by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon will move us into powerful long term closures and a “last minute rallying” toward a group effort, expressed through practical redemption. We will continue to surrender many things while accelerating our growth through imitating higher forms of living and accepting advanced responsibilities. Divine Discernment is the thing to focus on!
With the Moon as the nozzle focusing all the other planetary energies, while there may be power surges wherever we have 1 Virgo, the growth is still in Cancer, indicating we must rise to some occasion, leaving behind our comfort in the area where we have late Cancer in our charts. This assists us in letting go of whatever we need to, seeing how everything serves a purpose. We just need to accept our need for organization, discipline, and maturity once the vision, truth, or understanding has been opened.
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 Eclipse has Saturn making octile series aspects to the Lunation, setting frictional growth into motion and adding to the friction of Mercury and Neptune both square Jupiter with Mercury semisquare Mars and Mars sesquisquare Jupiter.
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.
We are now in a period of no non-Lunar oppositions until Mars opposes Jupiter in early May 2019, with the compression tightest in recent weeks, with all the planets are between very late Sagittarius and very late Aries. Mars in Taurus is now expanding the compressed field.
Dispositors - What's the Backdrop to the Energies?
The Moon is in Virgo, making the Mercury in Pisces its ruler. The Sun is in Pisces, making Jupiter in Sagittarius its worldly ruler, and Neptune in Pisces its Spiritual Ruler. This will boost Jupiter’s influence, keeping honesty and open-mindedness front and center as the natural entry sign to the other planetary experience in the occupied half of the sky.
This month is the first where we no longer have four “final dispositors” in Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, since Mars is now in Taurus. Using only worldly rulers, Mercury is disposited by Jupiter in its home sign; Venus is disposed of by Saturn in its home sign; The Sun is disposed of by Jupiter in its home sign; Mars is disposited by Venus, and so is ruled by Saturn; Jupiter disposits itself, Saturn disposits itself, Uranus in Aries is disposited by Mars and ultimately by Saturn, Pluto is disposited by Saturn, and as usual, Neptune disposits itself.
So this month we have all the planets ruled by three 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 Pisces and 1 Virgo. 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 Pisces and Virgo.
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 Pisces is "A public market.” In the original Jones notes published in The Astrology of Personality, Rudhyar says this symbolizes “the social nature of human responsibilities,” “a last moment joyous rallying to a task,” and “seen synthesis at the end of cycles.”
We are told in the Astrological Mandala that this symbolizes “the process of comingling and interchange which at all levels demonstrates the health of a community.” He goes on to state that this sector of the zodiac is often associated with a “closing of accounts,” or “a final evaluation of the harvest of the cycle.” It may be a time of reaping rewards, and is a time of a “coming together, in a final experience of community, of all factors previously experienced; this means constructive interaction and an interchange of the products of social activity.”
He continues this symbol “emphasizes that the time has come to take full advantage of the social opportunities to bargain and to trade.” He offers this is about “social interplay and … commerce.” This symbol is said to be in the Span of Innocence, Act of Capitalization, and is the initial degree of the Actional level of the Scene of Federation.
Dr. Marc Edmund Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this degree is "a symbol of full maturity in (humanity's) social estate, with an emphasis on the group integrity" facilitating each to develop their special patterns. This degree is about the willingness for each of us to do our part in the larger "common ideals of a community life."
He offers that here ambition refines itself here through "a consistent generosity toward the aims of others with a real intensity of effort directed toward its own ends." He states the keyword is COMMERCE, and when positive, this degree "is an exceptional capacity for organizing the converging and conflicting interests of many people in practical arrangements of mutual benefit."
Before we discuss the Lunar degree symbol, I’ll take note that this Moon is conjunct TransPluto. TransPluto, or Divine Mother, danced on this degree for many months, indicating those years initiated a shift in our larger Era related to how we conceive of God the Mother. I’ll give you specifics in the next section. The next two weeks brings the focus directly on this vast Divine Feminine energy.
The Lunar degree symbol for the 1st degree of Virgo is “A man’s head.” 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 “the shaping power of idea or ideal over outer form and behavior,” “completeness of realization,” “pure aggrandizement,” and “intent.”
In The Astrological Mandala, Rudhyar states this degree involves “the capacity to picture to oneself clearly the salient features and the overall meaning of any life situation.” He says this sign is about harvesting, “but it is also the Path of discipleship, and of all strongly determined processes of training.” This is about learning lessons of “significant form” and seeing “life situations as wholes of experience, and to discover their meaning by distinguishing their most characteristic features.”
He continues that the keyword is Discrimination, combining analysis and intuition, and this degree can help us figure out the place and function of differences in us and circumstances. This degree is in the Span of idealization, Act of stabilization, and the first degree of the actional level of the Scene of characterization.
Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, offers that this degree “is a symbol of full maturity,” emphasizing “personal integrity” where our inner ideals are manifested “through some self-accepted responsibility on which others can count.” He goes on to state that “ambition has its high dignity” by “the distinction with which it endows those who remain most faithful to its exactions” and “become most conscious of its rewards.”
He offers us the keyword CHARACTER. He says that when operating positively, the degree is “an effective self-assurance and an ever-clear vision of each emerging opportunity in life.”
So the Light of a greater spiritual maturity related to group awareness will express through the Divine service which will present itself wherever we have 1 Virgo in our chart. We’ll be illuminated by a vaster sense of the give and take in the marketplace of life, and find significant forms through seeing the place and function of each part of the whole.
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 Super Full Moon!
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