Masculin Feminin by Godard |
Oppositions abound! What does this
mean? Tension? Attraction? War? YES! Am I shouting?! Sorry. We have a full moon
in Aries to contend with.
Aries explodes onto the scene then
makes a sudden departure. No announcement. No fanfare. It is pure action. It is
immediate and impulsive. The eternal infant of the zodiac it never outgrows its
direct line to its desires. Aries always finds ways to be born. If there are obstacles
to its desires or anything that might thwart their need for rebirth it will be
seen as an opponent. Or, it might not be seen at all. If you have nothing to do
with what Aries is trying to accomplish, it will simply forget that you’re
there and start a war out of pure obliviousness.
No. I do not like the sound of that
either given our current political climate.
Aries is where you may feel your
aggression, desire, and impatience calling you up. It’s where your trigger
finger is going to get itchy and where you’re going to feel ready to floor the
gas pedal. If you’ve been making your way down a birth canal of sorts…you’re
ready to come out.
This lunation happens all over a
stellium (3-4 planets) I have in Aries. And I happen to be doing a full moon
reading at a friend’s birthday party on the 5th. This moon will figure
prominently in her Libra solar return chart as it will for all those born the
first 2 weeks of October. I may not have much to drink this evening. I may not
need to.
All of you out there with planets or
sensitive points in the mid-degrees (11-17) of cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer,
Libra, Capricorn), KA-POW!! For better or worse, of course. It’s gonna get loud
up in here.
Here’s the Full Moon breakdown (Aries loves bullets):
· Sun Libra-Moon Aries opposition (aka full moon) square Pluto in Capricorn: Passion, exposure, power
struggles, transformation.
· Mars Venus conjunction in Virgo square Saturn in Sagittarius: A strong urge to start new
relationships or new phases in relationships and the urge to create using
emotion and physical action— all being frustrated or delayed for their own good.
Or you just have to put in a lot of hard work and patience, or display maturity
to see any results in these areas.
· Moon Aries-Mercury Libra opposition: sensitive communications around relationships, or insensitive
conflicts surrounding what “I” want.
· Neptune Pisces quincunx Mercury Libra: over-idealization leading to disappointment,
disillusionment, deception, and lack of clarity with communications. Get your
facts straight. Tell the truth. Discern what’s real from what you project on
others. Extremely important with all the hot impulsiveness flying around.
· Jupiter Libra-Uranus Aries opposition separating: The larger, big-picture version of
the Aries full moon. It’s on its way out but this lunation pulls it back in to
highlight the Venus-Mars conversation.
And now for something more lyrical
in the style of Libra:
As we can see there is a lot of
relating going on here. Venus-ruled Libra always wants to know “what’s going on
with us?” Libra has a difficult time answering questions without knowing what
it’s in relation to; and whatever it is relating to, the goal will always be
the creation of harmony between this and that, you and me.
Harmony is a beautiful thing,
except when it’s not. Like anything,
harmony and equanimity can be overdone. When a lovely exterior or one too many
compromises are chosen at the expense of addressing uncomfortable, difficult or
downright ugly feelings, all that pretty loses its charm.
I don’t love the way this Mars-ruled
Aries moon looks (especially square a freshly stationed Pluto- direct motion).
I don’t like the look of an emotionally reactive moon in the sign of “the
infant” and war, square the planet of power and upheaval. It’s not pretty. I
don’t think the Sun/Mercury in Libra is a match for it. Moon in Aries is too
fast. But we'd be foolish to think that Libra won’t try to charm, intellectualize,
and talk their way into a win. Libra is Venusian and beautiful and all that,
but it is still cardinal, it takes action. What will we try to balance with our
intelligence, conversation, and desire to make things fair? Will it be enough
given the rampant inequity in the world? And if there are grave inequities in
our personal lives, those will be felt as well.
I’m hoping by this point you see how
the concurrent Mars-Venus in Virgo conjunction has such a strange and sonorous echo
for this full moon. Instead of Mars and Venus being opposed, the rulers of
Aries and Libra are conjoined in the sign of Virgo. This is sacred sex. They want to be together and start a new
relationship. We have that available to us as well (especially if you have
planets in mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) in the later
degrees (18-23). Think back a couple of weeks to what your new moon Virgo
intention was; here is your full moon Aries baby.
ARIES RETOLD
So let’s extinguish the fire of
Aries for a moment and reflect on other aspects of Aries at our disposal.
On the other side of that
obliviousness is innocence and honesty. Aries usually means well and wants to
be courageous. Because it’s so immersed in its own being, it forgets to look around.
It doesn’t know how to complicate its pure directive with so many different
motives, worldviews, and agendas. It simply aches to be.
Can we all find ways to be brave
enough to be naked with our wants, but still try to do relationship with each
other and the world? It’ll take guts to get through some of these difficult
encounters and conversations. But that’s where Aries shines.
For all you Paul Westerberg fans:
Achin’ To Be
Well she's kind of like an
artist
Sittin' on the floor
Never finishes, she abandons
Never shows a soul
And she's kind of like a movie
Everyone rushes to see
And no one understands it
Sittin' in their seats
She opens her mouth to speak and
What comes out's a mystery
Thought about, not understood
She's achin' to be
Well she dances alone in nightclubs
Every other day of the week
People look right through her
Baby doll, check your cheek
And she's kind of like a poet
Who finds it hard to speak
Poems come so slowly
Like the colors down a sheet
She opens her mouth to speak and
What comes out's a mystery
Thought about, not understood
She's achin' to be
I've been achin' for a while now, friend
I've been achin' hard for years
Well she's kind of like an artist
Who uses paints no more
You never show me what you're doing
Never show a soul
Well, I saw one of your pictures
There was nothin' that I could see
If no one's on your canvas
Well, I'm achin' to be
She closes her mouth to speak and
Closes her eyes to see
Thought about an' only loved
She's achin' to be
Just like me
Sittin' on the floor
Never finishes, she abandons
Never shows a soul
And she's kind of like a movie
Everyone rushes to see
And no one understands it
Sittin' in their seats
She opens her mouth to speak and
What comes out's a mystery
Thought about, not understood
She's achin' to be
Well she dances alone in nightclubs
Every other day of the week
People look right through her
Baby doll, check your cheek
And she's kind of like a poet
Who finds it hard to speak
Poems come so slowly
Like the colors down a sheet
She opens her mouth to speak and
What comes out's a mystery
Thought about, not understood
She's achin' to be
I've been achin' for a while now, friend
I've been achin' hard for years
Well she's kind of like an artist
Who uses paints no more
You never show me what you're doing
Never show a soul
Well, I saw one of your pictures
There was nothin' that I could see
If no one's on your canvas
Well, I'm achin' to be
She closes her mouth to speak and
Closes her eyes to see
Thought about an' only loved
She's achin' to be
Just like me
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