The Cosmic Story: Virgo Full Moon 2021

The Cosmic Story: Virgo Full Moon 2021

Virgo Moon over Pisces Ocean

This weekend’s Virgo Full Moon is the last Full Moon of the astrological year that began last March 19 - 20, 2020. It is the Full Moon that forgives us all our mistakes, all the pain and darkness in us, all our self-loathing. Because Virgo sees the lessons learned and can integrate them into a new wholeness. Virgo can knit all those parts into a new pattern. The darkness isn’t bad – it’s just dark. Once you acknowledge it and work with it,you can see the old pattern and let it go.

This Full Moon grew out of the amazing Aquarius New Moon of February 11^th. Our Aquarian journey is getting underway with the Saturn/Jupiter conjunction at 1* Aquarius last Winter Solstice and now this big 6 planet Aquarius New Moon. But before we get swept into its tidal currents, this Full Moon wants us to realize something. We need to forgive ourselves. We need to forgive life for being hard. We need to accept that we have been through an intense initiation. And that we’ve all passed.

 

 

Virgo is the Divine Mother and Child, Isis and Horus, Mary and Jesus, Demeter and Persephone. Virgo is the creator and her creation. The ancient statues of Mother and Child symbolize the realization Her potential. The Mother herself isn’t whole until she holds her Child, the creative potential manifested in the world.

When we meet the Virgo Mother, she does not berate us for our faults – despite rumors of her perfectionism. The Mother accepts and loves us, not matter what. We are the Pisces child who has stumbled through life without an instruction book, relearning old lessons, recognizing old patterns and healing them. Virgo Mom has the courage to send forth her child to grow in the NOW and become what Spirit intended.

Virgo isn’t about purity or perfection. Virgo’s virginity is about wholeness. It’s about embracing our own darkness as part of that wholeness. Pisces isn’t about losing ourselves in the material world or denying its reality through addictions. It’s about surrendering to the Source of Life. Allowing ourselves to accept what life brings us, acknowledging the lessons it brings, and facing them with ingenuity and creativity.

As the last Virgo – Pisces Full Moon of the 2020 cycle, the Goddess offers us the chance to integrate what we learned in this past year of chaos and change. Our souls are calling. Mother Earth’s World Soul is calling. Can we blossom into her true Spiritual child? Can we surrender to this moment and listen to her Wisdom? Can we become our own unique Self?

Virgo – Pisces Full Moon 2021

This Virgo Full Moon occurs on Friday, February 26^th at 11:17pm in Alaska, and on Saturday, February 27^th at 12:17am PST/ 3:17am EST/ 8:17am GMT.

 

 

The Sabian symbol for the Sun at 9* Pisces is: A girl blowing a bugle. This is our wake-up call. Dane Rudhyar says it is “ A call to participation in the service of the race, as an evolutionary crisis approaches.” The divine Feminine issues a summons to us to awaken and be reborn. We have things to do, changes to make.

The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 9* Virgo is: A five year old child takes a first dancing lesson. Once again, a child shall lead the way. 5 is called the number of humanity, the number of freedom, of courage and of our experiences. At 5 years of age, we begin to understand the world. In the old days, we could say that this child is being taught the ‘rules of the dance’. But today, with the Piscean Sun calling us to awaken, might it be better to say that the dance is dancing the child into place?

 

The Sabian symbol for Venus at 3* Pisces is: Petrified tree trunks lie broken on desert sands. What a great symbol for this time – the past is dead! Patriarchy is broken in the desert of its own destructive tendencies. Venus here will see the message and want to rebuild with beauty, love and wisdom.

The Pisces Sun and Venus are conjunct one of the four Royal Stars of Persia (from over 5000 years ago), called the Guardians of Heaven – the star Fomalhaut, a reddish fixed star, the largest star in constellation Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish. The name Fomalhaut derives from Arabic fum al-ḥawt, meaning “mouth of the [Southern] Fish”. In those ancient times, it was called the Watcher of the South when it marked the Winter Solstice.

