Aspects, Evolutionary Configurations, and More -

The next two weeks (and 6 months) promise many gifts, with relatively few challenges other than the generic tension of Saturn square Uranus. There’s so much “high specialization” involving several evolutionary configurations that this promises to be an extraordinarily favorable Lunar Eclipse.

Remember this Full Moon fulfills the Scorpio New Moon energy, which means we’re in a time of seeing the culmination of the year’s Aquarian vision for 2021, with a lot of unique factors in play for as long as this Eclipse is in effect. This will show us how our “experiment nears completion,” and how “to mobilize, cheerfully balancing a mountain of baggage.” This is a playfully transformative Full Moon and will help us regenerate through a deeper connection with ourselves, others, and Source.

Evolutionary Configurations

This month continues to be extraordinary, as it’s the second month in a row featuring SIX evolutionary configurations helping us navigate the opposition while taking care of business. They are, in no particular order:

1) Saturn cuts the opposition of the Lights into a quintile and tredecile, creating three points of a “10 Pointed Star of Serendipity” with extraordinary interactive specialized energies promising gifts perfect for circumstances, and unique circumstances perfect for the gifts of those affected. Active zones include 2-6 Cancer/Capricorn, 8-12 Leo/Aquarius, 14-18 Pisces/Virgo, 20-24 Aries/Libra, and 26-30 Taurus/Scorpio. This will be an enjoyable refinement of focused self-awareness along the axis of the opposition, with a special focus on 8-12 Leo.

2) We have an identical configuration created by Pluto cutting the Mars/Uranus opposition into a quintile and tredecile, also creating three points of a “10 Pointed Star of Serendipity” with extraordinary interactive specialized energies promising gifts perfect for circumstances, and unique circumstances perfect for the gifts of those affected. Active zones include 1-3 Pisces/Virgo, 5-9 Aries/Libra, 11-15 Taurus/Scorpio, 17-21 Gemini/Sagittarius, 23-27 Cancer/Capricorn, and 29-30 Leo/Aquarius.This will be an enjoyable refinement of focused self-awareness along the axis of the opposition, with a special focus on 23-27 Cancer.

3) Also involving Mars opposed Uranus, we see Venus cutting that opposition into a sextile and trine, throwing a powerful productive and harmonizing void into 13-14 Cancer, showing the need for strength and flexibility as we face greater timeless Truths than we’ve ever seen. Be fearless as you behold “the Source of All Wisdom,” symbolized by the star Sirius, the Sun of our Sun. This will be extremely favorable for any planets or points between 11 and 16 degrees of the Earth and Water signs.

Our fourth special configuration involves Mercury sextile Pluto and trine Neptune, activating three points of a Six Pointed Star of fully realized productivity. This primarily affects planets or points we have around 20-26 of the Earth and Water signs, so it’s pretty clear this is an extraordinarily productive and harmonizing Lunar Eclipse which will produce maximum awareness in both productive and specialized ways! Everyone gets to play at this party!

The fifth evolutionary configuration (as usual) involves the Grand Irrationality anchored by Uranus septile Neptune. It’s not a major factor since no inner planet it setting it into motion. Even though I gave you the link to the main article in part one of this series, in case you don’t know about the Grand Irrationality, there have been two iterations of it. The first Grand Irrationality (1993-2017) was anchored by Neptune septile Pluto, and the second Grand Irrationality (2018-2021) has been anchored by Uranus biseptile Pluto, with Neptune occasionally configuring with Uranus in a septile, joining the two evolutionary patterns.

Both of the “Grand Irrationalities” represent non-rational, “fork in the road of destiny” configurations blending the transpersonal revolutionizing of Uranus with the transpersonal “fog of mass consciousness” of Neptune with the purifying “death and rebirth” energy of Pluto. This Lunation has no planets activating this “Seven Pointed Star of Destiny.”

Our sixth special evolutionary configuration is created by Venus cutting the opposition of the Lights into a semisquare and sesquisquare, creating three points of a “Rhombus Diamond” configuration with a “cutting, grinding, and polishing” quality. This primarily affects planets or points we have around 26-30 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, as well as 11-15 Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. This will create friction we can use for focused self-awareness along the axis of the opposition.

Major Aspects

Besides the various aspects I gave you related to the evolutionary configurations, forming (or partile separating) inner planet aspects include Mercury in a rare septile with Venus, conjunct Sun, square Jupiter, quintile Saturn; and Venus is novile Jupiter, quindecile Saturn, and conjunct Pluto. (The Moon and Sun make no other aspects except those in the special configurations.)

Outer planet forming and partile separating aspects include Marstrine Neptune; Jupiter is binovile Uranus and semi-sextile Pluto; Saturn is square Uranus, and Uranus makes only the aspects in the configurations.

