The
Cosmic Story: Gemini/Sagittarius Full Moon 2018
“The Moon likes secrets,”Meran said. “And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.” The Stone Drum, Charles de Lint.1
This
month’s Gemini/Sagittarius Full Moon is a storyteller Moon. It
calls us to take a look at how our Mind works. How the words and
images we live with every day shape our perceptions of the world.
The
Sagittarius Full Moon asks us to go on the quest for the secrets of
our deepest truths, often hidden behind our words. So be prepared to
have an adventure. The Gemini Sun scouts out the many possibilities
and opportunities that are available to us, and our Sagittarius Moon
bleeds her shadows on our lives and the world. The opportunity
offered is to clear up and let go of old misguided beliefs. Beliefs
that no longer serve our new needs. Beliefs that are bleeding us dry
of our vitality, hope and vision.
Some
perspectives arise out of a mixture of our fears and hopes. Some are
rooted in our deepest heart truths. Use the sword of clear Mind to
make your choices. It is the voice of our free will. We get to
choose. Where do your values lie? What perspective rings the truth
of your heart? Follow the pull of your heart to the mystery awaiting
you.
The
magic of this Full Moon is that we get to explore the inner mysteries
of our mind to find the next steps of our new story. As Bilbo
Baggins sang,
“The Road
goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say” 2
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say” 2
We’re
in it now. That mysterious new story. And because it’s a new
story, we need to let go of the small story our society fed us and
look to those bigger stories – the archetypal stories – to guide
us on our way. (I’m going to begin a series of videos telling
archetypal stories. You’ll find them on my blog, The
Bard’s Grove, beginning next week.)
It’s
time to live with and in magic – the real magic of Mother Earth.
When we do, the first thing we encounter on our road into the future
is the mysterious forest. All the best fairy tales have them! The
place of trials and secret wisdom. A place where our mind needs to
support our heart’s instincts.
The forest primeval. Remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth – through the collective unconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees, remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.
Which was why the druids’ Ogham was also a calendar of trees. Why Merlin was often considered to be a druid. Why Robin (Hood) was the name taken by the leaders of witch covens. Why the Green Man had antlers – because a stag’s tines are like the branches of a tree. Why so many of the early avatars were hung from a tree. Osiris. Balder. Dionysus. Christ.
Charles deLint~ Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood1
To
create your
new story, enter the forest of initiation and discover the mysteries
hidden there. Each
Tree
embodies
an
individual’s soul
life.
Forests are ancient collectives
of soul
lives.
They make up the alphabet of life. This next part of your
story will take you
into the trees. Find a forest and go explore! Listen to what the
trees know about life. Ask for their wisdom.
Gemini
and Sagittarius: Jupiter and Mercury
This
Gemini/Sagittarius
Full Moon
involves using our Mind in different ways. Using both sides of the
brain, paying attention to instincts and feelings, rational thought
and intuitive knowing. It’s an opportunity for deep awareness,
aided by the Full Moon occurring on two of our sky’s brightest
stars: Aldebaran behind the Sun and Antares behind the Moon.
So
let’s look at the many influences that shape this Full Moon: both
the signs involved and their ruling planets, and at the fixed stars
illuminating it.
Gemini
takes the form that Taurus has shaped with Aries’ fire and tries to
categorize it. What is it? Who is it? What can this form do? What
does this shape suggest? How is the world changed by this new form?
With
Uranus
in Taurus
now, it’s time to shake things up and create new earth to live in
and grow in. This Full Moon’s preceding New Moon was in Taurus and
was shocked by Uranus’ entry into Taurus a few hours later. (Our
inner lava flow?)
What new land is appearing on your horizon? How will
you steward it?
The
Gemini
Twins
are sometimes brothers and sometimes lovers. So the two are
connected. This mutable sign has come to represent the ability to
communicate, to listen and speak to others. To perceive others and
the world and try to categorize what information is coming through.
