Full Moon of Unconventional Liberating with Red Foot Bolete

Full Moon of Unconventional Liberating in 22°24' Aquarius

With Boletus rubripes or Red Foot Bolete

August 15, 2019 at 05:29 (PST).

We are receiving huge, detailed messages about our original creativity, purity of motivation, inspiration, discipline, and universal healing. Give yourself time and space to integrate the illuminations that are being shared with you during this Full Moon. How have our spores of self-radiancy germinated and fruited into how we rise to ourselves and to all living beings? Be true to your fruiting body's experience, even if it may seem unconventional. Once we ground into self love, it is time to live loudly as a connected force of creative libration. We are not here to conform to what has already been done. 

The spores of our Leo New Moon have fruited into the opposite polarity of the same axis, a Full Fruiting Moon in Aquarius. The Leo/Aquarius axis is about our original creative life force bringing us into love with life -- our life, as well as realizing the universal love that exists between all living beings. The intentions we inoculated two weeks ago are fruiting into illumination, with more clarity day by day as Mercury leaves its shadow, Jupiter stations Direct, and the sun keeps rising and planets keep orbiting. 

Transit chart for Full Moon of Liberated Circulating with Boletus rubripes or Red Foot Bolete
in 22°24 Aquarius on August 15, 2019 at 05:29 PST. (Astrotheme.com)

The Zodiac signs represent the sacred polarities of the archetypal experience of life's process. From birth, identity, security, land, communication, and family, to creative expression, discipline, harmony, relatedness, transformation, journey, aspirations, universal love, subtle vibrations, dreams, and non-"measurable" life. Without the Sun, Leo, our spirit would not be invigorated to radiate and shine with our own unique, beautiful, expressive journey. On the other side of this coin, Aquarius, ruled by both Saturn (by tradition) and Uranus (once discovered in 1781) represents what is possible together once we have established a bond with ourselves. How has your heart grown into your mind? Aquarius an remind us of the coldness when our sense of identity becomes inextricably linked to your ideas, or the mind alone.

Both Leo and Aquarius are signs related to the Yang energy of rising. As the Sun rises each morning, how do you rise to yourself? How do we rise to each other? How do we rise to our future? This is an axis of leadership, true leadership that gathers itself from the purity of love and showing up. A purpose of this axis is to show that the heart and the brain depend on each other.

Boletus rubripes (Red Foot Bolete) shows the porous underside of their cap (July 2019, Washington).

MycoCosmic Glyph for Full Moon of Unconventional Liberating
in 22°24' Aquarius with Boletus rubripes (Red Foot Bolete) on 
August 15, 2019 at 05:29 PST.

On August 11, Uranus, one of Aquarius' rulers, stations Retrograde in 6°36' Taurus and will travel back steps it has already taken and station direct in 2°38' Taurus on January 11, 2020. Uranus represents disruption, innovation, and liberation. This Retrograde will induce the internal change necessary to make desired outcomes or external changes possible. During Uranus' station Retrograde, they are trine with the Moon, inviting excitement, internal transition, and personal freedom to come without causing chaos or distress.

Changes will be circulating in the areas of life represented by the house that Taurus resides rules over and any planets or configurations inside. This time is ripe for initiating inward change toward personal freedom. For instance, if Taurus designates your 9th house, expect stimulation and freedom-seeking change in your education, mental and physical journeys, belief systems, life values, and foreign lands and ideas through 2026. How do you envision your inward personal growth in the house and planets in your solar Taurus during these next 5 months of Uranus Retrograde?

August 11 also marks Jupiter stationing Direct in 14°30' Sagittarius. Since April, we have been shown which areas of life need development in order to expand into our potential. We have just been released out of a testing phase to see if we are really ready to receive the love, success, or "wealth" that we seek. As we enter Jupiter Direct, power is being more thoroughly embodied. Jupiter is out of its shadow on November 7, further empowering our clarity forward into growth, expansion, confidence, and abundance. On December 3 Jupiter will enter its year long transit of Capricorn.