The spiritual aspects are relatively few but are powerful in this Full Moon Eclipse chart. In the series related to destiny and “fate,” we find only 2 septiles. In the 9th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, we have only 1 novile and 1 binovile. There are no aspects in the 11th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, The specializing aspect series provides more than all the others combined, showing 1 quindecile, 3 quintiles, and 2 tredeciles.

For those new to the craft, quintiles and biquintiles are 5th harmonic aspects, septiles and triseptiles are 7th harmonic aspects, noviles are 9th harmonic aspects, deciles (semi-quintiles) and tredeciles are 10th harmonic aspects, the elftile series are 11th harmonic aspects, the quindecile is a 15th harmonic aspect, and the vigintile is a 20th harmonic aspect. Each of these has a unique function in the phase relationship of the two planets in aspect.

The 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th harmonic aspects are specializing and bring forth partially or fully developed quintessential elements of the planets involved. The 7th harmonic aspects help us make choices to fulfill our destiny, and the novile series aspects (9th harmonic) represent entry or exit points of periods of gestation which can bring forth possible spiritual developments. The 11th harmonic aspects involve situations where there is a need to transcend and master some form of duality by making a leap of faith.

The various aspects in all these different harmonic series indicate points where the theme of the Whole Cycle becomes clear, whether through major developments or minor refinements in the process. Each aspect shows a phase relationship, specific to the special and unique circumstances of that particular Whole Cycle. It's how we can know when to work, when to play, when to create, when to imagine, when to have faith, and when to mobilize!

If you want to know more about these aspects, when you’re done here please go to The Specializing Aspects Pt. 1 – Quintile, Tredecile, Decile, and Biquintile, The Specializing Aspects Pt. 2 – The Quindecile and Vigintile, and The Spiritual Aspect Series – The Novile, Septile, and Elftile Harmonic Aspects where you’ll find more about the meaning of these aspects and the glyphs associated with them. Also, remember that all of these set up harmonic resonance void points all over our charts.

The Eclipse Factor

This continues a long run of Lunar eclipses in Earth and Water signs. In 2020 we had an abnormal year of 6 eclipses. We had a January Lunar eclipse at 20 Cancer, a June Lunar eclipse at 16 Sagittarius, a Solstice Solar eclipse at 1 Cancer, a July Lunar eclipse at 14 Capricorn, a November Lunar eclipse at 9 Gemini, and a December Solar eclipse at 24 Sagittarius. As all the Lunar eclipses have a duration of a few months, all of these took away parts of our Lunar expression in 2020 and early 2021.

This year we’re back to 4 Eclipses. The May Lunar eclipse was at 6 Sagittarius, the June Solar eclipse was at 20 Gemini, this Lunar eclipse is at 28 Taurus, and the December Solar eclipse around the corner is at 13 Sagittarius. In 2022, we’ll again have 4 eclipses. An April Solar eclipse at 11 Taurus, a May Lunar eclipse at 26 Scorpio, an October Solar eclipse at 2 Scorpio, and a November Lunar eclipse at 17 Taurus. Again, all the Lunar eclipses work over just a few months, while Solar eclipse effects last for years.

As you know, I see all eclipses as “cosmic recyclers” removing what we no longer need in the houses where they occurred. The June 2020 Solstice Solar Eclipse in Cancer marked a change of allegiance for everyone, with hard adjustments and sacrifices for all, while the December 2020 Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius has been removing all which would block our happiness. We’re also still experiencing past Solar Eclipse “cosmic recycling” wherever we have 16 Capricorn, 21 Cancer and 19 Leo, due to Eclipses on these degrees. The endings of 2018 and 2019 helped us get organized, explore what success really means to us, and find techniques to let go of prior fixed social roles.

All these Solar Eclipses, along with others, have allowed us to “shed skins” wherever we have 9, 19, and 30 Pisces, 28 Aquarius, 29 Leo, 10 Virgo, and 21 Virgo, as well as the degrees of the recent Eclipses at 1 Cancer, 24 Sagittarius, and 20 Gemini. As you can see, that involves a large part of our charts! You can find out which Solar Eclipses are still showing effects by referring to Astrology in November 2021 - On The Threshold of a Partial Lunar Eclipse at 28 Taurus-Scorpio which lists which Eclipses are done and which are still in play.

A good meditation would be to take a look back at how something related to those points in your chart ended after those Eclipses, and examine how new events, new people, and new life experiences came in those chart areas. All our losses of the past few years associated with these signs have left voids which have attracted, are attracting, or will attract life contents more appropriate to who we are now. Alternately, you may be feeling a void because someone else really isn’t there. Now it’s time to turn to what will nourish you.

