Midway — Capricorn Full Moon

When the cardinal Cancer Sun opposes the cardinal Capricorn Moon at 7:25 am EDT Saturday, they will combine to indicate you are midway through something significant.

Astrology by Len Wallick

The indication, and its use, will largely derive from how the Capricorn Full Moon will find the Sun only days away — and the Moon hours away — from the midpoints between the perpetually opposed lunar nodes.

One of astrology’s uses as a tool is to locate where you are in your life. Just as in the everyday world, orientation through astrology begins with the luminaries: Sun and Moon

The actual Sun, in its risings, settings and path across the sky, orients you to the primary directions (North, South, East and West), as well as to the time of year.

Similarly, the actual Moon, in its risings, settings and phases, provides information about both the directions and time of month.

When you locate the symbolic Sun or Moon on the zodiac at or near a midpoint between two objects, similar deductions are possible. The inferences are made by how astrology interprets midpoints in general, as well as in the special and specific case represented by the lunar nodes.  

In general, the midpoint between any two objects on the zodiac represents a threshold, border, boundary, center or axis of the relationship between the two objects in question.

The Sun halfway between two objects on the zodiac supports conscious awareness of how the two combine or relate to each other. Conversely, the Moon at midpoint offers intuitive insight into the combination or relationship presented.     

In particular, the midpoints between the perpetually opposing lunar nodes have an importance, value, and even a name all their own. The story begins with what the lunar nodes are, and proceeds with how they are important.

The two lunar nodes are not tangible objects, but rather points of intersection that can be interpreted as objects. From out in space, one would see the two intersections where the Moon’s orbit around Earth ascends above and descends below the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

From a terrestrial perspective, the nodes are where the respective solar and lunar paths in the sky may cross. Usually, the Sun and Moon do not cross through the intersection of their paths at the same time. When they do, eclipses happen. That’s the most important thing to remember about the lunar nodes: they are the points of intersection where eclipses take place.

From the viewpoint provided by looking at the zodiac circle, the Sun (which makes a complete circuit of all 12 signs once a year), encounters one of the slow-moving and perpetually opposing lunar nodes every six months. When the Moon, in its monthly circuit of the 12 signs, comes around to either conjoin or oppose the solar encounter with a node — voila! An eclipse.

Hence the Sun nearly halfway between biannual encounters with the lunar nodes means we are about midway between the eclipses of last April and next October. That itself is not an unusual event. It happens twice a year and is referred to as the Sun at “the bending” of the nodes.

What is unusual is to have the Moon opposing the Sun (and at the other midpoint, or “bending”) at pretty much the same time.

Implicitly, for Saturday’s Capricorn Full Moon, the lunar nodes will also be at the midpoints between the solar and lunar opposition. That’s a lot of reiteration on the theme of your being midway through something in your life.

It’s also a lot of support from the sky in helping you to both consciously and intuitively translate the midpoint theme to locate where you are in your life right now, especially in relationship to the time frame the immediately preceding and impending eclipses provide.

Additionally, the ascending (or “North”) lunar node is now in cardinal Libra, and the descending (or “South”) node is now in cardinal Aries.

That means the axis that connects the nodes across the zodiac will combine with the axis connecting the opposing luminaries on Saturday to create yet another iteration of the recurring grand cardinal cross (or square) you have been reading about here at Planet Waves all this year.

The grand cardinal cross combination represented by the orientation of the Cancer Sun, Capricorn Full Moon and lunar nodes to each other also supports orienting you. Especially so if you consider how this entire year may be a midpoint in an even longer, larger time frame beyond what even eclipses can delineate.

To paraphrase a line from Joni Mitchell’s song “Woodstock,” the Capricorn Full Moon this weekend is apparently combining to indicate not only a time of year, but also an auspicious time for our kind.

Saturday’s Full Moon will apparently have something to do with what you can both consciously apprehend and intuitively feel.

Indications are the impending luminary opposition also corresponds to both what happened for you in April and what you can contribute to create in October.

