"Lunar eclipses emphasize
awareness of personal matters and relationships, now doubly so since this
Solstice eclipse deals with releasing old emotional patterns of a Cancerian
nature. ". . .total lunar eclipse . . . amplifies our opportunities for
transformation. New pathways and options
appear as old networks dissolve. During
an eclipse, the continual streams of electromagnetic energy from the Sun and
Moon are interrupted, weakening the Earth's force fields as well as our own and
thus making it easier to shift grids, dimensions and the configuration of our
consciousness." Stephanie Austin, The Mountain Astrologer, Dec/Jan 2011
Watch your family dynamics during the
holidays. So often, family issues
originate in the Mother/Child emotional body and have to do with survival and
nurturing issues - how comfortable we are with ourselves and with being "home'. We have to heal our personal wounds so we
can go on and deal with the bigger survival issues that face our world.
This Solstice is important
too because in 2011 the dance between Uranus (revolution) and Pluto (death
& rebirth/evolution) intensifies, eventually forming seven exact squares
between 2012 and 2015; these energies will continue to push us to demand
personal, cultural and political reforms.
With these squares, we will be entering the first -"quarter phase of the
60s conjunction of Pluto and Uranus.
Echoing the Hero's journey, this is the phase of the cycle when we have
to over-come obstacles, where our determination is tested. You just have to look at the world news to
understand that all of these energies are at play in the world, asking us to
work with them creativity. When Uranus
finally enters Aries in March 2011, we will discover new identities for
ourselves, new ways of entering into the life of the world. This new Birth therefore, is important for us
since it is our new Uranian identity that's being born in the Light.
One way to
understand what we have to do now is to entertain the possibility of making our
instincts conscious by seeing them as archetypal patterns; the work is to
recognize what our instincts are telling us about ourselves. Are we warriors,
nurturers, inventors, artists, scientists, environmental visionaries? The Child
of Light is a redeemer and savior. S/He
redeems the Dark -" brings what is still dark into the light of consciousness. What talents and abilities are waiting to be
recognized and born in that divine maternity bed this Winter Solstice?
The full Moon occurs just
hours before the Sun enters Capricorn. This
Gemini-Sagittarius Full Moon is not only a lunar eclipse, but also a Super
Moon, swinging closest to the Earth and intensifying its gravitational pull on
us. So we might get more emotional, more
dreamy, more unconscious. It also occurs
at the last degree of Gemini/Sagittarius, signs which rule how we think and
what we believe about life, pushing us to resolve the full energies of the two
signs with wisdom and compassion. The
Eclipse is visible in Europe, in South & North America and Japan, and is
total at 8:13am GMT/3:13am EST/12:13am PST. (You'll find more information at my astrology blog .)
Since the eclipse occurs
at the last degrees of Sagittarius and Gemini, it concerns how we transform information,
beliefs, and knowledge into Wisdom.
Emotions and feelings play a big part in that, and with the eclipse, we
might find ourselves understanding just why we do what we do. The more we know about what our beliefs are
founded on, the easier it will be to transform what's blocking us so we can
bring about real change in our cultural attitudes and in the environmental
degradation we have created.
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