by Robert Wilkinson
The next two weeks requires that we become educated in understanding how our expectancies shape our future, and opens new adventures, new truths, and new views of a greater life. This begins a year of learning and teaching, with radical reorientations and shifts in direction!
This Full Moon will help us claim power and express it in meaningful ways, even if it does mark a change of allegiances for those affected by this Solstice Full Moon on the “critical degrees” of 1 Cancer and 1 Capricorn. It tests us to approach our Light by honoring “the wisdom of our body,” and accept that destiny is on the move in a big way! Stay centered as you build your new life, get ready to make a huge leap forward in January, and be willing to rise to any occasion that calls for you and your skills to show up, ready to play.
With such powerful Sagittarius and Capricorn energies in play these next 2 weeks, 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 the “tag team retrogrades” of 2018 involving Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus being 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, and magically serendipitous at times. 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 inner planet aspects in play involve the Moon quadranovile Mercury, sesquisquare Venus, trielftile Mars, quadranovile Jupiter, opposed Saturn, tredecile Neptune, and quadranovile Pluto; Mercury is vigintile the Sun, biseptile Mars, conjunct Jupiter, semisextile Saturn, sesquisquare Uranus, square Neptune, and novile Pluto; Venus is semisquare the Sun, trine Mars, quindecile Jupiter, pentelftile Uranus, trine Neptune, and bielftile Pluto; and the Sun is binovile Mars, conjunct Saturn, quintile Neptune, and vigintile Pluto.
Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Mars biseptile Jupiter and quintile Saturn; Jupiter is semisextile Saturn, sesquisquare Uranus, square Neptune, and novile Pluto; Saturn is tredecile Uranus, sextile Neptune and is beginning its very wide conjunction by sign with Pluto; and Uranus is semisquare Neptune and trielftile Pluto. Obviously the aspects made from Jupiter out are long term influences.
In this chart, there are two forming oppositions; Moon opposed Sun and Saturn. This makes “the Tension of Opposites” specific to early Cancer and Capricorn. Wherever these occur in your chart is sure to provide many realizations related to Light, duty, destiny, and what we truly care about, now and in the future. The fusion of Sun and Saturn should help us understand the limitlessness of our possibilities, but also the need to finish up the old before we enter on a new quest for “Enlightened Mind.” This fusion will express through a turning away from some things, and a turning toward other things.
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 is relieved through Neptune, since it creates a quintile and tredecile with the Lights, opening up a very favorable energy in very early Cancer/Capricorn and middle Virgo and Pisces. Highly unique circumstances and gifts are shown by this configuration, so enjoy the special things that come!
The opposition is also the axis of awareness for the noviles between Mercury and Jupiter with Pluto, since all three of these are in quadranovile to the Moon. That makes the Moon phenomenally powerful and important in this Lunation! It opens major revelations in any area in our lives involving 3 degrees to either side of 1 Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, 11 Sagittarius, Aries, and Leo, and 21 Taurus, Capricorn, and Virgo.
So this Full Moon is is the handle of the Bucket, the closing edge of the Locomotive, and the nozzle for the 9th harmonic spiritual energy. Expect major realizations related to the Moon wherever it falls in your chart! As it is sesquisquare Venus, which is semisquare the Sun, this begins a type of “Rhombus Diamond” friction in the middle degrees of the Fixed signs and very early degrees of the Cardinal signs. This, along with the Mercury and Jupiter square Neptune and sesquisquare Uranus, promises quite a bit 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 Mercury and Jupiter biseptile Neptune, triggering the final participant in the Grand Irrationality. These biseptiles will create edginess in the collective atmosphere, since the imaginative Mind demands to be externalized in collective consciousness, bringing last month’s Solar biseptile to Neptune into clarity. Affected zones are near 9-12 Sagittarius, 1-4 Aquarius, 22-25 Pisces, 14-17 Taurus, 5-8 Cancer, 26-29 Leo, and 18-21 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.
