Today is Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. The Moon is in Aquarius until about 3:27 pm EDT tomorrow and in Pisces the rest of the weekend. It is coming up on its full phase at about 5:27 am EDT Monday. This is a powerful and very likely emotional Full Moon, opening up our receptivity to psychic energy while the Virgo Sun keeps us grounded.
If you’re especially empathetic, having the psychic floodgates open up this particular weekend might feel a little overwhelming. The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 incident is the day before the Full Moon. This means a lot of the emotion that has been building all week, both in relation to the astrology we’ve been experiencing and in anticipation of this anniversary, will be culminating with an especially strong lunar boost. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself and others expressing this emotion more intensely than usual. This is nothing to be afraid of, but it is something to be aware of. Remember that Full Moons are polarizing events and we tend to externalize the relationships they symbolize. On top of that is layered the uncomfortable relationship Western culture has to grief, and the polarizing nature of the Sept. 11 tragedy itself plus current media coverage.
Carefully track any feelings of being pulled in opposite directions and any intuitive messages that may accompany that sense of pull. In fact, Full Moons are traditionally good for breaking deadlocks in life. Any impasse that is a good candidate for movement will be indicated by the signs involved. In the case of a Pisces Full Moon, it may be that you don’t even see there is a deadlock until the Full Moon brings it to light.
The placements of the Sun and Moon for this event happen to be square the lunar nodes and also indicate a deep reservoir of emotional energy that is hard to put into words or even point to. Yet it is something from which we can draw strength and gain footing. Feel for that this weekend. This deep reservoir may be indicated by the external movement of the Sun and Moon, but it is actually located within you. This means you have what you need in order to let this psychic energy and emotion flow without getting swept away; in fact, holding on too tight might even be more dangerous.
Being near the end of the Zodiac, Aquarius and Pisces are known as transpersonal signs, and often signify how the culmination of the personal journey of the individual can affect many people. You can cultivate an awareness of your personal connection to groups and to the collective soul; notice which channels that awareness is coming in on.
Last weekend at PJ20, the rock festival commemorating Pearl Jam’s 20th anniversary as a band, they invited many other bands to jam with them on and off throughout the two days, cultivating a feeling of camaraderie and togetherness. Another theme that came up over and over was living through tragedy. Eddie Vedder became the lead singer of Pearl Jam only after the end of the band’s former incarnation, Mother Love Bone, due to the tragic death of the lead singer, Andrew Wood. Pearl Jam also experienced eight fans being trampled at their show in Roskilde, Denmark in 2000.
Among several of the musicians, it was obvious that the love these men shared for each other in addition to music was the thing that kept them going. This really came home when Glen Hansard of The Frames and The Swell Season took the stage during the second afternoon. He told the tragic story of how a fan committed suicide at one of his shows last year and how he, like Pearl Jam in 2000, seriously thought of quitting. But he got a call from Eddie Vedder. And another call the next day. And another the next. Having been initiated as a survivor of tragedy, Eddie now took the role of initiator, offering his friendship to a fellow musician to see him through a troubled time. Out of the darkness of tragedy, a new love blossomed. Hansard summed up the lesson with the words, “No shit, no roses.”
Keeping love alive through hard times is a strong theme in the astrology of the moment. The Goddess of Love, Venus, is in late Virgo and is currently going through a dark time. Because she is still close to the Sun, Venus is invisible; she cannot be seen in either the morning or evening skies. The early Mesopotamian astrologers saw this as her journey through the Underworld. Additionally, Venus is in her ‘fall’ in Virgo. Venus is said to have a hard time expressing herself in Virgo. This is because the mental perfectionist tendencies of Virgo run counter to the unconditional love of Pisces, the sign of Venus’ exaltation.
Venus is making a sextile, a nice flowing aspect, to Mars this weekend. This signifies that help is available to you in your relationships with other people. You can either find or be a shoulder to lean on if things get difficult. Either way, the loving kindness and compassion you give and receive now in the dark phase are the seeds of the roses that will begin to grow when Venus returns to visibility later this month. Keep that in mind this weekend as we approach the Pisces Full Moon, and keep your dream journal handy by the bed.
Gary Caton and Amanda Painter
Michele: your song choice brought tears to my eyes as well. I sang out the lyrics to myself sometime during the night when I came to PW not able to sleep. The words brought me a tremendous calm and a loving connection to you up in our northern part of the country. Thank you so much for the magical choice you made and for sharing it with us.
