Today’s Full Moon in Pisces is ruled by Jupiter, planet of optimism, growth and good fortune and conjunct Neptune, co-ruler of Pisces and planet of mystical insight, memories, imagination, glamour, meditation, forgiveness and delusion. Although things may not be quite as they seem, this lunation offers a moment of mystical potency to acknowledge our progress to date, to meditate on experiences that still require integration and to envision the expansion of our heart’s true desires in whatever mysterious and magnificent forms they might take.

It’s a busy week of celestial events. With Mercury, the magician, at its closest proximity to Earth and slowing to a standstill before turning retrograde in Libra on September 27, Mercury trines Jupiter for longer than usual, carrying us into today’s Full Moon and colouring this culmination of events. Trines facilitate opportunities for positive expansion but Mercury and Jupiter rule opposing signs of Virgo and Pisces, making them natural contraries and potential antagonists. Yesterday’s escalating protest outside the CFMEU is a good example of the potential for this energy to go either way: Mercury’s concerned with facts while Jupiter’s focused on beliefs and ideologies.

Jupiter is currently retrograde and looking back towards the good old days. When it turns direct at the end of October, optimism should increase in anticipation for its return home to the watery abundance of Pisces. Before that happens, Mercury and Jupiter will trine twice more at almost this same degree: retrograde on October 4 when plans will undoubtedly require revision and rework; and direct on November 1 just before Mercury emerges from its shadow when we should be getting ready to announce our auspicious collaborations to the world.

This recurring aspect between the opposing rulers of the Virgo/Pisces ‘healing axis’ suggests that a process is underway during Mercury’s journey of death and rebirth through the sign of relationships, justice, friendship, fairness and diplomacy. It offers hope for the possibility that we may return from the underworld of our relationships a little wiser and better resourced and that we may see greater integration of the polarised views that are causing such dis-ease in our communities.

Tomorrow, Mercury, Guide of Souls, squares Pluto, Lord of the Underworld for three days. Although we may hear news of abuses of power being exposed within the system or find ourselves wrestling with the parts of our own psyches that are dying to be transformed, the chthonic revelations taking place will lead us to a more profound knowledge of ourselves and the extraordinary jewels that lie at the heart of our relationships…