The days are getting brighter and brighter, warmer and warmer. The traces of winter and cold have all but vanished. The new buds and shoots of life from early springtime are ripening into a complete expression of life: in my own home, my wife and I have already started harvesting mulberries - the first fruits of the year where we live.
Gemini season - the final chapter in the springtime season before the final zodiacal season of spring, is about to reach its celestial climax as the Moon goes full in the sign of Sagittarius. This full moon will occur on Saturday, June 3rd, at 11:22pm eastern time.
Full moons occur as the moon directly opposes the Sun in the sky, culminating the new moon and bringing it into fruition. While new moons begin trends, patterns, and cycles, full moons terminalize them. During this time, the seeds and new intentions sewn during the new moon will culminate and come to fruition.
On earth, we experience a corresponding culmination in response - both at an individual and collective level. The new seeds, patterns, and intentions sown during the new moon two weeks ago will likewise come to fruition.
Classically, full moons were considered inauspicious and challenging because the Sun and Moon stand for diametrically opposed things. A conflict arises within each of us, and it spills over into current events in the world from the overflow of our own inner combustibility.
For this reason, we often find habits and patterns related to the oppositional sign arising that stand in the way of the intentions that we have been working to achieve. While the full moon gives us an opportunity to celebrate the work achieved thus far, we can also begin to identify and release attitudes, behavioral patterns, and even entire situations and circumstances in our lives that stand in the way of the new growth that we have been cultivating the past few weeks.
With this full Moon, we see the antithesis between the mirthful, playful, and skillful sign of Gemini with the idealistic, passionate, and advocative sign of Sagittarius. While the last few weeks of late springtime have opened our psyches to the fun-loving, crafty, low-stakes mindset that only Gemini season can offer us, this Sagittarius full Moon pushes back will contrast this disposition with the more idealistic, goal-oriented attitudes and moods of Sagittarius.
This full moon is occurring in Sagittarius, which is fiery, mutable, and ruled by Jupiter, the planetary God of wisdom, abundance, and law. Being ruled by Jupiter, Sagittarius is associated with wisdom, zeal, strong beliefs, and is fueled by a passionate, idealistic core. Sagittarius' is Jupiter’s yang, extroverted sign, in which Jupiter’s focus on truth, goodness, and wisdom are projected outwards.Sagittarius pushes us to grow, expand, broaden our horizons. Sagittarius provides us with the faith and zeal that we need to accomplish our life’s work and exhort those around us in kind.
For this reason, people born with a strong Sagittarian focus tend to carry a very noticeably Jupiterian bearing: they are buoyant, happy, optimistic, and confidant. They may be feeling terrible deep down, but they don’t let that ruin the mood of people around them. They like to encourage and lift up those around them, and make natural leaders and guides, just like their patron Jupiter.
We all get to experience a taste of this cosmic buoyancy leading up to and during the full moon in Sagittarius. Upon reflection, you may find that you’ve been more hopeful about the future, and have felt more serious and focussed in your commitment to work, do your spiritual practices, and effect positive change in the world around you. People often become full of energy and more determined in their desire to make the world a better place.
While this enuthiasm and inspiration is a good thing, it can be soured during the full Moon when it becomes too intense, compelling us to become attached to very particular outcomes, and driving us to become too fixated in our pursuit of the good things we want to bring into our lives and the world around us.
In brief, the Sag full Moon can cause us to take both ourselves and our life too seriously. It illuminates the ways in which we tie ourselves up in knots by becoming too attached to our own agendas, our own morality, and our own sense of what is good.
This full moon is a good time to remember to return to play. Have fun with the process; enjoy the journey. Don’t take any aspect of life so seriously that you cannot enjoy being wrong or making a mistake. Nothing that happens here is so grave a matter that we need to let it steal our joy or forcefully push our own dogma onto others. Allow the Sag moon to illuminate your hopes, dreams, and goals, but hold them loosely from here on out.
How are you taking yourself too seriously? What aspects of life are you allowing yourself to be unnecessarily fired up about? Is there anything in your current situation that is unnecessarily stressing you out because it doesn’t cohere to your sense of rightness and your own personal motives?
This full Moon happens within 5 degrees of a square from Saturn. You may find yourself getting angry and frustrated at times about things not going your way. Obstacles and roadblocks will come up to aggravate you as your ideals and goals are disrupted and stymied. That’s fine - these circumstances are arising to trigger you and help you identify processes and emotional patterns that are genuinely hindering you and making your life more difficult.
Lepidolite is a powerful gemstone that has naturally calming, soothing, relaxing energy. It will be a good ally during the next few days as circumstances arise to aggravate you and stress you out. This is an excellent period for seated meditation, emphasizing practices of stillness that help you return to all the goodness and beauty that is already around you. Take time to swim in cold water if you can. - especially soaking your head to soothe overactive thinking.
Let go of the attachment to your own ideals. Return to the levity and vivacity of Gemini while the Sun remains here. Give yourself permission to have fun and enjoy the ride. In doing so, you’ll be far more productive and efficient at bringing more beauty and morality into your life in the long run.