This Full Moon in Aquarius today is all about breaking free from difficult habits and cycles that haven’t been serving our highest good. Saturn is very much under strain in more ways than one during the Full Moon in Aquarius today and this brings to our attention the roadblocks that are standing in our way as we progress on our journeys and passions both in business and the areas of life indicated by the placement of the Moon during this peak part of the lunar cycle and the house Saturn rules in our natal chart will tell us more about this.
Today we have some complex alignments happening astrologically and one of these is a T-square happening between the Sun and the Moon in opposition and then Uranus, which will be at the crux of the T-square. We have a second T-square happening between a Venus-Saturn opposition and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction in square alignments to those and at the crux of the second T-square alignment.
On the same day, we also have a Jupiter-Saturn square, one of the peak parts of the Jupiter-Saturn synodic cycle that began in December 2020. so a lot is going on Today and there’s been a build-up of tension energies in the air for everybody so we’ve got all of this to think about.
The Saturn square Jupiter aspect is usually related to the structures in our lives, to our legal responsibilities, to our moral responsibilities, our standards our conducts and our constructs. Also our structures that we’ve built and relied on for years, because that’s what Saturn’s about and quite often Saturn does relate to business, what we’re doing in business and what we’re doing with work.
Jupiter relates to our freedoms, our need to expand our horizons, our need to do new things and our need to grow and learn through all of this and with this being a square aspect this is the tension aspect. It usually means with Saturn there are some limitations to what we can and can’t do and there’s something in the way that’s holding us back but what are these roadblocks? These roadblocks are often some of the structures and constructs that we’ve built for a long period that we’ve relied on and have kept us feeling secure for a long period. Jupiter coming into this square aspect is saying ‘Hey, you know I need to grow and there’s something in this structuring of these constructs that I’ve had built that I’ve relied on that’s now holding me back. Something I’ve been relying on for a long period is simply it’s not working anymore. Now this can be in any area of life although Saturn is quite often business and work. Also look to where these planets are transiting, in your houses of your natal chart they are in and which of your houses Jupiter and Saturn represent or which they are ruling in your natal chart. This will also give a clue as to how this is playing out in your life and what’s happening.
The cycle has been building up to this square since December 2020 so look back to what was happening for you then/ what you were starting to build, especially in terms of business and work. What kind of things in life were you beginning? This is when we had the last Jupiter-Saturn conjunction which back then was an Aquarius so it can be about making connections as well because the Jupiter-Saturn synodic cycles are now beginning in air signs which is all about communication and all of that social stuff, so have a think about that.
Within the T-squares that are happening at the time of the Full Moon, we’ve got Uranus under strain and we’ve got Jupiter and Mars under strain as well. So if you consider what this might mean, these are planets that kind of tend to want to break free. Jupiter sometimes wants to run away and break free. Uranus sometimes wants us to run away and break free. Mars, although it’s separating from Jupiter now we’ve had the whole Jupiter conjunct Mars aspect throughout the week just gone which is separating now and this included some potential anger outburst, potentially putting our foot in it/ foot in mouth and maybe doing things that we really had an urge to do what didn’t really want to do as it probably wasn’t for the best. Now that’s separating and what we have now is this Jupiter-Mars under strain but in a square to the Venus Saturn opposition so again we’ve got Saturn under strain in a different way as part of the T-square alignment and Saturn is usually representing something that’s holding us back or usually something that’s restricting us, like a road block or something that’s in the way and we’re likely thinking how are we going to get through this or how are we going to get over this hurdle so to speak. So we have that and due to Mars being it’s in Gemini it’s wanting to create connections, it’s wanting to amass some knowledge as well and do some research, maybe increase our knowledge-base in that way.
Within the T-squares that are happening at the time of the Full Moon, we’ve got Uranus under strain and we’ve got Jupiter and Mars under strain as well. So if you consider what this might mean, these are planets that kind of tend to want to break free. Jupiter sometimes wants to run away and break free. Uranus sometimes wants us to run away and break free. Mars, although it’s separating from Jupiter now we’ve had the whole Jupiter conjunct Mars aspect throughout the week just gone which is separating now and this included some potential anger outbursts, potentially putting our foot in it/ foot in mouth and maybe doing things that we really had the urge to do what didn’t really want to do as it probably wasn’t for the best. Now that’s separating and what we have now is this Jupiter-Mars under strain but in a square alignment to the Venus-Saturn opposition so again, we have Saturn under strain in a different way as part of the T-square alignment and Saturn is usually representing something that’s holding us back or something that’s restricting us, like a road block that’s in the way. We’re likely thinking how are we going to get through this or how are we going to get over this hurdle, so to speak. So we have that and due to Mars being it’s in Gemini it’s wanting to create connections, it’s wanting to amass some knowledge as well and do some research, maybe increase our knowledge-base in that way.
With Uranus being in a square to the Sun, this is our identity and that’s saying, ‘Well, you know what, I really don’t care what anyone thinks about who I am so I’m just going to go ahead with that anyway, it doesn’t matter how bizarre it is or out of the box it is and with Uranus in the square to the Moon also, we are thinking outside the box in terms of our emotional self-nurturing, our emotional progression and of course these are the progression of our soul and our alignment too with our soul purpose. We can expect something unexpected with Uranus, but with Saturn in the mix are we going to out-grow what we’ve been relying on or are we going to change the goalposts within the constructs that we already have built and grow further that way, maybe make some connections. Are we going to break some sort of old cycle and break loose and break free from something? This is the kind of tension that we’ve been building towards with this Full Moon.
It really does make sense to think consider the New Moon in this as well because the New Moon happened on the 4th August and this was, I wouldn’t like to say sparse, but there wasn’t as much in terms of aspects going on at the time of the New Moon as there have been in many of the New Moons so far this year. However there was a lovely sextile to Jupiter from the New Moon, which is another confirmation that yes, we do want to grow and we do want to expand and it also means that throughout the lunar cycle we’ve had those opportunities to do that. Really, what happened between the last quarter Moon of the last lunar cycle and the New Moon of this lunar cycle (which is between the 28th of July and the 4th of August) can really give us a big clue as to how things going to play out for us and what kinds of rewards or gifts we’re going to reap at the time of the Full Moon today and the rest of the week. If you’ve been working hard towards something there might be a nice payoff for that but really what happened during that week between the week of the last quarter Moon of the last lunar cycle is quite often what’s being cooked in the pot that’s or the time the ingredients being thrown into the pot, the pot’s being stirred and it’s it’s saying, ‘hey this is what’s coming in for you over the course of the next two week starting from the New Moon. The Full Moon is when our efforts (or slip-ups) really tend to come out and say. ‘hey you know I’m here, this is what we built this is what we’ve got, these are the rewards’.
So I do hope that you are looking forward to some growth, that you have something interesting to build on and I hope you enjoy the week ahead. I wish you all the luck and all the best.
