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Full Moon ‘ups the ante’ in Korea




Every Full Moon is an opportunity for increasing awareness and, ideally, making breakthroughs. This Aries-Libra lunation reminds us that individualism and partnership live on two ends of the relationship spectrum and that we can learn how to comfortably navigate from one end of it to the other. Instead of polarizing me (Aries) and we(Libra) and acting as if they are totally separate, this Full Moon connects them.
                      
The general interpretation of a Libra Full Moon, though, does not tell the whole story of this one. That's because this Sun-Moon opposition resonates with the ongoing, earthshaking, world transformational Uranus-Pluto square, which is the dominant astrological signature of 2012-15. During this Full Moon Uranus is conjunct the Sun and opposite the Moon, triggering surprises that can put cracks in relationships. Pluto forms tense squares to the lunation, dredging up issues of power and desire that have been buried in the unconscious. The presence of these disruptive outer planets pushes us beyond current boundaries and into unfamiliar emotional territory. Their purpose is to see relationships in a new and different light.

Uranus square Pluto is a conflict of freedom and control, of liberation and desire. How much of one are we willing to give up to achieve the other? The answers aren’t simple but these disruptive transits will open doors to new possibilities, if we don't resist them. Still, loving Venus and active Mars are joined with the Aries Sun and opposite the Libra Moon, which tends to tilt us away from accommodation and toward independence. Perhaps this means that relationship issues are not so much about understanding, adapting to or changing others, but are about changing ourselves.[1]

This is how Jeff Jawer describes the current Full Moon. Shown above is the Full Moon chart drawn for Pyongyang, North Korea. Notice that the Full Moon is powerfully placed on the horizon axis implying that the dynamics described above would be felt fully in Korea . It is, therefore, not at all surprising to see the tension escalate.

But what really is more surprising is how perfectly the Full Moon’s Chinese asterism, Tchao-Yao:   The Brandishing of Arms  applies to this case[2]!


[1] Jeff Jawer; Full Moon Follies
[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p.51)

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