Dear Friend and Reader:
With the Moon now in Pisces heading for the Full Moon, we are all honorary Pisces, at least in potential. Moody, psychic, emotional, absorbent, creatively charged and perhaps a bit lost: that’s the energy of Phish, added to the Moon — the core personality, one’s needs, the child self.
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Eric Francis.
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The Moon reaches an exact opposition to the Sun Monday at 5:13 am EDT. It does so in a close conjunction to Uranus. The Full Moon almost always represents a breakthrough of some kind, a release of tension and in extreme situations the breaking of a deadlock. The conjunction to Uranus to me looks and feels like a creative breakthrough, deep and generous, which will take plenty of stuck energy with it.
Uranus is the planet that’s full of surprises, and art is the biggest surprise of all: when you’re really doing it, you have no idea what’s going to come out, what it’s going to look or feel like and in truth little concept of where it came from. This is, by the way, why art is threatening to anyone connected to an ordinary ego state of consciousness: it shows you how ridiculous the notion is that you know who you are. Or for that matter, what you feel.
The Virgo Sun is occupying a critical degree of the zodiac: 22+ degrees of that sign, in the exact place of the Mars-Chiron conjunction of July 7, 1995. This Full Moon may have some overtones of an initiation or growth experience that occurred during that time. Its story is about the controlling or taming of primal instincts; or looked at another way, it’s about having a conscious, respectful relationship with our primal instincts.
The days before a Full Moon are typically high-tension times. World news has been grim the past few days: devastation created by Hurricane Ike and the frustrated relief effort in and around Galveston, Texas and elsewhere; a head-on train crash in Los Angeles; a series of bombings at Gaffar Market and Connaught Place in India. A plane went down in Russia.
Sun is opposite Uranus, now and for the Full Moon. The Moon, when the crash happened, was exactly conjoined with Neptune, but it has been looming pretty close during the other events. This Moon/Neptune conjunction was one of a series of exact occultations of the Blue Planet by the Moon. This is a little advanced shock of Pisces power infusing the Moon while it’s still in Aquarius.
Remember, we don’t hear the good news on the news, only what has gone wrong. The good news of these days is most likely to apply to anyone who guides their mind, body and soul in the direction of their creative impulses. Get out your camera. Tune your guitar. Dust off your paints. Reality is pliable with these things in your hands.
Additional contribution Genevieve Salerno.
Yes, there has been a fair amount of freak(manu)factor the last couple of days. I’ve watched people flood into Central Texas, fleeing a storm that had the wallop of a bucket of kittens. We were told to expect 70 MILE PER HOUR WINDS here in Austin, and today there were huge red signs saying: FLOODING!! throughout the streets.
There was none. Not a drop. Winds clocked in at mmmm, maybe 15 mph.
What I really loved was the 80 pt. typeface on the local paper screaming: IT’S A GIANT, and actually saying in the first paragraph that ‘people might be killed.’ Might be? *Might* be killed? What kind of journalism is that?
It’s $4.25 a gallon journalism, that’s what it is. It’s keep-em-on-edge pre/election shenanigans.
Oh, and I have loved the image of the (single) burning building in Galveston that has been flogged around the world.
File it all under: Grip, gitta.