by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon will move us into powerful changes in direction and allegiances, and lead to great expansions, truths, and vision at the beginning of a new Era in our lives. Be open to being educated to broaden your understanding, and take a new look at your expectancies, updating the ones that need it, and letting go of the ones that aren’t true, good, or useful. We can all see the Light of Galactic Center Consciousness over the next two weeks if we have opened to it this past year!
Because it’s the Solstice, this Full Moon is focused on taking responsibility through accelerated growth, understanding, and centralizing the view in order to “set the field” of expansion in 2019. The coming two weeks will be educative, reorienting, and a turning point in how we can apply the higher and broader views and truths we’ve glimpsed before now. Everything must be related to needs, or what we care about, or what sustains us as we live our lives.
With the Moon as the nozzle in a very powerful spiritual planetary configuration involving Mercury, Jupiter, and Pluto, many will get deep insights about their truths and freedom which will lead them in new life directions. Trust in your ability to stay calm as you navigate deep waters, and remember with Venus leading the occupied half of the signs, you can enter all experience seeing “the world of the 5 senses and the mind as the playground of God and Soul.”
In part 1 I explained why there’s some constant friction and agitation in the collective atmosphere off and on during these months due to Uranus semisquare Neptune anchoring constant friction whenever a planet moves through the middle degrees of the Mutable signs or the end of Cardinal signs and beginning of Fixed signs. This anchors the on-again, off-again energies I have termed a “Rhombus Diamond,” associated with a “cutting, grinding, and polishing” energy that’s very frictional and disruptive. This Full Moon has Mercury making octile series aspects to Uranus and Pluto, setting the friction into motion and anticipating when Jupiter will be in the same zone in January.
One remarkable thing about this Full Moon is the Sun is on the Galactic Center, and there was an exact Sun conjunct Saturn on this exact degree during the December 2017 Solstice. That implies this Full Moon should show us many things about Saturn’s influence in our life since then, and also bring those “Galactic Center” Saturn-structured lessons into the Full Moon light of realization these next two weeks.
Why Are Full Moons So Important?
At a Full Moon, that which has opened since the previous New Moon surfaces in a public form, and heads toward the culmination and fruition symbolized by the second half of any cycle. First half, birth into form and field. Second half, culmination and completion of the purpose of that cycle.
That’s why it’s important to regard the New and Full Moon charts as “God’s Footprints in Time,” since one follows the other in an unending sequence of births of newer and newer seeds. The New Moons show us the seeds that will flourish under the reflected light of the Full Moon.
Full Moons heighten feelings, due to the opposition of the Moon and the Sun. We’ve been moving through the time of the year when we had oppositions from the inner planets to the outermost planets. We had the oppositions to Saturn and Pluto, then to Neptune, and finally Uranus. This ends all non-Lunar oppositions until Mars opposes Jupiter in early May 2019, with the compression tightest in late January and early February, when all the planets are between very late Sagittarius and very late Aries.
Dispositors - What's the Backdrop to the Energies?
The Moon is in Cancer, making it the ruler of itself since it’s in its home sign. The Sun is in Capricorn, making Saturn in Capricorn its worldly ruler, and Uranus in Aries its Spiritual Ruler. This will boost Saturn’s influence, helping bring practicality and organization to the primarily Jupiterian influence at work these days.
This month is another rare one, since like last month, we still have four “final dispositors” in the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. Moon in Cancer disposits itself; Mercury is disposited by Jupiter in its home sign; The Sun is disposed of by Saturn in its home sign; Mars in Pisces is disposited by Jupiter, Uranus is disposited by Mars, Pluto is disposited by Saturn, and as usual, Neptune disposits itself.
So this month we have all the planets ruled by four planets as final dispositors. By looking at how “chains of dispositors,” “final dispositors,” and “mutual reception” are in play between the planets, we get a clear picture of the backdrop for how each planet operates. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to Astrology Class – What Is A Dispositor and What Is Mutual Reception Between Two Planets?
The Sabian Symbols for the Full Moon
This Full Moon falls at 1 Capricorn and 1 Cancer. It is said that the first third (decan) of any sign deals with the actional, physical, material levels of life, and as the Lunation is in the first decan of those signs, invokes a sub-influence of Capricorn and Cancer.
Since the Moon always focuses the light of the Sun in specific forms, the degree symbols for both are important. The Sun degree is the illumination or enlightenment of the Lunation, whereas the Moon shows us the potential forms that enlightenment will take. Though I’ve given you a sense of what this is about up to now, here’s where we go into detail.
The Solar degree symbol for the 1st degree of Capricorn is "An Indian chief demanding recognition.” In the original Jones notes published in The Astrology of Personality, Rudhyar says this symbolizes "Mastery of a situation through purposeful planning and venturing,” “bold rising to opportunity,” and “extreme of self-confidence.”
