The Cosmic Story: Sagittarius New Moon Total Solar Eclipse 2020
Our disruptive, chaotic year of 2020 is coming to an end. Finally!!! Most of us can’t wait for a new beginning in 2021.
But please consider this before we go into that bright new beginning. What if this year was a spiritual initiation for us, a time when we were forced to face our Shadows – both personal and collective? To clean out what no longer serves life.
Around the planet, we’ve been forced to face Death through Covid, extreme fires and hurricanes, glacier collapses, collapsing economies and infrastructures, the breakdown of governments, continuing wars, famines, droughts and earthquakes. We’ve faced authoritarian leaders who would take our freedom and stop our peaceful protests. We’ve faced lies and manipulations from our governments, our corporations and our media. We’ve seen leaders refusing to use our own tax money to help citizens in need. (Taxation without representation is tyranny!)
Not to mention the breakdown of the Earth’s electromagnetic field and the shifting of the North Pole, perhaps signaling a polar shift? All the while Earth is being flooded with strong solar winds from heightened sunspot activity.
Earth’s frequency is changing, and so that shift is rattling and shaking out old dis-harmonies. The dissonance is dissolving the frequencies that no longer have any juice or relevance. Once they’re gone, a new harmony will develop.
So what is the universe trying to tell us? And what can we do to help?
The simple answer, and simple strategy, is to stay centered and look at yourself and your life choices. Meditate, get in your body, stay grateful. And as in any initiation, when confronted with a Truth about ourselves, we are asked to choose. To make an authentic choice by facing what’s been hidden and embracing all of ourselves. To choose to commit to a higher version of ourselves, a better use of our energies. And then choosing to let go of the past to step into a new story for the future.
If we can raise our frequencies, we can be beacons of calm, of peace, of light in these dark times. We can radiate harmony into our neighborhoods and into the world. We can be the calm, grounded center – radiating frequencies of security for our neighbors. When we let go of fear and anxiety, others can too.
In fact, if we spent these next weeks meditating and radiating, we might lock into Earth’s shaky electromagnetic field and co-create the new one.
We’ve all been sent to our rooms by Mother Earth. Shouldn’t we stop acting like spoiled children and think about what we’ve done? This isn’t just about COVID. This is about choosing a different type of future, one in which we work with Mother Earth to heal the world.
We
all say we want freedom,
but we don’t even know what that means. It isn’t gathering in
large groups with guns to scare people, or
to destroy things and hurt people. That’s so adolescent. It isn’t
feeling like your freedom is being taken away if you’re asked to
wear masks as
a courtesy to
protect others. It isn’t feeling powerful while you chant with a
mob, “Lock her/him/them up” like you’re in The Hunger
Games.
Real freedom is taking responsibility for your life. Real freedom is owning your own authority while respecting others. Real freedom is an inner knowing rather than an outer showing. Once we are truly free, nothing can trap us. Then perhaps we can work together to create a free society.
So let’s choose to face our Shadows in this darkest time of year, which Catholics call Advent – a time of waiting and preparing for the return of the Divine Light.
So the Universe asks: if this year was an initiation, did we face it and make it?
The Universe is benevolent. It is sending us last minute help. Before 2020 ends, surprise! We get to experience some interesting energies, some hopeful energies, some future-oriented energies. Energies that we can use to bring the darkness into the light.
The first is a Solar Eclipse and the second is a conjunction of two planets, opposite energies that will come together in a shining star to show the way to our future.
So don’t lose faith in yourself or in the world. Better days are coming. We just have to ‘Make it So!’
Sagittarius New Moon / Total Solar Eclipse
On December 14, 2020 there will be a total solar eclipse at 23*08’ Sagittarius.
The New Moon eclipse will occur at 7:17am Alaska time, 8:17am PST/ 11:17am EST and 4:17pm GMT. The eclipse will be visible in parts of the southern hemisphere.
The Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 24* Sagittarius is: A Bluebird perches on the gate of a cottage.
Bluebirds are associated with happiness (the Bluebird of Happiness) – the joy that comes when we are true to ourselves and our purpose. This blue bird has come to perch on our garden gate – asking us to walk through into a happier place of security and comfort. A blue bird also symbolizes a more spiritual consciousness. So once again, we are reminded to open ourselves to the goodness of life and lift our vibrations to one of love, hope and truth. What a great message for this time of year when we all say, and hopefully mean, “Peace on Earth, goodwill toward all life.”
This solar eclipse is part of the 142 Saros Series of eclipses which started in 1624. The interesting correlation with this solar eclipse is that the Sun was at 7* Taurus, where Uranus is now, and the Moon was at 29* Leo, where the Great American total solar eclipse occurred in 2017. That eclipse spoke of a mermaid taking on human form – symbolizing a deep unconscious feeling and need that wants to become conscious. With Uranus RX resonating this original Sun degree, it indicates it’s time to incarnate what that mermaid means. It’s time to birth a new Earth.
Eclipses always signal times of change. Full Moon lunar eclipses are times of seeing things that we’ve been missing, acknowledging them and finishing up old business. Solar eclipses are times when we visualize a new direction we want to head into. Since a solar eclipse is a very potent New Moon, it’s a time to plant seeds for the future.
This total solar eclipse, which will be visible in the southern hemisphere, is conjunct the lunar south node, so we’re called on to leave something behind so we can open to the new energies coming in. The south node is where we’re stuck, where we’re too comfortable, where we make easy, unconscious choices. The south node shows us the ideas and issues that no longer serve us, whereas the north node can open us to new energies so that we can renew the south node energies. These lunar nodes ask us to let go of old beliefs (Sagittarius) so new information and ideas (Gemini) can expand our consciousness.
With this New Moon exactly between the lunar south node and the Galactic Center (the center of the galaxy sends out radiation that affects us), we are, as astrologer Pam Gregory says, at a tipping point between the old outworn beliefs (south node in Sagittarius) and new, more expansive, cosmic beliefs (GC). The best we can do is stay grounded, see if our vision is acceptable to our values (don’t listen if a god tells you to kill your son), and find ways that vision might be needed in the world.
The south node in Sagittarius tells us that we’re stuck in old beliefs – about ourselves, our world and our spiritual beliefs. This is the south node that stays stuck in thinking we know ‘the truth’. We see this playing out in America with Donald Trump’s insistence that he is right about COVID and the election. This solar eclipse is on his Sagittarius Moon and his Sagittarius south node. He always thinks he’s right, even when he’s wrong. So a humbling question for each us might be: where is the Donald Trump in me? If we all heal that part of our Shadow, perhaps the collective shadow will lighten up.
With Neptune in Pisces squaring the Gemini/Sagittarius lunar nodes as well as the Sun, Moon and Mercury in Sagittarius, this need to examine our truths becomes imperative. Neptune can delude and confuse us, giving over our power and authority to leaders or the media. Or Neptune can inspire us to access our own spiritual vision, which the Capricorn planets are grounding in. For these new visions to have room to develop and grow, we have to let go of old beliefs that no longer serve us or our world.
This solar eclipse shows us the need to compost all the old beliefs that have shaped our world by force, not by choice. Like the false belief that Americans are the best and the bravest, that our government is the model of democracy, that America is exceptional. Because we no longer are. We are young country and we often act like adolescents in many ways. We’re also a country of orphans, with shallow roots here on the North American continent. We need to deepen those roots now. We need to grow up to our responsibility to be the stewards of the Earth.
It’s time to look at false and limiting beliefs about religion. Whoever created us doesn’t think of us as sinners, although many of us choose to be. That’s free will. We’re not condemned to burn in flames after we die, although we’ll have to judge ourselves and our actions. Whatever force or God created us, it was for us to become more creative ourselves. To co-create our world. To make it a hell or heaven. Once again, our choice. But if we’re like any plant, animal, star or galaxy, we’re here to evolve. Whatever power brought about the creation of this beautiful world and all Her children wants us to evolve to a higher state of consciousness.
