The Full Moon in Libra March 31, 2018

The Full Moon in Libra will be exact on Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 8:36am EST / 7:36am CST/ 5:36am PST at 10 degrees of Libra/Aries. 

If we follow the rhythms of the universe, a Full Moon brings an awareness, realization, culmination, completion, and/or a resolution within our lives around the monthly lunar themes. We then have a chance to turn the energies outward to be disseminated, either to be applied to your life for further application, or to be purged before the New Moon coming up (in Aries on Sunday, April 15th).

For those looking to utilize this Full Moon for manifestation work, it is best to act on a Full Moon roughly 24 hours after the exact phase (in this case, any time after April 1, 2018 at 8:36 EST). Leading up to and around the exact phase, watch for any epiphanies or other cosmic messages you may receive. Keep your awareness high and be on the lookout for signs from the Universe! 

Full Moon in Libra – Sun in Aries

The lessons resonating during a Full Moon in Libra – Sun in Aries is between our relationships and ourselves, or the balanced and harmonious aspects in our lives. The deeper understanding we receive from this Full Moon is to strike a balance between how we relate to others and what that mirrors back and says about ourselves. We will be emotionally charged towards establishing harmony and peace within relationships an in our lives at this time, seeking to bring about the best in them. This ability for harmony will come from the inner security or self-esteem within us. It will become an outward representation of how we decide to define ourselves and present ourselves to the world through our relationships, personal as well as professional. 

Below are some additional Libra/Aries themes which can show up for evaluation at this time: 

• Assertive/Passive
• Me/Them
• Alone, Solo/Together, Others
• Subjective/Objective
• Divorce/Marriage
• Being single/Being in a relationship or partnership
• Your own needs/the needs of others
• Give/Take
• Self-identity/identity through relations with others
• War, Hostility, Corruption/Peace, Diplomacy, Justice

Ruled by Venus, a Full Moon in Libra will drive us to understand how Libran traits such as relating to others, beauty, compromise, harmony, balance, justice will help us to feel more emotionally secure. We may see reasons to notice the importance of others in some way. We may feel urges to reach out and extend ourselves to those who help us define who we are, seeing them as a mirror of ourselves, or who we may want to become by associating with them. The Libra Full Moon can run from experiencing a major breakup which could end an entanglement that has muddled your sense of self, to proposals of further commitment in intimate and professional relationships, further defining your own personal identity. The growth associated during this Full Moon can come from realizations between nurturing your personal identity within the meaningful relationships in your life at this time.

The following are additional Libra qualities which may surface now: 
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• A sense of style and aesthetic appeal – the need to serve beauty. 
• Becoming more gentle and refined in your ways of relating to others. 
• Debating the topic of the day with fairness and open-mindedness towards others’ opinions.  
• Desire to beautify yourself or your surroundings. 
• Fondness of art, music, poetry.
• The desire to be romantic, affectionate and idealistic, charming, tactful, peaceful and easy-going. 
• Seeing artistic senses of symmetry, proportion and balance in the world around you. 
• Finding a common ground with others or agreeing to disagree in healthy ways of relating.
• The need to see things from another’s point of view or allow them to have their opinions if they conflict with your own. 
• The need to negotiate terms to bring out the best features in relationships or business partnerships.
• Balancing conflicting agendas perhaps with others at work, at home, in your groups so that all feel their needs are justified.   
• Making peace and leaning to forgive any emotional hardships in relationships.
• Desiring an intimate relationship if single, or a partnership in business. 
• Finding a sense of emotional or political justice in your life or in the world around you. 
• Holding a space for diplomacy and being diplomatic in your relations with others. 
• The need to reach out and connect with the world around you. 
• A desire to bring out the best in people. 

