HOLE #16: FAITH, BELIEVE & CO AND THE FULL MOON IN AQUARIUS

You know that moment when someone lets you down... and nothing really happens? No fight. No drama. You just never quite trust them the same again.

This week, a Full Moon in Aquarius meets Pluto while Jupiter is reborn in the heart of the Sun. One side asks what you still believe in. The other asks whether your faith can survive seeing people clearly.

I go down the rabbit hole on why faith is more than optimism, how trust quietly fades long before it breaks, and the question this Full Moon asks all of us: Would someone trust you to catch them?

Come down with me. ⊙

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Transcript

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This is the Uranian rabbit hole, and I'm Barrett. I'm an astrologer, and what I actually do is hand people a flashlight and point it at themselves. This is a voice from the dark. Come on in. I'm figuring out where the light switch is myself. Okay, so you know that feeling when somebody disappoints you and you don't really make a big deal out of it because there's no fight or anything, and maybe you go a little quiet, and then you tell yourself, you know, it's fine, and people are people, whatever. And then a week later, something similar happens. Same person. Hmm. Nothing really happens, but you don't quite believe in them the same way you did before anymore. So something maybe did happen inside of you. And that is what this week's rabbit hole is all about. Faith. The kind of faith that you have in people, the kind of faith you have in yourself, the faith we have in humanity, in the universe, and in general. And the astrology behind it is that we're having a full moon in Aquarius coming up, July 29th. And that moon is sitting right on top of Pluto and Aquarius. And across from it we have the sun and fiery Leo. Happy birthday, by the way, to all Leos. And that Leo Sun is joined by Jupiter. And that Sun Jupiter meeting in the sky is called a casimi, which is something like I call it a reset button on the heart's face. The heart's faith, hard to pronounce, the heart's faith. Because Leo is the heart and Jupiter is faith. And we have Pluto's X-ray eyes pointed straight at it, at your heart, at your faith, at all our hearts. So are you ready? Then let's do it and come on down the Uranian rabbit hole with me. First, as always, we want to start with taking it apart a little bit. And begin with the full moon because we just love full moons, don't we? And on the 29th, we have this beautiful full moon in Aquarius. Astrological recap. A full moon is always opposite the sun. And the sun is in Leo at this point of the year. Did I say happy birthday to all Leos? They like to hear it again. Happy birthday. Sun in Leo and the moon in Aquarius, both at six degrees. And those are the two ends I was talking about. The moon in Aquarius, and Aquarius is about humanity and the whole human race. And the sun is in Leo, and Leo is very personal. Leo is our core, our heart, it is self-expression, creativity, it is joy or joie de vivre. And conjunct this joie de vivre, sun in Leo is Jupiter. Meaning Jupiter is at the same degree, and when that happens, when a planet is conjunct the sun, we have this casimi effect. Casimi is when a planet is in the heart of the sun or enters the heart of the sun. It gets burned, they say, but also renewed. It gets charged with light. I love thinking of it as a fresh start. Imagine Jupiter literally going into the fire, and then everything that is false burns off, and what comes out the other side is clean. A clean, fresh Jupiter in Leo. Belief and faith in astrology are symbolized by Jupiter, but this faith, this big word, goes in Jupiter's case beyond religion or belief. It is very personal with Jupiter. It is what you believe in, what you think is true. Jupiter is what you believe in and therefore also trust in, because believing or having faith comes with trusting, right? And trusting also in a way means letting go. You know this exercise when you let yourself fall backwards into the arms of a trusted person or a trusted crowd, knowing they will catch you. And you know, here Jupiter leans a little bit into the Neptune world, and it's worth separating the two because they get mixed up constantly. Jupiter's faith has an object. You believe in something or a person or a craft or a god or you know your own read on how this life works. But it came from somewhere. You came up with it, you saw it, you tested it. Jupiter is faith with a history and a reason, your reason attached. Right? This is why Jupiter also rules philosophy and meaning. You can say that sentence out loud. I believe this because that's Jupiter. Neptune's faith has no object and no because, because Neptune dissolves the edges. With Neptune, you want to let go of the fact that anybody is standing behind you at all, and you let go anyway. There is no name, no evidence, no person, no arms, no confirmation. That is the Neptunian surrender. That is also where the thoug and the dreams and the illusions live, right? Neptune will happily hand you a beautiful story about a person who has given you nothing, but you still believe in them or in a thing. A simple test: Jupiter can be disappointed easily. Neptune, not so much. If somebody lets you down and something in you cracks, like we talked earlier, that was Jupiter, and you had actual expectation built on actual information. If it never cracks, no matter what they do, you might want to look a little bit closer. That's usually Neptune keeping this beautiful dream story alive because the story is sometimes easier than the truth. Okay, I'm totally drifting off in Neptune's word. But this trust exercise of falling backwards is the picture that kind of works for both. Jupiter picks the person first, right? You know their track record, you know that they've caught other people before. You close your