The 2009 Sagittarius Full Moon

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June 7, 2009

17 Sagittarius 07

When a chart makes an important point, it says it again and again and again. The skies have been showing us all spring that we’re in an all-encompassing process of integration (mind/heart, masculine/feminine, individual/community, earthly/spiritual) and that physical existence is where we both work this out and enjoy it. The Full Moon in Sagittarius continues the message and pushes us to work this integration into the foundation of our lives.

The Gemini/Sagittarius axis is a mental one. Gemini moves about freely and quickly gathering and spreading information, while Sagittarius explores and attempts to make sense of the data flow. The two weeks since the New Moon in Gemini have been more slow, plodding and contemplative than the usual Gemini way, because its ruler Mercury has been in earth-bound Taurus and retrograde for half of the time. Our minds have been working differently. We have been picking up and passing around information that’s practical and useful, a lot of it involving relationships, finances and how we earn our money.

The Sun, representing our rational or masculine nature, is still in this mode. The Moon, representing the nonrational and the feminine, is tapped into something greater than what the Sun is experiencing. She is under the rulership of Jupiter, who’s tight these days with Chiron, Neptune and Uranus. The Moon is vibrating with communal awareness and non-earthly guidance. She wants to understand the bigger picture behind the information flow. It’s as if our minds are looking at a mound of strangely shaped pieces of cardboard and marveling at their individual contours and colors, while our hearts are looking for the box cover with the picture that the puzzle pieces are supposed to form.

The way out is through Saturn in Virgo, with each of us methodically assembling the puzzle pieces in our individual spot on this earth, whether we have a conscious understanding of the puzzle picture or not. The Sun and the Moon are making a T-square to Saturn, a tense and dynamic aspect configuration that can be resolved only by going through the planet in the middle. The Sun and the mind have the practical data. The Moon and the heart have the greater awareness. It’s time for them to apply their gifts together, and the place to do it is in our individual lives. Saturn in Virgo has been urging us for 18 months to get our lives, bodies and routines in order. He spent the first four and a half months of the year retrograde while the integration process kicked in. Now that we are getting the hang of integration and he has gone direct, we bring new skills to the organizing and boundary work that Saturn in Virgo is counseling. Our hearts are equally engaged in the work, and so is our connection to community and to spirit. Watch what builds and mounts as the Full Moon approaches. You’ll soon feel compelled to act on it – in alignment with your mind, heart and soul.

The Sabian Symbol for the Moon at 18 ° Sagittarius is
TINY CHILDREN PLAYING IN SUNBONNETS.

Commentary: ‘Tiny Children Playing in Sunbonnets’ is an image that brings to mind childlike, carefree fun in a protective, caring environment. The ‘Children’ are protected from the strong and sometimes fierce rays of the sun by wearing ‘Sunbonnets’. We can assume that their mothers or other carers have put them on for them. They don’t have to worry about sunburn and being exposed to the elements, all they need to do is play. Although they may interact with the other ‘Children’, some may just play their own individual games side-by-side with each other.

Oracle: In your situation, someone may be in need of protection at the moment, and it is most likely for their own good, as long as there is not a sense of being “overprotected” and insulated from having to be responsible for themselves. Without having to worry about complicated details and difficult consequences, the feeling of a sense of security and safety can lead to more carefree and playful moments. Don’t be distracted by efforts being made by others on your behalf, sometimes we need to be shielded by others from harmful elements. However, sometimes we also need to feel or intuit our way through the surface appearance of what’s really going on. There can be a sense of having to keep some emotion, or anger, away, so as not to disturb or frighten others, or ourselves but this may lead to having the “blinkers” on and not seeing life as it truly is. Is there a sense of naivety here and missing the real point of life? Is someone being kept in the dark, or kept from seeing reality? On the other hand, you may need to look after others and ensure that their well-being is at the top of the list of priorities. Approaching this question with a childlike, carefree attitude, whilst all the while keeping a true eye on the situation, will probably bring the message that’s needed. There’s a need to remember to play and have fun.

Keywords: Care taken with small beginnings. Protection or blinkering? Propaganda that hides more severe life realities. Censorship. Innocence. Being treated like a child. Mollycoddling. Sunblocks and sunscreens.

The Caution: Overprotection by institutionalized procedures that can lead to not being able to see the whole picture. “Organized religion” and it’s blinding of society to the true joy within and without. Infantile behavior. Being left in the dark without a clue as to what’s going on. Naivety. Being overshadowed by ego.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. Elie Wiesel

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure [like a hardy crustacean]. We are left exposed and vulnerable-but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn’t known before. Gail Sheehy

Won’t the new ‘Suggested for Mature Audience’ protect our youngsters from such films? I don’t believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either. Shirley Temple Black

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear. Judy Blume

© Kathy Biehl 2009. All Rights Reserved.