posted July 28, 2008 07:51 AM
Weekly Weather July 28, 2008The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming! All week long, we energetically build up to the New Moon Total Eclipse of the Sun at 9 Leo on Friday! The path of the eclipse rolls over the Arctic Circle, across Northern Russia and ends at the Great Wall of China, just in time for the Olympics. Eclipses are super powerful new or full moons, loaded with juicy, popping energy. During an eclipse the Sun, Earth and Moon all line up, in a cosmic row. Because they are in a row in the sky, they cast shadows on each other as they dance about in the heavens. The ancients (and the astrologers) knew eclipses marked and proclaimed either falls from power/ grace or sudden rises to prominence, leaving behind the old roles. Obviously, kings, emperors and leaders watched for eclipses very carefully. There was caution, hand wringing and waiting to see what was going to take place. In fact, two twin Chinese astrologers were beheaded for not forecasting an eclipse over the land. And, the emperor who killed them lost his power.
We regular mortals don’t lose our thrones although we might lose or gain power some place in our lives. Eclipses do bring to light situations that were previously hidden. They bring a sense of urgency and a feeling it needs to be dealt with NOW! There is an escalated and enhanced sense of urgency under an eclipse where you are driven by the feeling that you have to do something right this minute! You actually DON’T have to do any thing. The situation will take care of itself. But you FEEL like you absolutely, totally, completely MUST do something! Often, the situation has been like that for a while, festering, brewing, percolating. NOW you simply can‘t stand it a minute more!
Things that are waiting to “pop” actually do “pop” or break or give out. The analogy of popping a pimple or lancing a boil is good imagery to apply to the energy of an eclipse. Folks or situations that have been lingering, undecided or unclear which way to go, suddenly sit right up and make a decision and go. Again, the situation could have been building up for a while. NOW, right now, it needs to move to the next level ~ either up or down, over and out, yes or not, adios or hello. All the energy around transition and change is for healing’s sake and, for lack of a better word, your soul’s evolution.
So, because we are in Eclipse Time, we are entering a fairly volatile emotional period which will run until September 8 or so. The eclipse period technically runs 2 weeks before the first eclipse lunation to two weeks after the last eclipse. So the Eclipse Time wraps on August 30. Good or bad we leave the Eclipse Time and head into the next week which features a week long build up to the Jupiter /Pluto stations to go direct on September 8. So think of this as an extended eclipse. The Jupiter/ Pluto stations at the end add an extra poignancy, emotionality and clarity to the Eclipse Time. Whatever happens during the Eclipse Time will have a sharper finality and finishing energy to it as well.
Think of it as the end of a major chapter of your life. It is. It is also the BEGINNING of a MAJOR NEW CHAPTER of YOUR LIFE. The purpose of these next few weeks are to release stuff that needs to leave and to wrap up things that are done, finished and kaput. The purpose is so you can start your NEXT chapter with a fresh slate. For what it is worth, it can also be a time to wrap up the stuff begun in 1984, 1995 and even 1972 or 1959 if you want to go time traveling backwards through your life. A whole new evolutionary cycle is beginning for all of us here on Planet Earth. That is why the old cycles are resonating and ringing across our Planet Earth and in our being. That is what that giant rumbling feeling is just below the surface, moving in your belly, low, deep and strong. That is what makes it feel so much bigger on the insides of you than it appears on the outsides of you. That is why folks feel like they are all living a bit more isolated in their own lives. We are evolving. Moving from Caterpillars into Butterflies. The evolutionary impulse is growing inside each of us. Evolve. Evolve. Evolve.
There can be fabulous new beginnings on this eclipse as it marks an exciting cycle starting. According to Bernadette Brady in her book, The Eagle and The Lark, “This eclipse is known for breaking out of a negative situation where no hope can be seen to a more positive space containing many options. A worry that may have been affecting a person will suddenly clear. The solution is shown by the Cosmos and needs to be take up without too much delay.” We are able to release problems that previously seemed unsolvable! Good news!! So focus on the release energy and focus on your vision of where you want to go next. Don’t worry. No fear. Focus on Love. Talk to your worried inner being with love.
