Vesta entered Aries on Saturday, which she does every 3-4 years, and is hanging around the Aries point squaring Pluto. This has coincided with the Olympic flame protests across the world.

I think this is a great placement for Vesta. The Aries point is transpersonal, it’s right on the edge between something (Aries) and the nothingness from whence it came (Pisces). This is the moment of emerging from (or back into) the One, when a thing is not quite either separate or merged, somewhere between manifest and pure potential. Kind of both.

And if anything’s transpersonal, the Life Force (Vesta, the eternal flame) is. I think that may be why Vesta’s associated with selfless service; she can feel like an impersonal fire that is not really yours alone to keep, but is for everyone. Which is ultimately true.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-aqY-8cMVdg

The Full Moon is at 10:25:23 UT today at 0° Scorpio 42?52?. Minor planet chart here.

This Moon, exactly conjunct asteroid Klotho, is quincunx (simply cannot relate to) Vesta on the Aries point. It sextiles Pluto-Juno-Diana, which are all hovering near the cusp of Capricorn (all retrograde, squaring Vesta), and sextiles Saturn-Okyrhoe on the cusp of Virgo. The Sun, opposite at 0° Taurus, is conjunct centaur Asbolus and asteroid Phaethon. Thus we have a kite of Sun, Pluto, Saturn and Moon.

The kite formation would suggest the Moon is the way out of the mire. But to go back to basics, a Full Moon, Sun opposite Moon, symbolises a tension between spirit and soul, like an internal split, which can feel much like when you were a small child listening to Mum and Dad fight. There are various ways to approach an opposition, but Asbolus conjunct the Sun implies to me a sort of transcendent approach. Maybe. This is not how Asbolus is usually described, but I’m not talking about anything misty or Piscean. I mean seeing the paradox from a slightly removed perspective with absolute clarity, i.e., from a point somewhere above the chart. I think Asbolus can point you away from the struggle itself, back to the awareness that watches it (which is the one constant).

Asbolus used to watch the birds.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JSi3_izdRZE