by Robert Wilkinson
This initiating, inspired, interactive, and totally future oriented Full Moon occurs at 6:43 pm PDT on March 20, 1:43 pm GMT March 21, and since it happens just a few hours after the Equinox, falls at the 1st degree of Aries and Libra. As the Full Moon brings the themes of the New Moon to surface, continue to follow the Light of the “inspired rebirth through grace” of the Pisces New Moon and give it form and focus through being clear about “the Light of New Initiatives,” expressed through a “symbolic death” leading us to transfiguration.
Today’s Full Moon post will be an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In parts 2 and 3 we’ll cover the Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.
An Overview
Continuing the theme that proceeds at each Full Moon as they move through each polarity, this one gives us the ability to bring to surface ideal and archetypal forms which can become our “perfection in time.” We now launch and embrace new ideals, creatively expressing the broader views and truths we’ve developed since Sag/Gemini expressed as forms of personal power on a social level in Capricorn/Cancer, turned to action building a vision in Aquarius/Leo, and grounded in practical ways in Pisces/Virgo.
The recent Eclipses in the Aquarius/Leo sectors of our charts has left voids which are already beginning to be filled with “preparatory contents” as a primer for the Jupiter conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius in December 2020. Much was confirmed when Venus transited the Eclipse degree on March 1-2.
As the Sun is conjunct Chiron, this will be a Lunation of healing or being healed, mentoring or being mentored, via objectivity and humor. This will be an extraordinarily serendipitous Full Moon with Moon tredecile Saturn, somewhat mystical with echoes of “days of future past” due to Mercury retrograde conjunct Neptune, and serious realignments with Venus square Mars!
There are several very powerful configurations at work in this Lunation which promise high specialization and productivity despite some major friction spurring us to see what we care about and how to nurture it. As Venus and Mars are the worldly rulers of the Lunation and are in square, cross currents in forms of expression are evident, with a need for concentration, focusing on the inner rather than the outer, synthesizing the various powers at our disposal, and the need to remember how we’ve allowed inspired teachings to transform our everyday lives since 2014 as a result of Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter all hitting a station at 24 Scorpio.
Is the Sun Following the Moon, or the Moon Following the Sun?
There are two patterns; one is when the Full Moon Sun is the same sign as the previous New Moon Sun, and the other is when the Full Moon Sun is in the next sign from the Sun in the previous New Moon. We last had the Sun in the same sign in both the New Moon and Full Moon, the so-called “natural” order, between June 2016 and the late July 2017 New Moon in Leo, when the Full Moon Sun fell in the same sign as the Sun of the previous New Moon.
We finished the period of the “natural” order of Lunation Suns at the August 2017 Solar Eclipse in late Leo and began this other sequence, since that New Moon Sun was in Leo, but the subsequent Full Moon Sun was in Virgo. Since then, we’ve had a “reversed pattern” of the Sun of the Full Moon occupying the sign after the New Moon Sun. This is the twentieth and last Full Moon since then where we have Sun of the Full Moon occupying the sign after the New Moon Sun.
This Full Moon is the the last in the string of Full Moons at the first degree of their signs! November 2019 began this run at 1 Sag/Gemini, and it continued through 1 Cap/Cancer, 1 Aquarius/Leo, and 1 Pisces/Virgo to now. After this Equinox Full Moon, the order reverses, and we revert to the “normal” sequence of the New Moon and Full Moon Suns being in the same signs rather than different ones, because the Next New Moon is at 16 Aries, and the following Full Moon Sun is at 30 Aries.
Since the New Moon offers us seeds in the first half of the month’s lunar cycle, and fulfillment in the second half, we now are in a sequence with the “Seed Light” of Pisces coming to a Full Moon illumination through the current Sun in Aries and Moon in Libra. You can learn more about the recent New Moon at 16 Pisces by going to The New Moon at 16 Pisces Pt. 1 – What’s Happening in March 2019 and The New Moon at 16 Pisces Pt. 2 – Signs, Sabian Symbols, and What it All Means.
Planetary Distribution
In this Full Moon, the span occupied by the inner planets (in this chart Venus at 24 Aquarius through the Sun at 1 Aries spans 37+ This span will be the focus of broad activity in our charts. When we add Saturn and Pluto, it expands the active span to 6 planets in 70+ degrees. Our occupied planetary spread (except for the Moon) has now contracted to 5 signs. We hit maximum compression in March 2018, with all planets between Jupiter at 24 Scorpio and Uranus at 27 Aries, making a very powerful triseptile between the bookends.
At this time we have the 10 traditional planets occupying 7 signs, in an uneven widespread distribution. Currently, the outer planet occupied span begins with Jupiter in late Sag, then moves through Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn, Neptune in Pisces, and Uranus in early Taurus, with the inner planets (except Mars) now occupying Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries with the Moon in Libra creating a closing Bucket Jones pattern.
