Tomorrow the Moon in Libra opposes the Aries Sun to create the Libra Full Moon just before 3:19 pm EDT. You’ve probably been feeling the build of this polarizing energy all week: an undercurrent of push/pull or the sense that tension is building between you and someone else (or everyone else). But given yesterday’s Mercury station and a mutable-sign cross triggering all kinds of baggage for people, it may feel like all one thing for you. And it is. In fact, with the Sun conjunct Vesta and Eris for this Full Moon, the themes we’ve been exploring this week – giving oneself and one’s relationships space and listening for the secrets we’ve been keeping from ourselves – get another reiteration.
It’s kind of like the Sun opens the door of the Full Moon, slips through, and finds itself in this room with Vesta and Eris. Vesta stands at the threshold, holding space for all those fragmented and cast-aside parts of us.
On the other side of that wheel is the Moon in Libra. We’re being pulled on one side by the emotions we have tied up in our relationships. On the other side, we want creative and psychological space. This Full Moon may be instigating questions. Do you sacrifice yourself for relationships? How does stoking your own creative and sexual flame play out when you relate to others? Is it possible for all to benefit, as that energy ripples out, and can it be used to dissolve a deadlock in a particular situation? What secrets are you not only keeping from others, but from yourself?
That last question in particular is being reiterated elsewhere in the sky, by a square between Venus in Taurus and Neptune in Pisces. That aspect looks a lot like self-deception – a theme very much related to the ideas in yesterday’s Daily Astrology with regard to the mutable-sign grand gross still in effect. But today and tomorrow, the Full Moon adds momentum to the whole aspect structure. In fact, the axis for the Libra Full Moon is on a 45-degree angle to Neptune and the mutable cross, so the energy is feeding into it. It’s all part of the same picture, the same message.
People struggle in being ‘real’; often we’re afraid of it even when we think we’re not. And that vulnerability created by not being authentic makes us susceptible to being lied to in the public sphere, where it gets taken advantage of to great profit on one side – and tremendous deficit on the other; that is, ours.