Dramatic night-time climaxes rarely occur in the movies without a cinematic cutaway to a Full Moon. They’re powerful visual manifestations of peak energy - when the Moon and Sun come face to face in mesmerising confrontation - and tomorrow’s Full Moon (Thursday December 8 @3:08pm AEDT) which is conjunct Mars retrograde, planet of conflict, action, aggression and desire at 16 Gemini, looks like a firecracker of a car chase scene in a teen-vampire-rom-com-thriller-action-melodrama of a lunation! Alternatively, maybe it could be something like a mental supernova explosion event?
When the Full Moon conjoins a planet, its archetypal influence seems to be enlarged by the Moon’s reflective nature, and with this Full Moon six minutes from exact conjunction with the fiery, unpredictable and currently backwards-moving planet of drive and aggression this lunation has the potential to be more volatile, argumentative, accident-prone and/or explosive than usual. It could most definitely manifest in more low-key ways, as passionate energy, spicy, provocative conversation, courageous ideas, cutting, flammable wit and playful competitive banter but it’s worth being aware of the potential for difficulty so that we can mentally prepare with as chill a vibe as we can muster to deal with any mayhem. I’m kind of expecting the soundtrack of the evening to be distant sirens but if things do get wild lovelies, know that the difficulty won’t last long and that what we’re likely to learn from it could be very significant.
The Sun’s opposition to Mars marks the halfway point in this current retrograde cycle (October 31 - January 13) and like a Full Moon it offers us a status report on our progress through this period of review and revision. It’s like a mental operating-system reboot for eliminating the malware that’s been corrupting our processes and as we cull dead files from forgotten folders in the Gemini, Capricorn, Aries and Scorpio areas of our charts, we could discover old gems that can be rescued for renewed purposes. Full Moons illuminate the initial outcomes of recent solar developments and reveal factors that need to be addressed in order for us to successfully realise our endeavours. So any dramas that erupt around this lunation also contain valuable information about needed adjustments. With Mercury ruling this Full Moon from stable, long-lasting, productive, material Capricorn, the sign in which Mars also finds its exaltation, we could find it easier to parse and correct glitches in our beliefs and ideologies, our perception of the facts, our communication processes, our means of protest and our relationship to media.
The Moon traditionally represents fluctuations in material fortune and feeling due to the eternally changing luminosity of its visage, and as it carries the light from its opposition to the Sun into a conjunction with Mars and then into a trine with Saturn in Aquarius, an intriguing process takes place. Whilst Mars and Saturn both govern painful experiences, they’re possibly the most productive of the planets in tandem, bringing grit, focus and determination to the realisation of our goals and desires. The Moon’s translation of light between the two malefics allows us the potential to synthesise a new possibility from a combination of difficult factors, and what we realise through the process of ignition and illumination that takes place on this Full Moon is then crystallised into an emerging new reality, coming soon.
The Sabian symbol for 16 degrees of Gemini is described as “the robust head of a youth becomes a mature thinker”. Given that Mars’ retrograde journey through the sign of the youthful mind is currently governed by the planet of mind in the sign of maturity, this feels particularly pertinent guidance. At this halfway point it feels powerful to ask ourselves, what problematic ideas, habits or misguided beliefs do I need to do away with in order to think both more realistically and optimistically about the future? In the next five weeks we can clear away a good amount of debris to make way for the new reality coming this March.
Hot on the heels of the Full Moon on Friday December 9 the two lucky planets, Venus and Jupiter form a square at the final degrees of Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius and Pisces where Venus also finds her exaltation, which suggests that good fortune flows quickly from courageous acts of changing our minds. And on Sunday December 10 (between 11:45am and 2pm AEDT) we have a magic window of astrology to play with. Make the most of the opportunity to initiate any kind of creative, social, mystical, educational, spiritual, imaginative, healing, playful, pleasing, nourishing projects, connections or activities that you’d really like to experience more of in 2023!
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