Full Moon on Oct 16, 1997 @ 22 Aries 49’

This theme carries along to the Full Moon phase, with a vengeance. Here, the Aries moon conjuncts retrograde Saturn & both oppose the Sun. Neptune squares them all. It may seem as if the demands of the survival world are intolerable. It's like you are being told -- "NO!" --to every need. Grief stricken, gasping for air, you have to keep pushing yourself to participate in the social process. The way you can best serve yourself is to recognize the need to succor your inner child states, to hold him/her & encourage him/her to express their feelings. If this means hiding out in your bedroom & crying for an hour or more, do it. At least you won't keep looking as if a bus ran over you & this may appeal to your vanity or your need to look good. There are deeper levels to this Full Moon phase. A deeper grief comes from the remembrance of the first few months of this lifetime, before language & other boundaries that you now have were created. At a deeper level still, beyond the personal, lives the remembrance of a state of no fear when you weren't separated from the natural world. And beyond that, a remembrance of the Source of your beingness, before incarnation, before a body & personal history. Having experienced such loss, it's no wonder you feel as if you are drowning in an ocean of tears. Difficult to accept the straightjacket of material existence when you also remember what it was like before incarnation. The different worlds have different rules.