October Full Moon || Illumination

October 2021 Full Moon Vedic Astrology Reading & Ritual By Gemma Celento

This Full Moon brings new birth and light to the inner self, and works to draw energies into new spaces of one’s being. The Full Moon will rise in Ashwini, at the very beginning of Aries with the Sun in Hasta, in the center of Virgo. The Moon’s position sits at a Gandanta point. (3 degrees between Water Sign (Pisces) and a Fire Sign (Aries). Gandanta points are very special, and mark a pivotal point for spiritual development. It creates pressure and acts as an undoing. But this lunation is more of an unveiling. This moon works to shift one’s direction and inner motivation. This lunation will bring much to light. Opportunities may be presented as new directional pivots, new headways in dreams, and hard work. Action is oriented with more clarity and discernment from the inner being. Clarity in owning self, and seeing self imposed limitations will come to light, what HAS BEEN RELEASED, will also reveal deeper wisdom of understanding the self. These energies will work on multiple levels through the mental and pranic body. This is reshaping one’s energy from inner mind to outward radiation.

The Gandanta point of this lunation marks a continuation of healing and revealing energies. The release will offer a new flow of energies. It works to untie any misaligned energy from distractions, old relationships, ideas, and cuts away to bring more light into inner potential. This can be challenging for some. Remember the energies working through this Gandanta point are untying a knot. Energy is flowing in for a rebirth and reveals the glory of the inner self. As energy continues to draw forward it will draw inward more lifeforce and cognitive awareness into one’s capabilities and how to unfold divine gifts that have started to come together. It is one more notch on ownership of higher self, and awakening another level of one’s potential. These planetary positions will most undoubtedly untie binds that prevented self from standing into one’s magnitude. 

Mercury and Mars have been playing a special role leading into this lunation. Coming out of an Earth laden zodiac (6 planets in earth signs) we have a collective restructuring. The past New Moon marked a point where society is being recreated. I kept being shown a restructuring of collective consciousness. This restructuring is also within the individual and may create inner challenges leading up to this Full Moon. Mercury and Mars drew new Prana-lifeforce inward. When new lifeforce draws in, it will challenge the old ways that carry energy and awareness. New perceptions are being formed and they are shifting within. As the new self is being reinforced, the old precepts must give away. These forces are also working on self-importance. In September the ‘sense of self’ was being worked on, here the ‘self’ meets inner challenges, and how one will carve out their way through their perception and focus. It will reveal inner challenges within the personality but also personal challenges from misaligned perception of self. It is aimed to reveal how we hold or disown fullness of self. The more resistance to release the more mental agitation. The rebirth will happen, but how smooth it goes will be up to you. 

New forces of creation are aroused. This moon will work with the prana that was cultivated during Mercury retrograde. The cultivated prana works to aid in a deeper purge, the healing energy. This is a very mystical position in which prana drawing inward attracts a downward pull. The energy of elimination through dissonance is strong here. Meaning distinctions from misaligned energy will move ideas, habits, people, places towards you and equally away from you. This can occur very quickly. There is a strong push for movement forward. Be mindful leading up to this Full Moon, there may have been tendencies to revert back to old tendencies, or ‘comforts’. For some this may have made you more reclusive. These energies are working on  subtle aspects of the inner mind that pushes oneself forward towards upliftment. If insecurities arose during the past New Moon, trust that you are being pushed into new territories and greater expansion. You are being urged to have faith. Equally these energies can be agitating and resistance to forward movement may stir agitation, stubbornness, self-aggrandizement, and mental frustration. Try not to think too much. Remember that these energies are like cutting the stone to reveal the inner gem. Lower energies will naturally breakaway by retracting your awareness. 

Saturn and Sun are working to reveal a new self, soul self beyond time. This is heavily aspecting the 4D. Relax into discomfort by surrendering context, and reference to past, or perceptions. Remember that this lunation will work projections as perceptions. As of the new moon this month, perceptions are being reworked. Who you are will shade how you see the world. All of the inner perceptions, and self-awareness are being reworked. There is a higher call to something beside the self. Many of you will be confronted with your ideas of self, and will be pushed to devote self and abilities to something beyond personal gain. Energies are evolving quickly, and can catapult one into a new realm very quickly. There is an aspect of higher responsibility that is unfolding. It is a redirection of the self into higher ideals. This inward energy also works along self-importance. It is a fine line, and a gateway if you will. The rebirth must embrace responsibility of self, this will aid in the realignment and strengthening new pathways. 

