November 21, 2010
12:28 PM EST / 9:28PM PST/ 5:28AM GST (November 22) 29 Taurus 18 / 29 Scorpio 18
November’s Full Moon takes place at the very last degree of the Taurus/Scorpio axis, where appetites and desire hit their most critical mass. What have you been learning lately about your own appetites and desires — about the factors in life that you most value and want to experience and possess? That exploration is hitting a culmination point now.
Venus, the goddess of love, money, beauty and pleasure, is the featured player of this event.
She rules the Moon in Taurus and has just completed the retrograde that took her from the Sun’s current sign, Scorpio, back into her second home of Libra. This Full Moon is a major stage in the wrapping up of her current cycle. There are two ways (at least) of measuring this cycle.
One is by looking at the retrograde, in which case you could see this Full Moon as “What I Did During My Venus Retrograde” report day. Here are some questions to help you compile that report. What’s been happening to you since the middle of October? More importantly, what’s been going on with your heart, your sense of yourself, and your list of what you value? What past heart and financial relationships did you revisit? How has your attitude toward past alliances evolved? How has your view and appreciation of your own worth grown?
This weekend, with this Full Moon, answers to those questions are surfacing. They’re taking you to a place of completion and resolution, from which you will leave certain matters behind and move others into the new stage of exploration and experience.
Another way of looking at what’s wrapping up uses Venus’ cycle of conjunctions with Mars, which started with their meeting in Taurus in June 2009. They have since met in Libra in late August 2010 and in the middle of Scorpio at the beginning of October. All three signs have a connection to today’s event. The Moon is in the sign of the first conjunction, the Moon’s ruler is in the sign of the second, and the Sun is in the sign of the third.
The questions I posed for compiling your Venus retrograde report apply to this time frame as well, but with a twist. As you think them through, factor in the Mars aspect — the aspect of your will, motivation, drive, gumption, agenda (whatever you want to call it) lining up with your heart’s wishes and agreeing to go after them. Hasn’t your ability grown to allow yourself to have more and more of what you want, without going through an internal argument first?
Aren’t you clearer about your desires and values and more focused, instinctive and automatic in your claiming and pursuing them?
From both of these vantage points, look at what you have in your life: the identity and quality of your relationships and possessions, your cash and investments, and all the talents, skills and characteristics that you consider to make you marketable and a good person. How much of them do you want to keep? Does anything on your inventory own you, instead of you owning it?
The final degree of this fixed axis is an appropriate place for dropping what no longer fits, serves, amuses or supports you. If something has run its course with you, say goodbye. If something was appropriate earlier in life but no longer fits this stage, acknowledge your maturing and move on. That’s part of the process of growing (up) and evolving.
Moving on should feel organic and natural. The Sun and Moon are in harmonious communication with Jupiter and Uranus, encouraging easy and beneficial shifts in perspective. The luminaries are also making a t-square to the Neptune/Chiron conjunction, a dynamic configuration that pressures us into letting go of baggage and old hurts. It’s making an insistent demand: that we get over ourselves.
Here is Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol for the Moon at 30 Taurus, reprinted with her kind permission from her book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition:
A PEACOCK PARADING ON THE TERRACE OF AN OLD CASTLE.
The Commentary: ‘A Peacock’ is ‘Parading’, showing off his fine feathers and beauty. Peacocks were often installed in regal palaces as a show of opulence or extravagance. As this ‘Peacock’ is ‘Parading on the Terrace of an Old Castle’ shows that he is in a place that has all of the trappings of wealth and tradition. The situation is most probably well established, but as it is ‘Old’, it is probably also slowly breaking apart and quite possibly showing signs of crumbling. ‘Peacocks’ can be a reminder of the “grand old days”. They are very territorial and will remain in a place long after people have gone. Because of the many eyes displayed on their feathers they are said to be forever awake. ‘Peacocks’ are used as guard dogs in India because they make a shrieking noise when they perceive intrusion or danger.
