The Full Moon falls on Monday, January 9th at 2:30 am (EST). For U.S. West Coasters, it's at 11:30 pm (PSST) late Sunday the 8th. London time on Monday the 9th is 7:30 am and Melbourne, Australia is at 6:30:00 PM.
At Home, On EarthThis first Full Moon of 2012 is in Cancer, with Sun in opposite sign Capricorn, both at 18 degrees. It’s a big peak for big feeling, as we cast across this year 2012 with so much built-up expectation. Some are lit with inspiration, others anxious -- maybe you're like me and it's both within the span of an hour.
The Moon is at home (in her dignity) in Cancer, but watch for the loony, irrational side to go supernova. All the security fears, compulsive reactions, unconscious patterns are let loose and magnified. You can have epiphanies about these mysterious workings of the soul and heart. Like the Moon card in the Tarot, the real treasure to be found cannot be forced out. It comes with being receptive, honoring feeling, and tuning in to dreams and memories with a charge. These weave a web of impressions and feelings, the raw material that guides us to personal meaning along the path.
These two signs intensify home, the need to belong, and for emotional intimacy (Cancer) and the drive to build up a base that’s solid (Capricorn), and will weather the unpredictable storms we're encountering these days. Intuitively, we may know things could get more chaotic or challenging, before they get better. This is about bolstering your emotional strength, and your fortitude, to meet whatever comes your way.
This Full Moon brings revelations about emotional resonance, and those to build closer mutually supportive ties with. And light for viable paths, that with your effort can be grown into something lasting.
Great drama happens if the life of feelings has been sacrificed to work, responsibilities. If you've had too much stress and strain lately, there can be outrage or intensified angst, that spills over and cannot be contained. This is a moment to reflect on deeper needs, and find ways to respect their demands.
Other Weather at the Full Moon:Wild Speech
Mercury's speed is charged by volatile Uranus, in a square -- a scene for impulsive decisions that "change everything." There could be great challenges to the status quo, or social conditioning. A moment for breakthrough ideas, but also for reckless confrontations with those in authority.
On the other hand, the message of groundedness has power, with a trine to form-maker Taurus. There can be innovations in coming to embodiment, or solving a practical problem. This trio (Mercury-Uranus-Jupiter) gets your mental muscles moving, to resolve, and come up with new approaches for real life conundrums. It's one for mapping out your steps, seeing the journey in 3D, and how with courage and persistence, you can get there.
Glass HousesUncommonly clear eyed talks, and inspired visions take flight, with Venus and Neptune in Aquarius, the sign of friendships, allies, networking, evolutionary leaps. Keep your antennae unfolded and receptive to fresh currents that move out stale air, and revive the mind.
Venus (love and beauty) and Neptune (bliss, the imagination, spiritual rising above) are in a graceful trine to Saturn in Venus' sign Libra. The inflowing genius currents can be used to re-balance, restore order to any scene out of whack. The dignity and sense of fair play helps everyone keep a cool head. This helps to counter any overemoting, defensiveness and losing all objectivity. It's possible even to see a longstanding, deeply embedded personal issue with brand new eyes, and for that to right your vessel on the great ocean of feeling.
Sometimes dreams of houses collapsing means that old ways of seeing are shattering like glass -- it's a collapse of the psychic house. My sister had a dream like this recently, and her colleague's house was the only one left standing after a tsunami (great feeling waves). It fit with how she saw this person, as someone who could handle radically altered reality, and come through still standing. Others in the dream were frightened or seemed to revert to a childlike state. This alignment in air signs can be powerful for dissolving old paradigms, and setting in a new narrative. It's great for collaborating, and exchanging thoughts on how to bring more balance into our world.
Strong ConstitutionMars Virgo plays a supportive role, with a sextile to the Moon and trine to the Sun. It brings an adaptable attitude, and a sense of what works for a system (like the human body). If waves of emotion rise, look to daily practices to help you release or integrate them.
It also brings out resourcefulness, and ability to break down a task into steps. Mars Virgo is empowered, when there's a sense of serving the whole, and being a healing force.
