Happy Flower Moon of May!
Such a variety of beautiful flowers are in full bloom now, incl. wild and – starting – cultivated Roses.
Time to smell the Roses, and pick up their Heart Medicine.
GEM and SAG – the Journey from the Head to the Heart…
Native Americans and other traditions around the World gave names to the Full Moons of the year.
Each Nation / culture has given the Full Moons different names, according to the Medicine of the month.
So many names, so much diversity (so GEM), directed by Nature (so TAU).
Pick the ones that resonate and speak to your Heart!
This is also the last Full Moon in Spring 2024.
After the Early LIBRA – ARIES pre-Easter Full Moon / PLE (March 25) –
Release Imbalance & Choose (from) your Authentic Self!
and the SCO – TAU Full Moon / Astrological Wesak Moon (Apr 23) –
Dive Deeply & Find Freedom
The sequence of these three Spring Full Moons is also called
* Festival of the Risen Christ (pre-Easter Full Moon March 25)
* Festival of the Buddha (Wesak Moon Apr 23)
* Festival of Humanity (SAG – GEM Full Moon coming up on May 23).
The previous Full Moons have ‘funneled’ into this one:
Waxing LUNA, before her Fullness in SAG, has traveled this week through LIBRA and SCO – evoking themes of relatedness, balance, fairness, justice (LIBRA), and deep, dark processes (SCO), bringing us to core themes that are now ripe (FM) for Change-into-Freedom (SCO – SAG)!
On May 23 at 1:24 am PDT, the MOON crosses over the ‘Phoenix Point’ into SAG – Spirit can lift – we came through what needed to be felt, ‘digested’, transformed, alchemized. With new understanding, freedom and direction, rooted in the Heart wisdom & coeur-age.
Phoenix Moon
We rise again – even more so if we’ve processed and cleared a lot in / through the scorpionic phase.
The lunar SAG energy pulls us upward-onward – yay!
SAG after SCO is like the ‘Phoenix out of the Ashes’, the soaring Eagle, the rebirth & widening of perspective:
To SEE is to be FREE!
Freedom, Truth, and the Journey (as well as literally travelling) are big for SAG.
How does this Full Moon Season move you?
When we come from the separative ego-mind, the Full Moon polarity of SUN & MOON themes can easily turn into a divisive & polarized scenario, ‘horizontally’ or ‘vertically’.
“Me here – you there; my truth vs. your truth”
“I’m up here, and know better than you.”
“What do they up / over there know that we don’t know?”
“I / we know something about you / them – will the truth be told?”
Etc – endless variations of the game, loops and all… always more to say, always more questions…
What saves the day and the way is the HEART.
HEART Truth isn’t a disputable truth, doesn’t have an opposite, is inviting rather than dividing.
When something feels so right that it doesn’t contrast with a ‘wrong’…
Trusting and speaking from the Heart Truth is a big theme now, under the early SAG – GEM Full Moon.
Early SAG where the FM will be has an ARIES Undertone…
…where also MARS, CHIRON, and the North Node are currently, and the TSE on Apr 8 was, with the theme Planting Seeds for Healing, through Warrior Spirit & Renewal.
All this ARIES influence (continuing via CHIRON until 2026 / 27) is about renewal, presence, aliveness.
Be ignited / lit-up and moved!
While early GEM where the SUN is now has a LIBRA undertone.
More questions, doubts, choices?
Inquiring into the always weighing and pondering mind?
How about:
‘Marrying’ and alchemizing the division of this and that, good vs bad, opposites and polarities, in the growing & height of the light that GEMINI leads us to?
Light-ness & Beauty may emerge…
The SUN now in early GEM is in Air trine w. PLUTO in early AQ which also has a LIBRA undertone.
The evolution of AI learning…
The power of science & technology…
PLUTO currently retro (May 2 – Oct 11, re-entering CAP on Sept 1) calls us to ‘backpedal’, take our power back, and re-connect with intrinsic Soul Power & Higher Power – which of course are ‘on good terms’ with SAGittarian Heart Truth…
painting by Johfra Bosschart
Evolved GEMINI is known to be the Alchemist of Duality / Polarity.
In the Johfra pic to the right represented by SUN & MOON, Masculine & Feminine, Lion & Unicorn, Fool & Temperance cards in Tarot.
Woman & Man together hold the Caduceus, the winged staff of Hermes / Mercury (ruler of GEM) with the two yin & yang serpents.
Rather than the modern medical / pharmaceutical symbol of the staff with only one serpent(!!!).
What’s striking is the double-headed Phoenix of transformation through unity of polarity on top of the painting.
Relating to the Phoenix Full MOON!
Are these themes up for you too?