eyes with that knowledge and trust and faith in your pocket. Neptune, with Neptune, you know, you close your eyes without checking any information. In a way, it's the higher art of faith. But okay, back to this full moon in Aquarius. Our faith, we said, gets cleaned or has the chance of a major reset because Jupiter is involved. Neptune, actually, too. And with Jupiter in Leo, that cleanse of faith has to do with the heart and what we burn for, our core identity stuff. Neptune, who is again also involved in a positive aspect, is in Aries, which is another fire sign. And Aries is about courage, being courageous, which is also good information for this heart cleanse. Let's check on this moon, because as we said, the moon has company. It is Pluto conjunct, meaning next to, meaning on top of the moon and Aquarius. And Pluto makes things intense. And this is why this full moon, this lunation, is so damn intense. Pluto is actually kind of the big name on the guest list here. And both Pluto and the Moon are in Aquarius. So now we're walking from Leo and the heart in Jupiter to the other side, to the moon side. Moon and Pluto in Aquarius. The Moon is in Aquarius for only a night or two, and then he changes shapes again and signs. But Pluto will be in Aquarius until 2044. That's a long time. And that Pluto and Aquarius is affecting all of us. This lunation just puts yet another little reminder highlight, flashlight, on us for us not to forget. And I think that's reason enough to understand Aquarius a little bit, the archetype of Aquarius. The most stepped back sign we've got in the zodiac. Aquarius is fixed air, and air is intellect. And Aquarius takes it even higher on the intellectual ladder, I want to say. It takes it further up, like all the way past you, past your feelings, out to the out to the space where from where you can see the whole human race at once. That's why they draw Aquarius with the alien emoji. Detachment, they say, in the astrology box. And from this far up, you can see us better, us being the entire human race. And you can also see everything that is wrong with us, which is a lot. Right? Detachment helps you to detach, to go above, to rise above the feeling messiness of humanity, of us. Yet, and that's kind of the quote unquote problem of Aquarius placements, they tend to forget that they are too human, and they are here to have a human experience. And especially during a moon illumination, because the thing is that the moon is feeling territory, every moon, and a full moon especially, wants us to feel shit. And a moon in Aquarius, a full moon in Aquarius has a very, let's say, a very unconventional way of feeling. And that is not I feel nothing, right? Aquarius moon feels just not in the conventional way. Instead of feeling the classic way, which I don't know, feeling sad or mad or you know disappointed, they go cool about it. Again, Aquarius is an air sign, and air signs reason. They tend to have an excellent explanation for why it does or doesn't bother you. You're fine, you're over it, right? Because you get why they did it, because you've thought about it a lot. But are you fine? I mean you think you are, but do you feel it? Maybe you know this behavior. Maybe you are this person, maybe not every day, but at times. I mean, I have definitely been that person for sure. And I do not have a natal moon in Aquarius. I think we can all do it. We can explain away our feelings. That's a very Aquarious move. Go up, right? Get above it, understand it from a nice safe altitude. And I mean it works, it's a relief up there. And it's also helpful at times, right? Not to get lost in the human emotional mess. And now put Pluto on that moon in Aquarius. Pluto doesn't change what the moon does, he just turns up the volume. Or maybe we want to say he turns down the volume because Pluto digs deep. Pluto digs into the hidden stuff, the ugly things that you buried for years under some carpet, and you thought they were handled. I mean, you knew they were not, right? And you're still up there being reasonable about it. Why while this enormous emotional flood is running somewhere underneath. And Pluto on a full moon might bring that up. The vibe of this full moon, right, the feelings might be way too big and way too private, and maybe way too ugly, right? For the cool little explanation that you have got ready. So now let's look at the mix at both ends of this lunation to get the whole picture. We have Jupiter plus the Sun in Leo on one side, right? The whole faith story, and your face that gets into the fire and comes out clean and reset, very personal, and straight across we have the moon in Aquarius plus Pluto, the X-ray eye. Cool and far away and intense, and intensely staring at this whole hard faith thing, and really stripping it naked and illuminating it. It's a full moon, turning on the light. So that is the test. Your Leo Heart says, This is what I believe in. And Pluto from all the way across the sky says, prove it. Is this real? Is this authentic? Is this true? Or are you making up a story? Right? Which leaves you with some questions and feelings. Who do you still have faith in? And what do you still believe now that you've seen people clearly? And there are two more players, two more planets in the mix, and they also have like a job here. Neptune, which I mentioned, is still involved in this lunation in Aries. And Neptune does what we said earlier, the higher kind of faith, and Saturn, who just turned retrograde on the 26th, I think. Saturn is about structure and retrograde, you know the game, means review your structure. So let's make it a little bit more real because you know, especially things like faith don't get tested in the abstract. Nobody sits down and goes, hmm, maybe I do believe in humanity or I don't. It gets tested and it gets real when someone lets you down. When the person you trusted turns out to be exactly what everyone told