The Cosmic Story: Aquarius Solar
Eclipse, 2018
This could be the start of something
BIG!
Solar eclipses are new beginnings, so if you find
yourself cleaning out old spaces and attitudes, you know it's because
something new is just around the corner.
This
partial solar eclipse in Aquarius occurs on the South Node of the
Moon and can be seen in the lower southern hemisphere around
Antarctica. Each eclipse is part of a series of eclipses and this
partial (meaning it looks like a cookie with a bite in it!) solar
eclipse is part of a relatively new series that began in 1729 and
will end in 2991. Each eclipse series (called the Saros Series)
tells an unfolding story, and so we need to go back to the beginning
to see how it all starts.
The
original eclipse in Saros Series 150 occurred on August 24, 1729 as a
2* Virgo New Moon, in the sign of service and mastery. The Sabian
symbol is: A large white cross dominates the landscape.
Dane Rudhyar states that it symbolizes the
wisdom and compassion which only the experience of suffering and
isolation can bring.
The mystic path of Initiation always involves the suffering of the
heart, our personal crucifixion, out of which arises from our inner
depths this wisdom and compassion. Rudhar calls it a liberating
ordeal.
Virgo's lesson is to learn to be of service to each
other, the world and to our Higher Selves. “When you help, you
see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you
serve, you see life as whole. Service rests on the basic premise
that the nature of life is sacred, that life is a holy mystery that
has an unknown purpose. When we serve, we know that we belong to
life and to that purpose. From the perspective of service, we are
all connected. All suffering is like my suffering and all joy is
like my joy. The impulse to serve emerges naturally from these
perceptions.” (Rachel Naomi Reme, MD. Helping,
Fixing or Serving? Shambala Sun ,
September 1, 1999.)
So
behind our present eclipse is the overriding story of this eclipse
series: Our hearts have been tested and our task is to heal our
hearts, think with our hearts and learn the lessons of the heart, It
is interesting that this original eclipse had the North Node at 15*
Aquarius/ South Node at 15* Leo. Exactly opposite where they are for
this week's eclipse. The Sabian symbol for 15* Aquarius is: Two
love birds singing and flying joyfully around each other. And
for 15* Leo: A loud and colorful circus parade
snakes through the city streets. Our
original instructions were to get out of the delusional circus of
life and fly free with love.
Our new instructions bring us back to celebrate everyday life, but
centered in that higher, spiritual love.
Originally this series invites us to learn to be more
objective and discerning so we can look at things from an ideal,
spiritual perspective. With this 2018 eclipse, we are called upon to
take into consideration the promptings of our hearts and form new
patterns of belief to live by that accord with our heart's hopes and
values. And to celebrate life here on Earth.
What a wonderful thing to learn this Valentine's Day!
With Venus' re-appearance as an Evening Star and with Juno, the
asteroid of equal partnerships, conjunct this New Moon solar eclipse,
we are called to implement a new balance between the head and heart,
between masculine and feminine consciousness, between women and men.
As patriarchy winds down, the rise of the Divine
Feminine won't devalue masculine consciousness, but it will demand
that we center ourselves in our hearts, in our imaginations and in
our spiritual awareness. For She returns to us as Wisdom, Who among
our leaders asks for an understanding heart like wise King Solomon?
That leaves it up to us to be the leaders of our communities and our
world. A true democracy.
The
other interesting thing about this solar eclipse is that it not only
occurs exactly opposite last August's Great American
Eclipse, but it's also on the
degree of the U.S. Moon in the 4th
of July chart. The Moon in a country's birth chart represents the
people. This could, and should,
be the giant wake-up call to the American people. It's time to
awaken to the challenges of a true democracy, which is that we all
have a stake in the world and our leaders are suppose to represent
us, not their
corporate masters. Our leaders are creating their own downfall. So
it is up to each of us to create a new society based on
that promise of wisdom and compassion.
Aquarius
New Moon
This week's Aquarius
Solar Eclipse occurs on Thursday, February 15th
at 1:05pm PST/ 4:05pm EST/ 9:05pm GMT.
