Tonight is the Libra Full Moon in US time zones and overnight in UK and EU zones. This is a potent Full Moon, because it’s within four degrees of a square to Pluto in Capricorn. But we’re taking it in parts: the Sun has already made its square to Pluto, and the Moon will do so later today. Saturn is also close by, in the first degree of Libra. So this event brings together enough early cardinal sign energy to be an Aries Point event. Here’s how I explained it in Friday’s edition of Planet Waves Astrology News:
Libra Full Moon
“If you’ve been reading Planet Waves for at least a week, you’ve heard me mention the Aries Point at least six times. This is the term for the Sun’s position on the first day of Northern Hemisphere spring, which is 00 Aries. The position works like a planet, and is activated when any other planet is there…The Aries Point reaches to the other cardinal signs Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, and let’s say that it covers the early (first 10) degrees of each of those four signs. The term ‘Aries Point’ can be extended to the early degrees of any of the cardinal signs. But we’re going to be a lot more precise than that.
“I sum up the effect of the Aries Point as “the personal is political,” a phrase I spirited from Carol Hanisch of the 1970s radical feminist group Redstockings. When you have activity around these degrees — and we do right now, lots of it — we get historical events that demonstrate that there is no private life that is not determined by some larger public life, and vice versa: what happens in the public sphere is the result of the private values that people inflict on others. We get big stuff like Sept. 11, the Asian tsunami and the passage of health insurance reform — and many other distinct events.”
The Aries Point is not so much a portent of disaster as it is a public meeting place. We tend to bring more fear than creativity to the public realm. That’s a choice we don’t usually see ourselves making, but we actually do make it, on a more or less continuing basis. One little problem we have is that the human emotional system is highly conditioned to respond to fear more so than to creativity. We tend to worry more about what might be taken away than what we might create. Every planetary event we come to is like a leverage point that we can use to get from one side of this equation to the other.
