Dancing with the Moon - Part 6 - The Full Moon Phase

“The plant that was a seed and then a shoot gives birth to a bud which will gradually become a flower. The plant can now be seen as the mother of the flower, and the flower is the completion of the growth of the plant. It now takes over as the mother of future seeds, sharing itself as color and fragrance” The Lunar Cycle by Philip Levine

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The Full Moon Phase

During the Full Moon Phase, the life that’s been growing inside is revealed and begins to take on a life of its own. Still, is that new life viable and healthy? Has Mom made adequate preparations?

At the Full Moon, you become aware that you can’t do this alone; you need the cooperation of others and the sharing of information to reach your goal. During this phase, you re-evaluate your future and reach a compromise between your expectations and reality.

The Full Moon is a time of realization, reward, and fulfillment – or failure. Usually, a bit of both. Missed opportunities from earlier in the cycle can come back to haunt you as the Full Moon illuminates all the dark places. However, any difficulties experienced in the Full Moon Phase provide a valuable learning experience for the future.

Success or failure, it really doesn’t matter; you’ve reached a turning point. During the two waxing weeks, you pushed outward and felt an urge to actively build and achieve. As the waning two weeks progress, you will become evermore internal and cerebral.

New Job Example

Continuing with the new job example used in previous Moon phase articles:

During the New Moon phase, your dream of a new job became a goal.
Realizing what that could mean during the Crescent phase raised doubts about yourself.
During the First Quarter phase, you acted confidently, committed, and told others of your decision.
During the Gibbous phase, you persevered, looked into available jobs, adjusted your expectations, and got real with yourself.

Now, during the Full Moon, you connect with others as you submit resumes, go on job interviews, network, and seek the advice of others.

If everything has gone as it should during the previous phases, this will be when you realize you are on track to attain the dream job that will become the “mother of a seed for the future.”

However, if the previous phases have not gone so well, it can also be when you realize that a lateral move is the best you can expect, even though such a move can only take you back to where you were when you began.

In this case, your choice is either to accept failure or re-orient yourself to the future. As you listen to the advice of prospective employers, you may realize that to obtain the job you dreamed of only two weeks ago, getting more education or training will be necessary. Now, do you stay where you are, take a lateral move from one company to another, or re-orient yourself toward the future and see your job search not as a failure but as the “Mother of a seed for the future”?

The realizations of the Full Moon phase lead to the Disseminating phase, where you re-orient to the future or reckon with your failure.

Each of the 8 phases lasts just under four days. During the Full Moon Phase, the Moon travels from 180 – 225 degrees ahead of the Sun, rising in the east at sunset and setting in the west around sunrise.

Born During a Full Moon

If you were born during the Full Moon, you’re infected with an urge toward greatness. You have high expectations of yourself but also feel pulled in two directions. This inner tug of war may spur you onto even greater achievements as it fills you with the notion that no matter what you have or do, it’s never enough. Relationships are central to your life; they keep you balanced and growing. In the give and take of relating, you can find the balance that reconciles your inner world with the outer.

Example:

Linda Goodman was born in Morgantown, Pa., on April 9, 1925, at 6:05 pm EST – Sun 19 degrees Aries, Moon 23 degrees Libra

Secondary Progressed Full Moon Phase

During the SP Full Moon Phase, the seed planted at the SP New Moon flowers. It’s a time of recognition. Still, you’re objective and have a detached acceptance of where the choices you’ve made have brought you. The Full and New Moons are significant SP Solar/Lunar Cycle turning points. The waxing half of the cycle ends at the Full Moon, and the waning half, associated with “reaping what you’ve sown,” begins.

George Clooney’s SP Solar/Lunar Full Moon Phase

George Clooney‘s SP Full Moon began on October 15, 2014, at six degrees Capricorn. That same year, Clooney received a lifetime achievement award, and to everyone’s surprise, the longtime bachelor married the accomplished lawyer and activist Amal Alamuddin. The events of 2014 mark the culmination of what had been set in motion 14 years earlier when he left ER at his SP New Moon.

“The Full Moon can bring achievements, awards, and honors too, particularly at the progressed Full Moon. This is a three-to-four-year period occurring once every twenty-eight years when we reap the rewards of our efforts during the preceding fourteen. Luna presides with neutrality over the following axiom: Whatever seeds we sow at the New Moon, and consciously or unconsciously tend during the waxing hemicycle, at the Full Moon, we will see what comes of the plant.” ~ Dana Gerhardt

Written by Patricia Lantz, MAAS Member

Dancing with the Moon – Part 6 – The Full Moon Phase