Sun conjunct Juno in Scorpio opposite Moon conjunct Uranus and Black Moon in Taurus

This radical Full Moon sets the stage for a month of great and at times chaotic change. Uranus is incredibly unpredictable and, in this context, can release some very dark forces on one end of the spectrum (I find myself praying for relative peace in the US elections!), while producing changes that are incredibly liberating, personally, emotionally and spiritually. And anywhere in between and often at the same time!

Spiritually and mentally, Uranus is a great awakener, who works at reorganising our mental structures, firing up previously dormant synapses in our brains and expanding our capacity for lateral and multidimensional thinking. While this can contribute to significant internal chaos and turmoil, the same energy opens us to flashes of great insight, innovative and hyper creative possibilities and, stretches us beyond conservative and overly structured thought patterns.

Uranus also directly impacts the movement of Kundalini in our systems, often coinciding with the releasing of ancient blockages in our chakras that in in turn allows more internal spaciousness for the Shakti to move through our bodies.

The transit of Uranus through the sign of Taurus, which will go on for another five years, is meant to shake up our security systems, our financial and material circumstances, with a particular focus on anywhere where we have gotten too attached at the expense of our individual, creative freedom. Taurus is a profoundly beautiful, tactile, sensual and creative part of our selves but its shadow can also pull us into places of lethargy, stagnation and resistance to change.

More deeply though, as an earth sign, his innate spirituality is profoundly ecological, and empathetically indigenous. As much as Uranus’ urge for change contributes to all that is disturbing, painful, even destructive at this time, in Taurus he asks the question “what the f… are you doing to the planet, to your home and to your Mother?” In this respect he is joined by the Black Moon in Taurus for the next nine months. So, the pressure on us as a civilisation to face the absolute truth of what we are doing to the planet will get even stronger at this time. This month’s initial Full Moon and the eclipse on the 30th will reinforce these themes.

Sun conjunct Juno in Scorpio

The Scorpio Sun shines on this goddess of marriage, putting our primary relationships in the spotlight, with the same potential for dramatic, sudden and liberating change. While Taurus would prefer to get comfortable and cruise along, Scorpio pushes for ever deepening evolution and growth in our relating.

Now, some people will superficially see the Uranian influence as breakup material, and certainly some couples will go that way. However, in dropping some bombs on our tendencies towards co-dependency or complacency, he can also offer relationship breakthroughs that release a couple’s individual freedom within a healthy and viable bond.
As an enhancer of the spirit of evolution and revolution, this Full Moon positively activates the healing goddess Hygeia in Leo, the Eros asteroid in Virgo and a feisty combination of Lilith and Hecate in Capricorn

Certainly, any old relationship conditioning we have will get challenged in this scenario.

Venus in Libra in T-square with Chiron in Aries and the Lilith/ Hecate conjunction in Capricorn 

Here is another significant challenge on the relationship front. While Venus is very much at home in Libra, bringing out the best of her gentle, harmonising and diplomatic qualities, she is being confronted by the Wounded Healer in the fiery sign of Aries and, by a witchy and uber feminist combination of Lilith and Hecate. The square between the latter three activates of ancient conflicts between wounded and wounding forms of masculine and feminine, conflicts that Venus in Libra traditionally would prefer to ignore.

The opposition to Chiron brings up old relationship wounds around the masculine, including suppressed anger, buried fire and distorted expressions of individuality, whether within oneself or attracted from others. Almost invariably, Chiron triggers old abandonment wounds which can sabotage the quality of our relating.

The squares to Lilith and Hecate activates similar territory from the feminine, where we get confronted with a great deal of toxic pain and rage from ancient sources of rejection, persecution and denial of the intelligence and wisdom of the deep sacred feminine, whether in our family systems and/or in our past life records. This kind of material in its unhealed form can produce deep and severe obstacles to intimacy on every level.

However, even though this is a hell of a brew, it also creates an intense and potentially healing alchemy, especially when you consider that Chiron, Lilith and Hecate are also great healers and spiritual warriors. If we can work the distortions to each, then there is the possibility of healing some ancient wounds in ways that empower our relating with tremendous Shakti. This potential is reinforced by the fact that Venus also sextiles Medusa in Leo and, Kali in late Scorpio, both of whom encourage Venus to take up the challenges, as opposed to retreating into a false and superficial state of harmony.

Mars in Aries opposite Venus in Libra, in a Kite with Hygeia in Leo and Parvati in Sagittarius

After Venus moves on from the T-square above, she moves into an opposition with a now stationary Mars in Aries. This polarity between the goddess of love and her warrior consort sets up an exceptional tantric and healing Kite on the 9th and 10th of the month, with the healing goddess Hygeia and, the goddess of the sacred marriage Parvati.

