By Len Wallick
We will have a Full Moon in Libra on Sunday night for most readers, about 10:44 EDT. If you are expecting it to be typical or average in any way, think again. This is the continuation of a superlative set of patterns that started last October. This is also a clue that could reconcile the energetic polarities generated by that long period of extremes. Finally there is a hint of developments to come.
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A Full Moon is an opposition of the luminaries. On a zodiac chart, it is depicted by Sol and Luna in the same degree of opposite signs. From our perspective on Earth, the Sun and Moon are in opposite parts of the sky. In other words, the Moon will be rising in the East at about the same time the Sun is going down in the West. If we were out in space viewing the solar system from above, we would see it in yet another way with our planet, its natural satellite and the center of our solar system arranged in a straight line with us in the middle.
There are three things to remember about an opposition. First, it usually happens about midway in the cycle of two objects forming a conjunction and then next time they do so. In the case of Luna’s monthly cycle, which takes about 29 days, the Full Moon is about two weeks after the previous New Moon and about the same length of time before the next one. When the whole cycle is considered, an opposition might better be called a compliment. It is a place where half of the circle ends and the next half begins.
The next thing to remember is that synchronicity nearly always finds us more engaged with relationships when meaningful oppositions occur. It is not always unpleasant. It is not always confrontational. It is nearly always a time when we are obliged to think about at least one ‘someone’ as much or more than we think about ourselves.