 

According to Ptolemy, it is of the nature of Venus and Mercury (idealistic, psychic, handsome, neat, lovable, refined, genteel, intelligent). It is said to be very fortunate and powerful for the most part. It is currently at 3*53’ Pisces conjunct Venus and just 4* from this Full Moon Sun.

That gentle, fortunate energy is definitely part of this Full Moon. As a Winter Solstice star of hope, it is a reminder for us to keep faith with life and hold onto hope for a better future. Change is hard for everyone, but this is a necessary change that humanity is undergoing. We are really blessed that Mother Earth stopped everything for this past year so we as a whole world can re-assess where we are going.

As the end note of 2020, this Virgo-Pisces Full Moon brings us a gentle reminder to accept what happened and redeem it by integrating its lessons. The waters of the Pisces Collective Unconscious have been shaken and stirred. Neptune in Pisces is adding a gateway to the Creative Imagination if we can find it. As we leave the Age of Pisces and enter the headwaters of the Age of Aquarius, our work is to accept who we are, forgive ourselves and others for what’s gone before, and acknowledge that our spirits know how to handle living in the material world.

This grounding and centering Full Moon is opposite the Pisces Sun, which is conjunct Venus in Pisces, opening us to our dreams, our artistry and our compassion. The Virgo Moon is illuminated by this gentle, dreamy light, weaving together the lessons learned now that we can look back over the whole year and see, behind the fear of death, the great goodness it holds.

We are no longer locked into patriarchy’s paradigm. We have learned that in isolation we acknowledge our need for each other. We have faced death in many forms – our people dying, our work shut down, our lives stopped. We’ve been forced to look within ourselves and we’ve survived it.

This Full Moon offers us a chance to reweave the story of our life into that new story I’ve been talking about for years now! 

 

 

Virgo is the Virgin who belongs to herself. She is whole – body, mind and spirit – because she has given birth to that part of herself that needed to come into being. That’s why this Full Moon is so important this year. We have really come through the labor of giving birth to our original, spiritual Self – last year was like transition, the part of labor that just keeps coming without much of a chance to catch your breath.

Now is the time to enjoy your new ‘baby’ and give it love and get to know it. Channel your inner mother and take care of the new life you have birthed. The world needs each one of us to help heal it.

We are helped this Full Moon by a beautiful trine to the Moon and sextile to the Sun from Uranus in Taurus, feeding us Mother Earth’s creative genius. Be original. Be unique. Do not hide your light under a bushel anymore.

The Sabian symbol for Uranus at 8* Taurus is: A sleigh speeds over the ground as yet uncovered by snow. This image asks us to imagine what we need to progress as we attempt to find the right vehicle to take us into the future. It requires our unique genius.

Uranus is the planet of electricity. And in Taurus it is helping shift the electromagnetic field of Mother Earth – as well as our own energy field. So with this Virgo Full Moon, check in with yourself and feel the energetic shift within yourself – feel how the old patterns no longer control you. Our energy patterns are being renewed and upgraded. Remember, we are ‘filled with light’ since all energy is a frequency of light. Remember to vibrate at your highest level and be the Light in the world.

On February 17, Saturn in Aquarius squared Uranus in Taurus for the first of three times this year – the other squares are on June 14^th and December 25^th. They create a tension between technology and the Earth’s genius, between how we’ve operated in the past and where we can head in the future. We will have to figure out how to integrate the past and the future. How we get there is created by the push/pull between Saturn and Uranus. It’s the friction that creates the fires of inspiration.

Saturn in Aquarius hits this Full Moon in a wonky way. It might make us insecure about things or stop us from developing our new ideas. Don’t let it! Use the energy to help organize your ideas and structure things to help you grow into your new Self. My 12^th house Taurus Sun, locked away in the ocean of undoing, has a hard time building any structures and it can get disoriented and totally forget those Qi Gong exercises I want to do each morning. Saturn can come down hard on me and fill me with shame, or I can get it to help me organize my days so I don’t ‘forget’! Relate to the planets and get them to help you rather than hinder you.

