Lunar Living Astrology: Full Moon December 2, 2009

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Full Moon
in Solar Sign: Gemini 10°
December 2, 2009 @ 7:32 a.m. GMT
December 1, 2009 @ 11:32 p.m. PST -8

Sun is Sagittarius, 10° 15'
Moon is Gemini, 10° 15'

Typically, the Full Moon in December is the last Full Moon of the year, however, this year, we will get one more Full Moon at the end of December. That one will also be a Lunar Eclipse with some extra power packed into the event.

You may not have noticed the change in the retrograde buzz, but the last of the retrograde planets turned direct yesterday. We will experience almost three weeks without any major planetary retrogrades. Later in the month, Mars and Mercury will begin their retrograde motions to carry us into the new calendar year of 2010. It is hard to believe that we have almost spent ten years in the 21st century!

The Moon and Mercury will be traveling out of bounds (OOB) for this Full Moon, adding an extra intensity to any major events that occur in our lives. We always feel so much more vulnerable when the Moon is traveling OOB. When we add in the OOB Mercury, we seemingly have more difficulty thinking logically. We may be quick to react, but the reaction may not be in our best interests. Another tension filled transit is Saturn's shift from the northern declinations into the southern. Over the next two months, Saturn will be transiting directly over the Equator until the Saturn retrograde motion moves Saturn back into the northern declinations for a few additional months. While Saturn's shift across the equator is not the type that causes feelings of vulnerability, it is one that causes us to feel unsettled, almost like we need to be moving all the time. Since Saturn prefers to encourage a sense of stability, this added edginess can be discomforting during certain periods of the transition over the next year. Saturn will not actually switch from the northern declinations into the southern declinations until September 8, 2010. However, the periods that Saturn hovers near the equator can add irritating stress to our lives.

http://www.lunarliving.org/articles/fm1202_09.shtml