☾ ● ◯ The most dramatic Full Moon in this year of the Wood Goat takes
place Sunday night – Monday morning (depending upon where you are the
world (see comments to check time zones)), 27th-28th September, with a
Full Harvest Supermoon Lunar Eclipse. The last similar supermoon was 33
years ago and there won’t be another like it for 18 years!
With
‘The Lights’ along the 'me-we' Libra-Aries axis at 4 degrees, this 4th
blood red Moon is an Aries Supermoon stimulating those born around
either equinox (Spring or Autumn) to focus upon balancing the needs of
self with those of others maybe more than the rest of us, who are also
being asked to consider the benefits of being true to our autonomous
authentic self, as opposed to the adaptive self that often relies upon
all kinds of outside dictatorial influences that can compromise
morality, beliefs and truth.
☾ ● ◯ While co-operation with
others is essential in this world of 7 billion human beings, and our
happiness essentially depends upon how we treat others; agreements made
during this Full Moon must include beauty, joy, and hefty whack of
personal independence to feel free and self-directed, without harming
others.
☯☆☯ In Tibetan Buddhism our authentic presence is called
‘Wangthang’, which also means ‘the field of power’ which permeates and
surrounds the body within and around the electromagnetic aura; this is
strengthened to protect and magnetise by the merit and goodness we
consciously create.
In Tibetan astrology, the Wangthang is
associated with the element of the year, i.e. in this particular year of
the Green Wood Goat, the element Wood, which relates to Air, is where
we find our collective (and personal) power and the ability to
spiritually ascend. With Spirit Sun now in Libra, Air and Wood are
highlighting the capacity to find spacious balance in growth, egoless
command with practiced calm, and generosity without dominating fixity.
Air of course is also associated with breath and balance, so calm
abiding meditation (Shamatha or Shiney) is highly recommended for the
duration of this eclipse – and beyond!
☾ ● ◯ And as the
retrograde Mercury is also next to Sun during this Full Harvest
Supermoon Lunar Eclipse, the heart-mind can only benefit by taking the
opportunity during this powerful space-time portal to release all
self-cherishing clinging to ego attachment, and imbibe the light of the
Sun, welcoming the ability to be genuine and true to the heart-mind and
the love-light within.
“The best and most beautiful things in
the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the
heart.” ♡ Helen Keller
ps: If you’d like to give yourself a
marker in time as to how one changes and grows happiness, light and
self-development, another Equinox Full Moon in March 2016, in six
months’ time is a good place to aim for and see how you are… Meanwhile,
if you’d like an astrological reading to help navigate the heavens and
to develop and grow your own Wangthang, please contact me, Laura, here for rates and exchange. _/\_ ♡
Wishing all a wonderfully illuminating Full Harvest Supermoon _/\_♡
With ℒℴѵℯ ॐ & thanks to thangka painting maestro Romio Shresta for Buddha Shakyamuni enveloped by eclipsing dragons _/\_ ♡
2012's Full Harvest Moon in Aries activates
my own Aries Moon. Initially, I wondered how this might ‘affect’ me. Of
course, in Buddhism there is no ‘me’ to affect :) and in astrology the
stars incline and don’t impel. (So the nonexistent ‘I’ either consciously or unconsciously makes one’s own destiny! ;))
But it was actually a personal breakthrough – so symbolic of an
activating Aries Moon conjunct Uranus, the Great Awakener – that I
suddenly ‘felt’ with my whole being something so simple, which I had
intellectually understood for over twenty years. And this makes me aware
of how important this full moon is.
Let me share my own
personal ‘ah-ha’ moment, which is the recognition of how vital it is to
maintain a calm-abiding meditation practice in order generate compassion
towards others (in Tibetan this meditation is called ‘Shamata’).
Without this personal practice of harmonising one’s heart-mind, one is
less able to easily be loving and kind. Of course one can be always be
considerate if one cares to; but the kind of total thoughtful concern
for others that I am talking about, which consistently has the benefit
of others at heart, takes years if not lifetimes of contemplation, hence
the emphasis that all spiritual traditions place upon meditation.
It seems surprising to acknowledge how I have ‘known’ how important it
is to ‘do the practice’; but now, over this full moon, I have
‘emotionally experienced’ the wisdom of this most basic meditation –
that personal practice (Aries) provides a treasury of LOVE (Libra). And
this depth of feeling (associated with the Moon) makes all the
difference; as greater freedom comes from understanding how real
(Uranian) liberation means ones is no longer bound by circumstance,
causes or conditions – and that is quite a big step on the process of
spiritual transformation, developing compassion, wisdom and strength in
any event or situation!
All this is very much in accord with
the current celestial line-up as the harmonious Libra Sun opposes the
dynamic Aries Moon, which sits next to unpredictable yet altruistic
Uranus, and both in Tsquare to powerful Pluto. These stars ask us to
consider how we relate – to ourselves and to loved ones and, because
friendly Uranus is in the mix conjunct the Moon in Aries Uranus takes on
a more important role, as the planet of kindred spirits is also the
higherarchical ruler of Aries, suggesting all the Ram's individuality is
best served when living for the benefit of others (which is the
Mahayana principle); this Moon conjunct Uranus assesses how we fit into
the collective aspiration of personal freedom, altruisim and
transformation.
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