In this phase, the illuminations of the Full Moon begin moving through us into the world. It’s about what we experience, understand, and share.
This Disseminating phase, with the Moon at the beginning of her own sign, is filled with longing.
This a space of deep emotion, of looking closely at “what I want right now” to explore what’s behind and underneath that desire.
The Moon at the beginning of Cancer encodes the mother-child dyad. Since the Moon is often seen as mother, we may see the child only as the recipient of the mother’s loving care.
With this Moon, we might feel more like the baby. We might feel needy. The sharp edges of what we wanted and never got are right here.
This is a strong Moon: Not only does she rule this sign, she’s triplicity ruler of this decan. She’s also way out of bounds–outside the orbit of the Sun. Whatever emotions show up with this Moon will be as they are, not as society may think proper.
The Moon trines Venus newly arrived in Scorpio. The beginning of Scorpio brings deep desires forward. Desires that are more like hungers, what we long for so strongly we’re not sure we’ll survive without them. The Cancerian image of mother and child changes to lovers, with a depth and intensity reflected in the great love stories–including the tragic ones.
A sesquiquadrate from the Moon to the Sun defines this phase. This square-and-a half aspect is edgy, out of step. The Sun is in mid Scorpio, a decan the Sun rules, where we see images of intense relationship, for good or ill.
The Moon–Venus trine longs for close, fulfilling relationship. The Sun–Moon aspect says, “not yet.”
This Moon is also at the apex of a yod with Pluto and the Mars–Mercury conjunction sextiling each other at its base. A yod presents a problem. None of the three points share either an element or a mode. It’s tough to connect and understand each other.
Here we have a strong and emotionally complex Moon at the top. The question this yod presents is related to the intensity of the Moon’s longing. What do we do with such deep emotion?
Mars–Mercury would say, go get what you want, the how doesn’t matter. These two at the beginning of Sagittarius are all about speed. Why wait?
Mars loves this. He’s ready to ride.
Mercury will soon station retrograde, though. In this place of speed, they’re slowing down. Also out of bounds, like the Moon, and therefore, on their own path. This a determined voice in your head saying, what are you waiting for? Say it. Do it. What could go wrong?
Pluto, the other side of the sextile, is all about what could go wrong. Pluto is slow time, the long clock. Pluto is the underneath, the hidden, the subconscious, the repressed. In conversation with Mars–Mercury, Pluto sits back and says, ok, go ahead, see what happens. I’ll be right here.
What’s the Moon to do? Grabbing at shiny things usually turns out badly. Too much soul searching can keep us stuck in place. Where’s the balance?
The solution–or at least, one solution–comes from the other planet in Cancer, Jupiter. At the end of Cancer, Jupiter is strong. He’s exalted in this sign and also stationing, preparing to retrograde.
Here, Jupiter’s abundance wants to be shared. This decan of Cancer recognizes real limits, so Jupiter wants to to raise everyone up. To create systems of care, not amass a personal fortune.
Jupiter’s in a trine with Saturn retrograde at the end of Pisces, where everything dissolves to form the matrix for a new birth.
Saturn here tells us we can’t always get what we want, a very Saturnian thing to say. Yet Jupiter says, ok, then widen your lens. Don’t go it alone. Share, if not for the joy of giving, then because sharing somehow magically creates more.
This Disseminating phase offers a space in which we feel our feelings, look underneath their surfaces, then figure out what’s next. What can we have? Why do we want it? What does that mean?
The first step is to let the feelings in. Let them be.