We’ve now moved into a time period of shifting Jones pattern. The patterns change mainly due to the position of the Moon, and at this Full Moon, we are definitely in a classic Bucket chart, with the Moon as the handle, or “nozzle,” of a Bucket Chart.
So What is a “Bucket Pattern” and how does it work?
This type of spread, with all the planets in about half the signs with one outside that span wide enough to be a handle, creates a “Bucket” Jones Pattern. The energies of the occupied half are focused through the “handle,” or “nozzle,” in this case the Moon, termed the “focal determinator.”
The handle, or focal determinator, represents the way to greater effectiveness, the cause to be embraced, the lack to be filled, or the way to use the total energies of this time in a focused manner. With the Moon in Libra as the handle, we should be able to “get a handle on what we need to do” by demonstrating good Libra skills and approaches. Thus the focus requires balanced approaches, a sense of perspective and proportion, as well as the usual traits of seeking fairness and balance, seeing different points of view to come to a well-rounded assessment of what needs to change and what is in perfect equilibrium, if only for the moment.
Dr. Jones states “the bucket type indicates a particular and rather uncompromising direction in the life effort.” This pattern gives “interest in a cause,” with executive tendencies that will adapt allegiances to maximize results of the effort. He says “the bucket type at its best reveals the real instructor and inspirer of others, and at its worst the agitator and malcontent.” This is the larger planetary pattern within which we’re all trying to do what we do.
We are also told this pattern is more about finding an effective release for energy within social settings, but also about the individual imposing their patterns on society rather than adapting to what is there. It’s about focused intention. So all of us can expect some sort of focused attention on the house where we have 1 Libra.
The Rhombus
As Uranus is still semisquare Neptune, anchoring the off-again, on-again friction Rhombus Diamond configuration, we’ll have to continue to deal with this “cutting, grinding, and polishing” quality each time the Moon moves through the middle of the mutable signs and the end of the cardinal and beginning of the fixed signs. In this chart we do not have the Rhomus friction activated by a third planet, though we do have a Mercury retrograde conjunct Neptune, giving us a chance to reflect on what has been shaping us to a more perfect expression over the past year.
The perfect Rhombus Diamond is made every September when a planet is in mid-Virgo opposing Neptune at the same time another planet is opposed Uranus, with double semisquares and sesquisquares created between those planets. This creates a massive Octile frictional configuration, which was most recently activated during the late 2018 Full Moons when Venus opposed to Uranus.
Is the Grand Irrationality A Factor in this Full Moon?
First, what it is. The Grand Irrationality is a phenomenon we’ve been living within since 1993. Since then, we’ve been in an extraordinarily irrational period which continues to this day. To refresh you, the Grand Irrationality is a long wave configuration set into motion every time a planet makes a conjunction, septile, biseptile, or triseptile to Neptune and/or Pluto. Septile series aspects show us points in time when our future destiny is precipitated by critical choices made in the present.
Because this configuration involved Neptune and Pluto, two powerhouse Transpersonal planetary representatives of Spirit, they have symbolized the long wave planetary crisis the entire human race has been going through since 1993. From then to now, at one point or another, everyone on Earth has experienced a nonstop energy of having to choose, at the bottom of our beings, the path to evolution or devolution, progress or regress, love or fear, joy or control. It’s why things have been so weird, irrational, and hard-edged.
The Grand Irrationality V.1 was the period when Neptune was septile Pluto. It began in 1993, was very strong and in constant movement the last 5 years of the 20th century and the first 15 years of this century. This phase has now waned, since Neptune no longer makes a forming or partile separating septile to Pluto and won’t again for many centuries.
However, we have now moved into a new phase of The Grand Irrationality! It’s not the configuration as we’ve known it since the 90s, since the Neptune part of the equation has faded into a “pulse” that is triggered after the main configuration is set into play. I explain more downstream.
Uranus began to biseptile Pluto in the Summer of 2017, briefly setting the new configuration into play. That began the current “never-ending revolution” since Uranus, the Cosmic Awakener, is dancing off and on at its “fork in the road of destiny” with Pluto, the Lord of Transformation. I term this phase The Grand Irrationality V.2!
This particular larger period in time is even stranger than it was during the Grand Irrationality V.1, since this period combines Uranus’ semisquare to Neptune with Uranus biseptile Pluto. So along with the hard edge of the Grand Irrationality involving Uranus and Pluto in a 7th harmonic aspects, we also have Uranus in an 8th harmonic frictional aspect to Neptune, another of the Transpersonal Spiritual planets!
Saturn has now begin its long wave biseptile with Uranus, bringing the configuration into mass consciousness, and sure to trigger major life changes and realignment of responsibilities! Though Uranus is still trielftile Pluto, we’re talking about solid Saturn creating the structure of the radical turning points wherever this happens in our charts. This first major point of choice and decision gives us a rehearsal for major changes in how we express our individuality in a form of personal authorship and power.
