The
Cosmic Story: Sagittarius/Gemini Full Moon Lunar Eclipse 2021
The
Shift Begins
I
wish that I could show you
when
you are lonely or in darkness
the
astonishing light of your own being.
Hafiz
How
has May been for you? Pretty crazy, right? Computers acting up –
my whole file of pictures disappeared! People are moody. People
aren’t sleeping because of high energy solar flairs and the energy
of the up-coming eclipses. People are ready to finish one whole part
of their life and move on to a new part – a new story.
This
whole month has been intense as all
the personal
planets moving
through Taurus got
shaken up/conjuncted Uranus,
embraced
possibilities/Jupiter in Aquarius,
got marching
orders/squared Saturn in Aquarius, circled the wagons/sextiled Mars
in Cancer and were inspired/Neptune in Pisces, and transformed
goals/trined Pluto in
Capricorn. And
that’s with many of those same planets being OOB – out-of-bounds,
meaning they don’t have to follow the rules!
So
perhaps you’re ready for some new rules. Both for yourself and for
our world. You can start during Mercury retrograde, but hold onto
the list. It’s not time yet.
First
let’s look at where all the planetary players are, because there
are circles within circles and spirals happening in the sky and here
on Earth.
Pluto
in Capricorn: Transforming Society
Pluto has been in Capricorn
since 2008 – the last financial crisis before Covid. Pluto’s
energy evolves society and it does it by exposing all the parts of
society that don’t work. Sound familiar? Then from 2012-2015 we
went through 7/seven squares between Uranus in Aries and Pluto in
Capricorn, waking people up to the fact that our society wasn’t
serving ‘we the people’ very well. The rich kept getting richer.
And blacks and women kept getting killed and abused. It was time to
stand up to those patriarchal structures that repressed and devalued
most of us.
On January 12, 2020 Saturn and
Pluto joined together in Capricorn to start a new cycle, one that
hasn’t been seen since 1517 C.E. – the start of our modern
society. Later they were joined by Jupiter and Mars – really
blowing things up. Covid arrived and we’re just beginning to
emerge from a year of lock down and deaths. And political
shenanigans unlike we’ve ever seen in the United States – our
unconscious shadow dictator came out and got people lying and acting
like sulky, vicious teenagers. This can also be attributed to the
upcoming Pluto return for America. You could say we’ve reached the
‘bottom of the barrel’.
Well,
the other planets have moved on from
Capricorn,
except for Pluto, who’s hanging out in the last degrees of
Capricorn. Next year the United States will have its first Pluto
return on
February 20, 2022. (2202022)
The
Sabian symbol for the
US
Pluto at 27* Capricorn is: A large aviary.
Birds
symbolize spiritual messages or
messengers
like angels. Some of the first goddess statues found are
bird-headed. This
symbol says the
ability to hear and listen to that inner voice of instinct and wisdom
has to be honored. If this symbolizes the United States’
Fate/Pluto,
then our
country was created
to be a conscious society, one that is attuned to spiritual (not
necessarily religious)
values.
Attuned to the Cosmic Laws of Life.
May It Be So!
Pluto is in the Virgo decan
(last 10*) of Capricorn, so this is the time to make plans about what
we want our future society to look like. Just like the Founding
Fathers of the United States, it is our time to re-create a more fair
and just system of governance. A country where ‘we the people’
finally join together to make the rules, not the ruling class.
Saturn
in Aquarius goes Retrograde
Saturn
turns retrograde this year on May 23rd
at 13*31’ Aquarius.
The Sabian symbol is: A train entering a tunnel.
Dane
Rudhyar says this symbol represents, The
ability to short-cut the process of natural evolution by the exercise
of Will, mental skill and physical discipline.
With
Saturn here in
the sign of Aquarius, a fixed Air sign,
it makes sense to get organized. Once we envision what we can
achieve, we have to get organized and plan out what skills we need to
succeed. And then we have to pick the right time to begin. NOW
is not the right time.
We’re still planning, especially with Mercury going retrograde
within
a
week. If we follow the seasons, we’ll begin to see results at
harvest time in September and October, when Saturn turns direct again
on October
10, 2021, ready
to move us forward.
