Aries Full Moon

Aries Full Moon - Pushing For Change

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

— Anton Chekhov

The squares of the Sun and Mars to Pluto this week, along with Wednesday's Aries Full Moon (7:56 AM PDT 27° Aries/Libra) create a great deal of pressure. The push for change reaches into crisis territory. Both Mercury and Jupiter station direct, giving us some sense that the barriers to our progress are beginning to fall away. Mercury stations opposing Chiron, offering healing through honest acknowledgement of our individual pain. Jupiter stations in a trine to Mars encouraging us to express our beliefs with aggressive enthusiasm, despite the headwinds of opposing viewpoints. Nonetheless, we continue to be challenged by a lack of confidence and a lack of inner certainty. In truth, this period is offering powerful lessons that will ultimately offer deep confidence — but it's a process that can, at times, feel excruciatingly slow, discouraging, and even threatening to our overall well-being. We are learning to define our individuality through the challenges of interacting with others. This week's tension and conflict can provide us with important new insights even though we aren't going to see the kinds of tangible progress that we may believe must be accomplished, given the sense of crisis and imperative that we may feel this week. There continue to be important rewards for developing collaborative alliances and learning to methodically explore options for compromise through deeper understanding of our own beliefs and the beliefs of others. This week's crisis-driven atmosphere demands action. However, although we begin to see some barriers fall away this week, we are still struggling to find a sense of certainty that would actually allow for tangible progress. The tensions and struggles that we deal with this week are geared towards teaching us important lessons about how we manage our beliefs. By the end of the week, the Sun arrives in Scorpio and we begin to see the blending of discriminating strength and determined compromise but we are likely to struggle with the unfamiliarity of the new environment. We may be inclined to withdraw to a place of safety but some may be prone to simply escaping into fantasy. The challenge is to stay with the process and allow the uncertainty and tension to teach us profound new understanding that can help us heal troubling wounds. We will ultimately emerge from the tension with more clarity and confidence as well as beliefs that have been tempered through valuable interaction with others.

Sunday's Sun-Pluto square and Moon-Neptune conjunction promotes intense inspiration. However, we have little confidence to push our beliefs onto others. Our confidence seems further diminished on Monday when Mercury stations direct opposing Chiron. The Aries Moon provides energy but there are few productive outlets, leading to the potential for recklessness impulsiveness. Steady, methodical effort is well rewarded on Tuesday but we are still dealing with recklessness that may lead to hasty decisions that will need to be corrected. Balance is required on Wednesday under the Aries Full Moon. The crisis driven atmosphere seems to demand action but we remain stuck by a lack of true confidence. We need to be especially careful to avoid being goaded into unwise actions. Mars squares Pluto on Thursday, creating extreme pressure for change. We sense that the barriers to progress are beginning to come down but we are still hampered by a lack of confidence. The Sun's arrival in Scorpio on Friday gives us a feeling that changing is beginning to take hold but the atmosphere is uncertain and unsteady, keeping us on the fence a bit longer. We need to take extra time to consider on Saturday. We may feel inclined to withdraw to a place of safety but some would rather simply escape into fantasy.

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