Genevieve writes a horoscope designed for your Moon sign for Planet Waves called Moonshine. We run them twice per month, for each Full and New Moon. You can read them as part of the Planet Waves membership that features Eric’s horoscopes and astrology articles. — Amanda
On Saturday at 12:25 am EDT is the Sagittarius Full Moon. It is the last of the three spring eclipses, this one a lunar eclipse with the Moon in early Sagittarius and the Sun opposite in early Gemini. We are being asked by this Full Moon to go beyond any doubts we may have about whether we’ve made progress trying to change emotional patterns, and to acknowledge how far we have in fact come.
Eclipses are opportunities to make desired progress in our lives, often in quantum leaps. They also facilitate the changing of old patterns and habits that aren’t serving us, and the creation of new ones.
We have been through a series of eclipses since the end of April; if you have felt like you’ve been moving through multiple doorways, you’re not alone.
Each new door takes us to a very different type of landscape, though there have been common themes around emotional and sexual healing and how we approach the concept of value, particularly our own.
It’s like we’ve been able to visit the same material from multiple viewpoints, allowing us to get a detailed picture of what we’re working through and how we can restructure our lives to more closely align with who we are at our very core. With this lunar eclipse occurring between Sagittarius and Gemini, we get a picture of the relationship in our lives between information and meaning. The Moon and the Sun represent two different ways of collecting information — through our emotional and physical senses.
If the Sun in Gemini loses touch with the bigger picture, with the value of the information it is gathering, then everything can seem trivial or meaningless. Information and facts gain value from being placed in context, which the Moon in Sagittarius provides. Sagittarius brings to the equation a reminder of the importance of understanding the value and purpose of information, and seeing the larger picture within which information fits.
During the Full Moon, Neptune in Pisces is square both the Sun and the Moon. This aspect is bringing us into contact with any doubts about where we have been and where we are going. There is something here about getting underneath, around and behind that doubt, and seeing it for what it is. Once you understand that it is just a feeling not a fact, you can do something about it.
Aspects to Neptune can bring a lack of clarity and difficulty feeling solid or present, but Neptune can also be used to dissolve blockages and barriers. The key here is not to assume you actually lack something because you feel a sense of questioning, or feel like you have not arrived yet. Rather, push on through and use the slippery quality of Neptune to slip around the sensation of uncertainty or lacking.
You can get on with where you wish to go, and Saturn is providing extra traction through a trine to Neptune. Trines are aspects where the energy is available; we just need to reach for it. Barbara Hand Clow described trines as you “use it or lose it.” Discipline is required to use what is available — in this case, the grounded ability to move beyond doubts you hold rather than getting lost in the feeling.
We are being called to move beyond any uncertainties about our process of growth and our inherent value, and whether we have made progress. We need to reach for this energy through understanding (and thereby controlling) our emotions rather than being the one controlled by them. The reach is not that far; all you need is some focus and to hold your vision.
Saturday’s lunar eclipse is helping us expand our viewpoint to see the larger landscape of our lives, rather than getting lost in the details or small hurdles. Having a view of the ‘bigger picture’ gives the ability to see your options; over the Full Moon you have a lot of options available to you. See these options and make conscious choices to move beyond any doubts about the work you’ve been doing.
We’ve been through a process of reworking how we access and experience our emotions, as well as reassessing the role value plays in our lives. Honoring your inherent value means not holding back who you are because of fearful thought-forms that suggest you will not be accepted. If you accept yourself, others will, too.
Genevieve: Thanking you on this day of the eclipse for your authentic erudition and eloquence (which continually humbles me). Thank you also for the unique and useful Moonshine Horoscopes commemorating every New and Full Moon in the Planet Waves subscriber editions.
So glad you like it, Strawwberry. Here’s another good ‘un
featuring my ukulele friend, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpjIjCYfJns&feature=player_embedded
Hugs to you too!
Genevieive, thank you. This piece is incredibly beautiful and meaningful. It speaks exactly to where I am. It’s so hard not to believe the thought forms and sensations of fear that percolate throughout my being as I venture in new terrain.
A letting go needs to happen. As you say, “There is something here about getting underneath, around and behind that doubt, and seeing it for what it is. Once you understand that it is just a feeling not a fact, you can do something about it.”
