TRANSCRIPT Ep. 260 | Aries Full Moon: A Spicy Grand Cross!
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Hey Invisible Buddy, April right here, and the date right this moment is October 14th, 2024. Welcome to Episode 260 of the Large Sky Astrology Podcast. This week, Venus finishes her journey via Scorpio with a sequence of conferences with Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, after which enters the wide-open areas of Sagittarius. The Solar squares Mars on its method to a brilliant spicy Aries Full Moon, and I reply a listener query about working with the cycles of transiting planets in a manner just like the cycles of the Moon.
Solar sq. Mars (Oct. 14, 2024, 1:15 am PDT)
The Solar in Libra squares Mars in Most cancers on October 14th at 1:15 am Pacific Time. That is a facet that encourages us to push ourselves ahead, to essentially make ourselves seen, and listened to, and paid consideration to. That isn’t all the time one thing that the Solar in Libra does. It’s extra apt to let others take their flip first.
However when the Solar in Libra is squared this Mars in Most cancers, we are going to see it being a little bit extra self-promotional. And even when we attempt to be sort and well mannered about the way in which we assert ourselves, a sq. to Mars suggests, on the very least, a battle with these round us, which Libra actually doesn’t love.
Neither the Solar in Libra nor Mars in Most cancers are usually actually upfront about what they’re considering or feeling, except they’re actually pushed. So, the sq. facet between them undoubtedly offers us a couple of days out of this week after we’re a little bit extra apt to strenuously assert ourselves and our positions.
Venus opposed Uranus (Oct. 14, 2024, 3:22 pm PDT)
Venus opposes Uranus on October 14th at 3:22 PM Pacific Time. This brings collectively the planet of enjoyment and sweetness and relationship with the planet of the sudden. So, we frequently say that when Venus comes along with Uranus, we would see sudden developments in relationships, sudden monetary windfalls or expenditures. There’s undoubtedly that and we are going to simply have to attend and see.
The opposition facet specifically typically factors to the way in which we examine ourselves with others. So, we might encounter anyone or one thing in our lives that reveals us a recent and really completely different manner of being and going via the world.
Personally, I’m an enormous fan of Venus in Scorpio. I like its depth. I like that when it cares about one thing, it cares 100%. Any planet in Scorpio, nevertheless, can tend, if it’s not cautious, to veer in direction of the shadow aspect of issues, and continuously be looking for negativity, or unhealthy issues that might occur.
When Venus in Scorpio comes along with Uranus, an individual or a scenario or a narrative can come our manner that reveals us the potential for interacting with the world in a manner that’s extra trusting. Or being keen to take individuals at face worth as a substitute of being very suspicious about their motives. Uranus is about change, nevertheless it doesn’t all the time imply that we get lifted up and thrown again down once more. It may be much more refined. It may imply that our aesthetic adjustments, that our manner of appreciating the world undergoes an alteration. It may imply too that you probably have habits which might be associated to relationship or the way in which you cope with your funds, the opposition to Uranus can convey an affect into your life that reveals you ways to do this in a different way.
You probably have it in your thoughts that you just’re by no means going to do nicely financially, or that you just aren’t fated to have an excellent relationship, then seeing anyone who’s similar to you in lots of methods however is dealing with cash rather well, or possibly is in a really pleased relationship, that may be an actual eye opener, and it may be a portal opening so as so that you can have a distinct perspective on how this stuff may be for you in your life.
Venus trine Neptune (Oct. 15, 2024, 5:49 pm PDT)
Venus trines Neptune on October fifteenth at 5:49 pm Pacific Time. They’re at 27º 51’ Scorpio and Pisces. I very very like Venus’ Sabian image, 28 Scorpio, The king of the fairies approaching his area. And Neptune is on 28 Pisces, A fertile backyard underneath the Full Moon. And these are a few actually lovely and, within the case of the King of the Fairies, a little bit bit whimsical, symbols. And coming collectively in such a pleasant facet, Venus and Neptune, and specifically being in water indicators, Scorpio and Pisces, create a really beautiful planetary atmosphere for creating artwork of any sort. And each these planets are about love and particularly falling deeply in love in that dreamy, passionate manner that we’ve got after we first meet somebody that we’re actually drawn to.
