The January 2023 Full Moon of 17 Capricorn-Cancer Pt. 3

Thursday, 05 January 2023 Written by Robert Wilkinson

Aspects, Evolutionary Configurations, and More.

The next two weeks is a time to release our inhibitions, open to growth, and be honest and good natured in accepting responsibility.

This Full Moon fulfills the Capricorn New Moon themes of honesty, finding how we want to represent ourselves in our world, learning caution in the use of force, and finding gratitude and appreciation for the opportunities we have to grow in safety and relative comfort. As the New Moon Venus was at 17 Capricorn, this Full Moon illuminates those Venusian likes and appreciations which will be explored for a while thanks to the Inferior Conjunction about to happen on that exact degree!

Evolutionary Configurations

This month we have three evolutionary configurations, two involving the Lunation and the other being the Grand Irrationality. This Lunation is liberating and totally growth oriented with a lot of harmony and not much interfering with the “signals of faith” which are pronounced in this Lunation. This month the configurations are:

1) The Lunation is extremely powerful due to the three oppositions going on, with two of them creating a tightly focused “Axis of Awareness” being cut into a sextile and trine by Uranus. This is extraordinarily favorable and generates a void in Scorpio, showing it’s a great time to let go of old ideas and interpretations to find new radiance and a deeper connection with Source. In fact, that connection we’ve been cultivating for a couple of months is exactly what we’ll need to use in gentle simple ways.

2) The second configuration involves the Lunation opposition being cut into a specializing decile and biquintile by Saturn. This is the final Capricorn specialization relative to the Sun’s cycle with Saturn, and the Moon’s emergent biquintile. These together create 10 zones of high interactive specialization where unique gifts and blessings will come forth, with exceptional power in the late Leo zone. These very serendipitous zones are around 1 Libra/Aries, 3-7 Scorpio/Taurus, 9-13 Sagittarius/Gemini, 15-19 Capricorn/Cancer, 21-25 Aquarius/Leo, and 27-30 Pisces/Virgo.

Mars and Jupiter aren’t full participants even though Mars is in the Gemini zone and Jupiter’s just past the Aries zone. The Moon is novile Mars and binovile Jupiter, and Mars is bielftile Jupiter even though tredecile Saturn. The first three aspects put Mars on the fringes and Jupiter out of the configuration except for the quintiles to the Sun and Mercury which stretch the zone to 3 Aries.

3) The third evolutionary configuration (as usual) involves the Grand Irrationality. In this chart we find Uranus is again septile Neptune, anchoring the general irrationality in the collective atmosphere. This is a configuration showing us “forks in the road of destiny,” and will primarily affect planets or points we have near 1-5 Aquarius, 22-26 Pisces, 14-18 Taurus, 5-9 Cancer, 26-30 Leo, 18-22 Libra, and 10-14 Sagittarius. The next time this will be stimulated will be when the Sun and Mercury transit the Aquarius zone in late January and mid-February, making a septile to Neptune and a biseptile to Uranus.

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) was 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 aspect configurations associated with “forks in the road of destiny” 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 definitely triggers this “Seven-Pointed Star of Destiny” wherever we have the middle degrees of Libra!

While not configurations, I want to give a special nod to the Inferior Conjunction, since this one provides mutual assistance to both Mercury and the Sun regarding the aspects they make. What is separating by the Sun is brought back into play by Mercury, and aspects Mercury made in the recent past are now activated by the Sun.

Major Aspects

Besides the various aspects I gave you related to the evolutionary configurations, forming (or partile separating) inner planet aspects include the Moon opposition Mercury, pentelftile Venus, novile Mars, biseptile Jupiter and trine Neptune; Mercury is vigintile Venus, quintile Jupiter, and bielftile Neptune; Venus is vigintile the Sun, trine Mars, vigintile Saturn, and semisquare Neptune; and the Sun is quintile Jupiter, bielftile Neptune, and widely conjunct Pluto.

Outer planet aspects include Mars bielftile Jupiter, tredecile Saturn, and quindecile Uranus; Jupiter is novile Saturn, semisquare Uranus, and bielftile Pluto; Saturn is binovile Uranus, semisextile Neptune and quindecile Pluto; and Uranus is again septile Neptune and tredecile Pluto.

Friction is fairly light this month due to 3 oppositions and 2 semisquare, one of which is rapidly fading. Keep maintaining calm, sense the friction to know what isn’t yours to own, and as with the last few weeks, remember the old answers cannot help us secure the new conditions. Develop a larger social sense, focus your feelings in order to know what to do, and don’t worry about what you’re not a part of. Tap into the “hidden assets of life” and be willing to get out beyond the known and familiar.

