The Light of Releasing the Past Attracts Enduring Strengths.

The Full Moon of Sun in Taurus and Moon in Scorpio is the Wesak Festival, where the “Eternal Buddha Wisdom” pours out a new form of compassionate wisdom for the world which will be spread across all nations at the next Full Moon in Gemini-Sagittarius. We will be shown a deeper, more universal wisdom and grace to incorporate into our lives wherever we have Scorpio and Taurus in our charts. This one should bring delight as it renews our lives!

The Full Moon of Sun in Taurus and Moon in Scorpio is the second of the “Three High Moons” of the Northern Hemispheric Spring. As with all Full Moons, use the light you’ve been seeing and expressing since the New Moon, and give it form and focus through anchoring those themes in expression. This is the Light of substance and the ability to respond to substance appropriately, expressed through either elimination, attraction, or both. Because the Moon is in Scorpio, the Wesak Wisdom always involves some form of renunciation or letting go, creating space for new wisdom-forms to be substantiated.

Since the Wesak always brings forth some form of “Buddha Wisdom” compassion from within us, the next two weeks “cements” strength of character we’ve cultivated or are cultivating. This will be expressed through what we let go of, what we choose to regenerate, and how we choose to fill recent voids. This one will show us something about our worth and/or what we value, and why we have to let go of the impermanent and embrace the permanent. There are delightful rewards to be captured in the next few weeks, so be alert!

This stabilizing, regenerative, and awakening Full Moon occurs at 4:49 pm PDT April 23, and falls at the 5th degree of Taurus and Scorpio. This one renews our strength and resolve to “bury the past,” or “exhume the past” which once had value. By reviewing what we’ve buried, or seeing what needs to be buried from the past, we can find wisdom and a depth and breadth of connection with Self, others, and Source. This can open deeper relationship connections with others in our Soul groups, with significant developments coming this Summer.

Continuing the theme that proceeds at each Full Moon as they move through each polarity, this one gives us the ability to find stabilize a new life order, giving it form in a new magnetism appropriate to our evolved state. Enjoy the challenges to come, since you’ll become more powerful by seeing them as stepping stones to viewing Life with the eyes of Soul.

We’ve said goodbye to many things these past weeks, and with three planets in Pisces, we’re learning how to navigate the seemingly perpetual dreamscape of vast and confused feelings. Because Mars and Saturn are still in Pisces, it continues to be the end of the end of some things. This one moves us out of the inspiration of fire into solid simple momentum toward a new wisdom, where we’ll find gain through loss or remember when this was so and the wisdom which came from that experience.

Today’s Full Moon post will be an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In parts 2 and 3 we’ll cover the Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.

An Overview

This Wesak Festival Full Moon in Scorpio-Taurus will open a global wisdom and greater ways of substantiating our spiritual activity. This one offers us a concentrated dose of spiritual energy and “good fortune” if we put forth effort. This is a purifying and reflective Full Moon, with tremendous fortune, humor, grace, and magic in our lives, and by what we release over the next few months, we prepare for an entry into a new life in Summer.

As with all Full Moons, use the light you’ve been seeing and expressing since the New Moon, and give it form and focus through anchoring those themes in expression. This Full Moon brings the Light of the Aries New Moon Solar eclipse theme into a realization that while we join together with others to overcome “seasonal difficulties and deficiencies” we also have to see what parts of the past to bury and be realistic in how much time it will take to build something enduring.

Because of so much Pisces, while this Full Moon is in play, we’ll still be navigating deep insights about subconscious or unconscious factors in self and others. Look for the motive behind what is said or done. This will be good for intuitive flashes and empathic insights. The Full Moon puts a focus on burying the past or seeing how the buried past has opened the new life we’re experiencing.

This is an intensely mobilizing Full Moon, with Pluto still leading the occupied span and now occupying a degree of “desocialization,” turning away from social roles which are oppressive or which are not true to who we are. As all the planets except the Moon are in a very narrow span, it shows a lot of activity in a small area focused through the Moon in Scorpio.

This Full Moon brings the Light of a fulfilled past on the actional level of life. This is an intensely mobilizing Lunation which will help many to “regrasp past experience and turn it to account” through a “sharp self-examination and awakened new fearlessness.”

