- Aspects, Evolutionary Configurations, and More -

The next two weeks is a time to use gratitude and appreciation to bring forth renewal and release old complexes. See the dance of the inner and outer male and female as a chance to check up on your relationship integrity. Having sensed a need for self-preservation, this is a time to mobilize while remembering the old answers won’t solve your problems.

This Full Moon fulfills the Pisces New Moon themes of finding protection while being awakened through unique situations. With all planets in forward motion, our lives are now moving forward at a brisk pace in the signs between Capricorn and Gemini. If we want to get a grip on what’s happening, or know how to express the potential, look to the Moon in Virgo!

Evolutionary Configurations

This month we have five evolutionary configurations, two involving the Lunation, 2 involving Mars, and 2 involving Pluto. This Lunation is deepening, renewing, and will help us achieve closure on old ghosts we no longer need to remember. The next two weeks are about rapid forward movement, healing, specializing, and brings at least 2 important forks in the road in our lives! This month the configurations are (in no particular order):

1) The Lunation is extremely powerful due to two oppositions going on, with the Lunation cut by Uranus into a powerful sextile and trine. This generates a void at 14-19 Scorpio which should help us get our magnetism productive reoriented. Keep communication lines open, see the world of the 5 senses and the mind as “the playground of God and Soul,” be warm in your outreaches, trust your inner truth, see how you’ve transfigured, and say whatever your inner voice tells you to say. Be willing to try to communicate as you eliminate stuck feelings. Go for the deeper connection with Self, others, and Source, and if it’s time to say goodbye to something or someone, detach and see it as the parting of strangers.

2) The second configuration shows the Lunation cut into a T-square by Mars, generating a void in mid-Sagittarius, showing the problem and/or the solution to the tension generated by this configuration. Don’t get misdirected, focus your enthusiasms, make sure you’re seeing accurately, and have a sense of humor and/or adventure. This primarily affects planets or points near 15-24 Pisces, Gemini, Virgo, and Sagittarius.

3) The third configuration involves Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto making specializing aspects to each other. Mars is quintile Jupiter and biquintile Pluto with Jupiter quintile Pluto. This opens a “5 Pointed Star of High Specialization,” and due to the planets, involve a quickly developing interactive set of expansive seeds. This brings gifts and blessings of a unique nature to any planets or points we have near 28 Capricorn-2 Aquarius, 10-14 Aries, 22-26 Gemini, 4-8 Virgo, and 16-20 Scorpio.

4) The fourth evolutionary configuration is a very powerful 9th harmonic configuration with Mercury novile Venus and novile Pluto, and Venus binovile Pluto. This involves three points of a “9 pointed Star of Revelation,” and brings realizations which have been cooking a while to all who have planets or points near 1 Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, 7-11 Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, 17-21 Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, and 27-30 Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.

Our final configuration in play the next two weeks (as usual) involves the Grand Irrationality. In this chart we find Uranus is still septile Neptune, anchoring the general irrationality in the collective atmosphere. This is a configuration showing us “forks in the road of destiny,” and will primarily affect planets or points we have near 1-5 Aquarius, 23-27 Pisces, 14-18 Taurus, 5-9 Cancer, 26-30 Leo, 18-22 Libra, and 10-14 Sagittarius. The next time this will be stimulated will be March 13-18 when the Sun and then Mercury conjunct Neptune and septile.

Even though I gave you the link to the main article in part one of this series, in case you don’t know about the Grand Irrationality, there have been two iterations of it. The first Grand Irrationality (1993-2017) was anchored by Neptune septile Pluto, and the second Grand Irrationality (2018-2021) was anchored by Uranus biseptile Pluto, with Neptune occasionally configuring with Uranus in a septile, joining the two evolutionary patterns.

Both of the “Grand Irrationalities” represent non-rational aspect configurations associated with “forks in the road of destiny” blending the transpersonal revolutionizing of Uranus with the transpersonal “fog of mass consciousness” of Neptune with the purifying “death and rebirth” energy of Pluto.

