The next two weeks bring many opportunities to “organize endings” as we harvest many things growing since the Summer of 2023. The pressure to move into the unknown has now given way to a graceful flow, with opportunities to express the spiritual power of gratitude and appreciation for what we have and what is coming between now and June.

This Full Moon fulfills the Aquarius New Moon themes, which means we’ve been getting clear about old disappointments and the strength we acquired in dealing with them. We’ve all confronted the need to “just do it” when it comes to our heart’s desire, though we’ve also seen the limitations of ego’s ability to engineer anything. Appreciation in the face of difficulty has generated forms of Divine Grace which in turn has yielded much more to be grateful for.

Some have turned away from an old social role “in the name of love,” and now we can face forward with a new sense of self-less dedication to a greater collective good. The way to get a grip on things is through the Moon in Virgo which offers opportunities to demonstrate skill “on the merry go round” to “win a prize.”

Evolutionary Configurations

This month we have two evolutionary configurations, 2 of which involve the Lunation and Saturn, and 2 of which involve Jupiter. Two are very favorable configurations, showing the next two weeks will be very productive as well as specializing, with interactive gifts and blessings across a wide range of signs. The only frictional configuration is released through the very favorable Jupiter via its square from Venus and Mars. We continue to be in a period of non-Lunar oppositions until early July when Mercury opposes Pluto. This month the configurations are (in no particular order of importance):

1) The Sun/Saturn and Moon opposition is cut into a sextile and trine by Jupiter, generating a very powerful productive stable understanding and awareness, with a very productive void between 5-12 Scorpio. This will be a favorable influence on planets we have between these degrees of all the Earth and Water signs. As with last month’s Full Moon, whatever was taken away by the recent Scorpio Lunar eclipse which has helped us “break away from the known and familiar” now can be filled with whatever this Lunation brings us in our Scorpio sector.

2) The Sun/Saturn and Moon opposition is cut into a quintile and tredecile by Uranus, activating three points of a “10 Pointed Star of Quintessential Serendipity.” Pluto also fits into this configuration by its biquintile to the Moon, its decile to the Sun, and its tredecile with Uranus, bringing a fourth point into play. This will bring gifts and blessings of both a personal and interpersonal nature to the fore. Zones most affected include 1-5 Aquarius/Leo, 5-11 Pisces/Virgo, 11-17 Aries/Libra, 17-23 Taurus/Scorpio, 23-29 Gemini/Sagittarius, and 29-30 Cancer/Capricorn. If you have something in these zones, prepare to individualize, specialize, and either be gifted or gift another!

3) Venus/Mars is square Jupiter with all semisquare Neptune. This activates an “8 Pointed Star of the Need for Right Action.” This will primarily affect planets and points near 7-13 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, as well as 12-28 Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.

If you have something in one of these zones, be cautious as you move through the fogs while seeing what to launch, what to pull back from, the larger dedication in front of you, and the need for heart, courage, and the ability to walk away from whatever whenever. Listen to the inner voice and you will hear your Master’s wisdom whispered in your ear.

A special note should be given to the Moon triseptile Venus and Mars, since this puts several sectors of our charts at crucial forks in the road of destiny. This primarily impacts planets and points near 4-8 Virgo, 26-30 Libra, 17-21 Sagittarius, 8-12 Aquarius, 29 Pisces-3 Aries, 21-25 Taurus, and 13-17 Cancer. If you have something in one of these zones, then expect crucial choices in that sector of your chart, with side effects where you have Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Libra, and Scorpio.

Major Aspects

Besides the various aspects I gave you related to the evolutionary configurations, forming (or partile separating) inner planet aspects include the Moon quadranovile Neptune; Mercury is quindecile Venus, conjunct the Sun, quindecile Mars, conjunct Saturn, quintile Uranus, and quindecile Neptune; Venus is quindecile the Sun and conjunct Mars; and the Sun makes only the configuration aspects.

Outer planet aspects include Mars making the above 8th harmonic aspects; Jupiter is sextile Saturn and conjunct Uranus; Saturn is vigintile Neptune and novile Pluto, and Uranus is again septile Neptune and tredecile Pluto.