Oracle: In this situation there is a need to maintain your grace and pride whilst also maintaining a sense of being the center of attention. Polite behavior and the correct presentation of form are of vital importance and pride in one’s inheritance is to be admired, but not overdone. Too much pride, and elitism, can lead to a feeling of being alone and the roof collapsing in on what was possibly once a magnificent empire. Remember: pride comes before a fall. You may have to accept that the situation or location may change, even if you fear that much will be lost. The key is to enjoy beauty that is around you every day. Take your sense of beauty and elegance with you everywhere you go. This Symbol can also point to someone showing off and thinking they’re better than others because of social prestige. Is there any danger of invasion of some kind?
Keywords: Tradition feeding ego-centered attraction. Grace and dignity. Splendor. Etiquette. Gardening and enjoying the environment for its nature and beauty. Peacocks as “the watchers” and the Argus. Parading beauty. Beautiful old buildings. Empires that require protection.
The Caution: Risking integrity to display success. Strutting one’s stuff. Inviting envy from others. Believing that one is all things to many people. Overloading others. Showing off and demanding acknowledgment. Trying to convince others of something. Noisy displays of wealth.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation that give happiness. Thomas Jefferson
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. Henry David Thoreau
A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey. Proverb
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail. Rabindranath Tagore
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress. Edward Coke
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. Van Wyck Brooks
Fine feathers make fine birds. Traditional proverb
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. Donald J. Trump
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. W. C. Fields
A heart in love with beauty never grows old. Turkish Proverb
Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol for the Sun at 30 degrees Scorpio is:
CHILDREN IN HALLOWEEN COSTUMES INDULGING IN VARIOUS PRANKS.
Commentary: ‘Children in Halloween Costumes’ are seen ‘Indulging In Various Pranks’. They are most likely having a wonderful time, playing around in the streets, going door to door and watching the reactions of the people they encounter. Sometimes they wear lots of makeup and masks in their endeavor to win people over or to convince them that they deserve their treats. If they don’t receive a treat, or reward, sometimes they get very mischievous and play ‘Pranks’ on people. This Symbol can show the ‘Prankster’ in all of us, in some measure. ‘Halloween’ is said to be a time when the veil between the living and the dead becomes an illusion, nebulous or very thin.
Oracle: You may feel that the trickster is out and around at the moment, or you may be the focus of pranks. Whichever, it should be acknowledged that there needs to be an occasional outlet for immature or fun loving energies. Often, though, it’s hard to relax when this energy is around. It can be difficult to know when to take things at face value or to see, or realize, a deeper meaning when it can be loaded with illusions.
Not knowing what’s going to happen next can lead to a feeling of un-ease. What ghoulish emotion or reality may emerge next? Are these tricks or is this more about things getting blown up and out of control? What’s important here is to play the game, or to go along with it, and to know that it’s basically harmless. In the true sense of ‘Halloween’, the ‘Prankster’ is not really malicious in any way and is really looking for a reward.
Gifts, small trinkets or the fun of seeing someone’s shock and reaction, whether this is superficial or real, is probably enough. This can picture somebody who just can’t take anything seriously. In the end, it’s often really only about play.
Keywords: The madman inside all of us. Astro-drama. The lifting of the veil. Unintegrated energies playing tricks on the unwary. Tricksters. Creative surprises. Halloween. Trick or treat. Practical jokes played on the unwary. Roaming the streets. Dressing up.
The Caution: Being unable to connect with real and immediate emotions. Contempt for the establishment. ‘Mucking around’ and not getting to the core of things. Evading one’s responsibilities through being silly or madcap.
It is a double pleasure to trick the trickster. Jean de la Fontaine
Alas! That such affected tricks should flourish in a child of six! Hilaire Belloc
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster. Dorothy Miller Richardson
*The excerpts from Lynda Hill’s book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition, © Lynda Hill 2002, have been reprinted by permission of the author.