We will want to watch for the following less useful traits of Libra showing up in our lives:
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• The need to set healthy emotional boundaries in relationships, to eliminate enmeshment and losing sight of who you are. 
• The need to cut unhealthy emotional etheric (energy) chords with others, ending karmic entanglements. 
• Feeling like life is unbalanced and unfair to you. 
• The “peace at any price” way of downplaying your own needs in relationships.
• Displaying passive aggressive behaviors.
• Issues of personal courage, self-esteem, confidence, independence or an unhealthy ego. 
• Fears of being disliked or confrontational so you fail to assert who you really are. 
• Being indecisive when confronted with options - lacking decisiveness. 
• Deep emotional need for everyone to like you and losing a sense of your authentic self to please others. 
• Emotional well-being depending on the approval of others.
• Easily succumb to flattery - must learn how to say no to others. 
• Tendencies towards indolence and flirtations. 
• Becoming unreliable due to allowing others to change your thinking and waver when keeping a promise. 
• The need to disrupt and separate people so you can bring them together on your terms to make you feel emotionally secure.   
• Having a back and forth tit-for-tat approach when angry.
• Becoming detached and unemotional as a means to protect your feelings.
• Avoiding being seen in an “unattractive” light. 
• Becoming judgmental and not evaluating yourself in light of others.

Allow yourself to harmonize, balance and incorporate peace, beauty and charm in your life and relationships during this time. There will be opportunities to further understand, enhance and define ourselves, our authentic identities, develop healthy egos, and ways of feeling personally empowered over the month to come when the New Moon is in Aries on April 15th. 

The Aries Sun throughout the month will be nudging us to form a strong and authentic sense of identity. Look for ways we can be inspired to express ourselves more creatively, to assert a clear sense of Self and take charge of our lives, to notice personal appearance or what our image conveys to others, and learning how to stand on our own two feet. This is an ideal time to stand in your mighty “I AM” presence and assert yourself for the benefit of being truly authentic and encouraging others to do so along the way. 

Asserting a healthy ego is in relation to a negative ego is the way to go at this time. An ego is an identity to all of our characteristics, personality traits, experiences we seek, what we desire to be and have, which defines who we are in this lifetime. The ego is the character we play out in each lifetime, whereas your soul is the eternal part of you, which collects these experiences for soul/spiritual growth. We come into this life with a unique ego to help us have experiences along our evolutionary journeys for our spiritual growth and development. When we are not allowed to connect to our egos and be uniquely “us,” our lives tend to become distorted and unhealthy through negative egos. We then lose our spiritual connection to our true purpose in those identities, and instead, we serve an inauthentic set of characteristics, disconnected from our soul and spirits. This creates and accumulates a “shadow” version of our true light of being. Our lives then become a series of rituals which perpetuate an unconscious and foreign state of being and causes most of our modern human problems today such as anxiety, depression, and rage to name a few. 

Therefore, to have healthy relationships it is essential to have a healthy connection with our true selves.  Even in our modern society, many of us do not have the chance to establish this healthy connection and we relate to others with our inauthentic shadows creating distortions of pain in the relationships. This is the ideal time to consider making adjustments to allow our true selves to shine for healthy relationships. 

Venus Conjunct Uranus:

Enhancing the focus on relationships this Full Moon, Venus and Uranus will be conjunct. Venus, the ruler of Libra, and harmonious relationships, will fuse her energies with Uranus, the planet of surprise and the unconventional. There could be an element of the unexpected in our relationships, for the better or worse – we always have the choice to decide. We may not want to be introverted at this time and may feel the need to be liberated from any constraints in relationships. This Venus/Uranus conjunction will encourage us to seek interesting, stimulating, enriching, exciting and liberating experiences with others, making it possible for new relationships to develop. 

However, strained relationships may experience a sudden breakup or give you a feeling of restlessness. Unpredictable and unexpected relations may occur, so do your best to be honest with yourself and those who you are already committed to. What may seem thrilling in the moment may not seem so after this alignment and the damage will be irreversible. Seek to be proactive and creative about resolving relationship problems where we may feel unhappy, imprisoned or the need for excitement. 

Also, be wise with your finances, as investments can bring large windfalls or big losses depending on how you go about it. 