This Kite includes a Grand Trine between the latter goddesses with Mars, all in fire signs, a joyful linking of erotic passion, healing power and tantric juice. And because Mars is moving slowly as he turns stationary on the 14th, this Grand Trine will stay in place for most of the month!

The Kite arrangement is completed by two exact sextiles linking Venus with Parvati and Hygeia. If we consider that Hygeia is a Western form of Lalita Devi, the Hindu goddess of sacred sexuality, then you have this beautiful linking of three goddesses of love, tantra and spiritual power. This is an awesome time for relationship and sexual healing, for lovemaking and tantric practices, and for ecstatic forms of dance and expressive creative outlets.

Pluto and Saturn conjuncts in Capricorn squaring Mercury in Libra  

As I mentioned in the introduction, Saturn is slowly departing from his convulsive tango with Pluto but not before squaring a stationary Mercury in Libra for the first two weeks of the month. As Mercury represents the quality of our thinking, squares to Pluto and Saturn keep our awareness on the seriousness of this time and all its challenges. Movement will continue to feel restrictive, even as some outer borders are opening here in Australia but shutting down for sheer survival in other parts of the world.

While watching out for the inner critics dragging us into despondency and despair, these tough squares force us to look deeply within ourselves and about how to respond to the changes in the outer world. Whenever Saturn is operating, he is always offering opportunities to sort out absorbed conditioning and patriarchal belief systems, from our own authentic wisdom and self-awareness. Keep digging deeply to find your own truths.

Pallas Athena and Jupiter join Pluto in Capricorn  

As Saturn pulls away, Jupiter and Pallas Athena conjunct Pluto exactly in the second week of the month.
When Jupiter joins Pluto, his expansive qualities energise the already powerful Pluto in ways that quicken all the different layers of transformation that are happening within and around us.

While this is generally a good situation, as Jupiter lubricates the big wheels of change, and of karma, it also adds energy to Pluto’s more challenging actions. This applies particularly to the necessary destructions that need to happen to make way for potential rebirth, whether that is on a whole planet level and/or, within each and every one of us.

Andrew Harvey anticipated this process back in 2007 and described it as the birth pains of a new era in human evolution. Consequently, the contractions are getting quicker and more powerful. The literal, psychic and emotional deaths, with its corresponding grief, anxiety and exhaustion, is flooding through us as the pressure increases.

Nevertheless, one of the beauties of Jupiter is that he enhances our confidence, positivity and faith, that we can not just get through this but to eventually be able to thrive as a consequence of what happens now.
This is an important rebalancing that he is doing, against the dourer challenges of the Saturn Mercury square that colours the beginning of the month.

Fortunately, Jupiter and Pallas Athena come together exactly around the 15th, this goddess spearheading the creative intelligence of the feminine and bringing an acute focus to the broad and pervasive actions of both Pluto and Jupiter.

Consequently, depending on our circumstances, instead of feeling at the mercy of powers beyond us, we are also going to start getting surges of focused creative power that can be tapped into.

Watch out for these emerging from the rubble created by these intense current changes. And as I said in my introduction, keep up your loving self-care, as the stress levels remain high, even at these times of turning.

Full Moon Eclipse: Sun 9 degrees Sagittarius, Moon 9° Gemini 
November 30th 5:43 PM AWST, 8:43 PM ADST.

This is a penumbral eclipse, that is, an imperfectly aligned one that does not block out the Moon but casts a subtler shadow upon her.

However, this be a Kali eclipse, with the Sagittarius Sun conjunct in the Kali asteroid while opposing the Gemini Moon. So, this could get pretty wild, mixing Kali energy with that of Sagittarius, with an expressiveness reinforced by Grand Trines to Chiron and Mars in Aries and, to Medusa and Hygeia in Leo.

If you going to do just one thing ceremonially or creatively with this eclipse, dance! The wild liberating face of Kali needs space for expression, the freer and more permission giving the space the better.

It is important to point out though that many in the West see Kali as expressed by her blue-black bloodthirsty form. She is far more than that and far subtler. Something she shares with many of the dark goddesses, is that underneath her scary face is a goddess of great love and beauty, a fierce spiritual warrior, a Tantric Queen and a great awaken of the sacred power Kundalini.

For a full bodied description of the essence of Kali, see the chapter on her in Sally Kempton’s book “Awakening Shakti”

This eclipse is an ideal time to honour the deep sacred feminine embodied in her form and spirit.

We’ll discuss more about this eclipse next month’s newsletter.

Go well, stay safe and healthy,

With love and blessings,

 Daniel