by Robert Wilkinson
The next two weeks features radical new beginnings, new realizations, and for many a new sense of identity with an archetype they know represented their spiritual self. While there will be substantial cross currents and major adjustments to be made, don’t forget Divine Grace is in the air helping lead us to a greater vision of what’s going on. These weeks will synthesize many pieces of our lives into a greater sense of dispassion and compassion.
This Full Moon launches us into a form of “healing into our Higher Self,” and many will be mentored to a greater skill or awareness. This will mobilize us, releasing tremendous dynamics due to the Venus square Mars. Concentrate on the inner and not the outer, and take a look at how the disciplines begun in 2014 which activated in the Summer of 2016 yielded truths, blessings, and openings in 2018.
The ways we’ve allowed our everyday lives to be transformed by our spiritual teachings since then is exactly what we’ll need to turn a corner, or bring something to completion, these next two weeks. Don’t be distracted or deflected by passing white noise, make sure you’re using the right means to accomplish the ends you want, and fit things into a long term perspective as you navigate some white waters in the near future.
As Jupiter and Saturn again predominate as the backdrop planets to all the other planetary energies, Sag and Capricorn continue to be front and center. 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!
Remember we have a lot shutting down due to past Solar Eclipses at 16 Capricorn, 21 Cancer and 19 Leo, helping us get organized, “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, 28 Aquarius, along with 29 Leo, 10 Virgo, and 21 Virgo. As you can see, that involves a large part of our charts! Add various Lunar Eclipses in play for several months after they happened (including the recent one at 1 Leo/Aquarius!) and you can see areas where we’ve been eliminating things we no longer need. All our losses associated with these signs have left voids which will attract life contents more appropriate to who we are now.
Major Aspects and Configurations
We have a very mixed bag of aspects in play at this Full Moon, with three primary frictional aspects; we have the Venus square Mars, Mercury retrograde conjunct Neptune with both semisquare Uranus, Moon quincunx Uranus, and Mars quincunx Jupiter. Because all of these planets have one or more building aspects, regardless of the friction, sacrifices, and hard adjustments, many gifts will be developed over the next two weeks, as well as unique interactions that will be beneficial and magically serendipitous at times.
I’ve explained some of the frictional configurations related to the Rhombus Diamond in action at this Lunation in earlier parts of this series. 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 biquintile Venus, tredecile Saturn, quincunx Uranus, and opposed Chiron; Mercury is quindecile Venus, bielftile Mars, sextile Saturn, semisquare Uranus, and conjunct Neptune; Venus is decile the Sun, square Mars, sextile Jupiter, decile Saturn, quindecile Neptune (through translation of Light), semisextile Pluto; and the Sun is septile Mars, trielftile Jupiter, quintile Saturn, semisextile Uranus, quintile Pluto, and conjunct Chiron.
Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Mars quincunx Jupiter, quindecile Uranus, bielftile Neptune, trine Pluto, and septile Chiron (through collection of light); Jupiter is quindecile Saturn, semisextile Pluto, and trielftile Chiron; Saturn is biseptile Uranus, in a wide forming conjunction by sign with Pluto (which will be “frustrated by refranation” until 2020), and quintile Chiron; and Uranus is semisquare Neptune and trielftile Pluto. Obviously the aspects made from Jupiter out are long term influences.
In this chart, we’re back to two forming oppositions, that of the Lunation and the Moon opposed Chiron. This makes “the Tension of Opposites” specific to early Aries and early Libra. Wherever these occur in your chart is sure to provide many realizations related to seeing a greater role to play, seeing your Divine archetypes as themes in your life, seeing how a sense of humor brings objectivity, and how this is a cosmic moment or choice and change.
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 oppositional awareness is crafted into unique gifts, circumstances, and serendipitous “rehearsals” through the Moon tredecile Saturn and the Sun quintile Saturn. Just play your part, create a more festive atmosphere or way of loving who you are and what you do, and find a sense of social happiness as a result of your integrated personality. Those most affected have planets or points near 1-3 Aries/Libra, 5-9 Taurus/Scorpio, 11-15 Gemini/Sag, 17-21 Cancer/Capricorn, 23-29 Leo/Aquarius, and 29-30 Virgo/Pisces
Besides this dynamic evolutionary configuration, the two quincunxes shows adjustments with growth in joining together with your kindred “fighting spirits,” and rallying to something at the end of its cycle by demonstrating fairness and the ability to do tradeoffs. The other will test us on our ability to show skill in forward movement despite binding conditions, and the emergence of new heart strength.
Zones most affected by the Sun septile Mars are 29 Pisces- 3 Aries, 21-25 Taurus, 12-16 Cancer, 4-8 Virgo, 25-29 Libra, 17-21 Sagittarius, and 8-12 Aquarius. If you have anything in these zones, expect those parts of your life to show you a future direction to take in May.
Even though the very powerful Uranus biseptile Pluto is not in orb right now, Saturn biseptile Uranus still brings forth the 7th harmonic irrationality between the planet of “Spiritual Mastery and Spiritual Friendship” and the planet symbolizing the Divine Revolutionary who follows their own path to their Higher Destiny. This anticipates the Grand Irrationality V.2 which will be back in focus by May. This Lunation moves the zones a little, affecting planets and points near 17-21 Capricorn, 8-12 Pisces, 29 Aries-3 Taurus, 21-25 Gemini, 13-17 Leo, 5-9 Libra, and 26-30 Scorpio.