T-Square from Sun/Mercury to Moon to Saturn/Mars:

The T-Square formation will encourage us to actively define who we are in relation to:

1) How secure we feel about ourselves on the inside or our inner security (self-esteem).
2) How we feel about the relationships in our lives which mirrors back who we are.  
3) How our personal identity is expressed though the goals and structures we have set up for ourselves and the motivation and fearlessness we have to accomplish them.

This T-Square will create a sense of great urgency, tension, or motivation depending on how secure we are and how willing and able we are to conquer our shadow fears and define our authentic selves.  A T-Square will create a need for action to resolve the tension created from this formation. Some will feel the tension and frustration from wanting to act, but feeling some oppression from outdated feelings of fear lurking in the shadows of the subconscious mind. Others will feel more in touch with their authentic selves, and feel the motivation and sense of urgency to express who they are out into the world through the structures and relationships they have set up in their lives. By aligning with our true values, authentic selves, and the inner security that provides, we will be forming healthy ego drives verses unhealthy egos. We want to aim for drive and motivation verses frustration and anger. 

For those in a healthy alignment with Self, there will be a great amount of motivation and drive to connect with others and accomplish our goals. So, it is a great time to harness this energy and go after what we want, especially if it is through relationships. It is an excellent time for networking for business, too. The energies will flow and provide support, motivation, encouragement along the way. In addition to the T-Square and Venus conjunct
Uranus, there will be a Mystic Rectangle, which will reveal itself as a gift to us during this time.

Mystic Rectangle from the Full Moon to the Nodes of the Moon: 

When a Mystic Rectangle occurs as a transit, it brings an opportunity from the cosmos by using our unique gifts. The key to receiving the rewards from it is to express these gifts to benefit others in some way and, in doing so, we will benefit as well. The way to unlock the Mystic Rectangle is to maintain a synergistic balance between all the energies. These energies are between the Full Moon in Libra/Sun in Aries and the Nodes of the Moon in Leo/Aquarius. This is a harmonious Air/Fire Mystic Rectangle which will bring a blend of masculine outward flowing (verses feminine inward flowing) communication and inspiration. Therefore, the best way to use this is to apply it outwardly in our lives (verses our inner realms). The Full Moon energies will bring a realization around self and others. The Nodes of the Moon bring a sense of destiny manifesting by following our hearts and liberating more freedom in our lives. If we are expressing ourselves towards others, especially if we have unique talents or messages which need to be recognized by others, it will bring us a great deal of luck, which will carry us along in a beneficial direction for our growth and development. It will also allow us to use our past talents and skills to propel us forward. I only caution you to not become “lazy” in thinking these opportunities will manifest without some effort or forethought. For the gift to appear in our lives, we must apply some effort towards making things happen for ourselves. So, be open to change, unleash yourself from restrictive states, follow your heart, allow the real authentic you to come out, extend yourself to others in harmonious ways and magical things will happen!

Summary: 

The energies this month will be calling us up in the ascension process for our spiritual growth and development. As we pass though the Vernal Equinox energy portal or doorway, it is perfect timing for the annual “resurrection” themes to appear, which have resonated in various religions over the centuries. We will be feeling a good deal of motivation to pay attention to how we are relating to others in our lives based on how we are striving to define our sense of Self, and how that is expressed and supported within the structures in our lives. By coming into your mighty “I AM” presence with a healthy ego, we will accomplish a great deal and receive a cosmic gift around this Full Moon with a Mystic Rectangle in the sky. This gift will appear as we strike a balance between ourselves and others while following our hearts and creating more personal freedoms. The Uranus/Venus conjunction will provide the stimulation and excitement needed to awaken us from our winter slumbers and gather in groups of like minds or relate in new ways. Come April 15th, with the New Moon in Aries, the energies will support a sense of transformation happening from the changes we start to incorporate to liberate ourselves from any personal limitations and present, and further apply, a refreshed and vitalized sense of who we truly are to the world.