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 28* Aquarius is: A
tree felled and sawed to ensure a supply of wood for the winter.
This image speaks to preparedness, to the sacrifices we make in life
(the tree's life) so we might survive and prosper in the future. It
is time to integrate those past lessons which have kept us
unconscious and bound to the limiting beliefs of patriarchy. What
have we learned by trying to follow the road laid down for us by our
capitalist, Christian society? Are we living the life we imagined
and hoped for? Perhaps those beliefs were never the real
deal.
Aquarius
is future-oriented, visionary and idealistic. Our current collective
consciousness blueprint is outdated.
We're running an old operating system more suited to the early 20th
Century. Aquarius can see patterns, for it is the realm of the
Archetypes, our original Earth patterning. The archetypes can and do
wear out their energies, becoming stereotypes of important, original
patterns of life.
Our beliefs around God, capitalism, gender roles,
justice, peace, relationships are all undergoing transformations.
The basic patterns are there – we just need to renew them with
different beliefs and new energies.
It's time to renew all the archetypal patterns of life.
(I think this is going to happen while Uranus is in Taurus for the
next 7 years.) We do this by understanding what we believe and then
living those beliefs. The archetype of the King used to be focused
on leaders as well as the dominant cultural mindsets, such as our
religions or economic theories. But these energies no longer attract
large numbers of people – our emotional bodies no longer seek what
these old dominants have to offer. We don't want our leaders to be
kings or queens, and we don't want priests to intervene with our
connection to Spirit. Lots of us don't even like capitalism anymore
– at least not the capitalism our corporations follow. (While
they've achieved personhood under the law, they have no moral
authority. Because they don't have a heart.)
Indra's Net
Aquarius
gives us a larger perspective, one where we can see vast
possibilities and interconnections that our everyday minds, tied to patriarchal beliefs,
can't fathom. Lucky for us that Mercury, the archetypal energy of
the Mind, joins the Sun during this eclipse, birthing a new
mind, a beginner's mind,
that can encompass and evaluate these emerging patterns. Mercury is
receiving brilliant energies not only from Aquarius' co-ruler, Uranus
in Aries, achieving a new balance between our higher mind and lower
mind, but also from Jupiter in Scorpio, expanding our ability to see
beneath the surface, face the Shadow and transform our values.
I see this as the birth of Mercurius, the alchemical
Mercury Mind. The Mind capable of transformation to higher levels of
consciousness, the Mind that can turn lead into gold through
understanding the lessons of life. Jupiter expands the Mind, while
Uranus bestows great insight and intuition on us for seeing the
future possibilities in new beginnings. Don't be surprised at the
new ideas and connections you make as your higher Mind takes over and
you step into a new perspective. This could be the start of
something big!
This New Moon solar eclipse can energize us to let go of
our habitual mindset, step out of our old behavior patterns and
envision the re-birth of these archetypal powers of life. And since
Aquarius rules our collective consciousness, this eclipse can re-set
our collective mental blueprint of what makes life worth living. How
can we not want that in the face of environmental destruction and the
growing rift between the moneyed few and the struggling masses?
There is so much more to life than wars, violence,
domination, greed, competition and the pillaging of Mother Earth.
That's what patriarchy has concentrated on. Many of us can see a
world of respect for our Mother Earth, which can lead to peace,
beauty and harmony, to cooperation and creativity, to community and
shared resources. And balance once again between ourselves and all
the rest of Mother Earth's children.
We
are each seeking to find our own inner king and queen. We are
spiritual seekers who can't be contained in a religion. We are
community-oriented rather than individualistic/egotistic. We know we
are all connected – both energetically and literally on the
Internet. We say we believe things that don't fit into the
patriarchal paradigm. So why are we still living as if we do?
These recent eclipses tell us it's time to take action.
So let's see what our action energy, Mars, is up to. At this solar
eclipse, Mars travels with Vesta, the priestess, in Sagittarius,
discussing their spiritual beliefs, aiming their fiery arrows at the
Leo North Node to bring those beliefs to the table to activate our
heart's love for Spirit. Neptune in Pisces challenges them to
imagine our old beliefs and values and how they impact life. Don't
delude yourself. Are they serving you? Or serving the patriarchy?