The week ahead also features Venus going through some tough aspects. No more emotional feelings, understanding or processing like Mercury did last week before he moved into Leo. Venus is large and in charge in Fire Leo. She’s going to speak to your soul about your profound and deepest desires, finances, dreams and what you value. Venus is about passion. Passion with a capital P! You will be asked to stand up for what you are passionate about. You will have to announce what your desires are. Be brave. Be bold. Go for it. Your heart is at stake.
Mercury is moving quickly and will catch up with Venus next week. Venus is going to aspect all the planets in the Finger of God from June. While most of them have separated and aren’t in the form of the Finger, Venus is going to be chatting them up now that they have had a month or so to process things. Venus dove into the South Node releasing some thing / ending some thing OR pulling in a major new love or desired object last week. This week, she refines what she learned and experienced last week. So if it FELT like a LOSS, it wasn‘t ~ it was a release. If it FELT like a new connection, move towards it bravely and with love in your heart. It can be a bit of both actually as Venus is SO active, our emotions are active too!
Finally, Mars is setting off the eclipse from last September and bringing up the story from back then. The 18th degree of Virgo is the degree of the Sun on 9-11 as well as the degree for Saturn and his opposition to Uranus on the upcoming election on November 4, 2008. It is also the degree of Neptune in the USA chart. That 18 Virgo degree corresponds to Presidential deaths and assassinations according to Frances McEvoy.
Monday, Moon in Gemini ruled by Mercury in Leo offers a bit of jolliness and creativity amidst the emotions. Venus is opposite Chiron offering painful words if you are not careful. People are very sensitive today so be careful what you say as you can offend other’s easily. It’s a walk on egg shells kind of energy. That said, a brilliant idea that is incredibly transformative should be acted on immediately.
Tuesday, Sun and Mercury join in the sky. A combust Mercury is a single minded energy ~ especially around pride, children, creativity and the vision of what they want to do. People are going to be very fixed and fixated on their individual ideas today. You are better off letting them have their vision of what they want to do. They can’t hear you. For what it is worth, you can’t hear so well today either. It is a fabulous day for terrific misunderstandings as we will all hear what we want to hear and ignore the rest. It can be a bit depressive as Mercury joins with Saturn to make the news somber or serious ~ so NO they didn‘t say they wanted to break up with you, they only said what they needed to do. You HEARD they wanted to break up with you. No they aren’t pulling the deal, you HEARD them incorrectly. They are opening the bidding up to other vendors. Keep pitching. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing for what your vision is. Focus on what you’d like. Be aware you can’t hear what they are saying clearly. Run what they said by some one else who might be a bit more clear than you are (or not ~ it is that kind of day). Don’t act on it. Remember we are in eclipse times. If someone loses it emotionally with you today, keep your counsel. Don’t react. It isn’t about you. It is their story. Only today, we all think it is OUR story.
Wednesday Venus has an adjusting aspect with Uranus, triggering the Finger of God energy from June. If you can, circle back to the situation from Monday and Tuesday and double check that you heard what you thought you heard. Sun is in a bit of a blind spot to Saturn today. Double check all things. Think of the day as pulling the car out to pass the slow person ahead of you. Make sure to double check that there is no one in your blind spot. It is a blind spot kind of day. That is also why you are circling back to see if what they said was actually what they meant. Or run it by someone else to see if it makes sense if you can’t ask them yourself. The imagery I get is of the pharmacist in It’s a Wonderful Life after he heard his son had been killed in the war. Jimmy Stewart double checked that order he prepared and saved a life. Double check. Triple check. Quadruple check.
Thursday Venus opposes Neptune as Mars has an adjusting aspect to the North Node. Again we have adjusting energy but this time a bit more cloudy and not so clear. There is a fine opportunity to go off half cocked today. The Finger of God energy from June is again triggered. Remember the purpose for that Finger was to point out to you that you had choices, you made choices, you chose the actions that got you to where you are right now. Your choices created the situations and describe how you live your life now. It IS YOUR LIFE after all. You, on some level, chose it. You might not have been conscious when you chose the situation you find yourself in. But now that you are in it, you do have choices. You can continue to complain about your life all you want. Complaining does NADA. NADA! (Well, actually, it is starting to annoy your friends) Instead change. Instead of complaining, the time has come to change. If you change it, you don‘t have to complain about it any more. If you don‘t want to change it, you need to be quiet and learn to work productively with it. Enough. It is time. At some point we each realize we can’t blame any one else for the situations we find ourselves in. We are the person in charge of our live. We are responsible for our life.
