The next big event in the sky is the Capricorn Full Moon. This is the Moon opposing the Cancer Sun, just in time for the July 4 holiday in the United States (which commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence). This occurs synchronously with a number of other events, all of which spark up the Uranus-Pluto square and keep the focus on the Aries Point. That’s another way of saying: count yourself into the story. Why be dragged along by the brutal, crushing movement of society when you can jump in and play the game? Or maybe you just want to jump out of the game — and it might actually be a good week for that.
Anyway, this is quite the chart for the solar return of the United States, and it’s probably going to be a pretty interesting week. The Capricorn Full Moon is exact at 2:52 pm EDT on Tuesday, July 3. The Full Moon is still close enough to the Uranus-Pluto square (just four degrees away) to fire that up with full force.
It’s so close indeed that just a few hours before the Full Moon, we have the latest (fourth, I think) Moon-Pluto occultation, part of a series of events that are helping define our era. The last one was part of the Venus transit; it’s been a month since that happened. The occultation happens at 8:11 am EDT on Tuesday, July 3.
Then Mars ingresses Libra at 8:31 am EDT July 3. Mars has been in Virgo since November, including making a long retrograde in that sign over the winter. This is a shift in the energy — Mars moving from a slow, mentally oriented mutable sign into a faster vibration cardinal sign. Ingressing Libra, Mars opposes the Aries Point, and it opposes Uranus, and it squares Pluto — meaning a few things. One is that now Mars is activating the Uranus-Pluto square. Also this is a caution to beware of power struggles, especially in personal relationships.
All three of these are one synchronous event: Capricorn Moon occulting Pluto, Mars ingressing Libra and the Capricorn Full Moon.
However, before this happens, through the weekend we have the Moon spending most of its time in Scorpio. It will oppose Vesta and Sedna in Taurus. The Scorpio Moon can be lusty and passionate, though with Vesta and Sedna involved, there is an element of detachment. I suggest you make contact with people who are willing to go there with you, rather than trying to get that contact from people who are not interested.
All of this is happening with Mars in the last degrees of Virgo, which may be setting off some of the most sensitive planets in your chart. Then Mars changes signs, leaving a whole phase of our lives behind. Remember what you learned about healing, and healing anger and desire in these months.
The Libra ingress will present a test of how well you did; you may need to re-focus on healing, as hidden material comes to the surface in relationships. The key here is balance, and seeing both sides of the story.
Mars in Libra tends to go one of two ways: flying off in anger, or easy-going and enthusiastic. With all the tension and rumbling energy in the air from Uranus-Pluto, plus the polarization of waxing Moon, this sounds like a good time to pause, weigh your options, use your inside voice, and try to notice not only when you’re feeling emotionally triggered, but to really check how deep/old the reaction’s roots are. I know this is asking a lot if you’re about to bite someone’s head off, but it will be worth pausing.
Meanwhile, that series of Moon-Pluto occultations is wearing away something, and Uranus-Pluto is shaking things up. With the Cancer Sun in opposition and square to these, there’s a lot of sensitivity that people might not know what to do with. The easy answer is to lash out at those closest to us, those in our homes — whether literal or figurative homes, material or cyber. It’s also easy to become obsessive, and to feel at the mercy of powers larger than yourself.
If you’re feeling anger, deal with it constructively, and make sure you direct it as gently as possible, in the right direction. Are you really lashing out at your mother when you yell at your roommate, Facebook friend, lover or boss? Perhaps you’d be better served by a good therapy session, some hands-on activism, or some really hot sex. Check which of these options is open to you.
Note: Mars making aspects to Uranus and Pluto is astrology associated with accidents. Make sure you drive gently, with intention, and most of all, in sober, alert condition. If your holiday plans are still open, I suggest that less driving is better next week, and if you must, be as conscious and professional behind the wheel as you want your airline pilot to be handling a 737.
More details starting Sunday night in Daily Astrology & Adventure.
Hey Eric, thanks for adding that! Thanks Amanda too! I feel I can take care of myself when I need to, and I too have been able to free a lot lately. It feels great, particularly in releasing any guilt or shame and the reasons why I should feel those things. But I won’t lie, I want to be able to open myself more freely with another person. There are, for me, tangible walls that keep me from accessing things I want to access better. Def that is psychological work for me, but mostly its just getting in there and having fun. Right now though, that opportunity isn’t present, but I trust it will be soon enough.