Furthermore, whatever you are midway through now as an individual is implicitly intersecting with some sort of midpoint for our species.

That’s a lot of data from one Full Moon. The information is useful in many ways, but in one way most of all.

The Sun, Moon and their points of intersection are combining this weekend to say that you and the rest of us are not at an end to be discouraged about.

Rather, you and the rest of us are to be encouraged by both knowing and sensing how we are somehow, some way, inseparably together and midway through something that transcends individual circumstance, history and possibly even what we call death.                      

That’s what this particular Capricorn Full Moon will have to say about where you, and the rest of us are. Now it is for you to take that information, and persevere to do something worthy of the special moment we are all so privileged to share.

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26 thoughts on “Midway — Capricorn Full Moon”

  1. Flavia: In answer to your additional question, i was indeed referring to the current, transiting lunar south node, not your natal descending node. In addition, to go beyond the “societal level” (and your intersection with it) to provide you with an answer to your initial question which is more resonant on a personal level, i would really need access to your whole natal chart to be sure of providing a holistic answer in context. Please send me an e-mail if you would like to negotiate a reading.

  2. Thank you for the reply, Len. And thanks for the reference.

    While Blashke’s gender-issues interpretation rings true at the societal level, it doesn’t really resonate for me at the personal level. At the same time, seeing the dates and points of earlier conjunctions certainly further illuminated the importance of the Venus-Mars cycles in my life. The first 2010 conjunction happened on my birthday etc etc. Looking at it in terms of some other evolutionary process associated with the Mars-Venus polarity/complementarity could work.

    The last conjunction one on Apr 6/7 2013 coincided with events that I can now see as the initiation of a really interesting study of synchronicity and the transcendence of duality.

    A question: your mention of the South Node refers to the current transiting nodes which are broadly coinciding with the Venus-Mars-conjunction point, not to my own South Node conjunction with the Full Moon right? It’s a bit confusing, since the 2 nodal axis (mine and the transiting) are almost squaring each other.

    Again, thanks! Great food for thought as always!

  3. Flavia: Thank you for your question. It’s a privilege to respond, especially because the answer which comes to mind fits the title of this piece – midway.

    Whenever anybody mentions Venus-Mars conjunction, it’s important to refer to a monumental piece by the late, great Robert Blaschke published by The Mountain Astrologer in 2010 (see link below).

    In the article Mr. Blaschke noted how an notable Venus-Mars cycle entered a century-long period of what he called “aberration” and “mutation” beginning in 1960. He correlated the exceptional period (which we are about midway through) with how the relationships between masculine (one way of looking at Mars) and feminine (one way of looking at Venus) are undergoing a long period of change which appears to correspond to about the same time frame (at least so far).

    Based upon reference to Robert Blaschke’s observations, having this “midway” Capricorn Full Moon in square to the point where Venus and Mars conjoined April 6/7, 2013 (and having that point closely conjunct the lunar south node) appears to highlight how we are midway through an evolutionary process which is still having some “difficulty expressing outwardly” (as our intrepid commenter “be” but it immediately above).

    Perhaps the difficulty of expressing a century’s progress midway through has to do with how the rigid structures of the established social order are not progressing as quickly as individuals living within the structure (stricture?) are.

    Please, how does that work for you? If not satisfactory, please say so.

    http://mountainastrologer.com/tma/aberrations-in-the-venus-mars-cycle

  4. Len, hope you’re not done with this thread yet. There’s a lot – at least for me – to digest about this Full Moon. It happened on my nodal axis – I have NN at 19 Can 57. Interestingly, it squares the last Venus/Mars conjunction from Apr 6, 2013, which happened at 19 Aries 57. Could you say something about that? It’s particularly interesting to me – I have Jup on 19 Aries 16 (and other karmic influences on 19+ – Saturn in 19 Aquarius 11 as well as asteroid Karma on 19 Virgo 53). Thks!

