Putting on the Show Preparing to Express Spiritual Power

This stabilizing, heart and beauty focused Full Moon occurs at 5:29 am PDT, 1:29 pm BST on August 15, and falls at the 23rd degree of Leo and Aquarius. As with all Full Moons, use the light you’ve been seeing and expressing since the New Moon, and give it form and focus to see how to anchor those themes in expression. This is the Light of the Ruler’s power expressed in a detached higher view of training for future responsibilities.

We’re now in a creative expression of the new life, new Wisdom, and new World Teaching and have all begun some way of serving a greater good. The last Full Moon was an Eclipse in Cancer-Capricorn, beginning to shut down all that would get in the way of the new Global Wisdom we’ve become sensitive to and integrated. We’ve reoriented toward a new sense of responsibility within an organized group setup. The past 4 months have awakened our mind in significant ways which will lead us to wider truths and clarity of purpose arising from our Light.

Today’s Full Moon Eclipse post will be an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In parts 2 and 3 we’ll cover the Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.

An Overview

We’re all being pulled to some path to greater spiritual service, with a new life being awakened this Summer. We’ve been dedicating or re-dedicating ourselves to a greater truth and future, and preparing to live a new life beginning November 2019. The recent Mercury retrograde showed us a) how we were transfigured by past losses into a new heart expression, b) how we needed to accept something to fulfill a newer uninhibited heart expression, or c) how shedding old inhibitions in the past opened us to a transfigured life which created who we are today. All of these involved leaving something behind, whether past, present, or future.

This Full Moon anticipates the future while giving us echoes of understanding developed since early July. Mercury is on its retrograde stationary degree, indicating the next two weeks fulfill that theme. It also accents a compression stellium in Leo, which will fulfill itself with numerous conjunctions between the Sun, Venus, Mars, and Mercury in late August and early September. All of this fulfills the themes of 2019 as we move toward the Grand Compression leading us to radical new developments beginning January 2020!

Is the Sun Following the Moon, or the Moon Following the Sun?

There are two patterns; one is when the Full Moon Sun is the same sign as the previous New Moon Sun, and the other is when the Full Moon Sun is in the next sign from the Sun in the previous New Moon. We are now in a period when the Full Moon Sun falls in the same sign as the Sun in the previous New Moon.

We last had the Sun in the same sign in both the New Moon and Full Moon, the so-called “natural” order, between June 2016 and the late July 2017 New Moon in Leo, when the Full Moon Sun fell in the same sign as the Sun of the previous New Moon. We finished the period of the “natural” order of Lunation Suns at the August 2017 Solar Eclipse in late Leo and began the last period where the Full Moon Sun was in the sign following the New Moon Sun.

We were in this “reversed pattern” of the Sun of the Full Moon occupying the sign after the New Moon Sun for 20 months, and now are back to the “natural order” of the Sun in the New Moon being the same as the Sun in the next Full Moon. Last month the Solar Eclipse New Moon was at 11 Cancer, and the Lunar Eclipse had a Full Moon Sun at 25 Cancer. Our recent New Moon was at 9 Leo, and this Full Moon has a Sun at 23 Leo.

Since the New Moon offers us seeds in the first half of the month’s lunar cycle, and fulfillment in the second half, we now are in a sequence with the “Seed Light” of Leo coming to a Full Moon illumination through the current Sun in Leo and Moon in Aquarius. You can learn more about the recent New Moon at 9 Leo by going to The July 2019 New Moon at 9 Leo – What’s Happening in August 2019 and The July 2019 New Moon at 9 Leo – Signs, Sabian Symbols, and What it All Means.

Planetary Distribution

In this Full Moon, the span occupied by the inner planets (in this chart Mercury at 5 Leo through Mars at 29 Leo spans 23+ degrees. This span will be the focus of specific activity in our charts. When we add the nearest planet (Uranus), it expands the active span to 5 planets in 111+ degrees.

Now that the inner planets plus Mars are at the far side of the outer planet span, our occupied planetary spread extends through 6 signs. We hit maximum compression in March 2018, with all planets between Jupiter at 24 Scorpio and Uranus at 27 Aries, making a very powerful triseptile between the bookends. We’ll begin another major period of planetary compression in September, when the widest span will be between planets in Virgo and Uranus in Taurus, shifting the Locomotive element from beginning and ending in Fire to beginning and ending in Earth.

At this time we have the 10 traditional planets occupying 6 signs, in an uneven widespread distribution. Currently, the outer planet occupied span begins with Jupiter in mid Sag, then moves through Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn, Neptune in Pisces, and Uranus in early Taurus, with the inner planets now occupying Leo. In this chart the Moon in Aquarius is inside the occupied span, and with Jupiter and Mars as bookends, for the second Full Moon in a row we have a classic Locomotive Bucket Jones pattern.

