Full Moon in Taurus October 2012
Full Moon in Taurus October 2012
The Full Moon in Taurus is our annual Hunter’s Moon. The Taurus Moon represents material and financial sustenance and the celebration of a successful hunting season followed by pleasurable indulgence, picturesque of satisfied appetites epitomizing the Taurus Moon’s natural fondness for good food and drink. Taurus is ruled by Venus and in Taurus, pleasure and comfort reign supreme.
The south node is currently in Taurus where financial circumstances have many caught in poverty consciousness, striving to get by on very little with money and resources, top of mind. Holding onto and grasping/hoarding can also become problematic with an afflicted Taurus. Values can bring up strong opposing clashes of beliefs stemming from core value systems and self worth and where we stand or which way we swing on our worthy pendulum.
The Taurus Moon trines Pluto Capricorn adding to earthy, grounded emotional attention with deep intense feeling. The conditions in the next few days will draw out the extremity of emotions and sensations with obsessive and compulsive urges. The Moon oppose Saturn adds a feeling of careful and cautious emotional investments.
The Sun in Scorpio is just passing its conjunction to Saturn in Scorpio bringing the sense of serious, responsible life and death emotions to this Full Moon. The do or die extremity and inability to find and escape into “the lightness of being” for a time with the lingering somber attitudes and concerns for our individual plights. Scorpio intensity and maudlin Saturn, not a mix not for the faint of heart. The Sun is inconjunct Uranus and Uranus represents earthquakes.
Both coasts of North America are feeling the tension building momentum with a 7.7 earthquake threatening tsunami on the Pacific Northwest as well as Hurricane Sandy, the “Frankenstorm” of Halloween, also bearing down on the East Coast posing to hit at the peak of the Full Moon Monday. Full Moons are times of high tides showing these repercussions. The Taurus Bull Moon’s push comes to shove with a might force with a build up as Taurus can implode and hold onto energy before it is forced to burst. On the positive side, the Taurus Moon takes precautions and stockpiles all resources of food and water needed in the event of catastrophe. The Taurus Moon will help to remain calm in the wake of storm in order to manage any destruction. The Moon Taurus moves over the south node and Algol October 31-the devastation of the storm will show its impact.
The Sun Moon Chiron and Pluto form a cradle-encased protection and security bound which can also unleash a torrential force given other reactors such as Mars oppose Jupiter, Mercury square Neptune and Venus tsquare Uranus Pluto all active during this Lunar Moon phase end of October, beginning of November where “the cradle will rock”. The pressure of the polarity between the Sun Scorpio need for change and taking risks oppose the Moon Taurus need for remaining the same brings up the extreme tensions. Taurus and Scorpio are fixed energies that can get caught up with stubborn, inflexible attitudes which can get in the way of adapting to change.
Venus just moved into Libra which will create a tsquare with the separating Uranus Pluto square – a witchy, ghoulish stir to Halloween this week that won’t spare any beauty or sexy passion. Venus Libra rules over relationships, agreements, beauty, harmony, compromise, negotiation which will be highly pressured this week – Venus will tighten the tsquare beginning of November which could bring out a crisis of sorts as the aftermath of some of the current weather patterns building – earthquakes and storms being a Uranus factor.
Mercury moves into Sagittarius and squares Neptune Pisces (storms at sea-flooding). Communications and short travel may get mired in confusion and delusion. Computers and communication systems, weather will all become unpredictable, uncertain and unreliable. The weather and mother nature may well put a wrench into the Election voting process. Mercury in Sagittarius is in its detriment and can lose sight of the facts.
Sagittarius looks at the big picture and sees the forest for the trees however missing some fine tuning points and is classic for foot in mouth and communication blunders. Those prone to speaking before thinking should pause and take a breath before subjecting themselves to regrettable statements. Mercury will soon turn retrograde (November 6) on the US Election Day which may show delays and disruption to the voting. Any fears around fraud and fudging data could be part of a haunting Halloween twist casting a scary shadow over the election.
Mars in Sagittarius is separating from an opposition to Jupiter Gemini – the jubilant force that pushes the envelope and divide while it gets things moving pressing over limits or boundaries demonstrated clearly with the beginning of Hurricane Sandy with the stifled Sun over Saturn showing some colorful characters such as Conrad Black and Donald Trump. Mars oppose Jupiter is over reactive, impulsive, impatient, aggressive and accident prone with resulting inflammation and potential injury.
Conrad Black has been attempting to color over the supposed smear campaign over his past incrimination . His Saturn in Cancer under the Uranus square Pluto lights-Saturn represents reputation as he attempts to clear his past fraud charges –this aspect exhibiting his petulance at being wrongly accused.
Donald Trump “The Donald” has been extra excitable and generous as of late baiting Obama with charitable donations if he admits his “real” birth place. His Uranus also being in Gemini, similar to Romney is getting the Jupiter jolt of verbal onslaught – the aggressiveness owing to his Sun Gemini oppose Moon Sagittarius square Obama’s Mars Virgo which shows the built in animosity. I suspected there was something unseemly coming about with an aghast outburst- Mercury Scorpio and the Scorpio nodal axis was square Donald’s Mars at 26 degrees Leo. With transit Mars oppose Jupiter, he feels he can overturn or “overcomb” anything.
Transit Pluto is oppose his Mercury in Cancer giving him the investigative paranoia as well as obsessive need to delve into Obama’s past. His natal Mercury is square Neptune Libra-showing his communications coming across as delusional and mentally strange matching the current transit of Mercury square Neptune “The Donald” has Regulus over his ASC-certainly what has given him power but what is also showing his fall with his hateful and deranged jabs. Uranus is currently oppose his Neptune which shows the abrupt deluded charitable (Neptune) offer.
More Mercury square Neptune with Mourdock’s piece de resistance adding to the Republican coffer treasure chest of gaffes. I had indicated in my US Election post that Mitt’s Progressed Sun in Taurus over the transiting south node would show up with some further unsavory morsel -Mourdock’s endorsement by Mitt shows further his lack of judgement in who he recruits or endorses. Jupiter rules over religion and is again showing its detriment with the “God” belief and intention that even pregnancies from rape should not be aborted.
Hilary Clinton’s birthday was on October 26th-she has transit Saturn Scorpio over her Sun which brought up her being called on the security issue with the recent terrorist attack. Her Mercury Scorpio square Saturn Leo are under the eclipse lights in November which might bring more to light as to what happened – transit Neptune is square her Jupiter Sagittarius-Jupiter rules foreign issues. Her Jupiter Sagittarius is in her 1sthouse also being impacted by Mercury Sagittarius that goes retrograde. She has a reversed nodal return over her ASC/DESC-this shows direct attention to her identity.