by Robert Wilkinson
The next two weeks requires that we demonstrate flexibility and a sense of openness to new adventures, new truths, and new views of a greater life. This begins a year of learning and teaching!
This Full Moon will shake the Tree of Life in a big way! It tests us to approach our Light with a balanced detachment that can observe duality from a place of peace, while also being open to new relationships within and without. Follow the new law being revealed as the old world falls apart, and take joy in your arena of effective, if limited, creative activity.
If friction is present, rise to the occasion and get clear about the priority of what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. Be flexible, positive, have a sense of humor and responsibility, and remember to have a sense of humor about all of it!
We’ve finished Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus being retrograde, and are now at 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 a lot of frictional aspects and quite a few specializing aspects helping us find unique interactions that will be beneficial for the most part. I’ve explained some of the frictional configurations related to the two Rhombus Diamonds in action at this Lunation in parts 1 & 2. ! As usual, there are some 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 opposed Mercury, biquintile Venus, square Mars, opposed Jupiter, biquintile Saturn, binovile Neptune, and sesquisquare Pluto; Mercury is semisquare Venus, conjunct the Sun, square Mars, conjunct Jupiter, and novile Pluto; Venus is trine Mars (oos), decile Jupiter, opposition Uranus, and sesquisquare Neptune; and the Sun is square Mars, conjunct Jupiter, decile Saturn, quincunx Uranus, biseptile Neptune, and semisquare Pluto.
Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Mars square Jupiter (via collection of light), sextile Saturn, septile Uranus, conjunct Neptune, and semisquare Pluto; Jupiter is semisextile Saturn, biquintile Uranus, and semisquare Pluto; Saturn is bielftile Neptune and is beginning its very wide conjunction by sign with Pluto; and Uranus is semisquare Neptune. Obviously the aspects made from Jupiter out are long term influences.
In this chart, there are four forming oppositions; Moon opposed Sun, Jupiter, and Mercury, and Venus opposed Uranus. This makes “the Tension of Opposites” specific to late Libra and Aries and early Gemini and Sagittarius. Wherever these occur in your chart is sure to provide many realizations related to our Light, our Mind, our imagination, 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 two oppositional awareness axes are both under pressure from Octile series aspects to both planets in opposition. The Gemini/Sag opposition is cut by a semisquare and sesquisquare from Pluto, AND powerfully released by the T-square from Mars! The only favorable aspects come from the Moon decile Saturn and the Sun biquintile Saturn, offering some specialized gifts and interactions especially around 6-9 Cancer.
The late Libra/Aries opposition is of course part of the Rhombus Diamond friction discussed in an early part of this series. That is also resolved by Venus decile Jupiter and Jupiter biquintile Uranus, again generating a specialized resonant harmonic zone 2-5 Gemini. As you can see, there is going to be some degree of friction associated with whatever is coming to surface at this time, but it is a spur to uniqueness, both internal and in outer relations.
Besides these dynamic configurations, this Lunation features the Sun biseptile Neptune, triggering the final participant in the Grand Irrationality, as well as Mars septile Uranus, now out of orb from the Grand Irrationality. The Solar biseptile will create edginess in the collective atmosphere, since a Light demands to be externalized in collective consciousness. Affected zones are near 29 Scorpio-3 Sagittarius, 20-24 Capricorn, 12-16 Pisces, 3-7 Taurus, 24-28 Gemini, 15-19 Leo, and 7-11 Libra. If you have a planet or point in one of these zones, be aware of what you’re picking up from or in the collective atmosphere you find yourself in.
Mars is in a waning septile to Uranus, beginning the formation of the seeds which will sprout at the start of their next long cycle when they conjunct at 30 Aries in mid-February. This shows the final “fork in the road of destiny” related to their last conjunction at 23 Aries in late February 2017.
That implies in our quest for individualization, we’ve now “delivered the baby” and can enjoy the end of the old cycle while preparing for the new one to come in a few weeks. Areas most affected include 4-9 Pisces, 26 Aries-1 Taurus, 17-22 Gemini, 9-14 Leo, 1-6 Libra, 22-27 Scorpio, and 13-18 Capricorn.
Even though the very powerful Uranus biseptile Pluto is not in action right now, because Mars is septile Uranus and Pluto is putting the Lunation to the grindstone, be alert to possible effects down the road based in the choices and changes happening now. Because we’re in a temporary reprieve from the biseptile, use Mars to demonstrate what you’ve learned about consciously using the Uranus/Pluto spiritual forces of radical transformation effectively up to now. This will have an influence on how effective we’ll be as Spiritual units of Consciousness in the body of Humanity in the future.
