“A Fortified Kite Shows Off its Flying Skills”

The full moon on September 10, 2022, occurs at 5:59am at 17° 41’ Pisces, opposite the sun at 17° 41’ Virgo. Full illumination happens in the 18th degree of Pisces/Virgo, and all the planets support the unwinding of narrative details across consciousness on the planet.

This full moon, agriculturally known as a Harvest Moon, is the last full moon before the autumnal equinox, which will be exact in the evening of September 22, 2022, in the USA. It’s called a harvest moon because, as the sun sets over the western horizon, the moon rises in the eastern horizon, and the smoothness of the transference (more on this later) from sunlight to moonlight allowed farmers to harvest their fall crops longer into the night.

This behavior shows that people have been organizing their activities and their lives by movements of the astrological planets. Symbolically, skilled labor (Virgo) is done for the perpetuation of life cycles (Pisces) and demonstrates the success of the growing season. Light from the solar system supports this community effort.

OVERALL SHAPE: “A Focused Airfoil”

The overall shape of this chart is, what I’m calling, a “Fully Knit Kite.” Every planet is involved. The moon is conjunct and balsamic to Neptune (in retrograde), both opposing the sun; Mercury is opposite to Jupiter and Chiron, both in the first half of Aries (1/24th of wholeness); Sun is in a grand trine with Uranus - separating conjunct the north node - and Pluto in retrograde; Venus is waxing crescent to Mars and quincunx to Jupiter in retrograde; and Mercury (newly retrograde this past week) is in waxing trine to Mars which is in a waxing trine to Saturn (also in retrograde).

A Word Salad.

I’ll start with the bigger picture.

The spine of the kite is the dual opposition of the sun to the full moon and Neptune. The moon is being pressurized by Neptune and lifted by the light of the sun. With Neptune in retrograde, there is an added challenge to managing the pace of change by letting go into lift (letting go and trusting that which cannot be seen).

Mercury bisects opposite to Jupiter and Chiron. This overlaps and reinforces the integrity of the kite’s body, stabilizing awareness at a higher level across dimensions of cyclical change. Consider how life in the air may be completely different to life on the ground. New modes of behavior ushered in by this full moon may be as dramatically different as the juxtaposition of operating on ground vs. operating in the air.

The corners of the kite are double reinforced by the rounded edges of Mars in a new phase relationship to Uranus on the leading edge of the spine, and Saturn in a new phase to Pluto on the trailing edge of the spine. The leading planet in each pair (Mars and Saturn to Uranus and Pluto, respectively) is in an air sign separating it from each of the trailing planets, both in earth signs. Each of these four planets is in in a vibrational relationship with each of the other planets on the opposite side, showing support for the lift that’s being illuminated by the full moon conjunct Neptune.

There’s a sense with the relationship between Mars and Pluto on the outer edges, of “spreading its wings”. This supports release and separation from ground into air and the greater longer-term vision of flight.

The only planet of these four that’s not in retrograde here is Mars, but what’s not shown in this chart is that on September 3, exactly one week (Saturn) before this full moon, Mars entered its pre-retrograde shadow. The shift in direction (perception of movement) will occur on October 30 and will continue until January 12, 2023. This position, in context to the upcoming retrograde, heightens the individual’s adapt-ability (softening), to blur the lines, supporting the individual to stretch and project themselves into the future, like in the moments leading up to lift off where an individual aircraft leans its weight onto the air and detaches from the ground, creating separation from a dead-ending past (the runway) beneath and ultimately behind it.

The individual’s role at this stage is patience and willingness to attend to a smooth and spontaneous letting go of the ground – to believe in a mental picture of a greater inevitability, to liquidate its longing for stability in a past that doesn’t exist in the future, and be liberated from the old status quo.

‘The proof is in the practice’ that led up to this moment, as Saturn is 24° ahead of Pluto – a measure of subtle and complete wisdom that receives certifiability from witnessing its own flying performance. At best, lift off becomes a confident, successful, and visionary experience, showing us glimpses of what we are to become; and at worst, it’s a crash and burn into a total loss – a shell in its own hell.

There is great opportunity in the shadow of this chart for mind control. Pay attention to details but “don’t lose the forest in the trees”.

…AND YET THERE’S MORE!!...

KITE WINGS

The three inner planets are opposite a bowl, outlined by Mars (135° and 5 minutes) to Pluto. This aspect has a 3/8 vibration in wholeness and is known as a sesquiquadrate. It implies a somewhat but not overwhelming challenge that is often easier to suppress or ignore and let smolder. Mars and Pluto are in different elements, making it a more challenging energy to ground into reality, especially with the Pluto retrograde motion.

In the moments before takeoff, feeling unmoored could be just the thing that’s needed to let grow into takeoff.

MIDPOINT – “THE NOSE”

The midpoint of any bowl sheds light into the meeting point of the planets at the bowl’s edges. This point has a centralizing or focusing quality that helps sustain equilibrium through the tension presented in the chart.

The midpoint of Mars at 11°24” Gemini and Pluto at 26°18” of Capricorn is in the last third of the 4th degree of Aries, less than 1 degree from Jupiter (in retrograde). In my mind, this stresses the need in the opportunity to breathe and trust a greater process, just as a million-pound jumbo jet must, as it’s accelerating towards takeoff or self-destruction.

In this case, the midpoint helps to instruct a frame of reference to navigate the tension of air travel.

The Tension of Flying operates on four laws: thrust, drag, lift, and gravity. The metaphor gets even deeper when you consider the Sabian archetype for the midpoint.

This being less than a degree away from Jupiter emphasizes the support of, and need for, belief, trust, and dedication. The aircraft, whether kite or jet, must maintain its integrity and manage the tension of – “weight transference” – and individualization at a higher level of consciousness.

VENUS:

Venus, operating in the chart like a plane’s rear vertical stabilizer, reminds us of the value of a higher perspective.

When a plane takes off, its nose lifts first until its wings create enough lift to take off. In the moment when the nose is lifted, the tail drops down.

We might feel like we’re going in the wrong direction, like we’re on the right path but getting the wrong results. Instead, this could symbolize an opportunity to trust the process, to visualize where you want to be, to focus at a higher level – to know in your body what it feels like to stretch your wings and fly.

The placement of Venus reminds us that in these last moments before weight transference, whether we’re dropping (descending) or lifting off (ascending), this moment, just like this flight, is one among many, in an ever-greater context of individuality and existence.

SUMMARY:

The opportunity in this chart is simply an opening – an opening to gross cultural transformation where power is not just centralized, but is cleansed of its malfeasants, and where destiny begins to redefine identity, reformat regulatory frameworks, and pre-view a higher quality of consciousness that ideally, honors and interoperates all individual selfhoods.

A shadow of the dynamic inter-personalization that’s supported in this chart is greed and commercialization – as if each passenger would drop out of the sky without the continued support from the aircraft.

This casts a long-term vision of a world like The Hunger Games, but a synthesis of the contrast between personalization and commercialization is simply participation (willingness to interoperate and be elevated).

It seems that accepting the risks of lift off to achieve cruising altitude is part of the practice of trusting the process and the skills that have been developed to ultimately and repeatedly arrive at the next destination. At the highest level, this moment reminds the witnessing flight crew that departure and arrival are both moments to slow down, secure your valuables, and prepare to serve the journey ahead. Loose ends and unfinished business dry up as the previous destination is left behind.

– QUESTION FOR THE READER –

How does this idea of ‘weight transference’ resonate?

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