the full moon at 18’53 sagittarius is exact on friday june 9th 2017 at 6:09am PDT. this marks the halfway point of the lunar cycle that began with the new moon in gemini on may 25th. with the gemini/sadge axis highlighted there’s a big focus right now on small mind and Higher mind, details and Bigger Picture, personal truth and collective Truth. both signs have to do with mind processing- which could make for some intense energies expressing through our mental bodies. we need to be really aware of where we are overthinking, too heady, disconnected from our bodies, feelings and intuition at this full moon. our minds can run us around in circles- while our bodies and intuition know the Truth of matters.
now some would say this full moon is in fiery, happy go lucky sagittarius and that the ruling planet jupiter is stationing direct just under an hour later in balanced, peace loving libra- so it’s a great lunation! but the thing is you have to take ALL of the placements into account when reading a chart. isolating and just seeing one thing without seeing how it is connected to everything else is myopic. nothing is good or bad inherently- it’s what we do with it. a potent full moon conjunct pluto could help us massively transform our lives- or it could strip us down bare and be very shadowy. of course full moons are felt most potently if you happen to have something at the degree the full moon is at (or square or opposite that degree). so look for placements at or near 18-19 degrees of sagittarius, gemini, pisces and virgo in your natal chart to see what this full moon is triggering for you personally (also look to the house the full moon falls in).
so this full moon- wow! it’s conjunct the fierce Dark Feminine black moon lilith, opposite ceres the Great Mother, approaching saturn the Lord of Karma, past exact square with the planet of idealism and illusion neptune, approaching a square to the Wounded Healer chiron, and just past exact semisextile to pluto the Lord of the Underworld. lots of outer planets linking with the full moon bring transpersonal energy into personal affairs. transpersonal energies are focused on awakening, liberation and evolution and they do not care if it’s uncomfortable for the ego self ;)
with the full moon conjunct lilith there are deep emotional energies brewing in the full moon chart- although fiery sadge would prefer to think about them philosophically and intellectually rather than really feel them. so would gemini for that matter. again the tendency to want to intellectualize feelings and be disconnected from the body and intuition can be high here. typically sadge is though of as intuitive- and it can be but in my experience it is head-based intuition, not body based. and it’s easy to get lost in the mind energies with sadge and gemini- ungrounded and disconnected from embodied reality. lilith particularly has to do with repressed anger and rage and if we have any of this being stuffed-personally or collectively- it can come out right now!
the full moon is also opposite ceres, the Great Mother- which puts focus on home/family situations, children, safety and security issues (personally and collectively), food/nourishment issues, and also involves the environment and Mother Earth at large. in the USA the drama over the paris climate agreement can be intimately related to all the tense aspects ceres has been undergoing in the last weeks! (tense aspects to pluto, uranus and neptune in the last 6 weeks- and incoming we have tense aspects to the saturn/chiron square from 6/25-7/7).
both the sun and moon’s opposition trigger saturn and chiron- with the exact triggers by the moon the evening of the 9th and exact triggers by the sun in the week that follows (15th through 19th). so this lunation is triggering the saturn/chiron square- which i call the “core wound territory” transit. saturn governs limitation, restriction, karma and the inner critic and chiron governs deep wounds, pain and feelings of rejection. anyone who has things in their natal chart getting triggered by this duo is going through it right now. deep and profound opportunities to heal are definitely present! but the path to healing is moving through the wounding- to heal you have to feel. and most people do everything in their power to avoid feeling and dealing with these core wounds. that is why we have devised so many ways to escape feeling- from drugs to alcohol to mass consumerism/shopping to workaholism, eating disorders, spiritual addictions/spiritual bypassing, sex addiction and more! this is an amazing time to be doing inner work via therapy, shadow work, somatic bodywork, shamanic journeys, etc….
the good new is that with the full moon almost exactly semisextile pluto (within 3 minutes of exactness!)- we have the Lord of the Underworld assisting us in plumbing the depths, penetrating beyond the facade and getting to the root and Truth of matters. fascinatingly pluto is with juno- the Goddess of partnership and marriage. their exact conjunction is not until 11/11 but from may to end of the year they journey with each other. transformation and evolution of partnerships and commitments are in process. some are breaking down to breakthrough. other’s are ending to make way for something else. this is not just personal- it’s also global and governmental (just look at the news!). and with the ruler of this lunation being jupiter who is in libra- the sign of partnership, balance and connection- it’s clear to see that alliances are changing/transforming and relationships are undergoing massive grow or die energies right now.
jupiter in libra is important in this chart- as he rules the lunation and he stations direct just under an hour after the full moon is exact! typically the sign jupiter is transiting shows where gifts and expansion are incoming. jupiter in libra would then bring positive energy into partnership, marriage, relationship, contracts and commitments in our lives. yet from the moment jupiter entered libra he has been making some very tense aspects- quincunx neptune, square pluto, opposite uranus/eris and quincunx chiron. the only positive aspects he will make to an outer planet will be his sextile to saturn in sagittarius on 8/27 and his sextile to the north node from 9/6-9/11 (mean and true node respectively). so actually libra energy has been getting severely tested since jupiter entered this sign (as has been whatever house(s) libra shows up in your natal chart). before we can find the balance, peace and harmonious relationships we seek without- we have to find that within. and neptune/chiron asks us to face where we have been in denial, operating out of Unconscious wounding, uranus/eris asks us to get in touch with our anger, rage and need to take a stand, and pluto asks us to honestly look at the shadow and where we holding onto old paradigm behavior/relationships/situations that hold us back from our growth and evolution. so jupiter in libra has not been the typical jupiter in libra transit by any means. we will get there for sure! but there’s been a lot of learning and growing pains in the last 9 months that has been preparing us for the astrology unfolding this summer!
