Wendy Cicchetti

Aries Full Moon

Energies and projects set in motion around a New Moon often enter the spotlight at the ensuing Full Moon after having a chance to develop and ferment. The Full Moon is a crisis point where the original New Moon issues are reflected back to us. And this Aries Full Moon faces us with the detailed, fussy attitudes present at the previous Virgo New Moon. If such precision gets us lost in the minutiae and we find that we’re not making clear decisions or taking confident actions, the Aries Full Moon helps us to cut to priorities. We can quickly see how to get immediate results or make faster progress.

We now have a speedy, impatient energy vibration, which cuts through any fog or worry, and helps us be direct and clear in our initiatives. Like the energy of spring, we can make a bold, positive start with something new or simply start afresh in a situation that’s feeling stale. Perhaps we close the book on a storyline that’s come full circle.

A Full Moon inherently implies that some sort of contradiction or paradox needs attention. In this case, the Moon’s opposition to the Sun in Libra may require that we seek or participate in some exercise of balance. Someone around us may have slowed down due to illness, work changes, or other life challenges, for example, requiring that we hurry and pick up the slack whilst they recuperate or adjust. We will be practicing teamwork, although maybe not managing parallel tasks. In this respect, everyone’s individual energy output is valid, even if the rates are quite different.

An opposite experience may be where we have to break away from certain tasks to attend to someone else’s needs, which slows us down. Yet, this is part of the grand plan of reassessing priorities, and it could provide a refreshing breather from anything that has been rather weighty, worn out, or monotonous.

The only classic, major aspect with other planets in this lunation is a wide Moon–Pluto sextile, which hints at the potential for fresh energy to help close the door on projects that have dragged on and no longer hold interest or promise. We can feel greater courage and confidence when we hit the “delete” button on that which no longer feels urgent or, indeed, relevant.

That said, noting Pluto remains retrograde in Capricorn, an issue may reappear for one more go over before we finally decide it’s dead. This is rather like the situation where a wooden match can appear extinguished, yet the flame can reignite given the right conditions. We can choose to be aware of this and potentially catch any flare-up — and then decide whether that’s an energy with full life left or merely a final attempt at producing something tangible.

The Moon’s disposition planet is Mars in Libra, somewhat echoing the same Aries/Libra opposition, but in a slightly different way. A facet of similarity lies in the traditional classification (from Greek astrologer Ptolemy) of Sun and Mars in detriment in Libra. Although that may sound ominous, all it really means is that the planets can’t or don’t express their full strength, or in the typical ways we would expect. We could say they get sidetracked, maybe through pressure or a desire to take other people’s preferences and their initiatives into account. Whether we feel such diversions are positive or negative will depend a great deal on contextual issues, including our physical energy levels, emotional states, and social bonds. It could be helpful to remember what matters to us personally in the grand scheme of things, whilst aiming to keep interactions with others simple but peaceful.

This article is from the Mountain Astrologer by Diana McMahon Collis