Thursday’s Taurus Full Moon at 5:23pm EST (22:23 UT) will not be an eclipse. Even so, the event will be something more than the midpoint of a lunation (or lunar cycle from one New Moon to the next) that all Full Moons represent. Thursday’s Full Moon also marks the midpoint of a season.
Both realistically and symbolically, the position of the Sun determines what season it is, and what point in the season you are experiencing.
There are many ways to measure the position of the Sun, but the tropical zodiac (what we use in Western astrology, and here on Planet Waves) is among the most convenient and reliable.
When the symbolic Sun entered tropical Libra on Sept. 22 (or 23, depending on your time zone), the actual Sun was appearing directly overhead at Earth’s equator. It was thus an equinox.
The Libra equinox represented the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and the initiation of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, but took place for everybody on Earth at once. For many of you, however, the seasonal change was not immediately apparent in actual experience at the time of the Libra equinox.
By now, however, nearly everybody in the northern temperate zones knows from actual experience that it’s definitely not summer anymore. Those in temperate zones South of the equator have also by now seen evidence that winter is over for them.
That’s the power of the midpoint (or what some call the ‘cross-quarter’) between season changes. What starts at an equinox (when the symbolic Sun enters cardinal Libra, or cardinal Aries) or a solstice (with solar ingress to cardinal Cancer or cardinal Capricorn) reaches a peak of expression, and a turning point about six weeks later.
For tropical astrologers that peak comes when the Sun reaches the midpoints of a fixed sign (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius). So called because the Sun in a fixed sign corresponds in practical experience with a seasonal pattern being fixed into place, after being subtly initiated when the Sun first entered the immediately previous cardinal sign.
It is not every month, or even every year, that any Full Moon will take place while the opposing Sun at the midpoint of a fixed sign. When something does not happen very often, astrologers take notice — especially when the two brightest lights in the sky reach the midpoint of their respective cycles at the same time.
It is as if a point is being made, in italics, and underlined for emphasis when the Sun and Moon deliver the same symbolic message at the same time. In this case, the message corresponds closely to political cycles in the U.S. with today being the so-called midterm elections for the national legislature. Midterm elections occur halfway between presidential elections.
It means we are at the midpoint of President Obama’s second and final four-year term of elected service. Because of how government works (or fails to work) in the U.S., the results of today’s midterm elections will largely determine what the last two years of the current presidential term will amount to.
Yet the Sun and Moon cannot be construed to correspond with the politics of any one nation. The two ‘greater lights’ can, however, be correlated with you, because the midpoint of a season happens at the same time for everybody on Earth, as does a Full Moon.
Hence the point being made by Thursday’s Taurus Full Moon must implicitly be global, at most integrating U.S. politics into a bigger picture.
The point being made by the opposed luminaries (Sun and Moon) on Thursday would be about a bigger picture including all, and excluding none. Implied would be cycles of all kinds, and how at least some of those cycles are reaching their midpoint simultaneously.
The big picture would necessarily include decision making, and possibly even side taking. From those decisions, possibly a determination of what the next two weeks of the lunar cycle, the next six weeks of the current season, and perhaps even the remainder of a longer period now halfway done could amount to.
It is as if you will be voting by what you do, or don’t do on Thursday — not as a citizen of any nation, but as a human being. A human being who is aware of how the Sun and Moon appear to move, and how (when the luminaries move in rare synchronicity) something of your own experience is implicitly synchronized with every other being on Earth.
It would be convenient if the Sun and Moon were more explicit about what’s up with the profusely illuminated confluence of their midpoints, but that’s not the way the universe works. The cosmos goes about its business showing, but not telling, to those who choose to observe and correlate.
Now that you are aware of what the luminaries will be doing on Thursday, you might want to observe and correlate yourself. What are your needs? What do you want? What has reached its peak or midpoint for you? What will your own choices and actions amount to?
Whatever the answer to those questions, imagine others asking and answering the same questions at the same time. Then, think about what the cumulative result would amount to, especially if everybody did the same as you at the same time.
From that contemplation alone, something truly significant could come on the other side of the midpoint the Sun, Moon and all of us will, one way or another, implicitly be reaching together on Thursday. Vote your conscience.
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This is so intriguing Len, because when you said “the opposing luminaries on Thursday would be about a bigger picture including all, excluding none” it made me recall Jupiter’s position in the Aries Lunar Eclipse on October 8th. Jupiter in Leo was trine Mars in Sagittarius which is ruled by Jupiter. Both Jupiter and Mars were trine the Moon in Aries who was conjunct Uranus, and because the Moon rules the masses and women in particular, this grand trine in fire had a lot to say about the citizens’ voting motivation in the U.S. elections. That eclipsed Moon made me think that U.S. citizens in general, and women specifically, were being nudged into the next cycle of becoming conscious; perhaps even a new level of consciousness.
Of course that Moon, the eclipsed one, was conjunct Uranus retrograde who was opposite the U.S . Saturn in Libra (who was conjunct the trans. Sun opposite the eclipsed Moon an Uranus) , and Saturn and Uranus both rule Aquarius which is where the U.S. Moon is, along side Pallas. This full moon though, the one in Taurus, is quincunx the U.S. Saturn and she’s no where near transiting Uranus, although trans. Uranus DOES still oppose the U.S. Saturn and even more tightly, squares the U.S. Sun.