Saturn
is the Great Teacher
and Tester,
the energy that says, Do
the work!
Saturn tests our endurance and our patience as we overcome the
obstacles that our life presents us with. Saturn helps us stay
present in our lives. The
limitations Saturn imposes help us commit to the work without
distractions. This
is the great Teacher who imposes tasks on us to build up our muscle
memory.
Wax On. Wax Off.
So this is your Saturn Mantra:
perseverance, commitment, patience, endurance and conviction
– I know it’s mine since Saturn is squaring my Taurus Sun! It’s
also an initiation, since all of Saturn’s tests initiate us into a
more coherent form of ourselves.
So when Saturn goes
retrograde, the energy of re-structuring turns within. It’s time to
become the author(ity) of your own life. This retrograde invites us
to get honest about how we’re not living in coherence with our own
thoughts and ideals. Since Aquarius is the sign of the group mind,
fostering both individual freedom and communal caring, Saturn can
teach us how to live our lives with faith in ourselves and faith in
each other.
But first, see yourself in the
new story you want to inhabit. Inhabit it now while Saturn can build
the new structure inside you that will hold that story for you.
Imagine. Play. Become.
Uranus
in Taurus square Saturn in Aquarius
Uranus
in Taurus is showing us Earth’s experimental creative
genius.
We are finally
mimicking Mother Nature’s ways instead of imposing our wills on
Her. Nature
let’s everything blossom, what we call weeds (dandelions! really?)
as well as what we use as food and see as beauty. She isn’t into
something she creates being ‘chosen’ over other things. All are
equal in her biosphere.
Uranus
wants us to wake up to our connection to Mother Earth and our place
in her biosphere. As
equal partners with everything we interact with.
Isn’t
it time we once
again
became ‘Stewards
of the Earth’
and resumed our place in her bounty?
Saturn
in Aquarius also
wants to set up societal structures that serve the many
rather than the few.
While he takes Jupiter’s visionary possibilities into account, he
wants some accountability. Saturn’s energy wants us to manifest
our dreams in 3D reality. Collectively,
we’ll see lots of technological advancements in new energy, new
social rules and new community values.
This
second Saturn/Uranus square on June 14th
asks us again to decided between the New and the Old. The
push for change comes up against the resistance to change.
We
can see the Old playing out in the Republicans’ mindf**k strategy,
to simply keep
repeating The Big Lie, keep
lying
in the face of seeing
it as well as
the
facts
of
it,
that
has
so
many representatives, senators and newspeople
lying about what
happened on January 6, 2021. This
is called the transvaluation
of values – when lies become Truth and unjust acts are seen as
righteous.
They
want
to stay in power, more
than they want the American people to know the truth.
It
seems like they
don’t want to create a better world for everyone – that
they
want to hold onto their power regardless of what people need and
want. (In
some ways, I feel sorry for them because we always need villeins to
come up against. I guess they chose to be that.) We
see it in the willingness to fight and kill rather than to create
peace. We see it in world religions that are still persecuting
‘non-believers’.
That’s the OLD.
The
New isn’t quite clear yet. We need
a more sustainable world. We need to limit the power of social
media. We want
freedom
and equality (Uranus!) as well as a stable structure. We
want an equitable economy, one where everyone has their basic needs
met at the same time as
people can go out into the world and make more money.
Saturn
will build the structure when we know what new options are viable.
Whatever we end up with, we need to put people, family, community in
the center – not the ECONOMY,
STUPID!
The
economy is only a tool to help us move
toward
our need/goal
for ‘life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness’.
So far, our
economy hasn’t
been all that great for
most of us.
If we put it in its place as
just a tool for society’s betterment, it
leaves
so many ways open
to viable possibilities
for it to work for all people and for the Earth.
Personally,
we’ll be re-configuring
our own habits, our vision of life, our physical health and well
being. Uranus,
even when he shakes the ground we stand on, wants us to stay grounded
in Taurus. After
all, his potency gave rise to Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love and of
Wisdom, locating
us in our senses and so awake to the world around us.