I’m thrilled for you that your production looks so juicy and that you get to be all “bossy-loving!” What a great way to put it; oh that we all learn to be bossy-loving! Your team are going to be a lucky bunch operating under your tutelage! Way to go girl.
Michele…
I love that song! It was if Neil himself were singing
It in my head (left hemisphere or right or frontal lobe..idk)
As I read the lyrics.
The melody is truly haunting…yet gives me a sense of calm.
“dont let it bring you down
Its only castles burning
Just find someone whos turning
And you will come around”
Peace and love
Neil Young, years ago:
Well, I dreamed I saw the knights
In armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and
Drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing
To the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes.
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst thru the sky.
There was a band playing in my head
And I felt like getting high.
I was thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.
Thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.
Well, I dreamed I saw the silver
Space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying
And colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature’s
Silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature’s
Silver seed to a new home
KD Lang also does a great rendition. It’s making me weep tonight.
odd moment. not sure when you posted this – but last night i posted elsewhere blahblah about love. in my own way, despite the babbling… it was essentially about this very thing. the need to hold on to that and let it go and pass it on. despite my own personal bullshit, i think i am managing that.
people need love and open hearts.
the best part, there are a few good parts, but the best part is i am directing a show with eight amazing people. so besides work and my own stuff, i get to work with eight amazing actors, two godesses of stage management, an architect for stage set and a brilliant goof for lights and a spectacular young lady for sound. i am thrilled beyond belief that this is coming together. all on our own time to make some fun. get some creative juice flowing. AND i get to be bossy-loving. it does not get any better.
Speaking of sex instead of fear, a raid on a local temple of the Goddess sounds interesting:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/phoenix-goddess-temple-raided-alleged-brothel/story?id=14481945
Is it me or are their religious freedoms being exploited by the local law enforcement? Or was it really a brothel disguised as a religious healing center? You decide.
#gwind
“Another question I need to ask of myself as I see the external manifestation of grief and victimization: Why are my wounds so important to me that I would build decorative monuments to keep and celebrate them?”
Amen to that! I’ve often pondered this about our society, was just re-pondering it yesterday. We memorialize (Good Lord, it’s now a monument AND museum?????? Am I the only one that finds that creepy?) all events of horror and gather in a kind of celebration of that memory. When are we going to start memorializing and monumenting our successes and true victories of peace and right action.
My son and the kid that bullied him for years became friends when they were both molested by a neighborhood teen. I learned from this that peace within opposition can happen from two places: a common wound or a common goal.
This whole planet shares many common wounds.
I’m praying this weekend that we start working towards a common goal.
P.S. My TV broke two months ago, I never bothered replacing it and it’s the best decision I’ve made in a long time.
An interesting synchronicity with the Full Moon is that we are currently (late Friday) experiencing some strong geomagnetic storms, in the neighborhood of 7 on the Kp index, according to NASA and NOAA.
These geomagnetic storms are expected to continue through most of the weekend. It is speculated that the human nervous system is affected by strong geomagnetic phenomena. It is also interesting to note the timing of the power grid outages in the American Southwest (supposedly attributable to the unforeseen consequences of replacing a piece of equipment – sure, uh-huh).
Eating a burger from golden arches IS NOT EATING MEAT! They have always made me sick. ( The orgasms were probably induced by the additives)
I learned burgers in childhood, at the home of a friend whose Daddy raised black angus, & we always had burgers bar BQ for her Gem. birthday sleep over.
Yes we discovered one of the cows beginning to give birth in the pasture one day & ran to call her Dad at the office then witnessed the birth. Yes we still ate the burgers……….
Being a pragmatic TAURUS carnivore……..it did not trouble me.
BUT I stopped eating hamburger in 1981. It tasted bad. You could TASTE the fear, confinement, cannibalistic diet, the awful slaughter job.
I resumed when in 2008, I discovered Bubba burgers, grass fed cattle, humain treatment. And now there are several local farms producing same………
It is a whole other food group.
*jobs speech
P.s. Loved Obama,s Jon speech. As for 9-11 such a quagmire. Will we ever emerge from the quicksand?