Gemini loves information – the Internet is Gemini’s brainchild, a
movable library.
Gemini
is all about seeing and collecting experiences and information, and
then disseminating what they’ve learned so everyone else can see
it. Steven Forrest3
says that Gemini must give
the universe permission not to make any sense.
(Perhaps that’s where our Gemini president gets it from!). Gemini
is most comfortable maintaining
a wide-open, receptive state of consciousness. And then Gemini
quickly makes connections.
Everything is open for discussion, and Gemini gets to do what they
do best: communicate.
The
ruling planet of Gemini is Mercury,
the archetype of the Mind – usually understood as the left brain
rational mind. Mercury
is the planet of communication, business, messages,
eloquence, boundaries and travelers. Mercury is known as the
trickster.
A fitting planet to symbolize the Mind.
But
his most important role is as the psychopomp,
the guide of souls who traverses many dimensions.
Which seems to indicate that the ancients saw the whole Mind –
both right and left brains – as belonging to Mercury. Isn’t that
what Mercury’s caduceus symbolizes – the duel energies of life
which are needed for the Mind to take wing. When the Mind is not
caught in up trivial pursuits, it is a wondrous gift. It becomes a
tool of the creative imagination.
Mercury
takes on many roles in Gemini: communicator, newsperson, traveler,
salesperson. But with Sagittarius opening the gates of higher
consciousness, Mercury can also take on the role of psychopomp
for us this Full Moon, leading us out of our 3D reality into greater
realities.
Mercury
is in the last degree of Taurus at the Full Moon, grounding our
thinking in sensual reality, while incorporating the new revelations
it is receiving as Uranus energizes the whole Taurus field. It’s
also conjunct the Gemini Sun, repeating the theme of the importance
of the right use of the Mind.
The
Sabian symbol for Mercury at 30* Taurus is: A
Peacock parading on the terrace of an old castle. The
symbol indicates that it’s time to display our inherited gifts –
inherited from our DNA ancestors as well as our past life ancestors.
So think of your gifts and talents during your Full Moon meditation.
Then give them to the Moon and see what you discover.
Our
task is to travel through this forest-like landscape, and see it as a
place of initiation. Your Mercury is standing by to guide you.
Sagittarius
is the opposite of Gemini – opposite but complementary. Whereas
Gemini is open to everything, giving it all equal value – it’s
information about life –
Sagittarius takes a wider view of things and out of that greater
perspective, gleans the Truth.
Or at least his truth. Sagittarius looks and asks the big
questions. Why am I here? Who made me? What does it all mean? What
is my purpose? Sagittarius is the sign of the Quest – the Quest
for Truth, for Love, for Wisdom, for
Meaning.
The
Truth–Seeker
and
Truth–Speaker,
Sagittarius takes aim and sights in on his goal. We have stepped into
the realm of archetypal truths, the cosmic laws of life. The deeper
patterns of life that run through our lives. We get to ask at this
Full Moon, What
patterns are still at play in our psyches that no longer serve a new
and deeper Truth?
Sagittarius
is what happens when we go through our Scorpionic death and rebirth
into a higher state of consciousness. The Phoenix arises within the
fires of Sagittarius.
Jupiter,
the Lord of the Heavens, rules Sagittarius and is now traveling
backward through Scorpio. Jupiter is an energy of expansion, hope,
acceleration, luck, curiosity, and law. Most of all, Jupiter is the
energy of faith, faith in ourselves and in a higher power. So the
question is: what have we poured our faith into? And is it
well-placed or misplaced there now?
This
Sagittarius Full Moon is open to diving deeply into the subconscious
to confront the Shadows that still remain. Jupiter is accelerating
the release of old emotional traumas that have stopped us from
stepping into our role as a change agents. Perhaps in the past you
have paid dearly for being a change-maker. Perhaps being one brought
on your death. Or perhaps you failed to bring about the change and
despaired. All these patterns are locked away in our DNA. We’ve
been working on releasing them. Jupiter is on the power gate of
Scorpio, its nexus of power. See if there’s still a complex buried
deep down that’s eluded you so far.
