Astrology, Full Moon, October 9, 2022

Overall, this article series seeks to understand the conscious experience of the breath of life on this planet, in this solar system; from the climax of Light’s inhale at the full moon to the climax of Light’s exhale at the new moon, as Light is made manifest in this solar system by consciousness that emanates from the heart of the sun. To chart the transitions; to make sacred the portal.

Image is a snapshot of the solar system with earth at the center against the backdrop of the greater cosmos at the exact moment that the center of the moon lines up with the center of the earth and the center of the sun.

Full Moon Oct 9, 2022

The full moon occurs just past halfway through the 17th degree of Aries, opposite the sun in the 17th degree of Libra. These points in a full moon, with sun in Libra and moon in Aries, create a fertile ground for the expansion of consciousness while delivering potential to the individual.

We are it; learning to live in a holistic, non-rational, intuitive manner.

Mercury and Pluto are both direct again, but neither are out of their retrograde shadows. Pluto is at the same degree (26), trine the sign (Capricorn to Virgo), where Mercury was at the previous new moon.

This suggests that this is a time for leaning into what we’ve learned. Skills demonstrate their own evidence.

This full moon highlights an opportunity to quicken into connections with creative solutions, rather than bleeding out into impersonal and disconnected messaging. This will be more discernible with a heart sense than a head/mind sense, and may serve as spiritual training for a soul’s evolution.

The heart knows, now more than ever.

Continuing with the Airplane metaphor from my last article, in this image, we’re pulling up our landing gear. Consciousness is recognizing and rationalizing there’s no turning back. That would indeed be a crash and burn.

For the submarine metaphor, we’ve gotten to a depth where sunlight doesn’t penetrate. You and your crew are each other’s survival. Separation from the old worlds is required. Surrendering to dedication is awoken, inspired, and required.

The hydrofoil rider drawn by a kite holds multiple dynamics of tension in balance at once and gets to experience the thrill of the acceleration.

Pluto Direct

This is the first soli-lunar event where Pluto is direct since our perspective of Pluto’s motion changed on April 29, 2022. While this happens every year, what’s most significant about this apparent change in direction is that it’s the last time Pluto will station behind the USA’s natal Pluto position at 27° 33’8” r Capricorn until the USA’s 2nd Pluto return in ~248 years.

Pluto will continue moving direct over the USA’s natal Pluto point in the last few weeks of December 2022. I suspect that this direct motion, and the buildup to the exact conjunction at the end of the year, will alchemize new culture reformsand structural change at the institutional level.

Since Pluto is in the USA’s natal 2nd house, the reforms and change taking flight in consciousness (metaphor of flight comes from recent articles) is linked to the possibility for approval of measures to consolidate resources (2nd house — banks, finances, lending/borrowing, material possessions and desires) that reinitiate balance and stability.

The timbre of cultural personality is shifting and being shifted, in how individualism (nationalism and individualism — the same at different levels) is re-sculpted and authorized.

Trust the Captain

147° ahead of Pluto is Mars. Mars activates individual ambitions and Pluto is slow moving culture mulching. This angle exists exactly between the 144° Biquintile (⅖) and the 150° Inconjunct (5/12).

“No man’s land” seems fitting.

Even though it may feel like No Man’s Land, the task is to participate in the greater creative leap that’s occurring on earth right now to instill a new setpoint at the highest level possible.

This is a time, more than others, to practice living in your heart more than your head; to live in blessing what is, both in form and in vision, and not lacking what the mind misses. The brain sees lack; the heart knows only blessing.

Sense into your personal mission, especially the parts that invigorate your heart, and let love lead the way.

The heart pumps; the brain breathes.The heart transmits; the head receives.

This phase is a space of transforming links between the individual and greater culture. You’ll recognize the difference by anchoring your motivation in what has the most significance for you, rather than following a prescribed official narrative that’s enforced top-down but doesn’t resonate with you.

Surviving the culture mulching that’s mentioned above requires self-awareness and reconsidering self-doubt in the recognition of evidence of past efforts (training and skill building), as it’s revealed as expertise.

The proof is in the pudding.

This is as much about remembering that our voyage through this passage of time is unprecedented and the world we’ll come to know will be structurally different.

Whatever the quality, the most effective way to handle this time is to train the mind towards opening attention to the most beneficial possibilities and, like the unified mind of the passengers on a vessel, Trust the Captain.

“Trust the Captain” operates at the personal level with the passengers and at the transpersonal level, as everyone aboard the plane trusts the captain’s skill at directing machinery within universal consciousness (as it shows up through its Laws of Physics).