The Sabian symbol for Saturn at 9* Aquarius is: A mountain climber follows the flight of an eagle through binoculars. Saturn in Aquarius is about our mental constructs, and after the 1^st Saturn/Uranus square last week, some of those constructs have been blown up. This gives us a chance to find a new perspective about what’s going on in the collective mind. People want change – they can feel it in the air. Just knowing that we can find that perspective if we need it is helpful. In the end, whatever we are here to do is for our collective benefit. Use the energy to help you define who and what you are. The collective needs that independence of thought and action.

Now that Mercury is going direct, all the planets (except for the asteroid Vesta in Virgo) are in direct motion until the end of April! Things will be moving ahead now so don’t get swept away by the energy. Harness it and use it for whatever you’re cooking up.

Mars in Taurus and Pluto in Capricorn trine each other to help us move things along in a concrete way. Pluto has almost finished its demolition of patriarchy, so let the old be swept away and start to build in the new.

 

 

Have you noticed how the Light is growing! We are heading toward Spring here in the North.

Late winter blessings!

Cathy

The great affair, the love affair with life,
is to live as variously as possible,
to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.

Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

~ Diane Ackerman ~

("found poetry" from A Natural History of the Senses)

The Cosmic Story: Aquarius New Moon 2021

 

The Cosmic Story: New Moon in Aquarius, February 11, 2021

 

 

All AIR signs are symbolized by wind and movement. Right now with the cold weather settling over most of the U.S., Aquarius could symbolize the equivalent of the polar vortex, (a persistent, large-scale, upper-level low-pressure area, that rotates counter-clockwise at the North Pole and clockwise at the South Pole, i.e., both polar vortices rotate eastward around the poles).

Aquarius, ruled by the Sky father Uranus, reaches into the cold air of the heavens. Because of its fixed nature, Aquarius can be coldly objective, seeing things from the heights of idealism. Like the cold air circulating through the upper atmosphere, Aquarius looks down on Earth with the clarity of a cold winter’s day.

Aquarius likes to share its cosmic knowledge, making sure that information, resources and energy get distributed and shared where they are needed. Interestingly, Aquarius also rules over the circulatory system in the human body with its opposite sign, Leo, ruling the heart. Together they keep us alive.  So connect with the heart of your creative expression so that you can circulate it into the collective mind.

With six planets in Aquarius during this Aquarius New Moon on February 11^th, we are being swept up in a vortex of energy that can take us into the future. Since Aquarius is a fixed air sign, a vortex or tornado are apt images for the power of Aquarian winds. Those cold winds from the upper world are exactly how Aquarius brings us the visions and potentials that Aquarius thrives on.

 

 

The last time there were these many planets in Aquarius was at the Aquarius New Moon on February 4, 1962, when there were 7 planets in Aquarius plus the South Node. One of my brother-in-laws was born a few days later, and I can tell you he is a powerhouse in the world. Back in 1962, both Jupiter and Saturn were also in Aquarius, although their conjunction occurred in Capricorn in 1961. This was the beginning of a cultural revolution against the main stream narrative. President Kennedy gave the first presidential talk on society and social issues and the 1st man, John Glenn, orbited the Earth, which led to a paradigm shift, as humanity saw the Earth from the new perspective of space. There was a spiritual awakening for most of humanity.

And of course, soon after this was the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of 1965-66, which was the beginning of the hippie movement and so much more. We experienced these planets squaring each other from 2012-2015 and since then, we have worked hard to bring those ideals into the world. That big conjunction in Aquarius was a seed point of a new era. 

 

 

And this powerful Aquarius New Moon is another beginning. In 1962, Uranus was finishing up its stay in Leo, so it formed an opposition to those planets, showing us that there were new possibilities available to us. This year, Uranus is in Taurus and is squaring those Aquarian planets, challenging them to do something concrete with all those visions and possibilities so we can bring them down to earth.

Aquarius New Moon, February 11, 2021

The Aquarius New Moon occurs on Thursday, February 11 at 10:06 am Alaska time, 11:06am PST/ 2:06pm EST/ 7:06pm GMT.