© Kathy Biehl http://www.thecosmicpath.com/monthly-horoscope/
12:28 PM EST / 9:28PM PST/ 5:28AM GST (November 22) 29 Taurus 18 / 29 Scorpio 18
November’s Full Moon takes place at the very last degree of the Taurus/Scorpio axis, where appetites and desire hit their most critical mass. What have you been learning lately about your own appetites and desires — about the factors in life that you most value and want to experience and possess? That exploration is hitting a culmination point now.
Venus, the goddess of love, money, beauty and pleasure, is the featured player of this event.
She rules the Moon in Taurus and has just completed the retrograde that took her from the Sun’s current sign, Scorpio, back into her second home of Libra. This Full Moon is a major stage in the wrapping up of her current cycle. There are two ways (at least) of measuring this cycle.
One is by looking at the retrograde, in which case you could see this Full Moon as “What I Did During My Venus Retrograde” report day. Here are some questions to help you compile that report. What’s been happening to you since the middle of October? More importantly, what’s been going on with your heart, your sense of yourself, and your list of what you value? What past heart and financial relationships did you revisit? How has your attitude toward past alliances evolved? How has your view and appreciation of your own worth grown?
This weekend, with this Full Moon, answers to those questions are surfacing. They’re taking you to a place of completion and resolution, from which you will leave certain matters behind and move others into the new stage of exploration and experience.
Another way of looking at what’s wrapping up uses Venus’ cycle of conjunctions with Mars, which started with their meeting in Taurus in June 2009. They have since met in Libra in late August 2010 and in the middle of Scorpio at the beginning of October. All three signs have a connection to today’s event. The Moon is in the sign of the first conjunction, the Moon’s ruler is in the sign of the second, and the Sun is in the sign of the third.
The questions I posed for compiling your Venus retrograde report apply to this time frame as well, but with a twist. As you think them through, factor in the Mars aspect — the aspect of your will, motivation, drive, gumption, agenda (whatever you want to call it) lining up with your heart’s wishes and agreeing to go after them. Hasn’t your ability grown to allow yourself to have more and more of what you want, without going through an internal argument first?
Aren’t you clearer about your desires and values and more focused, instinctive and automatic in your claiming and pursuing them?
From both of these vantage points, look at what you have in your life: the identity and quality of your relationships and possessions, your cash and investments, and all the talents, skills and characteristics that you consider to make you marketable and a good person. How much of them do you want to keep? Does anything on your inventory own you, instead of you owning it?
The final degree of this fixed axis is an appropriate place for dropping what no longer fits, serves, amuses or supports you. If something has run its course with you, say goodbye. If something was appropriate earlier in life but no longer fits this stage, acknowledge your maturing and move on. That’s part of the process of growing (up) and evolving.
Moving on should feel organic and natural. The Sun and Moon are in harmonious communication with Jupiter and Uranus, encouraging easy and beneficial shifts in perspective. The luminaries are also making a t-square to the Neptune/Chiron conjunction, a dynamic configuration that pressures us into letting go of baggage and old hurts. It’s making an insistent demand: that we get over ourselves.
Here is Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol for the Moon at 30 Taurus, reprinted with her kind permission from her book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition:
A PEACOCK PARADING ON THE TERRACE OF AN OLD CASTLE.
The Commentary: ‘A Peacock’ is ‘Parading’, showing off his fine feathers and beauty. Peacocks were often installed in regal palaces as a show of opulence or extravagance. As this ‘Peacock’ is ‘Parading on the Terrace of an Old Castle’ shows that he is in a place that has all of the trappings of wealth and tradition. The situation is most probably well established, but as it is ‘Old’, it is probably also slowly breaking apart and quite possibly showing signs of crumbling. ‘Peacocks’ can be a reminder of the “grand old days”. They are very territorial and will remain in a place long after people have gone. Because of the many eyes displayed on their feathers they are said to be forever awake. ‘Peacocks’ are used as guard dogs in India because they make a shrieking noise when they perceive intrusion or danger.