Jupiter and Neptune

The benevolent organizer (Jupiter) and the great dissolver (Neptune) are both moving backwards against the sky, within 9 degrees of each other, bisected by the northern ecliptic.

This is the last full moon before Jupiter appears to dip back into Pisces on October 28, joining Neptune. Jupiter moves faster across the sky than Neptune, but they’re both moving backwards together in parallel motion.

Parallel motion, in this instance of planet and placement, means congruent action of individual and culture.

Interpersonality and culture are moving together at this moment; yet the quickening of growth and change in consciousness is accelerating.

Reliance upon Trust amplifies our capacity to experience Mutualism with natural laws and skill development to allow new levels of willingness to move in trust towards the flow of what’s to come through Jupiter’s short retrograde phase back in Pisces.

Jupiter stations direct on November 23, 2022 at 28°48’ Pisces. Jupiter’s retrograde phase will generalize and further alienate the lost, but it will also awaken and invigorate the spiritual essence in tomorrow’s leaders.

As intense as this all might be, opposed to Jupiter and Neptune is Mercury, which is directing and reminding us to focus on what’s really important and necessary to make it all work.

Inner Planets

Mercury stationed direct last week, on October 2 at 24° Virgo 12′. Over the last week that Mercury has been traveling to 28° Virgo 41’, mental training and learning has been emphasized; attention is being trained for a greater purpose.

Next week, on October 16, Mercury will leave the post-retrograde shadow at 8° Libra 55′. This implies that Mercury’s journey through its post retrograde shadow, from October 2 to October 16, is about refining a mental technique that integrates and moves beyond hope to a transcendent faith in continuity.

Skills are always more reliable in the 3D realm than blind faith, but heartfelt faith based on attunement and attention is a prerequisite to transcendence.

Libra is ruled by Venus, which just passed through this region of space. It suggests that this week (Oct 9 — Oct 16) will be about recognizing enduring values and higher purposes that are most important to us at the individual personal level — values and purposes that we can anchor into for centering to guide us in our working hours.

Venus will transit behind the sun during this phase, initiating a new reflective phase where imaginative play will give you the relaxation you’re looking for.

Mercury’s placement stresses the importance and support for participating at a higher level by meditation — aka, returning to Source — during times of confusion and chaos.

The more we’re able to hone into root knowledge, the more effortlessly we’ll understand what decisions will best deliver us the future we desire.

Mercury leaves its post-retrograde shadow and begins charting new space on Oct 16.

Saturn

At the end of the second week after this full moon, just three days before the next new moon, Saturn stations direct on October 22.

Through this phase, Saturn’s apparent backwards motion against the sky slows down and comes to a stillness. Saturn receives a perfect waning trine from the sun as the sun passes 18° 35’ of Libra, on ~October 12.

At this time, Saturn will be in an exact waning square to Uranus in the 19th degree of Taurus.

This signature is all about restructuring intuition. It emphasizes learning and establishing reforms based on what’s been learned.

If you feel like the world is turning upside down, it might be helpful to remember to tune into heart wisdom over mental certainty. Hold your heart in greater importance than your head, but don’t lose your mind.

Changing Grand Trines

From a grand trine with Pluto, Uranus, and the inner planets at the previous new moon (9/25), this full moon brings Saturn, Mars, and sun-venus into a grand trine.

This suggests that support for elevating and alchemizing intuition that was seeded at the 9/25 new moon is revealing itself through restructured individual assertiveness based on personal values at the 3D level.

This activates upleveling at the personal level and supports the development of greater capacities to work with, store, and transmute light. We are developing spiritual skills.

Closing Thoughts

This full moon in Aries highlights an attunement to the potency of invisible forces of nature. Lack of potency is transformed into poise and inner serenity.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. Trust the skills you’ve built, find and stay in your lane, and do your work.

The great illuminator (sun) shows us that between incarnation and transcendence is an elevated calmness that exists beyond struggles and victories. A transcendent peace.

It shows us that repair is part of normal wear and tear, that no one gets out of life alive, and that only life itself lives on.

This is a time to reflect, recognize and adopt unseen perspectives at a new plane of reality. Always essential keys are gratitude and appreciation.

What deeper understandings are available for you?

How can these deeper understandings work with broader wisdom to restructure and recreate ways of showing up (Jupiter will move direct into Aries in a few months) so that useful skills build and empower courage for showing up?

Joy starts within.

Happy Full Moon,

Joshua Blatman