 

 

The Sabian symbol for the Sun and Moon at 24* Aquarius is: A man, having overcome his passions, teaches deep wisdom in terms of his experience. This image speaks to the need to 1) find meaning in our experiences and 2) to pass on that knowledge to younger or more inexperienced people so that they have a better understanding of life and how to work with the issues that arise.

Overcoming passions isn’t always the best way to talk about learning from life experiences though. Our passions are the fuel that keeps us searching for life and meaning. I would rather say that we need to not be ruled by our passions but to work with them to accomplish our goals.

On the other hand, this is a great image of how Aquarius works. If you know any Aquarians, they are often coolly objective and rational with their judgments, even when it hurts. And since Aquarius wants to circulate knowledge, what better way than by example.

Aquarius the Water Bearer

 

The image of Aquarius is the Water Bearer, a person pouring out the waters of life, of the unconscious, of the archetypal patterns.The ancient Babylonians associated this constellation because the 11^th month was the time when the rains came.

Since it is an air sign, there is an objectivity about the watery depths and heights. The archetypal patterns of life help us understand our emotional reactions to life. Aquarius describes our humanitarian impulses, our urge for freedom, our ability to awaken to our soul’s wisdom and our need to rebel against constrictive norms.

I imagine you’re all feeling a big energetic shift by now, since all those planets moved out of responsible, demanding Capricorn into this much lighter Aquarian energy. We’ll be in Aquarian energy for decades. We’re leaving behind the old story so a new story can emerge. Jupiter is in Aquarius for most of 2021, Saturn will stay there until March of 2023 and Pluto will enter Aquarius in 2023 until 2044. So this is our chance to ground this Aquarian energy and make some new beginnings for this new story for humanity and the world that will take us into the future.

But with the overload of 6 planets plus the asteroid Pallas, our minds can go into overdrive. So take time to breathe. The best way I’ve found to handle energy is Qi Gong, which circulates and balances both yin and yang, the energies of heaven, you and Earth. If you’re going to do any meditating on this powerful New Moon, I suggest you find some Qi Gong videos and do some moving meditations before you plant your New Moon seeds. 

Alex Grey ~ Qi Gong Energy Flow

Venus and Jupiter meet up a few hours before this New Moon. These two planets bring good luck and success to your endeavors. The Sabian symbol for Venus and Jupiter at 13* Aquarius is: A barometer. A barometer measures air pressure and any change in pressure allows us to know what’s heading our way. It helps us anticipate what the future might hold, which is a big help at New Moon time. Use this helpful energy to intuit what seeds need to be planted for the best possible outcomes.

Besides a nice sextile between Neptune in Pisces and Mars in Taurus, which opens Mars to creative possibilities in terms of actions, the rest of the chart is comprised of the squares between all those Aquarian planets and Uranus and Mars in Taurus. In anticipation of the first of three squares (on February 17^th) between Saturn and Uranus which will dominate 2021, this New Moon holds the potential for those seeds to crack open and grow as the year unfolds. So choose your intentions wisely.

Unlike last year, which saw three new planetary cycles end and begin, and two big retrogrades of Venus and Mars, this year’s drama is pretty much centered on Saturn’s waning square to Uranus.

Saturn is all about structures and limitations and top-down authority while Uranus is about blowing those structures up, about awakenings and bottom-up revolution. Squares are inner tensions that need to be resolved. A waning square, like the last quarter Moon, demands that we make conscious choices based on our values.

It’s interesting that Saturn, which rules Aquarius along with Uranus, is the more traditional, conservative energy in a progressive sign. While Uranus, the radical visionary, is in the most earthy, traditional sign. What to make of this energetic tension?

Uranus is the force of cosmic law that knows when things have to change – no matter what. In Taurus, it becomes Earth’s creative genius. While Uranus remains in Taurus until 2026, we have to break up what is stale and outworn and open up to the energetic push to listen to Mother Earth’s wisdom teachings.