Element Balance

This Full Moon features a “balanced imbalance” in element distribution. At this time, of the traditional 10 planets, there are 4 planets in Earth, 2 in Air, 4 in Water, and 0 in Fire signs. This makes Earth (Practicality and Grounding) and Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels) preponderant, with a lesser Air (Relatedness and Communications) influence, and no Fire (Inspiration and Light).

Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, things are fairly chilly! Air and Earth can be likened to a mountaintop, very arid but grounded with a wide view. Fire and Water are hot springs or a lake inversion. With so much Earth and Water, the former will keep it grounded and the latter will keep it fluid. This combo makes either mud or bricks, depending on how you work with the material. So while some will find a sensitivity as they organize things so they further an “enlightened self-interest,” others will find themselves “stuck in the mud” of defensive calculations.

The current sequence at present of Deciding, Feeling, and Thinking

We’ve been through several different sequences over the past few months. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses. This Lunation continues the pattern set by the recent Mercury retrograde. As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience over the next two weeks involves leading with our thinking, communicating, envisioning and finding a new view of things, followed by decisions and actions, and then feeling what we’ve done and seen.

This pattern leads with their understanding, vision, or analytical perceptions, and then makes decisions and acts based in those perceptions to achieve a new understanding or vision. While it is tempting to move back into more thinking, analyzing, and envisioning after we act, instead of going back to the mind to confirm our action, we must get to our feeling-experience around what we just decided or did. When we go deep enough and understand what we are experiencing, then new information, new understanding, and/or a new vision will naturally arise that points the way to the next action.

When you are moved by an idea, vision, perception, or understanding, it will naturally lead to decisions on the basis of those ideas. This should be followed by a time of solitude and reflection where we can identify what we’re feeling and experiencing. Once we identify what we’re experiencing, we’ll naturally be moved to search for newer information, newer ideas, newer interpretations, and newer views. So let your thinking and communicating and envisioning lead you to “right action,” and feel what you must to come to a newer view.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn continues to occupy center stage in its home sign of Aquarius, it continues to be the final dispositor of all planets transiting Capricorn and Aquarius from now through 2023. Though its influence temporarily waned during Jupiter’s occupancy of Pisces, with Jupiter still in Aquarius, Saturn is again its ruler and resumes being a dominant force through April 2022. In this chart it’s the final dispositor of all planets except Neptune and Mars, which has temporarily assumed a power position as ruler of the Sun and Mercury.

Remember that while Saturn can feel heavy, it is also our ability to take command of our lives and destiny by using Saturn’s virtues in the right way and time. Our ability to steer our “ship of personality” into its rightful “role of destiny” has brought us to the threshold of new parts to play on the stage of Life.

We’re still in a long wave period of crystallizing more visionary roles to play in the emergent Aquarian era, and with the dance Saturn and Uranus have done this year, we’ve all had to “square ourselves with reality” as we go where we haven’t gone before. Uranus has awakened us to new roles to play, while Saturn has “lightened up” in Aquarius and prepares to bring us a “new mutation from cosmos.”

I explain how Saturn and Uranus work together to awaken us to our Higher Powers to take command of our destiny in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. Saturn helps us give form and structure to our quest for Self-realization; in Capricorn, it teaches us how to accept and use personal power within a socially responsible context, while in Aquarius it teaches us how to make a greater contribution to our civilization and come together with others in a great effort “ensouled by a great vision.” Coupled with Uranus having awakened a “new quality of Being rendering the old patterns obsolete,” we are collectively “breaking on through to the other side” into an unfolding Higher awareness.

The book was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers. Even those with little or no understanding of astrology will benefit from understanding why you had to make certain choices at crucial times that shaped your life in profound ways.

Each time you read any section of this book you will find new insights about your power to throw off all the attitudes and memories which hold you back from finding and living the life and purpose. If you’ve haven’t already gotten your copy, you can go to the Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend page on Amazon and this should be all you need to order your copy. It’s also available on Amazon and as an ebook on Kindle, so if that’s more to your liking, go for it! If you would, whether you’ve gotten the ebook or the paperback, please write a review on the Amazon site, since the more reviews, the more of a boost they give it.

Summing it Up

This Full Moon Lunar eclipse begins 6 months of the removal of elements of our lives related to late Scorpio and late Taurus. The Sun will remove all which keeps us from experiencing our connection to Source, while bringing illumination to whatever we were forced to examine or pay attention to in 2019. This will externalize in a “genuine rejuvenation” and a newer, more mature approach to expanded and deepened life possibilities.

