by Robert Wilkinson
The next two weeks (and due to Eclipse effects, 5 1/2 months!) will find us leaving behind all that would block our ability to accept and exercise power responsibly. The Light will show us all the Truth, with a huge dose of humor available as we experience just how transfigured we are. This one primes the pump for all that will unfold beginning January 2020!
This is the next in a sequence of Eclipses shutting something down we no longer need in the life areas symbolized by Cancer and Capricorn. The Nodes are the keys to understand how we’re accepting and growing, and what we’re demonstrating or letting go of. The recent Total Solar Eclipse at 11 Cancer has already begun to strip away all which would inhibit our sense of humor or irony.
We’re also still experiencing past Solar Eclipse “cosmic recycling” wherever we have 16 Capricorn, 21 Cancer and 19 Leo, as we had Eclipses on these degrees. We’ve been getting organized, exploring what success really means to us, and letting go of old “social rigidities” to be happier. All these Solar Eclipses, along with others, 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 January Supermoon Lunar Eclipse at 1 Leo/Aquarius!) and you can see areas where we’ve been eliminating things we no longer need. A good meditation would be to take a look back at how something related to that axis in your chart has left and been replaced with something new, especially now that Mars has conjuncted that Eclipse Moon. 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
Interestingly, we have relatively few forming and partile separating aspects in this Lunar Eclipse Full Moon. I’ve already told you about the “Tension of Opposites” involving Venus opposing Saturn and Pluto, coupled with the Full Moon creating a zone of awareness spanning the last half of Cancer and Capricorn. There are literally no “special configurations” created by any 3 planets in this Eclipse, even though there are “standalone” aspects of great importance.
There is also a 4th opposition between the Moon and Mercury in early Leo, showing an “out of sign” effect, meaning something has to change before that oppositional awareness kicks in. 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.
In this chart, there are no planets cutting the Sun/Moon opposition, but we do see Venus making a trine to Neptune as Neptune is sextile both Saturn and Pluto. This shows the wisdom received by Neptune will help our Venus response to grow appropriate to its conjunction with the North Node, externalizing the Saturn and Pluto responses in healthy ways. These are again related to some sort of surrender which is a spiritual victory crystallized as a release from some old inhibition.
Another configuration is created by Venus quintile Uranus which sets the Saturn tredecile Uranus into play. This is a highly specialized serendipitous interaction, with gifts perfect for situations and situations perfect for gifts. This is a fortuitous growth pattern, so look for signs of a new life which renders the old patterns obsolete. This is the harvest of the efforts we put forth when Mercury and Mars made the same configuration in early and mid-June, and , and the Sun about 7-10 days ago.
So the harmony, harvest, and appreciation for recent polarizations will yield very favorable results over the next few weeks and months. Those who can express favorable mid-Virgo and early Scorpio traits will find everything in perfect balance as growth is tremendously accelerated in all areas of early and mid-Earth and Water signs in our charts.
Besides the aspects mentioned above, inner planet aspects in play involve the Moon novile Jupiter, biseptile Uranus, and septile Neptune; Mercury retrograde is conjunct the Sun (out of sign) and sesquisquare Jupiter; Venus is conjunct the Sun and quindecile Mars; and the Sun is binovile Uranus.
Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Mars trine Jupiter and widely triseptile Saturn; Jupiter is decile Pluto; Saturn is tredecile Uranus and sextile Neptune, in a “frustrated conjunction” with Pluto; and Uranus is semisquare Neptune and biseptile Pluto. Obviously the aspects made from Jupiter out are long term influences.
Now that the very powerful Uranus biseptile Pluto is back into orb, it signals that how we handled the Saturn biseptile Uranus earlier this year will determine which “awakenings” will occur in our lives, since Saturn gave us the structure for the unique beginning Uranus always signifies. The biseptile is an irrational aspect of the 7th harmonic series. Saturn gave us the beginnings of the structure which will now be infused with Uranian awakenings, which in turn will affect the group activity to come when Saturn again biseptiles Uranus this December.
The biseptile between Saturn, the planet of “Spiritual Mastery and Spiritual Friendship” and Uranus, the planet symbolizing the Divine Revolutionary who follows their own path to their Higher Destiny, set the stage for the now active Uranus biseptile Pluto from the same sectors in the zodiac. This will dominate the landscape for a long time to come, so expect some major choices and changes which will help you shape your destiny and live your higher purpose. I have termed the evolutionary pattern created by the biseptile “the Grand Irrationality V.2”, and it most affects planets and points near 21-25 Capricorn, 13-17 Pisces, 5-9 Taurus, 26-30 Gemini, 17-21 Leo, 8-12 Libra, and 30 Scorpio-4 Sagittarius.
Now that Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto have all been retrograde, it indicates recent weeks have been a time of looking back, retracing steps, relearning lessons, and preparing for forward movement in these planetary areas of our lives beginning September. We have begun to sprout the seeds of “transcendent security,” remember a deep wisdom by feeling Neptune’s subtle signals, and are awakening to a new quality of life rendering the old patterns obsolete. We are “returning to Source” and are drawing power and vision from ancient standards. Show strong Love!
