Full Moon in Sagittarius | Back to the Future

May 23, 2024| 4:52 am (PST) | Keyword: Redressing

Changes occur in schedules, personnel, routine tasks, and job duties. Interest in health matters and concern for those in need of help.

The Moon is slowly culminating in the sign of Sagittarius underscoring the emotional need for your beliefs to be heard and respected. While ambitious, the inclination is to remain realistic in the effort to apply visionary insight to expansive endeavors in a practical manner. For some, this will manifest through involvement with persons in administrative and political professions or administrators in religious, governmental, educational or charitable institutions where the ideals generally lean toward the more conservative views on social, political and religious matters. The mind is roused to intensity, and certain individuals feel themselves called to champion a great cause. This may be characteristic of those who keep their own counsel and are often loners in the pursuit of their goals, although this is not alway apparent because they may work in the context of institutions and large organizations. Events are likely to revolve around Sagittarius persons (sun, moon or rising sign) and those with significant Gemini placements in the natal chart.

Mars is conjoined with the North Node and endows the vigor and stamina associated with athletes, pioneers and adventurers. Vitality and enthusiasm are highlighted and could bring into focus sports persons, athletes or those who push the physical limits or have a great deal of energy for daily life. The urge to do big things can signal the start of new enterprises or taking on a large project related to skills in science, engineering or entrepreneurship.

A helpful influence is tied to strong male figures and leader types who provide assistance and benefactors that play an important role with gifts, favors or benefit. For some, opportunities arise that are important in the life direction, purpose or destiny that may be linked to being passionate about human rights, wanting to improve the world, or seeking the big solution that brings brave reform manifested through devotion to a life of service in either a political or spiritual arena.

This is a busy period of social exchanges, errands, communication and a great deal of travel for business and professional reasons. In some cases, there are necessary adjustments in working conditions, or changes in dietary habits or intellectual, emotional or physical health. Career transitions can also mean that you lose your job, give up a position or retire.

On the other hand, you may be asked to take on more responsibility through a promotion or greater workload and this could be a period of great achievement. You may have the opportunity to use your area of expertise in a public forum to gain respect as an authority. Perhaps you’re leaving a career for a new one in a position that requires you to start over and learn new skills, techniques and concepts. Initially you may feel frustrated, inept or under-qualified because it takes you longer to complete tasks or you make mistakes. If you’ve chosen self-employment, it may take time before you can establish and maintain a routine and clientele.

You can also be obsessively interested in a particular topic that leads to an intense learning experience and becomes an overwhelming all-consuming endeavor leaving little time for anything else. This can take the form of a correspondence or online course, self-study or a formal class. Whatever the interest, it’s a time to formulate your goals and actively pursue them, and these efforts may improve your career and lead to greater recognition in your field. More importantly, actively pursuing your dreams helps you to become independent and self-actualized. As a result, you may develop skills and talents that have been suppressed or dormant or you may revive old dreams that previous circumstances had not allowed. You may wish to work on them further until you feel you’re fully prepared to subject yourself to outside criticism. 

In some cases, you’re collaborating on a project, group activity or working with friends in situations where you take on a leadership role and motivate others. Your friends may include wounded people, healers and teachers and compassion and empathy play a major role in your involvements. Together, you can achieve goals by working cooperatively and coordinating needs. 

However, pain for you may be experienced in groups and you may be resentful of the demands of group pressure or experience conflicts with friends working at cross-purposes.  Power struggles could develop when personal interests supersede the interest of the group. But during this time period, you’ll discover who your real friends are; relationships that meet your criteria for friendship will flourish, others will fade away because of a need to head in different directions. You’ll need to be particularly careful about the people you choose as friends. You may be relating to what you’d like them to be rather than who they really are leaving you vulnerable to disillusionment or deception. You could be sensitive to your friend’s needs while yours go unmet, and friends may want something specific from you without much intent of return.

