#mutable fire

the full moon in sagittarius is exact saturday may 31st at 3:44am, but you are already feeling it. the moon moved into sagittarius this morning and the energy has been building since then. full moons do not arrive quietly. they announce themselves in the days before they peak, and sagittarius is not a sign that does anything quietly.

full moons are completion points. they are the moment in the lunar cycle where whatever was seeded at the new moon two weeks ago reaches its fullest expression. what was planted, what was started, what was quietly growing underneath the surface, comes into full view. not always comfortably. the full moon illuminates. it does not filter.

sagittarius is the sign of truth, expansion, belief, freedom, and the search for meaning. it is mutable fire, which means it moves fast, it does not stay where it is comfortable, and it is always oriented toward something larger than what it currently has. sagittarius rules the 9th house, which is the house of philosophy, higher learning, long distance travel, and the stories we tell ourselves about how the world works. when the full moon lands here, what comes up is not small or personal. it is the big picture stuff. the beliefs you have been carrying that no longer fit. the story you have been telling yourself about your life that has been quietly running out of room.

what this full moon is asking is a question that sagittarius always eventually asks. is what you are doing actually aligned with what you believe. not what you say you believe. not what you used to believe. what you actually, right now, in the life you are currently living, believe to be true about yourself and what is possible for you.

a lot of people will feel this as restlessness. the sense that something needs to change but the specific shape of the change is not yet clear. sagittarius energy does not always give you a clean answer. it gives you the feeling that you are not done yet, that there is more, that the version of your life you have been accepting is not the ceiling. that feeling is the full moon doing its job.

the shadow side of a sagittarius full moon is the leap before the look. this sign is ruled by jupiter, which expands everything it touches, including impulses. the urge to throw everything out and start over, to make a dramatic exit, to say the thing you have been holding back regardless of consequences, is strong under this energy. some of that is necessary. some of it is just the restlessness looking for an exit.

the question worth sitting with before this moon peaks is not what do I want to escape. it is what do I actually believe is possible for me, and have I been living like I believe it.

sagittarius rules long distance travel, higher education, publishing, teaching, and the expansion of what you know and where you go. if any of those areas of your life have felt stuck or small lately, this full moon is likely to make that feeling louder. it is not punishing you. it is pointing.

as the moon peaks saturday morning, pay attention to what surfaces. what you are suddenly certain about. what you are suddenly unwilling to keep pretending is fine. what feels like it has been waiting a long time to finally be said out loud. full moons in sagittarius do not let you stay vague about what you want. the truth tends to arrive whether you were ready for it or not.

The weirdest thing I’ve noticed over the last few weeks is many tarot readers and content creators are Sagittarius Suns ♐️

About 10+ readers I watch are all Sagittarius ♐️

Very cool observation 😎

New Moon in Sagittarius: An Analysis

Today, the New Moon in Sagittarius opens a paradoxical cycle for the nocturnal luminary. The Moon, cold, moist, and phlegmatic by temperament, belongs naturally to the lower half of the zodiacal wheel: it rules the Cardinal Water of Cancer, where it nourishes and protects, and it is exalted in the Venusian Earth of Taurus, the second house, where it ripens and gives form.

In Sagittarius, however, the Moon finds itself in a contrary climate, one that is mutable Fire, hot and unstable, where fluidity evaporates and the instinct to conserve is replaced by the urge to ascend. It is a cadent house, a place of synthesis rather than initiation or fixation, which endows the Moon with a restless and feverish tone.

But this lunation carries within it a principle of reconciliation. Jupiter, ruler of the New Moon, is retrograde and exalted in Cancer (the domicile of the Moon), creating a mutual reception between them. There is also a cyclical anomaly that reinforces this symbolism. Since the two consecutive New Moons in Virgo last September, the lunar rhythm has been subtly displaced from its usual axis. This New Moon rises in Sagittarius (the ninth house of horizons and faith), but the following Full Moon, on January 3, will not take place in Gemini as expected; instead, it will bloom in Cancer, the Moon’s own throne.

On the Tree of Life, the path of Sagittarius is precisely the one of Samekh (ס), which unites the receptive lunar Yesod and the active solar Tifereth. This is also the Arcana XIV, Temperance, the art of blending fire and water, the sacred marriage of opposites, and one of the four cardinal virtues. And, in this particular lunation, which culminates not in Gemini but in Cancer, that union, the coincidentia oppositorum, is made literal.

