Coming into Hard-Won Emotional Truth Under the Sagittarius Full Moon

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The Moon is currently in deep, dark, percolating Scorpio ahead of the 11-degree Sagittarius Full Moon on June 1/2. (The Sadge Full Moon will be exact at 10:19 a.m. CST on June 2.)

With the Moon now transiting Scorpio as it moves to its monthly peak, things are simmering and percolating internally, on the emotional plane, ahead of the Full Moon. We're processing, processing...

The Sagittarius Full Moon we're moving into illuminates hidden corners of hard-won emotional truth wherever we currently stand. This is hard-won emotional truth, truth we've earned the right to acknowledge and stand in, indicated by a Moon-Saturn conjunction at 1-degree Sagittarius (2:21 p.m. on June 1) as the Moon pushes to fullness. Don't let anyone talk you out of this truth. It's yours. Stand in it; own it; fill your whole being with it. It's powerful.

We've come a long way emotionally since Saturn first entered Sagittarius on December 23, 2014. Has it really only been five months? We've traveled through many horizon-expanding experiences and established new footholds as we came out of the dark and often-times nightmarish transit of Saturn through Scorpio, which began October 2012. 

You can read more about the Saturn in Sagittarius themes in this patron article from earlier this year: Saturn in Sagittarius: Freeing Suppressed Truths With Our Blazing Arrows of Righteousness.

Now, we are on the brink of dipping back into the tough-and-troubling Saturn in Scorpio domain.

The planet of challenge, Saturn, will dip back into Scorpio, the sign of fear, nightmares, empowerment, death, and rebirth, beginning June 14 until September 17. Saturn's dip back into Scorpio will strongly colour the themes of the upcoming Venus in Leo retrograde. Love and money planet Venus enters Leo June 5 and remains in that creative and expressive fire sign until October 8. To a great extent, our success with the resolution and completion of the Saturn in Scorpio themes determines the long-term success of the new love, relationship, money, and values cycle we are opening into this summer. 

You can read more about these themes in this patron article: Saturn Retrograde Sets its Steely Gaze on Late Scorpio: the Final Resolution of Old Heartbreaks, Hurts, and Unfinished Business.

  

So we're coming into our full emotional truth, illuminated and undeniable, under this Sagittarius Full Moon, but it won't necessarily be easy or clear cut.

The Moon in Sagittarius will oppose Mercury retrograde, the Sun, and Mars in Gemini while forming a square to slippery-slidey Neptune in Pisces. This means the Sagittarius Full Moon occurs within Neptune-infused mutable t-square, and pretty much anything could happen. Expect increased lunar madness during the first half of the work week with constantly-changing emotional states creating a bit of chaos and frustration for more fixed types. 

Luckily, the conjunction of the Moon to Saturn, while potentially creating a bit of a "downer" vibe, also acts as an anchor as we move through the highly-changeable mutable t-square and Full Moon on June 1 and 2. We'll need it.

With the Sun, Mercury retrograde, and Mars in Gemini at the time of this Sagittarius Full Moon, there are lots of opinions, lots of perspectives, lots of angles, lots of ways of looking at things.

However, there is only one ultimate emotional truth.

Getting to this ultimate and over-reaching emotional truth, again, requires some effort and endurance (Saturn) on our parts. Holding to this truth with the slippery-slidey influence of Neptune and the "talking out both sides of its mouth" influence of Gemini will be a challenge.

This Sagittarius Full Moon within mutable t-square acts as an emotional update, an emotional check, ensuring that we are dealing with our emotional reality as it exists now, not as it existed back then, in a different era, under a different set of rules.

There's a bit of despair nipping at us here, but this is only the remnants of the old era and the emotion and dreams tied up within it.

Highly mutable Full Moons such as this one indicate the necessity for quick emotional adaptation to changing conditions, and the fast-change Piscean-to-Aquarian-era dynamics certainly require this of us now.  

Our current emotional truth under the astrological Aquarian umbrella is not the same as our emotional truth was under the astrological Piscean umbrella. Certain ideals we've held and truths we've lived by for so long now are dissolving right before our disbelieving eyes...

It is our challenge to adjust and update our emotional foundations in light of this. 

We are coming out of the Taurus New Moon May 17, and our values may have changed, just like that. Our efforts may have to be re-directed. 

Sagittarius is a sign that seeks freedom, and with the Moon in Sagittarius (square Neptune in Pisces), we're seeking emotional freedom above all: freedom from the past, freedom from old family dynamics, freedom from difficult feelings that linger and torment, freedom from illusions that keep us stuck and swinging on the vine.

We seek the sweet freedom that is brought by standing firmly in our own emotional truth.

The Moon enters Sagittarius at 12:39 p.m. on June 1 and forms an almost immediate conjunction to Saturn at 2:21 p.m. that day.

Stand in your own emotional truth at this Sagittarius Full Moon no matter how inconvenient it may be to yourself or others. Peel back the layers of outdated illusion as the Moon squares Neptune in Pisces (6:37 a.m. June 2). Check that this truth holds up under every Geminian angle as the Moon opposes Mercury Rx in Gemini (2:27 a.m. June 2), the Sun in Gemini (10:19 a.m.), and then Mars in Gemini (4:31 p.m.).

The final aspect the Sagittarius Moon makes on June 2 is a trine to Uranus in Aries (11:59 p.m.) before going void-of-course for most of June 3. The writing is on the wall. The new-era breeze is blowing.

Blaze on into a new era in your life and into new emotional freedom.

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