Aspects, Evolutionary Configurations, and More.

We’re finally out of Mercury retrograde! After several months of “saying goodbye quickly” followed by a fragmentation bomb or three and Mars going retrograde, this is still a time power, spontaneity, and showing flexibility. The next two weeks can bring great happiness if we show we can demonstrate emotional freedom despite the binding conditions.

This Full Moon fulfills the Sagittarius New Moon themes, which means we’ve been experiencing a quickening which will guarantee us “success” if we find the right perspective about our liberation into a greater happiness. We now move forward into a better future, even if the pace might be slower than we’d like.

As this Lunation has 2 Mutable T-squares, there’s a lot of fragmentation which will require integrating or re-integrating using effective Virgo methods. The void of a T-square shows the problem and the solutions, so whatever is moving in multiple directions needs order so that the process can move forward without extraneous movement to the side or even backwards.

We have a fair amount of friction these next two weeks courtesy of the 2 T-squares involving the Moon, Mercury, Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune! Add Sun quincunx Uranus, Mars opposed Pluto, and Venus making semisquares to the Sun and Neptune and sesquisquares the Moon as part of that Octile configuration, and we have a lot of tension despite the larger theme of finding love and happiness these next two weeks.

Just be clear about what roles you’re willing to play (and not!), think big but not overly grand, withdraw from relationships you neither want nor need, and plan anew. If you get into strange indirect struggles when there doesn’t need to be, focus narrowly and remember you have other things going on than that particular struggle. Because the Sun is in Sagittarius, keep dancing with life, see the humor in things, and be flexible as you move forward into a happier future.

Evolutionary Configurations

This month we have 6 evolutionary configurations, two involving the Lunation and two involving Pluto. In no particular order, this month the configurations are:

1) The Sun and Moon join with Venus and Neptune to create 4 points of an “8 Pointed Star of the Need for Right Action.” The Sun and Moon are both square Neptune, forming a Mutable T-square. Venus makes semisquares to the Sun and Neptune, and is sesquisquared by the Moon. This requires that we find a correct response as multiple conflicting forces all push and pull, each in its own way dominant in its area. This most affects planets and points around 7-14 Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, and Taurus, as well as 22-29 Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.

2) The Moon/Sun opposition is cut into a decile/biquintile by Pluto. This fills three points of a “10 Pointed Star of Quintessential Serendipity” promising unique circumstances and gifts, “quintessential” experiences with a potential for genius to come forth. The opposition provides “tensional awareness,” and the other planets provide specialization and interactive blessings due to biquintiles being uniquely interactive relationships. Areas most affected include 1-3 Aquarius/Leo, 5-9 Pisces/Virgo, 11-15 Aries/Libra, 17-21 Taurus/Scorpio, 23-27 Gemini/Sagittarius, and 29/30 Capricorn/Cancer. If you have something in one of these zones, except specialized circumstances, gifts, and blessings these next two weeks.

3) We are all still dealing with Jupiter square Saturn and sesquisquares Pluto with Saturn semisquare Pluto. This fills in 3 points of another “8 Pointed Star of the Need for Right Action,” but in a different sector of the Mutable signs. You can find out more about this very long term semisquare from Saturn to Pluto in Saturn in Pisces Semisquare Pluto in Aquarius – Navigating the Friction. I associate this with the widespread global tensions as it marks the first emergent “crisis of action” in the current Saturn/Pluto cycle which began in 2020. The first article in this series has links explaining those larger long term Capricorn cycles which are in play.

This primarily affects planets near 1-3 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, 12-18 Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, as well as 27-30 Cancer, Libra, Capricorn, and Aries. Lots of pressure for you to know what to do and how to do it these past 8 months and a few more to come!

4) Though widely square Saturn and opposed Jupiter, Mercury creates a wider span for the above tensions and conflicts. Now that it’s direct, it’ll create another very tight T-square with Jupiter and Saturn pretty much the last 10 days of the month. For the next two weeks, the span is widened to 1-3 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, 5-18 Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, and 20-30 Cancer, Libra, Capricorn, and Aries. As you can see, we’re all going to be dealing with this one through the end of the month!