When the “me / us and them” or sense of “I / we / they know better” comes up, and creates an interpretation of perceptions that can turn into a ‘story’…
it’s time to inquire (GEM) in a deep & meaningful way (SCO / SAG), a la Byron Katie, and ask ourselves:
* Is this true?
* How do you know it’s true?
* Who would you be without this truth / story?
Self-inquiring, as: Questioning our assumptions, and asking deep existential questions about our True Nature are great ways of being with the SAG – GEM activation through the Full Moon, in wide / growing T-square to SATURN in PI. A training for our spiritual maturity – back to natural connectedness, unity, and flow.
Time to take a look at the
Early SAG – GEMINI Full Moon Chart
The Full Moon at 2º55′ SAG – GEM will be at 6:53 am PDT, on May 23.
Lots of commotion in the Luna-Sphere
Lots of dynamics going on.
Lots of mutable (GEM / VIR / SAG / PI) energy.
Lots of cuspy (SCO / SAG, CAP / AQ, PI / AR, TAU / GEM) activation.
Such an accentuated Full Moon Axis!
A huge imbalance of many / big celestial bodies on the TAU / GEM ‘Voice Point’ cusp and the sole MOON on the ‘Phoenix Point’.
Can the MOON in early SAG be a counter-balance to the very occupied end of TAU / early GEM cusp, w. URANUS, JUPITER (entering GEM on May 25!), VENUS (entering GEM on May 23!), and the SUN in early GEM, all on the ‘Voice Point’?
The Heart is always stronger than the many voices in the head…
Voicing what’s in our Heart while keeping it relateable can be the way.
Light & lightness are coming in, as Planets shift from solid (and also stagnant) TAU, starting with VENUS – entering GEM on the FM day – enticing us to Alchemy of Love & Lightness.
Followed by – yes, BIG NEWS of the month:
JUPITER, entering GEM on May 25.
Promising a year of more & better information, science, learning.
Stay tuned for the ASTRO~News article dedicated to JUPITER in GEM.
The Full Moon illuminates the need for balance of Head (GEM) and Heart (SAG)
> So much information (random, correct, and false), so many voices, so much noise, so many positions, debates, and distractions are swirling around…
> In a world full of Talking Heads, can Heart Truth & Trust be found?
> What are stories that convey Wisdom and inspire Gratitude?
I’ve been listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s audio book Braiding Sweetgrass – where she has braided Indigenous creation stories and wisdom teachings together with scientific eco-biological knowledge.
Highly recommended. Very apropos SAG – GEMINI.
> Where is an Alchemy of (apparent) polarities calling YOU?
Change of Eras
How is what we see (SAG), think and talk about (GEM) an expression of the outgoing / outflowing PISCES Age of the last 2 Millennia?
Which has been characterized by collectivism, incl. collective beliefs / illusions, hypnoses, ‘dream spells’ (all of the above conveyed in the last century esp. via media), and: so much suffering, esp. in war zones, and via drugs of all sorts.
The Victim – Perpetrator – Saviour – Martyr dynamics is still pervasive.
An entrenched co-dependent system, often expressed in religious and pseudo-religious contexts.
Yet, this too is on its way out, as the last waves have been upon us…
SATURN in PI (in wide T-square w. the Full Moon axis, and approaching NEPTUNE) shows us more evidence about how that comes to an end.
While the Web of Life (PI) prevails, and always re-organizes itself through the NI (Natural Intelligence) of adaptation, morphing, evolution.
Lots of teachings about the Unity of Life, via SATURN in PI.
We humans don’t really have a way of knowing “where it’s all going”, since we’re IN / part of the evolution, not ‘above & beyond’ it.
SATURN in PI approaches NEPTUNE, and both jointly enter ARIES(!).
First for a ‘trial phase’ in Summer of 2025, then fully in Feb 2026.
PLUTO is by then fully in AQ. A new Era will be upon us.
Currently, PLUTO is retro in AQ on the ‘Community Building Point’ cusp.
It’ll re-enter CAP one more time, Sept 1 – Nov 19 when it fully enters AQ for the next 2 decades until 2043 / 44.
We’ve learned in the last months of PLUTO in AQ (since Jan 20) where we stand in community and in Humanity, who our peers and compatible friends on a Soul level are with whom to be in community in / for the future of this turn of Eras.
PLUTO currently retro (since May 2) has us soul-search and find our intrinsic power that attracts more soulful connections accordingly.
NEPTUNE is already on the PI / AR ‘Emergence Point’ cusp.
It’ll come to its furthest point in the Zodiac this year by July 2, when it goes retro at 29°56′ PI(!).
The PISCES Age ‘vibe’ is on the way out.
NEPTUNE going retro until early Dec can help us with the letting go from within, to become open for the New.
If you’re a visual-auditory type, check out my freshly uploaded
YouTube video for the SAG – GEM Full Moon and for this week.
