The striking thing about this Full Moon (perfecting at 7:11 PM PDT at 12 Libra 21) is the way the Sun-Moon opposition forms a Cardinal T-square with Jupiter in Cancer. We’re hit with a tricky concept: an overabundance of opportunity, an onslaught of possibilities, more (even an unhealthy amount) of what we care about, that comforts us, that soothes, delivered through a problem, difficult circumstances, tough personal choices, or in conflict with others. The energy is compelling; we’re likely to feel we must do something, either individually or in concert with others, that recognizes some set of facts or potentials that could hold the keys to abundance, good fortune, and an expansion of our world. The Moon quincunxes Mercury in Pisces, bedeviling our minds with all manner of what could be, what we should do, augmented by our own imaginations as well as the Universal creative energy that can make us feel that anything is not just possible, but possibly in our ideal future–and this feeds the impetus of the T, perhaps sending us into action before we’ve gamed out where we’re going (or at least intending to go).

The reality, though, may be that we’re not seeing ourselves or our circumstances clearly. Saturn is still in range of Neptune, distorting or otherwise veiling the reality picture, and though the signal is stronger than in the recent past it’s not without interference; there are still things we misperceive, probably from deeply wounded sensibilities formed from past experience that we may not be entirely conscious of, but that permeates relationships and anything we are deeply invested in (Venus square Pluto, Pluto quincunx the South Node). These are intellectual takes rooted in sense and security issues, not fully processed and so not yet full understood (Venus in Taurus, Pluto in Aquarius).

This could make for difficulty comprehending this Libra Full Moon, as we are invited to draw conclusions around relationships, partnerships, artistic endeavors, matters of approach and negotiation (diplomacy and manners in all their forms), and aesthetics, and yet have a lot of subtle and unconscious material influencing our perceptions; we’d do well to remember that Libra carries a certain modicum of judgment inherent in its emphasis on interaction and assessment of that interaction. That is to say, we may be judging ourselves and others even though we think we’re dispassionate, assessing situations according to our accepted standards, not realizing that those benchmarks are deeply personal, based on our own ideas of what’s appropriate, rather than on some larger Universal measure–and that means we’ll be largely unaware of our own biases, our own shading applied to interpretation of what’s around us, which state inevitably leads us to at least some misunderstanding, some misperception, and so some choices we may later wish we’d done differently.

Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius sextiles the Libra Moon and trines the Aries Sun–and that may be our way out of the lingering fog. This suggests facts or information we’ve forgotten, ignored, hidden from ourselves, or denied, that can ease the way, both with our own choices and within partnerships. It’s in what we’ve willingly (or willfully) looked away from that we find the knowledge needed to make our choices (Aries Sun) about how we’ll interact and share (Libra Moon). Excavating and acknowledging this info is key overcoming the problems associated with the T-square and so accessing the opportunities and abundance we’re seeing.

The Full Moon Sabian is, ‘Children Blowing Soap Bubbles’. The Sun offers the light that makes the Full Moon phenomenon in the first place; the Sun’s Sabian is, ‘An Unexploded Bomb Reveals An Unsuccessful Social Protest’. This is what I’m seeing here: The Full Moon offers us pleasure, in some way, something light, a positive and enjoyable benefit (the potential of the Jupiter square), but we shouldn’t lose sight of a fundamental fact: that this positive interlude is necessary, even generated by, a genuine danger, a situation with potential energy as yet unreleased that represents something objectionable within the social fabric. It may be a situation where we take our benefits, our pluses, where we find them; we certainly can’t (and shouldn’t) stop living simply because problems exist–but we shouldn’t ignore them, either. We can prosper and expand, gain rewards and find new venues of expression, even as we remain focused on what must be fixed, what must change. Black Moon Lilith is instrumental to gaining the Jupiterian opportunity available with this Full Moon, and it may be that this is the Black Moon’s moment. BML is a well, our internal repository for what we can’t, at the moment, handle; using this Lunar energy successfully means willingly accessing what we’d rather not, what we normally hide even from ourselves. In essence, we’ll be practicing/ developing our courage to face what we find difficult–this Moon tells us it will definitely pay off.

Have a wonderful Full Moon!