5) Mercury is sextile Venus and opposed Jupiter with Venus trine Jupiter. This is a very powerful and productive configuration, giving awareness and stable understanding to any planets we have between 7-16 Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius.

6) Though separating, the Mars biquintile Saturn and quintile Uranus with Saturn quintile Uranus is still within orb. This creates 3 points of a “5 Pointed Star of Quintessential Specialization,” a configuration which brings forth the uniqueness in any thing, or some sort of special quality. Points affected include 12-16 Pisces, 24-28 Taurus, 2-6 Leo, 14-18 Libra, and 26-30 Sagittarius.

Major Aspects

Besides the various aspects I gave you related to the evolutionary configurations, forming (or partile separating) inner planet aspects include the Moon pentelftile Mercury and novile Mars; Mercury is sextile Venus, vigintile the Sun, trine Mars, and tredecile Neptune; Venus is trine Jupiter, decile Saturn and biseptile Uranus; and the Sun makes a binovile to Saturn.

Outer planet aspects include Mars making a septile to Jupiter and opposition to Pluto; Jupiter is binovile Neptune; Saturn makes only those aspects already mentioned; and though temporarily out of orb, soon Uranus will again sextile Neptune and Neptune will be in close sextile with Pluto in 2025!

Friction comes from 4 semisquares, 4 squares, 2 sesquisquares, and 1 quincunx. Semisquares are internal friction at the beginning or end of a cycle, and to me represent the irritating metaphoric “grain of sand” in the oyster of our lives which creates a pearl or awareness.

Squares are integrative, while sesquisquares are interactive, annoying and/or agitating, but not necessarily crisis producing. A quincunx always represents an adjust or sacrifice of some sort. Just remember to decrease aggravation when a frictional aspect is in play.

This month’s aspects: In the series related to destiny and “fate,” we find 1 septile and 1 biseptile. In the 9th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, we have 1 novile and 2 binoviles. In the 11th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, we have 1 pentelftile. The specializing aspect series provides us with 1 vigintile, 2 deciles, 2 quintiles, 1 tredecile, and 2 biquintiles.

For those new to the craft, quintiles and biquintiles are 5th harmonic aspects, septiles and triseptiles are 7th harmonic aspects, noviles are 9th harmonic aspects, deciles (semi-quintiles) and tredeciles are 10th harmonic aspects. The elftile series are 11th harmonic aspects, the quindecile is a 15th harmonic aspect, and the vigintile is a 20th harmonic aspect. Each of these has a unique function in the phase relationship of the two planets in aspect.

The 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th harmonic aspects are specializing and bring forth partially or fully developed quintessential elements of the planets involved. The novile (9th harmonic), septile (7th harmonic) and elftile (11th harmonic) series all feature spiritual aspects. All novile series (9th harmonic) aspects represent entry or exit points of periods of gestation which can bring forth possible spiritual developments. These aspects indicate things which need to be put on the shelf for a while, or that which has been gestating can now move forward. They represent gestative energies that can lead to great spiritual realizations.

Septile series aspects represent forks in the road of destiny, where we make choices determining karmic future developments. This series is ruled by Saturn, where we create and fulfill karma by our choices during those phase shifts. The 11th harmonic elftile series aspects involve situations where there is a need to transcend and master some form of duality by making a leap of faith. In transcending those dualistic situations, dilemmas, challenges, and thinking, we resolve the problem and learn techniques of mastering those sorts of dualities in the future. This series tests our faith. Both the 7th and 11th series involve non-rational aspect values, bringing an element of irrationality in behavior and circumstances.

The various aspects in all these different harmonic series indicate points where the theme of the Whole Cycle becomes clear, whether through major developments or minor refinements in the process. Each aspect shows a phase relationship, specific to the special and unique circumstances of that particular Whole Cycle. It's how we can know when to work, when to play, when to create, when to imagine, when to have faith, and when to mobilize!

