Monday's Full Moon is the culmination of the September Solar Eclipse New Moon.
Here is a post about that with some key dates and
themes.
The Full Moon is a time of
completion. It's the space in our breath when our lungs are full. We can't take in anymore. We have to exhale.
Our Sun is in Pisces and our Moon is in the opposite sign of Virgo. This is the polarity of bringing the sacred (
Pisces) into the everyday (
Virgo), melding our physical health (
Virgo) with our spiritual health (
Pisces) and seeing the forest (
Pisces) and the trees (
Virgo).
In Virgo, the "release" energy could mark the end of our efforts on a health matter, work situation, something with paperwork, employees, co-workers or maybe a pet (
all sixth house, Virgo ruled). We've reached a pinnacle and we finally achieve our goal with something here (
maybe for all that Virgo hard work!), something comes through or breaks out (
ends our striving), wraps up or just
ends.
Endings around Full Moons are not always permanent (
although they often are) - they are always situations though that have simply run their course ... there isn't an action we can take, or right words we can speak, to hang on to the things that are leaving us now.
With this year's Saturn/Neptune squares we are being shown what stands in the way of, or the difference between - what we want and what we have or where we are and where we want to be. Some are scapegoating the 'other'. Some are seeing what happens when we avoid the dentist for five years. Some are seeing how this dream of what 'could be' is interfering with our appreciation of 'what is'. There are different and multiple storylines for all of us, but the bottom line theme of reality vs our dreams or escape routes being road blocked, addiction vs connection, is something we will/are all working through.
The Full Moon is a time of something being '
brought to light'. With the Virgo/Pisces polarity and the Saturn/Neptune square this could be something about the way we anesthetize ourselves or the way we '
avoid'. This could be something about "victim consciousness" or "savior consciousness". Situation(s) will arise for us to clearly see the way we create the world we are living in.
Things don't happen
to us and then we react. It only looks like this if we are not paying attention. We
create what is happening.
I'll tell you how this "savior" thing is playing out for me.
Yesterday I start planning a
small trip, a weekend across country, to visit a sibling. I was on
airbnb looking for a place to stay and noticed some entire houses for rent that did not cost much more than the studio apartments/rooms I was looking at earlier. So, I spend the next 3 hours online making
plans. I start turning my
small trip into a weekend vacation at the coast for my sister's
whole family. Even though this is all outside my budget for this trip and no one has asked me to do this. I get a wake up call from her grown daughter who tells me the house on an island with the 15 minute ferry ride "
sounds kind of limiting". I'm slightly piqued she isn't excited about the weekend plans I am making, but I cancel the house and book the studio apartment in town for myself.
(
those ungrateful son of a b--------, I grumble to myself)
A few hours later my other sibling tells me about a personal situation he is going through and I start mentally obsessing (
and yes, googling) over this clearly "
unfixable" happening that is
his story and that needs to resolve itself in its own time. I am wishing he had shared this with me sooner (
he is only telling me now because I invited him on my small trip). He is not looking for me to
fix anything. And yet, I put this weight on my shoulders like a cable knit sweater.
By last night, my right shoulder, which had been feeling pretty good, was throbbing. I sit down to write this post and look at the chart for this Full Moon and see very clearly the "savior" complex I use to keep myself separated from other people and create situations where I get to "lose" and where I get to "avoid" my
own stuff. I see how this is playing out in my third house of siblings (
where my natal Mercury, Virgo's ruler, calls home).
This is how Full Moons work. Now that I see it, I can't "unsee" it. It's the elephant in the room. I can coax the elephant back into her dusty, neglected corner by distracting her with a bag of peanuts or I can thank her for showing up and allow myself the uncomfortable gift of unraveling her presence and letting her go.
This is an important two week period as we begin the count down to the next New Moon, New Year, Eclipse Season!
I will do a full week post later today. We have a Virgo Moon on Monday and Tuesday, so get organized and be productive. Great energy for dealing with the details!
Get out and walk in tonight's Full Moon - what is ripe for release in your own life?
Here is a great little video "everything we know about addiction is wrong" - very applicable to the energies at play here. xo all
