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The up close is straightforward. Luna is one day from being full and two days from perigee, its closest approach to Earth. That means tomorrow’s Libra Full Moon will look big (especially near the horizon), and have a big influence on the tides. The magnified appearance and gravity will carry over to the personal.<\/p>\n
The Moon is inherently personal. It is associated with the night when many of us sleep, the ultimate personal time. Luna is also evocative of that which is personally felt. Most of you understand from experience that observing the lunar monthly maximum brings up strong feelings inside yourself. Many of us know from observing the behavior of others during a Full Moon that those strong feelings are common to nearly all. Indeed, the same personal feelings and public behaviors are often in evidence when a Full Moon is not readily seen or consciously anticipated. That’s where the straightforward appearance and demonstrable tidal influence of a luminary opposition begins to spill over into the subtle and symbolic.<\/p>\n
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Each and every Full Moon is the monthly culmination of a lunar cycle. Those lunar cycles have been going on for as long as there has been life on Earth. It appears that life on Earth began in the oceans, where it necessarily adapted not only to the radiation of the Sun but also to the combined gravitational influence both luminaries exert on the tides. It also appears that the oceans ascended to dry land in the form of living cells, each containing complex molecules floating in a close equivalent of seawater. <\/p>\n
It would follow, then, that the complex molecules in living cells, including yours today, carry an encoded memory of whence they came. Your cells are thus, at the very least, physically synchronized in correspondence with the lunar cycles, even if the Moon’s gravity cannot be demonstrated to function over the width of a cell in the same way it influences the breadth of the seas. When cellular life became sentient, the evolved physical correspondence to luminary cycles flowed into and synchronized with correspondence gained from conscious observation.<\/p>\n
Conscious observation is something you do all the time. It is part of, but not exclusive to, being human. Conscious observations become useful to others when they are correlated and recorded in some manner that makes it unnecessary to repeat the original observation each and every time. That protocol of observation, correlation and correspondence is one way that we humans distinguish ourselves from other living things. It is a practice that resulted in tide tables. It also resulted in the astrology that tells us that tomorrow’s Full Moon is distinguished by being as up close and personal on the symbolic level as it is on the observably physical and perceptibly visceral level. That’s because of how the signs occupied by the opposing luminaries carry that symbolism, through the ages, up from the oceans, out of our cells and into our awareness. It begins with where the Sun will be.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, the Sun will be in Aries. As a cardinal sign, Aries symbolizes the initiative to life in the individual cell or collection of cells, distinguishing self from the undifferentiated sea. As a fire sign, Aries is the unlikely and assertive expression of fire in us all. Aries is ruled by Mars, which is referred to as a personal planet, not only because its cycles repeat many times in your life, but also because Mars symbolizes, in the words of Robert Hand, “the energy that an individual uses to maintain itself in the face of pressures from its environment.” Sun in Aries is thus the representation of living consciously as an individual, shining self, both projecting energy into the world and encountering another doing the same. That encounter with other is where the Libra Moon comes in.<\/p>\n
Libra opposes Aries on the zodiac just as horizons do, as opposing sides of he sky. Libra is also a cardinal sign, but its initiative is towards balancing the awareness of self with that of others. As an air sign, Libra symbolizes an intellectual realization that life cannot be sustained by repeating its original and unlikely emergence. Libra is ruled by Venus, another personal planet, which (once again in the words of Robert Hand) “always has to work with the power of Mars” to manifest what neither alone can accomplish, the continuation of life. Moon in Libra is a personal understanding of the principle that no individual, no matter how energetic, can sustain its own kind by itself. The Full Moon in Libra is the full illumination of that principal, culminating a long journey across the sky.<\/p>\n
Rising at sundown, the fully illuminated lunar disc travels across the entire sky in the course of a night, setting at dawn. That journey of opposition and synthesis has been repeated as the climax of every luminary cycle for as long as life has lived on Earth. It is as close as every cell in your body, as personal as your dreams. It is a journey that stretches across the dark abyss of a single night, connecting one day to the next in a continuum of light and a triumph of life. The Libra Full Moon tomorrow takes that journey back to where it started, in a long ago sea, when the active found something to act with and the receptive found itself acted on in a cycle of life that resulted in cells, that collected in consciousness which now observe and correspond to our own beginnings. That’s about as close and personal as it gets.
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\nOffered In Service\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nLen is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Libra Moon opposes the Aries Sun tomorrow at 3:19 pm EDT. That will be a Full Moon, the first nocturnal celestial event most of us learn to identify. No two Full Moons are alike. Every Full Moon is distinguished by its own unique visual tableau and astrological context. As regards to both appearance and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55477"}],"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\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}