by Robert Wilkinson
We are now about a week away from the first of the “Three High Moons” which happen every Spring. The coming Full Moon of Sun in Aries and Moon in Libra is the first of the “High Moons,” and the following Sun in Taurus and Moon in Scorpio Full Moon, also known as “the Wesak Festival,” is the second High Moon, and the Full Moon of Sun in Gemini and Moon in Sagittarius is the third High Moon, known as “the Christ Fest” or “the World Teacher Festival.” So why are these Full Moons important?
This tradition came about from Buddhism, which developed in the Northern Hemisphere, since that’s where the Buddha walked and taught. Even though it’s not Spring in the Southern Hemisphere, the High Moons have a global effect whether it’s getting hotter or colder wherever.
The Three High Moons
So what are the “3 High Moons,” and what are they about? We are told that the Full Moon of Aries-Libra brings the renewal of the life force for the year. That’s the first of the 3 High Moons. The First High Moon brings the power of the Northern Hemisphere Spring as a life force with its potential for growth.
This year that Full Moon falls on April 12 at 24 Aries/Libra, making that a theme of the appearance of the Life force. This will bring concentrated doses of spiritual energy so that we can repair something in our social or emotional life, with both degrees showing a technique of social or emotional focus.
This Full Moon will bring the light of illuminated awareness to those houses where we have 24 Aries and Libra, and offers the Light of “good fortune resulting from effort put forth” will find expression in an “instinctive expansion of self” into “new forms and opportunities.” This initiatory energy are “Life expressing Wisdom” coming forth for all of us this year.
The emergent Life Force arising then takes shape in a wisdom form at the next Full Moon of Sun in Taurus and Moon in Scorpio, also known as the Wesak Festival. The Sun in Taurus and Moon in Scorpio is alleged to be the Full Moon of the birth and death of the Buddha, as well as the Full Moon of the beginning of his search for enlightenment and the Full Moon of his actual enlightenment.
This second of the “3 High Moons” brings a fresh outpouring of the "Cosmic Buddha Nature" to everyone on Earth which renews the qualities that Great Sage brought to humanity to lessen suffering for all sentient Beings. The Wesak Festival is a great spiritual ceremony that the Eternal Buddha Nature offers the world a new infusion of Light, Dharma, and Love. The 2024 Wesak fell at 5 Taurus/Scorpio, showing that many of us had to bury the past despite resistances over time.
This year’s Wesak falls on May 12 at 23 Taurus/Scorpio, which brings the light of that which “confirms our worth” expressed as a transmutation of animal or natural force into the human and magical realm. While the 2024 Wisdom involved the Light of an ability to go through crises while showing strength of character, expressed as an ability to see the world of the 5 senses and the mind as “the playground of God and Soul.” This year’s “Buddha Wisdom” will involve the Light of an abundance of spiritual and inner values expressed as a revelation of creative potentials and forms of self-maintenance.
The Full Moon of Gemini-Sagittarius is known as the Christ Fest, or World Teacher Festival. At this Full Moon the World Teacher of the Age takes the wisdom of the Buddha Nature and infuses it with Loving magnetism so that all may become more lovingly wise and wisely loving according to the lesson of the year.
Last year’s Christ Fest Loving Wisdom pulse has been active since May 2024, and had a theme of 3 Gemini/Sagittarius, with the Light of Wisdom showing us the way to a technique of telepathic attunement and “non-local knowing” expressed as a technique to find “the power of our spiritual ancestry.” At this great spiritual ceremony the World Teacher pours forth new forms of loving-wisdom into the world that offers all of us a great leap forward in awareness of Higher things.
Last year’s Christ/World Teacher Festival happened on May 23 at 3 Gemini/Sagittarius. That Light of Wisdom showed us how to formalize certain knowledge expressed through our ability to see life as a game with a need to concentrate on a sequence of moves and not get distracted by secondary matters. This year’s Light of Wisdom occurs on June 11 at 21 Gemini/Sagittarius, and brings the Light of “a surge of natural instincts” expressed expressed through our ability to imitate the role we want to play in the future.
When Do We Celebrate It?
From time to time, we have “rare peculiarities” due to the difference in the Tropical and Sidereal systems. In the East they use a variety of speculative values to compute planetary positions, and so any Full Moon falling in the early degrees of a sign is considered to be in the previous sign. That’s why in the East sometimes they celebrate the Wesak a month later than we do in the West. I personally believe we should celebrate it as we do in the West, since when the Buddha lived, the planets were the same positions as they are today in the Western system.
