Full Moon @ 7 degrees Pisces 25'
August 30, 2023
6:35 PM PDT
9:35 PM EDT
August's second Full Moon (Blue Moon) in tropical Pisces is also the brightest Supermoon of the year. Due to its closer proximity to the Earth, it'll appear slightly larger and thus brighter than an average Full Moon. While a Moon in Pisces can highlight emotional needs, intuitive perception, and idealism, the Moon's conjunction with Saturn adds considerable realism, rationality, and pragmatism.
Saturn's transit through Pisces, as well as its building conjunction with Neptune (most potent from 2024 through 2027) can, in its highest expression, relate to the challenging process of bringing the ideal into the real. There can also be quite a lot of disillusionment and disenchantment to sift through to get there since subjecting our dreams (and beliefs) to criticism, revision, and reality-testing can be a sobering and sometimes painful process.
Also, no matter how wise we might think we are, there's always something we're deluding ourselves about. Sometimes, this is just essential to the human experience. We're all, to some degree, in denial about our mortality or our degree of sanity. Other times, we invest a lot of faith and belief in narratives about how things should or will be, and, similarly, in putting far too much trust in experts and external authorities to help us feel safer in a perceivably dangerous world.
This Full Moon represents a fleeting but magnified glimpse into a larger process embodying many of these themes, and it can quickly recede in a few days (or simply become less conscious). Yet, this could be an excellent time to check in with our ideals and how we're doing with bringing them down to earth, as well as the many ways we might be deceiving ourselves with too much investment in naivete and fantasy.
Events might conspire to bring about such insights while also revealing the extent of our emotional and intuitive maturity. Saturn's presence always represents something we can only learn in living through it, but also those moments where rewards and gratification emerge from knowing when to choose or act differently based on previous experiences. Ideally, some progress is tangibly felt or perceived here as related to our manifestation efforts, and a little humility will keep us more firmly grounded.