posted August 03, 2009 12:51 AM         

Full Moon Eclipse

The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse takes place as the Moon rises in the early evening sky on the east coast of the United States. Use the saying "Take what works for you and leave the rest behind" on this Full Moon. Release. Release. Release. And if you can't release, no worries. It will fall away when it is ready to leave you over the months to come. Know that what you want to release is willing to go. That is enough to change it.

Eclipses are like can-can dances ~ the Sun, Moon and Earth all line up in a row and dance together, kicking up their heels. They also kick up our emotions, feelings and cause us to dance with either joy, fear or the sense of change. Eclipses seem to make things happen ~ they are juicier energetic events. Things hanging on by a thread break, snap or release. Hidden things come to light. Boils are lanced. Fights erupt. Changes happen.


All lunations are important as we are guided most profoundly by the two lights in our sky. However, eclipse lunations are particularly important. The cosmic lights are aligned with earth and thus our beings come into harmony or profound energetic transmissions with our purpose. Our destiny seems to shift and change on eclipses. The points in our charts that determine our destiny, the nodes of karma, are active and making major changes in our lives. It is as it is supposed to be.

This year we had THREE, instead of the usual TWO eclipses in our eclipse season. We had a Full moon eclipse on July 7, a new moon eclipse on July 21 and now we have a full moon eclipse near the World Axis. We started the eclipse season at the New Moon on June 22 and we officially end the season on August 20.

The final lunar eclipse or full moon eclipse ~ as the MOON's light gets blocked by the Earth's shadow moving across her face ~ is August 5, 2009. We are asked to release that which no longer serves us or helps us. We can expect to hear of many divorces, separations, moves, relocations, partings, endings, closings, terminations as well as deaths. The time to pull the plug is now. It is a cosmic wrap so to speak.

The point of the endings and releases is because we are about to move seriously and earnestly into Pluto in Capricorn. Yes, Pluto has been in Capricorn for a year and a half. But not really. Now he's ready to go. The situations, relationships and people that end or leave us now are not supposed to make the journey through Capricorn with us. They have a different path for the next chapter ahead. They are moving into a new or different life of their own. In the case of a death, we've finished the current life's physical karma with the person. Of course, we will continue to carry them in our heart and mind but we don't get to talk to or hang out with them. In the case of ending, separating or changing relationships, we have separate paths ahead. We will not be traveling down the same road in quite the same manner.

The point of the eclipses is not to "punish" you or take away something. The point is to help you get clear on what you need to include or delete in the next chapter of your life. Eclipses clear out stuff, including relationships. Eclipses change things that need to change. The relationship needs to change on BOTH sides so BOTH of you can have the life you were supposed to have.

Eclipses can and will bring you to your knees if you are NOT doing your work or agreeing to change and grow. In that way, eclipses can feel a bit punishing. Eclipses can also bring you to your knees emotionally in an area that needs to be cosmically cleansed. Think of it as a giant whooshing or sucking sound as the old energy spins around and goes down the drain. Soon the sink in your life will be clear and clean ~ ready to wash more dishes, rinse off vegetables, prepare dinner or rest until the next meal.

Eclipses bring things to light that we didn't know. The seeding New Moon for this eclipse took place in February 2008. It was also an Eclipse and the first New Moon after Pluto went into Capricorn for the first time since 1762. YES that WAS a long time ago! It takes Pluto 248 years to circle the Sun. Go read the New Moon column on this website or in my newsletter to see what that New Moon in February 2008 was about and for.

Eclipses happen when the Sun and the Moon join within 10 degrees of the transiting Lunar Nodes. Eclipses are known through out history to mark the beginnings and ends of cycles, movements, governments and leaders.

The seeding eclipse for the Full Moon was part of the 10 North series. According to Bernadette Brady's book, The Eagle and the Lark, the cycle began on April 25, 944 and ends May 27, 2188. "There is a strong emphasis on communication and at the same time, frustrating or inhibiting events may come into the person's life via news, paperwork or a young person. The person may feel tired and drained. Therefore it is a good time to take things quietly and work through the difficulties one at a time." Now, we find the Sun on the South Node as we reach the culmination of the New Moon from February 2008. We are releasing the things that won't be traveling forward with us on the next leg of our journey.

