Today is Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. Overnight Sunday to Monday is the last Full Moon of summer — the Pisces Full Moon. While the Full Moon can be a restless time, Pisces energy is subtle. It’s the perfect lunar energy to have for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 incident, as it encourages both feeling and reflection.
The Moon and Sun form their exact opposition at 5:27 am EDT Monday. The Moon will remain in Pisces until early Tuesday morning, when it ingresses Aries. So that soft watery energy of the Full Moon will linger an extra day and into the night. The combination of Pisces and the Moon can feel like an astrological opiate, and you may feel like you want to do less Monday rather than more. Get yourself to a slow and gentle start and you’ll start to pick up momentum as the day progresses.
I would note that as the Sun is passing by the solar return of the Sept. 11 incident chart, this can stir up a sense of injury, trauma or the sad memories you have from this moment 10 years ago. That’s something to factor into your plans for Monday; you may need a little extra gentle self-guidance and prompting.
As we experience this, on a different frequency Mercury forms a trine to Pluto, offering a moment of deep thinking and perhaps closure on a challenging issue that you’ve been working out in your mind for the past couple of months. Mercury is now in the first days of its non-shadow phase (it was retrograde or working out the tail end of that effect through all of August and into September.
Saturday it made a direct opposition to Chiron; overnight it makes an exact trine to Pluto. This is allowing deep personal material to come to the surface; Mercury has a way of putting things in terms of conscious thought rather than underground feelings. The combination is an invitation to be psychologically clear about something you’ve been challenged by emotionally. There is a process involved, which may feel like it’s working in layers. The chart describes reconciling what is real at one level of experience with what is real at another: such as becoming clear about a contradiction, paradox or confrontation, and having the strength to make a coherent decision.
Mercury will be part of a grand trine that covers all three earthy signs, including Jupiter in Taurus. A real dialog is possible here as long as you’re willing both to speak honestly and hear what others say. Mercury will still be loosely opposite Chiron for a couple more days, pointing to a reflection that can guide you out of denial or a tendency to go along with things because it’s the easiest thing to do. With these two trines developing (Mercury-Pluto and Mercury-Jupiter), it would be unwise to vouch for anyone else’s deception, or less-than-honest statements. Beware of thought constructions such as, ‘that’s not true because I don’t want to believe it’.
You may be experiencing some push and pull around desire with a close partner, or with the opposite sex in general. You may be able to find the perfect way to express that tension, which is described by Venus square the Galactic Core, and Mars quincunx the Galactic Core. Both of these planets are promoting to us a more considerate and intuitive way of handling relationships, as they make contact with a source of spiritual influx and we experience a calling toward home contained within the Galactic Core.
Said another way, connection to the core is describing the potential to go deeper than the usual polarities, expectations and psychological cycles that can dominate relationships. If you recognize the inherent weakness of your position, you will be able to deal with it more effectively. Venus conjunct Logos is a reminder to put your feelings into words, not assuming that anyone will really grasp where you’re coming from without them.
Underneath what you are observing may be a delicate sense of needing to walk on eggshells with yourself. You might note that this is at least temporarily helpful; Mars is still feeling fairly reactive in Cancer, and it’s difficult at this moment to measure emotional energy or its influence on others. Over the next few days Mars will be moving over a point called Vulcanus, suggesting that it would be a very good idea to practice self-control, particularly around desire, anger and your sense of your own ‘needs’. Easy does it; understate rather than overstate, and make a note of what you’re concerned about — you don’t need to act on it immediately. More information will come to light shortly.
Eric: Thank you
Chirotic wounding is different for each person, and I can only speak of my direct experience. It seems the only way to heal ‘it’ is to go directly into it, and, have sought knowledge to break the shackles as long as I can remember.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge; for teaching it.
Kelly, note that your IC is an ancestral angle; as you have seen, aspects to it can manifest in a family environment.
Several weeks ago my mother flew to see my grandmother as she was unwell.
I learned my grandmother is a Pisces, 17 degrees, her sun conjucts my natal Chiron & Ceres ( Pisces IC). My mother is a Sun Virgo 18 degrees, on Sept 11. Her sun conjucts my natal Pluto/Uranus conjunction in Virgo. My grandmother waited for my mother’s birthday to pass and died on the ‘Pisces full’ moon yesterday, aged 97.
The opposition in my chart was played out by my mum and my grandmother. Raised by grandmother for a few yrs during childhood; my mum (+ dad) were physically absent and I was reunited with my parents in a new country after several years (cusp Virgo 9th/10th)
I read my chart as the story unfolded yesterday… and… sat wondering
yes, ‘shroom activity around my favorite little pond was *way* up yesterday. all sorts of big ones poppin’ up all over! and one wild clump of sort of greenish-gold little ones. not sure why i didn’t take a photo… and neon orange ones and…….
“Over the next few days Mars will be moving over a point called Vulcanus, suggesting that it would be a very good idea to practice self-control, particularly around desire, anger and your sense of your own ‘needs’. Easy does it; understate rather than overstate, and make a note of what you’re concerned about — you don’t need to act on it immediately. More information will come to light shortly.”
Very good advice right about now. This weekend was really good for DH and I and it made me realize where I still need to do some personal work. Thanks for writing these.
The mushrooms have been AMAZING out on the land since the hurricane — like all kinds of weird old spores got stirred up by the land being turned over. I did not eat any of them BTW.
what a perfect full-moon mushroom! 🙂
Again, Eric, is right. Saturday, my boyfriend of four years–the last year being rocky enough for us to find separate abodes, told me, “I need a break.” Simple, clean. He’d been kind, loving and giving up to that point, but I know he needs his alcoholic freedom and macho space.
So once again, all the time I’ve invested by showing him another way of being goes poof.
It’s ok. Better in the long run. It’s been a cliched hard mile.
I’m a strong woman, yet I am walking on eggshells with myself. I know this is breakup is best for me. We are incongruent as well as congruent with one another.
I wish that I could wave my wand and the thoughts would disappear. Must be the Full Moon’s encouragement of feeling and reflection. And yes, the closure on this challenging issue is loud. It had been a silence between us those deep personal layers and now they’ve peeled off. The experience has been all three of what you suggested, a contradiction of values; we were existing in a paradox, and the confrontation was very subtle. I’m glad he had the strength to say the words, “I need a break.”
Now I must do the hard part and bring back the pieces of my true life.
Yes, there were his less than honest statements and deception. This journey has taught me a lot about myself and a lot about men. So I’m doing what you suggested Eric, putting my feelings into words and work on the self-control and mellowness. In the meantime I’ll wait for more info.
Is some luck coming soon?
..Agaric,.. did you eat some?
Jere