Full Moon in Aries - the state of emotions

This Full Moon is a book end to an important lunar cycle we began 6 months ago when we had a New Moon in Aries. Back then, we were being asked to live more aligned with our soul, no matter what. So, with the Moon back in Aries and in fullness, this cycle asks us how we have showed up for ourselves with bravery and passion over the past 6 months? How have you been more assertive in cementing your boundaries? Assertion is a skill, a balance between aggression and submission. This Full Moon carries an echo, a reverberation about the challenges of this balance; a Sun in the peaceful pleasing sign of Libra, the Moon full of emotion in a forward forceful Aries. Dipoles of emotion, polarities of presence. This is not to say you have to exist in the middle of the continuum, there are times that call for strong emotions such as anger, and then of course there are times when you will hold your tongue and play the diplomat. It is not to say that you need to be one or the other, there is a need for all emotion. I realised this, watching my husband play with my children, splashing and chasing one another in the ocean. I felt at peace. The joy i experienced from witnessing their happiness in presence came with feelings of sadness and pain too; the fragility and momentariness of life always there as a reminder of what we have to lose. I felt both of these feelings simultaneously, tears pricking my eyes. But, as i allowed these feelings to coexist I felt…relief. Relief of allowing pain to show it’s face, relief of the acknowledgement of the fear of loss, but persisting with joy nonetheless. And as quickly as these feelings came, they were gone again. I like to think they were carried away with the ocean.

So, we have an interesting recognition of balance and extremes and with Pluto hanging around square the nodes, this feels familiar, a highlight of a pattern you might have been in before. Pluto speaks of power play, vulnerability, depth. Mars is copresent in Libra too, the ruler of this Full Moon and forms an opposition to Chiron in Aries. This feels a bit like repossession of self. Reclamation. This is not a Full Moon carrying ease. This is a Full Moon that is tenderising, activating and embodying. This is an instinctual lunation that acts in the visceral sense of safety and survival. This is about feeling into who you are and what your soul needs.

There is also a whisper of a need to be soft with yourself. Just because this Moon might bring up tremors of the past, it does not mean you have not evolved. Celebrate how you have changed, no matter how small you deem the change to be. Chiron reminds us that we are always moving through teachings. We are always learning. This Mars activation might ask that we step away from this and take a contemplative perspective with a clearer mind. The Mars, Chiron aspect accompanying the Full Moon might be challenging and flighty, but offers a chance to play it cool and practice observing our reactions. Something might become apparent if we give it a cooling space to coagulate. Space allowing a change in perspective, a change in form. Think of how the properties of water change when it changes state of matter. Water, liquid, flowing into every corner, consuming, energetic particles as they slide over one another. As it cools and changes to a solid, it carries less energy, less chaos, it condenses, becomes something you can assess easier. You can see its borders, it has firm boundaries. The particles are interacting in different ways, and we see them differently too. When we give space to our feelings and thoughts, we come at them with fresh eyes, eyes that are less energetically involved or consumed. Softness and passion is what I will be granting myself this Full Moon.

This lunation occurs on Friday, 29th of September, 2023.