Even though Uranus is now in Taurus, what we substantiate and confirm in 2019 and coming years is directed related to what we learned when Uranus was in late Aries in Summer 2016 through early 2019. 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.
Because there are fewer aspects than usual, there are fewer spiritual aspects in play among the traditional planets at this Full Moon. Of the series related to destiny and “fate,” we have only 1 septile, 2 biseptiles, and 1 weak triseptile. Other spiritual aspects this month show 1 novile and 1 binovile, with no “elftile” series aspects, and only 1 quindecile, 1 decile, 1 quintile, and 1 tredecile.
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 have now returned to a “balanced imbalanced” element distribution. Of the traditional 10 planets, there are 3 planets in Fire signs, 3 in Water, 4 in Earth, and none in Air. This shows a predominance of Earth (Practicality and Grounding), Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels), and Fire (Inspiration and Light), with a severe deficiency of Air (Relatedness and Communications), indicating any sense of relatedness must come from within rather than external sources.
Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are more hot than cold, with a preponderance of Earth keeping things grounded. Because the combination of Earth and Water can make for either mud or bricks, depending on how you work with the material, find a proper sensitivity to organize things so they further an “enlightened self-interest,” and avoid situations where there are too many “stuck in the mud” defensive calculations. Still, with so much favorable Fire, it should be a time of vision, inspiration, and relief, as well as a time to prepare to act.
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. This Lunation continues the current pattern. 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 deciding, then thinking.
This pattern leads with feelings, and then makes decisions and acts based in those feelings. While it is tempting to move back into more feeling after the actions, after we make our decisions and/or act, it will be important to get new information to come to a new vision or understanding. Once we get the right view or understanding, then a new feeling-experience will naturally arise that points the way to the next action.
When you are moved by a feeling or experience, it will naturally lead to decisions on the basis of those feeling experiences, which should be followed by a search for new information, new ideas, new interpretations, and new views. We’ll be “feeling our way” into new experiences, then deciding and acting on the basis of those feelings. After a decision or action, then we’ll have to find newer, more up to date information, facts, and understanding so we can get a new vision.
So learn and teach through anecdotes, seeing how others handled things practically, or how you handed things practically in the past. Let your thinking and communicating and envisioning follow your actions, and let your feelings follow a new understanding, a new perception, or a new view.
The only caveat is that with Mercury retrograde, when you finally do get through to a vision or understanding, don’t overlook the obvious in your quest to get all the information! This can produce situations where there’s too much information, or a tendency to race past answers and solutions, always thinking these are yet to come. Of course, it could also lead us to visions and understanding we once had which we forgot, or which created roundabout conditions leading us to where we are now.
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. That makes it a dominant force in this Eclipse, since it rules the Moon and the Moon rules the Sun, which rules both Mercury and Mars. Remember that while Saturn can feel heavy, it is also our ability to take command of our lives and destiny by using Saturn’s virtues in the right way and time.
Though Saturn is no longer biseptile Uranus, we’ve begun to shape our lives through our choices since then. Saturn has been preparing us for a “role of destiny” later this year and next. We’re still rehearsing new roles for the future as part of the Saturn-Uranus “dance of individualization” in our lives and this month release our inhibitions and embrace “a new quality of being which renders the old patterns obsolete.”
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 Lunar Eclipse Full Moon pulls us to growth by accepting a form of social power or responsibility leading us to a “comfortable transcendence.” As Mercury is retrograde, there will be elements of “back to the future” over the next few months, all leading us to new ways to play, and see the inconveniences of life as giving opportunities for interactive creative growth. We shall all “gain by subtraction,” and see how events are already in motion which will give us a sense of relief once we see how we have been and are being transfigured by events.
Great things are promised by this Eclipse, since the major oppositional tension is nothing new, and there are both productive and specializing energies in play to help us “tack into the wind” and demonstrate excellent navigational skills. Remember, we’ve already done these Cancer/Capricorn oppositions for many weeks, and Venus finishing the sequence should give us an appreciation for our current patterns of growth.
We are all now living a new wisdom, or new ways to move and groove with that emerging wisdom. We are all moving into new dedications, new understanding of the essence of things, and able to appreciate the beauty of Nature and natural processes. As Mars is the first to trine Jupiter this Summer, the Way is becoming clearer and clearer, so act with creativity and nobility as you begin to dance into a new future. Just don’t fall into distress at not knowing what’s coming, and be alertly ready to act when necessary!
Extraordinary events are in motion for those who are in training for group work, practicing using power in skillful ways, and learning to “think in the future,” which will arrive by 2020! For now, take the power, integration, and self-gathering energies of the recent past and begin to practice a more dramatic, playful, or creative self-expression based in an enthusiastic embrace of a better future based in a more positive view of what you could do if your growth were accelerated, which it is!
We are still finishing 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!
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.
A Meditation on Light and Shadow
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
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