Henry Seltzer – The Full Moon that takes place early Monday morning, June 20th, the same day as a dynamic Summer Solstice, is quite interesting in that it repeats the Grand Cross from the Gemini New Moon of two weekends past, together with the strong presence of Pluto that was also a factor in that configuration. T
his indicates that what we have been dealing with over these past two weeks, both individually and as a society, is still very much up for us during the final two weeks of this contentious and ultimately transformative monthly cycle, and is entering a new phase of consolidation of the changes that are happening, together with a greater understanding of what it is that we are truly up to. In this timing, too, we find the Sun in the final degree of the sign of Gemini, the same sign that was occupied by the New Moon.
We can see in this last-degree symbolism that there is an implied following up on the issues brought forward at the New Moon timing, together with a strong impulse for finally getting it right, no matter what that takes. The thirtieth degree of any sign is considered a “last-chance” degree in that the issues represented by that planet in that sign are being cleared, as the planet prepares to enter, with the next sign, into a new developmental stage.
Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, is therefore strongly implicated in this symbolism as well, and, quite appropriately, is found exactly opposite the limiting and educational presence of Saturn, occupying the same degree of Sagittarius. The square between each of these planets and Neptune is also still very close, being less than a quarter of a degree in the case of Saturn, while the Grand Cross that includes Jupiter in mid-Virgo remains operative also.