And here’s the
Sabian Symbol
for the Full Moon which will be at 2º55′ SAG.
“SAGITTARIUS 3°
TWO MEN PLAYING CHESS
KEYNOTE
The transcendent ritualization of conflict
Essential to socio-cultural living is the transmutation of natural human aggressiveness under most conditions of existence.
Many rituals, sports and games have no other basic aim.
In Chess, the complex types of energies which in their togetherness constitute a human person are symbolized by six kinds of pieces (king, queen, bishops, knights, rooks and pawns). The struggle between light and darkness (the Yang and Yin forces) is ritualized, ending in most cases with the checkmating of the king (the ego, the conscious self).
In a dualistic world, such a contest between polarized forces is omnipresent. The Chess game trains to be more objective, more careful, more aware of whole situations – and less impulsive and intent upon side issues.
This third stage symbol deals with conflict, but at the level of group culture and psychological symbolization. It brings to the objective consciousness the basic realities in interpersonal INTERPLAY.”
What an interesting interpretation of the symbolism of Chess.
And what an apt symbol, in the context of this FM.
Not only apropos the early SAG (which can show up as competitive sports as an outlet and transmutation for aggressive drives – ARIES undertone). But also re: the practice of integrating polarities and various inner Archetypes and inter-personal dynamics.
So, we’re looking at the ‘Game’ (SAG) and the ‘Science’ (GEM) of Chess – which in its set-up is very apropos early GEM which has a LI undertone – dynamics of equal and opposite polarities / partners.
Maybe, it’s possible to freshly see (early SAG) those ‘chess games’ in our relationships, in society and our relationship to it from angles like these:
> Is a conflict / competition / aggressive impulse being ‘ritualized’ through strategic moves that are directed by minds? Examples: elections, negotiating a divorce settlement, any choice that involves ‘the other/s’.
> What’s my strategy and next move, as I’m facing….?
> How can I win?
> Can I see the situation (Life?) as a game and Inter-Play that’s not so much about winning but rather about understanding my ‘Inner Players’ better, and alchemizing polarizations?
Where in your birth (or relocation) chart is (esp. early) SAG & GEM?
That’s the axis where you’re called to bridge, reconcile, and alchemize dualities / polarities when it comes to ‘The Truth’.
What helps is to go into dialogue, read / inform yourself, ask good questions, question the agenda / narrative (incl. your own!), learn about diverse voices, and bring lightness & brightness into the picture, while speaking your Heart Truth, now activated by the Full Moon.
If you’re familiar with your Astrology you can probably apply the themes to your chart & life.
If you’re not an ‘initiate’ and would like to go get support / new inspiration you’re welcome to contact me (licht@islandnet.com), and we can set up a customized ASTRO~Alchemy session.
Here’s a reference list for the astrological Houses:
1st House
Your Presence and Sense of Self
2nd House
Your Values, your Body, what you own, literally & metaphorically, your Business
3rd House
You in Your Local Environment
4th House
You and Your Home, Origin, Ancestry
5th House
Your Creative, Playful Inner Child and Lover
6th House
Your Work, Wellness, Lifestyle
7th House
Your Partners & Significant Others
8th House
Your Involvement and Sharing with Others, Your Transformations
9th House
What gives you Meaning; Your Wisdom, Inspiration, Path and Travels
10th House
Your Purpose incl Career, Your Public Self
11th House
Your Social Side – Engagement with Society, Groups and Friends
12th House
Your Transcendent & Spiritual Self, and Union with All-that-Is.
Are you part of a SAG themed ‘Mini Generation’?
painting by Johfra Bosschart
Were you born with slow moving Transpersonal Planets in SAG where the Full MOON build-up & release is?
The FM in early SAG affects esp. those of you in the early months / years listed below:
NEPTUNE in SAG
‘Dreamers, Idealists & Eternal Nomads’
Born Jan – Apr 1970 & Nov 1970 – Jan 1984
URANUS in SAG
‘Liberated Game Changers’
Born Nov 1981 – Nov 1988
PLUTO in SAG
‘Transformers of Beliefs & Revealers of ‘Truths’
Born Jan – Apr 1995 & Nov 1995 – Nov 2008
Whether you have the slow moving / generational Planets above in SAG (born 1970 – 1988 and 1995 – 2008)…
Or / and even your SUN, (esp.) MOON, AC, or personal Planets in SAG (which would make the experience even more personally felt)…
The SAG Full MOON evokes feelings about / needing to trust your truth, freedom, find your path, upliftment, understanding, abundance, see opportunities, and find happiness.
Activated in the area of life related to our SAG House.
She calls us to communicate our Heart Truth.
And reconcile dualities, while continuing to be curious and learn, in the area related to our GEM House.
Many Blessings for the early SAG – GEMINI Full Moon & beyond!
Melanie
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