We are told in the Astrological Mandala that this symbolizes "the power and responsibility implied in any claim for leadership.” He states this degree is about an ideal materialized as the power to lead a community as a result of group energies being stabilized. He offers that we each have the ability at some point to accept responsibility for power, whether over others or situations, and this degree asks if we are ready, willing, and able to accept this power “effectively and responsibly.”
He states this symbol “refers to the capacity latent in every individual to claim and assume authority in a vital group situation. He says it falls in the span of Illusiveness, and it's the first degree of the actional-physical level of the scene of Crystallization in the Act of Capitalization.
According to Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, states this is a degree of “extreme fidelity” to “everyday or accepted values of life, and of (our) uncompromising inner integrity when it comes to meeting any situation.” He offers that this degree is about a “determination to maintain every advantage gained by birth or through experience, and to grasp every opportunity for genuine self-expression.”
He states we are unhappy unless we can “feel secure in the place (we) have made for ourselves,” and offers us the keyword INFLEXIBILITY. He says this degree, when positive, is "an ever-effective authority following from a single eye of vision and a consistent dignity of character.”
It seems from this symbol that we’re going to have the Light of the critical degree of Earthly Power helping illuminate how to claim our power in some social or group context, be faithful to our inner integrity, and use our gifts, both innate and developed, to grasp opportunities for a more focused and potent self-expression. Accepting responsibility for a group or an effort will help you you’re your place in your society.
The Lunar degree symbol for the 1st degree of Cancer is “A furled and an unfurled flag displayed from a vessel.” In "the Astrology of Personality, where Rudhyar uses the original Dr. Jones' class notes on the symbols, he offers that this degree is one of “a nascent desire to align oneself with a larger and more significant life trend,” “ compelling decision,” and “repolarization.”
In the Astrological Mandala, he says this degree is one of “a radical change of allegiance exteriorized in a symbolical act: a point of no return.” He states that in the larger cycle that began at 1 Aries, “this is a moment of crisis, a turning point” on “the ‘ship’ which symbolizes the ego-consciousness floating … on the sea of the vast Unconscious.”
This is a turning point in the larger cycle, where “the ‘collective’ will gradually overcomes the ‘individual,’ even though at this stage the power to make a decision based in free will is most powerful. He says here the “consciousness accepts a process of fundamental reorientation, implying the stabilization of (our) energies.” He states this degree falls in the Span of Expansion, Act of Stabilization, and is the first degree on the Actional level of the Scene of Decision.
Dr. Jones says this degree is about a “the extremes to which an individual will go in the practical allegiances” we meet in life, and of our “capacity to compromise or reverse any stand (we) may take whenever this suits (our) ultimate ends.” He states this is a degree of “inflexible determination to further every ambition, and (our) consistent preparation for every eventuality that might be anticipated.”
He offers we will not be happy unless we can feel “a step ahead of ourselves,” and offers the keyword ADAPTABILITY. He states that when this degree works positively, it is “a gift for highly profitable adjustment in every developing relationship with others.”
So the Light of claiming personal power in some way will express through adapting to a more profitable direction in our lives and relationships. Our willingness to accept a more responsible role in our world will be given form through crucial decisions to align ourselves with a larger life, and reorient how we see and think about things to allow an expansion to take place.
TransPluto, Divine Mother, and the Tests of Human Redemption
Both Neptune and TransPluto represent very vast fields of feeling and connectedness beyond individual control. Neptune is the oceanic field of collective consciousness in which we all swim, and TransPluto is an almost incomprehensibly vast Divine Mother energy which redeems all things, brings grace to all circumstances, and is beyond even Death itself. When these two planets make an aspect, it shows us how the collective field is relating to Divine Redemption.
Many important collective developments related to these themes began to surface between 2009-2012, when Neptune in Aquarius was in very close opposition to TransPluto, or Divine Mother. That’s a major factor in why things became so polarized during those years, where the “tension of opposites” began to bring forth lessons in our Oneness, our need to share, and the human collective consciousness faced its need to embrace compassion and learn Viveka, or Divine Discrimination, especially when TransPluto was at the first degree of Virgo. Since that important opposition, we’ve all experienced intensified opportunities to join together in the Great Mother and realize our interrelatedness on a feeling level with All-That-Is.
In terms of the larger Era, we’ve now ended the TransPluto (Percephone, Parvati) in Leo era that we knew from September 20, 1935 through July 4, 2014. The transition period where this planet danced at the last degree of Leo and first two degrees of Virgo began October 2011 and ended July 4, 2014, when TransPluto left Leo for many centuries to come, and entered into Virgo for the next century.