Friday the Solar Eclipse takes place. Read the column on this site for more information on how to work with the eclipse energy. To repeat According to Bernadette Brady in her book, The Eagle and The Lark, “This eclipse is known for breaking out of a negative situation where no hope can be seen to a more positive space containing many options. A worry that may have been affecting a person will suddenly clear. The solution is shown by the Cosmos and needs to be take up without too much delay.” We are able to release problems that previously seemed unsolvable! Good news!! So focus on the release energy and focus on your vision of where you want to go next. Don’t worry. No fear. Focus on Love. Talk to your worried inner being with love. Pluto is pushing on Pallas ~ the patterns that created the situations in your life now are all adjusting, changing, evolving. Mars is arguing with Chiron so emotions are high and words can be fighting or wounding. Try to focus on the higher purpose for the situation. It exists in your life for a reason. It existed in your life to serve you some how. Mercury has harsh words with the whole change and evolve business. Never fear. The only thing that is sure in this world is change is constant. We watch the Sun rise and set, moving the seasons forward. We watch the tides ebb and flow. We watch trees grow. We see our children sprout. So what about you? What do you want to change and grow? Where? How? Why? What is the dream for the next chapter of your life? What is your deepest and most fervent wish? Take time on this New Moon and eclipse to send that wish out into the heavens. You exist on earth for a reason. Your soul incarnated to do something. The time is now. NOW!
Saturn’s day Mercury is a busy bee ~ perhaps it seems overwhelming or too much to process. That is okay. Focus on the part you can wrap your arms around. Wrap your mind around what it can wrap around. MARS IS ARGUING WITH URANUS today by earth aspect so expect volatility every where as well as sudden and unexpected actions, reactions and changes! Remember, the REST of the world is roaming around having absolutely no idea that there is an eclipse, a Pluto sign change and a desire to act NOW. Pickpockets stage a distraction to steal things. In chaos, one can steal. In chaos, one can advance if one knows to use it. Use the energy today to push your agenda forward even if you aren’t 100% sure where you are actually going. Push. Focus on the love and push towards what you want. The energy flying around is highly responsive to the least little touch or direction. So launch things into the world ~ particularly things you want to let go of or release.
Sunday, Mercury has a brilliant idea. Uranus helps him create it. Take the 20,000 foot view. Think satellite picture. What is the big picture? Focus on the overview. Sun joins with the North Node by declination ~ another release. Release. Release. Release. It can also be a realization. Realize. Realize. Realize. Sun has a fifth harmonic aspect with Pallas ~ what is your strategy for the next step. Bitty steps at a time. Forward you go.
Mundane: Both eclipses are quite active in Barack Obama’s chart. The New Moon eclipse is square to Barack Obama’s Neptune in Scorpio and aspecting his Saturn/ Uranus midpoint. The full moon eclipse later in the month on August 16th is opposite his Uranus, the co-ruler of his Aquarius Ascendant and on his Mars/ Saturn, the other co-ruler of his Ascendant, Sun/ Pluto and Saturn/ Athena midpoints. Midpoints blend the energy of the two planets involved. Please continue to pray for Osama’s physical safety.
Transiting Mars is activating the relocated Ascendant of Dick Cheney at 18 Virgo as the Solar eclipse activates his Sun at 10 Aquarius and Saturn at 8 Taurus ~ and his Sun/ Saturn midpoint. Transiting Mars forms a Finger of God with his Progressed Sun at 18 Aries and the North Node in Aquarius as Uranus forms a number of aspects to solar arc, progressed and natal placements. Expect very interesting news around Mr. Cheney.
The eclipse is activating George Bush’s Ascendant as well as his Mercury /Pluto joined on his Ascendant ~ all 9 Leo. Siblings, communication and power. Again, unexpected news but significant to his life direction and where he is going. At times like these I wish I was a fly on the wall in the White House.
Lindaland
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