No ordinary Full Moon : Supermoon August 2014

Supermoon August 2014

A sector of the solar system showing the layout relating to August's Supermoon. Astrological components are noted after this general rather grim forecast:

The basics of this report were compiled and published on January 6 2014, edited and extended on July 30.

No ordinary Full Moon : Supermoon August 2014

July 2014 was a horror month in many global contexts, but sadly August has the potential to raise the stakes even higher.

August is a life-changing month for many in 2014 and for a significant number that means literally death -transcending physical existence for the metaphysical.
Metaphorical death is also in the picture because major transformations represent endings that are like a death.

The prevailing combination of energies are a significant death and destruction indicator - likely on mass scales in particular situations; high drama, death by fire and weapons, in military contexts and at the hands of ruthless individuals - or at the very least major transformations affecting particular people and places.

Supermoons generally - as noted by Richard Nolle* - place added stress on the earth's crust & seismic movement is aggravated. 
The March 2011 Supermoon was marked by the Sendai quake and tsunami.

[Due to individual differences identified in personal profiles -always there are some primarily & directly affected; others have secondary or tertiary effects. It is all about degrees of separation.As an example: the person who is violently assaulted has the primary effect; the person who assists them in their injured state gets the secondary effect; the person who watches or reads the news coverage gets the tertiary effect.]

The Sun in Leo in this period, is a heart energy and connects to children, creativity, love. 
Difficult and life threatening energies are affecting those matters.
Very dangerous behaviours are stimulated under the multiple influences.
A lot of the expression will be evident in military contexts, where violence and death are the intention, but individuals outside of war zones are vulnerable to persons who are triggered into defending their ego through violence.
The extensive range of potentials likely to occur in greater than normal frequency during August 2014 include intense experiences re: 
A spike in coronary health crises is likely such as heart attacks. 
Circulation problems
Broken hearts due to love gone cold. 
Grief from death of a loved one. [many news reports highlighting this effect] 
Children are extra vulnerable to threatening effects. 
Artists facing creative blocks.
Gynaecological and hormonal issues affecting fertility 
Arson and destruction by fire and other forms of aggressively destructive conduct.
Military conflict remains a heightened risk.
Uncontrolled ego and narcissism underlie much of the extreme and survivalist behaviour generated under this Supermoon's effects.
Testosterone elevated and expressed in murderous and rapacious acts as an expression of ego or exaggerated pride.
Possession and control via annihilation.
More attacks on feminist ideology.
Forces intensely against social justice for women
Repression of public protests re social change
Conservative forces of control seeking to restrict alternative & progressive social movements.             
[with scores of children already killed in Gaza during July under the military attacks from Israel, it is very concerning that this location could continue to "earth" the destructive force of the Supermoon pattern which will begin to be activated by pre-triggers from early August -well in advance of the exactitude on August 10]


There are also many extreme weather indicators associated with this Supermoon so relevant environmental hazards in your location need to be anticipated.

Where is the individual in all this?
Each of us is affected by the significant period of social, economic,political,environmental disruption we are experiencing 2012-2016
 Read my full future forecast to 2016 here.
Effects are simply a matter of degrees of intensity across different people in different places.
Brutal and draconian Far Right forces are arising in many contexts -not only in unstable regions but also in mainstream first world politics. 
This situation is alarming and must be counteracted by opposite intentions of compassion and humanitarianism.

Politically this is a period of general instability, sudden changes, unusual events.

The August Supermoon effects indicate this potential having particular relevance in London and therefore in UK politics.

The process is about rebalancing energies and each of us is pressured in some way to address this question: where in my life do I need to make changes in order to live my life more harmoniously with others and with the natural world?

Relevant news items reported after this forecast

 are noted in the updates section below

The Astrological positions for the August 2014 Supermoon

The folowing factors underlie the analysis given in the above section for general readers.

Sun,Mercury, Earth & Moon form a tight alignment on August 10-11 with Saturn at a right angle to this collection plus Mars forms a right angle to Jupiter

[ Degree positions at exact Full Moon = Sun-Moon 18 Leo-Aquarius; Mercury 20 Leo; Saturn 17 Scorpio; Earth 18 Aquarius; Mars 8 Scorpio; Jupiter 5 Leo.

