By Len Wallick
Things are falling into place for the Aries Full Moon taking place tomorrow night or early Saturday morning, depending where you are. This opposition of the luminaries has been our theme this week for two reasons. First it is the second of two consecutive Full Moons to occur in the same sign. One could consider it a variety of blue Moon — popularly taken as the second Full Moon in a calendar month. This astrological type of blue Moon takes place every two or three years and thus qualifies as auspicious, but not necessarily rare.
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The second unique consideration is that Venus is in the same degree of Scorpio as it was for the immediately previous Aries Full Moon of September 23. This synchronization of placement and timing goes beyond rare, defies precedent or subsequent duplication. Sort of like you. It takes place in a year of one extraordinary event after another.
There was the simultaneous and prolonged occupation of three cardinal points by trans-personal and epochal planets — the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in Aries, the last of which was in July of 1927. It will not happen again for over a thousand years. And we had the first conjunction of those same two planets in Pisces; the last time this happened was over seven centuries ago. That’s just to name a few.
Now, with the major planets outside the asteroid belt in a period of transition, things are getting personal. Today is the first full day of Mercury in Scorpio, currently occupied by Venus and Mars. Those three are the personal planets. So called because they orbit the Sun many times in a typical human life, marking out the months and years. By the day after tomorrow, Sol will have joined them in Scorpio, illuminating the days in a rhythm that is at the root of astrology.
Mars rules Scorpio and is on its way out the back door of that sign. It also rules Aries, scene of tomorrow’s astrological blue Moon. Venus is retreating towards the front door on its way back to Libra where it, in turn, rules and where Sol will experience the second consecutive opposition to Luna. You thought the old cardinal T-square represented everything at once.