What this Moon in Taurus also does is quincunx the Great Attractor, putting her at the apex of a yod made up of U.S Saturn and the GA; pressure for her to “adjust” coming from the taskmaster in the U.S. and the cosmos.
But about Jupiter in the lunar eclipse chart; he being the ruler of Sagittarius would affect how Mars in Sagittarius expressed his energy, and Jupiter is about “the bigger picture” after all. The eclipsed Moon (conjunct independent Uranus – AND in Aries, ruled by Mars and therefore influenced by Mars) was hiding something, as all eclipsed things do. I believe that whatever it was/is, being of an emotional nature, and being supported by Jupiter and Mars – as well as Uranus – will come to light when the votes are counted and analyzed. That would be around November 6th when the Full Taurus Moon comes clean, sans eclipse shadow. Has the “adjustment already taken place? Or will the votes themselves by “adjusted” I wonder.
Here’s the interesting thing though. The Taurus Full Moon being sextile transiting Chiron in Pisces, they therefore form a yod with the U.S. Saturn in Libra. Ah ha! The plot thickens since the Moon ALSO sextiles the U.S. Sun and Chiron ALSO trines the U.S. Sun. What a revoltin’ development this is.. . . as in Election Day Uranus square U.S. Sibly Sun, or eclipsed Moon conjunct Uranus.
My guess is that more women will have vote “independently”, that is, not influenced by family and friends as much as in the past. I believe more women then ever before will be elected to state, local and national positions in office. I believe this election was as much about equality between men and women as about Republicans, Democrats or Independents.
A thorough study of the election day chart , the eclipses and now Thursday’s full moon reveals a lot of strategy on the part of the goddesses (remember the solar eclipse when Pallas and Venus were conjunct the eclipsed Sun, along with the Moon?). In this Taurus full moon chart Pallas in Scorpio is sextile Mars in Capricorn and they form a yod with the U.S. Uranus in Gemini. It is a concerted effort on the part of the Universe, along with the gods and goddesses of the Pantheon, to get us human beings over the hump (or is it a road block?) and change is a must. It’s just part of the bigger picture folks.
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I want to build a house I can pull behind a bike so I can quit this crazy making stress of having to move on every time a landlord decides to change the scene. If my house is on wheels, who cares? I made a gofundme page for it. Is it proper to post a link here? I feel the change of season seeping into my bones and making my guitar damp cause plastic tents are not proper shelter for this bio region. Gentrification of my home has been driving me from shelter to shelter ever since I left my mother’s house in the 90’s. I’ve had enough of this. Bamboo skeleton, plywood walls, heavy plastic insulation, coffee can sized rocket stove inside so it stays dry, can be fueled by twigs, not logs. Then my guitar stays dry and I can practice without having to shelter in a house with a bunch of other noisy people. Plastic tents are not proper shelter in a rain forest.
Barbara: Thank you so much for the time and effort you spent giving us a treasure trove of response. Yes, i remember that fire trine with the Aries total lunar eclipse – it seems so long ago, but that’s what eclipses do to one’s sense of time (and we still get good mileage in the bargain). i hope you are correct about the astrology of that eclipse raising consciousness as well – seems as though it would work that way. Thank you also for bringing your mastery of the yod aspect and the US chart (where transiting Uranus is hopefully opening some eyes).
wandering-yeti: i got clearance for you to post your link here, so please do so – and good luck on getting that mobile and dry shelter together for you and your guitar. Thank you for asking, and thank you for being part of Planet Waves.
I hope that when transiting Uranus moves on from making these challenging aspects to the Sibly chart, that will be the beginning of the end for the wingnut movement. Really, I do hope so.
i’m with you entirely in that sentiment, Amy.
the election is over… *sigh
http://www.gofundme.com/gm5jqc
There’s the link. Thanks for letting me post here. I plan to make my designs open source once this is done and as I go. I’d really like to demonstrate that warm and dry shelter can be small and light. Insulation takes the place of big fire. Downsize the fire, less pollution.
very cool, yeti! good luck — and i love the idea of making your designs open source once you get the project going.
Thank you Len. And thank you wandering Yeti. I am inspired by you both for your awareness and representation of what this Full Moon means and brings. I now clearly perceive the crisis (cross) of the circumstances, which seem similar to yours Yeti, and illuminated I am in facing them. Although there was temporary value in the first half of this lunation, I now realize the ‘full’ weight of the situations I have had to let go of. And, strangly it seems my actions have bounced me right back to where I started as you noted Len, Sept 22. Poof!
But with discernment, I understand the force of release in what is now obsolete, is in this “big picture pattern cycle” (thank you Len) (and as you so beautifully demonstrate wandering yeti), in our strength to persevere we can move onto the next phase of the disseminating Moon as it Full makes way for new growth and development in the following cycle.
Likewise, Moon by then she will be in my 9th. I am prayerful the balance, harmony, assurance and confidence, I am striving for now and Ganna need, will be amplified by then. It wil take some universal love, tolerance and cooperation from others out there. And again, I am presevere to give, while same time praying to be accepted to recieve.
P. Sophia: Thank you for sharing your illumination in such a supportive way. We hope you feel likewise supported here, and that today’s Taurus Full Moon was realized in a healthy balance of stimulus and gratification.