  5. Many additional thanks to Bette Loreen (with special healing wishes to your ill friend), jennifer hamel, marymack, be (nobody’s perfect, missed that myself), Amanda (cogentl ponderings), patty, Jude (generously supportive), aword, zenMaven, stargazer (so very kind), and especially cj for her first Planet Waves comment ever – thank you all for being the “village” that made this blog happen!

  6. Thanks Len, this weekend certainly feels huge and your words help to appreciate that it is micro & macro pulsing back and forth. 2014 certainly is a lot to take in.

  7. Jude,
    Thanks for the info piece from NPR, I hadn’t read it. History certainly keeps repeating itself, but maybe because we never take time to forgive it? Think of all the women across time and space who have sold their daughters, aborted them, or gave them away, so they could secure a thin strand of hope for the future. We’re all in this together.

  8. Be, my friend (extended family member) in Brazil said that in Brazil it is you tube videos from Brazilians who are already here. I know I read about posters and billboards, so will have to look back to see who said it. We became acquainted in the early 80s with people who immigrated from El Salvador, escaping political violence of the civil war. There were death squads, child soldiers, and so on. Socioeconomic inequality was stated as the main cause of the war. Don’t know how the astrology lines up with those years, but it lasted for 12 or 13 years from 1979 to 1992. What I want to know is, when is the next period of relative ease? I seem to recall the Clinton years as being scandalously good. LOL

  9. Like you, Patty, I can’t imagine a parent sending a child off into the unknown but I can’t really say what I’d do if the probability of death was just around the corner, as it seems to be for many of these kids. As well, NPR tells us that about 90% of them are being “sent to family,” and will likely end up there while this is thrashed out:

    “U.S. policy allows Mexican child migrants to be sent back quickly across the border. However, under a 2008 law meant to combat child trafficking, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, children from Central America must be given a court hearing before they are deported (or allowed to stay). Given the huge backlog of cases, they may have to wait years for a hearing.

    “Because of a backlog, which is growing greatly with the recent influx, in essence a kid released tomorrow could stay in the U.S. for up to three years waiting for that date,” explains NPR’s Carrie Kahn. “And for most of these kids, that’s three years with a long-lost relative or three years away from extreme poverty and violence.”

    In the meantime, as many as 90 percent of the children stay with relatives or family friends already living in the U.S., with the rest placed in foster care, according to the Migration Policy Institute.”

    And thinking about the “probability of death,” I can’t help but think of so many of our inner cities, where growing up isn’t so different for children of color. Some would argue we need more cops — I think I’d come down on the side of more social workers, teachers, after-school programs, child care, work opportunities … yadda ad infinitum, just Bleeding Heart Liberal stuff. Truly, the Capricorn structures are shaking and, although painful, the old model badly needs a remodel.

    And Jennifer, your comments reminded me that I had “one of those dreams” this week in which a real-time situation that caused hard feelings and resentment was resolved differently in dream time. It got a new ending, as it were, and that seems to have tapped that pressure point, releasing old energy. We truly do have more healing modalities than we know.

  10. Thank you Len, you couldn’t have been more correct on the theme of polarities, Capricorn Moon in my house of relationships opposite Cancer Sun, expanding emotions by Jupiter on my natal degree. Aries/Libra 4th and 10th, the nodes! (parental signs). Cardinal Square last hurrah. Masculine Mars Rx in the feminine Libra. Venus ruling Libra in the masculine Aries North node. It’s all in the mix.
    Thank you so much for the explanation.

  11. Yes Amanda, integrating the gender polarities seems to be a priority of the Universe’s overall plan for the Planet Earth – you gotta start somewhere. Perhaps confusing us in our role-playing, which has been ingrained in us since we were born, can break up those patterns, sorta like chipping away at ice on the windshield until you can grab a big hunk off and then it gets easier. I think there’s some of that going on with transiting Mars for sure.