This may also be an excellent facet for taking some alone time for the inventive work that’s symbolized by Venus and Neptune. When you’re an artist, for those who’re a musician, for those who’re a author, it is a fantastic facet for doing all of that work. It can really feel particularly pleasurable as a result of generally after we do inventive work, we’re pleased to have finished it when it’s completed, nevertheless it generally feels a little bit bit extra like work than pleasure. This transit brings the pleasure.
Aries Full Moon (Oct. 17, 2024, 4:26 am PDT)
And now for the Moon Report. And it begins with the Aries Full Moon on October seventeenth at 4:26 am Pacific Time. This Full Moon is at 24º35’ Aries, with the Solar on the similar diploma of Libra. The chart for this Full Moon is fairly dramatic, and a Full Moon is dramatic in and of itself. It’s the time of the lunar cycle when the Moon is at its brightest and when every little thing is revealed. Full Moons are usually instances when one thing that we’ve got not seen heretofore could make itself seen and recognized.
At this Full Moon, The Solar and Moon, after all, are opposed to one another in Aries and Libra, however they’re each squared by Mars and Most cancers, which is opposed Pluto in Capricorn. So we’ve got a configuration that is named a Cardinal Grand Cross, the place the Solar, Moon, Mars, and Pluto are all having it out with one another.
Every of them in one of many cardinal indicators, Aries, Most cancers, Libra, or Capricorn. And the explanation that indicators of the identical modality, cardinal, fastened, or mutable, typically don’t get alongside too nicely, is that every of them desires to do the identical job. And in the case of the cardinal indicators, every of them desires to be the initiator.
When we’ve got Mars opposing Pluto, we see energy struggles. And likewise Pluto is that breaking down affect. I feel it’s being revealed at this Full Moon precisely what’s being damaged down. Possibly it’s a consequence of that Libra eclipse that we had on October 2nd. Possibly a lot additional again than that. Possibly from the time Pluto entered Capricorn, again in late 2008. And now it’s ending up its last stand in Capricorn.
The Moon in Aries likes to behave on its impulses. It principally has no persistence. So that is normally a Full Moon the place we wish to take some form of dramatic motion in response to one thing that we change into conscious of. We have to attempt to take some deep breaths earlier than reacting instinctively to disappointing conditions round today, or particularly these conditions symbolized by Mars and Pluto, the place we would have the sense that anyone is attempting to regulate us, or have extra energy over us. This appears like a really unstable Full Moon. A reasonably spectacular state of affairs. Simply on this planet round you on a day-to-day foundation, you would possibly discover greater than the standard examples of individuals stepping into quarrels or disagreeing with one another about issues and never with the ability to see eye to eye.
Lunar Part Household Cycle
That is the Full Moon in a lunar section household cycle that started on April nineteenth, 2023, at a New Moon photo voltaic eclipse that fell at 29º 50’ Aries.
And I can do not forget that being a very necessary eclipse that had individuals fairly ruffled. The issues that had been put into place at that New Moon, and specifically, Aries issues – the way in which by which we wish to transfer ahead in our personal life, in our personal manner, and what was initiated then, or the seeds that had been planted at that New Moon, at the moment are working themselves out over a three-year interval on this lunar section household cycle. So, it is a crucial cycle as a result of it started with a photo voltaic eclipse.
The First Quarter Moon on this cycle was on January seventeenth, 2024, when motion was taken about what was initiated at that eclipse, and now we’re on the Full Moon, the place issues are revealed, and it’s not shocking, actually, we’ve got such a contentious chart for this Full Moon as a result of the origins of this lunar section household cycle had been in that very intense photo voltaic eclipse.
The Final Quarter on this cycle shall be on July seventeenth, 2025, and that’s after we look again over your entire cycle and attempt to achieve some perspective on the place we start and the place we’re ending up.
