After all of the planning and preparation of the last few weeks, the first Full Moon of Autumn – ‘the Harvest Moon’ – has arrived. It’s time to reap what we’ve sown over these last few months…in our relationships and therefore, in our lives.
With Full Moon in Aries this evening, Saturday September 29th, we get the chance to see who we have been being in our relationships. Like the Libra Sun reflects its light off of the full shape of the Moon, our one-on-one relationships are reflecting themselves in who we are as individuals within those partnerships.
Libra is a sign known for making things look good. It does everything it can to create a pleasing aesthetic – a beautiful outward appearance. This desire to present a pleasing aesthetic is also very present in its relationships, as Libra energy likes to make sure that everyone thinks its relationships are strong, balanced, and look good.
But just because the relationships look good doesn’t always mean they are. In fact, most real relationships aren’t always as pretty on the inside as they may look on the outside or going as smoothly as their participants may describe them to be. Every partnership of any kind has its challenges. And I don’t say that as a pessimist, but as an optimist.
That is what this Full Moon in Aries is all about – the challenges that help you assess the beauty and strength of a relationship. It is your willingness to face those challenges head on with courageous and honest actions that reveals whether or not you believe that the partnership is worth fighting for.
The relationships you that you take action to establish or sustain are the ones that are actually important to you. They are the ones you have deemed worth fighting for on some level of your consciousness – the ones that you find yourself wanting to apply effort and energy toward and that you can be completely open, honest and vulnerable in. These are the relationships worth facing the challenges for, and are ones that are (or can become) beautiful and strong.
But if you’d rather avoid or ignore the challenges in some of your relationships, or if you find you can’t (or won’t) express yourself openly and honestly within them, the relationships probably aren’t worth the fight. These are relationships that are usually shallow, superficial, or purely practical in some way, and often stand upon only one or two of the following foundations – sexual chemistry, physical appearance, information or gossip gathering, emotional dependency or neediness, and/or financial-material security, convenience, or dependency.
That said, if you believe certain relationships to be important to you but you are not taking actions to genuinely establish or sustain them, ask yourself:
- What is missing in those relationships that has you avoid taking actions in them?
- If that missing element were there, would the relationship have everything else you need for that relationship to feel complete, balanced, and fulfilling for you?
- What are you afraid of finding, experiencing or revealing about yourself in that relationship that has you avoid taking actions to initiate it or sustain it?
- What has you stay in a relationship that has something so important to you missing from it? And where do you find yourself going (or what do you find yourself doing) in order to fulfill that missing need?
But remember – the answers to those questions are important, but this Full Moon in Aries phase is not all about you. The Sun is in Libra, so this is about you in relationship and partnership. Other people are involved.
And as the Moon in Aries enters is fullest phase (exact at 8:19p PDT), you become more aware of the impact of your emotion-based choices on those other people – on your partners in your relationships of all kinds. Your deepest and truest feelings about your relationships and your own emotionally protective motives within them are revealed to you at this time.
With Aries representing action and assertiveness, your actions will especially tell the truth on you at this time, revealing how your real and true feelings may be in alignment with or may be contrary to what you think or say your partnerships to be. This is a prime opportunity for you to see which relationships are really as important to you as you say they are. It is also a time for you to see if the partnerships you have in your life are balanced and pleasing for you and the other party(s) involved.
This may seem like an intense and laborious process for such a brief moment in time (1-2 days)…and it is. Yet based on upcoming events (Venus moving into Virgo, Mercury and Saturn both moving into Scorpio, Mars into Sagittarius all within the next week), it is a process worth undertaking for the remainder of this 2012 Libra Sun cycle to be a bit more peaceful and manageable for you. Facing these feelings and preparing for these choices will likely be easier now than it will be later. Later, you won’t have much time to think about them – you’ll probably be simply forced to make them in some way. Choose while you can.
Make the most of this Full Moon in Aries cycle by choosing and doing what you can in the relationships that are important to you. Do what you can in the best ways you can now, trusting that any other necessary changes will follow…sooner than later.
Thanks for reading and sharing. Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
