The
Cosmic Story: January 10 - 12, 2020
And
so it begins!
2020 preview
Kyhu
Like many Baby Boomers, I remember celebrating the
Harmonic Convergence (the first global peace meditation) on August 16, 1987, the beginning of the 25 year
countdown to the big 2012 alignment with the Galactic Center and the
beginning of a new Mayan calendar. I had just gotten divorced and
August 16th was my first ex-anniversary. I looked forward
to a new beginning for myself, my family and my world.
As events proved, 2012 was just the beginning of an
intense seven years that brought back all the issues left unresolved
from the 60s conjunction of Pluto and Uranus. With the 7 squares
between these two change-makers between 2012-2015, we were energized
to overcome the obstacles to our visions of a new, peaceful,
cooperative, just world.
Well, that didn't work out as easily as we'd hoped it
would either. We're still in the midst of 'overcoming obstacles'
that the square left us with. And the world is a much darker place
than we ever imagined. While many of us have been concerned about
climate change since the 70s, most of the world is finally, at the
last minute, starting to acknowledge we have to become a more
sustainable society. Unfettered capitalism brought us to the brink of
global disaster.
We need a new vision for the future.
The old worldview is not going down without a fight
though, because people are afraid and don't have a sense of that new
vision. What we have is a vision of Australia, the Amazon and
California burning, of immigrants being caged, of wars and
assassinations, of governments that no longer function.
And so we must provide that vision. This is the
challenge of our times.
And 2020 is the year we'll find that vision. (Yay! It's
been a long time since 1987.) It's not going to be an easy year.
But it will be a transformative one. It's a liminal year of
transitions, of endings and new beginnings. And hopefully by
2021-23, we'll have set a new course. First for ourselves
individually, and then for the world.
There are three big planetary cycles ending and
beginning this year between Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter. The biggest
change comes on Winter Solstice, December 21, 2020 – that's when
Saturn and Jupiter finally meet up to start a new cycle of collective
growth in the air sign of Aquarius. These two planets meet every 20
years and for the past 200 years, they've met in earth signs (except
for their 1st airy Libra conjunction in the 80s). Now
these planets will meet in air signs for the next 200 years or so,
and things will be different. More on that at the end of the year.
There will be a series of six eclipses with a change of
Lunar Nodes on May 5th from Cancer-Capricorn to
Gemini-Sagittarius. Of course, Mercury will again retrograde three
times in water signs that deal with our emotional bodies. Both Venus
and Mars will go retrograde this year, with Venus transiting Gemini
for four months from April 3rd to August 7th,
aligning with the North Node in Gemini. Mars, which usually spends
about six weeks in a sign will retrograde and stay in Aries for six
months, squaring Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter. So don't expect things
to move ahead quickly, because they won't. Hopefully, this will slow
down any march to war (Mars in Aries is the warrior).
So get ready, finally, to commit to making a transition
to a new life, to open yourself to your new vision and to be prepared
to work hard and to take responsibility for your life and the life of
the world.
Cancer-Capricorn
Full Moon lunar eclipse & Uranus direct on January 10th
The Cancer-Capricorn Full Moon lunar eclipse occurs on
Friday, January 10, 2020 at 11:21am PST/ 2:21pm EST/ 7:21pm GMT.
As you can see by the visuals, there's a whole of lot energy in Capricorn, all being channeled through the Cancer Moon. It will help to stay grounded and emotionally centered. Neptune in Pisces trines the Cancer Moon, so let your
imagination open you to new possibilities, no matter what happens.
The lunar nodes have been in Cancer-Capricorn since
early November 2018. With the North Node in Cancer, we've been
discovering what is truly important to us, what gives us emotional
security. The Capricorn South Node confronts us with old unresolved
karma, especially on a collective level. The deep flaws in our
patriarchal society can no longer be hidden and are being confronted
on all levels of society. It's time, especially for women, to 'leave
the Father's house'. It's been a time to let go of old habits that
were shaped by those patriarchal rules and discover via the North
Node in Cancer what truly nurtures us. And it doesn't surprise me
that what's important now is community, especially transformational
communities.
This is one of the last three eclipses in
Cancer-Capricorn. This Full Moon lunar eclipse can help you release
any lingering 'rules' and behaviors that no longer serve you.
Looking at the eclipse chart, we can see Pluto and Saturn preparing
to join up on Monday January 12, so we are at the very last stage of
this important cycle. As you'll see below, we are at the end of
patriarchy as we know it.
The Sun conjuncts Mercury, (which is out-of-bounds,
meaning the Mind can step out of its usually paradigm and see new
possibilities), a few hours before this eclipse. It's a great time
to focus our mind's intentions on integrity, harmony, and peace.
Meanwhile Jupiter just passed over the Capricorn South
Node, bringing up unfinished business that needs handling. Like
stopping another war.
This weekend is a great time to meditate, journey, dream
and imagine a different future. The stronger our imagining, the
stronger the possibility of it manifesting.
