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The full moon in Aries was exact at 2:18am PDT this morning- if the sky is clear you’ll get a lovely view of it tonight too. It was also a unique full moon, lining up with the big players in the Creative Initiation and occurring just a few hours after the equinox. This is a planetary event that is definitely looking to get our attention.
The lunar cycle is divided into a waxing phase and a waning phase, where things naturally expand or contract. The full moon occurs at the height of this cycle: it is a time for us to take stock of our previous growth, and then turn to refining it. Each month the full moon highlights two opposite signs of the zodiac for us to integrate. The current full moon pushes us to explore the polarity between Aries, the sign of impulse and initiation, and Libra, the sign of diplomacy and equality.
This full moon points a giant searchlight onto the new phases we’re each entering in our own experience of the Creative Initiation. The moon, at 0 Aries, is at the very beginning of the zodiac, fresh from its alignment with Uranus and Jupiter. You are ready to shed some more old, unhealthy emotional patterns and reflexes and brave enough to try out new ones.
On the other side of the sky, the sun is conjunct Saturn in Libra now: you are looking for ways to bring more integrity and balance into your life.
At this time we are challenged to hold two opposing but equally necessary impulses within ourselves- the impulse to set out alone on a new path, and the desire to create order and balance with others. Play with the paradoxes. The old ways of doing things don’t work any longer, and it is time to create new ways to do things.
• Which parts of your life are already reorganizing themselves?
• Which parts are still the same, that you would prefer to be different?
• What old pattern of yours is working itself loose, ready to detach?
• What assistance do you need, from yourself or other people, to let it go?
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
