Full Moon
Harvest Moon*
Autumnal Equinox
September 23, 2010
0 Libra 15’

Make a serious study of your relationship to yourself. You must be able to be objective about yourself—to examine your attitudes, your future plans, and your self esteem. You must be able to take yourself to task and shape up where you fall short on practicing what enhances and insures your emotional health.

At the New Moon we spoke of the virgin who does what she does, not to please another or even herself. She does what she does because it is true. With objectivity, you don’t seek to please yourself or bend things in your favor if they compromise truth. You may think that taking a shortcut or being less than wholesome is necessary to secure your desires or your advantage, but you will only end up forging a weak connection to your good. Weak links break when tested and your potential good ends up slipping out of your grasp.

Examine your accounts and make good on what you owe. If something is in your pocket or under your control that rightfully belongs to another, give it to them, even if you think you need it and they don’t. Let it go, and make room for what is rightfully yours to come to you. Keeping it is simply making a statement to yourself that you don’t have access or avenue to what is rightfully yours.

You might even make a supporting statement with faith and conviction. I surrender this because it does not belong to me. It belongs to another. I am faithfully making room for that which is mine. That which is mine is seeking me. I am making room for it so that it will notice its place and space and not pass me by.

The Sun is conjunct Saturn for this Full Moon and the Moon is opposing it. The Sun is shining on discipline, order, and restraint. Do the thing that is not the easiest and the return will be great.

Act with fear and limitation and this will be reflected by trepidation and weakness. Why not put yourself in the position to welcome justice instead of fearing it?

Sun conjunct Saturn squares Pluto conjunct the North Node in the 4th house of the Sun-on ascendant chart. The 4th house refers both to the exterior home and family matters and the interior home of memories and feelings. With this square many of us are feeling blocked. We want desperately to go for it, to do and to have, but we meet impediments.

Some of it is simply fear of the unknown. Maybe it will be better, but you don’t know for sure. Maybe you can do it, but you don’t know for sure. What if it’s worse? What if you leave home or leave the familiar and find you can’t make it? But what if it’s better? What if you do make it? What if by making a move you see something you could not see from behind the gates? What if by making a misstep, you discern the correct step? This is what usually happens. Some movement is better than no movement. Pluto conjunct the North Node encourages us to make any move that is in the direction of empowerment and rising above it all.

Step out on faith. Step out with your knees knocking, but step out. Step out on an empowering affirmation: Every step I take toward a better life is a successful step, because it will always have something to teach me. I will be experiencing something I have not experienced before. Without the first step, I cannot make the second. So I make the first! I envision myself where I want to go. I am walking around in my new digs and in my new mindset, and I love it! It is so much better than I thought it would be, and I am so proud of myself for having a new vision and pursuing it!
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*The harvest moon is full moon nearest to the autumnal equinox. The autumnal equinox occurs when the Sun enters Libra and day and night are of approximate equal length.