“The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.”—Carl Jung
I also like this one: “The greatest darkness constellates the most powerful, answering light;
the greatest threat constellates the most impassioned energy of creativity”—Andrew Harvey
I think that I’m beginning this
post with quotations to avoid writing about this lunation. “Good” or “bad” is
in the eye of the beholder, but man, this chart looks unnerving. Depends on how
you feel about intensity. A lot of astrologers are calling this the “Hades
Moon.” And, I get it. It has the forces of the underworld, Kali, and Scorpio
written all over it. But, it looks necessary. Handled well, this could be a
deeply healing time that gives birth to something we need to move forward. HANDLED
WELL.
Remember a couple of weeks ago
when I recommended staying close to your feelings, trying to understand your
deepest needs and those of others, creating safe, flexible spaces, and building
intimacy with your tribe? How’d we do with that? We’re going to find out now. During the new
moon Cancer we (hopefully) took some deep breaths and exposed our soft centers.
This Capricorn full moon is the harsh light of day come ‘round to inspect
what’s going on in there and maybe do a bit of surgery. It’s the doctor saying,
“This is going to feel a little uncomfortable,” “you might feel a little
pressure.” Let’s face it. This is going to hurt. Question is, when you feel
that pressure and heightened sensitivity are you going to wall off, shut down,
and don your armor? Or are you going to remember that this surgery is
necessary, and surrender? This surgery aims to remove what blocks you from what you need most. I hope you tricked out your
healing spaces and got real with your people.
Some of us will choose to fight.
Pick your battles. There will be many to choose from.
Conflicts abound. Within and without. Well, as within so without…right?
At any full moon, we’re dealing with polarity. With a
Capricorn full moon we’re dealing with archetypal big guns: Mother vs. Father,
Public vs. Private, Work vs. Home, Form vs. Feeling, Tides of Change vs. The
Establishment. Much as I try to deal with polarities as a continuum of a theme,
which I still recommend we do with this lunation; this particular one has
some gnarly challenges in the form of Mars in Cancer sitting with the sun, and
Pluto in Capricorn sitting with the moon. You got a taste of this last week. It
peaks this week.
Like all full moons, this one wants you to release
something. What’s especially difficult about letting go with this one is the
Mars-Pluto opposition. Mars in Cancer fights by defending, building walls, and hiding. Building walls and hiding your
feelings is like waving a red cape in front of a bull—the bull being Pluto in
Capricorn. Pluto is Scorpio energy. It is extreme, relentless,
and it digs. Pluto in Capricorn digs all the way to the bottom. It will
complete the job. Sounds violent. And it could be. But it doesn’t have to be. (PS this is an outstanding time to do research, detox/cleanse, finish a tough job).
All that Pluto-moon conjunction wants to remove are lies, and our false sense of security. It wants to remove what keeps us from
feeling the real security of love, interconnectedness, and constant renewal. If
we can stay open and awake, tolerate some poking and prodding, that Pluto-moon will
take what it needs and be on its way, leaving us to heal and feel secure in a way no one and nothing can threaten.
Should we choose to harden against ourselves, the world,
each other, that Pluto-moon might resort to unnecessarily destructive measures
to get what it wants. That’s war…within ourselves, with each other, and the
world. We don’t need astrology to see this playing out on the world stage.
I don’t think of myself as a fire-and-brimstone type of
astrologer, but shit. This is challenging. Not that I think it’s important for life to be easy all of the time. This lunation, handled well, could lead to
something much more powerful than feeling easy: feeling whole. There are
deep changes that we need to allow for. To cling to old ways of being, to
preserve some false notion of safety is to prolong senseless suffering.
Please do what you can to stay open. Let's try to catch ourselves
being lured into battle, other-ing, and hyperactive defensiveness. See if you
notice urges to escape, evade, or suppress. Those are not the optimal ways to deal with
our fear. To quote Robert Frost, “The only way out is through.” Let’s hold each
other’s hands as we walk through this…and ditch that armor. We are meant to be
moved.
I don’t think of myself as a love-and -light astrologer
either but please be kind. Please be loving, please be fierce only in your
search for what is true. It is the ILLUSION that we are not already safe that
creates war. XC
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