Here is the chart for this Full Moon.

In keeping with my practice, here are links to articles discussing this full Moon by

• Lisa Dale Miller at astrowisdom.com, who says:

  This is an especially good night with Venus (heart) in Gemini (diversity and open-mindedness) to gather with your community to lovingly and openly discuss polarizing issues that have been hard to tackle: the idea being to get beyond scripted points of view to find the real issues that divide and separate. Sun (ego) and Mercury (speech) in Taurus could make openness seem harder than it should be, but commonality can be gained from truthfully admitting where both side's arguments lack focus and power. The Scorpio Moon will counteract Taurus' bullheadedness and help to turn divisive issues into deeper more honest solutions.

• Jeffrey Kishner at LunarTunes, who waxes philosophical about possessions and learning to share:

  In fact, do you really "own" anything? It all turns to dust. Your money, your house, it just gets transferred to someone else when you die, or it decays over time. Your possessions only provide an illusion of security. Don't get me wrong, creature comforts are important, and you need to pay your rent, but what do you really need? The intimacy you share with another human being, the trust you develop by having integrity ... are these intangibles not more valuable than your car?

• Robert Wilkinson at Aquarius Papers, who tells us why the full Moon of Taurus-Scorpio is known as the Wesak [or Vesak] Festival, a.k.a. A Happy Buddha Birthday:

  The Full Moon represents a potentially enlightened state, where the Moon (form) is in the perfect position to reflect the greater light of the Sun. It begins a time of fulfilling the seed state of the New Moon. The Full Moon of Taurus Sun and Scorpio Moon is special in a major way, since for centuries it has been celebrated as the birth and enlightenment Moon of the Buddha, said to be the first human to fully transcend suffering and live to teach us the truths he found. It is the 2nd of the "Three High Moons" of Spring, and anchors the outpouring of life into a form that can help us transcend suffering as well.

In this chart are

• A grand cross in fixed signs formed by a opposition between Saturn in Leo and Neptune in Aquarius in one arm and an opposition between the Moon in Scorpio and the Sun with Mercury in Taurus in the other arm. The aspects between Neptune and the Sun/Mercury combo and Saturn and the Sun/Mercury combo are a bit wide (over 10° for the first trio, over about 7° for the second trio).
• A T-cross in mutable signs formed by Pluto and Jupiter, both retrograde, in Sagittarius in opposition to Venus in Gemini and Mars conjunct Uranus in Pisces. Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Uranus are square one another; Pluto only opposes Venus.
• The crosses are joined by Moon trine Uranus, Neptune trine Venus, Saturn trine Jupiter, Jupiter sextile Neptune, and the Sun sextile Uranus.
• In a birth chart this would be considered a well-integrated chart.

Journal entry dated 02 May 2007
Category: Whatis Aquarian