Uranus has been slowing down and will turn direct a few
hours after this eclipse. Uranus rules genius, inventions,
originality, experimentation. Uranus has been retrograde since
August 11, 2019, turning its radical awakening energies within,
working on us from the inside out. Now it's time to see how some of
those internal changes have reshaped our lives. It's time to step
forward and speak our truth, open our hearts and stay peaceful. It's
time to take over the world with love – remember our hippie slogan:
Make Love, Not War!
Uranus in Taurus forms an inconjunct with Mars in
Sagittarius in this eclipse chart, so watch out for sudden accidents
or surprises. Mars symbolizes our 'doing' nature and rules our
desires as well as our will and focus. Mars energy can constellate
anger and aggression or courage and determination. With Uranus in
the mix, you're going to want to do things differently. Try new and
unique approaches to things and go for it! But watch out for
frustration, which can turn you aside from your intentions. Stick to
them and ignore those who try to pull you back into old relationships
or ways of doing things. Remember, it takes time to transform the
material universe. Patience is the virtue we want to cultivate now.
Saturn
conjunct Pluto at 23* Capricorn on January 12, 2020
With
Saturn's 28-30 cycle and Pluto's slow progress, they meet up every
35-38 years or so. Last time they started a cycle was in 1981-82 in
Libra. What makes this new cycle so important is that these two
planets haven't come together to start a new cycle in Capricorn, the
sign of our society and social structures, since 1518 – the year
Martin Luther confronted the Catholic Church and started the
Protestant Reformation. Which in turn, changed the world and led to
our modern world. This conjunction re-configures power structures.
It's up to us to make sure power goes to the people.
As
you can see, the Sun and Mercury bookend these two planets, so try to
make conscious choices about what you want the future to look like.
Pluto
has been in Capricorn since 2008, when the financial crisis struck.
Pluto in Capricorn energizes evolution in our society and our social
and economic structures, bringing up what is no longer viable and
exposing it so we can let it go and make room for a new paradigm of
society.
Patriarchy
has devolved into capitalism, making MONEY the bottom line. This is
what has to change. With the North Node in Cancer, we need to make
family and community the center of life again. We need to create
more art and beauty, more positive visions. The economy is just one
of many things that sustain us. We need to move the economy out of
the center and put it in its place – as a tool of life. Not the
source of life.
Pluto
squared Uranus in Aries in a series of seven squares during
2012-2015, bringing up all the issues from their conjunction
(beginning a new cycle) in the mid-60s. Women's issues, the
environment, social justice, equality, immigration, health. This
opening square is all about overcoming obstacles. And this is our
work now to complete what we began in the 60s. We won't see the full
results for another 40 years, but it's up to us to stand up and
create the changes now so their full flowering can be achieved.
This
conjunction between Saturn and Pluto is a game-changer. Saturn is
all about structures and limits and responsibility while Pluto evokes
death and rebirth – evolution. This conjunction wants to
re-structure society. It's about going beyond patriarchy into
partnership, beyond domination into equality, beyond materialism into
spirituality.
This
conjunction heralds the end of patriarchy and the beginning of a new
world-view. One in which we each have to take responsibility for our
lives and our world. And most importantly, we have to become
Stewards of the Earth, which is humanity's purpose in Mother Earth's
biosphere.
Conjunctions
are like New Moons. They are a time to plant seeds, set intentions,
begin something new. That's why it's so important to take time
between the lunar eclipse and this conjunction to go within and
imagine the future. Things won't be changing dramatically on this
day. New beginnings start in the dark, the quiet, the invisible.
That's what we're called to do now.
It's
time to live out our new story now --- time to shine out the light
within us and bring healing to ourselves and the world. People are
looking for answers to questions about life, about spirituality and
the future. We are all looking for meaning. So if you're a healer,
a coach, an astrologer, a therapist, people are going to need us as
the old world falls apart. But everyone who stands for the Light, in
whatever capacity, is called.
Become
a spiritual warrior, balanced within between the return of the Divine
Feminine and the rising New Masculine spirit that is her mate. My
work on the return of the Goddess as Wisdom (Wisdom'sDaughters) taught me that our world needs Wisdom now if we're
going to get through this transition out of patriarchy and into
Aquarian openness and partnership. The Age of Aquarius begins in our
Minds. Now is the time to go live there. Others will follow when
they can.
Alice
Bailey, the esoteric astrologer and theosophist, described 10 Seed
Groups that would bring in the Age of Aquarius:
Telepathic
Communicators
Trained
Observers
Magnetic
Healers
Educators
of the New Age
Political
Organizers
Workers
in the Field of Religion
Scientific
Servers
Psychologists
Financiers
and Economists
Creative
Workers
Adapted
from Alice Bailey, in her book: Discipleship
in the New Age, Vol. 1
(pages 35-42) "intensifying
points of life embedded within the NEW Group of World Servers through
which new types of energy enter into the human race. The function of
these groups is to intuit and anchor new ideas and methods within the
consciousness of humanity. They work on every level of human
awareness and activity."
Which
group(s) do you have an affinity for?
May
the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine bless this new decade and
new year,
Walk
in the Light.
Cathy