If you want to know more about these aspects, when you’re done here please go to The Specializing Aspects Pt. 1 – Quintile, Tredecile, Decile, and Biquintile, The Specializing Aspects Pt. 2 – The Quindecile and Vigintile, and The Spiritual Aspect Series – The Novile, Septile, and Elftile Harmonic Aspects where you’ll find more about the meaning of these aspects and the glyphs associated with them. Also, remember that all of these set up harmonic resonance void points all over our charts.

The Eclipse Factor

We’ve had a long run of eclipses which continue to affect us. In 2020 we had a Solstice Solar eclipse at 1 Cancer and a December Solar eclipse at 24 Sagittarius. In 2021 we had a June Solar eclipse at 20 Gemini and a December Solar eclipse at 13 Sagittarius. In 2022, we had an April Solar eclipse at 11 Taurus, a May Wesak Festival Lunar eclipse at 26 Scorpio, an October Solar eclipse at 2 Scorpio and a November Total Lunar eclipse at 17 Taurus.

In 2023, we had an April Solar eclipse at 30 Aries, a May Wesak Festival Lunar eclipse at 15 Taurus/Scorpio, an October Solar eclipse at 22 Libra, and an October Lunar eclipse at 6 Taurus/Scorpio. This year we just had an April Solar eclipse at 20 Aries, and this Wesak Festival Full Moon at 5 Taurus/Scorpio. As I explained in earlier articles, all the Lunar eclipses work over just a few months, while Solar eclipse effects last for years.

As you know, I see all eclipses as “cosmic recyclers” removing what we no longer need in the houses where they occurred. All these Solar eclipses, along with others, have allowed us to “shed skins” wherever we have 9, 19, and 30 Pisces, 28 Aquarius, 29 Leo, 10 Virgo, and 21 Virgo, as well as the degrees of the recent eclipses at 1 Cancer, 24 Sagittarius, 20 Gemini, 20 and 30 Aries, 11 and 22 Libra and 13 Sagittarius. As you can see, that involves a large part of our charts! You can find out which Solar eclipses are still showing effects by referring to Astrology in October 2024 - On The Threshold of an Annular Solar Eclipse at 11 Libra which lists which eclipses are done and which are still in play (other parts which followed elaborate on the current eclipse.) That list has links to all Solar eclipses for the past 13 years.

A good meditation would be to take a look back at how something related to those points in your chart ended after those eclipses, and examine how new events, new people, and new life experiences came in those chart areas. All our losses of the past few years associated with these signs have left voids which have attracted, are attracting, or will attract life contents more appropriate to who we are now. Alternately, you may be feeling a void because someone else really isn’t there. Now it’s time to turn to what will nourish you.

Element Balance

This Full Moon continues an imbalance in the elements, with Fire and Air in the forefront. At this time, the traditional 10 planets show 2 planets in Water signs, 3 in Fire, 1 in Earth, and 4 in Air. This makes Air (Relatedness and Communications) and Fire (Inspiration and Light) preponderant with a decent amount of Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels) and relatively little Earth (Practicality and Grounding).

Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, it’s balanced. This should be good for inspired ideas and visions of the future.

The current sequence at present of Deciding, Feeling, and Thinking

We’ve been through several different sequences over the past few months. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses. This begins a new pattern. For now, as a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience over the next four weeks involves beginning activity with thinking, then deciding, then feeling.

This pattern leads with a vision, or an understanding, or a communication, and then makes decisions and actions based in those things. While it is tempting to move back into more thinking, communicating, and envisioning, it is more important to move from deciding or acting into feeling what we’re experiencing as a result of those actions and decisions, and bring those feelings to the surface of your consciousness and get clear about what you’re feeling and why.

By naming the feeling or experience, it will naturally lead us back to new information, new vision, new ideals, and new understanding upon which you can do your next set of decisions and actions. Then again name what you’re feeling. That way nothing will get bottled up through underuse, and you can move through experiences with power and clarity.