In
ancient myth, Mercury was the messenger of Jupiter. So ground in the
message by taking time to walk in Nature, meditate (in Nature),
dance, sing, draw, journey.
The
Sabian symbol for Jupiter at 16* Scorpio is:
A girl’s face breaking into a smile.
That smile is one of a heart-felt delight at a subtle recognition of
kinship, a sensual attraction or an imaginative leap. It might be
that smile that discovers the mystery you’re searching for. A
sense of wholeness and home.
The
Full Moon falls on two fixed stars – two of the four ancient royal
stars of Persia. The Sagittarius Moon joins Antares, the red heart
of the Scorpion. The Gemini Sun joins another royal star, Aldebaran,
the Eye of the Bull. The heart of the Scorpion is a warrior. The eye
of the Bull is the 3rd
Eye of the Incarnate Spirit. These stars illuminate this Full Moon.
Use their energies well.
This
is a great Full Moon to tell stories, to yourself or others.
Communicate with beauty, joy and imagination!
The
Sagittarius Full Moon
The
Gemini/Sagittarius Full Moon occurs on May 29, 2018 at 7:19am PDT/
10:19am EDT/ 2:19pm GMT.
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun at 9* Gemini is: A
quiver filled with arrows.
What a great image for this Full Moon. Sagittarius arrows,
Sagittarius goals. Aim for what you desire most.
The
Sabian symbol for the Moon at 9* Sagittarius is: A
mother leads her small child step by step up a steep stairway.
This is a sign that our Great Mother is there to lead us in this
journey to higher consciousness and evolutionary change. There is
guidance if we just look for it.
The
Gemini Sun trines Mars and the South Node in Aquarius while the
Sagittarius Moon sextiles them. These aspects can help us release
old desires from the past. A new story needs new desires to drive
it. With Mars in the shadow of his upcoming retrograde (June 26 –
August 27) let’s get rid of old politically correct ideas of how to
talk about our collective life and look at the truth of the
situation.
The
Sagittarius Moon forms part of a fire grand trine with the North Node
in Leo and Chiron in Aries. There’s a lot of creativity available
to forge a new identity based on our
truth.
Isn’t that what we’ve all been working toward?
There’s
also a grand water trine activated at this Full Moon between Jupiter
in Scorpio, Neptune in Pisces and Venus in Cancer. What a loving
energy to heal our wounds!
Both
grand trines form a 6-pointed star, a Solomon’s Seal of fire and
water. The union of the emotional and spiritual bodies is a symbol
of the heart chakra. As Rumi says, Love is the Water of Life. And a Lover is a soul of Fire. The Universe turns differently when Fire Loves Water.
So even though this is a very mental Full Moon,
we have to start with the Heart and then use the Mind to discover
what blockages we have to following the Heart. This will be our
journey in the forest of initiation.
Saturn
and Vesta retrograde in Capricorn oppose Venus and Pallas in Cancer
and they both square Juno in Aries. Our sacred contract is to
rebirth our culture through a loving, nourishing strategy that
springs from new concepts of relationship.
So
this Full Moon, listen within to the Voice of Spirit. Don’t let
the small, rational mind get in your way. The higher Mind is the
vehicle for Spirit’s messages.
Walk
in the forest of delight,
Cathy
1.
The
Very Best of Charles De Lint.
(2010: Tachyon Publications, San Francisco)
2.
R.J.J. Tolkien, The
Hobbit.
3.
Steven Forrest, The
Inner Sky. (1989:
ACS Publications, Inc.)
4.
Dane Rudhyar, An
Astrological Mandala.
Copyright
2018 Cathy Pagano
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The
Journey -- Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.
~ Mary Oliver ~
(Dream Work)
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.
~ Mary Oliver ~
(Dream Work)
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