The Quickening Moon: Change the Music, Change the Mood

The Quickening Moon of 2013

Full @ 2:24pm CST on Monday, Feb. 25th

It may not look like it yet, but Spring is quickening.  Life is moving within the belly of Mother Earth, soon to emerge.  In the Quickening Moon, we are all feeling it…something within us all is stirring, and we’re taking notice.  We’re close to birthing something new in our lives.  We are, after all, reflections of Mother Nature…aligned with her cycles.
It may be uncomfortable, carrying all of this weight and responsibility...but the rewards are endless.

There is a lot of activity in the cosmos during this full moon.  It’s like a big party that is decidedly Piscean in many ways.  At the apex of the T-square with Sun and Moon, Jupiter in Gemini is the loquacious and friendly (though stressed and scattered) host of the big event.  Causing him the most stress are his friends, Sun and Moon, a married couple who are currently at odds…teetering on the brink of causing a scene that would be better left for a more intimate setting.  Sun in Pisces just wanted to have a good time, hanging out with his Pisces gang (Mercury Retrograde, Mars, Chiron, and Neptune…Venus will be joining them later at night), escaping responsibility for a while by either drinking, drugging, dancing or playing some music (or all of the above).  In doing so, he has to distance himself from his disapproving wife, Moon in Virgo, who is watching him from across the room and picking him apart silently.  She is not in a good mood and everything about this party seems to irritate her…even the host, his highbrow wife (Juno in Capricorn), and his rebellious best friend (Uranus in Aries).  Moon just doesn’t understand how all of these party animals can ignore the details of their lives that need fixing…after all, the only time she can relax and have a good time is after everything is perfectly in place and worked out.  Now all she can see is all of the problems with everyone that she could help them fix if they would just get serious (and sober) and listen to her analysis.  But it’s not that kind of party.

Moon decides to call her own friends, Saturn Retrograde in Scorpio and Pluto in Capricorn, to the party.  Jupiter and Uranus aren’t going to like it because one is a detective and the other is a police officer.  But Moon feels a lot better when they arrive.  Not only do the two brothers’ presence keep the others from excess, but they also seem to get along with most everyone and keep the peace amongst their friends, Sun and Moon.  Sun quickly realizes that he’s been distancing himself from Moon, and Moon realizes she’s been pushing him away.  Finally, they reach an understanding…and the tension subsides a little.  They regain balance and realize they are not so different.  Romance fills the air as the band of Pisces misfits strike up the music of the spheres…and Sun leads his lady Moon out onto the dance floor to reconnect.

So how does this event play out in your life?  Well, which one of these party-goers do you identify most with during this time?  Likely all of them, in a way, since this same dance is a reflection of what is happening internally for all of us as well.

The stress happening between these parts of us (specifically the mentally-explorative Jupiter, emotionally-guided Sun, and physically-demonstrative Moon) is not simply to frustrate us…but to push us to make a significant change which will balance us out.  The missing link of this T-square is in the fun-loving, spiritually-focused sign of Sagittarius…where the higher mind is activated and the broader perspective expands to show the meaning within the path.  This is the balancing point which takes the stress off of the overly-active mind.  Some of you have it naturally in your astrological make-up…some of you are seeking it currently.

The following are some tips that may help you make the most of this Full Moon:

1.  Don’t sweat the small stuff.  Don’t make it bigger than it really is.  This too shall pass, so try not to get stuck in a perfectionistic mindset.  There is far too much Pisces floating around…so some of the pieces will be hidden in the rug for a bit while you’re left with what seems to be an incomplete puzzle.  The lesson from pisces is, it all fits…even when some pieces are hidden from view.  The answer is where the holes are.

2.   Tap into the well of spiritual and creative insight flowing around you today.  You can’t always put everything into words, but you can find a more creative way to express what you are feeling than just getting grumpy and picking apart the world around you.  What’s really happening is inside, anyway.

3. Things don’t seem right?  Make some changes.  You’ll thank yourself later after the hard work is done.

 4.  Are you escaping from reality?  Try to ground your floaty feelings with proper nutrition, plenty of sleep, exercise, and meditation.  This is a recipe for manifesting your creative/spiritual potential in our physical world.

5.  Are you lashing out at those closest to you or distancing yourself from them in other ways?  Notice that what you are seeing in them that you don’t like may be a reflection of your own shadow self confronting you.  Embrace your shadow, dance with it.  Find the balance between by recognizing what parts of you are being repressed when you refuse to recognize that they are, in fact, part of you.  Don’t take out your internal frustrations on those who are only mirroring it.  Face yourself.

Love and Gratitude,

Felina Lune Kavi