(If
we really were living in our senses, we’d never want the crazy
American lifestyle we’re enmeshed in. It’s too intense for fully
opened senses and
often too ugly to bear.)
Saturn
asks us what our ideals (very
Aquarian)
are really doing for us. Are we living up to them? We each will be
playing out the struggle of old vs new. Instead of a battle, why not
a dance? Dance
with what’s still good and wholesome and dance
those aspects that
need to die into
the dirt.
Neptune
& Jupiter in Pisces
With
Neptune and Jupiter, both
rulers of
Pisces, being
for a while this summer
and all of 2022, we are being given an opening, an opening into many
dimensions of reality. We’re
entering a more fluid time, where we can connect with our
imaginations and our spiritual and artistic sides. But it can lead
to religious fanaticism as well, since
Jupiter expands what he touches.
The
collective unconscious of humanity is stirring. There
be monsters there!
As
well as angels.
How
and where
we go through those
openings
is up to us. We can awaken other parts of our brain which can
interact with these other dimensions. We can get lost in illusion
and delude ourselves about the Truth of Life.
Humanity
is undergoing a reset. I heard Steven Forest say, we’ve
all been in a spiritual retreat/psychotherapy this past year
and for
many of us, we’re
finally looking at our Shadows, both individually and collectively,
and some of it isn’t pretty. But if we look in Truth, the light
and darkness can dance together and create something new.
There can and probably will be religious fanaticism and demonizing.
But
to balance that, more people will awaken to their spiritual center.
Will you be the light in
the darkness? Will you lead by example to help people free their
inner light so they can shine out?
It is all what we make it of.
As always, look to your own
chart to see where these energies are activated for you. The house
will tell you what area of life it’s effecting.
The
background
Cosmic Story so far is this: we
are living
in a time of tremendous societal change, change on a global scale.
(In many ways, it is
the end of the old age and the beginning of the new.
We have to learn to live sustainably and peacefully. Otherwise we
are in danger of
falling
into dictatorships and world shattering wars. It is up to us to
come up with ingenious methods to mitigate climate change, income
equality and individual freedom. In the
coming years,
when we complete America’s first Pluto cycle, we will have the
blessings of the spiritual realm available to us, if we use it
wisely. What kind of society are we intending to create? Each
of us has
a part to play in
that creation. Each of us has to take responsibility for bringing
that creation to fruition.
Now
for the more immediate energies of this Eclipse season.
Sagittarius Full
Blood/Flower Moon Lunar Eclipse
The
Lunar eclipse occurs on Wednesday, May 26 at 3:14am Alaska time/ 4:14
am PDT/ 7:14am EDT/ 12:14pm GMT. This
month’s Moon
is called the Flower Full Moon.
Sagittarius Lunar Eclipse 2021
This
is the closest Super Moon this year – meaning that the Moon is at
its closest distance
to Earth. The Blood Moon occurs
when
the Moon reflects the Earth’s atmosphere and colors the Moon’s
surface. That, along with the total Lunar Eclipse, should make this
Full Moon spectacular.
This
total
lunar eclipse will be visible from southern and eastern Asia, South
America, Australia, and the western half of North America. The
eclipse is expected to begin at 1:46 a.m. PDT and the Moon
will enter the darkest part of the Earth's
shadow around 2:45 a.m. PDT. If you want to catch totality—which
is the period when all of the Moon's
surface is blanketed by the Earth's umbra—look up at the sky
between 4:11 a.m. and 4:26 a.m. PDT.
On
the East Coast, look to the West
as the Full Moon will be setting a bit after
sunrise to
see a partial covering of the Moon.
In Rhode Island and the Northeast coast, the Sun rises at 5:18 am
and the Moon sets at 6:07 am. Perhaps
you’ll see some of it.
A
lunar eclipse brings things to light from deep within. Sagittarius
is concerned with freedom, truth, law and belief systems. What do we
need to release to cleanse our beliefs, live in truth and freedom,
and create laws that give equality to all people? Lunar eclipses
bring things to a culmination point. It’s like a reboot for the
computer. It’s time to let it all go.
In
the US Sibly progressed chart, this lunar eclipse hits the MC/IC –
perhaps meaning that we’ll get to see some secrets reveals and some
beliefs let go of.
