{"id":36975,"date":"2011-04-14T04:31:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T09:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=36975"},"modified":"2011-04-14T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:14:56","slug":"transition-from-the-edge-full-moon-in-libra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/transition-from-the-edge-full-moon-in-libra\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition From The Edge – Full Moon In Libra"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Which leads to a third and very practical feature of oppositions — the bind. Almost no relationship takes place in a vacuum. For example, a person you live with may not know another person you work for. But there may be times when their expectations of you will conflict. That’s a bind.\u00a0You can visualize this by going back to the perspective of being out in space, looking down on the Earth with the Sun and Moon on opposite sides. Imagine yourself as the pickle in the middle, being pulled in two directions.<\/p>\n

When you experience a bind, it’s\u00a0not usually an appropriate\u00a0time\u00a0to\u00a0introduce\u00a0the\u00a0two\u00a0parties who only have a competing interest in common. Rather, the most productive protocol is to negotiate with each party separately, because it is the one in the middle who actually\u00a0has an ongoing relationship with each side. Participation is what creates the basis for negotiation.<\/p>\n

The negotiations attending Sunday night’s Full Moon may be especially sensitive because it involves the culmination of a pattern of extremes. Beginning late last year, we had five months in a row when the opposition took place with the luminaries occupying the very last degree of their respective signs. That overlapped with and was followed by three successive months (of which this is the third) when the Moon was about as close to Earth as it gets. And you thought there was just one ‘super Moon’. In fact, the lunar maximum has been maxed out in one way or another every month going back three quarters of a year. This has probably left a lot of us feeling same way,\u00a0extended to our limits. Taking a look at the bigger picture of world and domestic politics, one finds a corresponding litany of events that have been taken to the edge of precedence and beyond.<\/p>\n

With the Sun in Aries and Luna in Libra, the pattern of extremes reaches a symbolic climax. Aries is the sign most extremely associated with the self, its assertion and one-sided perspective. Libra is the place in the zodiac where equity, balance and fairness find their greatest emphasis with the imperative to see both sides from a detached point of view. The theme of relationship that, to some extent, underlies every Full Moon reaches its highest expression. What the self wants, and what the other (or more likely, others) will want for their own part from the self\u00a0will\u00a0be\u00a0ripe\u00a0for\u00a0resolution\u00a0through\u00a0negotiation.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Full\u00a0Moons\u00a0that\u00a0follow\u00a0will\u00a0gradually\u00a0pull\u00a0back\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0edge\u00a0of\u00a0each\u00a0respective\u00a0sign\u00a0and\u00a0take place further from the lunar perigee (its closest approach to Earth). The symbolic pattern of extremes is thus drawing to a close. This opens the way to a new cycle of patterns, a period of eclipses. In the meantime, remember that where half the circle ends, the other half begins.\u00a0Look for compliments and give them in order to be in harmony. Above all, stay in the game, don’t withdraw. The door to negotiation is participation. If you can stay actively, constructively and productively engaged with others long enough, you will see the other side, both theirs and yours.<\/p>\n

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