Is the Sun Following the Moon, or the Moon Following the Sun?

This Lunation is the twelfth Full Moon where the Sun is in a different sign (Taurus) than it was in the Aries New Moon two weeks ago. We are now into “the reverse order” of the Sun/Moon relationship cycle, as the Light of the New Moon is in a different sign than the Light of the Full Moon.

There are two patterns; one is when the Full Moon Sun is the same sign as the previous New Moon Sun, and the other is when the Full Moon Sun is in the next sign from the Sun in the previous New Moon. The Sun was in the same sign in both the New Moon and Full Moon, the so-called “natural” order, between April 2019 and August 2020. At the August 2020 Full Moon we entered the “reverse pattern” of the Sun of the Full Moon occupying the sign after the New Moon Sun, since the previous New Moon Sun was at 29 Cancer and that Full Moon Sun was at 12 Leo.

August 2021 brought us the New Moon Sun at 17 Leo and Full Moon Sun is at 30 Leo, beginning a new “natural order” sequence which continued through the New Moon of late March 2023 at 1 Aries which was followed by the Full Moon at 17 Aries/Libra. This shifted back into the “reverse order” sequence in April 2023 with a New Moon at 30 Aries followed by the Wesak Festival Full Moon Sun at 15 Taurus. You can find out more about the “seed forms” of the Aries New Moon two weeks ago by going to the archives.

Past As Prologue

The 2020-22 Eclipses moved us all in new directions, reorienting wherever we have Taurus, Cancer, Gemini, Scorpio, and Sagittarius in our charts. All Eclipses are “Cosmic recyclers,” removing what is obsolete in our lives. These losses clean out psychic and physical spaces so we can find new life substance. Due to what we’ve eliminated the past 2 years we now have a wider view of our life and the Life around us as humanity begins a new 20 year Aquarian era.

As you know from other articles, 2020 was the last year of a 200 year Earth era, with Air power building that year launching a 200 year Air era on the December Solstice with Jupiter conjuncting Saturn at 1 Aquarius. However, we will still be “under the beams” of the powerful conjunctions in Capricorn, since between January and March 2020 we began new Saturn/Pluto, Jupiter/Pluto, Mars/Jupiter, Mars/Pluto, and Mars/Saturn cycles. The first of these launched a new 33 year era into motion.

Due to these conjunctions in late Capricorn and both Mars/Saturn and Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions at 1 Aquarius, as well as several very important conjunctions since then at the same degree, we are in a long term period of finding wisdom by understanding transfiguration and enlightenment as verbs rather than nouns. We’ve now officially taken the first step into the coming Aquarian era.

While this is not yet “The Age of Aquarius,” this is the final intensification of those energies which will sprout seeds in the second quarter of the century which will take us across the threshold of the Great Age soon after 2050. And to note, there will be plenty of people and ideas from the Age of Pisces which will continue into the next century as part of the bridging process from past to future as humanity discovers new Aquarian ideas and sheds old Piscean ones.

Planetary Distribution

At this Full Moon, the inner planets are all inside the occupied outer planet span. We now have all the planets except the Moon in a very narrow span between Jupiter and Pluto. This is 110+ degrees and is the last great compression of planets for centuries to come.

Because the Moon is outside the span occupied by all the other planets, in this chart we have two open spans created by the Moon’s distance from all the other planets. The span occupied by the inner planets (in this chart Mars at 25 Pisces through the Sun at 5 Taurus) is 39+ degrees, a somewhat narrow span. This will be the primary area stimulated in our charts.

At this time because all the inner planets have finished their conjunction with Pluto, Saturn, and Neptune (except Mars) and are closing in to their conjunctions with Uranus and then Jupiter, we’re definitely in the heart of a run of Bundle Jones patterns when the Moon is between Capricorn through Gemini which will continue through the first half of June. That also means when the Moon is in the last half of Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio the Moon creates a Bucket pattern. This continues the run of Full Moon Bucket Jones patterns

Right now all the planets are spread out across 5 signs. This month the Sun in Taurus and Moon in Scorpio open a “nozzle” for the expression of the other planetary energies. With all the planets between Aquarius and Taurus and the Moon 161+ degrees from Jupiter and 87+ degrees from Pluto we now have everything in a cluster with only the Moon at the far side of the occupied span. This creates a “Bucket” chart pattern, with the Moon as the “handle,” or nozzle.