This month features many more spiritual aspects than last month. In the series related to destiny and “fate,” we find only 1 septile and 1 biseptile. In the 9th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, we have 2 noviles and 1 binovile. In the 11th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, we have a HUGE number of aspects, including 4 bielftiles and a pentelftile. The specializing aspect series also provides a HUGE number of aspects, including 3 vigintiles, 2 quindeciles, 2 deciles, 2 quintiles, 2 tredeciles, and 2 biquintiles.

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 novile (9th harmonic), septile (7th harmonic) and elftile (11th harmonic) series all feature spiritual aspects. All novile series (9th harmonic) aspects represent entry or exit points of periods of gestation which can bring forth possible spiritual developments. These aspects indicate things which need to be put on the shelf for a while, or that which has been gestating can now move forward. They represent gestative energies that can lead to great spiritual realizations.

Septile series aspects represent forks in the road of destiny, where we make choices determining karmic future developments. This series is ruled by Saturn, where we create and fulfill karma by our choices during those phase shifts. The 11th harmonic elftile series aspects involve situations where there is a need to transcend and master some form of duality by making a leap of faith. In transcending those dualistic situations, dilemmas, challenges, and thinking, we resolve the problem and learn techniques of mastering those sorts of dualities in the future. This series tests our faith. Both the 7th and 11th series involve non-rational aspect values, bringing an element of irrationality in behavior and circumstances.

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

We’ve had a long run of eclipses which continue to affect us. 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.

In 2021 we had the usual 4 eclipses. The May Lunar eclipse was at 6 Sagittarius, the June Solar eclipse was at 20 Gemini, the November Full Moon was a Lunar eclipse at 28 Taurus, and the December New Moon was a Solar eclipse at 13 Sagittarius.

In 2022, we have had 4 eclipses. We had an April Solar eclipse at 11 Taurus and the May Wesak Festival Lunar eclipse at 26 Scorpio. We just had our October Partial Solar eclipse at 2 Scorpio and now have experienced the November Total 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. The June 2021 Gemini eclipse is removing old ideas, while the Dec 2021 Sag eclipse is removing blocks to our seeing a new identity.

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, 20 Gemini and 13 Sagittarius. 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 2022 - On The Threshold of a Total Lunar Eclipse at 17 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 less balanced element distribution than previous Lunations. At this time, of the traditional 10 planets, there are 2 in Water signs, 1 planet in Fire , 4 in Earth, and 3 in Air. This makes Earth (Practicality and Grounding) and Air (Relatedness and Communications) preponderant, with a lesser degree of Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels) with Jupiter providing the only Fire (Inspiration and Light).

Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, it’s very cool! 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 this distribution, we get a vast view from the top of a cold mountain with a small hot springs about a mile down the slope.

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 begins a new pattern which will shifts almost immediately with the Inferior Conjunction. For now, 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 decisions and actions, followed by thinking, communicating, envisioning and finding a new view of things, and then feeling what we’ve done and seen.

This pattern leads with their decisions. They assess what needs to be done and then do it. Efficient, practical decisions and actions lead the way, followed by new information, new understanding, new vision, new communications, and new ways of interacting that helps us get clear about something. This is a “get it done” pattern which acts decisively to get to a vision or understanding.

Following this thinking and envisioning function, we will need to reference our feelings and what we’re experiencing as a result of those insights, memories, understanding, or vision. After we decide or act and then think, we then need to go deep within to feel the implications of those ideas and visions. This is a highly effective pattern but tends to blow through experience without taking time to feel it.

So, get it in gear, act on the facts at hand, and then go get new information or new ways of seeing things. After that, feel your feelings and check in about how you’re experiencing those thoughts, or that information or vision. Make a decision, get the view you need, and then name how and what you’re feeling. If you’re in doubt as to what to do, reference your feelings and not your ideas.

The only caution is not to get hung up by Mercury retrogrades need for ever more information, more rehearsals, more research, more points of view and ultimately too much information which hinders action. Decide, get the information, and then experience what you’ve just seen, understood, or formulated.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because this Full Moon has Saturn as a major ruling force bringing specialization to the table along with teaching us genuine dispassion, this should continue our training in putting difficult past experiences to good use in teaching others who also are dealing with those things. This Lunation is about education and taking responsibility as we organize and reorganize parts of our life and let go of inhibiting factors.

