MOON ENTERS CAPRICORN at 1:45pm EDT on Friday, July 7 and remains here until Sunday, July 9 at 10:12pm. LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Square Uranus in Aries. The Ruled by Saturn, this Cardinal Earth sign reflects a drive to produce results. The ambitious mountain goat tends to take things very seriously, acting slowly, practically and responsibly to get to the top. Saturn's archetype symbolizes structure and form. Structure limits space, so we often feel Capricorn/Saturn influences as restriction. With the square to Uranus, there is tension between constraint and freedom at this time. Our result is likely to be radically different from what we expected. We might draw wisdom from the 30th Hexagram of the classic Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching in this area. "Human
life is conditioned and unfree, and when we recognize this limitation
and make ourselves dependent upon the harmonious and beneficent forces
in the cosmos, we achieve success...By cultivating in ourselves the
attitude of compliance and voluntary dependence, we acquire clarity
without sharpness and find our place in the world." Paradox plays a fundamental part in human existence. Perhaps we can only experience a kind of freedom when we recognize our basic limitations. Perhaps it's all, once again, a matter of perspective. This I Ching reading might give us a deeper insight into Saturn's archetype, the astrological principal of Reality: the importance and even benefits of structure, and perhaps even Fate, as constraint. Otherwise, in general, actions initiated during this period will tend to have CHALLENGING resolutions.
FULL MOON: The Capricorn Moon Opposite Sun in Cancer is exact at 0:07am on Sunday, July 9 at 9 degrees Capricorn. This is the classic Masculine archetype opposite the Feminine Archetype as a double whammy - given than the Feminine Moon is in a sign reflecting the Masculine archetype and the Masculine Sun is in the sign reflecting the Feminine archetype. Capricorn (which rules the natural 10th House of the authority parent as well as how we present our own authority to the world) Opposite Cancer (which rules the natural 4th House of nurturing parent, home and family) is the classic Mother opposite Father or Home opposite Career dynamic. It is the quintessential reflection of the alchemical marriage of masculine and feminine, conjunctio. And that is one of the challenges of this Full Moon: finding the way to honor both ends of the polarity. Be creative!
SCENE FOR THE DAY: Jane Eyre, 2011; Director: Cary Fukunaga. Here we have a film which can be seen to represent both the Moon Square Uranus period as well as the Full Moon Opposition of Cancer/Capricorn. Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender reflect our Feminine and Masculine archetypes in this scenario. Jane is passionately acknowledging her history of bondage (limiting Saturn) as opposed to her relative freedom (Uranus) while living at Thornfield Hall with Mr. Rochester. They also demonstrate, in the end, the reconciliation of opposites.
We might liken the above I Ching analogy for Moon Square Uranus to the actor who, only after memorizing his/her given dialogue, can be liberated in its expression and effect on another actor. Only then does she breath life into the words and make them her own. The structure of Saturn gives way to the freedom of Uranus. We then realize that the large asteroid Chiron orbits between these two planets and is considered by many astrologers (e.g. Barbara Hand Clow) to be the bridge between past traditional structures and the breakthroughs of future-oriented Uranus innovation - technological and otherwise. Chiron symbolizes our original place of wounding as well as the potential to teach others from what we have learned about that vulnerable place. Again, the marrying of oppositional forces, such as Saturn and Uranus, is crucial in moving towards wholeness.
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