Sagittarius Full Moon
Sagittarius Full Moon on June 3, 2023 at 9:41pm MST, with energies perfecting at 13degrees Sagittarius.
Moon rise through the mountains and trees. David Thompson Campground, Alberta.
Photo: Stephany Steele
Leading up to the Full Moon we have the North Lunar Node conjunction with Jupiter in Taurus- Let’s get clear, BIG and attract the path we are on. This is also connecting the squaring creative tension of Retrograde Pluto in Aquarius, helping us clear out the broken ways of doing things and assessing what is missing. I purposely used the word broken, it feels more in-line with the Pluto intensity of out-moded ways of being and living that become broken literally leading us to feel or live broken in some way. The South Lunar Node makes a trine with Saturn In Pisces, helping us integrate what we have learned and experienced, reminding us that we are in water symbols. That we ultimately can’t sit here forever- we will become stagnant, bath tub prunes that went putrid- we enjoyed this moment and now we need to move on. This doesn’t mean we forget these moments. They are blissful treasures. We need remember to move on, take those memories and feelings with us, allow them to help guide us down the path of the North Node, materializing the next chapter of our lives.
The Sun in Gemini is square with Saturn In Pisces- air meets water. Their creative forces of intellect and emotion come together. This could be a vision of butting heads or it could be the vision of putting their heads together choosing to work together. Our mind needs to recharge like any other part of us, so why not ask the Saturn part of us for help? There is a foundational Piscian part in each of us that can be developed if we chose and in that intention would support recharging our vital life forces.
In July we have Venus stationing retrograde. A gentle notation being presented here that this archetype is slowing down between now and then. That Venus part of us is slowing down, which is I feel a beautiful way to enjoy summer, be internal with our own Feminine Leo- Men included!
Grandmother Moon, please help me understand the energy around me and within me as I work to remove what blocks me from my real self in this Full Moon in Sagittarius.
One of the details I enjoy about Sun in Gemini season is my awareness to more Gemini things. Heightened communication and that exploration of options, ideas and thoughts are a part of what make this archetype up. Then I noticed lately how the conversation would centre around or have a large part involved in boundaries. At first, this would seem like a Saturn thing. But in that curious Gemini way of looking at many options, I didn’t stop when I found one reasonable answer. I wondered if there where other possibilities.
Gemini wants to consider all the things, learn all the truths, wonder about all the options. Its other side, Sagittarius wants to go deep on one truth and live that out fully. In this way the Sun and Moon are working their way through one archetype from perspectives that could get opposing, divisive, and othering. We all know this version of the story. Polarized news headlines is nothing new to us in our current climate. The big OR here is they can also cooperate, come together with different skill sets.
If we look back, from May 2020 to January 2022, the Lunar Nodes where on this Gemini - Sagittarius axis. We were integrating our desire for deepening our quest for one truth (Sagittarius South Node) and moving towards becoming open to all options (Gemini North Node). An example of that is: a quest for the truth about Love, and becoming open to that reality the Love is expressed in infinite ways (options). We all know there are boundaries regarding Love, when we reach that boundary we feel pain. That pain comes in the form of guilt, shame, sadness/grief and fear based emotions, basically the not so good feeling emotions. Creating a life that lives along these painful boundaries ulitmately grates on our ability to love fully and deeply, that sensation of grating on our nerves takes on a deeper meaning…
So what about when two sides of the same thing learn to work together? Bring out harmony, inclusion and Love instead?
Looking at nature brings so many wonderful truths forward. I think of our nervous systems and the roots of all plants. They all have a coating, a sheath suited to them, to protect them and help them move energy. In human anatomy its called the Myelin Sheath. After much pondering and learning, I landed on the literal and metaphysical sense about boundaries I felt I was missing.
Myelin Sheath as a boundary allows our communication to expand and deepen through our nervous system. This may not expand in size, though expand in amount of energy that is available to be conducted through our body. I also realize I am going beyond the electrical impulses of the physical body and that I am talking about emotions as energy. And Love being the purest and strongest of emotions and energy, we also need to build up our nervous system in order to conduct more and more Love energy though ourselves. For contrast, those with nerves that feel “fried” likely result in this sheath being degraded, under nourished, and depleted in some way. That leaves our biological electrical system unable to conduct all forms of energy, if it can conduct likely not as efficiently or in high volume. In this way we have to learn how to nourish and support our internal boundaries in order to conduct more and more love, energy and bio-electrical impulses our physical bodies run on. We can come to a place where we feel capable to flow with the energy of life, the blissful feeling of sensing energy moving through us, this like water needs movement for full and healthy living.
Boundaries don’t have to be a bad word. I do also feel that one day we ascend far enough along on our path/ journey that we won’t need to talk about boundaries with those around us because their principles and values are more in line with ours as well all live in harmony with loving principles, resolving some of those conversations to a non-issue. Living in Loving Harmony allows us then to live beyond boundaries.
With the Moon in Sagittarius we reminded we have to distribute our energy, our emotions, our Love. It can be about one thing or an issue we are currently passionate about and working on and through. It is our natural instinct and way of living to distribute emotions and energy. Like how batteries recharge better when you discharge them regularly with use. Unlike man-made batteries and wiring systems, our internal Soul battery and nervous system get stronger, more efficient and capable of handling, receiving and flowing more energy as we practice, build ourselves, and develop a willingness for more Love in our lives. This also means we have to let go of somethings. This will feel like a sacrifice at first. There are many things we collectively do, think and feel that block our own natural ability to build up our Myelin Sheath and our nervous system’s ability to communicate. One beautiful reminder is that our body can heal, restore, rejuvenate when we give it what is needs to do so and take away what gets in the way of rejuvenation.
To keep on this fabulous thought feeling, is the unfortunately reality that we are in many ways subjected ‘to making do’ and calling it normal. That as Gabor Mate puts in in his book title, we have been living in a “Myth of Normal”. Life is harder when we have to make do, it takes more energy to transmit energy- the stark realization that we were not meant to live this way. Our cultural climate shows us this through the explosion of disease and suffering symptoms. I do align myself with the principle that if we were living in harmony with how Life on Earth was actually intended, we would never experience a disease, dysfunction, imbalance or a suffering of any nature -ever. This gets me motivated to sacrifice all those things that weaken me, that disallow the flow of energy and emotions and allow me to conduct more Love through me and around me.
In the Gemini way, there are lots of ways we can all work together to reach this same Sagittarius goal. When I meet someone who disagrees with me, no worries- truly. You are allowed. And this is a unique opportunity to converse about the perspective you come from, for me to look at something from a vantage I had not considered, leaving me grateful. It does not also mean I have to act our what you are sharing. It about listening to each other in order to expand. It’s also good practice to not get preachy about these big truths either, thats a close minded Sagittarius expression indicating limited depth and expansion- limiting our distribution of energy. This is one available option to receive, flow energy and release it. Allowing you to build yourself up, get used to take in more because you are also practicing outflow.
You can’t take in more air if you never exhale.
Happily riding those Gemini airwaves,
Stephany