Uranus will bring us leaps in our understanding of reality. We might engage in telepathy as well as access information from the quantum field. Who knows? Our healing ability might grow as our DNA is awakened. Anything and everything is possible now. So use your creative imagination to create your future, now that we’ve been freed from the patriarchal prison of small possibilities. 

 

The Mind of Nature ~ Alex Grey 

 

The tension between these two forces will center around Saturn-control and Uranus-freedom. Since Uranus always wins in the end, Saturn will have to give up its control and offer its gift of form and structure to the Uranian revolution that needs to happen. We have to focus on Mother Earth’s needs and listen to our indigenous people who know how to live in harmony with Her. We need new forms of energy, of food production, of land management. We need to save our animal relations and help them to thrive once again if we are to survive and thrive. These are the tensions I see that we’ll have to face this year. The corporate structure has to let go of its power and control over the world and start to re-shape itself to meet the Earth’s needs and our needs rather than corporate bottom lines.

With Mars in Taurus, we have to dedicate our passions and energy into being stewards of the Earth.

There will be struggles we still have to face. We can face them with fear or with joy. It is our choice. Since Aquarius is closely related to the quantum field, it is important to really understand that what we put our attention on, manifests. Aquarius is a mental energy field, and matter coalesces around our frequency. At this time, our world is descending into the chaotic field of endings and new beginnings. Things aren’t predictable anymore as all the old systems crumble.

So the most important thing we can do right now is to believe in the unseen.

The Sabian symbol for Saturn at 8* Aquarius is: Beautifully gowned wax figures on display. This relates to the fixed mental archetypal patterns we base our lives on. There are new forms of these ancient archetypes being revealed and still being shaped by our imaginations.

The Sabian symbol for Uranus at 8* Taurus is: A sleigh on land uncovered by snow. This seems to be another symbol of anticipation – we have a vehicle to get us where we need to go in this winter time of the world. Or an image of some vehicle we no longer need because the season has changed. Your choice!

Together, it asks us to shape those mental archetypal patterns for a new reality that hasn’t appeared yet but is on its way. It’s time for us to embody this Aquarian energy in our expectations and our decisions to make it happen.

Mercury retrograde is also conjunct Venus and Jupiter and asks us to think outside the box, to think big and hopeful, and to open to new visions of the possible human. Mercury trines the Gemini NN, opening us to new information so we can make new choices and let go of limiting beliefs (Sagittarius SN).

Mercury turns direct on February 20^th at 12* Aquarius. The Sabian symbol is: Life’s broad stairway, each landing a new grade of life. I think this image speaks for itself. May we rise ever higher as we walk into the future.

Use this amazing energy to co-create the next steps in Earth’s evolution. Remember though, this is very idealistic energy so don’t be so hard on yourself. We’re not going to manifest things right away. Remember that we’re not here to be perfect, but to keep going on our quest.

Chinese fortune cookie: This is a time to think big because we have the energy to grow big.

Warm regards during this cold week,

Cathy

 

 

Follow Your Bliss

The divine manifestation is ubiquitous,
Only our eyes are not open to it.

 

Awe is what moves us forward.

 

Live from your own center.
The divine lives within you.
The separateness apparent in the world is secondary.
Beyond the world of opposites is an unseen,
but experienced, unity and identity in us all.

Today the planet is the only proper “in group.”
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.

You must return with the bliss and integrate it.
The return is seeing the radiance is everywhere.
The world is a match for us.
We are a match for the world.
The spirit is the bouquet of nature.

Sanctify the place you are in.

Follow your bliss. . . .

~ Joseph Campbell ~

(Compiled from various writings of Joseph Campbell)

 

The Cosmic Story: Gemini/Sagittarius Lunar Eclipse 2020

Learn to Think for Yourself

Be Suspicious of Convention

Take charge of your own thinking.

Rouse yourself from the daze of unexamined habit…

Conventional thinking – its means and ends – is essentially uncreative and uninteresting. Its job is to preserve the status quo for overly self-defended individuals and institutions.

Trust nothing and nobody but yourself.