Pluto introduces a powerful theme for the first time, that of receiving awards for our courage up to now, Neptune is showing us the way to joyous collective rebirth, and Uranus is now showing us where we are most natural in expressing our uniqueness and individuality. We now know what corner of the universe we’re supposed to be in, and are clear about our part to sing in “the Cosmic Choir.” The coming period is one of 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 quite a few spiritual aspects in play among the traditional planets at this Full Moon. Of the series related to destiny and “fate,” we have 1 septile and 1 biseptile. We have no Novile series aspects, but we do have two biselftiles and three trielftiles. Where we have the most emphasis is in the harmonics related to the specializing aspects! We have FOUR quindeciles, 2 deciles, 2 quintiles, 1 tredecile, and 1 biquintile.
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 very skewed element distribution. Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 2 planets in Fire signs, 2 in Water, 4 in Earth, and 2 in Air. This “balanced imbalance” gives a major emphasis on Earth (Practicality and Grounding) with a balance between half as much Fire (Inspiration and Light), Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels), and Air (Relatedness and Communications).
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are slightly more cool than hot, with a focus on practicality and groundedness as we see a bigger picture.
Uranus Square Pluto Is Over!
After the square of many years, we’ve now begun to experience these two planets in a fateful biseptile since last year, which began a time of the world moving into a very irrational energy field from May through November! The waxing square was fully active from the Summer of 2010 through early 2017, after which 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.
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!!
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.
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 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 how to show care, release old inhibitions, and quicken to some needed task. We’ve done our dress rehearsals within forms of “group performance,” and last year surrendered with dignity in some way that gave us a spiritual victory. These have led to deep transformations in our lives.
This one begins to sprout the seeds of rewards for our courage, so keep purifying yourself in every way! Pluto is extraordinarily favorable in this chart, allowing us to weed the garden of our personality in natural ways.
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 brings a different one than the New Moon. As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience over the next 4 weeks involves leading with our feelings, then thinking, and then making decisions to do what we must.
This pattern leads with feelings, and then seeks ideas and understanding based in those feelings. This pattern leads with its instincts, and then seeks information to confirm or deny those feeling impressions. While it is tempting to move back into more feeling after we get new information, due to the Mercury retrograde, after we come to a new understanding or vision on the basis of our feeling-hunches, then we have to decide and act on the basis of what will move us toward that vision.
This pattern feels its way into ideas, visions, interactions, and understanding. After that, rather than go back to feelings to try to verify the idea or vision, it’s 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.
Go with the flow while opening to deep and vast feeling experiences, since these will lead you to a different of understanding of how to achieve what you are trying to achieve. Then when you’re gotten clear in your view, then you’ll know what decisions and actions to take. When you’ve done what you needed to do, a new experience will be felt, which will lead to new understanding, and then the next action to take.
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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Summing it Up
This Full Moon will open us to excellent opportunities to heal body, emotions, and mind through humor which enlightens and launches us into a greater autonomy and a more settled momentum. There are gifts and unique interactions promised, with enough friction to get us moving and enough harmony to ensure that those who transform will be rewarded beyond their wildest dreams.
There are major rewards promised by this Full Moon, so take a broad view of what would constitute your happiness, and get ready to live that fully in the future. This is a rehearsal with blessings and gifts for those who can move into a new archetypal role. Take a look back at the compassion and detachment you learned in the past as you let go of old ghosts, and take a moment to go within and claim the blessing and Grace that is yours if you want it.
We’re now well into the next phase in a cycle of deep transformation which began at the January 2018 Mars conjunct Jupiter, with tremendous boosts last 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 another phase of humanity’s “liberating ordeal,” when we can use the inner strengths and powers we tapped in past months, and can find assistance from Devas and Angels who bring “divine help when human efforts seem to fail.” Again, learn the power of forgiveness to create space for Grace to enter your Life. 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 2019 Robert Wilkinson
Thanks Robert...
To stand in the Healing and know GOOD exists to swallow all suffering and still feel the Bliss...
...but a world run by paedophiles is making her pissed...
Posted by: sue | March 21, 2019 at 07:52 AM
Dear Robert, I'm fairly new, about a year now, but still confused as to how to determine appropriate approaches to opposites."The task is always to find the appropriate third and fourth energies and approaches to achieve healthy productive movement with maximum awareness." Going through my Chiron return at present, conjunct North Node at 0 Aries so I'd like to identify those third and fourth energies/approaches to help with this. It's been a heavy past four years and this article in particular resonates for me as I feel I'm drawing ever nearer to some transformations and spiritual breakthroughs. I am grateful for you.
Posted by: Paige | March 21, 2019 at 08:00 AM
Hi Paige - Well, look to the early degrees of Gemini, Leo, Sag, and Aquarius to find your productivity/harmonization approaches to the Moon opposing the Sun on your Chiron conjunct Chiron. This Full Moon illuminates how you can heal into your Higher Self. It may involve turning away from the ghosts of the past, cutting them loose, and becoming more objective through a sense of humor.
I'd say Saturn quintile your Chiron is helping you find the gifts and unique understanding you need to become your Higher Self. This process probably won't be done till Christmas, but until then, enjoy planning for a more specialized approach to expressing your higher intentions.
Posted by: Robert | March 21, 2019 at 08:24 AM