Continuing to feel that time is so accelerated and events like meteors hurling my direction thru space…put an offer on a house Monday, it’s now under contract. Meanwhile we fly to Alaska Friday to close on the home we recently sold there. That house had foundation problems which we repaired at great expense. In this new one, sadly, there’s some flags there may be a foundation issue so were having an engineer inspect it BEFORE we buy it.
It’s a dream house, so hope it passes inspection. Interesting that this comes up…we bought the old house in 2000, 11 years ago and didn’t catch the foundation issue.
What does this have to do with the astrology? I don’t know. Jupiter was square Uranus when we made the offer and it was accepted. Is that a good thing?
great photo Amanda. I watched the movie “Batman Begins” last night and woke from a dream of huge bats flying outside -one of the smaller ones got in my shirt. I take this to mean the movie “got under my skin.” I’ll have to be more careful what stimulation I take in the next couple evenings. I’ll do some stargazing and/or visualization to set my dream channel
Our family is going “no TV” all weekend. DH and I are going to a cabin with a private indoor, jetted hot tub to have the honeymoon (and the sex) we never had when we got married. So instead of spending the weekend grieving about 9/11, we chose to spend it having loving sex and spending time together. The kids will spend it staying home and hanging out together. Seems to me these are better ways to deal with the “shrine” of 9/11; no victim-hood, no grief, just love.
Funny thing is, we made the reservations without thinking about 9/11.
Great G & A! Had been pondering on A Brave New World and Eric’s writing on Grief all week, especially the roses and how electroshock was used in the novel to instill babies with a fear of roses and books.
Reading “no shit, no roses” became “no shock, no roses”. And the question for my pondering this coming week is How to avoid becoming a grieving, shocked baby in a garden of roses?
Thank you PW for this food for thought, it will keep me off the cheesburger for another week!
Hey Eris67,
Hope you will be gentle with yourself about eating a cheeseburger. My relationship with food always tells me a lot about my emotional state, often before my emotions come to my conscious awareness. I was a vegetarian for seven years when I was in my 20s. I was much too ignorant about nutrition and health at the time and managed to really mess up my metabolic system (too many carbs, no B12 supplementation, etc.) Your craving for a burger might be something as simple (and complex) as your body chemistry being out of whack. No doubt you feel slightly toxic after food from McDonald’s. But don’t discount the possibility that your desire to eat a cheeseburger might have come from your body’s inherent wisdom.
I stopped eating meat because I couldn’t stand the suffering of animals, so when I ate meat again I was really conflicted ethically and spiritually. I also ate meat for the first time at a McDonalds and it was not unlike an orgasm! I think choosing a fast food place was a reflection of my internal conflict about the ethics of eating meat at all coupled with some unconscious rebellion, and laced with some odd combination of guilt and the memory that McDonald’s fish sandwiches tasted like heaven.
So you did something that you are not altogether comfortable with. How great that you noticed your own discomfort and now can bring all of your complex internal voices and energies into your awareness. They all deserve to be heard and seen.
Peace and love to you.
I also want to confess that I ate a cheeseburger from the golden arches
Yesterday….after a few years of not eating meat….my feelings were ….it
Did not satisfy my hunger in the way that I thought it would….and I am feeling
Slightly toxic….
Dont tell anyone…but I ate it as if it were an orgasm….
I think I need a therapist…no shit!
Peace and Love
Gary and Amanda,
Thank you for this! Before checking in with PW this morning,
I made a mental note of how I was phyically and mentally feeling,
and as usual, you have confirmed my state of mind! So appreciative
Of your insights and obvious talent…..
Peace and love
What a gift ! Thank you
Thank you Amanda and Gary: “Keeping love alive through hard times is a strong theme in the astrology of the moment.”
Gentle reminders like this steer us all back onto the path when we get distracted.
Today, I think it would be interesting to tune in to “hearing” the collective sound of people turning off their TV’s. Maybe all weekend? Wouldn’t that make a terrific sound! A sigh of relief of sorts? An action taken to disconnect and choose something else that could be uplifting.
Another question I need to ask of myself as I see the external manifestation of grief and victimization: Why are my wounds so important to me that I would build decorative monuments to keep and celebrate them?
I know of no other way to change, but to find it inside myself, point a light at it and declare, “Eureka! Got you, you lovely, ugly fucker!” Love pours in and even still shaking, I don’t feel so small.
I love reading PW in the morning. I use these moments to set the pace for my day.
“No shit, no roses.” What would I do without you guys? Eternal thanks. xxx