In 2017 we had Full Moons at 22 Scorpio-Taurus which is the Wesak in the West, but our 2017 Christ Fest at 19 Sagittarius-Gemini was the Wesak in the East. In 2018 our Full Moon at 10 Scorpio-Taurus was the Wesak, but in the East it happened at our Full Moon at 9 Sagittarius-Gemini. As I offered then, I celebrated both of those Full Moons, so it really doesn’t matter whether it’s the Western Christ Fest or the Eastern Vesak. It’s all good!
The 2019 Wesak happened at 28 Taurus/Scorpio so it was the Wesak in both the West and the East. Obviously the 2020 and 2021 Wesak festivals were different in East and West, while the 2022 Wesak was celebrated May 15 in the western half of the Northern Hemisphere, and May 16 everywhere east of CDT. The 2023 and 2024 Wesaks happened at 15 and 5 Scorpio/Taurus and this year it’s at 23 Scorpio/Taurus, so in the East they have been and will celebrate a month after we do.
Once In A While We Get A Double Dose
An extraordinarily rare anomaly happened in 2016, since there were TWO Full Moons in Gemini-Sagittarius! To me that indicated two different “vintages” of the World Teaching went out like a “twinned vibration.” The first was May 21/22, the second occurred hours before the 2016 June Solstice. I believe that has gave us two different ways the “Buddha Wisdom” of 2016 took shape, and since Gemini is a “twinned sign” anyway, we were given multiple ways to find the Wisdom between then and the Christ Fest of 2017.
In 2019, the Full Moon of Aries-Libra was another rare anomaly since we had two Full Moons in those signs, the first at the Equinox at 1 Aries/Libra, the second at 30 Aries/Libra. These “emergent life force pulses” took shape at the 2019 Wesak Festival at 28 Taurus-Scorpio, and was distributed as a world teaching at the Christ Fest via the energies of 26 Gemini/Sagittarius. So there were two life themes related to the first and third decans of Aries-Libra, while the wisdom was related to the third decan of Taurus-Scorpio, which was distributed via the third decan of Gemini-Sagittarius.
Summing Up
This year, the Full Moon of 24 Aries-Libra will take shape at the 2025 Wesak Festival at 23 Taurus-Scorpio, and will be distributed as a world teaching at the “World Teacher Fest” via the energies of 21 Gemini-Sagittarius. So all three influences are in the third decans of their signs in the social-emotional level of those signs.
To recap, the life force generated at the 1st High Moon is concentrated into a form of loving compassion at the 2nd High Moon, and the “Christ Fest” 3rd High Moon distributes the loving wisdom poured out at the Wesak Festival in a new world teaching appropriate to human needs for that year.
Most religions believe in a World Teacher or Savior, knowing this Light Giver by such names as the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, the Imam Mahdi, Lord Krishna, the Bodhisattva, and the Messiah. So where Christ is invoked, imagine the name of the World Teacher of your faith, and attune to the Loving Wisdom of that Great Being, however you conceive of Them.
Even though it’s not Spring in the Southern Hemisphere, at the 2025 Wesak Festival check out to see what types of new Taurus wisdom forms begin to show themselves in your life, and move forward into a truth you’ve been carrying for a while. The Wesak is the time to renew and regenerate your life and magnetism through embracing the transformational process, grounding the “Natural” in the “Supernatural.” This will help us experience a deeper connection we have with others in our various Soul groups.
As the “Buddha infused” Wisdom coming forth obviously is related in some way to the Buddha, some will have to renounce lesser individual and philosophical considerations, and unite with others to deepen their life experience. Some will see that they have already been given a life renewal, with the power to go deeper into “All-That-Is.” Let go of whatever you need to let go of, and the void will attract what is more “true for you” in your evolved state.
This 2025 Wesak Full Moon will be both stabilizing and mobilizing, with the emergent Wisdom forms taking many shapes as the weeks unfold the themes of this year. This coming year will offer the Light of events “confirming our worth” expressed as a transmutation of Self. With Mercury square Pluto, wisdom will be found by busting falsehoods and keeping focused on the positive possibilities instead of being paralyzed by the negatives.
As Venus will occupy 9 Aries and trine Mars at 12 Leo, there will be tremendous inspirational possibilities, and Sun conjunct Uranus should bring us peace as we offer our Wisdom to others. And Moon trine Saturn should keep us steady, sane and stable as things fall apart. As the Moon will be the handle of the Bucket Jones pattern, it seems Scorpio is how we’ll get a grip on things!
© Copyright 2025 Robert Wilkinson
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