TransPluto, or Divine Mother, danced between 1 and 2 Virgo between July 2014 and Oct 2017, showing us the larger view of what we are learning about how we conceive of God the Mother. The symbol for 1 Virgo is about how our ideas and ideals shape the outer forms in our lives, as well as how we act. It’s about picturing “the salient features and the overall meaning of any life situation,” as well as the Path of discipleship and other forms of training.
So one of the two great themes Divine Mother has taught all of us these past several years was to see life as a whole, and find meaning in seeing the significant features of the whole picture. We have had to understand the value and function of differences, and seeing how our personal integrity has allowed us to make our ideals real through accepting some sort of responsibility.
TransPluto then made its first entry into 2 Virgo October 2014, and we began humanity’s “liberating ordeal.” That initial visit was between October 2014 and mid-January 2015, and began the themes of the “crucifixion” of our sense of ego-separateness so that compassion and understanding could come forth. We are told it symbolizes “eminence at the cost of struggle,”’ which certainly seems to be very much the case as humanity redeems the promise of its better nature.
It was at 2 Virgo between October 2014 and mid-January 2015, after which it retrograded back to 1 Virgo. It re-entered 2 Virgo in early September 2015, and stayed at that degree until February 2016, when it retrograded back to 1 Virgo again. In mid-May 2016 it went stationary direct at 1 Virgo, and then re-entered 2 Virgo in early August 2016. It remained at 2 Virgo until the end of March 2017 and then retrograded back to 1 Virgo between April and the end of June 2017.
It then again entered 2 Virgo until October 11, 2017, when it entered 3 Virgo, which we are told is a degree of “Two angels bring protection,” symbolizing inner powers and “divine help when human efforts fail.” Its occupancy of 1 Virgo is now complete, and this is the next phase in our collective “liberating ordeal,” promising relief, protection, as well as the manifestation of unexpected latent powers.
This should bring forms of security via “the simple and consistent convergence of all good things toward their own kind.” This is a type of conviction that guarantees “an effective fulfillment of our dreams.” With the planet symbolizing Divine Mother expressing help via guardian angels, it should provide us a welcome relief from some parts of our “liberating ordeal.”
It went stationary retrograde at the end of November 2017 at 3 Virgo, and re-entered 2 Virgo on Jan 19, 2018. It occupied 2 Virgo until it went stationary direct in mid-May 2018 on that degree, continuing to occupy 2 Virgo until Sept 6, 2018, when it re-entered 3 Virgo again. Our guardian angels are back on the job, and there are inner powers to cultivate, as well as a greater recognition of how we have divine helpers everywhere!
As you can see, while we dealt with themes related to 1 and 2 Virgo for a long time, we’re now moving into themes related to 2 and 3 Virgo for many months to come. It will remain at 3 Virgo until late February 2019, when it will again occupy 2 Virgo until early August 2019, when it again moves into 3 Virgo.
Planetary Cycles Bringing Forth Divine Mother
The energies of Divine Mother will only grow stronger throughout this century, and these will be demonstrated each time the planets make significant aspects to TransPluto. One major set of cycles were set into motion When Saturn conjuncted TransPluto at 28 Leo in August 2007, and of course Saturn’s SD point at 2 Virgo in May 2008 is currently being transited by TransPluto. Those Saturn-expressed TransPluto Leo lessons will hold sway until their next conjunction at 9 Virgo in Sept 2037.
Another important cycle was set into motion when Jupiter conjuncted TransPluto at 1 Virgo in August 2015 in Virgo, beginning a new 12 year cycle of how these “Divine Mother energies” will manifest. It also began a new long wave era, since Jupiter will conjunct TransPluto in Virgo every 12 years until the 22nd century!
Related to that Jupiter conjunction, Venus went stationary retrograde exactly conjunct TransPluto in late July 2015, also at 1 Virgo, setting up Venusian manifestations of Divine Mother that will show each and every time 1 Virgo is transited. That means the Venusian Divine Mother promise of late July 2015 was expanded, or set into motion somehow, by Jupiter's transit of 1 Virgo in mid-August 2015, and then took expression due to Mars’ transit of that degree in late September 2015, and found “beauty of form” when Venus transited it again in early October 2015.
Those two conjunctions have dominated the Virgo landscape in our charts since then, and were given new value, new power, and new understanding each time the inner planets transited those early degrees in 2016 and 2017. Related to this, please take a new look at the Mars-Jupiter cycle set into motion by their conjunction in mid-Virgo between October 2015.
So we’ve officially entered a different Spiritual Era that will last through July 2107, when it leaves Virgo for good and re-enters Libra for the first time in many centuries, also after a few years of dancing on the cusp of Virgo and Libra. I offered you a bit more about this vast spiritual energy field in Astrology in the Age of Aquarius - Transpluto, a.k.a Divine Mother, Parvati, and Percephone.
See you soon with part 3 covering aspects, planetary sequencing, and other important factors in this Full Moon!
© Copyright 2018 Robert Wilkinson
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