Despite an environment that emphasizes social engagement, you may spend a great deal of time alone doing research, working behind the scenes or on a project that will complete at a later date. This energy is supportive of a writer, artist or anyone beginning a long-term project that involves a great deal of contemplation, study or research. The goal may be to bring order to chaos, with words or actions or through a natural ability to see the patterns of life and the complexity of one’s world. The process is likely to involve organizing information so that you can convey it in a more personally meaningful way to offer real understanding. The ability to integrate practical information you’ve already mastered with emotional insights can offer the most accurate perceptions, rather than attempting to include new or foreign concepts. The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction linked to the Sun grants good intellectual grasp, an inventive mind, and farsightedness, 

For some, a love interest serves as muse for some form of artistic expression, Perhaps you’re a writer of love stories or your work involves delving into the problems of a sex relationship. You might be working on creative expression through the lens of a poetic soul looking for a life with mystical or magical meaning, This can manifest as an actor or a love of theatre, art or rituals in the search for enchantment and a desire to make that a part of the fabric of your daily life.

Alternatively, the interest is in spreading, investigating or studying methods of healing. In fact, health care may have a prominent place in the news that brings notice to a medical researcher, the midwife, or the herbalist. More personally, situations call for you to take care of a loved one in need of help, and responsibilities may be especially heavy with regard to family members. Perhaps you’re moved to participate in charitable activities motivated by an unusual degree of selflessness, or you become more involved with others if you’re in a healing profession or simply more emotionally connected to your co-workers.

But your compassionate nature may leave you vulnerable to exploitation or savior-victim relationships because of your strong desire to help. You may attempt to help those who are self-destructive and should learn to use discernment to avoid victimization. You may need to offer tough love and help only those who are truly in need and those whom you’re qualified to help. You should avoid situations beyond your scope of training such as alcoholism, addictions or mental disturbance.

Your own health can also be a source of concern, especially if you tend to be a worrier. The tension caused by stress can lead to digestive or other health issues that force you to adjust your daily commitments and reassess your priorities. Some changes occur due to minor physical transitions in response to puberty, pregnancy, breast-feeding, aging, fitness, hormonal imbalance or weight gain or loss, and may motivate you to develop a more health-conscious lifestyle. This should also include a review of emotional involvements linked to work and relationships that impact your health.

Your overall perspective will change radically, likely because of a crisis in your life that demonstrates the invalidity of your former views. A pervasive influence highlights the rejection of food, emotional needs, family ties, the impact of conditioning or family/ethnic heritage. Your beliefs may be transformed through interactions with foreigners, people of different religious or ethnic backgrounds that challenge your preconceived ideas and prejudices. Even everyday situations can directly contradict a long-held belief or perspective on life. The effects are more pronounced if you’re emotionally involved with the person who alters your views, and the drastic change in belief can make you feel disoriented. Your beliefs about yourself are just as likely to be affected as beliefs about others.

This process of review is meant to deepen your understanding about life. You must be clear about what you believe, but your beliefs must reflect an accurate perception of reality rather than fanatical or obsessive beliefs that convince you of your own self-righteousness.

Perhaps you don’t feel as social due to your need for peace and the desire for inner healing and comfort. Spirituality may deepen allowing you to meaningfully engage through everyday experiences for greater understanding, and meditation, reflection and introspection may be fundamental for your evolution. If so, you might use this time to think or evaluate your life with complete honesty in order to rid yourself of patterns that work against you.

Maybe you’ve decided to devote yourself to more emotional or spiritual qualities rather than material pursuits or worldly achievements. When you are sociable, you’re attracted to people, places and things that offer significance and quality to your life. Those who are at peace, wise or self-possessed are especially attractive to you. Outer beauty may not be as highly valued as the inner qualities you seek and having money isn’t as important to you as the quality of life you’re living.

But while money may not presently concern you, a lack of funds in the foreseeable future could contribute to financial uncertainty, especially if challenges exist that prevent you from determining the amount of future earnings. You may be filing bankruptcy, finally pulling out of debt or closing out matters involving real estate. This period marks the end of a monetary cycle involving debt with a new financial cycle approaching on the horizon. You may ultimately decide that emotional fulfillment overrides financial concern. A sense of optimism and protection allows you to face any fears, and faith may grow exponentially through a trust in a higher source.

