Moon-light
In this section, I spend more time diving into the cosmic tonality of this rare moon and what it might manifest on your way across the next two to four weeks.
On the 17th of January at 23:48 GMT the Moon will be full in the sign of Cancer, opposing Pluto.
Full moons are usually a time of maturation and release but with Pluto very tightly conjunct the Sun, this is not your standard Full Moon. Far from it.
The Moon is in her home sign, so she is very potent. Mostly Capricorn in her tonality, she will feel restrictive, isolating, limiting, hard and cold.
Brace for a deeply emotional and transformative full moon that may rock your very material foundations. Or may crawl deep under, hidden.
I hate to be the bearer of those news, especially when they keep on lining up for so long, but it is my duty to honestly share what the skies impart to us. The lessons and guidance they bestow on us aren’t doom and gloom. It’s so we can start comprehending the greater meanings of events in our life and accept the necessary evolutionary challenges our soul, body and mind have been invited to overcome.
We are about to close a very disruptive Venus retrograde on January 29 and will likely have to start dealing with the consequences of our overconfidence or brutally emerge from a very tough introspective period that tested our values, boundaries, sense of worth or faith.
Both Moon and Mars are out of bond, our emotions and actions are slightly exaggerated, and very few of us are really attracted by or interested in mingling with others, preferring to stand on the side and observe.
In Cancer, the full moon will stir feelings of vulnerability, neediness, helplessness and susceptibility, increase the need for emotional care and intimacy, activate our defense mechanism and amplify our childhood traumas and conditioning flaws.
With Pluto in the mix, this is likely to erupt in its darker form as power struggles, depressive states, manipulative or hidden moves leading to intense emotional hurt and possibly material losses.
Pluto started to form a trine to the North Node mid-November, so look back at events that started around that time.
During the Venus retro, Venus and Pluto danced together already twice, messing around with our finances, relationships, values and sense of worth in December. Those themes are likely to drag and evolve up to their next reunion. They will meet again on March 2nd, this time with Mars joining the band to fuel it with either passion or anger.
As intense, deeply depressive or emotional this may seem now, those events are all supportive of our transformation. We all have old psychological materials to release, some toxicity to get rid of, old stories we can no longer continue with. We are very often too attached and having massive difficulties to release the control we apply on some parts of our life because of deep traumas or insecurities. Pluto will always come with events we cannot resist and get us to experience our darker side. We can either continue to resist the necessary change, try and manipulate our way out and lose something we are dearly attached to, OR accept to evolve, resisting the many temptations of our shadow personality, and discovering new creative gifts and power in the process.
Whatever our decisions this time, the outcome will bring positive transformation in our lives. This greater process in which the whole collective is actually involved is in fact supportive of our destiny and will peak on Feb 14, lasting up to early June.
Rather than resisting it, you should maybe try to reflect on the nature and roots of those reactivated stories, traumas, insecurities.
What do they compel you to do? What are the alternatives?
And if you do not see any, ponder the idea that you are being controlled by your mind and could need to increase the distance between your real self and what this little voice in your head keeps on nagging you about.
The Sun-Pluto conjunction is a unique time to address those deep-seated issues, either through spiritual, energetic or psychological work. If you feel reluctant to start a treatment when recommended by a close friend or family member, there might just stand the greatest opportunity for growth of the moment. I wouldn’t let that chance pass.
At the very same time the Moon is getting full, Uranus has been decelerating in its retrograde course for several days and now stands immobile in our sky (making it really hard for some of us in hard aspect at that degree – if you feel like observing yourself from outside of your body, yes this is for you). For the last six months, Uranus was retro and we had to integrate in our psyche the changes its previous direct motion had brought in our lives.
Well, the cease fire is officially over and sudden changes as well as unexpected events are all due back in our life very soon.
What? You mean more?
Ha ha, yes! Much more! (although there is nothing really funny about it)
Well, hold on, we still had some of those during the retro, I mean look at Omicron!
We knew a new wave was coming as announced in October, just like we know about the next one too. The pandemic is a given we have already integrated, so no, it won’t be about the health crisis.
We know that the Saturn Uranus squares have set the pace for virus mutations, so this is no surprise, and we know this will last up to November. During the retro, we mostly experienced the Saturnian side of this square: more restrictions, limitations, isolation…
With Uranus coming back in direct motion, a new chapter of this pandemic crisis will likely start – one more tightly connected to our economy and financial system.
Why?
Because the exact same day AGAIN, the lunar north node changes sign for the next 18 months.
Lunar nodes point to both new events we need to step up to but contribute to our greater destiny and karmic events/trials we must go through as payback for our past errors, but also rich in lessons and release of old toxic habits and stories.
As the North lunar node shifts in Taurus, our economy, resources, work, values, comfort, relationships, currencies, finances, boundaries, stability, sense of security and worth should all start to get challenged.
Taurus can be very possessive, hedonistic, overly attached, resistant to change, sometimes jealous and over reactive.
This Full Moon opposite Pluto activates the principle of Loss, Death and Rebirth and will certainly trigger all those shadows over the next year and half.
So yes, the rubber is going to be hitting the road and it’s going to get very real.
Uranus in this context, will likely trigger events that:
Individually seek to liberate us from toxic and corrupted situations, possibly through dramatic and upsetting incidents if we keep on resisting, and help us awaken to other opportunities.
Collectively aim at harmonizing our differences through social justice and political changes, even if those may not initially seem to go in this direction.
Scientifically bring new discoveries and innovations that will also free us and help us deal with some of our current problems.
This cycle of change will be particularly strong this year as Uranus conjuncts the North Node on July 31st. Massive societal and geopolitical changes will start impacting us mid-April and will continue to pop up until January 2023.
But Taurus is about life, sensorial pleasures, procreation, plastic arts, music, the return of the spring, fertility, beauty and love.
This is potentially a time of renewal, of reconnection with our body, our senses, our love, our people, our land and our planet as a whole. This is what the opportunity of this new period is truly about. For us to be successful, we will need to step up individually, break the old schemes of codependency, manipulation, power struggle (as pointed out by the Scorpio North Node as well as this Full Moon) by finding validation of our own worth within, defending our set of values and establishing strong boundaries and foundations for the future.
This full moon clearly set the challenges and opportunities of the next 18 months.
2022 did not start on January 1st; it truly starts TODAY.
The Taurus guidance for all of us to be successful on its path will be about:
The pandemic will have brought many unsustainable couples and partnerships to their knees. The next stage for many, will be about learning self-reliance and self-validation, two notions deeply anchored in self-love. Some will break up definitively, but others will resurrect and grow stronger from the deep realizations of the last years and others will be born out of the many promises it holds.
As always, the full moon invites us to look into the polar axis of its opposite sign, Capricorn, for immediate solutions to the Cancer vulnerability.
Over the next weeks, and months, as our emotional sovereignty and self-worth are being seriously tested and insecurities resurface, we might want to bring more of the below to the front:
Depending on where this full moon falls in your chart, you may directly experience it in your relationships, witness it or simply have a more personal and subtle encounter of this energy.
Individuals strong in Cardinal signs (Capricorn, Cancer, Libra, Aries) will probably have to deal with a much stronger manifestation of this full moon, especially those of the last decan.
Water signs (Scorpio, Cancer, Pisces) should also be sensitive to its energy, potentially enacting some of the manipulations but also given to deal more gracefully with this energy.
May the light of wisdom and awakenings shine on your path to evolution
With compassion
G
