Full Moon in Gemini - Winter is Coming

Full Moon in Gemini - Winter is Coming

For those who watch Game of Thrones, you know what Winter is Coming means. In so many words, it means you can run but you can’t hide. Not when Saturn, the lord of karma, sits in opposition to this full moon. On the one hand, you’re inspired to be playful in a way that shirks all responsibility. On the other, there’s a nagging sense that you should be doing something… anything… more… productive… more… in... service.

Not only is Saturn opposing the full Moon, but Neptune is squaring it, which pulls Neptune’s square with Saturn into the fore of our awareness. This is something we’ll be working with throughout much of 2016. To summarize this aspect, it means the areas of our lives and our world that are illusory or deluded with fantasy will become increasingly strained. Likely to the point of partial or total collapse.

Let’s take all the violence, murder and mayhem that continue to top the headlines. We can debate gun reform, immigration laws and terrorism tactics all day long. Will it have an effect? Maybe. Will it solve the problem? Hardly. We live in world that spoon feeds the masses, including our all too impressionable youth (whose neural patterns are literally still forming), with extremely violent and murderous propaganda, media and gaming. In a very real sense, we’re being desensitized to such horrors and programmed on a meta level to not only accept but actually dream this reality into being. It sounds inhumane, and it is. And we (as a collective) often are. That’s a painful truth throughout mankind’s history, present, and foreseeable future. IF WE LET IT. And that’s what this Full Moon transit reminds us.

“If you want to be good, first you must realize that you are bad.” ~ Gospel of Thomas

It's innate in us to be both sides of every polarity. Those who act out the toxicity of forgetfulness serve to remind us of the divinity of remembering. The full moon Gemini, which exposes both sides of every coin, lands on a holiday when those of us in the U.S.A. gather to celebrate our gratitude. This is a good thing. An important thing. Gratitude offers our nervous systems the opportunity to soften. To accept what is. To love what we have. And to calm our thinking mind’s fixation on what we don’t.

It’s ironic, yet appropriate to the theme of this post, that Thanksgiving has at its foundation a brutal massacre of innocent men, women and children who are indigenous to this land. Thus Saturn lays down the law as I type this. We reap what we sow. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. I’m not saying we as Americans are therefore deserving of such extremes. Merely that we can’t allow ourselves to forget. Which is to say that we must remember. That ALL men, ALL women and ALL children are our relatives.

Our relentless perception of separation, of other than, has perpetuated much of the toils we’re now faced with as the world spirals into chaos. Our industrial ideology, that man's actions have no impact on Mother Earth, has proven just how catastrophic this level of delusional separatism can be. Thus then, now as ever, this is our time to remember. No matter what. That all of humanity is created equal in the eyes of Great Creator. Humble your self in the eyes of every grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, sister and brother you encounter. Give thanks for their indelible part in the whole of our collective awakening.

For all our relations. A’ho Mitakuaye Oyasin

New moon in Scorpio

The Moon joins the Sun and Mercury in Scorpio, sparking a need in us all to own our power. For many, this requires the need to take back our power. While the Mars archetype of the warrior typically engages such an endeavor with unadulterated force, it's primed to take a back seat to the Pluto archetype of the transformer and the Jupiter archetype of the benevolent, both of which are strongly stimulating this new moon. Like a big ass bouncer no one dares fuck with, Jupiter maintains the peace. Like a stealth bomber of nuclear proportion, Pluto eviscerates the need for force in favor transcending the opposing forces of duality all together.

We're tapping into a healing energy of Chironic proportions. Our buttons are getting pushed, in all the right ways. The triggers appear more obvious when we cease our reactions. Recognizing the basic laws of the universe as they play out in each of us, our capacity to transmute all forms of denying energy and negativity, within and without, are substantial during this lunar cycle. As we disintegrate the old ways of forcing our will upon this world, we create space to drop more fully into our power.
We've seen the malefic effects on this planet and throughout humanity when force is employed to achieve any end. Where force needs something to oppose it, power just is. Where force speaks, power listens. Where force reacts, power responds. With the Uranus archetype of the revolutionary at the apex of a YOD (finger of God), in quincunx angle to Jupiter and the new moon, the energy to break through limitation, both that of our culture and our myriad ego structures, is readily accessible.

Plant alchemical seeds into the depths of your psyche in the week ahead. Rather than think, drop in and feel the answer to the following questions... What lead are you turning into gold? What wounds are you healing into blessings? What denying energy are you reconciling into the fulfillment of your aim? Where in your life can you integrate your innate power to respond and disintegrate your habituated forceful reactions?

"Human beings, besides being machines for transforming substances, are also instruments for receiving and transmitting vibrations. It is also possible for them to make use of the apparatus for their own benefit."

~ From C.S. Nott's "The Teachings of Gurdjieff"

Stellar blessings for a magical Scorpio lunation!