Jupiter will bring forward wisdom, but this wisdom will work towards sustaining new life. It will also reveal what sustains and nurtures new ways of being. A key aspect of Jupiter’s influence will be the guiding force behind Mars’ efforts. Meaning any new actions, pivots, or standing into a new self will come under the directive of Jupiter. Mars’ actions are influenced by deeper wisdom and work through faith. If courage and new directive need to be executed, trust your inner voice. These energies will quite literally manifest new possibilities in real time. Stay tuned into your inner guidance, right action will arise at the right time. From a deeper esoteric level, Jupiter’s new forward movement in Dhanistha will create a pull, it may feel like a suction at times, but it is an inward and downward action that is creating a vacuum to expand higher perspectives. It is the Manomaya kosha (mental subtle body) that is expanding beyond the chatter of citta (pre-experience cognition). 

This Full Moon takes the perception shifts and moves them into perspectives that peer into further horizons. Earlier this month a lot of insecurities stirred, this is natural and normal when we cross new horizons and are creating new ways of being, seeing. These energies have less tether to old ways of being and seeing. The ego will be challenged. Think of it as being purified, resurrected into higher consciousness. This Fall brings us back to our roots, our deeper inner knowing. Gates open to reconnect to ancestors. This is a fullness from the April New Moon what arose then, now creates a full circle. Think back to inner wishes, desires, and healing that came to mind during the spring. This Full Moon brings this into completion, either through understanding and release or new ideas of attainment and manifestation. It's like a rebirth. 

Last note, this moon has a special reflection and direction from Mercury into Chitra. This nakshatra is one of the most mystical. It’s symbolism goes beyond the pearl, of self generation and the inner light. But, deeper wisdom shows it’s connection to the serpent, and the coiling of  liberation. This point is a marker in which energies have come to retreat into the final phase of muladhara chakra, the root. Shakti primal energy has gathered all and become all forms of the 5 elements, and now rests in earth to be awakened into its potential. This month is this embodiment. The mystery, the forces that now gather to be awakened from the depths of within. This is what is so unique about this lunation and the unveiling of the Gandanta point.  

There will be a release, a renewal, a gathering of inner prana to be directed to new endeavors. This new direction will arise from within and expand outward. It is important to retract oneself into center. To tame the outer perception, and see through projections. This ‘coloring’ is being recreated in real-time. All is available to you now. Find time to rest in what is, and transcend beyond what is perceived as separate, not enough, or in opposition to you. All is arising within the self and will work to create a higher state of being, seeing, and creating. Will power will be directed through Jupiter and will ask that you overcome the self’s shortcomings. Move forward into the new you, raise consciousness through your own embodiment, and embrace all that is. 

You will be pushed to move beyond comforts, beyond reliance. What you have once known as foundational, or self securing will be challenged. You will be moved to trust in yourself and what arises within you more. As new consciousness is rising through matter (earth). We are confronted with our own misgivings of self and the world as it defines. This will provide direct insight into the truth. See what was trapped in matter. The challenges imposed upon the ego is moving the self to get ‘lighter’ lightening the load has been occurring since August New Moon. This Full Moon reflects the New Moon from April. It will bring into focus what you have been longing for. Be mindful of self defining.


Ritual for the Full Moon

You will need: 3 red candles, a bowl of water, incense, a knife/red or white cloth to cover the knife.

Place your altar/table to the East. Put all the above contents on the altar. Light the candles with reverence as you will be evoking the creative and destructive powers.

Close your eyes and tap into your inner being, the stillness and inner self.

Repeat: " In my future lies both my present and my past; for the greater contains the lesser. To hold the sword is to rule in good and in truth. It is wisdom that declares how the sword should be used. It is compassion of the goddess mother that sheaths the sword. Within the womb lies the power to rule. I look within myself for greatness, for my future. I look within myself for my fullness and ability to rule my many selves. I learn from cause and effect to pursue virtuousness with my soul's guidance. I honor that within death lies the knowledge of immortality. Through the strength of the heart I align to the power and grace of sevenfold forces within ether. I am the firmament of heaven. I align with kindly rays above that give strength and victory over bitterness, cowardice, and deceitful impulses. I awaken and align with boldness to abide by the laws of peace, I rise into the power of my creation and destiny. Thine is the power , Thine is the Glory, for it is from Thy being that I receive the fiery spark of my soul. From within lies the life-giving power. I turn to the hidden powers within the soul. With the fullness of love and grace of my being. I manifest this. The outer is the manifestation of the inner. I serve in love.


Gemma Celento

Gemma Celento is a student of the stars and servant to nature. She is an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Vedic Astrologer working with the Nakshatras (lunar mansions). Featured in Yoga Journal, and a student of the Tantric Sri Vidya Lineage, Gemma lives in Florence, Italy. She works to guide people to heal with nature through their stars. Her offerings include spiritually focused courses in alchemy, Ayurveda, and medicine making practices, as well as Ayurvedic/Astrology- cosmobiology consultations.

https://www.gemmacelento.com
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