#Full moon strawberry moon full#

Includes the Ascendant and rules physical appearance, the image you project to others, your general outlook on life, how you start things may describe your role in your family system, often guides your first impression of immediate environment.

Typically people find it easier to identify with one side and project the other onto unsuspecting others in the outer world.įirst House: Personality, physical body, beginnings. An opposition can make you feel uncertain, insecure, or discontent, until you can accept and see yourself in both energies. You may be triggered into awareness of this aspect by other people who seem to resist or undermine you. U Opposition: They say opposites attract-and planets in opposition are never far from each other, though they’re constantly bickering. You’ve got to keep changing your process, opinions or attitude-which promotes highly creative solutions. Bringing them into harmonious expression requires constant adjustments. T Inconjunct/ Quincunx: Your quincunx planets are innately incompatible. An unattended trine can sometimes trick you into negative behaviors. But without any struggle, you might take them for granted-neither using nor developing their gifts. There’s a nice flow of energy between planets in trine. Identifying talents you may have perfected in a previous life, trines can bring you joy. R Trine: Michael Munkasey has dubbed this the “goddess aspect” because it’s so lovely. When you rise to the occasion, they bless you with energy, action, and success. They force the issues that make you to grow. People are usually aware of their squares. The power struggle between these planets was likely defined in your youth, when they were impossibly challenging. Q Square: Squares are wild and wonderful-but difficult too. To get the most from sextiles you need to actively work them. Donna Cunningham has called this the “Oh, that!” aspect, because that’s generally what her clients say when she describes their benefits. This aspect doesn’t demand your attention. P Sextile: Planets in sextile are compatible, though without any fireworks. Their connection feels so natural, it’s easy to think everyone blends these planetary energies just as you do-but mostly, they don’t!. Or one planet can disappear as the other dominates. This aspect can increase talent, focus, and intensity (“two are better than one”). They act together, but it’s also hard to tell them apart.

M Conjunction: Like peas in a pod, planets in conjunction tend to come from the same place. And may joy be with you.įiled under: Uncategorized About Robert McDowell Then dance or walk slowly or move rhythmically around it as you repeat your intentions for your own flourishing and better world. Place a bowl of strawberries (the best you can find) under the light of the Moon.

#Full moon strawberry moon full#

On the night of the Full Strawberry Moon, I hope you’ll join me in this ritual. I have been working diligently, while recovering my health, to complete a novel about a man who travels the globe in search of a better relationship with The Divine Feminine. The dance wove them all together in a tapestry that strengthened their community. The inner circle belonged to the young women who were beginning their moon cycles, the second row belonged to the child bearers, and the outer circle belonged to the grandmothers. Around a sacred fire, three rings of women danced. Every June, the Algonquin people held a festival culminating in an all-night dance. Perhaps the Algonquin people knew this next thing better than most-the importance of ritual, of acknowledging the rite of passage from daughter to woman. The Full Strawberry Moon reminds me of all these things and of one thing more. And the poem is also about retaining or rekindling the inspiration of youth, for our words and deeds mean nothing if we aren’t at least as inspired as the shepherd who invented nursery rhymes while tending his flock. It’s about blossoming and bearing fruit and enjoying it all immensely because every harvest is fleeting. It’s about the healthy alternative of being rooted in the natural world. Of course, the poem is about so much more than strawberries. This poem by Robert Graves feels so appropriate for June’s Full Strawberry Moon–when wild strawberries burst with divine flavor–unlike the often tasteless, hothouse berries found in our grocery stores.