All the oppositions we find in life are symbolized by the interplay between these two energies. The question always is: what will we do with it? Choose wisely this year.
This Libra Full Moon comes while the Sun is in Aries – Mars the warrior god and Venus, Goddess of Beauty, Sexuality and Love rule these two signs. Sun in Aries like Mars’ energy is aggressive and playful, inquisitive and impetuous. But there’s also assertive leadership and courage under the bad boy image.
The Moon reflects Venus in Libra, and can be seductive, social, intelligent and talented. Just as the Sun and Moon are often mythically paired as lovers, so are Venus and Mars.
Venus is the one who tames the wild warrior spirit, the one who can take the war out of the warrior. Mars gives Venus strength and courage and a renewed sense of herself.
When combined, the power of love can’t be beat. When we use Venus’ ability to connect to Mars in a loving and enchanting way, we can bring out his best qualities. He will protect and defend the land and those people he loves. It’s not false patriotism, fueled by hatred or rhetoric. It’s will and desire at the service of life. It’s Aragon and Arthur. It’s Cleopatra and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The Full Moon is supported by the Aquarian planets we’ve been discussing for the past year, adding their vision of unity and cooperation to the balance between self and other. Ideals need to come back into vogue.
The continuing energetic shift happening through the Uranus/Saturn opposition – the opening mantra for the Cosmic Story of change – gets kicked into high gear by this full Moon. >Mars in Pisces just opposed Saturn in Virgo and will be uniting with Uranus in Pisces in a few days. More on that below.
The Sabian symbol for the Sun at 20 Aries is: A young girl feeding birds in winter. A new feminine attitude of nurturing and caring for life’s spiritual insights during times of death and lack will enhance life. The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 20 Libra is: A Jewish rabbi in a tiny room full of manuscripts and books, performing his Duty. This concerns the power of the Word to transform consciousness. Through the lens of our spiritual paths, which includes ancient wisdom as well as inner experience, we know what we have to do. If our purpose is to feed the birds (spiritual messengers or intuitions) in our lives, make sure you have a firm understanding of the power of words to enlighten, to enthrall, to heal or to hurt.
What truths have finally hit home for you?
How will that change your life?
This Libra Full Moon has its ruler, Venus, still retrograde in Aries. She’s being purified in new fire, truly reborn. The Cosmic story says we need to understand love and connection differently. We need to have a strong love of Self as well as a strong love of the Other to help us in this transformative time of change in the world.
We have problems that need solving, as well as the wisdom to solve them. But will we do it?
Mars is traveling through Pisces, and coming into range of his April 15 conjunction with Uranus. What did you do on 4/4/2009? When Mars is in Pisces, he dissolves back into the ocean of the collective unconscious, and resurrected when he re-emerges in Aries on April 22. What have we learned about our relationships since last September? How do we measure up when we relate to others? What habits and stuck feelings need to be released? Especially anger, resentment and fear.
The old Venus/Mars cycle will end when Venus and Mars unite again on April 21, just after Venus goes direct at 30 Pisces. At the very last degree of the zodiac. This is a marker for change. This conjunction of Venus and Mars will work its magic in the waters of the collective unconscious. Watch for what develops in your life! With Mars in Pisces, about to re-emerge in Aries after a date with Venus, we will be picking up the speed of change as he touches both Saturn and Uranus. How did that dissolving masculine energy bear the tension of opposing Saturn in Virgo? Saturn will bring up old patterns and either set you struggling again, or if you let Mars dissolve the old patterns, Saturn and Mars together can build new ones. Once again, old vs. new.
When Mars joins with Uranus on April 15, be open to surprise. Of course, how you meet it makes all the difference. Surprise can bring us joy or knock us to our knees. If you find yourself on your knees, pray. There’s always another way to look at your situation. Think outside the Box!
Just imagine -Maybe none of us will have to pay our taxes this year! Maybe the IRS will be dissolved. That would be a vision I’d vote for! If not that, just remember, this is a moment of awakening. Mars is being brought back to life, quickened by the archetypal heavens of Uranus and carried in the ancient ocean of the collective unconscious.
This very act gave birth to Venus/Aphrodite! If you haven’t noticed already, there’s a cosmic pattern playing out in the night skies. These two planets will flirt, dance and make love to each other over the next few months. First on April 21, and a second time for good luck on June 21 – Summer Solstice – at 15 Taurus, a critical degree which forms a power gate for manifestation. The energies of love and desire will be changing, connecting, blending and transforming. The only way to get this energy into the world is through you. So start dancing!
If Mars/Aries self-interest isn’t tempered by Venus/Libra/connectedness, we most probably will mess things up. Again. But that’s only if we refuse Love. Once we balance our Will with our Love, we’ll find different options and greater understanding of life. Then the real creativity can begin!
from Cathy Lynn Pagano
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then from the email by Jose, Lena, Stephanie and Pat
The Full Moon is Thursday, April 9 at 7:56 AM Arizona time and PDT which is 8:56 AM Mountain Daylight Time. The full moon will occur 19 degrees of Libra.
This is a great time to honor and appreciate what you value in yourself and in others. Change your focus to think of having an experience rather than doing something. Celebrate who you are rather than what you do. Practice seeing others for who they are rather than for what they do.
A beautiful Libra Moon ruled by Venus aligns opposite the Aries Sun at 19º. Libra is the sign of relationship, partnership, the other. Symbolized by the Scales, Libra seeks harmony, balance, cooperation. It is considerate, agreeable, diplomatic, tactful, artistic, refined, and beautiful. Creating and seeing harmony and beauty in the outer world equates with calm in their inner world. A cardinal (initiating), air (yang) sign stands opposite Aires representing the continuum of Self and Other. It is Libra-The sign of opposites and complements. Marriage, friendship, business partnership, relationship in all form is the core of Libra's world. Here is the opportunity to deepen your relationships and speak your truth and give love a voice. Be mindful of what you have projected outward onto the 'other' - your partner, work or neighbor. Libra in the negative pole can be unsure, indecisive-seeing all points of view and unable to choose, indifferent, giving away power to others, vain.
