On Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 10:05AM EDT the Taurus Moon opposes the Scorpio Sun (at 8 degrees) giving us October's second Full Moon and only Full Moon in Taurus.
The Moon, at 8 degrees, is exactly conjunct change-maker Uranus (retrograde).
So, we have a spooky Halloween Full Moon focused on the very "unspooky" sign of Taurus instead of the usual Scorpio spook - even Halloween is doing its own thing in 2020!
Taurus is ruled by Venus and rules our collective second house - our money, our values, our self-esteem, our security and our comfort. She rules our resources and represents Mother Earth. Taurus energy is nurturing/sensual - the Moon is exalted here - it brings us back to ourselves. The shadow of Taurus - the negative of any sign is always the positives taken too far - is our fear based thinking when our security is threatened (real or imagined)
focusing us on all the reasons something we want to do won't work or
all the reasons we can't have what we want. Taurus energy can be stubborn (like the bull) or passive (like the cow). In Taurus we either own it (whatever "it" is) or it doesn't belong to us.
Like all Full Moons, this is a Sun/Moon opposition. The Sun is in deep,
dark, transformative Scorpio and the Moon is in earthy, grounded Taurus.
Full Moons brings conclusions/results. They are culminations, peak power, endings - they are the moment in our
breath when our lungs are full just a second before we begin to exhale.
Let's unpack the chart!
We have the Moon at 8 degrees Taurus exactly conjunct Uranus (also asteroid Triumpf who we will use as a stand-in/significator for Trump, but we'll get to that in the third election post) and opposing the Sun at 8 degrees Scorpio. Venus rules Taurus and so is the ruler of this lunation. She is strong in her home sign of Libra, exactly conjunct asteroid Magdelana and opposing Chiron. Mercury, retrograde in Libra and also answering to Venus is exactly squaring Saturn who is exactly conjunct asteroid Wuhan (who seems to be one of the very accurate stand-in/significators for the virus).
Narcissus at 26 Virgo is exactly trining (brakes off) Saturn and Wuhan and inconjunct Mercury (asteroid Narcissus is one reason for the destruction the virus/our response to the virus has caused particularly in the U.S., being at 22 Cappy in the U.S. natal chart which Saturn/Pluto decimated in January - also I noticed last week that former President Obama has Narcissus at 27 Cappy, which is the degree of the U.S. natal Pluto (!) - Pluto's return to its signing of the Declaration of Independence position is THE real story we are living through here in the U.S).
I didn't toss our usual cast of characters into this one, trying to keep it as simple as possible. We are going to unpack this through contacts to the Moon and Venus (ruler of the lunation) rather than treat it as a full event chart. You will see why when we get to the U.S. election posts - sorry to be so U.S.-centric, but I think this will apply universally, too!
Now, the Moon meets Uranus every month as it moves through Taurus, but not while the Sun is exactly opposing. The Sun opposite Uranus is a big deal annual transit (of change and uncertainty/a need for greater freedom, surprises that create uncertainty/instability although they are ultimately liberating) - it can bring unexpected events/conclusions and closes out and begins a Uranus solar cycle - happening at the time of a Full Moon will give this aspect an even greater impact!
If you have planets/points near 8 degrees of the fixed signs you will especially be feeling this one!
Uranus is retrograde, so this "unexpected" situation/event will not be so unexpected. Unless our eyes are covered as tightly as our mouths and noses right now - we should be able to see this coming. So on the one hand it will come out of nowhere and on the other hand it won't.
And, remember, this is the Moon's event - a lunar event, so even though there is an opposition, Uranus is conjunct the Moon. The unexpected is coming through our Taurus natal house theme, so we somehow need the liberation/the chaos and something comes to light/or concludes that makes that happen. There is something here about moving away from "what can I/what do I OWN" toward something else. I hope I am making sense here. Of course, if you are a Scorpio rising with Taurus in your 7th house of other people - this unexpected/not totally unexpected change will come through someone else - a partner/another person (although they will really just be mirroring our own need for liberation).
We'll go through all the signs in Part II!
Venus is exactly conjunct asteroid Magdalena who keeps coming up for me in charts lately, so let's take a look at her. I've found Magdelana on the angles of charts of people in my family who are more traditionally religious/Catholic. In the days leading up to the Full Moon - with the Moon's ruler Venus at the beginning of Libra (with Magdelana) and Mercury retrograding through the back end and bookending the sign of our relationships - the Catholic Pope made a statement approving of/endorsing same-sex civil union. Which would normally be a huge thing, and obviously is for some people and will be for everyone, but seemed to be quickly lost in the nanosecond news cycle.
(I remember Magdelana was hanging out with Uranus, back when Uranus was squaring Pluto in the summer of 2012 - remember 2012? I think you do! That was also during a Full Moon.
I'd gone looking for indicators of the major timeline shift I was feeling, but couldn't figure out what the hell any of it meant, and yes, I still haven't - ack! - and found her sitting with Uranus as scientists at Cerns were announcing a discovery they thought was their Higgs-Boson, missing "God particle".
At the time I was thinking about the divine feminine energy rising and if you think about Magdelana as a probable stand-in/significator for Mary Magdalene and the way her real story has been manipulated during the Age of Pisces (deceit) and the missing "God" as the missing feminine, it could be one piece of a very large and complicated puzzle.
She was discovered and synchronistically named by astronomers in Nice, France during the 1891 Pluto/Neptune conjunction in Gemini - with the North Node in Gemini, too, as it is now. At that time, and keep in mind the importance of discovery charts, Asteroid Magdelana was exactly conjunct Ceres (19 degrees Aquarius), closely conjunct Juno and the Cancer Sun was situated tightly between Venus and Black Moon Lilith and Pandora was opposing Pallas, so all the ladies were active/animated/chatting it up.)