The fixed signs [Leo-Aqaurius-Scorpio] being very dominant give a strong survivalist theme and prevalent extremism 

The Neptune issues of water imbalance - too much in places, too little elsewhere - continues into August & feature in the Full Moon pattern of August 10

This is no ordinary Full Moon 

• it is the closest Moon to earth in 2014 and so has stronger potentials
• This Full Moon is energetically a severely aggravated one
• Saturn sits square on to the Sun, Moon, Earth and Mercury
•  [Saturn Scorpio vs Sun-Mercury in Leo; Moon, Earth in Aquarius]

• Add to this potency: Mars squared off with Jupiter in another Leo-Scorpio combustion

Complete grid for the Aug 2014  Supermoon

Read the Full Astroblog 2014 forecast [Part One]

But there is far more complexity & intensity here than a general readership can digest.

Keen observers will note:

•  the Uranus-node midpoint activating the horizontal axis for the UK
• Multiple GC - Galactic Centre [27 SAG] - activations including Sun-Moon-Mercury midpoints to Mars; Venus & Jupiter midpoints to the MC; Jupiter-Saturn midpoint; Uranus-Neptune midpoint; Neptune Node midpoint.
• The more the channels to the Galactic Centre are activated the more extreme events, including weather, arise]

Further Reading
*Richard Nolle is always worth reading for extensive forecasting.
He coined the term "Supermoon" and he uses astro-locality [highlighting zones under specific effects]  -his August report  

News updates relevant to forecast

August 3

Mass deaths in southwest China from M6.3 quake

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southwestern China on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and leaving 1,881 injured in a remote area of Yunnan province, and causing thousands of buildings, including a school, to collapse. Reuters news

August 7
"You took my heart with you when you were taken from us." - Millie Holmes on the sudden violent death of her partner on August 3 -report

Knife attack kills innocent citizen -report

August 8
Reuters reports on military aggression

Hawaii pummelled by tropical storm Iselle - report
August 9
Multiple fatalities in bus crash Tibet -report

Typhoon Halong hits Japan -report

August 9
An example of death, combined with misuse of power:
St Louis USA: in Ferguson an unarmed black teen Michael Brown is shot by Police.
Several nights of protests ensued. Much outrage on social media - report

August 10
Plane crash in Tehran at least 38 killed report
This event continues to exemplify the risks to aviation noted in the July report -and which are strengthened through the lunar month until Sept 9  

August 11

IRAQ
Islamic State jihadis have killed 'at least 500' Yazidis and buried them in mass grave, it has been claimed.
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, Iraq's human rights minister, said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added.

read more

STORMS

Four storms churning up the Pacific

Daily Mail graphic with US in top right sector

August 11
Globally famous actor Robin Williams found dead from apparent asphyxiation suicide.report
Williams' wife, Susan Schneider, said she was "utterly heartbroken".
Social media repeated such sentiments en masse

Reports surfaced in recent times of him once again battling severe depression 

No single indicator is indicative of a death.

Multiple factors work in synergy to create the extreme outcome we know as loss of life, whether that is accidental or intended, by self action or from the action of another.

When charts have many tightly connected factors, whether by very close conjunction, opposition, or other angular relationship, then they experience life's ups and downs very intensely.
Cancerian Robin Williams was directly impacted by the Moon as a general condition of being born under that influence.

Recalling that this Leo-Aquarius Supermoon is in effect during the lunar month from August 7-Sept 9: see the top of his birth chart with the LEO sign at the MC point. Pluto and Mercury sit in conjunction to that high profile public position, in the range 18-22 degrees.

These energies reflect both his phenomenal success as a public entertainer

The Supermoon was exact at 18 Leo Aquarius.

These energies were activated on this extra strong Supermoon

In addition his rising sign Scorpio at the AC Ascendant position of 12 degrees - death and transformation are the hallmarks of Scorpio.

This position was impacted by transiting Saturn [the energy of depression] currently at 16 Scorpio. Saturn had been causing problems for him since at least October 2013.

Uranus now at 16 Aries has been adding stress to the Saturn effect -even more since Robin has Jupiter in Aries opposite Neptune in Libra in the range of 14-17 degrees.