Void-of-Course Moon intervals
Let’s have a look at the Void-of-Course Moon intervals for this week. On October fifteenth, the Moon in Pisces sextiles Pluto and Capricorn at 1 pm Pacific Time, is Void-of-Course for 34 minutes, after which enters Aries at 1:34 pm. Sextile points convey alternatives or invites. The invitation right here is to let ourselves go deeply into our feelings – Moon in Pisces – as a result of we may be assured that Pluto will assist us preserve management or will pull us out of the quicksand if we go in too deep.
On October seventeenth, the Moon in Aries squares Pluto in Capricorn at 12:26 pm. That’s the final facet in that Moon in Aries of the Full Moon. The Moon’s then Void-of-Course for 34 minutes and enters Taurus at 1 pm Pacific time. The Moon at its final diploma of Aries, which has simply been via the fires of that very intense Full Moon Cardinal Grand Cross, represents the a part of us that’s untamed and individualistic, going up towards that Pluto in Capricorn, which represents the methods by which society can attempt to management people and to make them conform to a selected manner of being. And that isn’t in Aries’ nature.
So, when we’ve got this sq. between the 2, it’s solely 34 minutes, but when one thing comes up in your life throughout this time period that sparks in you the robust need to be your individual individual, do issues in your individual manner, it doesn’t matter what these in authority attempt to let you know or get you to do, then that is a chance to interrupt a sample. And the sample may be that you just’re too individualistic and also you don’t hearken to what anyone tells you, and generally that works towards you, or it may be that you’re going up towards inflexible forces of conformity.
On October nineteenth, the Moon in Taurus trines Pluto at 12:33 pm Pacific time. It’s Void-of-Course for 34 minutes, after which enters Gemini at 1:07 pm. The Moon is in Taurus and loves magnificence. Take a second to go outdoors and benefit from the crisp autumn air and the altering leaves. This Moon trine Pluto in Capricorn says, you’ve been given a time without work work, so get pleasure from it. It’s good to be conscientious and to work laborious, however if you’re in a behavior of working a lot, and so laborious that you just by no means take the time to go outdoors and benefit from the magnificence round you, then you definately’re most likely working a little bit too laborious.
Venus sextile Pluto (Oct. 17, 2024, 5:30 am PDT)
Venus makes a sextile facet to Pluto on October seventeenth at 5:30 am Pacific time. When you’re feeling a little bit bit broody, as Venus can generally, particularly on the tail finish of Scorpio, it is a fantastic sextile for getting in contact together with your trickster aspect. The Sabian image for Venus right here is 30 Scorpio, The Halloween jester.
And it’s a little bit little bit of a grim picture as a result of Halloween all the time brings to thoughts loss of life and passings and issues that we would like to not dwell on. However there may be the jester right here that… It’s form of like going to a funeral and beginning to chuckle fully inappropriately and never realizing methods to cease.
Jogs my memory of that Mary Tyler Moore present episode with Chuckles the Clown, who has met his demise in a kind of ludicrous manner. And everyone is laughing about it. And Mary, after all, finds nothing to chuckle about till they’re really sitting within the funeral. After which she begins laughing and she will’t cease.
So, if issues have been feeling a little bit heavy for you, it may be very cathartic to only begin off your day possibly with a comedy podcast, or a video stream of cats doing loopy issues. I feel we’ve got one thing within the present notes that may amuse you. Venus sextile Pluto says it’s okay to go actually deep in what you’re feeling, and on the similar time, to comprehend that generally life is humorous – even on the moments when it appears it ought to be something however.
Venus enters Sagittarius (Oct. 17, 2024, 12:28 pm PDT)
Additionally on October seventeenth at 12:28 pm Pacific Time, Venus enters Sagittarius. It is a very heat and optimistic opening of the massive skies for Venus after a journey via Scorpio, which is rarely its favourite territory as a result of it struggles in Scorpio. It’s within the signal of its detriment as a result of Scorpio is the signal reverse Taurus, which is an indication that Venus guidelines. So even with the very best points, Venus going via Scorpio could be a little little bit of a tricky few weeks.
As Venus goes into Sagittarius, we regain our curiosity in and our enjoyment of books, journey, a enjoyment of something related with one other a part of the world, out of doors actions, sports activities.
Venus shall be in Sagittarius till November eleventh, and I feel it’s nicely value profiting from it and being a contented wanderer, getting out on the weekends, possibly taking a hike, going to a brand new a part of your group that you just’ve by no means been to earlier than.
