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FULL MOON IN SAGITTARIUS
By Jean Lall
May 23, 2005
1:18 pm PDT, 4:18 pm EDT, 9:18 pm BST
Sun at 2 degrees 47 minutes Gemini
Moon at 2 degrees 47 minutes Sagittarius
Reawakening the Cosmic Sense
This year’s Full Moon in Sagittarius falls less than three days after the Sun’s crossing from Taurus into Gemini, bringing warmth and radiance to the intellect and awakening the power of the word. What was sensed and embodied in Taurus can be thought and spoken in Gemini.
The sign of the Twins is the first of the three Air signs in the Zodiac. Its gifts are many – indeed it could be thought of as the sign of gifts and talents. It’s in Gemini that we discover our magic and cultivate our virtuosity. In a child’s development it corresponds to the age at which language emerges and tiny hands discover their cleverness. In human society it has to do with the education of the young and with all forms of communication, transportation and commerce, the myriad overt and subtle ways in which the fabric of local culture is woven and community is generated and maintained.
From a cosmic perspective, Gemini is the principle of differentiation which is essential to creation: the separation of light from dark, earth from heavens, male from female. All the pairs of opposites are generated in order to make a world, and their dance keeps the world going and makes thought, reasoning, and consciousness possible. Spiritually, Gemini represents the joy of conscious participation in the unfolding drama, of bringing one’s individual gifts to the party and having them welcomed.
As the Moon grows full this month she mirrors to the Sun the opposite principle of Sagittarius, the last of the three Fire signs, which seeks overarching principles, the integration of knowledge, and cross-cultural and interdisciplinary understanding. The Centaur-Archer, emblem of Sagittarius, is a powerful being able to travel long distances, climb to the heights, see what is far off and aim at distant goals. Where Gemini is interested in collecting, manipulating and distributing information, Sagittarius asks the question of meaning and ultimate purpose. Rather than information it strives for perspective, philosophical insight, and wisdom. The Moon in Sagittarius gives birth to the spirit and fosters faith, which is not simply belief in religious doctrines but a response to the cosmos which sustains our being.
As with all the pairs of astrological signs, Gemini and Sagittarius have a secret underlying unity and are meant to work in tandem. Gemini masters the particular and the near at hand, Sagittarius the general and the global. Gemini gathers and analyzes data, Sagittarius theorizes and philosophizes the results. Where the two are in balance, the great and the small both receive their due. Local and universal truths are respected equally. “Hard data,” logic and technique are cultivated in accord with the requirements of the subject matter, but are not confused with ultimate truth or wisdom. The joy of learning, the play of ideas and the delights of tinkering with tools are preserved and valued in the quest for grand theories and higher truths.
Although Sagittarius is given charge of religion, each sign in its own way expresses an aspect of the nature of the sacred cosmos and contributes to the full spectrum of spiritual life. The Gemini-Sagittarius polarity reflects not only the nature of the human mind but the intelligibility of the world, with its different levels of order and kinds of truth. It describes the full development of the mind whereby we are able to grasp not only practical knowledge but spiritual and metaphysical truth. Wisdom and faith arise from the realization that the cosmos is able to sustain life in all its detail and dailiness (Gemini) while it also embraces our beginning and end, our ultimate reason for being (Sagittarius), and the being of the wider world.
Where Gemini and Sagittarius are dissociated or not in balance, we experience failures of scholarship, of faith and of community. Academic studies often seem to be afflicted with this sort of imbalance. Logic, methodology, and the processing and storing of information (a truncated Gemini) dominate even in the humanities and social sciences (and even in studies of religion). The Sagittarian function of theorizing and placing knowledge in its proper context is hampered by the loss of the perception of the sacred cosmos. Academic objectivity is thought to require a suspension of the mind’s ability to see the cosmos as a whole and oneself as part of it. As a result, scholars live cut off from one another and from creation, and certain phenomena remain impenetrable to their gaze.
Venus plays a strong role in this Full Moon chart. She joins the Sun in Gemini while Mercury, their ruler, is in Venus’s sign Taurus, a mutual reception. Venus has just completed the exact square with Mars in Pisces and applies to the trine with Neptune in Aquarius and the opposition with Pluto in Sagittarius. Uranus is also in Pisces and widely square both Sun and Moon. With three Mutable signs (Gemini, Sagittarius, Pisces) strongly activated there is an intense mental-spiritual field, including a strong push for change from Mars and Uranus. Venus is the planet most suited to reawaken the cosmic sense through imagination and the sense of the beautiful. We can each contribute to the healing of the world and the restoration of thought and study by bringing a Venusian eye to all our observations. When human beings are gazed upon with love their souls become visible. Perhaps if we study the world with love rather than with suspicion, it too will show its soul and teach us its secrets.
© Copyright 2005 by Jean Hinson Lall
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Dana Gerhardt
A popular columnist with The Mountain Astrologer since 1991, Dana Gerhardt is an internationally respected astrologer.
She has lectured extensively and written for astrology publications on several continents. Her ongoing passions are the moon and living the intuitive life.
Dana worked for many years in the corporate sector, where she observed the undeniable influence of natural cycles. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles and did graduate work in literature at Columbia University and CSULA.
She is joined on her Mooncircles website by a community of accomplished astrologers.
Jean Hinson Lall
Jean Hinson Lall is a professional astrologer and psychotherapist who has been in private practice in Baltimore, Maryland since 1975.
A former Peace Corps staff member and Fulbright scholar in India, she holds an M.A. degree in archetypal studies.
Her writings have appeared in Spring, Common Boundary, and The Astrotherapy Newsletter. She has lectured widely on astrology, myth and archetypal psychology and is Director of the Institute for the Study of Imagination.
Julia Bondi
Julia has been a busy counseling astrologer, intuitive, teacher and writer for more than 30 years.
With degrees in clinical psychology and esoteric philosophy, Julia draws her wisdom and dedication to spirituality from her moon rising on her ascendant, her 12th house stellium in Gemini and her Pisces midheaven.
Pythia Peay
Pythia Peay is an astrologer and inspirational journalist whose articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including "George" magazine," Common Boundary," and "The Utne Reader."
She studied and taught meditation with the Sufi teacher, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, and is the editor of his book, Awakening: A Sufi Experience. She has also written Soul Sisters: A Sacred Way for all Women and Mercury Retrograde.
April Elliott Kent
April Elliott Kent is a practicing astrologer, writer, and web designer. Her writing has been featured in The Mountain Astrologer and Wholistic Astrologer magazines, and in Llewellyn's 2005 Moon Sign Book. Her specialty is wedding electionals. She recently graduated from the California State University at San Diego with a degree in communications.
http://www.mooncircles.
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