How Is Your Lunar Eclipse Full Moon?

Wow. It’s been a while since a Full Moon or even an Eclipse has felt this tangibly batty.*

Am I right? Taurus-Scorpio Full Moons are always intense as the Scorp angle pushes for authentic emotional expression (price on application) and the Taurean side of it is ultra-aware of substance and security.

In this case, the Earth is as close to Uranus as it can get – aggravating existing agitation and frustration with stuffy status-quo energy. Hypothetically, it could play havoc with atmospherics and geomagnetism: Uranus has an unusual set-up and Earth is between it and the Sun.

Psychically Seismic

So we have the Earth, Moon and Uranus in Taurus opposite the Sun and Mercury in Scorpio. When Mercury is involved in a Full Moon or any astrological config, you get the message. You can’t ignore it and what’s more, you probably get it a million times over.

So the exquisite, infuriating clarity of Mercury in Scorpio, a psychological muck-raker at any time, with a Sun heading for Solar Maximum in 2023 or 2024 is locked into a high-tension polarity with the Taurean trio.

Cue physical restlessness, quirks and extreme sensitivity to environmental triggers and people. That’s quite enough but it occurs at precisely the same time that your ability to delineate normally indefinable emotions is peaking.

Mars Retro Is A Buzz Kill

But ‘oh that’s right, Mars is Retrograde so I shouldn’t send my eloquent vow of vengeance or pass-agg spreadsheet with the deficits (financial, emotional, spiritual) highlighted in venom green? Fuq that.’

It is maddening. Now the Horoscopes + Daily Mystic Updates have been all over this phenom and if you have Power Moons, you’ll know the sphere of influence and have some practical ideas for channeling it.

But if you’d like to share or vent in the comments here, the Lunar Eclipse Support Group is open!

*The terms “batty” and “bats” apparently sprung from the ‘erratic’ flying behaviour of bats but these days their fancy zig-zag and spiral moves are seen more as an evolutionary aerodynamic advantage. They have also been incorrectly associated with witches and vampires for centuries but most bats are selenophobic – they hate the Full Moon.

Every Full Moon is a Sun-Moon opposition, a polarity play and the time when lunar influence is most potent. In the olden days it was when anyone could travel by night without need of an attention-drawing torch to light the way.

They also illuminate inner realms and emotional zones – some are kept dimly lit for a reason! Full Moons traditionally make wolves and women more prone to howl at the Moon or be villainous and they exaggarate any contradiction that you may be (sort of) holding together.

Added: Full Moon Eclipses are (a) ultra-exact and (b) always linked into the Moon’s Nodes, aka longer term cycles and fate lines. They run in nine year cycles and often serve as a kind of secret calendar of the psyche. They eerily resonate with events that we don’t commemorate or if we do, it’s in private.