Checking the aspects to the Full Moon, we are gifted by the conjunction of Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron between 20-25º Aquarius (air) trining the Full Moon in Libra (air). Also there are two quintiles (72º- relationship of the creative, dividing the circle into 5) from Pluto and the South Node to the Full Moon lending itself to creatively drawing on our inherent gifts (of the past) to evolve, transform and regenerate the basic structures that support our society and ourselves especially in government, financial institutions, community, and personally in our careers (Pluto in Capricorn). What do we want our society to stand for? (Capricorn). This is a question for serious contemplation now. The Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron configuration is supplying us with a portal of hope, optimism and inspiration until the end of the year to envision how we would like our world to be. An opportunity to work collectively with the Quantum Field is presenting itself to us through this Aquarian grouping. Next year we will need this vision to sustain the challenges from Pluto to the ongoing opposition of Uranus and Saturn. Our work is rebuilding all areas of our lives by replacing hierarchies with cooperation. Releasing and healing the victim energies that hierarchies engender will make available inspiration and solutions to the seeming crisis/opportunities that are before us. Feed the new, innovative parts of yourself; don't dwell on what has dropped away; that's an energy leak. Things really aren't going back to the way they were. Yea!
Mercury, newly moved into Taurus, has us thinking about our resources and what we value. Venus is squaring Pluto three times this spring (Feb.5, April 3, May 2). The god of capitalism/consumerism has sown the seeds of its own self-destruction. We are feeling into our new relationship to what we value and what 'wealth' is. People are fearful and self-doubting as they come up against a collective constriction in havingness or external lack. As we cultivate our inner resources unlocking what we love and what stirs our passions, guided by spiritual Neptune and philosophical Jupiter in Aquarius with Chiron bridging between the tangible and cosmic world, external materialism becomes diminished and much less important compared to the inner wealth we feel when working together in community and for the common good of each other and the planet. Like being in the birth canal, fear in restricted places (or times) points to an unknown world emerging beyond. Use the power of the Libra Full Moon to balance and deepen your life and relationships with creativity and intimacy. Assist others.
The Full Moon is Thursday, April 9 at 7:56 AM Arizona time and PDT which is 8:56 AM Mountain Daylight Time. The full moon will occur 19 degrees of Libra.
This is a great time to honor and appreciate what you value in yourself and in others. Change your focus to think of having an experience rather than doing something. Celebrate who you are rather than what you do. Practice seeing others for who they are rather than for what they do.
A beautiful Libra Moon ruled by Venus aligns opposite the Aries Sun at 19º. Libra is the sign of relationship, partnership, the other. Symbolized by the Scales, Libra seeks harmony, balance, cooperation. It is considerate, agreeable, diplomatic, tactful, artistic, refined, and beautiful. Creating and seeing harmony and beauty in the outer world equates with calm in their inner world. A cardinal (initiating), air (yang) sign stands opposite Aires representing the continuum of Self and Other. It is Libra-The sign of opposites and complements. Marriage, friendship, business partnership, relationship in all form is the core of Libra's world. Here is the opportunity to deepen your relationships and speak your truth and give love a voice. Be mindful of what you have projected outward onto the 'other' - your partner, work or neighbor. Libra in the negative pole can be unsure, indecisive-seeing all points of view and unable to choose, indifferent, giving away power to others, vain.
Checking the aspects to the Full Moon, we are gifted by the conjunction of Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron between 20-25º Aquarius (air) trining the Full Moon in Libra (air). Also there are two quintiles (72º- relationship of the creative, dividing the circle into 5) from Pluto and the South Node to the Full Moon lending itself to creatively drawing on our inherent gifts (of the past) to evolve, transform and regenerate the basic structures that support our society and ourselves especially in government, financial institutions, community, and personally in our careers (Pluto in Capricorn). What do we want our society to stand for? (Capricorn). This is a question for serious contemplation now. The Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron configuration is supplying us with a portal of hope, optimism and inspiration until the end of the year to envision how we would like our world to be. An opportunity to work collectively with the Quantum Field is presenting itself to us through this Aquarian grouping. Next year we will need this vision to sustain the challenges from Pluto to the ongoing opposition of Uranus and Saturn. Our work is rebuilding all areas of our lives by replacing hierarchies with cooperation. Releasing and healing the victim energies that hierarchies engender will make available inspiration and solutions to the seeming crisis/opportunities that are before us. Feed the new, innovative parts of yourself; don't dwell on what has dropped away; that's an energy leak. Things really aren't going back to the way they were. Yea!
Mercury, newly moved into Taurus, has us thinking about our resources and what we value. Venus is squaring Pluto three times this spring (Feb.5, April 3, May 2). The god of capitalism/consumerism has sown the seeds of its own self-destruction. We are feeling into our new relationship to what we value and what 'wealth' is. People are fearful and self-doubting as they come up against a collective constriction in havingness or external lack. As we cultivate our inner resources unlocking what we love and what stirs our passions, guided by spiritual Neptune and philosophical Jupiter in Aquarius with Chiron bridging between the tangible and cosmic world, external materialism becomes diminished and much less important compared to the inner wealth we feel when working together in community and for the common good of each other and the planet. Like being in the birth canal, fear in restricted places (or times) points to an unknown world emerging beyond. Use the power of the Libra Full Moon to balance and deepen your life and relationships with creativity and intimacy. Assist others.