Saturn, our “spiritual teacher and spiritual friend” continues to occupy center stage in its home sign of Aquarius. And with both Mercury and Venus in Saturn-ruled signs, it is the main stage manager in the play of Life. So, Saturn’s on center stage at this first Full Moon of 2023 as a factor in how we express our Capricorn and Aquarius sectors and any natal or progressed planets we have in those signs.

Though Saturn can feel heavy and bring heavy life lessons, it also in the part of us which can take charge 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. Now we know what matters and what doesn’t. Uranus has awakened us to new roles to play, while Saturn has “lightened up” in Aquarius and having brought us new mutations and an accelerated evolution, we now get to show strength and resilience as we are tested to “pick up and deliver spiritual power.”

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 us to the fact that the old answers aren’t enough along with the need to accept spiritual power to shape our world, 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.

And now, on a related note….

Because Venus is extremely powerful in this chart, harmonizing with Mars with both in Air signs and unafflicted by any planet, it’s a great time to learn how we’ve been socialized by our ancestors as well as friends. This can be a wellspring of knowledge, but also frustrating since Uranus is showing us the inadequacy of past knowledge in meeting current necessities.

As Venus is leading the way through Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries this year, it will be helpful to learn all you can about Venus’ power to create better relationships in the future, where we’re attracting friends with whom we can have fun and a sense of genuine fellowship.

If you want to see why you have attracted the friends and Soul Mates throughout your life, as well as learn why some of them had to move on, please consider getting a copy of my newest book, The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames. If you want to know more about Venus and why we like or don’t like the people and things we do, this is the book for you! You will understand the foundations of long term healthy relationships and friendships, why Soul Mates come into our lives, and how to know the difference between a Soul Mate and our Twin Flame.

It has chapters on the qualities of each sign’s natural mate, the qualities of Venus in each sign, and when crucial choices and changes are made, affecting who we attract in the future. It was written for both astrologers and lay people, and as it has a thousand gems for better relationships, with self, others, and Source, please consider getting your copy by going to the link above! (And when you’re done, please leave a review on Amazon, since it helps the book and all other books on astrology as well!)

Summing it Up

We’re now in a period of preparing to leap forward in the immediate future with Mars going direct, and Mercury giving us one last retrograde look at how much we learned in 2022. This is a time to release, let go, and grow in a natural way. We now have learned genuine dispassion and vision of who we are and what we’re here to do, even if the “final transfiguration” is yet to come.

Because Mars is now direct, use your “Zen archer” skills to take aim at whatever social or emotional breakthroughs you’ve had the past few weeks, and know that many interactive gifts and blessings were set into motion these past 4 months which will be redeemed in the near future. Use the retrograde Mercury to see how you got to where you’re at, and how the responsibilities of the past have brought you to the present.

We’re still riding the new wave created by Mars conjunct Jupiter at 4 Aries in late May, learning ways to have fun naturally and being spontaneous as we eliminate negative energy and stuck feelings which leave us discontent. We are promised a new level of focused spiritual expression by Jupiter in Aries and had our dress rehearsal between May and October. We’re now launching the vision we were shown in November and early December which is accelerating by the day. Just remember to have fun as you learn to dance into your future rather than be bogged down by the past.

Because Capricorn shows us the way to personal power and effectiveness in some prominent social role, this is a time to take responsibility, prepare to take responsibility, or remember how we took responsibility in the past. As the old answers can’t confirm the new conditions, take a look around and see if some views or ideas need revision. Be warm and friendly as you go deeper, trusting “the god within” as you release yourself from old inhibitions.

We are finishing our practicum of utilizing spiritual power effectively in the context of our response to the global Wisdom released in May and June. As we develop the potentials set into motion when Jupiter and Saturn conjuncted 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 2020 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 2021, with those pulses renewed this year with more Aquarius conjunctions, especially the Venus conjunction Mars at 1 Aquarius on March 6, reinforcing the themes of the Grand Mutation.

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 getting over our preconceptions and cultivating true fellowship.

In the past 2 years, 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!

Shedding old skins, we are being released from all which doesn’t serve our momentum into our greater purpose. This is the heart of a global acceleration in transforming those who are part of a greater service and group work. Embrace 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 in this series:

Here’s part 2: The January 2023 Full Moon of 17 Capricorn-Cancer Pt. 2 – Sabian Symbols Showing the Light of Release Expressed As A Power to Grow

Here's part 1: The January 2023 Full Moon of 17 Capricorn-Cancer Pt. 1 – Reviewing and Reconsidering Many Things

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