Mercury retrograde joins the Sun the day after this full Moon, reminding us of the Aquarian mantra "to think outside the box'. Mercury began its retrograde at a symbol indicating the need to communicate between different parts of ourselves. We need to connect our heart and mind, our soul and spirit, our right and left brains if we want to find the answers to our problems. Mercury's Sabian symbol at 29* Aquarius is: A butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. This symbol expresses our ability to change our consciousness when we change our old patterns of living. So let your mind open up to new ideas, possibilities and messages. Fly free!
Evolution happens!
Saturn in Scorpio squares this Full Moon, challenging us to release old emotional behavior patterns that keep us from contributing our creative gifts to the group mind and culture. Patriarchy has caused many people to feel they aren't good enough, smart enough, creative enough to have a say in shaping our world. But in reality, patriarchy rejects most of the good ideas simply because they don't fit into its need for total control and profit.
The Sabian symbol for Saturn at 24* Scorpio is: After having heard an inspired individual deliver his "sermon on the mount', crowds are returning home. This reminds us that we have to take our inspirations and incorporate them into our everyday lives. It's time to believe in ourselves and work on that belief until it becomes our new way of being.
Mars in Libra adds its support to finding a new vision, one of equality, fairness and harmony. The Sabian symbol for Mars at 27* Libra is: An airplane sails high in a clear sky. This symbolizes our ability to rise above the stress and conflicts of daily life to get a bigger picture, one that includes the Earth and other people.
We are still operating within the womb of the Uranus/Pluto/Jupiter T-Square. The symbols for the degrees of each are interesting for this full Moon.
Uranus at 10*Aries: A teacher gives new symbolic forms to traditional images. A sign of the archetypes being renewed.
Jupiter at 12* Cancer: An Asian woman nursing a baby whose aura reveals her to be the reincarnation of a great teacher. The new age being born.
Pluto at 13* Capricorn: A fire worshiper meditates on the ultimate realities of existence. The fires of life show us the creative and destructive aspects of the universe. As we release the old, it makes way for the new.
As you can see, the Cosmic Story is very hopeful. It urges us to remember the truth of cyclical time, of life-death-rebirth, of the eternal return. We just have to do our part--we need to become conscious of our gifts and offer them to the world with hope that together "we will turn this ship around' and set a new course for humanity.
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, X - Rainer
Maria Rilke
The Machine endangers all we have made.
We allow it to rule instead of obey.
To build a house, cut the stone sharp and fast:
the carver's hand takes too long to feel its way.
The Machine never hesitates, or we might escape
and its factories subside into silence.
It thinks it's alive and does everything better.
With equal resolve it creates and destroys.
But life holds mystery for us yet. In a hundred places
we can still sense the source: a play of pure powers
that - when you feel it - brings you to your knees.
There are yet words that come near the unsayable,
and, from crumbling stones, a new music
to make a sacred dwelling in a place we cannot own.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
(In Praise of Mortality, trans. A. Barrows and J. Macy)
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