Blue Moon: Swimming in Cosmic Tides

The Wind Rose of Jose Aguiar

Full Moon in Pisces: August 31, 2012

The Full, Blue, Pisces Moon arrives Friday morning. This powerfully sensitive Moon will make her presence felt before and after, so have your dream notebooks and mini flashlights ready.

Any Full Moon in Pisces would be sensitive, as Pisces is the most empathic sign in the Zodiac, and the Virgo Sun also has finely tuned antennae. This Pisces Full Moon will feel larger, stronger, more intuitive, more emotionally connected––and potentially more seductively confusing.

This Full Moon is in aspect to all of the outer planet powerhouses: conjunct Chiron, widely conjunct Neptune, sextile Pluto, semisextile Uranus. With the Virgo Sun prepared to take detailed notes, this Full Moon offers amazing opportunities for divination and intuitive work of all kinds.

Whether you receive messages in dreams, read cards or runes, or journey in various ways, this Moon will fill your sails and carry you far.

Mars in Scorpio adds another layer of intensity to this Full Moon. Scorpionic Mars, Pluto in Capricorn, Moon and Chiron and Sun in Virgo, trining and sextiling each other offer deep insights into individual psyches or external situations, strong psychic connections, and powerful sexual connection.

Uranus is at the apex of a Yod formed by the Sun and Mars. This supports the intuitive strength of this Full Moon, and opens possibilities of quick action or sudden changes.

The Moon is also at the apex of a Finger of the World, as Venus in emotional Cancer and Saturn in balanced Libra square each other and form sesquiquadrates to the Moon. This offers insights into relationships, along with strong feelings about whatever those insights are.

The patterns surrounding this Full Moon point to strong appetites, signalling care needed for those with addictive tendencies. This is not the time to overindulge in alcohol or recreational chemicals, and it's possible prescription medications could have an unusually strong effect.

Whichever way you look at it, we're likely to feel highly sensitized.

Staying grounded is vital. Look to the Sun in Virgo, with support from Pluto in Capricorn, to maintain a solid tether to the Earth plane. Virgo is sometimes viewed as an overanxious pencil pusher, but in times like these, having a presence who remembers important details, cares about our health and safety, and pays attention, is a good thing.

Structure, established practices, safe and sacred spaces, protective guides––these support experiences with the Full Moon energies that bring new information, even wisdom, into our lives. So, dive in to dreams, visioning, journeys, any experiences that offer healing, growth, joy and connection. Be compassionate with old wounds and strong emotions. Take a compass.