The
Sabian symbol for the Moon at 6* Sagittarius is: A
cricket match.
Dane
Rudhyar says this symbolizes
the development of skills in group situations, testing collective
goals. I’m
reading a great book called The
One
by Nora Roberts about a pandemic that kills more than ½ the world’s
population at the same time as it releases the magic within some
of us – for good or evil. With this end-of-the-world scenario,
people have to band together, adding their skills to create a
different society. While we’re nowhere near that kind of world, we
still have to develop our skills and then see how we can work with
others as we create a new society.
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun at 6* Gemini is: Workmen
drilling for oil.
Dane Rudhyar says that this symbolize digging
deeper into the collective unconscious to re-awaken the powers that
once flourished in humanity. Our
Magic! Our unconscious abilities. (read the books – a trilogy)
Total
Lunar
eclipses occur when the Sun and Moon are within about 15 degrees of
the Lunar Nodes, which are presently in Gemini and Sagittarius. This
lunar eclipse is conjunct the karmic South Node
in Sagittarius – the things we need to shed so we can move forward
in life. With the South Node in Sagittarius, we’re asked to take
stock of the dark shadows around our beliefs and our ability to know
the Truth.
Our
beliefs develop as young children, and so they are the bedrock of how
we see and live life. These beliefs might no longer serve who we
have become, and this past year we’ve all been challenged to
understand those beliefs and the truths we hold dear. You can’t
carry them into the future. There is no place for them.
Since
2016, when Saturn in Sagittarius squared Neptune in Pisces, we’ve
been caught up in the delusion of so-called ‘fake news’. Yes,
the media doesn’t tell us the whole truth, but it really is up to
us individually to understand what our truth is and how it connects
to the Cosmic Truth of life. This is another major initiation. Have
we developed our spiritual consciousness enough to know our own
truth.
In
America, many people are still caught up in a man-made illusion (that
they need to be angry, that they aren’t free, that they’ve been
cheated, that ‘the others’ are evil) because they would rather
believe a leader’s delusions than discover truth for themselves.
That’s our initiation. How do we judge people – by their words or
by their actions? Hypocrisy is always a sign of guilt. Hopefully,
this eclipse will break that delusion and reveal some real truths.
The
Sun is in Gemini along with the Gemini North Node. This nodal axis
calls us to open our minds to new ideas, to learn new things, meet
new people and have conversations about our differences so we can let
go of our old beliefs (Sagittarius South Node).
Gemini
is so interesting. It’s explores how we use our minds. Dane
Rudhyar describes Gemini beautifully: ...Gemini has basically the
meaning of insatiable curiosity and avidity for knowledge; it is
logically a ‘human’ sign (the Twins). One of the Twins tends to
seek power and knowledge from the ancient past, the other to discover
a living source of strength and wisdom which is forever being
replenished by the celestial downpour of Spiritual Consciousness and
Love.
These
are our two brains – our left brain which explores the past
logically and our right brain which tunes into the Now and picks up
what IS and what needs to be. Our
right brain, feminine brain is our connection to Lady Wisdom, Mother
Earth’s world soul.
Gemini
is all about communication – what words we use, how we say them.
So watch how you speak to yourself and to others. Thoughts and words
have electromagnetic energy attached to them. They can create calm
or chaos, connection or disruption. Once again, the choice is ours.
So
our present destiny (NN in Gemini) is to develop beginner’s
mind – the mind that is open
and curious, willing to learn and see things in a new way. So
let this lunar eclipse drain away those old beliefs that no longer
serve the life you want to live moving forward into the mysterious,
new future we have waiting for us.
This
lunar eclipse is also squaring Jupiter in
Pisces – the ruler of
Sagittarius and therefore of
this eclipse. Jupiter
expands whatever it touches, so if you want to release something, ask
Jupiter to take all of it so you can start fresh. Jupiter in Pisces
also calls on us to use our compassion and kindness to change things
in our lives and in the world.
Jupiter
turns retrograde on June 20th
at 3* Pisces. The Sabian symbol is: Petrified
tree trunks lie broken in desert sands.