If we see Magdalena as a divine feminine energy relegated to "whore" status (Gnostic texts name Mary Magdelene as an Apostle and it was not the gospels that called her a prostitute, but a Pope in 591 who confused Mary of Magdalene with Mary of Bethany, Mary of Bethany was mentioned in Luke 10:39 as a sinful woman who anoints Christ's feet and then history somehow took on a life of its own and made the wrong Mary the fallen woman) we might see her merger with feminine Goddess Venus at this time as speaking of something of the divine feminine previously unacknowledged/shut out as unholy/unseen.
That something feels invisible because we haven’t been accustomed to seeing it doesn't mean it isn't there. And this kind of brings us back to Uranus - our higher mind and carrier of our long-term memory/past-life trauma that we don't consciously know we know, but we are still reacting to it.
Our brains are literally made to see what we are used to seeing. I remember once reading about a horrible animal experiment where shortly after birth a litter of kittens were placed in a room where they could only see horizontal (or was it vertical?) lines for many months and when they were finally brought into a normal room they kept bumping into vertical things because they literally couldn't see them. And they couldn't see them for the rest of their lives!
The Age of Aquarius is bringing us into a quantum field - where we've probably always been, but now we are without the fantasy of the Age of Pisces, so it is probably more real even as life feels less real! We will eventually come to understand we are perceiving what we choose to perceive or else we will remain in a world of what seems to us like chaos because chaos (and Uranus/Aquarius) represents this range of possibility that was once invisible to us. Does this make sense?
So, we've got the ruler of this Full Moon, Venus, strong in her home sign and conjunct asteroid Magdelana. Merged. And we've got Mercury (information, communication) answering to Venus in Libra - so pulling in other people/our relationships/justice/fairness and squaring sober/authoritarian Saturn and Wuhan (exactly)
and the other Cappy energies, too. So whatever change this Uranian Full Moon is bringing us - this might be something we don't
really want to do/have to deal with. There could be challenging news/negative thinking. With Mercury square Saturn during a Uranus activation - there could be revolt/protests. There might be a connection to the
virus or the ramifications/official responses to the virus. Venus is opposing
Chiron - this is applying, so maybe the need for change or whatever this change is triggers old wounds/memories that we aren't safe/can't take care of ourselves/need to stand up for ourselves. There are some indicators, and we'll talk about them in the next post, that we could regret later changes we don't make now and over the next couple weeks.
Uranus, merged with the Full Moon on Halloween, is the higher octave of Mercury; our higher mind. Co-ruler of Aquarius (with Saturn - and we have multiple Saturn/Uranus squares in 2021 for them to fight this New World rulership out); Uranus represents the future, change, technology.
In Evolutionary Astrology (and the work of Jeffrey Wolf Green), and I see the truth of this again and again in charts, Uranus in our natal chart is a trauma signature. So, Uranus in Taurus until 2026 might bring up fear/feelings of a loss of security/loss of resources. A subconscious terror of being reduced to survival-mode (see how fast hoarding impulses with Taurean ruled food kicked in last winter/spring) - and then we create exactly the thing we are fearing by putting ourselves into survival mode - making ourselves smaller/less intimate with others/building a wall around ourselves and shutting ourselves off from NEW possibilities which is what Uranus is all about, too!
That's just what we don't want to do (and I know it sounds like what we are being told to do to stay safe!). Over the course of 2020 it has become increasingly evident that, whatever's really going on, our perception of it is being manipulated.
Keep in mind the mind-blowing astro for 2020 that we talked about back in January HERE wasn't about a pandemic at all (although this was the date the virus moved countries which is of course the definition of a pandemic).
What I wrote back then was:
"There are two basic ways this could be playing out in our lives and in the collective.
1. limits/rules/authority is transformed - death (Pluto) of tradition/security (Saturn - the patriarchy)
or 2. authority (Saturn) is cemented - because this is happening in Saturn's sign - authority is made more powerful (Pluto)
And we may think we know what is happening, but with so many cycles
ending/beginning with these conjunctions it will be hard to know.
What is really happening is we have both of these things going on at the same time."
Tricky times we are living folks, maybe the absolute trickiest - so stay in your magic!
The keys to this Taurus Full Moon will be to keep things simple. There could be a surprising result or something that comes to light that rattles our resources/values/habits/our natal Taurus house theme (next post). Hold on loosely. Movement is needed but too much impulsivity/anger could make us regret changes we make. On the other hand not making needed changes can also bring regret later. Best use of this energy - liberating ourselves from a stagnant/life sucking situation. It's tricky, but you're a smart cookie and will know what to do. Every ending is a beginning and every beginning requires an ending. What we lose/what we gain - in the end this Full Moon and the two weeks that follow - is all about LIBERATION.
By the middle of November both Mercury and Mars will be direct, we will have a New Moon in Scorpio and it will be all systems go!
xo all
Back tomorrow night with Part II where we'll look at this Moon by sign and pull in whatever else I missed and then in part III we will look at the ways this Moon and next month's Eclipse which is reaching backward toward this Moon is likely to impact the U.S. election, one hint I think is Kamala Harris's natal Narcissus exactly conjunct the November Eclipse degree, but with Mercury stationing direct on Election Day and this weekend's big Full Moon (both Trump and Harris were born on Full Moons) conjunct "anything-can-happen" Uranus, maybe life is determined to make it anyone's game for as long as possible ...
xo all
