Full Moon

The Full Moon is the lunar cycle's peak - the moment when the Moon stands directly opposite the Sun and reflects its maximum light toward the Earth. For classical astrologers, this is simultaneously the Moon's strongest and most complex condition: fully lit and therefore fully expressed, but in opposition to the very source of its light.

In classical doctrine, the opposition is not simply good or bad. It is an aspect of perfect separation and full awareness. The Moon at opposition has completed its first half-cycle from the Sun and reached the furthest point it will achieve before beginning its return. What was hidden at the New Moon is now fully visible.

The Full Moon was used in classical astrology as a timing marker, a point of culmination in electional work, and a moment of heightened lunar influence in mundane and natal interpretation. The exact degree and sign of each Full Moon carries the combined weight of both solar and lunar signification.