Cheers,
Happy Independence Day! And Happy Canada Day too!
in honor of Independence Day I would affirm that — I have found it easy to go deep into myself these days. This frees me into the deeper pleasure that comes with accessing the spots that want healing. I am finding it only inspiring and liberating that some people around me are getting very good sex. Saying yes to that and yes to myself has a beautiful way of freeing me…
“And I’d love the hot sex option, but no one wants to play with me……”
gee, i think some of my hottest sex has been all by myself. don’t forget that option!
😉
PS: His body has been sent down south for a tox screen.
“I suggest that less driving is better next week, and if you must, be as conscious and professional behind the wheel as you want your airline pilot to be handling a 737.”
Our admin assistant’s brother died in a vehicle accident in her home community yesterday. This is a community of 150, with no road access.
http://www.tlicho.ca/communities/wekweeti
Do watch your driving.
“less driving is better next week,”
Is that for next week only or longer?
Lunesoleil,
The traditional view of the Moon when it is in the sign of Scorpio, compared to how I feel, differs. I have a natal 12th house Moon in Scorpio. I’m not suggesting the description for the natal placement is entirely incorrect. It’s just that for 2 or so days every month, the power of desire (my desiring nature) ceases to exert control over me. That is a nirvana moment.
Be, thank you. The arrow analogy is *most* helpful. I’m okay with what you’ve provided here. Not being even an amateur astrologer, I find my head feels like exploding if I try to get with too much technical detail. So anyway, as always, your contribution here is of great value! Thanks again.
@Kelly ,
The Moon in Scorpio is spent on my natal mars this night, it took that I myself struggle with my inner demons. I closing the eyes and I saw small bright shapes and I said to myself that I was in good hands…The Moon in Scorpio it is everything except the nirvana
Be: I do wish that for everyone..
Hugging, I love everything about Taurus. I am in awe of them, but I have no planets in Taurus. Hey, you have a nice blend!
“Remember what you learned about healing, and healing anger and desire in these months.”
Mars entering Libra will oppose my natal Chiron. Feels like extendo-healing… on those two topics combined. I am being very quiet and still, except for the moments when I am required to rise up and when I do so… I do it with far more of a controlled power than has been my habit all my life. The “difficult” people are people that need to be met with strength. No need to decimate. (Though some seem to be doing it to themselves. Not much I can do about that. Though I do try to de-bomb the situations.) In the case of work: I am the keeper of the actual reality within which we can work together. It has become partly my responsibility to ensure the work continues with five disparate groups, proud of their own cultures, different one from the other, but bound by a common land.
In the case of more intimate relationship, I head to the bath instead. There really is something to spending that time with myself.
It feels like all the big possible stuff is “out there” in the public life, and the darker stuff needs to be kept in here, for now. A purge, in this area, is what it feels like.
It’s an odd feeling. I know I refer often to the 24-hour daylight. It’s a hard thing to ignore! Normally, this season makes me ultra social and pulls me out. But sitting solo in the sun with my books is really good. I leave that spot when I feel needed, when my support feels needed… Otherwise, I am in a basking state. Doing that healing and purging and learning.
And, so, when I am out there, time speeds. And when I am alone, time stretches slowly.
Yeti – wow. Thank you. This is my story right now: the fight that accompanies opening my heart. The rage that comes up in me is phenomenal, because who would love me, really? I am about to try and let some of that story go.
— S
Kelly,
Good question. I’m even more pickled because I have Taurus Moon opp Scorp Sun exact. So maybe I get the best of both Scorp and Taurus moons. My experience is generally a deep wash in waters very familiar and nourishing. For a Taurus moon, I’m generally feeling empathetic and grounded, meaning more open to others.
And a great summation here. I can’t decide if I should yell for joy at Mars’s exit or run and hide as it spazzez out on the cardinal cross thingy. And I’d love the hot sex option, but no one wants to play with me……
CaraS,
Thanks for asking about what a yod means. I will tell you what it means to me, with the understanding that after one learns a lesson (say about yods) it then goes through a process within the Learner so that (s)he can utilize it in a practical manner. Therefore I could send you to a website that explains the yod or i can tell you how I sense its meaning.
