We’re at the mid-point of the Sun’s journey across the horizon and the time when days and nights are of equal length. There’s also a Full Moon, indicative of secrets being revealed, fears being faced and changes being instigated. Often, at powerful times like this, it becomes hard to tell what’s good… and what’s bad. Take for example, the situation in Tibet. TOn March 19/20, at the vernal equinox, the sun crossed the celestial Equator, bringing its warmth back to the Northern Hemisphere. Not only the sun but Earth and all her creatures seem reborn.
Day, now equal in length to night, will wax in influence until the summer solstice. Festivals of renewal and deliverance will mark the season in myriad places and ways. The Full Moon this week falls on Good Friday, as Christians mark the crucifixion of Christ, the “Lamb of God,” whose sacrifice redeems the world and washes away the sins of the people. This mystery is understood in the light of the symbolism of the Jewish ritual sacrifice of the Passover lamb, commemorating the deliverance of the Hebrew people from bondage in Egypt. Also on the day of this Full Moon the Jewish festival of Purim will be observed, recalling Queen Esther’s deliverance of her people.At the Libra Full Moon, however, Aries looks into the mirror of its opposite sign and sees the possibility of finding balance, measure, reflection, partnership, and a place in the greater whole. Whereas Aries’ image is that of a rambunctious red-blooded animal, Libra is represented by an inanimate object: the Scales, a balance with two equal arms from which are suspended the two weighing trays or bowls. Aries’ blazing sense of “I” now confronts the reality of the other and the possibility of a “We”. Aries wants satisfaction of its own desires, salvation from its own perils and demons, deliverance from the burdens and boundaries that limit its creative reach. On Libra’s scales, these individual desires and demands are weighed against the claims and needs of the community.
Aries is asked to consecrate the best that he has – his passion, energy, creative spirit, even his ability to fight and kill — to create a better life for all. At the most obvious and literal level, if he wants to procreate, society expects him to marry (Libra being the sign of matrimony). If he seeks a life of adventure and risk, he must find a career or community role that makes use of his courage, daring and strength – perhaps as a police officer, soldier or rescue worker – and dedicate himself to the laws and disciplines of that field of work.We might look at Libra’s Scales as another form of the Cross, which is not only the central Christian symbol, emergent on Good Friday, but a timeless and universal image of the totality of the cosmos and our place in it. The horizontal arms represent our participation in the world, the working out of the balance between the individual and society. The vertical standard on which the arms are mounted represents the connection between Heaven and Earth, the sacred dimension of existence. Without this standard, there would be nothing to support the horizontal balance.
Any idea of social order, proportion and justice is possible only because individually and as a community we belong to a larger cosmic order which is characterized by justice. The point where the two axes meet symbolizes our point of access to the intelligence of the divine order, which is not remote but immediately present, in the midst of our passionate engagement with life and our search for justice and community. The sacrifice of the ram of Aries on the scales of Libra does not obliterate the passionate, virile spirit of Aries, but consecrates and elevates it. The mystery embodied by this Full Moon is that just as the ever-renewing source of life (both biological and spiritual) is built into the cosmic order, so too are the springs of intelligence, moral reflection, and just action.
Love and Light

Georgina
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