We’ve now moved into a time period of shifting Jones pattern. The patterns change mainly due to the position of the Moon, and at this Full Moon, the spread also has elements of a Seesaw pattern, since it has 3 oppositions with gaps of 88 degrees on the one side and 106 degrees on the other. However, I believe the open angle between the planets in Leo with Jupiter in Sagittarius is the strongest factor, making it a Locomotive pattern.

So What is a “Locomotive Pattern” and how does it work?

This type of spread, with all the planets occupying 2/3 of the signs with an empty third, creates an imbalance that leads to power if we can find the compensatory “weight” to make things move forward smoothly rather than rock side to side creating friction. Target what is needed, and provide compensatory energies accordingly.

As Marc Jones put it, “this type of horoscope reveals a balance of this sort in the life. A third part of things… consisting of a free span in experience, is set against a two-thirds part, embracing a related but limited span in experience…. The basis of the dynamic is found in the native’s resulting strong sense of a lack or a need, of a problem to be solved, a task to be achieved in the social and intellectual world around him.”

Dr. Jones states “The temperament reveals a self-driving individuality, an executive eccentricity that is not … unbalance but rather is power. It exhibits a dynamic and exceptionally practical capacity which is neither the broad universality of the Splash pattern, nor the special obsession with some particularly narrowed aspect of experience characteristic of the Bundle people.

He goes on to state “The Locomotive classification is … moved more by external factors in the environment than by aspects of its own character. The point of application for the powers of the self is shown … by the “leading planet,” or the one of the two in the empty trine which forms its aspect clockwise in the zodiac, irrespective of any distinction as “applying” or “separating.”

As with last month’s Lunar Eclipse, in this chart Jupiter continues to be the leading planet and Mars is the closing planet in the Locomotive. Find appropriate social-spiritual Sagittarian ways to initiate experience as an adventure of discovering new truths, new understanding, and the freedom to “break on through to the other side.” When in doubt whether to play it safe or go for the new, innovative, and unusual, let your Fires burn bright and move forward with inspired confidence! Leo is the bonfire which lights up the skies for miles, so let it shine. The power of Light will be bright these next two weeks!

Allow Jupiterian wisdom, humor, vision, understanding, and the ability to dance with life to bring you to a Mars in Leo joy, enthusiasm, and heart strength, regardless of what must be left behind. Remember the adventure of a Spiritual Adult is not the imaginings of a child, and as we grow in awareness, we are offered opportunities to express our Higher Self.

Because both the leading planet and the closing planet of the Locomotive are in Fire, open through inspiration, move through the experience, and at the end come out with a greater love, nobility, and a natural and enthusiastic heart expression. Any time the planets which open and close a Locomotive are both in Fire signs, keep opening your hearts to the joyous song of life! Be light, see light, live light, express light!

As the Locomotive keeps things out of balance, Jupiter in Sag is now the front end to finding the way of initiating activity that must be accompanied by a compensatory “weight” to keep things moving forward rather than sideways. The more we work with the imbalances by elevating our view to get a broader perspective and frames of reference, the easier it will be to navigate the imbalances in this pattern and come to a different way of acting on our needs. With Sag leading, show enthusiasm as you reorient; with Leo closing, look at your life as a series of adventures where each inspiration left your heart and love stronger and able to be released into the world in effective ways.

The Rhombus

Now that Uranus went retrograde at 7 Taurus, it again makes a semisquare to Neptune, anchoring the off-again, on-again friction Rhombus Diamond configuration. We have to deal with this “cutting, grinding, and polishing” quality each time the Moon moves through the middle of the mutable signs and the end of the cardinal and beginning of the fixed signs. In this chart it’s activated by Mercury making a square to Uranus and sesquisquare to Neptune, and will be again when the Rhombus is perfected in early September as the Moon is in early Scorpio and inner planets are sesquisquare Uranus and opposed Neptune.

The perfect Rhombus Diamond is made every September when a planet is in mid-Virgo opposing Neptune at the same time another planet is opposed Uranus, with double semisquares and sesquisquares created between those planets. This creates a massive Octile frictional configuration, which was most recently activated during the late 2018 Full Moons when Venus opposed to Uranus.

This year it will be activated when the Moon is in early Scorpio on September 2-3, exactly when Venus in Virgo squares Jupiter and opposes Neptune. At that critical juncture we’ll have tremendous friction due to SEVEN planets all in conjunctions and octile series aspects to each other! That friction will continue for quite some time, since the September Harvest Full Moon at 22 Virgo-Pisces happens during Mars square Jupiter and opposed Neptune, keeping 3 legs of the Rhombus active through late September.

