Weekly Weather December 20 2010
The eclipses are here! The eclipses are here!
Our week features a whooping big Lunar eclipse, the Capricorn Ingress, a number of emotional and consciousness making aspects wrapped up in a brand a new beginning for each of us. At least that is what the sky describes as the journey we each will be making here below on earth. As above, so below, as without, so within.
This Lunar Eclipse is a particularly potent eclipse. It takes place as the Full Moon forms across the last degrees of Gemini and Sagittarius at 3:13 am Eastern time, on the world axis and straddles the nodes of destiny almost on the world axis. We aren’t going to forget THIS full moon or holiday season. It also lands on the Capricorn Ingress. The last time this happened was 372 years ago ~ once every 372 years? WOW oh WOW! We can prepare for BIG THINGS to change and take place in our lives under these energies. This ain’t no run of the mill cosmic event. We also have been having big erupting activity on the Sun indicating eruptions in our ego and releases of pent up energy from our own Suns.
Friendships, relationships, family, siblings and emotional breakthroughs are the areas we will be working in under the eclipse ~ it is a Gemini (sibling), Sagittarius (beliefs, grandchildren), Cancer (family, home, mom) and Capricorn (the structure of the life we’ve built) are the hot spots under these aspects. There are action taking aspects in the heavens ~ cardinal t-squares, fingers of God and mutable grand crosses ~ highly dynamic and very flexible energies.
The Lunar Full Moon Eclipse is tied back to the New Moon from June 2009 when the Sun was on the South Node and a number of our childhood icons, legends, teachers and guides left our lives. Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcet, and many other elders who shaped our childhood left this mortal coil for their next incarnation. Think about who left your life in June/July of 2009. It could have been a family member or merely the loss of your innocence when you were asked to grow up.
Then in March 2010, we had the test of the New Moon as Gemini Moon squared the Sun in Pisces asking us to take action around our dreams.
Now as the Full Moon forms, we see our dreams and can articulate them clearly. Or perhaps we can articulate what we DON’T want ~ but that is just as good ~ the opposite of what we don’t want is what we do want. On this Full Moon eclipse, you will become very, very clear about what you don’t want any more. Make sure to be loud and proud about articulating it, even if you only talk to your bathroom mirror. Look yourself in the eye and say your name and add the vow “I vow to xyz” ~ whatever that new vow is!” Venus hasn’t been rolling around in the mud all fall for you to NOT be clear about what works for you and what doesn’t work for you.
The Lunar Eclipse has a mutable cross between Sun and Mercury in Sagittarius next to the North Node of saying your wisdom about what you want, Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces helping that wisdom change into what you want, Moon in Gemini next to the South Node of releasing letting go of the stuff that doesn’t work for you any more, opposite Juno in Virgo answering to Mercury in Sagittarius.
Essentially, you are going to see what you’ve been partnering with and decide you need to change it up and into some NEW, different or perhaps only a slightly revised version of what you have. Revise, redo, revision. And then, once you are clear, announce it to the world in a big, bold statement. Yes I know Mercury is retrograde but you have to start someplace. You have a vision of what it can be so start there. Just be clear about what you want to accomplish.
The focus of the Lunar Eclipse in Washington is taxes and what is of value to us. We have to place a value on the things we want and start to focus on those things. The rest is all illusion. So thank it for distracting you as you harness the lovely Mars in Capricorn to go GET what you and Venus in Scorpio have determined you want.
Next up the Capricorn Ingress takes place shortly after the Full Moon Eclipse at 6:39 pm Eastern Time. The Sun enters 0 of the cardinal sign Capricorn signifying the beginning of Winter. It marks the moment when the sun appears to stop and stand still for 3 days. Solstice means sol (sun) stice (still). At the lowest part of its journey, below the equator at the bottom of the ecliptic on the Tropic of Capricorn, as low as it can go, the sun appears to stand still for three days. Then, gradually, a minute longer each day, the sun starts to move back up towards the equator towards the Aries Ingress in Spring. The longest night and the shortest day take place at the same time as a very powerful lunar eclipse brings our emotions to the forefront.