On the other end of the spectrum are those that have an intense desire for freedom and will defy any limitations that have the potential to dominate or restrict objectives. Perhaps you don’t need support from others and will pursue your aspirations despite any objections. The North Node spurs you to claim your path and fulfill your desires. This can stimulate a changing attitude or work that calls for you to alter your role or actions in response to emerging events.

The inclination is to consider your own personal needs and abilities, and in that respect, goals may be very self-oriented, self-serving or even selfish. Negatively, unexpected spikes of enthusiasm and the rush of adrenalin can provoke insensitivity and impulsive decision-making without consulting others. You don’t want to be controlled or blocked from moving forward in any personal or professional endeavor, and your response can be to resort to unusual tactics for self-defense or revenge. Friends and loved ones may be alarmed by your new-found independence with valid cause for concern, especially if you’re forming goals without critical information or due diligence. If so, your lack of cooperation may be considered out of control and threatening. Antagonism is an indication of the need to learn to direct anger and effort at the appropriate target or goal. At worst, plans fail, and without a real focus, you can be prone to jealousy, compulsion, obsession and anxiety. 

The events now taking place are the result of past actions, unconscious compulsions and compulsive behavior that may bring upsets and difficulties involving institutions or the sudden disclosure of hidden matters, and acts by persons you were unaware of working against you. Some of your anxiety may be caused by feeling the need to keep secrets, opinions, thoughts or emotions to yourself because of the conflict between your rational and emotional self. Perhaps you’re attempting to preserve the peace by avoiding certain issues, repressing your emotions, and pretending that everything is fine.

However, your resentment can still manifest through subtle passive aggressive behavior to make others feel guilty. It may be that you have difficulty in knowing your own thoughts or how to express them, especially if you fear that what you say will be held against you. If this is the case, you may not express your true thoughts or disclose the truth even if you’re caught in a lie. On the other hand, the problem can be inaccurate information you’re receiving; the possibility exists that you’re being lied to or purposely misled.

You may just be more inclined to spend private time alone with a partner, but keeping secrets can be due to involvement in a hidden love relationship. Any new relationships will also have a clandestine quality for one reason or another or because you find it difficult to be openly attracted. Perhaps the two of you are very different, others may not approve, or either of you may be committed to someone else. You may be involved in a situation which is unusual for what’s normally expected of you. These may be circumstances involving sex-related activities such as initial sexual experiences, sexual preferences, affairs, birth control practices or abortions.

For some, there’s excessive focus on outward appearance or the partner is merely a means for social climbing or upward status. Romantic pursuit may include seeking to impress a love interest through social connections, a show of extravagance, luxury or social affairs. Perhaps one of you is insincere in leading the other to believe that there’s true desire for a committed relationship. In some situations, emotional rejection is present even though outward behavior seems unchanged. In other instances, there’s an overt influence over the partner to force them to acquiesce or submit to your desires or unresolved issues that center on fairness in the relationship and distorted perceptions that may revolve around money, responsibilities, sex and the balance of exchange. 

Despite thinking that’s strongly influenced by the love impulse or thoughts that center on love and marriage, or having children, something is blocked or delayed in the areas of romance, children, creativity, pleasure, friendships and your hopes. These are the areas of life you tend to daydream about but continue to procrastinate in taking action. It may be the fear of being assertive or the wish to avoid confrontation that makes balanced relationship difficult to establish or sustain.

Consequently, it’s also the challenge of accepting people and conditions ‘‘as is,” that keeps you from relating, sharing and cooperating successfully with others. Being the “nice person” and going along to get along causes you to internalize energy which may then turn against you manifesting as a health issue. Creatively, the need for approval through service, attempts at perfection, and doing everything yourself prevents sharing and reciprocity. As a result, you may be too critical because of the fear of failure or rejection.

The keyword for this cycle is redressing which indicates having to remedy or set right an undesirable or unfair situation. This could mean the onset of conflict and having to be confrontational in order to attain a goal. However, while you must be assertive, you should avoid behaving in a manner too aggressive or argumentative. Additionally, there’s a need to acknowledge the normal ebb and flow of events that can, at times, evoke feelings of loss and sadness you’d rather avoid, but that are an inevitable part of life. Prepare for the pain and sorrow, but trust that there’s a purpose and order. Remember that your current suffering will pass.

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