Is the Grand Irrationality A Factor in this Full Moon?

First, what it is. The Grand Irrationality is a phenomenon we’ve been living within since 1993. Since then, we’ve been in an extraordinarily irrational period which continues to this day. To refresh you, the Grand Irrationality is a long wave configuration set into motion every time a planet makes a conjunction, septile, biseptile, or triseptile to Neptune and/or Pluto. Septile series aspects show us points in time when our future destiny is precipitated by critical choices made in the present.

Because this configuration involved Neptune and Pluto, two powerhouse Transpersonal planetary representatives of Spirit, they have symbolized the long wave planetary crisis the entire human race has been going through since 1993. From then to now, at one point or another, everyone on Earth has experienced a nonstop energy of having to choose, at the bottom of our beings, the path to evolution or devolution, progress or regress, love or fear, joy or control. It’s why things have been so weird, irrational, and hard-edged.

The Grand Irrationality V.1 was the period when Neptune was septile Pluto. It began in 1993, was very strong and in constant movement the last 5 years of the 20th century and the first 15 years of this century. This phase has now waned, since Neptune no longer makes a forming or partile separating septile to Pluto and won’t again for many centuries.

However, we have now moved into a new phase of The Grand Irrationality! It’s not the configuration as we’ve known it since the 90s, since the Neptune part of the equation has faded into a “pulse” that is triggered after the main configuration is set into play. I explain more downstream.

Uranus began to biseptile Pluto in the Summer of 2017, briefly setting the new configuration into play. That began the current “never-ending revolution” since Uranus, the Cosmic Awakener, is dancing off and on at its “fork in the road of destiny” with Pluto, the Lord of Transformation. I term this phase The Grand Irrationality V.2!

This particular larger period in time is even stranger than it was during the Grand Irrationality V.1, since this period combines Uranus’ semisquare to Neptune with Uranus biseptile Pluto. So along with the hard edge of the Grand Irrationality involving Uranus and Pluto in a 7th harmonic aspects, we also have Uranus in an 8th harmonic frictional aspect to Neptune, another of the Transpersonal Spiritual planets!

In this chart the configuration isn’t triggered, but it will be again when Mercury transits 17-21 Leo and in September and October when the others transit 8-12 Libra. I give you all the active zones a few paragraphs down, and if you have a planet or point in one of those zones, the Wisdom Forms coming forth for you in 2019 and early 2020 will find you've navigated a fork in the road of your greater destiny, leaving you ready for a greater adventure and group work in 2020 and beyond!

Saturn’s Dance With Uranus

Saturn made the first of its long wave biseptile with Uranus between January and May 2019, bringing the configuration into mass consciousness, triggering major life changes and realignment of responsibilities! Then in June and July, Saturn made a very favorable tredecile with Uranus, while in August neither Saturn nor Pluto made septile series aspects with Uranus. In this Full Moon they are not yet in biseptile, but will be again by October, even though the configuration will be triggered in September by Mercury and Venus in the Libra zone.

What Saturn structured earlier this year is now going to be part of the larger irrational shifts in destiny indicated by the transpersonal transformational energies again in play. Saturn is giving structure to the Plutonic seeds of the zones it occupied the past few years. Each time any inner planet transits the 7 active zones, choices, changes, and forks in the road of destiny are set into motion!

The first Saturn biseptile was active in February and March, and activated a second time between late April and the end of May. These were our dress rehearsal for the third and final one happening in December. We also had a tremendous number of 7th harmonic aspects in play involving 6 planets in the Christfest Full Moon indicating this year’s World Teaching, indicating that humanity in general, and we individuals specifically, will be making major choices related to shaping our destiny this year.

More on Uranus Biseptile Pluto

We have now moved through the second major phase of radical choices and changes associated with these two planets in a 7th harmonic aspect. As I offered in May 2018 when Uranus first entered Taurus, “.... they will soon make a biseptile, guaranteed to be a very unstable and irrational time!” That prophesy has certainly played out in the news this year with trumpets blaring, thanks to other transits triggering these 7th harmonic non-rational energies.

We first encountered these very briefly in August 2017, and it went into nonstop pulses beginning at the end of June 2018 with Uranus again 101+ degrees from Pluto. This lasted through October when the orb became too wide. We experienced the return to the trielftile between December 2018 and April 2019 with the biseptile exact between May and July. Then it will come roaring back again October 2019 through December 2019.