Cross section of Boletus rubripes (Red Foot Bolete) showing the blueing of its flesh (July 2019, Washington).

On August 18, Mars moves into Virgo, who is the harvester or the herbalist. Venus also enters Virgo on August 21. And finally, the Sun enters Virgo on August 23. Mars in Virgo signifies that our capacity to act and assert will be disciplined, efficient, productive. How are you feeling alive and energized by what you do each day? Where are you feeling depleted or weakened by your own decisions?

With Venus in Virgo, we are enabled to give and receive love through practical gestures and loyalty. During this Virgo-rich time, a slow-building mutual respect can nourish purity of motive. We will take pleasure in refining our work, skills, or crafts. If we are discriminating of where you put your fuel, you will reap the rewards. What is the honest, nitty-gritty purpose of what we do in our day-to-day lives? Where does the purpose come from? To make money? To have more? To be liked? To be knowledgable? Virgo wants to be good at what they do and shines when they learn the way of the healer. When healing others and healing yourself are ultimately inseparable.

How do we utilize our ideas, skills, and projects to nourish not just ourselves, but each other and our communities? How can we enter into the celebration of the coming harvest of Virgo Season?

Mercury will be the last personal planet remaining in Leo, allowing our communication and listening to others and to ourselves to be lively, enthusiastic, and devoted.

Boletus rubripes, or Red Foot Bolete and yellow
mycelium covering the base of their stem (July 2019, Washington)

Boletus rubripes (Red Foot Bolete): Aquarius/Leo, Uranus, Sun, unconventional, creativity, life force, circulation, electricity, motivation, revolution, evolution, disruption, innovation, liberation, transition

MycoAstrological correspondences: Planet: Sun; Secondary Ruler: Uranus; Day: Sunday; Main organ: Heart; Second Organ: Blood; System: Circulatory; Tissue: Plasma; Action: Hot/Dry

Boletus rubripes, or the Red Foot Bolete, is a fruiting body of the earth that reminds our own fruiting bodies that we are a vessel for the Sun force, or creative life force, and their electric energies. When cut, this mushroom turns blue, which speaks of the circulation, nervous system, and electrical forces in the body, parts of the body ruled by Aquarius (along with the ankles). One of Aquarius' 2 rulers is Uranus -- who infuses anything they touch with electric volts of revolution and evolution.

Boletus rubripes is a bolete mushroom, which has small pores on the underside of their cap instead of gills. Rubripes means "red foot" in Latin, referring to the lower part of its stem being red. Its flesh is bitter, not recommended to eat on the account of its flavor, and often smells bad. Boletus rubripes has a pale olive-brown cap whose surface sometimes cracks in dryness and the base of its stem is usually covered by yellow mycelium. This mushroom has yellow tubes and pores and when cut or bruised the fruiting body instantly turns blue. East of the American Rocky Mountains, this mushroom is identified as Boletus inedulis. 

Blueing on a section of the pore surface of Boletus rubripes 
or Red Foot Bolete. (July 2019, Washington).

Color bruising in mushrooms can be pivotal identification factors. The color changes are caused by chemical reactions when compounds of the cell walls, that otherwise remain unchanged in color, are exposed to oxygen. The possible functions of this color shift is generally unknown by mycologists.  

As the inward flesh of Boletus rubripes is cut or exposed, its color responds to the environment and changes to electrifying blue. This color staining speaks to our true colors, and how they saturate most when reacting to external forces. 

If we remember we are always at home in ourselves, we are not afraid to engage our electric colors. We are called to dig into our motivation, to rise to ourselves, and others, just like the Sun each morning. In this place of self love we can unlock our potential electric charge that we can carry into what we create in the world and with one another.

What projects, goals, and aspirations represent your most liberated and colorful expression? The coming few months are the most amplifying time to develop these intentions.

How can you integrate the full experience of yourself, in your own fruiting body, in this life?

Citations

1) Trudell S., Ammirati J. (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, OR: Timber Press.