Friday, the 13th of June will begin with a full Moon just after midnight. Thirteen is an important number in the Moon cycle for it is the number of Moons in a solar year. This issue of Moon and Sun in calendar calculation has to be solved in a number of uncomfortable ways, rather like the problems of Cinderella’s step sisters when each tried to put her foot into the glass slipper. The earliest calendars were calculated on the Moon’s cycles, and Jewish and Islamic calendars remain lunar. The problems arise when a lunar calendar must correspond with the Sun’s journey in a solar world. Below is a picture of a stone age Moon calendar.
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The fear of thirteen as an ‘unlucky’ number may be related to the persecution of those who kept to the lunar calendar, as this was considered a sign of witchcraft. Since Friday is sacred to the goddess, and the planet, Venus, there was further fear of the contamination of the feminine in a polarized world view. To celebrate the revival of the feminine, witches, druids, and those who love the earth, turn toward the lunar calendar to enrich our sense of the sacredness of time and season. Friday the thirteenth is a day to celebrate a lost segment of our connection to cosmic time.
The Kiss
Does Time cease to move,
Till her calm grey eye
Expands to a sky
And the clouds of her hair
Like storms go by?
—Robert Graves
This is the Moon of Duir the Oak. It is the Moon of the Summer Solstice when the Oak King is defeated by the Holly King, and begins his departure to the South. He will not return to us in the North, until he renews his battle at the Winter Solstice. Oak is the king of the forest trees. The Oak’s bird is the wren, tiniest of all. She represents the sacred aspect of life, we so often miss.
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The opportunity to harmonize rather than polarize our way of looking at the world is given with each full Moon and this one is about the power and pleasures of rational thought (Gemini) and the observance of spirit (Sagittarius). In this chart, Jupiter who rules the sign of Sagittarius is in the Moon’s sign, Cancer. We each have the opportunity to celebrate our thoughts and our intuition with this full Moon. Jupiter is the only planet with an exact relationship to the Sun and Moon face off. His degree has the Sabian Symbol, ‘The Meeting of a Literary Society. ‘ This is a perfect image for the Gemini Sun/Sagittarius Moon. It’s a book club, where the pleasures of reading are shared in communication with friends, a mixture of intellectual activity (Gemini) and a social and spiritual gathering (Sagittarius).
We have some other interesting markers in this chart as well. Mercury is rolling backward (retrograde) and will return to his sign of rulership (Gemini) soon. Here is the opportunity to rethink commitments, ideas, strategies. You may want to edit your writing project rather than plunging ahead with it. You, and the rest of the world have this time to change your mind!
Venus and Saturn are also in opposition like Sun and Moon. Saturn is in retrograde and moving through old material. Wouldn’t this be a good opportunity since Saturn is in Scorpio, a sign of deep and serious excavation to look at your own history with Venus, who is in her natural sign of Taurus? What is your romantic history? If you know what sign Venus occupied when you were born, you can get a flavor of your outlook on love. There is another dimension to this opposition between Saturn and Venus. This is a good combination for any kind of artistic (Venus) work (Saturn). It could also be a time when financial efforts would pay off, if looked at with deep scrutiny. What are your resources? If we think of Merlin and Nimue, we can see how these two planets have something to offer each other. Each is in charge of a vital part of life, love (Venus) and work (Saturn). Until we love our work and work at our love, things never go right.
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Mars and Pluto are in a tight square. They are higher and lower expressions of each other. Mars is an everyday representation of action. Pluto is the deep and fateful expression of unintended consequences from our actions. Uranus is still with range to square Pluto and oppose Mars. If we observe our actions (Mars), and their consequences (Pluto), we have the potential to create an evolutionary step towards greater understanding of who really are (Uranus).
Read the Sabian Symbols for this Moon and it offers a deeper insight into the potential of this moment in time. The image for the Moon is ‘A group of immigrants as they fulfill the requirements of entrance into the new country. Consciously accepting the ways of a new stage of experience, in readiness for the opportunities it will present.’ Are we ready to be immigrants to a new land, where we will no longer know the ways of our past conditioning?
The Sun in Gemini: ‘Three fledglings in a nest high in a tree. The growth of spiritually creative processes in an at least relatively integrated mind.’ So we have fledglings and immigrants as our model for this full Moon moment when Sun and Moon face each other Friday at midnight. May you enjoy what the moment has to offer.
Sarah
Keeping our Ancient Wisdom Alive
The Wisdom Tradition evolved over the centuries to address our deepest human needs. Sarah Fuhro is a practitioner of its many forms; including Astrology, Tarot, Flower Essences and Druidry. In addition to personal consultations, Sarah teaches workshops and private classes, offering both clients and students knowledge powerfully rooted in the past, presented in the language of the present. To learn more, please visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sarah-Fuhro-Star-Flower-Alchemy-Astrology-Flower-Essences-and-Tarot/71299491502?ref_type=bookmark
Sabian Symbols are from An Astrological Mandala. Dane Rudhyar. From the work of Marc Edmund Jones.
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