As Yeti explained, the two sextiled planets form stimulating aspects with a third “single” planet that they both quincunx. From that stimulation, the single planet will perform the particular type of energy its symbol represents, ie. Mercury will talk or write or read or ride a bike. However, the energy isn’t expressed in the manner it would be if not agitated by the sextiled planets. Rather, it will be the combined energy of the three planets, given expression through the one planet at the point of the triangle. It will blurt out if you will, as if pushed from behind. Depending on the three planets and which position they hold will determine much of how the energy is expressed and what it is about. What houses and signs also factor into the expression of the energy. If the single planet is in the 4th house it will express differently than if in the 9th house; Taurus as the sign the single planet is in will express differently than Leo and so on. This would be true even if it was just a single planet, but because it is emboldened, if you will, by the sextile that “quincunxes” it from both sides it will carry more energy. In the case below Mercury would speak with the added combined energy of Pluto and Chiron. I once described it as the energy of an arrow (Mercury in this case) pulled against a taut string of a bow, with (in this case) Pluto at one end of the string and Chiron at the other end. When the “arrow” has a “target” it is even more powerful. So if the Moon were opposite Mercury, she would be the target and then the expression of all that energy would likely manifest in some form of nurturing perhaps, or emotional display such as crying or ravenous hunger! Let me know if you would like a website to check out.
yeti, loved the hedgehog story.
Kelly, thanks for your observation of progressed Moon in the natal Moon sign. I will have to pay attention the next time that happens as I am not sure if there is an improvement or not. As a matter of fact, maybe we ALL feel wellness washing over us when the Moon is in Scorpio!
be
Does your mood improve when the moon is in your natal moon sign?
Mine does. An overall feeling of wellness washes over me for 2 days when the moon is in Scorpio.
I have the lightning will fall on me, but not not Thunder, love at first sight surprising you, but how do I avoid it?
You put me Eric Pluto showed me who do not, or who do not want to see it. Ah this Pluto he ma is a sacred Tower of magic, to get rid of it I would have change of computer keyboard.
Back to love at first sight, I will blinder me for not he me éblouisse, what I am astrologer, I can control the influence of the planets and if I want not the lightning move which will fall me over…
It is true that a March ♂ in Libra it is not very warm under the duvet and when he meets Venus ♀ in Libra guess what he talking about?
I will go in a monastery or a stay in the desert, to thwart the March plan coming opposite Uranus and pile hair on Venus, ah it fired Pluto but that es – what it mad here this one will fuck all in the air… it erases everything and it starts again…
“Unmindfulness doesn’t follow the emotion to its power cell where the emotional memory that established the habitual response is stored; it’s obsessed with the external view showing predators and abusers everywhere, the ghosts of memory standing between the mind that decides and the mind that perceives so that the present always looks like a caricature of the past. Dissolve the string, there’s nothing to pluck. The ghosts become transparent and the shining world of present time comes into view.”
Yowza. Thank you.
Yeti… what a wonderfully evocative response…
so many gems, in there…
“Anger has a way of hiding in numb spots until something external plucks the string and makes it sing.”
“… the ghosts of memory standing between the mind that decides and the mind that perceives so that the present always looks like a caricature of the past.”
i am copying and putting them on my FB page (www.facebook.com/birenshah64)… will be attributing to “a reader-contributor on eric francis’s planetwave blog – Yeti”. would love to see you come there… and more so, if you can comment and reveal your real-life name.
that’s valuable, but not why i am writing this…
your words pulled me with them, into a deep-dive inside those ‘numb spots’, making me realise how i was seeing the world as a stepdad.
and that was priceless.
simply, thank you.
And as being between an opposition and a trine.
Oops. What I mean is Yod is 2 quincunxes and a sextile. It’s the quincunx and not the yod as a whole that I refer to as “oblique resistance”.
Yod: Quincunx between an opposition and a trine. 150-30=120=Trine: 150+30=180=Opposition. Yod is 2 quincunxes applied to the same point by 2 bodies sextile each other. Opposition is face to face, oblique moves around the opposition taking some cues from the trine. In a yod the oblique resistors support each other with a sextile and apply their pressure to one point. Sort of like 2 wolves ganging up on one deer approaching from 2 mutually supportive oblique angles. Opposition is in the center of vision-Quincunx is in the peripheral where it’s harder to see the detail of the encounter, but movement can still be detected. But is it friend or foe? That’s easier to tell in the opposition.
beautifully put, yeti — seems to me, a number of us have been feeling this astrology for the last couple/few days, not just the next few. it’s good to hear how you’re processing and transmuting…
Yeti, beautiful heartfelt prose. Thank you for sharing your experience of the transit. I think many of us are on a similar growing edge, even if the circumstances vary…
…”try to notice not only when you’re feeling emotionally triggered, but to really check how deep/old the reaction’s roots are. I know this is asking a lot if you’re about to bite someone’s head off, but it will be worth pausing.”