Be ceaselessly watchful over your beliefs and impulses.

~Epictetus: The Art of Living~

We’re into eclipse season again. Eclipses occur when the planes of the Sun, Moon and Earth align and we can visually see how the three interact. With a lunar eclipse on a Full Moon, the Earth comes between the Sun and Moon and casts her shadow on the Moon. This lunar eclipse is a partial eclipse, so it will not cover the entire face of the Moon.

Lunar Eclipse

Astrology assigns meaning to the difference eclipses depending on the signs they occupy. With the lunar nodes in Gemini and Sagittarius, the cosmos shines its light on our thinking and our beliefs. After the past 4 years, we’ve been twisted back and forth between truth and lies. Fake news on both sides of the spectrum has put the ball solidly into our own court. We are the deciders. The cosmos pushes us to look at ourselves and our beliefs and decide who we are, what we believe and what we stand for.

Neptune squares these lunar nodes, and since it just turned to direct motion hours before the eclipse, it is a very potent part of what we’re learning. With Neptune changing to direct motion, Uranus is the only retrograde planet in our skies right now. An inner revolution is still at work on us. 

 

Neptune/NASA

Neptune is the planetary energy of dreams, imagination, myths and visions, a misty, illusionary energy that transports us to other dimensions and states of being. While it can inspire us to mystical visions and wonderful works of art, it can also delude us with addictions and fake news if we have no guiding vision of life. On this lower level of Neptune, we get foggy and uncertain about what we’re seeing and believing. It’s easy to be manipulated, especially if it touches off an old belief system. When we connect to Neptune’s higher vision, we’re put in touch with the spiritual basis of life. We connect consciously to the creative imagination, where all manifestation begins.

As Caroline Casey so artfully states, Neptune lays the tracks for Saturn’s reality train. Neptune can delude us into thinking that things are not as they seem.

           Neptune can also set us yearning for what our souls desire most, inspiring our vision. When Neptune is in its own sign of Pisces (Jung’s collective unconscious) it is our shared, collective yearnings that want to be incorporated into our personal reality. These yearning come up against old Sagittarian beliefs. Can we let go of those beliefs and open ourselves to new possibilities?

With Neptune in Pisces turning direct on November 28^th and squaring the lunar nodes, we’ve had time during its retrograde to look at some overblown fantasies that were believed to be the Truth. When in fact these fantasies/ conspiracy theories/illusions often arise from the tension between fear and hope.

The way to discern our truth is to ground ourselves in our own inner guidance system. With Neptune going direct now, it’s up to us to use our imaginations in more creative ways and think for ourselves. As Epictetus said, be wary of conventional, unconscious thinking.

 

Road to Emmaus~Robert Zund

The Sabian symbol for Neptune stationing direct at 19* Pisces is: Teacher and student commune in strength in a long walk. This is an image of that grounding we need. We often have spiritual teachers who shape our beliefs. If they are worthy mentors, they help us to discover our own path and seek our own truths.

Beliefs run deep within our psyches, impressed on us when we’re still children and have no sense that we can decide what to believe in or not. These unconscious beliefs shape our thoughts, our expectations and even our desires.

As we enter the darkest time of year in the northern hemisphere, we have the opportunity to clean out old beliefs and habits that no longer serve us. As we wait for Winter Solstice and the return of the Light, we can let those things die so we have room for something new to fill us.

And since this Winter Solstice is a big turning point in our collective destiny, it is especially important to spend time in self-examination. Because on December 21, 2020, the social planets Jupiter and Saturn will join together, as they do every 20 years, in the Air elements for the first time since 1220 CE (except for once in 1980 when they came together in Libra-- look at all the new relationship options that sprang from that!)

We are ending a 200 year Earth cycle between Jupiter and Saturn – the last happened in Taurus in 2000. As we end this cycle, we need to see what gifts and lessons they brought us both personally and collectively. What have we all learned in this last year of the Earth cycle when we’ve had to let go of our consumerism and our work as we face both death through the Covid virus and the death of our cultural institutions? How have we changed in these past 20 years?