    Patty, that’s mind-blowing about the posters in Brazil. When you talk to your friends again ask if they can see any ID as to who puts them up (who pays for the advertising? Who benefits from it?) There ARE too many people fostering children and then abusing them and they probably abuse animals too. We must keep trying to rise above that level of consciousness until there is no more suffering, but it is all too easy to be overwhelmed by all the pain in the world. I’ve just read an article by Joe Landwehr in (the Aug/Sept. 2014) The Mt. Astrologer magazine, who refers to the times we are in as the “Cerean Age”, referring to the goddess Ceres, and much of his reasoning revolves around how she suffered the loss of her child. His article covers a lot of what we suffer from these days (climate change, PTSD, loss of species, etc.) and I think he’s on to something. He makes the point that when our natal Ceres has a “significant transit” by outer planets”, especially by Jupiter and Pluto, it “can indicate moments in time when grief and anger can be transmuted into transformative power.”

    Thanks too for the info on 24+ Aries. That makes a lot of sense based on the Sabian Symbol.

    And thank you Jude for the link to the article on food labeling; I presume that the people on this committee also don’t think that human beings cause global warming. Well, admittedly there are some really stupid people in this country (I’m thinking now of the grownups who forget they have left a child in the back seat of their car for over an hour with the windows rolled up and it’s 90+ degrees outside) but many of us are getting way too educated to “buy” anything politicians say. This fits the theme of the article I mentioned earlier called “Ceres and Climate Change”. In it the author speaks about the years between when Pluto was discovered and Ceres was promoted to dwarf planet level as providing us “ample time as a species to wake up and smell the burning bodies.” He goes on. . .

    “In this 75 year or three generation stretch of our history, there was a very real opportunity to take responsibility for the terrible forces of destruction that we, the human species, had unleashed through our industrial prowess and technological ingenuity. By and large, we have failed to do so, and now, as we enter this new Cerean Age, we must instead turn our attention to dealing with the consequences of this failure. We are also entering an era when, despite our prodigious power, it is the natural world – as represented by the all-powerful fertility goddess Demeter – that will likely have the last word.” Take THAT House Agriculture Committee!
    be

  12. Sooo….tell me that the HuffPost is mis-labeled and that’s really the Onion. I mean, labels are only fear-mongering info that we’re too stupid to understand anyway — so the HuffPost and the Onion are really the same thing, therefore this is a joke?
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  13. Jennifer and MaryMack thanks for reaching out and sharing your version of taking respond-ability for how your life has unfolded and, for not passing on what had been handed down the tree, so to speak.

    Family material is always so tricky and there are so many ways to approach healing it. Mine was definitely to go the childless route even though I have been parenting adults for most of my life, and now, I share my version of how our wombs have many roles within the continuum of creativity; growing a child is but one.

    Though mine have mostly been lost in the family pattern of the bottle, thank god for brothers; biological and spiritual.

  14. “So maybe those feelings don’t need to be contained so much as they need to be channeled, you think?”

    sounds like you really hit on something with that last sentence, be: giving the feelings voice and then a tangible structure through action.

  15. Be, we have friends in Brazil who tell us that there are billboards and posters telling people to send their children to the US. I asked him if there are people trying to sneak into Brazil and he said yes, people from Haiti, for instance – who take slave wages of $1.24 an hour, which is more than they can get in Haiti. The cost of living is much higher in Brazil than the US, and the wages are much lower. So how about offering to take in one of these children? I sort of have it in the back of my mind that what we are doing is importing our next round of slave labor. I’ve known several people who took in children legally, were paid for their troubles, and then abused them horribly. There aren’t enough social workers to follow up on their welfare. Most Americans do not want to do manual labor and our children do not have children. I know this sounds really negative, but I have Venus at 26 Aries. Aries is not known for being overly sentimental, and they will take on more work than they can humanly do, as well as do whatever needs to be done to take care of family and friends. 24 Aries has a suggestion of spirituality and abundance, so this could well be another test. Pass/Fail and no turning back if we fail. I can’t imagine being a parent willing to send her children to a foreign land with no assurance for their well being, but there you have the promise of 24 Aries floating around in the air. This could go badly for the decision makers, or they can be like the Queen of Egypt and rescue little Moses from the reeds, save his mother so he can go home, or turn him into a slave. Seems to me the answers to everything are economic and lie with the despots and rulers. Even problems with the drain on our social security system have to do more with economics (lack of work) than with people really being disabled.