Ingress charts run for three months, and describe the season that they commence. We look at ingress charts to see what the season ahead of us holds. We cast the chart as a stand alone chart and also apply it to our natal chart to see where we will be spending our time for the next season of our life.
The Capricorn Ingress chart covers the season of Winter 2010 to 2011, the months of back part of December, January, February and the first part of March. Saturn at the bottom of the ingress chart wants to build a new foundation for our lives. It wants us to take the learning’s from the fall, when Venus was rolling around in her 100 days of passionate Scorpio and give ourselves permission to look at that very deep wish we have.
You know, the deep wish that Venus dragged to the surface and helped you get clear on? The thing you absolutely have to add to your life or else you won’t feel you’ve lived a full and complete life? The time is now to move toward it.
So what were you sad about this fall? What did you realize that you’d let slip away from your heart and its deepest, most secret desires? How can you give it to yourself and nurture your heart and who you are? It IS who you are truly meant to be and become. If it is in your heart, it is in your chart.
In the Capricorn Ingress, the mutable grand cross of the Full Moon shifts into a cardinal t-square. Cancer Moon squares both Saturn and the IC/MC and opposes Mars in Capricorn. The large clump of planets are located in the house of physical health and work, making the focus of the next season on developing habits that support our lives physically, spiritually and emotionally.
Whatever comes to light under the Full Moon Eclipse and is discussed and emotionally processed then, we are able and willing to take action on that information under the Ingress and over the next three months.
You can almost hear the planets shouting “CHARGE” as they inspire us to move forward. The sun comes to both the north node of destiny and Pluto in a few days so we will be inspired to move rapidly forward, full steam ahead, even if we are not sure where we are actually going. We are GOING to be going!
In a few months, all the outer planets complete their transition into new signs. And the way will be clear. Right now, we know where we don’t’ want to stay. And we are starting to know where we Do want to go. Even if we don’t have a complete and firm picture of it right now.
T-squares are action oriented aspects. If we look at the Washington DC chart, we have a cardinal cross which is even more action oriented. Mars in Capricorn as well as the rest of the planets in Capricorn answer to Saturn in Libra. We are intending to form our next partnerships and relationships with our life under this ingress.
There is a great deal of water in the sky in both charts, offering us emotional clarity. There is very little air in the Ingress chart compared to the eclipse chart suggesting the time for talking is through, done, over. We are moving on, taking action and acting as we know our heart wants us to act. The passion in the eclipse chart shifts to action in the Ingress chart. Both charts are fairly grounded. We are ready for the next chapter.
There are a few fingers of god in the chart suggesting it is a fated time for us. We are making decisions that will affect the future of our lives now. As signified by the heavens, we are at a cosmic cross roads, open to guidance from our environment, hopes, dreams, and loves. Listening to the whisper of our hearts.
Faust said words are thresholds of the soul. We will say or hear words under this eclpse and ingress that will touch our soul. When we hear them or read them, we move forward to a new understanding.
The words that took place under the full moon eclipse between Gemini and Sagittarius helped us clarify the threshold we were are on or about to cross during the season before us.
Be brave. If you feel like crying, ask for help from your guides or Archangel Raphael ~ he heals the emotional wounds as well as the physical ones. If you feel you need actual support to get through it, ask for help from your guides or Archangel Michael. Michael brings his swift sword to stand by your side and fight. Your guides can’t help unless you ask them to. Free will means you get to slop and slog through it on your own unless you ask for help. So ask already! You weren’t put on earth to float alone on an iceberg like some polar bear cub. You have people and guides who can and will step up to help if you ask them for help.
The Full Moon Eclipse is the culmination of the New Moon eclipse back in June 2009. Back then, we had a giant departure of childhood icons, avatars and images ranging from Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and many others. We literally “lost” our childhood and became the adults in the room. Then last March 2010,we moved to the next level of consciousness about being an adult. Now, we find ourselves at the full moon ~ offering ourselves a change in how we think, communicate and believe to be true. Our philosophy of life is evolving. ONCE that is accomplished, we have the full moon which helps us see clearly and with understanding of our life purpose.
The balance of the days will be posted on Tuesday.
Copyright © 2010 A.C. Ortelee
