Your every-so-often reminder that a full moon is an opposition

There was a full moon two days ago. Some people reference full moons religiously as a reason weird things are happening, like the crazies come out and/or the ERs are full and/or there is an uptick in car accidents, etc. A full moon occurs when the moon is on the opposite side of the earth from the sun, which is a 180 degree angle, which is an opposition.

Oppositions exist to show you something by contrast. The sun is in Cancer; the moon was in Capricorn. Feelings/instincts vs. responsibility/duty. It's pretty impossible to be in touch with your whims while deeply connected to your sense of duty to others, just like it's impossible to get work done when you're crying your eyes out. So you pick a side because you can't do both. You'll usually pick the side where you have planets in your chart because you're more used to that energy. I have (too much) Capricorn energy and no Cancer energy and I spent my full moon time two days ago deeply in work responsibility.

If you have an opposition in your chart, which not everyone does, you're always going to need someone to play out one of the energies in question, because you can't simultaneously act out one behavior and a different behavior that's its polar opposite. The tricky thing with people with oppositions is that they can switch which role they are playing and try to force you to play the opposite role than the one you were used to playing. So again with the Cancer/Capricorn idea: let's say you have someone on the Cancer end who comes to you endlessly for Capricorn-esque advice on what they should do in a given situation, but then they decide one day that they don't like your advice, so they start lecturing you as if you're a child, trying to force you into a Cancer role. It's a literal 180 and it can be bizarre unless you understand why they're doing it.

Another way to think about a full moon is it provides contrast as to what you're doing right and what behaviors don't serve you anymore. It's very common when you have a full moon in your progressed chart or solar return to be "throwing something off" or shedding old behaviors or situations that aren't serving you. The sun is your essence. The moon is your feelings. When those oppose each other, there's a mini war on. What you want to do (sun) and what you feel you need in order to be happy (moon) are in disagreement. If you're going to get anything done, you have to reconcile these basic issues.

I don't remember where I first read this but when I was first learning I found the phrase "under a full moon, everything is illuminated." It's a beautiful thought. Realistically, though, "everything" is limited to which house in your chart the full moon occurs. It was at 21 degrees Capricorn, so where does that fall in your chart? If you found yourself thinking "my plans aren't working," that's the Capricorn end of the equation. If you found yourself thinking "I don't feel like doing this anymore" that's the Cancer end. It could have been both at the same time, actually. And if that's what happened, here's the (Capricorn) question: what are you gonna do about it?

Yours in using the current energy to your advantage,J