Friction comes from three opposition, 2 semisquares, and 2 squares. As noted the square serves to release the power of what is built by the sextile and trine to Jupiter, so Jupiter is very favorable and helps us eliminate what is incompatible with our life enjoyment and generate love, creativity, and/or heart strength in the process.

This month features a lot of spiritual aspects. In the series related to destiny and “fate,” we find 1 septile and 2 triseptiles. In the 9th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, we have 1 novile and 1 quadranovile. In the 11th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, we have 1 bielftile. The specializing aspect series provides 1 vigintile, 4 quindeciles, 3 quintiles, 2 tredeciles, and 1 biquintile.

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 an abnormal year of 6 eclipses. We had a January Lunar eclipse at 20 Cancer, a June Lunar eclipse at 16 Sagittarius, a Solstice Solar eclipse at 1 Cancer, a July Lunar eclipse at 14 Capricorn, a November Lunar eclipse at 9 Gemini, and a December Solar eclipse at 24 Sagittarius. As all the Lunar eclipses have a duration of a few months, all of these took away parts of our Lunar expression in 2020 and early 2021.

In 2021 we had the usual 4 eclipses. The May Lunar eclipse was at 6 Sagittarius, the June Solar eclipse was at 20 Gemini, the November Full Moon was a Lunar eclipse at 28 Taurus, and the December New Moon was a Solar eclipse at 13 Sagittarius.

In 2022, we had 4 eclipses. We had an April Solar eclipse at 11 Taurus and the May Wesak Festival Lunar eclipse at 26 Scorpio. We then had the October Partial Solar eclipse at 2 Scorpio and then the November Total Lunar eclipse at 17 Taurus. Again, 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. The June 2020 Solstice Solar eclipse in Cancer marked a change of allegiance for everyone, with hard adjustments and sacrifices for all, while the December 2020 Solar eclipse in Sagittarius has been removing all which would block our happiness. The June 2021 Gemini eclipse is removing old ideas, while the Dec 2021 Sag eclipse is removing blocks to our seeing a new identity.

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 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 2023 - On The Threshold of a Partial Lunar Eclipse at 6 Taurus-Scorpio which lists which eclipses are done and which are still in play (parts 1, 2, and 3 which followed elaborate on that eclipse.) And of course, there are numerous articles on the 30 Aries Solar eclipse which happened just last year.

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 eclipse features a radically imbalanced element distribution. At this time, of the traditional 10 planets, there are 4 planets in Water signs, 0 in Fire, 3 in Earth, and 3 in Air. This makes Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels) slightly preponderant, with a balance between Earth (Practicality and Grounding) and Air (Relatedness and Communications) with no Fire (Inspiration and Light) showing it must be generated from within.

Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, it’s slightly cooler than hot, but it’s not really hot at all. This is emotional, interactive, practical, but not inspired.

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 continues last month’s 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 feeling, then thinking and communicating, and then making a decision.

So initiate activity by feeling your way into ideas, perceptions, and information. Let your hunches lead to new knowledge. Then, after a new idea, vision, or understanding, then make a decision and act on it!

Try not to overplan too far into the future. Take your feeling-knowing one step at a time, and keep things in balanced motion, even if they go all over the place at times. Venus/Mars in Aquarius offers dispassionate regarding all interactions, so it should help blunt any tendency to impulsive decisions arising from the square to Jupiter.

With this pattern, we can feel our way to new knowledge and insights before we have to act on it. Once we’ve made a decision and acted on it, then a new feeling will naturally arise showing the next thing to learn about, communicate, or understand. So feel, flow, and experience, since these will lead you to ideas and views that will in turn lead to the next decision.

This pattern is sensitive to others’ feelings, and when healthy usually offers a positive and encouraging take on things. It is said this pattern has the best “bedside manner,” and can be a good sounding board to bounce all kinds of things off of until everything’s been discussed and processed so that a clear decision can be made. This pattern offers us that the journey of a thousand miles is truly one step at a time.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Having experienced many months of sextiles and quintiles to Saturn, we now can move forward with confidence as we see how we have mastered “flying by the seat of our pants” to get where we are. In some ways, the next two weeks will illuminate the Saturn processes of mastering these Piscean energies as we move toward a newer higher and deeper dedication.