you they were. Right? Or when you read in the news and something in your chest goes like, oh, and you just want to give up. Even the small events count on your faith and losing faith list, like the guy in the coffee shop who doesn't clean up his mess, or the damn ladies' room in the fancy restaurant, right? You lose faith. I mean, I do. I think nobody really loses faith in mankind just like that. It really starts smaller. You lose faith in your brother, in a friend who did the thing again. It's one person at a time. And then one day you look up and you decided that you lost faith in something much bigger. And by the way, it actually works the other way around too, right? Somebody also might have lost faith in you without you even knowing. Let's get into some examples because it also it always I think makes things come alive a little bit more. Maybe it's your brother or your mom or a friend, whoever it is for you, but there's a sentence that you keep about them. He's doing his best, or she had it hard, or you know, that's just how he is. And the sentence works. It's actually what keeps the whole thing standing, at least for a little bit, and then he or she does the thing again. And this time you notice you didn't even get angry, you went quiet, and under the quiet there is this small cold fact that you actually stopped expecting anything from him, from her. You never really decided that. It just settled on its own somewhere under the floorboards, right? And maybe this full moon lights it up, and then there it is, and then what? That's what losing faith in a person looks like, doesn't it? It's very undramatic. A light going out in a room, and you just don't walk into it as much as you did before. But then what, right? That's the part I'm kind of thinking about. And yeah, fine, people are flawed, we know that, we are all flawed, but knowing that doesn't tell you what to do the morning after he does it again. Like, do you accept it? Yes, no, and if so, how much of it? Leo rules the heart, right? And the heart wants to keep loving. Leo, the heart makes room, it gives somebody else another chance, which is beautiful. And it's also how people end up carrying something for 20 years plus that was never theirs, right? It's the famous boundaries. So where is the line? I don't have yours, your line, your boundary. It sits also different in a different place for every person personally and for every person you love. And only you can find it. But this moon gives you and me the bright light to look at those themes. That's what this whole Kazimi, Jupiter, Pluto, Moon thing is good for. Not only, but also a reset for your faith in humanity and in one person at a time. It is your job to be honest, Pluto, right? Honest with your heart and with who and what your heart believes in and wants to believe in. And there is one thing that I think matters even more than that. Because while You're sitting down on your list of people you have faith in and that let you down and you're disappointed in. Think about the list that people have about you, right? Because the sun is our identity, is how we show up. The sun in Leo. And Jupiter makes it big. And the kazimi burns it clean and clear. So the question is: how do you actually show up? Remember the exercise with falling backwards and getting caught by someone or a crowd? When you close your eyes, right? And you let yourself fall? Is somebody there? And if you turn it around, if somebody does the same thing and lets go and you stand there, would you catch them? Are you the person you would want catching you? I mean, are you? I mean, am I? It's easy pointing at others for not showing up and then you don't have faith in them, but what about you? I say that because our own end is the only part of this whole thing that we can control. Other people's reliability was never really ours to fix or to you know to handle. But our showing up is something we can fix, handle, and work on. So can we have trust and faith in ourselves of being the person who catches someone else? And can we have faith in other people that will catch us? With everything that is wrong with us, you and me, and all of us, humanity. Aquarius is humanity and Leo is individuals. Can we? I would say yes. But not the soft version, because faith that's never been disappointed is maybe not real, right? It hasn't been tested, it hasn't met anything. The real one comes after. After you know exactly what people are capable of doing, after you've seen the whole human mess, and you go anywhere, you don't give up, eyes open. Pluto is all about eyes open. It's not an excuse for humanity, but it's an invitation not to give up on humanity. Humanity being made of individuals. So homework, number one, pick a person that you are disappointed about because of a certain thing. And then put this certain thing down and look at them without it and see what is still there. Feel where your line is, where your boundary is, and whatever survives, right? You can take that and decide whether to keep or to quote unquote trash that relationship. And then exercise number two: figure out who would fall backwards into your arms. And then go and be that person for somebody, for this very somebody this week, on purpose, just as a try. You don't have to talk about it, no explaining, you don't have to be reasonable about it. It's an experiment. Just be there and catch them, even if they don't fall backwards. It's an exercise for yourself. Those were, I don't know, my thoughts and muses about faith and Aquarius and Leo and this full moon. And I hope you find or found something precious down here. And we go back up into the light, and then we go down the next rabbit hole in two weeks from now because the very ambitious Capricorn in me decided that a rabbit hole every two weeks is enough for a small white or actually blue rabbit. I hope I see you there. Happy full moon. So let's go back up into the light.