Yes, thank you. Well said. Mars is squaring my lunar nodes right now, so I guess it’s revealing some unfinished business clogging the flow of my evolution. Hey, go figure: if I project an image of the world where I’m treating the world as if it’s my stepdad I feed those emotions and get those reactions. Hey, it’s just a wounded heart who really wants love, but feels its softness and wants to protect itself. But when it sees reflections of the stepdad everywhere it can’t stop protecting itself and starves like a city under siege. But the siege is maintained only by ghosts…not everyone is as hard to communicate with as Rush Limbaugh. A more gentle approach to others gets very different results.
I experienced a lovely encounter with a hedgehog yesterday that got me a little deeper into dissolving the storm clouding my heart protector. As she bit my fingers with her spikes up I became more aware of the vibrations around my heart. As I felt those vibrations calm down the hedgehog responded like a biofeedback meter and lowered her defenses whereupon I think we became friends. A little creature about the size of a human heart showed me a reflection of my heart.
Yeah, of course it’s hard for people to connect with me when I’m crouched like a hedgehog with her spikes up, teeth flashing. Of course I come off crass and brutal through words as a fearful Heart Protector meridian whispers fears of the stepdad to the typing brain, but typing brain isn’t paying attention and gets led like a moth to a flame war.
Anger has a way of hiding in numb spots until something external plucks the string and makes it sing. Unmindfulness doesn’t follow the emotion to its power cell where the emotional memory that established the habitual response is stored; it’s obsessed with the external view showing predators and abusers everywhere, the ghosts of memory standing between the mind that decides and the mind that perceives so that the present always looks like a caricature of the past. Dissolve the string, there’s nothing to pluck. The ghosts become transparent and the shining world of present time comes into view.
Be, you talk alot about the YOD aspect in all of your wonderful riffs. Understanding what it is from an angular sense, but not from a “what it means” sense. Can you reprise and/or elaborate?
“Use your inside voice”, what a great slogan! It made me smile when wondering if that was meant as the voice inside your head or the volume level your mom demands when the kids (or dads) are speaking inside the house. Both I would imagine!
A lot holds true for the U.S. Solar Return in what you have told us here for the Capricorn Full Moon. I’d forgotten about the Moon’s occultation of Pluto what with all the exciting astrology lately, but how ’bout the irony of the Moon conjunct the U.S. natal Pluto in the Sibly Return chart the next day? Is this a special emphasis on the FM’s message re: People (Moon) and Power (Pluto) and Government/Restriction (Capricorn)? We shall see.
From a personal point, with all the emphasis on the “malefics”, Pluto, Mars, Uranus, it does seem that lashing out, at least verbally, would be a likely thing. Fortunately, once Mars moves into Libra he won’t be bowing to Mercury but to Venus. Timely, huh? Especially since Mercury (as well as Pluto) participates in 2 – TWO – yods in both the Full Moon and U.S. SR charts. With the Pluto-Chiron sextile providing the oomph to Mercury in Leo in one of the yods (in both charts) and then a Venus-Mercury sextile providing the oomph behind Pluto in the 2nd yod (in both charts) it will take a great deal of self-controlled pausing should push come to shove. At least the Full Moon’s influence is only for a couple of weeks. I expect the politicians will keep the U.S. Solar Return yods fully activated till next summer.
However, I mentioned recently that Mercury in this Solar Return is near the U.S. north node, just like last year’s SR yod. I agree that these occultations of Moon to Pluto have to be wearing away something, and, for the U.S., I believe the twice-in-a-row solar returns featuring Mercury, Pluto and Chiron yods are doing something similar. Ditto on the SR chart’s repeat of the natal chart’s ascendant and midheaven this year. This seems to have a centaurian type of message. You know “pete and repeat” until we all catch on.
The conjunction of Jupiter to the south node in Gemini makes me think that large quantities of verbage will be released into the ethers for the next couple of weeks (if not all year), much of it due to whatever the Moon is wearing away from Pluto. With Mercury trine Uranus and Pallas-Athene in Aries and the north node in Sagittarius there has to be a pony somewhere in all this talk. My hope is that innovative (Uranus) plans (Pallas) are being mentally created (Merc in Leo) that take us down the path to our future (north node). It doesn’t just have to be just government’s ideas either. We can all take advantage of this marvelous energy and put it to creating our own futures.
be