These two planets that shape our social outlook have come together in Earth signs for the past 200 years (except 1980), focusing our collective attention on material wealth and purpose. Every 200 years or so, the elements of this conjunction change to shift our collective focus. Last time they came together in Air was roughly from 1220-1420 CE – the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. It looks like we’re about to enter a new age of information exchange, intellectual curiosity and communication. Hopefully, a new Renaissance. 

Renaissance Art 

And since Jupiter and Saturn will conjunct (you can see this happening in the night sky) in the sign of Aquarius, we can perhaps say this is the beginning of the beginning of the Age of Aquarius. Especially since Pluto will be finishing up with transforming the sign of Capricorn in the next two years and will enter Aquarius in 2023-2024. That’s when our Aquarian energy gets re-birthed. 

The Sabian symbol for the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter at 1* Aquarius is: A cubical white temple in the desert. This is a symbol of the seed groups that have a new vision for civilization, a new reality and vision based on spiritual and natural law. This is a symbolic Yes to humanity as we rediscover our place in Earth’s biosphere and assume our role as Stewards of the Earth.

Gemini-Sagittarius partial Lunar Eclipse

This Full Moon lunar eclipse occurs on Monday November 30^th at 12:30 am Alaska time, 1:30 am PST/ 4:30am EST and 9:30am GMT.

 

 Gemini Lunar Eclipse 2020

With this eclipse in Sagittarius and Gemini, curiosity and seeking knowledge are up for us. What is worth believing in? What information fits our soul’s story? Each of us has a different story to live and a different part to play as we begin to re-imagine our world. But old ideas and beliefs won’t encompass this new story. The information we seek to inform us about what’s happening in the world will determine whether we escape the old, worn-out belief systems that shaped our world-view or we open up to new possibilities that might not seem possible yet.

Mercury in Scorpio rules the Gemini Moon and is sextiling both Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, and Saturn in Capricorn. We can use Mercury’s deep insight into death and life to see what needs to change in society. Saturn and Jupiter are at the end of Capricorn, adding to the heaviness we might be feeling as they transit the last degrees of Capricorn. We might get caught up in the heaviness of the government’s power plays. Or we might find our own authority in the world.

The Sabian symbol for the Sun at 9* Sagittarius is: A mother is leading her children up a broad stairway. This is an image of the Morning Star of Wisdom, the Great Mother leading her children into the light. It is an image of an open and unobstructed path to higher consciousness, teaching us to trust our instinctive pursuit of love and the beautiful goals in life.

 

The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 9* Gemini is: Medieval archer, with pointed beard and feathered hat, takes aim with a bow. This image reminds me of Robin Hood when he goes to the archery contest where the Sheriff of Nottingham hopes to capture him. Robin is a trickster, one who can change the course of energy. Robin has to stay alert, use his keenly trained perceptions to win the contest and escape capture. When we aim an arrow, we send our minds over space and time to pin down something we want. This begs the question, What do we really desire? What are we taking aim at?

On both sides of this eclipse, we’re asked to become aware (full Moon) of those beliefs that keep us chained to the denial of our talents, self-worth and needs. Or, those shadow qualities that keep us unconscious of what we really desire. With this global lock down shutting off our usually sources of entertainment and distractions, we can take the time to look into our hearts and discover what we really want out of life. Do we really want more stuff that soon loses its importance, or do we want community and connectedness?

A regular Full Moon challenges us to develop awareness of the life issues the two complementary signs signify, to break free of any unconscious compulsions we have, and to objectively work with its energy. A lunar eclipse is a high-powered Full Moon that offers us a chance to see and finish off dealing with that particular issue. This lunar eclipse offers us the chance to let go of limiting beliefs and open up to new knowledge and ideas that can help us form new beliefs about our self and life. Beliefs that will shape our new story.

Any planets aspecting the eclipse will indicate how we can develop that awareness. As you can see from the chart, there is another opposition that also aspects the Full Moon and which forms a rectangle made up of butterfly wings. The two wings in blue indicate what we call inconjuncts, 150* aspects which are quirky and often hard to see. 

