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| (by Ivan Bilibin) |
This full moon is exact at 25 degrees Libra on the 15th April, around 8:45 am GMT. It's conjunct the north node in Libra which means it is an eclipse.
Eclipses make for supercharged lunations, and this one is on steroids. Real intense. Very fitting, as it ushers in the latter half of April – a time of intense, unpredictable, radical change. Very exciting!
I am all for this. I am ready to see and be some change, dammit.
That said, this stuff is unpredictable and potentially very hard. You want to make an omlette, unfortunately you have to break some eggs...well there are going to be eggshells everywhere and we may be walking on them.
The drama starts in the late afternoon on Monday the 14th, the day before the eclipse. The moon (emotions, the public) will conjunct Mars (war, aggression) in Libra, becoming part of the grand cross that is currently tightening in the cardinal signs. A few hours later, Mercury (mind, communications) conjuncts Uranus (shock) in fiery Aries, opposing the moon and Mars, and squaring Pluto in Capricorn and Jupiter in Cancer.
This is a very good set-up for emotionally intense, shocking news. Communication that creates trauma....or instigates war.
Be very careful what comes out of your mouth at this time, because you are never going to able to take it back. There is going to be such force and pent-up rage behind the words that they will really be able to wound. And with this kind of intensity at work, people are not going to be able to just brush off what you've said or forget it. Relationships are likely to be severed – and forever.
Maybe that's ok if you're absolutely sure you want them severed. There are clearly a lot of models of human relationship we've collectively outgrown, and we can't carry them with us. Some relational dynamics are so rotten they can't be maintained any longer - all you can do with them is torch them.
This energy is like a forest fire, and ultimately forest fires are regenerative: the rotten old deadwood has to be burnt away before something new can grow.
But please be absolutely sure that what you're verbally torching is something you really want gone from your life. And whatever you do, don't be the one to instigate a fight. With Mars retrograde, an aggressive stance toward others will come back to bite you in the ass later on.
Basically, use your words with extreme caution, keep calm, don't allow yourself to spout off in the heat of the moment. Be especially careful with family members. Schisms are likely, and they'll be hard (or impossible) to repair later.
Thankfully, despite all this intensity, there are some mediating influences coming from planets in the water signs. Jupiter in Cancer (generosity of feeling, big emotion) will be trining Venus, Neptune and Chiron in Pisces (boundless love, compassion, healing and forgiveness). Saturn in Scorpio (emotional containment and control) is involved as well.
What this gives you is a way of averting war. There is this big dreamy flow of universal hippie love shit available, and you can tap into that. Make love not war etc. You will really be backed up and aided by these skies if can transcend your own pettiness and aggravation...if you can forgive and be emotionally generous.
There is a danger of delusiveness and blurred boundaries involved here, so be careful. Forgiving someone privately in your heart for the wrong they've done you is an entirely different thing to staying in a situation where you're being treated as a doormat. Masochism isn't love; enabling isn't love. Sometimes the most loving and compassionate thing you can do for someone who is intent on treating you like crap is to part ways with them.
Keep in mind that these skies demand radical, abrupt change...and endings. Tuning out, floating along, maintaining a stagnant status quo, pretending things are lovely when they aren't, putting up some pretty new wallpaper in a house eaten by rot and termites...these are not real options and will not be supported. Changes coming out of deep internal, emotional necessity will be.
Late on the 14th, Pluto changes direction, entering a retrograde period that will last until late September. I think this kinda underscores the gravity of the situation. Transformative events are being set in motion now that can't be undone, and there's an internal reckoning involved here.
And then the next day, the 15th, we have the full moon eclipse. Full moons represent culminations and endings – full moon eclipses intensify that. The skies are really pounding home this theme of necessary change, endings, breaking with the past and with the old order. It's almost funny how clear and blatant it is. I really doubt you are going to be in the dark as to the kind of change demanded of you: these skies are not too subtle.
With three planets (Mars, Saturn and Pluto) retrograde in the sky during this eclipse, a lot of the change you experience may be internal. No less intense for that though! It's a great time to cut off old habits or behaviours. You really don't have to keep doing the same old stupid shit you've always done...and in fact you'd better not. It doesn't pay to resist this energy; that would be as stupid as trying to stand in the way of a wrecking ball. You have to try to work with it.
Because it is a wrecking ball all right: Uranus squares Pluto on the 21st of April, the 5th exact square in a 7-square series. The moon is involved, so you will likely be feeling this big volcanic internal shift. Change is not going to be a choice but an emotionally-driven necessity. It looks quite uncomfortable, and this discomfort is not some passing, ephemeral thing: it's deep. There is really no going back to how life used to be; we are stepping through a portal into a whole new landscape here.
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| Eye of Sauron portal!!! (Kidding.) |
The next day, the 22nd of April, we have this amazing cardinal grand cross at 13 degrees Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn. Mars vs. Uranus vs. Pluto vs. Jupiter; so freaking intense. It holds this intensity till the 24th before loosening a bit, but we are looking at a cardinal grand cross into May.
An aside: a grand cross is a fairly rare formation. It's when planets in 4 signs of the same modality - cardinal, fixed or mutable - form a big X. It's inherently very tense and dynamic: these planetary alignments require adjustment and adaptation. As the cardinal signs initiate the seasons, the pressure for action and change represented by a cardinal grand cross is very intense - and the one we have going on now involves Uranus and Pluto, signifiers of profound change, to boot. This is really not the normal run of things...it's extraordinary.
So hokey. But yeah...we're going to Narnia!!!
What we are looking at in the second half of April, starting NOW, is a magical portal all right. It's easy to be terrified of this kind of intensity, but I can see it working out very well. It's beautiful. There is intense pressure for change, courtesy of the cardinal grand cross. There is great potential for trauma, shock, emotional upheaval, loss. And also great potential for compassion, forgiveness, healing, generosity, love...via a grand water trine that carries us through to June.
It's deep and bittersweet. You can't step through a magical portal without loss...you leave behind the world you knew, the safety of the familiar. Every birth involves a death as well.
But we're being guided all the way; don't forget it. Whenever things start to feel like too much, too out of control...you can let go and trust that the larger design will take care of itself. And align yourself with the forces of empathy, acceptance, kindness, gentleness...as much as you can, without letting yourself be taken advantage of. That's what will help amid all the chaos.
Ok, good luck! Let's see what happens.
Ps: here is a good way of using these energies. If there's gonna be war, hopefully it can be the dance-off kind.
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