So What is a “Bucket” Jones Pattern and how does it work?

A “Bucket Pattern” is a planetary spread with all the planets in about half the signs with one outside that span wide enough to be a handle. The energies of the occupied half are focused through the “handle,” or “nozzle,” in this case the Moon, termed the “focal determinator.” The handle, or focal determinator, represents the way to greater effectiveness, the cause to be embraced, the lack to be filled, or the way to use the total energies of this time in a focused manner. The Moon is how we're going to "get a handle on things," or focus the potential of the rest of the planets, so if you have any doubt, express Scorpio!

Dr. Jones states “the Bucket type indicates a particular and rather uncompromising direction in the life effort.” This pattern gives “interest in a cause,” with executive tendencies that will adapt allegiances to maximize results of the effort. He says “the Bucket type at its best reveals the real instructor and inspirer of others, and at its worst the agitator and malcontent.” This is the larger planetary pattern within which we’re all trying to do what we do.

We are also told this pattern is more about finding an effective release for energy within social settings, but also about the individual imposing their patterns on society rather than adapting to what is there. It’s about focused intention. So all of us can expect some sort of focused attention on the house where we have 5 Scorpio. As Scorpio expects clear focus and is willing to dare to go where others won’t, be penetrating in your insights about what’s permanent and what isn’t.

Pluto at 3 Aquarius leads the occupied span for months to come. This indicates that the “cosmic visitations” Saturn brought us all in 2020 and stirred by Pluto in March and early April are sprouted, and now we get to do a “sharp self-examination” to make sure we’re clean at our core.

This entry to the occupied part of the Bucket tells us to take a deep and broad view of seed energies at work right now, as well as hidden potentials, whether for building or destroying. With Jupiter at 23 Taurus as the closing planet to the span, we’ll close experience by rewards which “certify our worth” and show us the value in our social life. This leads with actional and material Contribution and closes with emotional and social Confirmations which should show us greater ways to enjoy life on our own terms.

Is the Grand Irrationality A Factor in this Full Moon?

No, and blessedly, will never be a factor activating the collective for the rest of our lives. This was a 30 year phenomenon which has now passed out of orb, and we are finally back to Neptune sextile Pluto and the coming Uranus sextile Neptune and trine Pluto. The spiritual field has shifted for the better!

If you want to know more about this hard edged Special Evolutionary configuration in play for three decades, I created an article which sums up the three versions of the Grand Irrationality in play during those years. I discuss what it is and which zones of the zodiac have been most impacted and when. You can find all you need to know about this configuration associated with widespread irrationality and hard-edged “forks in the road of destiny” we’ve all confronted at various times by going to The Grand Irrationality is Over (1993-2023).

This evolutionary configuration has been activated over the years when any planet moved through any of the hot zones of the configuration. However, even though it’s ended remember that almost everyone on Earth born the past 30 years has this in their charts! And all the eclipses these past years have also had it, including the April and May eclipses. So we’ll still have it working in the background for years to come. I’ll speak more about the aspects in part 3 when I cover the special configurations.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

We are now solidly in the long voyage of Saturn’s transit of Pisces. While in Aquarius 2021-2022 it taught us shortcuts to illumination and instructed us in the wise use of spiritual energies for many months, as well as the spiritual power of gratitude and appreciation. This is a time of learning lessons of compassion and forgiveness shown by Pisces, following through on the life renewal we’ve attained since June 2023.

Saturn, ruler of our Capricorn and Aquarius sectors and any natal or progressed planets we have in those signs, is now accelerating in speed, moving forward through its shadow zone. It is now at 16 Pisces, showing we need to claim a new inspiration. Because Saturn continues to have no frictional aspects, get away from the white noise and go deep within to know what to do. We’re now headed for “our feast at the end of our day of labor” coming this Summer, so keep using Saturn’s productivity to flow into spiritual growth through “feeling-knowing.”