This first biseptile has been active since mid-February and remains very close through the next exact activation in late April through all of May, with the third and final one happening in December. As you can see, the biseptiles from Capricorn to late Aries and early Taurus will dominate the landscape this year!
More on Uranus Biseptile Pluto
Though Uranus is temporarily not in biseptile to Pluto, we’ve already begun to experience the radical choices and changes associated with these two planets in a 7th harmonic aspect! As I offered in May 2018 when Uranus first entered Taurus, “… they will soon make a biseptile, guaranteed to be a very unstable and irrational time!” That prophesy has certainly played out in the news with trumpets blaring, thanks to other transits triggering these 7th harmonic non-rational energies.
We first encountered these very briefly in August 2017, and it went into nonstop pulses beginning at the end of June 2018 with Uranus again 101+ degrees from Pluto. This lasted through October when the orb became too wide. We’re now enjoying a brief return to the trielftile between December 2018 and April 2019. The biseptile comes roaring back between May and July, and again October 2019 through December 2019.
This is the first biseptile in the larger Uranus/Pluto cycle that began at their conjunctions in the mid-1960s. The waxing septile occurred 1989-1991, so this is the next point in that larger “Pulse of Destiny.” The hot zones, measured from the current Saturn biseptile Uranus, where Saturn “stands in” for Pluto, are around 19-23 Capricorn, 10-14 Pisces, 1-5 Taurus, 23-27 Gemini, 15-19 Leo, 6-10 Libra, and 28 Scorpio-2 Sag. If you have anything near these zones, your life has had some abrupt transformational experiences since last Summer, especially in early November when Jupiter activated both Uranus and Pluto!
As I’ve offered many times during this era of the Grand Irrationality, if things don’t make sense, they don’t have to. The only thing that matters is to know how to focus and not get distracted by the craziness in the atmosphere. Sometimes, when we keep our heads when all around us are losing theirs, we come out on the other side looking and feeling good!
Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend
Because Saturn is in its home sign of Capricorn, it is the final dispositor of all planets transiting Capricorn and Aquarius from now through 2023. We are in the middle of 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. During this period of Mars in Taurus, while Venus has been in Aquarius, Saturn has again set the backdrop for all activity related to those two planets.
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.
This Full Moon finds “the Light of Saturn” front and center due to the aspects in play! It is a powerful force for good in this Lunation as we stand at a fork in the road of destiny where we’re rehearsing new roles for the future. The biseptile to Uranus makes this a crucial point of “choice and change” in the Saturn-Uranus “dance of individualization” in our lives.
I explain how these two awaken us to our Higher Powers to take conscious command of our destiny 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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On A Final Note
See you in the near future with parts two and three on this “back to the future” Equinox Full Moon precipitating emergent unique activity which will be the perfect celebration for the roles we want to play! This is a healing and mentoring Full Moon, with extraordinary transformational potential. Learn to embrace the Grace that's in the air, and synthesize your vision and feeling to create an action!
Past weeks have shown us how to get out of our own way so Spirit may manifest. This is the time to accept the Grace, or Divine Power, and take the lead in the area most natural for your power to express itself. The Eclipses have begun their work of removing and recycling anything which helps clear the way for a more “light and bright” heart expression.
Listen to the inner voice to hear your Spiritual Master, and prepare for a rebirth and renewal soon. Great happiness awaits those who understand Jupiter, and gifts come to those who can emerge into a new form of Self. Sacrifices, adjustments, and negotiations are required, but so is taking note of new heart strengths.
Remember that Mercury retrograde conjunct Neptune sets the Rhombus Diamond energy of multiple interlocking semisquares, sesquisquares, and opposition into play the next two weeks, putting pressure on planets or points in the middle degrees of the Mutable sectors and first degrees of the Fixed sectors in our charts. Through the retrograde we can look back on old friction which taught us to go our own way, forgiving much and blessing it to flow down the time stream. As you reflect, see the forms of Divine Grace which subsequently entered your life after you forgave the past and let it go.
When it comes to using friction productively, remember that it takes pressure to turn carbon into diamonds. And the more skillful we become in dealing with life’s aggravations, annoyances, disruptions, and unexpected diversions, the less these are a problem in the future, and the more we are able to keep our cool in the midst of the generic atmospheric conflict. That way we can fulfill our destiny and enjoy the journey!
Though Saturn now dominates the planetary spread, we still have Jupiter in Sagittarius leading the occupied span of the chart, so open to your Sagittarius dance with life, love, humor and freedom. Keep laughter in your heart as you move into the future, and claim your power to live a more effective life!
I’ll see you soon when we’ll discuss Sabian Symbols, aspects, and other important chart factors.
© Copyright 2019 Robert Wilkinson
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