The moon, in tight conjunction with Chiron, opposes the sun at 16 degrees of Aries on October 9th, at 4:55pm eastern time. Venus sits combust beside the sun, highlighting relationship dynamics, illuminated at this full moon. The yearly Aries full moon is a time when our interpersonal relationships become highlighted, how we show up for others, how others shape our lives, how we find balance between justice and mercy, how we care for and nurture ourselves in order to care for and nurture others. Combust Venus is often associated with good to come that has yet to really be seen, the sun’s beams obscuring it from our view, and so, there is something brewing underneath our line of vision as we move through this next lunar cycle.
With so much energy in cardinal signs, and the upcoming fixed-sign eclipses approaching, there is so much energy of change in the air. The cardinal signs are initiating signs, signs that bring in the newness of an incoming season, they are the drive to start something, they are activating. Change can feel quite uncomfortable, but much like the ongoing Saturn-Uranus square, we are being asked to soften into that change. All of this shaking up and sometimes erratic and unexpected shifting has been here to offer us the chance to let go of control, our attachments to things that have been holding us back. Relinquishing control in order to find freedom.
Chiron through Aries has been showing us the ways in which we have not supported, or believed in ourselves, the ways in which we have not seen our uniqueness, how we have not allowed ourselves to connect instinctually to the world around us, where we hold ourselves back for fear of rejection. The full moon illuminating it at this time offers some light shed on some of our still tender spaces, vulnerabilities, and how we relate to others and to attachment. What timing, Mercury works its way back through the signs of Libra and Virgo in a post-retrograde shadow, of which brought up reflection on how we communicate with others, as well as showing us where we may be too critical with our thoughts or speech in regard to ourselves and to others.
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