The Full Moon radiates at its brightest and fullest this evening in Libra at 7:44p PDT.
Mirroring the Sun in Aries, the Full Moon brings your self-awareness and self-identification to light through the eyes of your partnerships and one-on-one interactions with others. Along with the general world events in these last few weeks, there have likely been major events in your life on a personal or private level that have occurred in the same period of time…and
they’ve likely occurred in or through your relationships. It’s most likely that through how others perceive and relate to you, you have recognized who you are being for yourself. Your interactions with others give you an opportunity to see how you really perceive yourself – what you really think of yourself, what you really are (or aren’t doing) for yourself, who you really are for yourself. Where Aries falls in your personal astrology chart will help you know which area(s) of your life you likely define yourself by or through which you come to your self-awareness.
In this regard, it’s been quite a journey for me through Aries. My adventures in automotive transportation over the last couple of weeks have not been the only events I’ve had during this Aries cycle. I’ve also had my inner personal journey advance considerably.
Most prominently, I’ve come to fully recognize how many people tend to see me as a youthful, naïve and child-like (due to my Gemini 3 Midheaven). I’ve noticed how many people first approach me as if I don’t know (or shouldn’t know) what I am doing, or as if I am “too young” to understand. I’m often seen or perceived as younger than I am. An example of this is how a group of my co-workers seriously guessed me to be 10 years younger than I actually am!
Yet as they get to know me or work with me more, others find that I am more than competent and mature in matters they wouldn’t expect me to be competent and mature in. They find I have more experience and wisdom than they expect or
know of me, yet I’m rather introverted and private about what I know or have to offer (my Sagittarius 7 Sun). An example of this is the salesman who was attempting to ‘charm’ me into a more expensive car last weekend staring at me like “a deer in headlights” as I proceeded to ask him questions in response to his statements making it clear that I knew more about buying a car and was more prepared for my visit to the dealership than he expected…and hoped.
People slowly learn that “know” and learn because I am extremely observant, intuitive, and perceptive – I notice things that most people don’t and/or wish I wouldn’t. And I often notice their weaknesses and bring them to their attention for those ‘wounds’ to be healed (my Virgo 6 Ascendant). This often gets me in trouble with people only because I often see things people don’t want to see about themselves or have seen or known by others about them. Sometimes, knowing and sharing what you know isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. As result, I’m learning to keep quiet about some of what I see in individuals, allowing others to come to me to ask for my insights rather than just blatantly offering them.
Others also find that I’m very intellectually and emotionally deep and intense (heavy concentration of most of my personal planets in a 3rd house Scorpio intercept). This throws them off-guard because they don’t know how to respond to me when my depths surface. For me, it seems perfectly normal to delve below the surface appearance of people and things. But I’m learning that for many of the people around me, they don’t expect me to be deep or intense about anything. They especially don’t expect me to be deeply or intensely aware of them, as my 3rd house has Libra on the cusp which shifts my attention to my one-on-one interactions with others. People are often surpried by how much I notice about them as individuals.
I’ve known all of this about myself to a certain, limited degree. Yet in these last few weeks, I’ve become aware of these elements in ways in which I never have before. It has been very eye-opening – very frustrating at times as I’ve recognized just how much important it is to me to have people to see my deeper depths and wisdom, yet how I’ve rarely shown or expressed it outwardly. There is now relief in being able to see myself through the eyes of others, and I am very grateful for all I have learned about myself. My awareness of their perceptions of me have changed the way I view, feel, think, and speak about myself, my business, my “day job”, my personal resources – everything in my life! My friends, acquaintances, and family are my greatest teachers. I learn so much about myself through them, and I appreciate them. Deeply.
And that is really what the Aries-Libra axis is all about. It’s about you and others reflecting you, mirroring each other, learning about and awakening to ourselves through each other.
So as this Full Moon rises, if you find yourself frustrated or angry with your circumstances or with other people currently in your life, the question for you is…what do you have the opportunity to learn about yourself from them? What are they “forcing” or “pushing” you to see or learn about yourself? What is it about yourself that they are reflecting right back to you – for “good” and for “not-so-good”? (And remember – it’s all good.)
Enjoy the inquiry. And please, let me know what you find. I’d love to hear about your Aries-Libra experiences.
Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
