Super Full Moon

There is a Super Full Moon rising over the horizon this weekend. This time of the year the Moon gets closer, but normally not as close as this when it is at it’s ultimate perigee point to earth and appears to be 14% bigger than usual and 30% brighter. Wooha! Super indeed!

You can reach out and touch the Moon this weekend. And do it. Next chance won’t be until 2034, so this makes it a special astronomical event worth catching. It is fascinating to experience and it gives you are real sense of space and where you are. It is so easy to forget that we are spinning around our axis at 0.43 km/s (around equator) in deep space somewhere, wherever that is. But thinking about it gives us a bit of perspective in an everyday life where we sometimes get so lost in chaos that we forget to look up and be released.

I think it is fabulous to think that this is life and that I am a speck of light in a vast ocean of energy. I think that is beautiful. And then a littlebit sad because earth is so messed up and people feel so destroyed on the inside. When I go in to see, I also see this.
Something is broken and we are trying to fix it, but it seems impossible. It just keeps returning as if it was some sort of boomerang of pain. People do randomly forget about all their worries and then gets a little vacation lost in laughter and love, and those who work on themselves finally end up with an understand of their own capacity and what happiness is, so there is hope.

But the reality on earth is still harsh. And we are trying to find the freedom from suffering. Trying to find the simple life.

This very longing for ease, for love, for union, is the underlying theme of a Super Full Moon which is not only special astronomically, but also astrologically.

Neptune, the planetary archetype that relates ultimate truth, squares the Full Moon axis exactly, making the energy of this weekend somewhat special and unique. Neptune is a wildcard, impossible to predict, teasing people into going with the flow. We feel drawn to an inner level where the intuition and inner images are talking a bit stronger than usual. Dreams and visions. Hunches and realizations.

And to top if off, the planet ruling logical thinking, Mercury, is going retrograde on the very last degree of Sagittarius also known as the Galactic Center (which physically is the black hole in the middle of the Milkyway). Spacey stuff.

This is wonderful news for those who are used to travel inside and communicate with life instead of analyzing and logically trying to fit the pieces. This energy bumps us out of normal 1+1=2 thinking and let’s us see what it means to follow the flow of life itself. Sometimes our actions does not make sense from a logical p.o.v and we do things that we never thought we’d do, following an unfoldment of events rather than planning things to happen. Or as Tom Robbins describes it and I secretly wished I had written:

”Passion isn’t a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It’s the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Everybody but the most dried up and dysfunctional is drawn to the grove and enchanted by its mysteries, but then they just can’t wait to call in the chain saws and bulldozers and replace it with a family-style restaurant or a new S and L. That’s the payoff, I guess. Safety. Security. Certainty. Yes, indeed. Well, remember this, pussy latte: we’re not involved in a ‘relationship,’ you and I, we’re involved in a collision. Collisions don’t much lend themselves to secure futures…”

Isn’t he awesome? Or is it just me who’s got a Robbins crush?

But he describes following the heart, taking chances you ‘d never thought you’d take. Neptune says: “What is there really to lose? Truth will set you free. If it is meant to be, it will be.”