While not configurations, I want to give a special nod to the Moon triseptile Jupiter and Mercury biseptile Mars, also bringing a nonrational energy to where they’re transiting. The Moon/Jupiter aspects indicate a need to be courageous and cooperative on your own terms as you enter new inner and outer negotiations. This primarily impacts 12-16 Aries, 3-7 Gemini, 24-28 Cancer, 15-19 Virgo, 7-11 Scorpio, 29 Sagittarius-3 Capricorn, and 21-25 Aquarius.

Mercury biseptile Mars is a definite turning point in our “hearing the call to self-renewal,” so be optimistic at this multi-faceted “fork in the road of destiny.” This primarily impacts 6-10 Pisces, 28 Aries-2 Taurus, 20-24 Gemini, 11-15 Leo, 2-6 Libra, 24-28 Scorpio, and 15-19 Capricorn.

Major Aspects

Besides the various aspects I gave you related to the evolutionary configurations, forming (or partile separating) inner planet aspects include the Moon quincunx Venus, and pentelftile Saturn; Mercury is conjunct the Sun, decile Jupiter, and conjunct Neptune; Venus is elftile the Sun, sextile Mars, and quindecile Neptune; the Sun is bielftile Mars, and vigintile Saturn.

Outer planet aspects include Mars trine Saturn, decile Uranus, and square Neptune; Jupiter is semisquare Saturn, elftile Uranus, and vigintile Neptune; Saturn is quintile Uranus, quindecile Neptune, and semisextile Pluto; and Uranus is again septile Neptune and tredecile Pluto.

Friction is up this month due to 2 oppositions, 3 squares, and 1 semisquare. Use good Scorpio skills to manage Sagittarius energies and keep them focused. Eliminate whatever needs letting go of while keeping your core desires in view. There are a lot of aspects requiring us to demonstrate faith to overcome some dualisms in the moment.

This month features many more spiritual aspects than last month. In the series related to destiny and “fate,” we find 1 septile, 1 biseptile, and 1 triseptile. In the 9th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, we have 2 noviles and 1 binovile. In the 11th harmonic series related to spiritual realizations, we have 2 elftiles, 1 bielftile, and 1 pentelftile. The specializing aspect series also provides a HUGE number of aspects, including 2 vigintiles, 2 quindeciles, 2 deciles, 2 quintiles, 1 tredecile, 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 have had 4 eclipses. We had an April Solar eclipse at 11 Taurus and the May Wesak Festival Lunar eclipse at 26 Scorpio. We just had our October Partial Solar eclipse at 2 Scorpio and now have experienced 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.

We’re also still experiencing past Solar eclipse “cosmic recycling” wherever we have 16 Capricorn, 21 Cancer and 19 Leo, due to eclipses on these degrees. The endings of 2018 and 2019 helped us get organized, explore what success really means to us, and find techniques to let go of prior fixed social roles.

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 November 2022 - On The Threshold of a Total Lunar Eclipse at 17 Taurus-Scorpio which lists which eclipses are done and which are still in play.

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 features a much more balanced element distribution than previous Lunations. At this time, of the traditional 10 planets, there are 3 in Water signs, 2 planets in Fire, 3 in Earth, and 2 in Air. This makes Earth (Practicality and Grounding) and Water (Feelings and Experiencing Life on Deep Levels) slightly preponderant, with a lesser degree of Air (Relatedness and Communications) and Fire (Inspiration and Light).

Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, it’s perfectly balanced with more Earth and Water, which are great for making bricks but avoid getting stuck in the mud of ambivalence or thinking what’s passing is viable in your 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 Lunation continues the pattern of the New Moon. As a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience over the next 4 weeks involves leading with our 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.

So lead with your vision, understanding, and what’s being communicated into decisions and actions. After the decision or action, sit with the feelings and experience them, bring them to a conscious focus and get clear about what you’re feeling and why. Just be careful not to get caught in a loop between thinking and doing while ignoring your feelings!

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because this Full Moon has Saturn at the last degree and minute of Aquarius in the degree of the Light Field, we stand on the threshold of the Saturn in Pisces era. This Lunation is about seeing our interrelatedness as individual sparks of Light in the larger galactic Light field. This one shows us the cusp of the Age which is coming in just a few decades!