What new patterns of belief want to take form? Mars will pick up on
what's needed and grapple with the issue until it's resolved.
Neptune brings up an important issue for us. Our
beliefs and values for the past 2000 years have been shaped by a
patriarchal consciousness that wants to control all aspects of our
lives. But most especially they took control of our souls. And
since we need our souls to awaken and inform the most creative
aspects of our lives, our spiritual nature must be the foundation of
our new belief system.
The growth of shamanism in the past 50 years is an
example of these new spiritual perceptions we need to bring to our
collective consciousness. Shamanism is an inherent talent we all
have in our DNA – Jungians call it active imagination, shamanism
calls it journeying. It is the innate ability to go within
consciously and to connect to our soul and our creative imagination,
which is the means to connect with the invisible dimensions of life.
All
ancient cultures valued this ability to communicate not just with
higher spirits or the spirits of the dead, but with Earth herself.
Mother Earth is the Anima
Mundi, the World Soul or the Sophia,
and she has her own consciousness, which Jung called the
collective unconscious, mystical
traditions called the
Akashic Records, and
the Hawaiian kahuna mystics call the
great gathering of human oversouls.
We have the ability to connect to the vast treasure
trove of Earth's collective wisdom as well as the wisdom of other
dimensions. This is the great sin of the religions of the book –
that they took control over our most sacred Light, the seed of
Divinity within each of us. Now that we know that all great
spiritual teachers had the same message – you all all sons and
daughters of the God-force – it is time to incorporate that most
important wisdom into our worldview.
We
are all spiritual beings having a human experience.
We
will treat ourselves and each other and Mother Earth and her children
with respect and love when we really believe this. That's how the
ancient peoples lived and prospered. In direct communication with
Earth's bio-sphere and the higher intelligences that guard and
protect our planet. And that's what we'll need to do as we
transition to a new age. From the sounds of it, we will have to go
through hard times as climate change takes it's toll and
earth-changes become more common. These will be the liberating
ordeals
more people have to go through to awaken to their spiritual natures.
But
if we've been doing our work all these years, we will lead the way to
these changes, and that's why it is so important for each of us
to go beyond our present cultural mindset and ego to objectively see,
give meaning to and then let go of beliefs and values that no longer
serve us.
That's
the promise of this solar eclipse in Aquarius. Once we release old
mental structures and habits, a new operating system can be
installed, one that is patterned on our awakened spiritual insights
and understanding. What a different life we live when we actually
know that all of life is sacred and meaningful. The plans we
imagine, the decisions we make, the connections we feel, will be more
attuned to our heart's values and therefore, they'll bring joy to our
lives where before fear ran amok.
I
pulled an Earth Wisdom
card for this solar eclipse and I got Transformation.
It brings awareness and light to consciousness and understanding of
one's higher purpose. This requires a re-arrangement of our
world-view and practices that bring our actions in line with our
ideals.
Walk
with the Light in Joy,
Cathy
Pleiades
The
Giver of Stars
Hold your soul open for my welcoming.
Let the quiet of your spirit bathe me
With its clear and rippled coolness,
That, loose-limbed and weary, I find rest,
Outstretched upon your peace, as on a bed of ivory.
Let the flickering flame of your soul play all about me,
That into my limbs may come the keenness of fire,
The life and joy of tongues of flame,
And, going out from you, tightly strung and in tune,
I may rouse the blear-eyed world,
And pour into it the beauty which you have begotten.
~ Amy Lowell ~
(Sword Blades & Poppy Seeds)
Hold your soul open for my welcoming.
Let the quiet of your spirit bathe me
With its clear and rippled coolness,
That, loose-limbed and weary, I find rest,
Outstretched upon your peace, as on a bed of ivory.
Let the flickering flame of your soul play all about me,
That into my limbs may come the keenness of fire,
The life and joy of tongues of flame,
And, going out from you, tightly strung and in tune,
I may rouse the blear-eyed world,
And pour into it the beauty which you have begotten.
~ Amy Lowell ~
(Sword Blades & Poppy Seeds)
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