Full Moon
February 7, 2012
18 Leo 39’
The mind is all of us expressed as each of us.
You have your own signature, your own mark to make, your own recognizable stamp. You have a unique combination of skills, desires, experiences, gifts etc. that make you uniquely you, the one who is called, the one who is needed. If you are not doing you, something is missing. The whole awaits your part.
With the Moon in Leo, the ego is vulnerable. Our lives get entangled with stuff meant to protect or puff up the ego—the separate self that is in competition to be the best for what it can get, not for what it can give.
The Sun in Aquarius is all of us reflected by Moon in Leo (each of us).
I recently heard a story told by Tom Shadyac* that suggests we have come to misunderstand what it means to be unique, special, vital, and crucial.
He narrates:
Once there was a native tribe that lived in peace and harmony for thousands of years and every day the routine was the same. Hunters would go out from the tribe and when they returned the bounty would be shared equally by all members of the tribe.
No one went hungry when food was available, not even the weak, the sick or the elderly.
One day the most skilled hunter said, ‘I am the best hunter. I kill more than my share of deer. Why should I share the bounty of my hunt? And from that day forward he began storing his meat in a high mountain cave.
And then other skilled hunters said, “We kill more than our share of deer too. Shouldn’t we have the right to keep the bounty of our hunt?’ And they began to store their meat in high mountain caves.
And then something began to happen in the tribe that had never happened before. Some people, especially the old, the weak and the sick began to go hungry while others were well fed. In fact it became so commonplace that no one thought it unusual that some were starving while others had more than they needed.
And what’s even more strange, the tribal elders began to teach their young to emulate the hoarding habits of these few.
That story isn’t true because it happened. It’s true because it’s happening.
About a month after hearing this story, I see Ben Stein on television, perplexed and angry that American Airlines was about to lay off 130,000 workers and cut health and retirement benefits to the rest. He considered the impact these layoffs and reductions would have for deserving workers and their families. At the same time he foresaw that some people would become extremely rich with Facebook going public. He couldn’t reconcile how these two phenomena were happening side by side.
Our challenge at this Full Moon is not to be unique and separate, alone on the throne that everyone looks up to, but to be unique in a way that we may play our part in the whole. Our need to express ourselves creatively and passionately has to square with the hypercritical aspect of ourselves that we experience as the criticism of others. Just as Virgo follows Leo, perfection follows giving your all.
Some of us have to give up the idea that we may be too old or too late. We just don’t know that we have enough of what it takes to win hearts and votes. We are in danger of taking ourselves out because we feel inadequate, incapable, and unworthy. We hang in there and withstand setbacks and disappointments. We have to keep going even when we feel uncomfortable. Success is precisely about allowing ourselves to be ill at ease while we breathe that rare air of the next stage and bid ourselves to operate on a higher plane. We will be more of who we actually are so that earth looks more like heaven.
Neptune has entered Pisces, the sign that it rules. It went in for a few months last year. Now it is back to stay until 2025.
Neptune in Pisces will probably bring us together to resolve some of our social issues. Neptune and Pisces typically represent the undermined and disenfranchised of our society. Neptune in Pisces will likely raise our levels of compassion and get us to work together on inner levels. As Desmond Tutu stated, the sea is really only drops of water that have come together.
I believe that Neptune in Pisces is giving us direct access to the stuff that is spirit so that we have the opportunity to influence and shape the spiritual world that cannot be touched with our hands and to do it collectively by joining our unseen hands for the noble and great work of making the world a better place.
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*From the documentary I Am: What’s Right with the World?
Tags: Full Moon in Leo, I Am: What’s Right with the World?, Neptune in Pisces
Girl, you be channelin’!!!!
As always, thank you.
Dear Inez, the world is a better place because you’re in it. I look forward to your articles because they are so insightful, encouraging and helpful. I bless the day that you decided to reincarnate and share the knowledge. God’s continued blessings, Ayesha
This is the best b*earth day read, EVER! Thank you.
Echoes:
“…the sea is really only drops of water that have come together.” ~Desmond TuTu
Love it! It immediately made me think of Nyanda Rudi’s, “As a drop of water & the ocean are the same in quality, but different in magnitude, so are man & God.”
And Russell Simmons’ (as said on an Oprah show once), “…the ocean is God and we’re all a cup of its waters.”
I love it! It really helps to make me see it, us, all as One.
A couple more that I’ll carry within on my travels:
“The sun in Aquarius is all of US, reflected by the moon in Leo, each of us.” Mercy!
&
“Just as Virgo follows Leo, perfection follows giving your all.” Selah!
Again, thank you. <3