in addition jupiter stations on the 9th, while neptune stations on the 16th- energizing the jupiter/neptune quincunx between the two planets and signs that like to be idealistic and tend to over focus on the positive, Love and Light while simultaneously ignoring/avoiding facing the shadow. the last of 3 jupiter/neptune squares is exact on the 4th of july- so it shows up in the USA’s solar return/birthday chart. where have we personally and collectively been in denial? where have we buried our heads in the sand? where have we been spiritual bypassing- ignoring things as a means to escape accountability and responsibility? where have we identified with being innocent and pure- and in doing so have purposely ignored our own big part in the drama unfolding? the days following this full moon and leading up to july 4th through 7th when the last jupiter/neptune quincunx is exact and when the sun completes his trigger of the saturn/chiron square (and not to mention all the mercury/mars/pluto intensity end of june and start of july) are potent and we want to make sure we are navigating them with consciousness and a willingness to face reality, see our part in creating said reality and an ability (not just a willingness but an ABILITY) to do what needs to be done to change things!
a few asteroids to take note of: icarus is on pallas and eris. icarus the man who flew too close to the sun so his wings burned off and he felt to his death. again- where are we trying to escape things? where are we trying to transcend what we have not fully moved through yet? where are we being too heady (pallas) and are actually disconnected from our bodies, our emotions and our deep anger and rage (eris). the Dark Goddess has so many gifts- but one of her biggest shadows is anger and rage that she is either disconnected from so she internalizes it and it expresses as depression or illness OR she reactively expresses it and becomes vindictive, manipulative, destructive and toxic. if we are escaping facing how we play the victim or tyrant rather than having a direct, healthy relationship to our anger and rage (personally but also collectively) this full moon can bring that full frontal!
we also have chiron conjunct orpheus- which is pretty deep. chiron is already in pisces- feeling the pain of the collective and the wounds of the world! add in orpheus and the grief can be overwhelming! and again our desire to escape that grief- not feel the pain in ourselves and the world around us- can be exacerbated right now. also any tendencies to globalize and say we are feeling the pain of the world without also being willing to see and own where the pain is our own and not just a collective experience can be amplified as well. (so be aware and feel/own your feelings with care!).
i leave you with the star sparks meditation for this lunation- ‘a monstrous sea creature dead, washed up on the beach’. the first thing i think of is our beautiful beloved ocean waters on the planet and how all the toxic shit we dump into our water, air and food is impact ocean life as well as all of life on our beloved blue planet. reading further ellias reminds us that that the deep collective shadow we have repressed and hidden from consciousness has the power to control us UNTIL WE FACE IT. this is why i am so into shadow work and why i do it for myself and why i write about it and teach it to the degree i feel i am able to (i am still a student of this work- by no means a master). when i read further i see that these ‘monstrous creatures’ are actually powerful, vital beings we need to be in touch with as they are our saving grace! they are the Source Origins that know the vast missing places intimately. they are us, we are them. and we must know all of ourselves to get through this passage of time on earth. both Light and shadow are the dance of Love (rumi). it’s high time we enchant the Light and the Dark into Union. it is the path to wholeness and what true enlightenment is all about!
blessed be!
~divine harmony
STAR SPARKS by ellias lonsdale
Sagittarius 19 A monstrous sea creature dead, washed up on the beach
In collective terms, those great beings who became most submerged in the depths of this world since ancient times have been haunting us, have been hounding us, have been accompanying humanity’s Earth journey with their unheard, yet deeply felt lamentations, cries, reminders, throwbacks, timeless calls. And their legacy lives on in forms that don’t seem connected to them overtly whatsoever.
They are still here amongst us and they adaptively disguise themselves in every conceivable pattern on the outside. But their vibration underlyingly is immutable. They bear lost worlds, hidden meanings. And they are always in our midst dying, bleeding, suffering, at odds with the way we live our lives nowadays.
Such beings cannot prevail. They will not change. So they are put through chaotic and turbulent cycles repeatedly. Yet something comes of all this. Death is just a point along the way.
These ones are resilient. They are resourceful. They are fabulously gifted with abilities we have lost track of. They can navigate through the harshest passages by an inner deep instinct not for survival, but for putting them into new states, which are the same as before, only hardier, steadier, more on the beam.
Something vital is being carried through this form. It has to do with remaining attuned to that which others pass over. It’s a repository of specialized spheres which need to be hidden yet staying with themselves in defiant disregard of fashion conveniences.
This comes down to a root indomitable conviction that we must stay in touch with source origins through changing times and know the vast missing places intimately.