{"id":9214,"date":"2009-01-09T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=9214"},"modified":"2009-01-10T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T05:06:10","slug":"a-closer-look-at-the-full-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/a-closer-look-at-the-full-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Closer Look at the Cancer Full Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

A closer look at the Full Moon in Cancer chart<\/strong><\/a> (exact Saturday night) reveals two additional minor planets closely within in the influence of the T-square covered in Thursday’s aspect<\/a><\/strong>. Remember that in the midst of this, Mercury is getting ready to station retrograde in early Aquarius. That occurs Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Moon is currently in late Gemini (opposite the Galactic Core at this edit early Friday morning), and it reaches Cancer, squaring the Aries Point, at 1:13 pm EST this afternoon. The Moon is currently moving at its fastest pace of more than 15 degrees a day, because it is so close to the Earth (hence, it’s very large appearance in the sky).<\/p>\n

The signature of this Full Moon seems to intensify feelings over what we feel and what is practical: Cancer versus Capricorn. The Full Moon always activates the polarity of two signs, presenting us with an opportunity to resolve or work with an inner polarity.<\/p>\n

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Icarus and Dionysus are conjoined with the Sun and Moon respectively during this Full Moon, which promises to be the visually biggest one of the year<\/strong><\/a> because the Moon will be so close to the Earth. Icarus is a strange asteroid which has an orbit so elongated that it spends most of its time in one sign, Aquarius (however for the moment, it is close to Aquarius, ingod Capricorn). Dionysus is a near-Earth asteroid of what is called the “Apollo-type<\/strong><\/a>.” It has a relatively short period (about 3.25 years) and it crosses the Earth’s orbit, meaning that in some future epoch of history it could collide with our planet. (Note to astronomy fans: Dionysus is not on the Wikipedia list of Apollo-type asteroids, however it is noted as such in this news bulletin<\/strong><\/a> from the European Space Agency, which announces the 1997 discovery that Dionysus has a small moon orbiting it.)<\/p>\n

The Full Moon’s conjunction with Dionysus is close to the conjunction this Moon will share with Varuna, the Great Equalizer. Varuna is a minor planet considered so important at the time of its discovery in 2000 that it was given minor planet number 20,000.<\/p>\n

The Sun will be conjoined with asteroid Icarus. Square this will be Eris. We have already mentioned the properties of Varuna and Eris. Varuna is the minor planet associated with the order of reality lurking beyond the one we can see; perhaps the higher truth we so often look to as “god.” Eris is the minor planet whose discovery caused us to rearrange the entire solar system.\u0412\u00a0 She is reflective of the chaos on the planet, and the personality chaos that is so distinctive about our own time in history. Making room for the truth within the chaos of our minds seems to be an important portion of the struggle this Full Moon is putting emphasis on.<\/p>\n

Dionysus helps us breaks free of the material constraints we live with. He offers a sense of transcendence and psychic relief from the material world. I would offer that it has something to do with our wild instincts or the process of rebirth this Moon is heralding. The message is that within the quantum chaos we need to reach a level of what most would call insanity to be free of the, well, of the insanity we live with. But this is special insanity, of shamans and mystics rather than kind we usually associate with restraints and nurses. We must go beyond the rational mind to a level of ecstasy or revelry in order to actually blow off steam and let go of pressure that is driving us mad. Alcohol is the metaphor; there are better ways, though clearly we use alcohol for this purpose. One of them is conscious sex, the emphasis being on conscious.<\/p>\n

Icarus has several interpretations. Martha Lang-Wescott understands this asteroid to mean the desire for “escapes that are careless of consequences…the fast break impulse.” According to Eric, Icarus stands for the height of experience or peak experiences<\/em>, the no-holds-barred push towards higher realizations. This sounds a bit like Dionysus’ theme: we really do need to break free from this structured pressure that we are stuck with.<\/p>\n

Taking all of these energies into consideration spells out a sort of anxiety about when it’s all going to be over. A sense of excitement, of steering towards a more creative future is definitely one of the signatures of this upcoming Moon. Perhaps the time is right to put a sketch book next to your bed, just in case sleeping seems too boring. You never know what ideas are going to spill out while you dangle in that strange insomnia.<\/p>\n

Till tomorrow,<\/p>\n

Genevieve Salerno <\/strong>with editing by Eric
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