Listener Query: Working with Transits like Lunar Phases
On this week’s Listener Query, Listener Kellie requested, “My query is impressed by the Moon Phases lecture you gave some time in the past with Moon Phases and Eclipse training.”
We’ll put a hyperlink to that within the present notes as a result of I do have it on the market nonetheless, the replay, on my web site. Kellie continues,
“I’m questioning methods to be taught from this for different planetary cycles like Saturn. In the mean time, transiting Saturn is in Pisces, which is quincunx my inatal Saturn in Leo, which is analogous to a waning gibbous lunar section.
What suggestions do you have got for getting essentially the most out of this section earlier than it adjustments to the following section? What’s it I’m attempting to be taught the Saturn manner?”
Kellie, I’m so grateful for this query as a result of it is a approach I really use rather a lot, specifically when speaking to a shopper about Saturn’s cycle.
I’ve typically stated that the lunar cycle is the template for all of the work that we do with cycles. Within the lunar cycle, after all, we’re studying in regards to the dynamic between the Solar and Moon, representing will and instinct. We start on the New Moon, an initiating section. One thing new is conceived. But it surely’s a little bit bit like conceiving an toddler: you will not be conscious of it immediately.
The Crescent Moon symbolizes a rising preoccupation. The First Quarter is a time for motion. The waxing gibbous is for perfecting. The Full Moon for seeing what’s actually happening. The waning gibbous for sharing the expertise with others, possibly getting their enter. And the Final Quarter is one other motion interval, this time motion that’s based mostly on expertise. After which lastly, the balsamic or waning crescent section for relaxation and launch.
Utilizing this as our template and making use of it to the cycle of Saturn, or certainly nearly every other planet, reveals an analogous story line. However on this case, it’s utilized to Saturn themes of maturity and success within the outdoors world. The Saturn return, when transiting Saturn, is on the similar diploma and signal of your natal Saturn, occurs about each 29 years, and it’s the initiation of a brand new cycle in maturity and success, just like a New Moon.
On the Saturn Return, we assess how nicely we’re doing in changing into the grown up we’ve got hoped to change into. Are we pleased with our profession, our house, our household standing, our funds? Usually the Saturn Return is a time the place we really feel a little bit emptied out. We all know that the outdated methods are not precisely proper for us, however we don’t know but what is going to take their place.
When transiting Saturn is 30 levels forward of natal Saturn, it types a semi-sextile facet. We start to take inventory of what we would want shifting ahead. What do we’ve got left from our different Saturn incarnation, and what would possibly we want for the long run?
When transiting Saturn reaches the purpose 45 levels forward of natal Saturn, it types a gap semi-square facet, and it’s just like the Crescent section of the lunar cycle, the section of preparation. We would glimpse a brand new ardour that we might presumably domesticate into a brand new profession path, nevertheless it’s solely the slightest notion. We don’t actually know in any respect how that is going to go, however a brand new curiosity offers us some place to direct our power and focus, and we are able to analysis what we have to have and know so as to deal with it.
As Saturn types its sextile to natal Saturn, we would return to high school, select a brand new specialization in our profession, be a part of a brand new group.
When transiting Saturn reaches the purpose 90 levels forward of natal Saturn, it types a gap sq. facet, and it’s a little bit bit like a First Quarter Moon section. We decide to taking some motion on this new course alongside our life path. This might should do with our profession, with marriage, with the conditions and establishments that make us really feel that we’re succeeding in constructing one thing necessary. On the waxing Sq., we take motion. And that is necessary whether or not or not we’re fully assured that we’re headed in the proper course. It’s our greatest guess. Typically simply taking a step makes the final word purpose come extra clearly into view.
As soon as transiting Saturn types a trine facet to natal Saturn, the wind is at our backs, and we really feel sure that we’re starting to make progress.
When transiting Saturn reaches the purpose 135 levels forward of natal Saturn, in a waxing sesquiquadrant facet. It’s like a waxing gibbous section. It’s the section when issues simply don’t really feel straightforward. My buddy Dana Gerhart, who’s one thing of an skilled with the lunar phases, compares this to a girl who’s in labor, and she or he is totally dilated, and she or he feels actually able to go, however she’s simply not fairly there but. And that’s what the Gibbous Moon section looks like.