We will always preserve what is important to human life and culture,
but it might not be complete. Humans build on what came before, but
we can’t depend on just the past. We have to make our own way
forward into the future and
discover new knowledge and new vision.
Venus
and Mercury in Gemini are squaring Neptune in Pisces, another sign
for us to open up our spiritual imaginations when we communicate,
learn and enjoy each other. It
also indicates that we need to look at where we’re deluding
ourselves, especially about
how we treat loved ones.
Venus & Mercury ~ Louis Michel
With
Venus and Mercury out of bounds and together, it’s time to unite
heart and head. Listen to your heart and let your head figure out
how to do what it needs to do.
Mars,
out-of-bounds in Cancer, is in a disruptive aspect to this Full Moon
and coming up to his opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. Mars can get
sulky here if he doesn’t get his way, so find ways to smooth over
the temper and moods and give Mars something to do to work off the
steam.
Mercury
Retrograde – May 29th – June 22nd
Mercury
goes retrograde in his own sign of Gemini, just after his conjunction
to Venus. So he goes into this retrograde with Venus’ energy of
love, connection and wisdom. Mercury and Venus are both still
out-of-bounds, meaning they aren’t following the rules anymore!
The Messenger God
Mercury
OOB is a genius trickster who is willing to look deeply into things.
And also delight in stirring up trouble. So watch for lots of news,
lots of communications, lots of information coming to light during
this time. Mercury retrograde will conjunct the June 10th
Gemini total solar eclipse – which is right on Donald Trump’s
Sun/Uranus/NN. It should be interesting to see what’s up for him
in the news about his criminal investigation in New York.
Mercury
goes retrograde at 25* Gemini and the Sabian symbol is: A
gardener trimming large palm trees.
I guess this retrograde is about pruning any
unnecessary expansion, such
delusional
thoughts and ideas. All
ideas can be valid if they are logical as well as intuitive. Facts
help too.
The
Sabian symbol for Mercury direct on June 22nd
at 17* Gemini is: The head of a robust youth
changes into that of a mature thinker.
Will we really grow up?
Other
Astrological Happenings in June
Gemini
Annular (Ring of Fire) Solar Eclipse on June 10th:
This
solar eclipse can be seen in northern North America – and for those
of you in the North East, if you get up at Sunrise you’ll be able
to see some of it as the Sun rises. Don’t forget your eclipse
glasses! Check it out at:
https://eclipse.aas.org/eclipse-america-2021
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 20* Gemini is: A modern
cafeteria displays an abundance of food, products of various regions.
Many kinds of information are available to us now. Make sure you
eat healthy!
Summer/Winter
Solstice - June 20th
The Sun is at it’s highest
point North in the year. After a 3-day standstill, it begins its
journey back South. The Longest Day of the Year. Go out and
celebrate!
Mercury
Direct – June 22nd
Full
Moon in Capricorn on June 24th
Neptune
retrograde on June 25th
Neptune turns retrograde at
24* Pisces. The Sabian symbol is: On a small island
surrounded by a vast expanse of water, people are seen living in
close interaction. It seems to me that this could be an image
of Mother Earth, floating in space. Isn’t it time we realize we’re
all one family, we’re all in this together, and we need each other?
Blessings for the remainder of
the Spring!
Cathy
A
Morning Offering
I
bless the night that nourished my heart
To set the ghosts of
longing free
Into the flow and figure of dream
That went to
harvest from the dark
Bread for the hunger no one sees.
All
that is eternal in me
Welcome the wonder of this day,
The
field of brightness it creates
Offering time for each thing
To
arise and illuminate.
I
place on the altar of dawn:
The quiet loyalty of breath,
The
tent of thought where I shelter,
Wave of desire I am shore
to
And all beauty drawn to the eye.
May
my mind come alive today
To the invisible geography
That
invites me to new frontiers,
To break the dead shell of
yesterdays,
To risk being disturbed and changed.
May
I have the courage today
To live the life that I would love,
To
postpone my dream no longer
But do at last what I came here
for
And waste my heart on fear no more.
~
John O'Donohue ~
(To
Bless the Space Between Us)