With so many extraordinary evolutionary configurations in play, it’s going to be a magical and even playful time for many! Add that we’re training to “pick up and deliver spiritual power” at this time, with Saturn bringing forth “the child born of the Cosmic egg” promising the emergence of new developments arising from Spirit in the next chapter of our journey into Aquarian consciousness. Much of this will be clearer by March after the inner planets have made their conjunctions with Saturn.

We’re now just a few weeks from Jupiter’s third and final transit of the “Transfiguration Zone” at the end of Aquarius. We had our first pass in late April and early May, and the second pass through this zone where the Great Ages meet in August. We’ve now secured the next phase of our Aquarian adventure into our higher purpose which Saturn is helping us structure this year and next.

Saturn in Aquarius again square Uranus in Taurus represents the ongoing conflicts which will last through the Autumn of 2022, with a slight respite coming between February and July. These have flared up with transits through the first half of Taurus, Leo, and Scorpio this year, helping us sort out what’s important and what isn’t. For now, the tension is extremely strong through late January, with much coming to fulfillment in late March when Venus and Mars both conjunct Saturn in the last decan of Aquarius.

As we continue to develop the potentials indicated by Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius, we’ll see definite movement away from the ideas which dominated the old 200 year Earth Era and see more of the emergent 200 year Air Era launched at the December Solstice. This Aquarian Air Era already began to express via the conjunctions of the inner planets with Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius in January and February this year. The coming conjunctions in Aquarius will give more momentum to the emerging Air era.

Where these Aquarian conjunctions occurred in our charts show us the way to our long wave metamorphosis as we transition through the beginning of the end of the Age of Pisces, having begun a 33 year period which is a prelude to the Age of Aquarius. This transitional period requires that we ask ourselves certain questions related to our spiritual purpose, fearless as we are One with the World Soul and walk through the world but are not “of” the world.

We have been navigating the final season of humanity’s “liberating ordeal.” All of us have had opportunities to find new inner strengths and powers the past three years, as well as assistance from Devas and Angels who bring “divine help when human efforts seem to fail.” We now are in a time of receiving blessings, manifesting powers beyond normal understanding, and demonstrating how well we’re able to share with others in a spirit of nonpossessiveness.

Also remember that at this point, we’ve all reached some level on the “mountaintop” where we’ve found a “fellowship of spiritual Sisters and Brothers” we’re a part of. Demonstrate your skill, and remember that attaining the mountaintop only requires a) that we enjoy the view and accomplishment, and b) the awareness of when to begin the careful descent, since we don’t want to get caught on a mountaintop when lighting clouds are blowing in!

Having finished many old ways and now rapidly leaving behind all which doesn’t serve our momentum into our greater purpose, we now can play as we accelerate our adventure in consciousness, able to live a more purposeful life within a greater group structure. We now can embrace a new way of fulfilling Dharma, or our purpose for being alive. We are living a new identity, a new love, a new spiritual awareness, and a new spiritual expression in grounded ways, so keep your mind and heart open and keep coordinating your body, feelings, and mind to demonstrate a stable and harmonized Soul energy. That's a great part to play as we dance through life's changes!

A Meditation on Light and Shadow

Because life seems to be a never-ending experience of out-breathing elements of the past and in-breathing elements of the new, it is useful to remember that when we are moving through major changes, and something new is introduced into our lives, it means that something else must leave, or has already left, to provide space for the new to be embraced. And lesser wisdom must give way to greater wisdom, and old forms give way to newer realities. As I’ve offered before “enlightenment” is a verb more than it is a noun.

While sometimes having to say goodbye to older, lesser ways of life can be a drag, it is important to remember that even though life can occasionally be painful, we do not have to suffer. And as we learn to break the link between pain and suffering, we heal our part of humanity and the world.

For your contemplation, a final meditation I offer each month at the end of our Full Moon journey of exploration.

We are Light. All things are composed of Light in various frequencies that express as limitless forms. Some light frequencies are of greater density than others.

All shadows result from light hitting a dense object. Psychological shadows too. Therefore, it’s good to become as translucent and translucid as possible to dispel lurking shadows.

If you must look at and/or deal with shadows, whether your own or another’s, then refocus your Light on the object being illuminated, since that form is the source of the shadow.

Find the correct 4 angles of illuminating whatever you want to focus on, and all shadows will be dispelled. Then you’re seeing things with an illuminated mind, and can act accordingly.

Previous articles about this powerful and long Lunar Eclipse!

The November 2021 Partial Lunar Eclipse Full Moon of 28 Scorpio-Taurus Pt. 1 – New Connections With Source Bringing New Beginnings

The November 2021 Partial Lunar Eclipse Full Moon of 28 Scorpio-Taurus Pt. 2 – Sabian Symbols Showing the Light of Connecting to Source Expressed Through A Rebeginning

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