  16. be — somehow your mis-characterization of capricorn as masculine makes a certain sense; perhaps it does have to do with the more closely-held emotions, or the rulership by saturn?

    kind of like how eric has been describing mars rx as being in a more feminizing sign (libra) since libra is ruled by venus and relates to relationships, even though technically libra is qualified as a “masculine” sign.

    maybe it’s an indicator of some of the integration of gender polarities that is going on astrologically? or perhaps our collective perceptions about “active” and “receptive” are shifting away from the traditional gender polarities they’ve been associated with for so long?

    just pondering…

  17. Hmm.. don’t know why I said Capricorn was a masculine sign, but already I know I don’t like the feeling of keeping my feelings under so much control. All this weighing of what’s (socially or politically) “proper” and what’s not is giving me heartburn. Guess I’m not as ready for change (if this is what it’s like) as I thought I was!

    As for the larger picture, specifically the border dilemma, I hear a lot of practical opinions regarding what the government (specifically what the President) should be doing about it, and most of it centers on how to protect or keep what the U.S. has, rather than how to protect the frightened children seeking help from us. I know there are some people, groups of people even, who are feeding, clothing, sheltering these tragic victims already, but our media certainly hasn’t been focused on them. Rather, they give airtime to blowhard politicians and other talking heads, many of whom don’t seem to even have a heart, who advocate more armed personnel on the southern border to keep out the riffraff.

    Is this a transiting Mercury in Gemini in an easy old trine with the U.S. Aquarian Moon thing? Transiting nodes + Mars in Libra square the U.S. Mercury in Cancer? Is it Pluto opposite the U.S. Sibly Sun? Is it just the same old natal square between Sun and Saturn that has us (media reporting and government primarily) so stymied we can’t get our priorities straight? Is it all of the above and more?

    God help us all if we bungle this obvious gift of awareness in what humanity means in real terms; what being the most rich and powerful country in the world means and what the soul of this country is trying to wake it’s citizens up to.

    Today the U.S. Sibly PROGRESSED Venus is at 24+ Aries, the same degree as the transiting south node, and the south node tells us to LET IT GO. Venus is love and comfort and if we can’t give solace to these desperate people then who the hell do we think we are? This is our progressed Venus conjunct the transiting south node in Aries (ME, ME, ME) square the U.S. Sibly Mercury in the Sibly house of shared wealth talking to us, saying LOOK TO THE TRANSITING NORTH NODE where transiting Ceres and Vesta and Mars are ready to go into ACTION, with FOOD and NURTURING and PROTECTION. Show me video of the Red Cross on the border; show me facilities with proper beds and toilets for these kids and mothers. Show me some goddam’ heart for Pete’s sake.

    So maybe those feelings don’t need to be contained so much as they need to be channeled, you think?
    be

  18. I connect with you, yoniyoganidra, esp regarding forgoing children this lifetime. Somehow, someway very early in life I heard/felt a sense of not visiting the pain and insanity from our ancestors. I suppose it was one of those things I came here knowing deeply that this was mine to carry.

    mm.

  19. Thank you for the poignant insight yoniyoganidra. Both my brother and I are healing trans – generational patterns and experiencing a “the buck stops here” lifetime putting to rest unloving patterns from both paternal and maternal families but mostly mother’s side. The path towards “getting it right for all of us” led to difficult freeing work, healing in and out of time, in the matrix, many times fully loaded with everyone on board. It required of my brother and I the “sacrifice” of not having children. And we too feel a fulcrum or turning point towards some release as my dear, dear brother remarked to me just last week….”We made it.” 🙂

  20. I agree that the feeling of “in the middle of…” seems very present right now. As I’ve gone about my day, I’ve been pondering the question: so – in the middle of what, exactly (for me)? I don’t yet have much for answers, though I do hope I’m PAST the middle of some really difficult (materially) weeks, which began early May, when nothing much seemed to be smacking my chart!