What is your vision or understanding telling you that you must do? Are your ideas inspiring action? Let your knowledge lead you to make clear decisions.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because of its dance with Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto for months to come, Saturn is a major player in creating dynamic change through letting go of the past, finding a new way to focus our spiritual will with courage and intention. Saturn’s now direct, and with all the unique gifts and blessings promised by the evolutionary configuration Saturn’s in, we’re on our way to utilizing our “camouflage” we might need to do our destiny and continue to receive what nourishment we need. Saturn is bringing us important Piscean lessons wherever we have mid-Pisces in our charts, and important decisions to planets we have in the middle degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.

Saturn has led us through a major life renewal since June 2023, so continue to follow that compassionate understanding because we must release all we cannot take into the Saturn in Aries phase beginning next year. Saturn brings maturity and structure to Pisces, and so is teaching us to open to the Grace which comes from forgiveness coupled with gratitude. Let go, let God, and let it flow down the timestream.

Saturn, our “spiritual teacher and spiritual friend” in Pisces brings an ocean of water to our Capricorn/Aquarius sectors and any natal or progressed planets we have in those signs. Though Saturn can accompany heavy 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 our higher destiny brings us new parts to play on the stage of Life.

We’re still in a long wave period of saying goodbye to old roles and embracing newer more effective roles to play in the emergent Aquarian era. We continue to master navigating the fogs and illusions of Pisces, finding understanding, Divine Grace, and spiritual power in forgiveness and steering the process of closing out old ways as they present themselves.

We’ll have Saturn quintile Uranus for many months to come, so enjoy the dance of specialization between what has been and what’s emerging. As Saturn gives us a review of the past at this time, Uranus brings us to a threshold of a major life renewal, with major effects to be found in planets we have near 26-30 Taurus, 8-12 Leo, 20-24 Libra, 2-6 Capricorn, and 14-18 Pisces. Unique gifts and blessings bridging past and future are shown for those zones!

I explain how Saturn and Uranus work together so we can take command of our destiny in my book Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. Saturn helps us understand what we must do to fulfill our unique “destiny of Self-realization;” Its Capricorn qualities teach us how to use personal power within a socially responsible context, while its Aquarius qualities show us how to make a greater contribution to our world and join with others in a great effort “ensouled by a great vision.” Uranus is now helping us renovate our sense of duty, specializing it for our unique gifts, and is now leading us into a a major life renewal in the Autumn and Winter.

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.

And now, on a related note….

Venus is a key player due to being the Herald for the Sun and Mercury, being part of the Great Octile configuration, and biseptile Uranus, which it rules. She now opens us to planning anew at 10 Aquarius, withdrawing from some projections we’ve put on others and they’ve put on us. As it is in a forming trine to Jupiter it is extremely favorable for new ideas, new connections, and finding a sustainable rhythm after feeling the relief and happiness promised by Mercury.

When Venus conjuncted Pluto a few days ago, it renewed the initial pulse set into motion in Dec 2020 with the Grand Mutation Jupiter conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius. As you know, that launched a 20 year Aquarian era and a 200 year era of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in Air signs rather than the Earth signs of the past 200 years.

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It has chapters on the qualities of each sign’s natural mate, the qualities of Venus in each sign, and when crucial choices and changes are made, affecting who we attract in the future. It was written for both astrologers and lay people, and as it has a thousand gems for better relationships, with self, others, and Source, please consider getting your copy by going to the link above! (And when you’re done, please leave a review on Amazon, since it helps the book and all other books on astrology as well!)

Summing it Up

Having “said goodbye quickly” to various things and people and endured a major fracturing these past 3 months, we now get to move forward, “called to love’s feast.” This will potentially be a very happy two weeks despite the disappointments, which will help us “plan anew.” The many Mutable squares and oppositions are helping keep us flexible; Virgo is the solution to many problems.

This is a season of leaving things behind because “the center has given way” and there’s no more magnetism holding certain things together. We now move forward in many ways as we adapt to the slowed pace of Mars retrograde. As has been the case since late October, Mars opposed Pluto encourages us to moderate our responses, take a look at indirect or passive struggles as showing us what or who to withdraw from, and get behind, around, or underneath corrosive influences from collective consciousness and/or someone’s subconscious mind.