Oracle: In this situation there is a need to maintain your grace and pride whilst also maintaining a sense of being the center of attention. Polite behavior and the correct presentation of form are of vital importance and pride in one’s inheritance is to be admired, but not overdone. Too much pride, and elitism, can lead to a feeling of being alone and the roof collapsing in on what was possibly once a magnificent empire. Remember: pride comes before a fall. You may have to accept that the situation or location may change, even if you fear that much will be lost. The key is to enjoy beauty that is around you every day. Take your sense of beauty and elegance with you everywhere you go. This Symbol can also point to someone showing off and thinking they’re better than others because of social prestige. Is there any danger of invasion of some kind?
Keywords: Tradition feeding ego-centered attraction. Grace and dignity. Splendor. Etiquette. Gardening and enjoying the environment for its nature and beauty. Peacocks as “the watchers” and the Argus. Parading beauty. Beautiful old buildings. Empires that require protection.
The Caution: Risking integrity to display success. Strutting one’s stuff. Inviting envy from others. Believing that one is all things to many people. Overloading others. Showing off and demanding acknowledgment. Trying to convince others of something. Noisy displays of wealth.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation that give happiness. Thomas Jefferson
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. Henry David Thoreau
A peacock who sits on his tail is just another turkey. Proverb
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail. Rabindranath Tagore
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress. Edward Coke
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. Van Wyck Brooks
Fine feathers make fine birds. Traditional proverb
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. Donald J. Trump
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. W. C. Fields
A heart in love with beauty never grows old. Turkish Proverb
Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol for the Sun at 30 degrees Scorpio is:
CHILDREN IN HALLOWEEN COSTUMES INDULGING IN VARIOUS PRANKS.
Commentary: ‘Children in Halloween Costumes’ are seen ‘Indulging In Various Pranks’. They are most likely having a wonderful time, playing around in the streets, going door to door and watching the reactions of the people they encounter. Sometimes they wear lots of makeup and masks in their endeavor to win people over or to convince them that they deserve their treats. If they don’t receive a treat, or reward, sometimes they get very mischievous and play ‘Pranks’ on people. This Symbol can show the ‘Prankster’ in all of us, in some measure. ‘Halloween’ is said to be a time when the veil between the living and the dead becomes an illusion, nebulous or very thin.
Oracle: You may feel that the trickster is out and around at the moment, or you may be the focus of pranks. Whichever, it should be acknowledged that there needs to be an occasional outlet for immature or fun loving energies. Often, though, it’s hard to relax when this energy is around. It can be difficult to know when to take things at face value or to see, or realize, a deeper meaning when it can be loaded with illusions.
Not knowing what’s going to happen next can lead to a feeling of un-ease. What ghoulish emotion or reality may emerge next? Are these tricks or is this more about things getting blown up and out of control? What’s important here is to play the game, or to go along with it, and to know that it’s basically harmless. In the true sense of ‘Halloween’, the ‘Prankster’ is not really malicious in any way and is really looking for a reward.
Gifts, small trinkets or the fun of seeing someone’s shock and reaction, whether this is superficial or real, is probably enough. This can picture somebody who just can’t take anything seriously. In the end, it’s often really only about play.
Keywords: The madman inside all of us. Astro-drama. The lifting of the veil. Unintegrated energies playing tricks on the unwary. Tricksters. Creative surprises. Halloween. Trick or treat. Practical jokes played on the unwary. Roaming the streets. Dressing up.
The Caution: Being unable to connect with real and immediate emotions. Contempt for the establishment. ‘Mucking around’ and not getting to the core of things. Evading one’s responsibilities through being silly or madcap.
It is a double pleasure to trick the trickster. Jean de la Fontaine
Alas! That such affected tricks should flourish in a child of six! Hilaire Belloc
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster. Dorothy Miller Richardson
*The excerpts from Lynda Hill’s book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition, © Lynda Hill 2002, have been reprinted by permission of the author.
© Kathy Biehl http://www.thecosmicpath.com/monthly-horoscope/
