The Sun in Libra and the Moon in Aries, combine balance and cooperation with self-assertiveness and courage. One of the lessons here is learning when to affirm oneself and when to negotiate, when to be alone and with others.
This
Full Moon is about accepting both closeness and distance, intimacy and
detachment, being together and alone. It shows us that we can be in an
intimate relationship with others only if we accept to connect closely
with ourselves, if we can be alone.
We
are always alone (all one). We came into this world alone and we will
leave alone. And throughout all life, no matter how we engage in
relationships, we keep being alone.
A
love relationship is not about somebody being the other half and
needing them so as to be complete. This is mutilation, not love!
Love is being both a whole, accepting to be alone and together. Only when you can be alone with someone there is true love, regardless of whether this aloneness is accepted by the other or not.
As
Osho says "Love is not an escape from loneliness, it is an overflowing
aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share -
happiness always wants to share. It is too much, it cannot be
contained; like the flower cannot contain its fragrance, it has to be
released."
The
first six signs of the zodiac, Aries through Virgo, are related with
the development of the ego and the individual self. Their nature is
subjective and focused on the relationship with oneself, in which
rapports with the outer world are oriented and understood solely
according to one’s individual intention.
Libra
marks a major shift and the inauguration of the cycle involving the
second six signs of the zodiac. These signs are focused on the
integration with the outer world, and more esoterically with one’s
shadow, the non-ordinary, included death, with the aim of expanding the
edges of the individual conscious self.
Libra
is the initiator of this second half and moves the first step towards
the other, which usually entails the most basic form of human
interaction, i.e. partnership or marriage, which at an esoteric level
correspond to a first step into initiatory death. The major challenge
here for Libra is keeping the balance between the individual
self-focused self (Aries) and the social couple-oriented self, inner and
outer world, conscious and unconscious, life and death, ego and shadow.
Libra
shifts the focus from individual to collective, ordinary to
non-ordinary and, while this promotes healing and expansion of
awareness, the risk is to lose the connection with the preceding
inner-focused path and its original intention, due to the excessive
attention given to what emerges in the relationships with others or the
non-ordinary.
This
stage, when taken too far, is typically followed by a reawakening of
the previous individual’s intention, which usually results in
relationships, or the non-ordinary, being identified as the cause of the
preceding loss and a reversal of the process from collective to
individual, non-ordinary to non-ordinary. The process will then be
overturned again once it reaches its unbalanced climax, and so this
continues to go on from one excess to the other, fomenting the struggle
of polarities upon which the ego’s separated reality is based.
This Full Moon is about acknowledging both processes, holding both polarities, and allowing the emergence of a mid-point, a Third Party, which allows the two to exist simultaneously.
© Franco Santoro, info@astroshamanism.org. All rights reserved.
Image: Astroshamanic Seal for Libra and Aries
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