Libra Full Moon: An invitation to revel in that pause between the inhale and the exhale
Meanderings on the Libra Full Moon, Mercury and Saturn conversation, Pluto shift, and a tarot reflection for us to embrace the liminality
Hi, fellow lunar wanderer,
We meet again under this gorgeous Libra Full Moon.
Libra, the sign of Cardinal Air, perhaps bringing a breath of fresh air.
I have recently read about archetypal astrology and how these cosmic, planetary archetypes can play out within our own bodies. So, The Moon, for example, as written by Renn Butler in his dissertation from 2022, is our rootedness.
It is our capacity to feel and process and reflect on our emotions as well as our yearning to be rooted.
As someone with a completely open Solar Plexus and Root center in my HD chart, that yearning to be rooted is ever-present. Funnily enough, I have spent my whole life taking in everyone else’s emotional states and then wondering what the hell is wrong with me. I’ve often felt this pressure to just go-go-go.
Why am I so freaking emotional? Where are these mood swings coming from? Why can’t I just be?
My Aries Moon in my natal chart is in the 8th House which is the house of shared resources, among other things.
Could the emotional states be the unwanted shared resources that I have accepted voluntarily?
In which case, what boundaries do we need to not get lost in each other’s emotional states? What boundaries are needed to meet each other in our own inherent rootedness?
So if you want to look at your own chart, locate your Moon. Play around with the element of that sign and the house. And perhaps look at the aspects they create to other celestial bodies and points in your own body if you feel like going a little bit deeper. What conversations do they open you up to?
Where do you seek that rootedness?
What is the quality of your Sun’s light?
How does your Moon reflect that back?
How does your Moon reflect back other people’s Suns?
The Moon, just like all the other planets, reflects back the light of the Sun. So, inevitably, we are called to look at the Sun then. The Sun, according to Renn Butler, is our individual autonomy and selfhood. It is our sense of creative purpose. The Sun simply wants to shine and express its warmth. So we can expand that and ponder on each sign of the zodiac on an elemental level and feel into how the Sun would express itself through them.
So we arrive at the Aries Sun since we’re currently in the Aries season. We are met with Cardinal Fire. Cardinal Fire opposing Cardinal Air. Cardinal Air wafting the warmth of Cardinal Fire, at least in the northern hemisphere. Or perhaps spreading the Fire within us too thin, or even putting it out completely.
In the midst of that, we are still met with external circumstances: clouds, rain, sleet even. The temperature of that breath of fresh air is very much dependent on which way the wind blows.
As above, so below.
Chiron is present under this Full Moon and very much in conversation with the Moon and the Sun. Our selfhood meeting our core wounds meeting our emotional body. That is a lot of energy to process and balance under this Full Moon. So how can we meet ourselves with gentleness?
Oh, all the sparks that are currently going off.
Which do we nurture? Which do we ignore?
There’s also a conversation between Mercury and Saturn, Pisces-Taurus energies. That conversation is more harmonious than the one between the Sun, Moon, and Chiron, and perhaps slightly less present. However, it is in the subtleties that clarity finds us.
The Mutable waters of Pisces meeting the Fixed earth of Taurus. There is a sense of practicality here, a sense of down-to-earth messages that are here to help us place contours around our beyondness.
The limitlessness of Pisces’ waters is now contained within the limits of Saturn and brought down to our bodies with Mercury’s visit in Taurus.
What’s the message our bodies have for us?
What wisdom does our body hold?
What practices can we call in to be with and in our bodies, especially under this potently airy Full Moon?
What do our physical bodies need to be rooted in our own emotional bodies?
What do our mental bodies need to be rooted in our physical bodies?
How can we meet our own individual needs without the fear of letting people down taking over, and yet still meet them where they are at?
We also have Pluto that’s now entered Aquarius, if only for a brief visit for now, a Fixed Air sign. There is a sense of restlessness, resistance even. It’s a taste of what’s to come, energetically, once Pluto enters Aquarius for the next 20 years in November 2024. Noticing what’s present. Noticing where our restlessness lives in our bodies, souls, and minds. Noticing without attaching our minds to the stories that emerge.