    The Capricorn full moon will be in the middle of my 7th house, & with moon ruling my ascendant, this suggests it could be significant one. Meantime, the nodes are in my 5th & 11th.

    My deepest concern if for my longtime, very dear friend, who is very ill. Her many cardinal placements & her Capricorn ascendant have been repeatedly stressed by the Grand Cross, & I can only hope that the full moon may bring her some useful answers, at least, & perhaps help her find a path to healing. She is accustomed to working with a natal cardinal T-square, the “open” end of which is her 1st house, & has accomplished more than most would dream of, though not easily.

    Where I live, the air is thick with forest fire smoke from northern Canada, & the sun goes down red, the moon rising like a new copper penny. I am looking forward to this full moon, & I am grateful for the food for reflection & the guideposts offered here. Thank-you, Len. No matter how invisible my “bootstraps” seem some days, you help me find them, get up, & keep going.

  21. pam: You are so very welcome. As a being you are among those for whose kindness over the years i’m deeply grateful for.

    yoniyoganidra: Thank you so very much in turn for your image of a divine fulcrum, sharing part of what your hospice work revealed of transcendence, and for the sheer inspiration of how you describe serving your goddess lineage. We are all so fortunate to read your words here.

    be: Thank you. Once again you are absolutely right on the mark with your further explication of the nodal bendings, and your insight on how the paradoxical positions of the luminaries during this coming Full Moon correlate with a vital and ongoing process in which each and all of us are implicitly long-term investors. You are one of our greatest treasures!

  22. Thanks Len, I’d not thought about how the Sun and Moon were in “the bendings” at the time of this full moon, or any other time they find themselves so aspected. It should shed some new light (heh heh) when you think about how the Moon being in the north bending of the nodes (which is a position where events can more easily be expressed in the outer world). Conversely, think about the Sun in the south bending having difficulty expressing outwardly. Of course, Cancer is an inwardly experienced energy for the most part, and Capricorn is more outwardly oriented, but the Moon will now find herself in a position that would be much more normal for the Sun, and vice versa.

    I believe this is one more attempt by the universe to teach us mortals about how to close the gap between the polarization of male/female, yin/yang, outer/inner, stoicism/passion. . . . .

    . . . with the masculine Sun in the feminine sign of Cancer AND in the south bending, we will be exploring our individual feeling nature consciously and be encouraged (by the universe) to share or even “give away” that part of ourselves we keep pretty private. Meanwhile the feminine Moon in the masculine sign of Capricorn will, because of her position in the north bending of the nodes, receive the experience of having a sense of control over the emotional nature and express that outwardly. Well, that’s my guess anyway.

    It’s almost like one of Eris’ tricks, you know?
    be

  23. The feeling of a fulcrum comes to mind. That place where we have the greatest leverage to engage in some really heavy lifting, or growing.

    When I did hospice work, I loved that moment when the person dying (to this reality) started living with the taste of where they were going. There was this sparkle in their eyes, the surfacing of their angelic nature, and at that point in our private conversations, tremendous growth and consciousness was being birthed. They had crossed the Threshold, in consciousness.

    I feel this moment as the coming to terms with all the women in my Fathers lineage whom came before me, as I am the last one. My Fathers family lineage ends with my brothers and I; none of us had children. I feel that lineage of women pushing up against me at times screaming “please get it right for all of us!”. There are times I want to push back and say “this is my life; you had your chance” and yet, I know that I have the ability to heal, in time, going forward and backwards.

    Thank you Len for explaining the multilayered and intricately complex energy radiating endlessly from the all that is.

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