Though Saturn can feel heavy and bring serious life lessons, it is the part of us which can take charge of our lives and destiny by using Saturn’s virtues in the right way and time. Our ability to steer our “ship of personality” into its rightful “role of destiny” has brought us to the threshold of new parts to play on the stage of Life.

We’ve been in a long productive period of favorable Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus aspects which are finishing now that the inner planets are moving through Pisces. However, Saturn will make favorable aspects to Uranus for many months to come, helping us blend understanding with originality, awakening to our ability to become conscious in how we use spiritual power.

I explain how Saturn and Uranus work together to awaken us to our Higher Powers to take command of our destiny in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. Saturn helps us give form and structure to our quest for greater awareness and effectiveness. In recent years we learned to accept and use personal power so we could make a greater contribution to our world. Coupled with Uranus having awakened us to the fact that it’s already a new time, a new way, and a new day, we’re “breaking on through to the other side” into an unfolding Higher awareness.

The book was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers. Even those with little or no understanding of astrology will benefit from understanding why you had to make certain choices at crucial times that shaped your life in profound ways.

Each time you read any section of this book you will find new insights about your power to throw off all the attitudes and memories which hold you back from finding and living the life and purpose. If you’ve haven’t already gotten your copy, you can go to the Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend page on Amazon and this should be all you need to order your copy. It’s also available on Amazon and as an ebook on Kindle, so if that’s more to your liking, go for it! If you would, whether you’ve gotten the ebook or the paperback, please write a review on the Amazon site, since the more reviews, the more of a boost they give it.

On A Final Note

See you in the near future with parts two and three on this Wesak Festival “Buddha Wisdom” Full Moon which will show us the impermanence to all things while focusing our magnetism on an enduring goal or work. This will awaken wisdom, even compassion for past losses and the burial of hopes and dreams which opened the door to a renewal, even if we didn’t know it at the time. Experience the delightful easy momentum and rewards which will come from this Buddha Wisdom Lunation.

The outer planets maintain the entry into a transition between the old spiritual field and the emergent one, so practice empathy, compassion, intuition, and release all which obstructs your ability to swim in the ocean of collective consciousness. Those who have prepared will reap rewards and opportunities which will make 2024 enjoyable. Just keep in mind we’re all challenged to navigate the larger field disturbances coming now that Saturn is semisquare Pluto with even more friction coming in August.

Venus is a key player at present due to being in the chain of dispositors which includes Mars and Jupiter with all three ruling all the other planets except Neptune. If you want to know more about your Venusian power to shape your likes and affections into enjoyable interactions and friendships, please consider getting a copy of my book The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames. It is the most comprehensive book on Venus ever written, and explains why we attract who we do and how to create more satisfying relationships in the future. You will understand the foundations of long term healthy relationships and friendships, why Soul Mates come into our lives, and how to dance with your inner Beloved and mirror that to your world.

And now, a bit of final backstory to where we are today.

A View of How We Got Here

Where we have late Capricorn and early Aquarius in our chart is the focus of coming years due to a tremendous number of important conjunctions there in 2020 and 2021. The compressions in Capricorn led us to personal power and very long wave cycles showing our work for years to come. The March 2022 Aquarius compression created cycles of learning how to fulfill a greater role in the long wave Aquarian energy.

We’ve entered a new chapter in our spiritual journey at a fork in the road of our collective destiny. 2020 was about forging our connection with the World Soul, our Wisdom, and our greater dedication. 2021 began the new era in our lives. We’re all wiser than we used to be, have been given ample opportunities to value our heart connections with our friends, and display the vaster spiritual awareness we share with our Brothers and Sisters.

See you soon with parts two and three on this Full Moon which will bring us to a new way of viewing the past and how to express something enduring in our world. We’re now accelerating the pace in the new land, the new life, the new understanding, with a new sense of purpose.

Next up, Sabian Symbols, evolutionary configurations, and other important chart factors.

This article explains past, present, and future compressions, where they fall, and who they affect. The Great Compressions of early 2020, 2021, and 2022.

This one explains the January 2020 compression and the multiple conjunctions setting themes for decades! The Great Compression of January 2020 – Mercury, Sun, Saturn and Pluto all Conjunct in Capricorn.

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