{"id":55420,"date":"2012-04-05T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T04:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=55420"},"modified":"2012-04-04T21:37:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T01:37:21","slug":"libra-full-moon-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/libra-full-moon-and-then-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Libra Full Moon, and then some"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow the Moon in Libra opposes the Aries Sun to create the Libra Full Moon just before 3:19 pm EDT. You\u2019ve 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\u2019s 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\u2019ve been exploring this week \u2013 giving oneself and one\u2019s relationships space and listening for the secrets we\u2019ve been keeping from ourselves \u2013 get another reiteration.<\/p>\n

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Full Moon rising over the Temple of Poseidon, Sounion, Greece. Photo by Anthony Ayiomamitis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n

On the other side of that wheel is the Moon in Libra. We\u2019re 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?<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 a theme very much related to the ideas in yesterday\u2019s Daily Astrology<\/a> 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\u2019s all part of the same picture, the same message.<\/p>\n

People struggle in being \u2018real\u2019; often we\u2019re afraid of it even when we think we\u2019re 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 \u2013 and tremendous deficit on the other; that is, ours. <\/p>\n

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Or consider the realm of Facebook, where everyone carefully crafts their image even as they are seduced by the detachment of the Internet to type without thinking. And now employers are doing things like demanding the Facebook passwords of new hires, to see who they \u2018really are\u2019. The pressure to hide the truth of ourselves increases in direct proportion to how uncomfortable we are with admitting that truth \u2013 and with taking responsibility for it. And the longer we\u2019ve been ignoring these little hidden truths about ourselves, the more impossible it can seem to own up to them.<\/p>\n

So here is Vesta conjunct the Sun, holding space for and standing guard over all these things we don\u2019t talk about \u2013 but really want to. Things like our perviest fantasies or how we really<\/em> feel about our best friend\u2019s looks\/habits\/abilities \u2013 not to mention what those judgments say about how we feel about ourselves. This is where we hide the real roots of our guilt; our truest desires; the anger we stuffed down as children; our fear that we\u2019ll never \u2018get it right\u2019; or our knowledge that we actually can<\/em> \u2018get it right\u2019.<\/p>\n

Full Moons are famous for their squirrely-feeling tension. Yet that tension can also be used to dissolve deadlocks if you can negotiate between the two opposing sides, one at a time. Whether negotiations take place between your cache of inner secrets and your consciousness, or between you another, continue to take your time as you communicate and listen carefully. Mercury is direct, but moving slowly \u2013 and has some rich ground to cover before it\u2019s out of this echo phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow the Moon in Libra opposes the Aries Sun to create the Libra Full Moon just before 3:19 pm EDT. You\u2019ve 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\u2019s Mercury … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/55420"}],"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\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}