Since Saturn went direct, we’ve moved into deeper waters of seeing life as a marketplace for doing trade-offs and demonstrating fairness and honesty. And the next two weeks the Sun illuminating Saturn will bring concrete forms of the life renewal we began in June 2023. And with Saturn still quintile Uranus, gifts and unique circumstances and blessings have been helping us blend the old with the new, the established with the innovative, wherever we have early Pisces and mid-Taurus!

Saturn gave us a review since June which called us to forms of renewal. We now have a different view of tolerance and compassion, and an ability to bargain and do tradeoffs in life. High specialization is guaranteed at this time and for the next few months. Follow your path to renewal you’ve been on since last June as you 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 how we express our Capricorn and Aquarius sectors and any natal or progressed planets we have in those signs. Though Saturn can feel heavy and bring heavy life lessons, it also in 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’re still in a long wave period of embracing our “mature role to play” in the emergent Aquarian era. Uranus awakened us to new roles while Saturn has “lightened up” and structured our Aquarius sector. Having brought us an accelerated evolution and tests of “picking up and delivering spiritual power” we now are mastering 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.

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 give form and structure to our quest for Self-realization; in Capricorn, it teaches us how to use personal power within a socially responsible context, while in Aquarius it teaches us how to make a greater contribution to our civilization and come together with others in a great effort “ensouled by a great vision.” Coupled with Uranus having awakened us to the fact that the old answers aren’t enough along with the need to accept spiritual power to shape our world, we are collectively “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.

And now, on a related note….

Venus is a key player due to it being part of the dynamic spiritual evolutionary configuration with Jupiter and Neptune. This may bring important internal decisions about our ideals and vision of the future as we finish this past year’s harvest. As it is on a degree of disappointment, withdrawal from old projections, whether our own or others’, with a need to “plan anew” in some Aquarian way in our chart.

During its long stay in Leo between June and October with a retrograde spanning almost the entire second half of Leo, Venus gave us a review of people and values past. We then moved forward in October with a different sense of others who help us play or be creative, or open our heart. We now have a different take on Venus’ power to create better relationships in the future, where we’re attracting friends with whom we can have fun and a sense of genuine fellowship.

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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

We are at the end of many months of endings, shifts in field and focus, transitions, and saying goodbye to many old things, people, and ways of living. We’ve also been in a time of embracing the rapidly developing forward movement requiring clear vision, compassion as we let things flow down the time stream, and deeper communion with our spiritual Brothers and Sisters. We’ve seen how attuned we are or aren’t, and since January 1 we’ve “assembled at the portal to a new world” ready to move into new work, new focus, new friendships, and new ways of using spiritual power.

The future is on the move, and now is the time to accept the harvests of the old year cycle along with the new responsibilities and new dedications which have come with the mastery we’ve attained since last Summer. We’re seeing where the past meets the future, and the next two weeks helps us embrace it with compassion and a sense of the larger work we’re doing. We now know the old answers and approaches don’t work, and have already built the bridges we need to move forward with others.

Because of the recent Solar eclipse in Libra, we’re in a time of seeing who or what needs nourishment and finding ways to offer it to them, or conversely, we may need to let those forms go in order to know new things to nourish. We’re still in a period of maximum productivity which will last at least another 3 months. 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 navigating humanity’s “liberating ordeal” while finding new inner strengths and powers the past three years, as well as needing to show gratitude for assistance from Devas and Angels who have brought us “divine help when human efforts seem to fail.” We’re now in a time of getting over our preconceptions.

In recent years we all reached some level on the “mountaintop” where we’ve found a “fellowship of spiritual Sisters and Brothers.” Demonstrate your skill, and remember that attaining the mountaintop only requires a) that we enjoy the view and accomplishment, and b) the awareness of when to begin the careful descent, since we don’t want to get caught on a mountaintop when lighting clouds are blowing in!

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 February 2024 Full Moon of 6 Pisces-Virgo Pt. 1 – New Harvests, New Dedication, New Service

The February 2024 Full Moon of 6 Pisces-Virgo Pt. 2 – Sabian Symbols Showing the Light of A Disciplined Dedication Expressed In Happy Reorientations