 

“The rectangular shape was used in temple chambers of initiation. These buildings were built to symbolize the process of transition from one stage of personal-spiritual unfoldment to the next — the fulfillment of a great goal. Seen in the vertical plane, a rectangle becomes a door, something to pass through, to enter a new realm. This figure joining two oppositions by semi-sextiles and inconjuncts indicates that the oppositions can be integrated through everyday work and all our personal relationships, geared toward better ways to serve other people’s needs.” (Dane Rudhyar)

 

So this eclipse offers us the idea of a great initiation into higher states of consciousness, through the integration of masculine knowledge and feminine wisdom.

The other opposition at this lunar eclipse is that between Uranus retrograde in Taurus and Venus in Scorpio. In the creation myth, Uranus is the Father of Aphrodite/Venus, who is birthed by his phallus/generative energy within the womb of Mother Ocean. It feels like this opposition pushes us to awaken our feminine power, grounded in both our physical and emotional bodies, allowing the original Uranian Mind of Nature to reconnect us to Mother Nature’s biosphere.

The two blue-winged inconjuncts are between Uranus_Rx and the Sagittarius Sun, and Venus and the Gemini Moon. Uranus inconjunct the Sun pushes us to open up to new beliefs concerning the spiritual dimensions of our physical world – acknowledging that the world and our bodies are not evil and corrupt, but as Matthew Fox states, our original blessings. The Earth and our bodies are divine creations and we have to honor them. Venus inconjunct the Moon pushes us to explore and learn about the things that call to us from our depths, to understand their power and purpose and to share them with the world.

Therefore, opening to new beliefs and acknowledging the purpose and power of our desires can aid us in shedding those intellectual shadows and unconscious beliefs that keep us locked in an old story of scarcity and unworthiness.

The next stage of our evolution is upon us. The new story for humanity is waiting for us to step into it as responsible and conscious co-creators of life. 

 

How this Eclipse season is affecting the United States chart

  US 4th of July Chart, 1776

 

This lunar eclipse falls across the ascendant/descendant of the 4^th of July US Sibly chart at 12* Sagittarius—Gemini. It could signify a shift in our national identity, which is already underway from the Trump presidency. Our allies will wonder who we are as we go forward into the next four years.

With the US having its Pluto return in the next two years, we are undergoing a transformation – hopefully a spiritual transformation rooted in returning to our core values. Since we’re in the energies of the American Revolution now, people will continue to take to the streets, especially with Mars and Eris in Aries squaring both Pluto in Capricorn and America’s Mercury in Cancer. If we can communicate with truth and honor about our basic needs, perhaps we can make it a peaceful revolution.

There’s another potent T-Square between transiting Neptune in Pisces opposite the US Neptune in Virgo square the US Mars in Gemini. We have to learn to discern what is truth and what are lies. If America’s original dream was to have a free and open society, transiting Neptune is asking us who and what we’ve left out of that equation. Mars in Gemini says we have the knowledge and know-how to ‘make it so’.

This eclipse occurs on the US Uranus at 9* Gemini, activating our native intelligence and brilliance. We can solve our problems if we put our collective Will behind it. If the media would put its focus and story-telling ability to work showcasing the possibilities before us rather than the issues that drag us down, we could awaken a collective spiritual awareness about the issues that face us and the world.

This is America’s time to transform itself into a truer, more democratic version of itself. It’s time to live out the ideals that shaped our mythology.

With Gratitude,

Cathy

Entrance  /  (After Rilke)

Whoever you are: step out of doors tonight,

Out of the

room that lets you feel secure.

Infinity is open to your sight.

Whoever

you are.

With eyes that have forgotten how to see

From viewing things

already too well-known,

Lift up into the dark a huge, black tree

And put

it in the heavens: tall, alone.

And you have made the world and all you

see.

It ripens like the words still in your mouth.

And when at last you

comprehend its truth,

Then close your eyes and gently set it free.

~ Dana Gioia ~

(Interrogations at Noon)