When Saturn makes its quincunx to natal Saturn, it might really feel impossibly tough. However we’ve got to hold in there. Perseverance is the important thing.
When transiting Saturn reaches the purpose 180 forward of natal Saturn, in an opposition facet, we attain the Saturn equal of the Full Moon. And now we’re able to ship one thing totally fashioned. Maybe in Saturn phrases, we’re acknowledged as an individual of expertise or authority or skill in our area in a manner we by no means have been earlier than.
Then, when Saturn makes one other quincunx to its natal place, comes the sensation that the factor that we had hoped for nonetheless isn’t the whole reply, and that there’s some extra adjustment that’s going to must be made.
Transiting Saturn reaches 225 levels forward of natal Saturn, and an uncomfortable sesquiquadrant facet. It’s even laborious to say. And the waning Gibbous or disseminating section of Saturn’s journey. And that is the place Kellie is now. It is a sharing section after we canvass others for his or her suggestions and recommendation and simply share our expertise.
I feel I used the instance in considered one of my books of this section of being like a quilting bee the place the women would get collectively and ostensibly it was about piecing collectively a quilt, nevertheless it actually was a possibility to speak issues over and examine their experiences with one another.
I can bear in mind giving beginning to my first ebook throughout this Saturn section in my chart, and it was depressing. I used to be not pleased with the way in which it turned out. I didn’t get good suggestions on it. However when transiting Saturn entered its trine facet to natal Saturn, all of the sudden every little thing got here proper. I bought a implausible supply to write down a ebook I actually beloved, and that ended up doing very nicely for me.
Transiting Saturn reaches 270 levels forward of natal Saturn and a separating sq., and it’s similar to the Final Quarter lunar section.
This could be a actually productive and rewarding Saturn section, particularly because it’s very a lot of the character of Capricorn, which is dominated by Saturn. Out of the blue we’re keen to take actions based mostly on what’s occurred in our profession or different journey because the Saturn return, and this may convey appreciable success. When transiting Saturn makes the sextile to natal Saturn, we would join with colleagues who might help us go even additional.
When transiting Saturn reaches 315 levels forward of natal Saturn, it types a waning semi-square, which is analogous to the lunar Balsamic section or waning crescent. Now we enter the uncomfortable transition from that very energetic Final Quarter Moon section to the time after we start the emptying out and therapeutic section of the Saturn cycle. We start to face what didn’t actually occur for us throughout this Saturn section, or no less than not fairly as we’d hoped. And we’ve got to begin to let go of a few of these plans and ambitions. Particularly as Saturn strikes 30 levels behind natal Saturn, the semi-sextile facet, it’s necessary to decelerate and let go. We start slowly to assimilate the teachings of the 29-year Saturn Cycle, to return to phrases with it, and to start to create space for what’s developing within the subsequent Saturn cycle.
What I’ve finished right here with the cycle of transiting Saturn may be finished with any transiting planet. It’s a manner of understanding your entire work of that planet’s cycle, from floor zero, and that vacant house of the brand new section, all the way in which to the balsamic section on the finish.
The distinction is within the important which means of the cycle – on this case, Saturn, our targets, ambitions, maturity, boundaries – and the size of the cycle. With every planet, simply take its complete time to transit across the Solar. With Jupiter, for instance, that’s 12 years. And I multiply that variety of years It is a quantity that divides simply by 8, as a result of we’ve got 8 phases. With Jupiter, this finally ends up being about 18 months per section. With Saturn, it comes out to about 28.5 months per section.
I discover this an exquisite method to work with transits. For instance, look every year on the month earlier than your birthday when the transiting Solar is in its balsamic section, relative to your natal Solar. It’s typically a low level within the yr for individuals when it comes to vitality. And it’s an excellent time to cut back your workload for those who presumably can and take a relaxation.
Kellie, I hope that that’s useful. I actually love this system. And as I say, significantly with Saturn, I discover myself utilizing it a fantastic deal.
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