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<\/dt>\nTry not to fear the confrontation inherent in every form of reflection. It’s no more than looking in a mirror. It’s only light received from a perspective opposed to its origin.<\/p>\n
Try to relax instead. Take air in slowly, deeply and consciously. Feel how deliberate breathing helps you relax. Then, take your most pressing concerns in as you did the air.<\/p>\n
The mental construct incorporating air and closer reflection has to do with where the Moon will be on Sunday, both on the tropical zodiac, and in its actual orbit.<\/p>\n
The astrological Moon will be in airy Aquarius when it is opposed by the fiery Leo Sun. The Sun and Moon in the same degree of opposing signs defines a Full Moon on the zodiac.<\/p>\n
The actual object we call the Moon will also be about as close to Earth as it ever gets because, during Sunday’s Full Moon, Luna will be very close to the part of its orbit called its perihelion (or perigee).<\/p>\n
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The lunar perigee is a predictable, moving point in the Moon’s elliptical orbit that is closest to Earth. Because its motion is predictable, the Moon’s point of perihelion can be located on the zodiac. That’s how you can say that the Aquarius Full Moon will be conjoined to the degree with its perigee while opposing the Leo Sun.<\/p>\n
As result of its relative proximity to Earth, Luna will look bigger on Sunday than during most other Full Moons. Weather permitting, the Moon’s rise and its subsequent setting should be especially impressive because (for reasons not entirely understood) any Full Moon looks more expansive near a horizon. This particular Full Moon will be especially so.<\/p>\n
If you are fortunate enough to see Sunday’s expansive Aquarius Full Moon, try to do so with the awareness that it is, in tangible reality, no more and no less than a closer reflection.<\/p>\n
Then, employ your airy intellect to expand the reality into metaphor. What the Moon will be doing explicitly on Sunday, you can implicitly do in kind because you are both part of the same system we call solar.<\/p>\n
Just as you would appreciate a bigger, brighter orb on the horizon, begin by appreciating what is big and bright about you. You did not get this far by being dim and small. The experience you have taken in during your life is worth something. Upon closer reflection, let your worth fortify you. Then, so fortified, examine anything confronting you right now more closely, and take your time.<\/p>\n
Take your time just as a Full Moon takes its time, appearing in the sky all night long because of where Earth is at the time.<\/p>\n
During the monthly opposition of Sun and Moon we are (by definition) moving somewhere in between. Hence, while the Sun is lighting one side of the spinning Earth, the Moon is reflecting the Sun’s light to illuminate the other side.<\/p>\n
In the same way, let the dark side of your life at the moment of Sunday’s Aquarius Full Moon be illuminated in its entirety by your own reflections from the brighter side of your experience.<\/p>\n
Let those reflections bring light where there would otherwise be darkness. Then you can see what darkness has concealed, and (perhaps more importantly) how some of what you may have feared is, upon closer reflection, not real at all. When you eliminate what isn’t real, there is less to take in.<\/p>\n
Just as with air, taking in what was held outside changes how you feel. What you need to retain becomes part of you. The rest is released. With every release, you are more relaxed. The more relaxed you are, the more you can take in.<\/p>\n
Simply breathing, relaxing and settling down into a closer reflection in order to integrate or release what bugs you right now may not feel like a satisfying prospect for the Aquarius Full Moon. It may seem too simple, too ordinary, boring even.<\/p>\n
You may want this so-called “Super Moon” to be superlative, or some sort of epic experience. But, really, haven’t you had enough of too big, too much and too fast for the time being? Wouldn’t it be enough to live only as big as your own life for a while? Think about it. Upon closer reflection, the impending Aquarius Full Moon may best be taken in on a scale closer to your own.<\/p>\n
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