Today is Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. The Moon leaves Pisces and begins full phase when it enters Aries today at 8:57 am EDT. The Full Moon can be an alert, energized time, though characterized by polarity. This week’s aspects are all about considering and perhaps reconciling opposing points of view. This might mean discovering an emotional current that unifies two perspectives that seem otherwise impossible to reconcile.
Once in Aries, the Moon it forms a conjunction to Uranus. This is an ‘expect the unexpected’ aspect; you may find yourself feeling like someone you don’t expect to be, with a rebellious streak. It would be ill advised to be a rebel without a clue, or without an actual cause, though the temptation to stir things up for its own sake might be strong.
But it’s a great day to step into your future self and experiment with the person you are becoming, or want to be. It’s a great day to experiment with ideas.
For the first part of the week you may feel a sense of pressure as the Aries Full Moon gets closer to its peak at about 10:06 pm EDT Tuesday. This, along with other factors, suggests a wise mantra for the week might be ‘take it lightly’ – and you can combine that with ‘talk about it’. It’s easy to get caught up in the emotional whirlwind of a Full Moon. This one happens to position fiery individualism (Moon, Uranus, Eris in Aries) against our concepts of relationships (Sun and Saturn in Libra). You may feel caught up in something that you really don’t want to be part of — or feel deeply invested in something that you value. The truth is usually somewhere in between, but this is a good time to consider those two points of view.
The polarity gets some extra emphasis from the Sun’s proximity to Saturn in Libra and the Moon’s sidling up to Eris in Aries. In other words, the bright Full Moon is throwing into stark relief our feelings about any identity chaos we may have, and the traditional relationship structures into which we often try to funnel that and forget it. This theme will continue to build throughout the month, as Saturn and Eris move into a rare, exact opposition. For now, notice what comes up for you in this area and take it as an invitation to explore and consider the possibilities and potentials of your situation.