With Saturn positioned 60 degrees away from the Sun at birth and Saturn 90 degrees from Chiron, the private Robin was afflicted with very negative psychological issues born from a deeply wounded psyche. He was likely to be his own worst critic.

Noted issues with alcohol and drugs are reflected in the Neptune energies amplified by the excesses of Jupiter energy as well as the Moon in Pisces.

His natal Mars conjunct Uranus positions at 11-12 Cancer [sudden impulsive action in home environment] was under extreme duress from transiting Pluto at 11 Capricorn in opposition.

With multiple transiting factors in challenging relationship to his birth blueprint, the worst case scenario has unfolded.

A very sad outcome, since transiting effects are literally that -they are energies that are temporary,intended to bring change and transformation. 

Death is one option but not the only one offered by the conditions that arise.

Williams had started to disconnect -the downfall period

Hollywood's Golden Era actress Lauren Bacall[89] also died in the same period.

August -beginning in the first week
Mass numbers killed and abducted when ISIS militants attacked Yazidi communities in Iraq.
ISIS entered Iraq from Syria in June
The US began drone strikes against ISIS in mid August

also
Mass deaths in Syria in first fortnight of August as the Islamic State reported to have

killed some 700 of the al-Sheitaat tribe from the eastern Deir-al-Zor province -report

and
Mass deaths from Ebola rising in Africa

The 1960's & the Twenty-Teens - the past revisited

 As an intro, this video by Chris Hedges, American journalist addresses the themes of our urgent imperatives.  This is a 20 minute audio piece.  If you prefer: access the text .
Though this addresses the farce of American political democracy, which has created a corporate state, the same chilling warning applies in New Zealand, with finance trader John Key as Prime minister.


Many living through the second decade of the new millennium will recognise a resurgence of issues that they witnessed in the 1960's, or at least learned about in school.

People remember the era, which led into the seventies style, as famous for hippies, peace-love demos, LSD, dope, anti-war protests and a score of human rights movements -blacks, women and gays in particular led the charge against oppression by straight white men. Many hoped that all the hard work would lead to a brave new world, but into the twenty-teens we hear global reports of more slavery now, than even before in the history of humanity, with that primarily being girls and women sold into sex slavery, not simply household duties; we have despotic leaders across the planet, from Fiji to Libya, to Africa and the two fastest growing global economies, China and India, not known for human rights protection, are set to call the shots in complex trade deals. So you can be forgiven for taking a somewhat pessimistic view of the plight of all species and our collective capacity to cultivate a climate of humanity in dealing with each other, person to person, nation to nation.

On the other hand, we have clearly entered a phase of continual global turbulence on every level:  the main headline grabbers are political upheaval, economic upheaval and environmental or climate related upheaval. So something is up...and it's big.

Astrologers have the advantage of being able to research cycles from the past and into the future in respect of current circumstances. When we look at current complex planetary combinations we can see a revisiting of the revolutionary impulses which erupted in the 1960's, especially 1965-1967 when  powerful lineups occurred featuring  Pluto and Uranus aligned, Pluto and Saturn opposed,  Uranus and Saturn  opposed, Chiron trine Neptune, Chiron conjunct Saturn, Saturn and Chiron square Jupiter, Pluto opposite Chiron, Uranus opposite Chiron, Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron in a grand water trine, Uranus conjunct Jupiter - both in Libra.
Effectively, all of the outer planets, and the then undiscovered asteroid Chiron were in the mix, overturning old ways of being and relating, opening new doors in our collective shift towards more enlightened co-existence. But of course this wasn't the end of the process, because humans, clearly, change very slowly.

So we now are seeing the re-emergence of Revolution, Phase 2 if you like, in the modern era, as the pro-democracy movement spreads across the Middle East and even as far as China, the re-emergence of feminist issues - equal pay, anti-rape demonstrations, gay marriage. But along with the humanitarian issues being once again on the table, powerful forces are set to restructure society and our planet in ways that are profound and enduring.

The liveable environment of the world we live in is vastly changed from the physical nature of our planet in the 1960's. A polluted, degraded and climatically altered world is now a key player in our future existence, so issues regarding our physical survival are also critical now, whether due to crop failure from drought, flood or cyclones or land loss due to tsunami, earthquakes, landslips or sinkholes. The modern environmental movement was propelled along by concerns addressed in the 1960's and beyond, but little progress has been willingly made. Mother Nature, it seems will have the final call, in response to human apathy.