Beware of passive-aggressive influences while moving toward “love’s feast.” Decrease contention, discover a faith allowing nourishment to be “brought up” by simple, natural efforts. We’re acquiring knowledge which can ensure effectiveness in the future, as well as an ability to steer the momentum of things to a perfect landing.

Despite the different pace, get as much done as you can, stay connected with Source, and honor your deep feelings which connect you to all Beings. This is a time of enhanced “non-local awareness” as we navigate several sets of foggy passages, so get clear and stay clear about the joyous promise of the future focused as an ability to glide across the surface of the hard conditions.

See the deeper elements in Nature teaching you about life passages, quicken to the promise which will be fulfilled in the Spring, and accept the power while also understanding that enlightenment is a verb rather than a noun, and it can be found in relative comfort as well as austerity. Pay no attention to the confusion, dread, or uncertainty as you find the “cloak” you need to go into the world so you are not exposed to the destructive elements now raging.

Jupiter continues its review of mid-Gemini as it also squares Saturn for the second time since August. Open to new ideas and don’t let fear, ambiguity, or dualistic arguments deflect you from new ideas and new angles of understanding. Jupiter in Gemini helps us see things from many different points of view, find a sense of humor and perspective, and how to imitate to learn and grow.

Since January 1 we’ve begun movement into a new world, and been forced to give up lesser things as a greater life presented itself. With each coming year, we’ll see definite movement away from the ideas which dominated the old 200 year Earth Era and see more of the emergent 200 year Air Era launched at the December 2020 Solstice.

This transitional period requires that we ask ourselves certain questions related to our spiritual purpose, fearless as we are One with the World Soul and walk through the world but are not “of” the world. We have been finding new inner strengths and powers the past four years, and learned the spiritual power of gratitude which brought assistance from Devas and Angels. We’re now in a time of imagining new ways to be who we are while serving a greater good.

Forgiving much with compassion for the generic human condition, we are being released from all which doesn’t serve our momentum into our greater purpose. This is the heart of a global acceleration in transforming those who are part of a greater service and group work. Embrace a new identity, a new love, a new spiritual awareness, and a new spiritual expression in grounded ways, so keep your mind and heart open and keep coordinating your body, feelings, and mind to demonstrate a stable and harmonized Soul energy. That's a great part to play as we dance through life's changes!

A Meditation on Light and Shadow

Because life seems to be a never-ending experience of out-breathing elements of the past and in-breathing elements of the new, it is useful to remember that when we are moving through major changes, and something new is introduced into our lives, it means that something else must leave, or has already left, to provide space for the new to be embraced. And lesser wisdom must give way to greater wisdom, and old forms give way to newer realities. As I’ve offered before “enlightenment” is a verb more than it is a noun.

While sometimes having to say goodbye to older, lesser ways of life can be a drag, it is important to remember that even though life can occasionally be painful, we do not have to suffer. And as we learn to break the link between pain and suffering, we heal our part of humanity and the world.

For your contemplation, a final meditation I offer each month at the end of our Full Moon journey of exploration.

We are Light. All things are composed of Light in various frequencies that express as limitless forms. Some light frequencies are of greater density than others.

All shadows result from light hitting a dense object. Psychological shadows too. Therefore, it’s good to become as translucent and translucid as possible to dispel lurking shadows.

If you must look at and/or deal with shadows, whether your own or another’s, then refocus your Light on the object being illuminated, since that form is the source of the shadow.

Find the correct 4 angles of illuminating whatever you want to focus on, and all shadows will be dispelled. Then you’re seeing things with an illuminated mind, and can act accordingly.

Previous articles in this series:

The December 2024 Full Moon of 24 Gemini-Sagittarius Pt. 1 – A Joyous Gear Grind With Mercury Direct!

The December 2024 Full Moon of 24 Gemini-Sagittarius Pt. 2 – Sabian Symbols Showing the Light of Happiness Expressed By Rising Above Limiting Conditions

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