Disarmed

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Every Full Moon promises self- awareness  heralding a time of awakening when something which has been gestating in our unconscious ripens ready for birth in consciousness. Today, knowing that our conscious birth is eminent we direct our attention within and standing perched on the edge between  our unconscious motivations and conscious realizations we prepare for action. An Aries Full Moon always accentuates the polarity between self -interest and the interests of others, but this Full Moon in high relief is poignantly reflecting the gross imbalance between the two. When we are under the influence of Aries we are new born, actively in a process of becoming, and not tempered by experience prone to impatiently rush without forethought or awareness of the consequences of our actions. The Aries Full Moon brings to light the necessity for each of us to discover our courage, and dare to look into the face of our inner warrior prepared to wage battle on behalf of what we value in life distilled into what we consider to be our self-interests. Remembering that Aries stimulates our impulse to act without forethought we are well advised to seriously consider what exactly constitutes our self- interest before going to battle.

Moon in Aries opposing Sun in Libra directs our attention to our self-interest in relationship to the interests of others while challenging us to ponder the conundrum that  we cannot truly consider one without considering the other. Last week I was at a seminar sponsored by Awakening The Dreamer and nicely echoing a retrograde Neptune in Aquarius the seminar spoke in the voice of what they described as the largest social movement in the history of humankind uniting hundreds of thousands of organizations throughout the world working together to integrate technology with ecology in ways that honor the rejuvenation of the earth and respect the needs and well being of every individual on it. One of a myriad of facts learned that day is  anyone having a roof over her or his head, food in her or his refrigerator, and clothes in her  or his closet has more than 75% of the worlds population. Match this with the fact that western cultures use 45% of the worlds resources and free market exploitation of the earth’s resources have accelerated faster than the earth ’s capacity to reproduce them, it is easy to understand global imbalances imploding one into the other begging the question what side of the line do our self-interests lie?

It is a complex process trying to comprehend the cascading ticker tape of facts shrouding ecology, international economy, and corporate globalization without succumbing to our fear of change, our fear of the unknown, and pitting our self-interest against the interests of others hardening our fears into a protective armor in defense of our vulnerability. Today, traveling along side the Full Moon illuminating our courage to protect and defend what we value in life is a retrograde Neptune in Aquarius trine the Sun and sextile the Moon filling the celestial sky with anticipation that something is about to change. Some may be expecting the other shoe to fall as they prepare to protect their self-interests by consolidating their resources, while others may find it more fruitful to “go with the flow” of Neptune. When under the influence of Neptune we are seeking dissolution of structures that isolate and separate one form from another. Aquarius is that aspect in ourself  aware of a group consciousness that considers the needs of everyone in the group. Together Neptune and Aquarius seem to be directing our attention to the human imaginations and innovations that are creating a globalized community  aware of the humanitarian care for sustaining the earth’s resources, for insuring human dignity to every individual, and for spiritually recognizing that all life is interconnected rendering our self-interest inexplicably interdependent upon the self-interest of every other individual.