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Posts about the conflicts between the signs:

Libra-Cancer

Libra-Capricorn

Aquarius-Scorpio

Aquarius-Taurus

Aries-Capricorn

Aries-Cancer

Leo-Scorpio

Virgo-Sagittarius

Leo-Taurus (available on Patreon)

New Moon in Scorpio: An Analysis

The upcoming New Moon is marked by celestial death, grief and rebirth. In a few hours, it will occur at 28 degrees of Scorpio, where the lunar waters descend into their most dense and mortal state. The previous Venusian lunation is near its setting and the of the Queen of Night fades within the dark iron of Mars. In Scorpio, the sign of death, putrefaction and regeneration, the Moon is in her zodiacal fall. Her aquatic and emotional current becomes here a stagnant lake, and the maternal tone acquire the weight of blood and metal.

At this penultimate degree, the silver reflection of the Moon is constrained by two malefic forces: the cutting power of Mars and the melancholy of Saturn, ruler of the bound. This New Moon is an act of interior alchemy, as the celestial womb closes itself in a submerged tomb to perform the hidden miracle of regeneration. The poisoned waters of Scorpio hold within them the secret of healing, since only poison recognises its own antidote.

This New Moon is also the stage of a triple conjunction, as Mercury retrograde is already under the burning cazimi force of the Sun in the very same degree of the novilunium.

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Sun in Sagittarius: An Analysis The entrance of the Sun into Sagittarius is the rekindling of will and consciousness after the long autumnal descent. Since leaving Leo, the Sun has fallen silent: peregrine in the mutable and mercurial Earth of Virgo with a partial solar eclipse; then his zodiacal fall in the cardinal and Venusian Air of Libra; and finally submerged in the fixed and martial Water of Scorpio. Three stages of descent, purification, and reconciliation with matter, the Other, and the shadow.

Now, in Sagittarius, the Sun regains its diurnal nature and becomes once more the ruler by triplicity of Fire, asserting itself as the sigil of the masculine, warm, and luminous principle.

Sagittarius is also the first of the transcendent signs, the one that, after the Scorpionic ordeal of death and rebirth, opens the soul towards the Divine in the upper arch of the wheel. When in Sagittarius, the Sun symbolically ascends to the ninth house, the Domus Dei, the House of God, allowing the mutable fire to ignite faith, belief in the Invisible, in the Unseen. The bow points upwards. But, in a sky saturated with Water, the fire of Sagittarius is born under unusual conditions. Mars peregrine in the same sign is the other single source of fire, but also unstable. A total lunar eclipse in Pisces, two recent stellia in Scorpio, and the near absence of Air, Earth and Fire have left the heavens heavy, moist, and inward-looking for months. Even as the Sun rises into Sagittarius, it also carries the residue of this cosmic humidity, something even more profound when the ruler of this ingress is Jupiter retrograde in Cancer.

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Mars in the Ninth House: An Analysis

The ninth house, known as domus Dei, is the temple of ascent. It traditionally belongs to the mutable fire of Sagittarius, a sign that burns through knowledge and expands through faith. It is a cadent house, leaning away from the zenith but joined to the Ascendant by a trine, and so carries the light of the self toward the Divine. It is where the human Spirit seeks the invisible Source, where the mind rises through faith, philosophy, and revelation.

The ancients called it the house of God because its gates open toward the infinite. When we dwell there, we live between heaven and earth. Those with Mars in this house turn faith into conflict. Belief, in this case, must be seized. The pilgrim enters the temple as a fighter. The path toward the Divine is sharp, where the ideas encountered wound the heart. It is the posture of Jacob before the Angel, the one who wrestles with the unseen until dawn breaks.

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Mars in Sagittarius: An Analysis

Mars is now in Sagittarius, leaving his domicile in Scorpio, where he led a rare four-planet stellium. He has lost its essential dignity (domicile and triplicity) and is now peregrine, ruled by Jupiter. And not just any Jupiter, a Jupiter exalted in Cancer and about to turn retrograde.

The dispositor is now ready to turn inward, in introspection and review. Also, there is no direct Pythagorean aspect between the ruled (Mars in Sagittarius) and the ruler (Jupiter in Cancer), This means that Mars acts under the guidance of a Jupiter that does not see him from the Nadir of the wheel. The influence exists without visual correspondence. The result is a form of blind obedience between ruler and ruled. Fertile, yes, but confused.

There is also an elemental dissonance, as Mars stands in mutable fire and Jupiter in cardinal water. A conflict between the two primordial elements of creation, in the exact opposites. It is nevertheless an opportunity for hierarchical integration, as the fire of Mars needs the water of Jupiter to find purpose.

This ingress of Mars into Sagittarius also demands a change in the direction of vital energy. After weeks of diving into deep and obscure waters of Scorpio, the body asks for a horizon. And yet the retrograde Jupiter imposes an inner discipline: impulse must serve the Spiritual ideal, not just one's inflamed ego. Mars here calls for ardent study: active quest, like travelling with a torch. Any form of Sacred learning, especially related to Law, Logos, or symbolic integration, gains potency now.

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