People are looking for more natural and trusted food sources in the twenty-teens, but there is not yet any mass movement back to the land. That may not happen. Instead more people are likely to grow their own food. Drugs are prominent again but in a far nastier way. People still want to escape aspects of a world that is seen as unsatisfying and demoralizing. Demonstations and protests are now more likely to be about economic issues than peace or anti-nuclear sentiments.
In essence, the world has degenerated significantly and the issues now more critical, since they are so long overdue for an overhaul.

In the twenty-teens, starting from 2011 and extending to early 2016 we see a sustained locked in pattern between Pluto and Uranus in particular - the key players in the 1960's. It is the length of this pattern which enables the changes to be profound and enduring. In the 1960's issues relating to employment, health, nutrition, diet along with humanitarian and social justice causes were prominent with the Virgo-Pisces zodiac positions. Now it is Capricorn versus Aries, firstly, with triggers from Libra and Cancer evident in 2011. Pluto in Capricorn will result in widespread institutional restructuring at all levels of governance and bureaucracy.
Capricorn is the status quo. Uranus in Aries is anger fuelled anarchy. Expect more challenges to all control systems from governments to prisons. ( prison fires, detention centre riots are all set to accelerate along with the everyday citizens exploding against civil repression and austerity measures)
Libra implicates financial institutions.
Cancer implicates families & households.
Libra is also about all types of partnership arrangements, from the professional, financial to the personal and marital.
Aries is about personal issues, the independent self, going solo.
Capricorn is the crust of the earth and the tectonic plates
Aries is the hot magma centre
Uranus in Aries squared off with Pluto in Capricorn brings increased seismicity and volcanism
2013-2014 Saturn linking to Pluto and Uranus will see push-pull forces affecting the process of change. Resistance or repression in the face of protest is one scenario. This period also has environmental implications due to earth stresses.
From 2013 into 2014 when Jupiter is in Cancer linking to Uranus and Pluto, opportunities for women become greatly enhanced though challenges to the system are likely to be necessitated. The Old World Order will not give up easily.
2015-2016 water supply issues, drought.
2016-2017 transformations in banking and other financial institutions.

The indicators suggest further economic adversity will precede a thorough overhaul of the global economic system. The challenges we continue to face have direct effects on people's homes and families. 

With such a thorough working over in store, be assured that few on the planet will evade the implications. The peak effect will be in 2020 when Pluto and Saturn conjunct in Capricorn, ushered in by the first lunar eclipse in January 2020:


A Saturn-Pluto synodic cycle, in general, will be about societal structures of consciousness and how we learn about responsible use of power. It will be about our administrative systems governing the use of power. These cycles can also initiate a dismantling or destructive process of long-standing established administrative constructs and systems of belief so that we can evolve our societal structures. In the process, this can articulate as power struggles, wars and the like; but Saturn and Pluto will ultimately demand we take responsibility for the discord and destruction we have created. quoted from Nick Fiorenza


Other than addressing how power is used and the responsibilities that come with power and authority, our relationship to money, possessions and materialism in general is being challenged, because a stronger spiritual imperative is simultaneously coming through Chiron, Neptune along with the social justice instincts of Uranus - both influences strong in the long-term ahead. People ( and all sentient beings) ahead of profits and similar notions will assist us to relinquish our imbalanced relationship regarding money, the natural world and each other. Changing financial and material values could see stronger family values as people return to the home based unit in preference to the things that money can buy and the sort of sacrifices made to acquire stuff.
Ultimately it is all about cycles so don't be surprised to see changes that evoke the styles and behaviours of the distant past as we work again on the essentials of what it means to be human and to live on a planet.

Some further reading may contribute to your understanding:

The Astrology of 2012 especially comments by Goddess 178

The implications for Cancer & Capricorn

Update July 5

Latest post on Massive Transformations gives an overall summary.
As we experience a solar minimum of sunspot activity, this extended lull is regarded as having implications for earth processes -volcanic and seismic -refer to this research paper