* Fractiousness and Fracture Lines: The Full Moon The crisis is predictable. It happens every month.

by Rebecca Brents

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One of life's great divides

All Full Moons involve some kind of conflict. Usually, as the Full Moon forms ... and for several nights following, you feel pulled in two directions at once, required to try and serve two masters ... no matter how impossible you know that is -- logically. Life's demands in two opposing / competing areas become equally insistent and intense.

They are always familiar. You've played this game before. Maybe you live with them constantly. (Were you born under a Full Moon? Do you have oppositions in your horoscope -- your Natal Chart? Do you have a partner, friend or important "other" -- lover, boss, parent, rival -- with planets in opposition to yours? Do planets in the sky now oppose a Natal Planet?) Full Moons reveal options you either didn't know about or didn't want to look at. Now ... you can't avoid them.

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Growing pains

Full Moons are educational. They promote growth and insist on balance. You have to strike bargains with yourself and find compromises that let you take care of business and meet your responsibilities, even when priorities ... diverge.

Opposition. That's what a Full Moon is all about ... life energies in conflict -- creating discomfort and conflicts in you. It sets up situations that demand action and highlight ambivalence. You want this ... but you also want that equally ... and for some reason, you can't just have both.

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