The First Sagittarian Full Moon

‘ You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens‘   Rumi

The Full Moon on Saturday is the first of two in Sagittarius. The issues of Gemini and Sagittarius will be open to us over the next twenty-eight days. This doesn’t happen often, so it must be a way to keep our attention on the issues of these two constellations, occurring again June 20th with another full Moon in Sagittarius.

Gemini can be summed up as our words and thoughts, Sagittarius as our beliefs.

The Gemini Sun scintillates in the double energy of twins. Once again the hawk rises and sails. Mercury is the messenger of the Sun and ‘rules’ Gemini. It takes tremendous courage and discipline to hear the message coming from the solar center.   At the moment of this full Moon, Mercury is traveling in retrograde motion, but on Sunday, the 22nd, he will station direct at 14° Taurus. The theme of hawk and falconer, so strong at the new Moon in Taurus is ready to soar again as Mercury returns to direct movement.

THE SECOND COMING WB Yeats                

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

 

Sagittarius is often full of ‘passionate intensity,’ and Gemini tends towards mental babble.   What about these next two full Moons is offered in the way of balance?

Perhaps it will be the asteroid Vesta, nestled next to the Sun, who can give us some real guidance at this time.   If the full Moon energy makes you feel dizzy with chatter, think of the cleansing and purifying aspect of this goddess who represents the hearth and the need to cleanse and reorganize our spiritual home.   Venus is there as well, still in her sign of Taurus, in a degree dedicated to adjustment and adaptation.

But the Moon is less sanguine.   Mars is her companion, their Sagittarian arrows pointed toward the Sun. What beliefs can justify violence?   We all contain the passion of beliefs; political or spiritual. Where do we point our barbs? What ideas do we defend rather than explore?   This all reminds me of the last days of Arthur’s Court when friend turned against friend to destroy what they most wanted to defend.

Meanwhile, lest we get dragged down into too much air and fire there is an earthy trine in this chart, which promises a way out, the potential for stability. Mercury in Taurus, Jupiter in Virgo and Pluto in Capricorn, manifest the possible energy for new structures. Is there a third way in some ‘either or’ Gemini conundrum you face at this time? Must the Sagittarian arrow be let loose during an endless replay of Game of Thrones.   What might the earth energy of Jupiter/Mercury/Pluto create?

In Aleister Crowley’s Thoth deck, the Thee of Discs speaks of the Alchemical marriage. The card contains the symbol of Mars in Capricorn, but this time we have Pluto in Capricorn. Since Pluto is sometimes called the higher octave of Mars, we can look for some divine energy to build a pyramid of creative effort.

The Rider Waite deck inserts human endeavor into the process. The vision of the cleric, the design of the architect and the craft of the mason combine to create a cathedral, which will last for thousands of years. What does the cathedral hold? It is a reflection of the earth, which is our home cathedral.

Over the next few days as the Sagittarius Moon fills our window with the light of reflection from the Gemini Sun, we might find a way to become visionaries, designers and masons of our deepest soul desires.

 

Picture of the desert path     Sarah Fuhro

Picture of the Hawk of Dawn   Robert Fuhro

Three of Discs from the Thoth Deck illustration by Lady Frieda Harris

Three of Pentacles from the Rider Waite Deck illustration by Pamela Coleman Smith

Sarah Fuhro         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 www.sarahfuhro.com.