Saturn, our “spiritual teacher and spiritual friend” now ends its time on center stage in its home sign of Aquarius. So Saturn’s still a major player in this third Full Moon of 2023 as a factor in 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 crystallizing more visionary roles to play in the emergent Aquarian era. Now we know what matters and what doesn’t. Uranus has awakened us to new roles to play, while Saturn has “lightened up” in Aquarius and having brought us new mutations and an accelerated evolution, we now get to show strength and resilience as we are tested to “pick up and deliver spiritual power.”

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….

Because Venus is extremely powerful in this chart as part of the spiritual realization configuration with Mercury and Pluto, and foreshadows what’s coming over the next few weeks as the Sun and Mercury transit Aries, this is a good time to demonstrate our integrity and genuineness in all our interactions. Keep rising to any occasion which expands you or withdraw from things which insult your integrity. Trust “the God within” and listen to the inner voice. Release what needs releasing, while keeping the focus on what you really want.

As Venus is leading the way between Aquarius and Leo for the inner planets this year, it will be helpful to learn all you can about 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.

If you want to see why you have attracted the friends and Soul Mates throughout your life, as well as learn why some of them had to move on, please consider getting a copy of my newest book, The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames. If you want to know more about Venus and why we like or don’t like the people and things we do, this is the book for you! You will understand the foundations of long term healthy relationships and friendships, why Soul Mates come into our lives, and how to know the difference between a Soul Mate and our Twin Flame.

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

This is a time to accept the huge transitions going on, saying goodbye to many old things, people, and ways of living while embracing the rapidly developing forward movement requiring clear vision, dual actions, and deeper communion with our spiritual Brothers and Sisters as we move forward in whatever got hung up or delayed in the Autumn. This is a time of renewal and the breaking up of old complexes by “our will to wholeness.” The old answers may not work, but with intuition and embracing the dance, we’ll find those who speak our language as we renew our vision and freedom.

Because of where Mars went stationary direct, use your “zen archer” skills to take aim at whatever social or emotional breakthroughs you’ve had the past few months. This is a time for optimism, flexibility, compassion, and purification. Still, when it gets stressful, get on your magic carpet and find “a strife transcending and unattached outlook on everyday reality.”

We’re still riding the new wave created by Mars conjunct Jupiter at 4 Aries in late May, learning ways to have fun naturally and being spontaneous as we eliminate negative energy and stuck feelings which leave us discontent. We are promised a new level of focused spiritual expression by Jupiter in Aries and had our dress rehearsal between May and October. We’re now launching the vision, so remember to have fun as you learn to dance into your future rather than be bogged down by the past.

We have now completed our practicum of utilizing spiritual power effectively in the context of our response to the global Wisdom released in May and June and graduated into a new realm. As we develop the potentials set into motion when Jupiter and Saturn conjuncted in Aquarius, 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 Aquarian Air Era quickened with the inner planet conjunctions with Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius in Jan/Feb 2021, with those pulses renewed this year by the final conjunctions with Saturn in Aquarius until 2050. The first was made by Venus at 25 Aquarius. The second was made by the Sun at 28 Aquarius, and the third was made by Mercury at 30 Aquarius at the fulfillment of the Transfiguration Zone! All of these will begin to manifest from now on.

Where these Aquarian conjunctions occurred in our charts show us the way to our long wave metamorphosis as we transition through the 33 year end of the Age of Pisces and begin to experience the quickening of this prelude to the Age of Aquarius. 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 the final season of humanity’s “liberating ordeal.” All of us have had opportunities to find new inner strengths and powers the past three years, as well as assistance from Devas and Angels who bring “divine help when human efforts seem to fail.” We now are in a time of getting over our preconceptions and cultivating true fellowship.

In the past 2 years, we’ve all reached some level on the “mountaintop” where we’ve found a “fellowship of spiritual Sisters and Brothers” we’re a part of. 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:

Here’s part 2: The March 2023 Full Moon of 17 Pisces - Virgo Pt. 2 – Sabian Symbols Showing the Light of Renewal Expressed as A Breaking Up of Complexes

Here's part 1: The March 2023 Full Moon of 17 Pisces - Virgo Pt. 1 – The Power of Renewal and Release As We Demonstrate Integrity

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