That’s what is needed now. It’s time to evolve!
Look at old beliefs about duality. About being Chosen. Because if someone is chosen, someone else obviously is not. That’s such a negative black and white belief. Such a masculine, left-brain belief. It’s about power and domination. If we balance out that left-brain with our right-brain, feminine wisdom and imagination, we’ll see things differently. Nobody needs to be chosen if we’re all chosen. This is not about giving everyone a trophy. This is about knowing that we’re all in this together – which is something this pandemic has made obvious.
All great religious teachers know that all religions are just different aspects of one belief – that there is a greater power at work in this universe than humanity. All beliefs about life, even the belief that there is no god, is worthy if the person who believes it lives a self-aware life. Isn’t it time to stop believing that some of us are better, more spiritual, more blessed than everyone else? That we know better than others about what is morally right and true? That one set of beliefs should outweigh all the others? That’s a good limiting belief to let go of.
With this solar eclipse in Sagittarius, we have the opportunity to let go of old religious and personal limiting beliefs, which no longer serve our higher good, as well as the needs of Mother Earth.
Varda
This solar eclipse is exactly conjunct by minutes the dwarf planet Varda, Tolkien’s Elfish Queen of Heaven. Like the Woman clothed with the Sun, she is Wisdom and Cosmic Law. While we let go of limiting beliefs, let Varda expand our vision and open us to her Wisdom. It’s time we grounded ourselves in cosmic law once again, regaining our place in Mother Earth’s biosphere. The Divine Feminine will guide us now if we let her. That’s a great seed to plant for this New Moon.
Mercury is close to the Sun at this eclipse and will conjunct the Sun on December 19th, just before the Winter Solstice. Mercury the Messenger God will carry the message of these transformative times to the Sun and to our collective consciousness. This is a time of great awakening.
Mars and Eris in Aries are still squaring the Capricorn Amigos, especially Pluto. Mars will square Pluto for the third and last time on December 23rd. How can we stand in our own authority and what spiritual awakenings and transformations can we hope for in our culture? We have a lot of work to do, but it will get easier.
Venus in Scorpio opposite Black Moon Lilith in Taurus are supporting any new visions of a better world that Saturn and Jupiter are brewing as they leave Capricorn to meet up in Aquarius on December 21, 2020.
This conjunction of opposing forces is what will make things easier. When we stand in the tension of opposites, a new, third force arises and new ideas, new forms, new life is created. We just have to hold that tension until the new is birthed.
Because this is getting long and it’s going to be hard to retain anything else, I’ll be sending out part 2 about the Winter Solstice conjunction next week.
Until then,
Warm love and blessings as we enter the cold and dark,
Cathy
A
Brave And Startling Truth
We, this people, on a small and
lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof
stars, across the way of indifferent suns
To a destination
where all signs tell us
It is possible and imperative that we
learn
A brave and startling truth
And when we come to it
To the day of peacemaking
When we release our fingers
From fists of hostility
And allow the pure air to cool
our palms
********
We,
this people, on this small and drifting planet
Whose hands can
strike with such abandon
That in a twinkling, life is sapped
from the living
Yet those same hands can touch with such
healing, irresistible tenderness
That the haughty neck is happy
to bow
And the proud back is glad to bend
Out of such
chaos, of such contradiction
We learn that we are neither
devils nor divines
When we come to it
We, this
people, on this wayward, floating body
Created on this earth,
of this earth
Have the power to fashion for this earth
A
climate where every man and every woman
Can live freely without
sanctimonious piety
Without crippling fear
When we
come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We
are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world
That is when,
and only when
We come to it.
~ Maya Angelou ~
(A Brave and Startling Truth)
