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Opposing the Aries Sun
The Full Moon in Libra arrived on Saturday, gracing the Easter / Passover week-end with its special energy and celestial display. Ok, for some, it made life a little bit crazier, but that's what Full Moons do. They highlight conflicts and problems and inner divisions ... and getting that resolved is just part of the territory we all travel. This month, it happened smack dab in the middle of the holiday.
So let's talk about Full Moon energy in general ... and this one in particular, and get a fix on what all this means to you.
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The Full Moon always occurs when the Moon is in the sign directly opposite the Sun in the Zodiac. In the sky, The Full Moon always rises in the East as The Sun sets in the West.
In astrology, an opposition between the Sun and the Moon always indicates a hyper-sensitive situation, where emotions are on full display, and "other people" are more easily able to jerk your strings and get on your nerves. It's also a situation where options are more readily available -- but so are ambivalence and confusion.
You may see life more readily from "another person's point of view" ... but you'll also feel constrained to take this other perspective (and these other people) into account, when that may not be convenient -- or even agreeable for you. The feeling of division ... within yourself ... and between "you and them" ... mirrors the testy, irritable mood of this time.
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The Full Moon between the Aries Sun and the Libra Moon brings this situation front and center in ways that are rarely comfortable. This is the conflict between "your individual interests and wishes" and "other people's agendas and designs" ... in spades.
The energy of the Aries Sun is assertive, competitive, forceful, and independent. The energy of the Libra Moon is cooperative, sociable, concerned with other people, and wants everything to be "nice."
("Can't we all just get along?" ... whines the Libra Moon. "You're darn-tootin' we can, if you'll just get out of my way!! ... growls the Sun in Aries.) Aries wants self-determination: Libra wants companionship and company. Aries feels like its trying to fight off a swarm of bees: Libra feels rejected and unloved. And so it goes.
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These two energies simply do not mix well. Under stress, the energy of the Aries Sun becomes impatient, pushy, aggressive, and self-centered, while the energy of the Libra Moon becomes manipulative, passive-aggressive, exceptionally sensitive, and feels "used and pushed around."
With everyone feeling these two conflicting attitudes ... the atmosphere is charged with the potential for problems, or at the very least a sharp exchange of words. This is very much a time of rebalancing "your needs" and "everybody else's needs."
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For a while, you will work to redefine (and differentiate between) your ambitions and your self-identity -- and those of your partners and close associates. These next several weeks will bring into sharp focus the need for a compromise between what you want ... and what your partners want from you, between your image of yourself as an autonomous, self-regulating person and what you need to contribute to your relationships -- perhaps in order to keep them in your life.
It's a balancing act we all go through from time to time -- and in various parts of our lives. And, well ... here it is again.
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Wherever this opposition falls in your Natal Chart you will devote a lot of careful attention to the important relationships in your life. And you want security, reassurance and attention in return ... especially in the affairs of life ruled by the house that holds the transiting Moon.
Yet you have a tremendous yearning to enjoy your independence, chase some important personal goals ... and reconnect with the essential pieces of your character that let you feel powerful and authentically you. There's a strong push for action now in the areas of life ruled by the house that holds the transiting Sun. And these may not be compatible at all with your relationship interests.
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Little by little, I'm doing a set of articles that talks about all the elements in your horoscope and what they have to say about you. If you "know something" about Astrology -- or know something about your chart placements, that will help you get more from this material.
If you don't ... well, this is one place you can learn. We all have to start somewhere ... because we aren't born knowing this stuff. Meanwhile, if you've never seen your horoscope ... and don't have a clue how to work with it, maybe it's time to find out. There are lots of "chart services" on the internet -- some of whom produce decent, readable charts "for free" and some are so awful and confusing that even I can't read them easily -- and I've worked with charts for decades.
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Or, if you want to get serious and really talk about this, upvote this post and start a conversation in the comments section sometime in the next six days from the time of publication. We'll go from there depending on what you want to know.
Questions about any of this? -- Upvote this post and talk to me in comments. It's a terrific way to build value for yourself and the community ... and it will give me ideas of what to write about in future posts. Believe me there is lots to say about the way The Sun, The Moon -- and all the other elements in a horoscope, all the other components of Astrology -- work together to interpret you and your story -- and what it all means to the person you've become.
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