{"id":41622,"date":"2011-07-15T02:39:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T06:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=41622"},"modified":"2011-07-15T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T21:50:55","slug":"finally-that-caprcorn-full-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/finally-that-caprcorn-full-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally: that Capricorn Full Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Friday, July 15, 2011.<\/strong><\/a> With the Moon finally reaching its full phase at 2:39 am EDT, we had the first lunation in six weeks that was not some form of eclipse. But you may not have found recent days to be any less prickly, either personally or politically; witness the US budget standoff. The deadline for deciding whether or not to raise the country\u2019s credit limit is August 2 — when Mercury stations retrograde — which means Congress is playing high-stakes chicken.<\/p>\n

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As the day goes on we\u2019ll see if the Full Moon breaks the stalemate, now that Obama has put on his spurs, six-shooter and sheriff\u2019s badge and told House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, \u201cDon\u2019t call my bluff.\u201d Between the wild west White House and some prickly inter-personal exchanges lately, I think the Pima tribe was onto something when they dubbed this \u201cThe Moon of the Great Cactus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever they had in mind, the image is perfect since we tend to externalize Full Moon energy, and cactuses — for us, at least — are all about those sharp bits on the outside. Cactuses present a clear boundary between inner and outer; that is less and less so in the interpersonal human realm. It\u2019s a concept that has been called into question more and more since the eruption of the Internet in recent years. In fact the Rupert Murdoch \/ News of the World scandal is proving beyond doubt, and with a particularly Capricorn twist, there is no distinction between public and private anymore.<\/p>\n

This is an uncomfortable place for most of us to be. But as many have noted, one way to make being seen or being known for who we are less traumatic is to present ourselves authentically to all people in all situations. I\u2019m not saying that what reporters did at NoTW is okay or that the victims of their tactics should not be upset. I\u2019m saying being angry that someone was snooping and feeling ashamed of who we are or what we\u2019ve done are two different things.<\/p>\n

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Of course, being authentic means we first have to see into ourselves and recognize all aspects of our ourselves without shame, and this is not necessarily easy. Our culture isn\u2019t going to hand our wholeness to us — we need to claim our own inner territory first. As mentioned recently, this is a message coming from many places in the sky right now, most strongly from the Varuna-Eris aspect brought to light by the Full Moon. Varuna is conjunct the Sun in Cancer, and Eris is in late Aries squaring both Sun-Varuna and the Moon in Capricorn. That square in particular brings into focus gender integration, and its companion aspect of Mercury in Leo opposite Vesta in Aquarius adds a special flavor.<\/p>\n

Mercury is generally thought of as androgynous. The Vestal Virgins who tended the sacred flame in the temple of Vesta vowed to remain chaste for the 30 years of their service. This opposition between the sign of the Self and the sign of the collective, then, indicates a special message regarding this process of presenting a whole, authentic self to the world. It suggests that making contact with our inner male and inner female asks us to let go of sex roles. We don\u2019t have to give up sex; this is about seeing the insistence on traditional sex roles as the divisive war that it is — and seeing how it is being exploited, to the detriment of everyone.<\/p>\n

You don’t need to go out and buy a magic wand for this. But you do have to pay attention, listen, give yourself some space and allow those around you theirs. Just as the opposition of a Full Moon is polarizing, so too is standing in your full truth in a roomful (or world full) of people who don’t and can’t even conceive that it’s possible. Not everyone currently in your life is going to jump for joy when they start to notice how bold you are in stark contrast to their fear — at least not immediately. But you never know who you might inspire simply by your being you, and those who are waking up to their power will be glad to see you standing with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Friday, July 15, 2011. With the Moon finally reaching its full phase at 2:39 am EDT, we had the first lunation in six weeks that was not some form of eclipse. But you may not have found recent days to be any less prickly, either personally or politically; witness the US budget standoff. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}