 in Water, 4 in Earth, and 1 in Air. As you can see, it’s extraordinarily heavily skewed toward Earth (Practicality and Grounding) and Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels), with the strong Mars providing the only Air (Relatedness and Communications). With no planets in Fire (Inspiration and Light), we’ll have to draw our inspiration from within.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are balanced between hot and cold, but with so much Earth and Water, this combo makes either mud or bricks, depending on how you work with the material. This period is about “air cooled” rather than “fire cooled.” 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 now retrograding, with the Moon putting the focus this Lunation by occupying the degree of “the electrical storm” that shook our the Tree of Life pretty vigorously all of June! And with the continuing biseptile to Pluto, we’re in a very important season of radical choices and changes!
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. We’ve redeemed many promises in 2018, but also learned that 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. We surrendered with dignity in some way that gave us a spiritual victory, and now continue to be quickened to rise to some occasion even if we don’t feel up to it.
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. February begins our “awards for courage in battle.”
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 Tauruses are going through MAJOR awakenings and revolutionary developments in life!
Saturn trine Uranus has been 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 has helped us all find a way to ground our new lives.
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 begins a new pattern.
As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience at present involves leading with our deciding and acting, and then feeling the experience of that decision, and then coming to a new understanding or vision of what we’re going through or what we need to know or understand. This pattern is very strong, and leads with deciding and acting, followed by feeling and experiencing what those decisions and actions mean on deep levels.
Ideally, those deep feelings then can lead us to a new vision, a new understanding, or a communication that can lead us to a different view. So make a decision and act as needed, and 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. After you’re clear about what you’re feeling, then go get new information and update your perceptual files and what you think you know, or what’s being communicated. That will lead naturally to a new set of decisions and actions.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 Saturn is again the final dispositor of all the other planets, and 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, it makes Saturn a major force to be reckoned with!
Add the fact that we’ve had numerous long term events featuring Saturn in Capricorn trine Uranus in Taurus, completing 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. Even those with little or no understanding of astrology will benefit from understanding why you had to make certain choices at crucial times that shaped your life in profound ways.
Each time you read any section of this book you will find new insights about your power to steer your personal evolution. You will understand how to throw off all the attitudes and memories which have held you back from finding and living the life and purpose. Through your journey of self-discovery, you can find ways to live your life on your own terms, and fulfill your purpose for being alive as an Eternal having human experiences!
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Summing it Up
Electrifying yet calming, revolutionary yet precise, the past gives way to the NOW over the next two weeks. Rapid response to opportunity will yield very favorable results, and taking a new look at old relationships will show us the power of our personality as we have created it over time. Many things will be unmasked and unveiled at “the end of the party.”
We’re still doing repair work, or reconstructing things from the past to remember why we left some things and people. If echoes of memories of perceptions of echoes of memories of perceptions of echoes of memories… present themselves, take a look at the road you once traveled and how your choices then saved you from problems you could never have anticipated.
All of 2018 has been about complex interactions which gift us and spur us, stabilize us and challenge us, demonstrating our integrity. We now can use time to play when we can’t do our usual routines, and of course riding the waves of “cosmic visitations” transforming our lives. Enlarge the vision, sharpen the focus, and remember to wear your camouflage if out in pubic.
We’re now moving into the next phase in a cycle of deep transformation which began at 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. There are inner strengths and powers to be tapped, and we’re living in a time of assistance from 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.
The past two years have led us all 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 in grounded ways, 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
Hi Robert,
Thanks again for another insightful article. You said that the Sun+Venus to Mars are in a biseptile putting irrational pressure on certain sectors. I have my IC in one of those sectors (and Jupiter in another). This afternoon, I got some unexpected news that is certainly indicating a "dynamic turn" related to my home. Is it possible to determine the what kind of timing I have before I have to "dynamically turn"?
Posted by: bomega | October 24, 2018 at 02:27 PM
Thank you for the three very clear and comprehensive posts on this Full Moon.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | October 24, 2018 at 05:18 PM
Beloved Robert Wilkinson
I, too, am deeply grateful for this monumental sharing from your enormous soul.
Thank you very, very much, indeed!
I particularly resonate with:
" We now are living a new identity, a new love, a new spiritual awareness, and a new spiritual expression in grounded ways, so keep your mind and heart open and keep coordinating your body, feelings, and mind to demonstrate a stable and harmonized Soul energy."
From the very great spiritual scientist Torkom Saraydarian are these words for this Full Moon Meditation in Taurus:
"IN Beauty we are UNITED
With Beauty we PRAY
Through Beauty we conquer"
We have made this our Mantram for our Ashram S.O.S. !
I feel united in beauty with you...
In divine friendship
Lady Shamla Rose
Posted by: Lady Shamla Rose | October 24, 2018 at 07:48 PM