Thank you for this medicine today ~
Sara
Awwww,….Daniel, Lizzy, you two make me cry! Group hug! And Lizzy, I had to immediately buy that Eddie Vedder album–music isn’t really a language I speak, but Dream a Little Dream is forever sweeter now. Thank you!
Lovely, gentle Donovan. Thank you dear Daniel!
I love you Liz.
For you my friend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAOrQuUAxTc
What a gorgeous dream, Daniel!
Here’s a song and video dedicated to you, and all of us dreamers during fullmoon eclipse….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujz5hxAH51U
Thank you so much for an awesome write. So helpful.
Last night I had a dream, one that reoccurs often. I was involved in leading projects on the ground, dealing with all sorts of people and situations. I decided I had enough and so I effortlessly shot myself in the upper stratosphere rising above the clouds and the city into the quiet solitude of the height I was at. I found a tree there, this gargantuan tree, and found a nice spot to rest. I told myself I would take the plunge later and had no doubt about surrendering and falling when I wanted. But soon after, I simply found myself on the ground level again and I worried that I didn’t properly “fall” back into my normal dimension. I woke up at that moment and I felt fine. I felt incredibly rested.
Thank you, lovely Sina! Sounds like you’re growing in leaps and bounds, inspiring to read your words.
Lizzy – So glad to hear your moving with the energy. Have a great eclipse. 🙂
Sarah and Sophia – Thank you for the lovely words and feedback!
Sina – Thank you for sharing with us how you’ve grown. Sending lots of love to your husband that he can work with the energy. Hope the eclipse brings more wonderful revelations and positive changes.
Genevieve, this piece is beautiful and so easy to comprehend. The eclipse season has brought up so many complex thoughts, feelings, & situations that yesterday, I felt like my heart was going to burst. There were so many pent up emotions, I didn’t know which one to feel, acknowledge or to suppress. I can truly feel the changes churning within and just trying so hard to pace myself, so as not to miss a beat, and waste this opportunity to value every one of those emotions and feelings as an opportunity to grow and change, but most of all, see myself as valuable. This last paragraph hit a home run for me.
“We’ve been through a process of reworking how we access and experience our emotions, as well as reassessing the role value plays in our lives. Honouring your inherent value means not holding back who you are because of fearful thought-forms that suggest you will not be accepted. If you accept yourself, others will, too.”
I have watched myself grow from someone always trying to win approval, to actually living the life I was given, and taking full responsibility for it. I’ve joined my old paddling team again, started writing for a local newspaper, hanging watching movies with my kids, actively committing to my favourite charitable organisation, actually getting out and socialising with friends, and so much more. I feel myself walking straighter and taller, and have encouraged my family to do the same. I see my dear husband frozen in fear, but got the message loud and clear last night, that I can’t help him or save him, as only he can do that. But I can’t go back to holding myself back to fit in with him either, as I have grown past that, and am truly loving the life I’m living now, loving who I am now.
Lizzy, we really have to drop perfectionism, and see that we are perfect as we are, and value ourselves as we are. There are no mistakes. With 5 planets in Virgo, I have to check myself everyday!!! You make such valuable contributions to PW, and I have learnt a lot from you about not being afraid to open up about what is really going on.
Thank you again, for this amazing piece, Genevieve.
Enjoy the eclipse weekend all,
Om Shanti, Sina
Genevieve. You truely have such a great talent and gift for merging psycology and astrology in a way that reaches where it needs to go. Feeling the emotion, but not gripping. It flows to the broader vision. This is of the greatest value and experience. Thank you.
Thank you, Genevieve – immeasurably helpful in my work with remaining focussed on what is emerging from me.
Life, not kife (or knife – it’s that perfectionist streak again…).
Thank you so much for this wonderful piece, Genevieve. Waking up this morning I had the sense that perfection is found in being ok with not being perfect. That’s a really big one for me with my Mars in Virgo, and that in allowing myself to be totally homan I can also allow others (and kife) to be imperfect, like me. I’ve known this for a long time – but for the first time am beginning to sense it deeply, in my heart. Would like to write so much more, but these are crazy eclipse days, no time! Thank you, Genevieve, all of you. (((())))