This is the first biseptile in the larger Uranus/Pluto cycle that began at their conjunctions in the mid-1960s. The waxing septile occurred 1989-1991, so this is the next point in that larger “Pulse of Destiny.” The hot zones, measured from the October through December Uranus biseptile Pluto positions, are around 19-23 Capricorn, 11-15 Pisces, 3-5 Taurus, 24-28 Gemini, 15-19 Leo, 6-10 Libra, and 27 Scorpio- 1 Sag. If you have anything near these zones, your life has had some abrupt transformational experiences since last Summer, especially in late October and early November when Jupiter activated both Uranus and Pluto!

As I’ve offered many times during this era of the Grand Irrationality, if things don’t make sense, they don’t have to. The only thing that matters is to know how to focus and not get distracted by the craziness in the atmosphere. Sometimes, when we keep our heads when all around us are losing theirs, we come out on the other side looking and feeling good!

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn is in its home sign of Capricorn, it is the final dispositor of all planets transiting Capricorn and Aquarius from now through 2023. That makes it a dominant force through April 2022 beginning this November when Venus enters Capricorn immediately followed by Jupiter entering Capricorn for a year, after which it transits Aquarius, also ruled by Saturn. 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.

Though Saturn is no longer biseptile Uranus, we’ve begun to shape our lives through our choices since then. Saturn has been preparing us for a “role of destiny” later this year and next. We’re still rehearsing new roles for the future as part of the Saturn-Uranus “dance of individualization” in our lives and this month show “tender care” for whatever new life we’ve embraced as “a new quality of being which renders the old patterns obsolete” becomes more evident over the coming months.

I explain how these two awaken us to our Higher Powers to take conscious 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, and in Capricorn, teaches us how to construct an “organized personal structure” to the Uranian energies making our spiritual life come alive.

It 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 steer your personal evolution. You will understand how to throw off all the attitudes and memories which have held you back from finding and living the life and purpose. Through your journey of self-discovery, you can find ways to live your life on your own terms, and fulfill your purpose for being alive as an Eternal having human experiences!

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.

On A Final Note

See you in the near future with parts two and three on this Full Moon which will help us train our ego so we can “pick up and deliver spiritual power” in 2020, 2021, and 2022. We have been training for more effective group work or responsibility, and on its stationary direct degree, Jupiter shows our need to use foresight to anticipate the future and provide for future needs by acting in the present.

We are still in a time to see old losses and defeats as spiritual victories, and move into a phase of consciously anticipating what we want to see made manifest while releasing forces which when grounded in September will become powers to use effectively in 2020. We now can see the Light of focused feelings in the power to shape our expression so we can be more spiritually effective in the future.

We’ve begun training in the use of power in group circumstances, and should continue to accept responsibilities offered to us with joyous enthusiasm, since we are in a period of rapid growth. With Neptune at 18 Pisces, either revise your ideas “back to source” or put yourself and works out in the public for approval, or to attract those in your spiritual group. A new life has already begun to be made manifest, and much will be understood and renewed by early September.

Now that Jupiter is again in direct motion, the square to Neptune will be a factor in the larger atmosphere for months to come, especially given its part in the Rhombus Diamond coming in early September. If you want to know more about Jupiter square Neptune, when you’re done here please take a new look at the linked article. For the next few weeks, it will continue to put pressure on planets or points in the middle degrees of the Mutable sectors and first degrees of the Fixed sectors in our charts.

When it comes to using friction productively, remember that it takes pressure to turn carbon into diamonds. And the more skillful we become in dealing with life’s aggravations, annoyances, disruptions, and unexpected diversions, the less these are a problem in the future, and the more we are able to keep our cool in the midst of the generic atmospheric conflict. That way we can fulfill our destiny and enjoy the journey!

Again, our entry to experience during these weeks and months is the very expansive Jupiter in Sagittarius, which is now moving forward into the next phase of the approach to the Grand Mutation of 2020. Open to your Sagittarius dance with life, love, humor and freedom. Keep laughter in your heart as you move into the future, and claim your power to live a more effective life!

I’ll see you soon when we’ll discuss Sabian Symbols, aspects, and other important chart factors.

Part 2 here

© Copyright 2019 Robert Wilkinson - https://www.aquariuspapers.com
Reprinted on crystalwind.ca with persmission from Robert Wilkinson.

About the author:

Robert Wilkinson: An internationally-known astrologer, author, public speaker, metaphysician, and futurist, with over 25 years experience as a counselor and educator. He has presented hundreds of public talks on all aspects of Astrology, the Eastern Wisdom tradition, the Western Wisdom tradition and promoted many mass gatherings and cultural events. Some of his specific areas of interest and expertise include personality profiles, degree patterns, integrative astrology, various aspect harmonics, among others.

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