Even though the very powerful Uranus biseptile Pluto is not in action right now, Pluto continues to bring forth seed revelations, while showing us how time is important in bringing forth mature spiritual interpretations of events. Uranus has shown us our part to sing in “the Cosmic Choir,” and by Spring we’ll be back into major choices and changes on a global level related to these planets helping humanity’s metamorphosis. Those who learn how to use these dynamic invisible spiritual energies will become effective Spiritual units of Consciousness in the body of Humanity in the future.
There are a huge number of spiritual aspects in play at this Full Moon. While we have only two biseptiles, we also have 2 noviles, 1 binovile, 3 quadranoviles and 1 bielftile, 2 trielftiles, and 1 pentelftile. Specializing aspects are abundant, and are represented by 2 vigintiles, 1 quindecile, 2 quintiles, and 2 tredeciles.
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 3 planets in Fire signs, 4 in Water, 3 in Earth, and again none in Air. As you can see, there’s a fairly good balance between Earth (Practicality and Grounding), Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels), and Fire (Inspiration and Light), with a total lack of Air (Relatedness and Communications).
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are much more hot than cold. Still with so much Cardinality and Mutability and only 1 planet in a Fixed sign, 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 thinking, and then deciding.
This pattern leads with feelings, and then seeks information to confirm or deny those feeling impressions. It feels its way into ideas, visions, interactions, and understanding. However, once we’ve felt our way to a vision or understanding, then it will be important to make a decision and act on it. Once we’ve moved everything forward that one step, then a new feeling-experience will naturally arise that points the way to the next view or information needed to again move it forward one step.
So feel, flow, experience, since these will lead you to information and understanding. When your understanding leads to a clear vision, then see the fundamental fact, or act that must be done to move it all one step forward. Let your feeling and experience follow your actions, and let your mind follow your feelings into new views and understanding that can help you make decisions that you’ll act on.
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 was 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.
Now Saturn is 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 explain 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. Over time you will throw off attitudes and memories which have held you back from finding and living your “Truth of Being” on your own terms, and fulfill your purpose for being alive!
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Summing it Up
This Full Moon moves all of us in radical new directions! This will open deeper connections with the Eternal, and those who embrace “forced growth” while trusting “the wisdom of the body” will find themselves living a greater freedom, a great understanding, consciously reshaping their expectancies to bring forth larger and better vistas of living. This helps us “bring beauty out of wilderness,” with abundance for those who are mentors or willing to be mentored.
There may be 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 months ago. The next two weeks are the shift in direction leading us to a greater sense of caring and ability to nurture that which needs protection and/or assistance.
As it’s been the theme for all of 2018, reflect on 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, feeding the future on the way like an express train! January will open many doors for those who claimed their ancestral wisdom in 2018.
This is the end of many old things, and the reorientation toward many new things. Remember that all dualities require transcendence through making leaps of faith, and there is always Divine Help when human efforts seem to fail. We’ve all overcome yet another layer of fear since April, and are now able to move in the direction that’s being revealed as part of our spiritual Path. That will mean accepting some things and rejecting other things, due to our degree of conscious revelation within a larger cycle of evolution.
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. Our lives have been enriched through allowing inspiring experiences to transform our everyday lives. We began this self-discipline in 2014, and have been proving our willingness to act on our truths between early 2016 and early 2018. Jupiter took what we’ve structured through our actional intention and blew some door down in 2018. Now what was bound can expand into wider and higher vistas, truths, and potentials.
Again, this is a time when inner strengths and powers can 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 is now expanding opportunities left by the voids of past Eclipses in Gemini and Sag. We’ve 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
What an incredible amount of information on these post regarding the Solstice and Full Moon. Truly amazing and even more that it is so clearly, deeply and thoroughly explained. Many thanks and all the best to you and yours during these festive season.
Blessing be to all.
Posted by: Nic | December 22, 2018 at 06:46 PM