There aren’t many spiritual aspects in play at this Full Moon. We have one septile, one biseptile, one novile, one binovile, and one bielftile. Specializing aspects are abundant, and are represented by two deciles and three 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) and tredeciles 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 in a “balanced imbalanced” element distribution. Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 4 planets in Fire signs, 2 in Water, 2 in Earth, and 2 in Air. As you can see, there’s a good balance between Earth (Practicality and Grounding), Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels), and Air (Relatedness and Communications). The four planets in Fire (Inspiration and Light) promise a lot of Light, warmth, and “Fire by Friction” generating companionship, learning, and “body wisdom.”
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are a little more hot than cold. Still with so much Cardinality and Mutability with no planets in Fixed signs, expect a LOT of activity and not a lot of stability.
Uranus Square Pluto Is Over!
After the square of many years, we’ve now experienced these two planets in a fateful biseptile, which put the entire world in a very irrational energy field from May through November! The square was fully active from the Summer of 2010 through early 2017, when Uranus pulled out of orb. However, even when separating, various transits continued to make a “mundane square” every time a planet transited between 21-30 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn.
We are now in one last period of this “off set” square energy from November 2018 through early March 2019 because Uranus will occupy the last 2 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.
Looking back, Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn were volatile, “out of control” energies, occurring during the global collision of ideas between 2010-2017. 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.
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. 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. Just consider this as a dress rehearsal for greater responsibilities to come!
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.
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 involves leading with our feelings, then deciding, then thinking.
This pattern leads with feelings, and then makes decisions and acts based in those feelings. While it is tempting to move back into more feeling after the actions, after we make our decisions and/or act, it will be important to get new information to come to a new vision or understanding. Once we get the right view or understanding, then a new feeling-experience will naturally arise that points the way to the next action.
So when you are moved by a feeling or experience, it will naturally lead to decisions on the basis of those feeling experiences, which should be followed by a search for new information, new ideas, new interpretations, and new views. We’ll be “feeling our way” into new experiences, then deciding and acting on the basis of those feelings. After a decision or action, then we’ll have to find newer, more up to date information, facts, and understanding so we can get a new vision.
So learn and teach through anecdotes, seeing how others handled things practically, or how you handed things practically in the past. Let your thinking and communicating and envisioning follow your actions, and let your feelings follow a new understanding, a new perception, or a new view.
The only caveat with this Full Moon sequences is with Mercury retrograde, don’t get hung up trying to get or communicate exact pictures in the moment. Build in reflections, alternative views, noting different things than you might ordinarily perceive. Give the process time to cook, and you could come up with brilliant and unique insights based in what your “body wisdom” tells you.
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. We have now begun a year of “co-equal rulerships” between Jupiter and Saturn, since Jupiter now disposits all planets in Sag and Pisces, while Saturn continues to disposit all transits through Capricorn and Aquarius. Because Mars has been in a Saturn-ruled sign from March 17 through November 15, 2018, Saturn was a very powerful influence on all Mars-related events of that time, which of course meant Saturn was the backdrop to Jupiter in Scorpio for that entire time.
2017 and 2018 were an extraordinary period, due to Saturn trine Uranus dominating most of those years. Their 2017 Fire trines stabilized Electric Fire and distributive “Fire by Friction,” which led naturally to the 2018 Earth trine helping us ground our efforts in practical ways. These helped us blend the past and future, the established with the innovative, and make the structure of our lives unique.
By the next New Moon, Saturn will be in a powerful serendipitous tredecile with Uranus, helping us find perfect interactive gifts and circumstances showing us specialized unique qualities in the Saturn-Uranus “dance of individualization” in our lives. I cover a lot of their dance awakening us to using our power 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
This Full Moon liberates us through new ideas, new perceptions, new knowledge, new ways of seeing, interpreting, and communicating, and ultimately is leading us to newer relationships that are more freeing than ever before! Yes, there is a LOT of friction going on, but remember it takes making sparks to create a fire, and there’s a lot that needs lighting up right now. The past is now over, and we no longer are attracted to things we were even a few weeks ago.
Be precise, follow through, and use your imagination to envision a greater service, a better health regimen, a more effective plan, or just a more exciting adventure of exchanging knowledge with others. Take a look back at how “the power of your spiritual ancestry” has come forth since January, and it should help you see how your wisdom is deeper and broader than it was then.
Relationships are important; so is transcending the dualities of everyday life, and coming to an unobstructed vision of transcendent peace. You’ve seen a new law, overcome yet another layer of fear since April, and are now able to integrate forces that seem to be flinging apart into a practical detailed life plan. Take a look at your larger field of effective activity, and breathe into it. Find contentment, and you could find yourself very happy socially.
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. Jupiter has now finished a year of expanding our opportunities based in the voids created by the Eclipses in Scorpio, and now will expand into the voids of past Eclipses in Gemini and Sag. We’ve now had a year of eliminating all that would hold us back, and as the Eclipses continue to remove some people and considerations from our lives, it will create space to “join together with the band!”
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
As always , thank you for the rich, deep and varied information you provide.
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | November 22, 2018 at 07:16 PM