As aforementioned, tbe Libra Full Moon takes place Thursday morning, at 10:55 am EDT. A number of distinct properties are covered in posts below. What you want to remember about the Full Moon is that it’s about polarity, or resolving polarity. Opposite signs are always involved; yin and yang energies are involved; massive amounts of gravity are involved; and the Earth is at the middle.The whole thing is physical, whatever else it may be: such as symbolic, cyclical, and so on.
Earth between the Sun and Moon means that each of us is also at the center of this experience. And we do feel it. Full Moons can be stressful, or wildly creative; they can precipitate events and feelings; they can keep us up all night for a few nights. They are the time to run with the hunt. Diana, goddess of the Moon, is the patron of both hunters and young girls.
One of my favorite qualities about the Full Moon is how they tend to break deadlocks, creating an opening through which the seemingly unlikely or impossible can enter. We’re in a moment of LOTS of activity on the astral level; our emotional bodies and water bodies are getting a nice tug in opposite directions, only to start growing closer when the energy resolves and the Moon begins to wane.
I would invite you to share your experiences with our other readers.
As for myself…I’m in my studio, blue lights on and a lot of frankincense burning, blasting Amnesiac, which I cannot seem to get away from lately, and reading Wikipedia articles about the Pope. Thursday is my day to write the lead article in Planet Waves Astrology News, so I am orienting my mind on that. Most of the other copy from the other writers is in. I’ve got most of my research done — I just need to jam the piece out, which looks at the issue of privacy and how it no longer exists…in the context of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius. Let’s see how it comes out — I can never tell in advance. I’ll probably start drafting it right after the Full Moon.
My studio assistant Sarah and I today did the illustration that will go with the piece…she did the underwear shopping, and I provided a life mask created in the 70s by the sculptor Ara Soner, which has found its way into my possession. That was a lot of fun.
A little later in the day, I met with three of my Planet Waves colleagues: Cam Hassard who made it up from the city after the long from Melbourne on Monday; Savas Abadsidis and Neisha Hirsch. We are continuing our action plan for a public relations offensive to inform the world that there is such a thing as Planet Waves.
Catch you hereabouts, mostly likely Thursday afternoon. I’m planning a late night.
Thinking of you.
i was dying to hang out with my new crush last night, but he wasn’t home… went to my usual salsa night (had missed a couple weeks) instead, and found myself feeling especially frisky & open to sharing my body, my energy with my dance partners (often i keep an energetic wall up, especially with dancers i don’t know or already know i’m not attracted to), as well as a little more flirtatious with a firend of mine i’d deemed squarely in the “buddy” category. even the dj played better music than usual. found a phone message when i got home from my crush, describing his trimmed pubic hair… and we had a fun conversation about sex. this morning, right around full moon time, i did my usul 3 pages of long-hand stream-of-consciousness writing, trying to figure out what exactly i need to let go of in my sense of self, my sexuality, what i need more of… for one, i feel like i need to take action more. whether by myself or with a potential partner, when i have an urge to act, i need to act (also in non-sexual situations). being stuck in my head & circling the tarmac is neither letting me land nor fly someplace new. also, i am still dragging around huge doubts and fears about my ability to fully function sexually (long story), which i had thought i’d finally gotten over these last couple years, but which had resurfaced this past fall/winter. i need to let go of that version of me. i need to stop fearing my power. i need to give myself permission to fully be this person i keep getting glimpses of anytime i let myself stop looking backwards. and as frustrating as it has been to talk sex with the crush on the phone with no physical contact, it *is* daring me to be expressive and assertive in the act of calling and writing. at the moment, we’re involved in a pretty explixit email exchange as he sits at a computer for a video shoot & i linger at work. this may be good for me after all; he’s very open about his masturbation habits, and i am too, but i think i’ve been needing a little extra inspiration lately.
i’d be curious what other tauruses in particular are experiencing w/ this full moon… especially any others with venus in aries.
I’ve been physically run down for about a week and feeling on one hand angry and the other emotionally drained. Today I feel a lot more together only not at all focused, and I have been trying to make sense of the full moon chart from a position of personal bad energy, and so it all looked like gibberish. Today for some reason I got the memo – look at all those nasty 19s. Aspecting natal Chiron which is at 19 Aries. Ohh looky there. Solar transit, full moon lunar opposition, and sticky Mars in Pisces next door poking out like a kickstand. Anyway talk about staying up all night. Last night I got to a point of reckoning amidst a nadir of crippling depression in which I felt stuck and inadequate to the task of being human and creative, and what ended up transpiring around midnight EST was a 4 hour talk with my entrepreneur Leo companion, whose ventures I am in effect supporting financially by working a job I can often do well but need to transition out of doing. But I’ve been resenting the days I feel my creativity pent up and caged to pay the rent, mine and his, while he does His Thing. The anger really built up and exploded badly over the weekend. But last night we really talked. And we now have the beginnings of a plan for how we can take some really interesting risks on expanding our territory (I have been editing the mag he publishes, but it doesn’t pay yet) and get paid for what we are good at and love doing. We also negotiated some financial and territorial boundaries without yelling, which needed to be done. The goal is for both of us to be publishing full time and living in different apartments. Today I called in to work and don’t feel the kind of nauseous terror of punishment I often feel when I do that. I’m going to take a walk in the chilly April sunshine and then come home again to work on my book project. Heading towards a natal Jupiter/Jupiter transit and wondering how that will manifest. Is a lunar/Chiron transit a once a month emo-cleanse, kind of like a period? Where is my geodesic menstrual hut?! I ask.
I’ve been grappling for years about two relationships in my life, and I had a breakthrough this morning – albeit theoretically. I love two men: I’m married to one of them, and the other is my mirror, my soulmate, if you will. I’ve never known how to practically express that and to live that in my day-to-day life, because it has to work for everyone or the whole fragile thing disintegrates.
This morning, I realised my ideal: to have a fulfilling relationship with my partner, however that is expressed; and to explore a relationship with my soulmate – but without the physicality. A sexual liaison wouldn’t work in this context right now – as much as I’m very attracted to him – and I think, in fact, it would be missing the point. Why? Because as part of the sacred prostitute archetype, I think that sexual healing in this instance involves *not* having sex, but rather sublimating it into something else – to sacrifice desires on the altar of a higher service, one that can transform everyone. The sex could come later, sure, but not now.
Anyway, as I said, this is theoretical. But I’ve put it out there … Let’s see what happens …
The full moon is conjunct natal pluto within a few seconds of exact. I am aware of evolution at, uhhhh, a very deep level. Reflected back to me through relationships, specifically relationship dynamics. What my family and society has passed on, warts and all. Being centered in my body has become my number one priority and that means learning to relax a lot as archetypes open up in the brain. Not much wiggle room. The lesson is trust and pulling back projections in order to speak and act from a place of trust and, of course, compersion/compassion (knowing that I am laying the ground work for the future). This means repeatedly dropping judgments, especially if they make you unhappy, for what the buddhists call beginners mind. At times this process feels like dying. It is scary and at the same time wonderous. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?