Moving Forward in Harmony with the Full Moon
I felt compelled to write a few lines at this Full Moon even though I covered it with the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in my last ‘Great Awakening’ blog. Full Moons tend to coincide with events reaching a climax or crescendo, just as we can see right now, and this Full Moon is in the sensitive, intuitive, nurturing sign of Cancer (the Moon is at home where she belongs).
Maybe like me you are feeling emotionally drained by the events of 2020 and maybe like me you feel exhausted and simultaneously almost dread what 2021 might have in store for us. Sometimes it just feels so hard to hold on to any sense of positivity even when you know that you must ‘pull your boots up’ and carry on forward.
But how to move forward? With my ongoing clients I work a lot with the Full and New Moons and where they fall in the individual birth chart. The lunations reveal so much information at those moments in time – information that might otherwise be missed through the time constraints of a normal consultation session. But I normally do this for others rather than for myself. Now though I feel I need some guidance and that I must see what is being mirrored in my own birth chart. I must take advantage of this nurturing Full Moon and nurture myself. And lo and behold the Full Moon sits exactly on my Venus – the planet of love. When I saw this I knew that this is a message that we could all benefit from because love is the highest frequency, the frequency that most affects the evolution of Earth.
Venus in the sky right now is sitting in Sagittarius tightly with the South Node. Now the South Node gets some bad press, but in essence the way I read it is that it represents gifts to us from past lives - memories, talents, skills that are meant to help our Soul to grow and develop in this life. The lesson is though that we mustn’t just go straight to what the North Node has to say and discard what we have learned before, but that we must build upon our past experiences in order to go forward.
The Sun at this Full Moon sits alongside Mercury the planet of the mind, ideas and communication, whilst the nodal axis straddles the Gemini/Sagittarius axis, the axis of the mind. We have begun a new Jupiter/Saturn era in Air, the element of the mind, so the energy is really screaming that we must take back control of our thinking and our decision-making.
The Full Moon in Cancer speaks of feelings, emotions, moods, whilst Venus in Sagittarius suggests that we need to nurture our feelings via the higher mind, philosophy and spirituality; that we need to find some kind of balance between the lower mind and our curiosity in tandem with the higher mind, whilst allowing the higher mind to guide us always. Consciousness feeds consciousness and we feed off the emotional vibrations of others whether that be for good or for ill. But those who feed off the vibration of love have the power to awaken others.
The challenging times we are experiencing now are more inclined to expand feelings of fear, which increases our negative vibration and pushes feelings of love away. And that was exactly what was happening to me. Love is heart centred, whereas fear comes from our lower base feelings. Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, in myth is Zeus – the God who sat on the top of the highest mountain, where he could survey his land and see the big picture of anything that was going on. Therefore, I need to raise myself up to that point so that I am no longer sweating the small stuff, but rather surveying that bigger picture of life. That requires me to go into my higher consciousness via meditation and visualization so that I can access the part of my mind that links with the seat of my rational, logical common sense mind influenced by love rather than by the fear of what might happen. I had entered a state of fear based low vibration which would not only limit my life but also limit the lives of those around me.
We might be in lockdown but we don’t have to lockdown our ideas and we don’t have to lockdown love. Fear compromises logic and rational thinking because of the parts of the brain that are activated by that fear. Fear brings the body and the mind down to below base level. Fear paralyses action. Fear compromises the immune system.
There are still turbulent, possibly explosive, times ahead so we need to be able to rise up to higher levels of consciousness. Love allows us to enter the highest state of consciousness where our greatest ideas sit waiting to be tapped. Love conquers dark. The dark becomes powerless in the face of love. Love lifts and heals. Love crosses divides and boundaries. Love is far more infectious than any virus. The choice really is a no brainer.