Where have we been too lenient for others’ needs, wants, and norms?
Where is our need to do things our way?
Where are we stuck in our own fear-based pragmatism?
I want to offer us the following words from Dennis Lewis to help us feel into our bodies and the needs or whispers that we might be ignoring.
“Though it sometimes happens spontaneously, listening to our bodies in the midst of action is relatively rare. It demands that we learn how to be attentive in two directions at once: outwardly toward the conditions and actions of our outer lives, and inwardly toward the thoughts, emotions, and sensations of our inner lives. For it is only when we can be aware of both our inner and outer worlds that we can go beyond the beliefs of our self-image and experience the real forces at work in us.”
Dennis Lewis in “The Tao of Natural Breathing”
Finally, I would like to offer us a moment of reflection on the medicine that tarot can provide us. As always, may you receive what you need and leave the rest.
At times, we find ourselves in the liminal spaces of life.
Not quite out of the old room but not quite arrived in the new place either.
We’re meandering down these corridors of what was, what is, and what can be.
We have the drive to take that leap but not quite trusting that we’ll land safely.
Embrace that space in between.
Be in and with your own body, mind, and soul.
Listen to the quiet whispers they speak.
Allow yourself to observe what’s present without the need to do something with it.
Give yourself the gift of liminality.
Let yourself be carried by the gentle breeze.
Embrace that space in between.
For when the time arrives, and it will, you’ll know what to do with it.
I don’t know about you but the desire to get rooted has been very prominent. But, in the meantime, let’s just be OK with nurturing that seedling.
Now, let us take a breath together.
*A deep full-body inhale, a slight pause, a deep full-body exhale*
Thank you for being here.
Sending you all my love.
May this Full Moon illuminate what’s ready to emerge.
Your fellow traveler,
Silvia
Last weekend, I had my second experience of conscious connected breathwork. Although the experience was different, it was just as powerful as the first time. Weirdly, both times I had a physical sensation in my throat. The first time it happened it was an extreme tickle and the second time it was a cough.
Now, they say dry throat is natural, and I’ve experienced it, so I have a pretty good idea of how it feels… but this wasn’t it. This almost felt like a blockage was being cleared out. Me and my voice go back a long way and the relationship has not always been easy. In fact, I have always been very conscious of my voice, especially when needing to use it in a community setting, to the point where I’ve silenced myself.
Funnily enough, I had set an intention for that session, and that was to orient myself to my magical tools, an exercise we were invited to do in the magic circle I am currently workshopping some ideas at.
The word I heard spoken was the voice.
Even though it made no sense, it feels resonant somehow. I remember I wrote in my journal a few years back how I would love to use my voice in a public way. And I’ve dabbled in it since but never truly committed. Also, a fun fact, in the Gene Keys, my Unconscious Earth hexagram is 10 in line 5 which interprets as Voice (frequency). That hexagram is part of my Incarnation Cross too so there might be some little seedling in there that wants to be nurtured.
So, if my tool is my voice, how can I tend to it? How can I take care of it? How can I cultivate it?
By breath. By connecting to it. By connecting to myself and others through my breath.
It is in that connection that the voice will emerge.
The things that will need vocalizing will do so in response.
In honour of that breathwork session, I opened up my sketchbook and drew a mandala. Only later did I realize that the first elements I drew were the double-line circles as if imitating these amazing circular sound waves on the water as seen in the video below. I’m curious to explore these links further between breathwork and creativity.
And I’d love to hear if you have any experiences of your own to share.
P.S. I would love to hear your feedback on these Lunar Invitations. What have you found useful? What’s been less useful? Is there anything you’d love to see added to these New and Full Moon Invitations? Or maybe you want to hear about an aspect of them in more depth? Feel free to either comment or reply as an email. Your feedback is much appreciated as the Generator in me loves to be in service in response to your needs. :)