So how do you apply the energy of the eclipse to your life? I've been talking to numerous clients about casting out to the universe for their dreams on the upcoming eclipse. Take the time to meditate on what you'd like to manifest in your life. Give yourself and the universe a concrete, cardinal, and solid earthy list of what you would like to have come into your life. As always, be careful and clear about what you wish for. Working with eclipse energies tend to make things happen even faster than usual! Sit yourself down with the heavens and include representatives of the elements, air, fire, water and earth. Ask, out loud, and include the caveat of stating that your desires are manifested in service to and alignment with or towards your higher or greater good. Ask for things that you'd like to create as Pluto rolls through Capricorn until 2024.

And take a good look at what you want to release under the eclipse. I know you are probably exhausted by the two earlier eclipses and all the energy that has been swirling around you. Take time to breathe. Give yourself space to rest and recuperate. Press the pause button on your life for a moment. Or do nurturing and helpful things that help you recreate yourself and your vision of what you want.

Approach situations with the attitude of being a member of the audience with the Aquarius Moon. You are here to notice what is going on without feeling you have to take it home with you. You get to take it home in while. Right now, notice. Noticing things is where it is at. No judgment. Just notice. Notice and pay attention. It is to get you clearer on what is going on. The Aquarius Energy wants to notice.

The Leo Sun energy wants to play. Give yourself some creative and fun filled laughter or good times under the eclipse. Watch a movie that makes you giggle. Find a joke website and laugh. Dance around your apartment in your underwear with your air guitar. Sing. Paint. Celebrate. Play. Expand yourself with joy. Or make a plan or two to expand yourself with joy.

It is going to be a big eclipse! Remember, whatever happens, is for your greater good and moves you towards the next evolutionary step of your life. Pluto is firmly in Capricorn. He stations to go direct, on the world axis, on September 11, 2009. We are each responsible, good or bad, for where we find our selves in our lives.

Pluto in Capricorn points out the reality behind power. It helps us understand why power exists and what it does for the people who have it or don't have it. Pluto in Capricorn wants us to get real, practical, structured, responsible and be accountable, down to earth, take action, count noses and name names. Capricorn. It is a very large energetic shift for all of us and the world. The Aquarius Leo eclipse will show us how Pluto in Capricorn is going to appear in your life. It will highlight the areas that you get to grow over the years ahead. It is time for you to take responsibility for your actions. All of your actions. We are each a bit more grown up after the changes of the past few weeks.

The other feature of the eclipse is a cardinal cross with the two feminine asteroids, Venus the principle of desire and Pluto. There can be a sense of being betrayed, abandoned or lost around issues of nurturing, desire and caretaking due to power dynamics. Juno in Aries, Venus in Cancer, Ceres in Libra and Pluto in Capricorn all are arguing, fighting and talking with each other. It might have FELT like a partnership ~ and in some ways it is one ~ but there is also a hierarchy of power in it. Your structural relationship to power and her attendants might shift a bit. Juno asserts her rights as the primary partner energy ~ the cherished chosen one. Ceres asserts her rights as the nurturing energy ~ to nurture or to destroy in her energy as Mother Earth. Venus asserts her rights as the financial and desire energy to say what she wants or needs. And Pluto throws all three of them into sharp relief as he brings power dynamics ~ for good or evil ~ into the mix. The women are working on their power dynamics today with Pluto playing one against the other. Watch out.

Finally, Mars in Gemini is approaching a square to Saturn in Virgo. In some instances you are impotent to take action. In other instances, it is not appropriate to take action as you don't technically know what you know. However you DO know what you know but you aren't SUPPOSED to know it. Or if you say what you know, the other guy will have a good reason WHY what you want is not correct or why they can't or why you shouldn't. As I said, part of the purpose of the eclipse is to bring to light situations that have existed for a while but weren't being dealt with.

You have to deal with the situation(s) now. With the knowledge you have, you have to take actions to correct the matter. If you don't correct it, you will have to live like this for the next major chapter of your life. You have until September 11 to 15 to correct and fix the situations that you don't like or discover under the eclipses.

The time is now. Who you are is the result of choices you've made up to this point in your life. Where you are going next is going to be the outcome of the actions you start to take now, under these eclipses. Pluto is in Capricorn. Reality is here.

Now, that DOES NOT mean you have to quit your job, divorce your spouse, kill your sister or do any thing right this minute.. It does mean you need to make a plan. It does mean you know you have to change and start to take actions or steps towards it. It does mean that you KNOW you have to do something about it. It does mean you have a plan and start to work your plan. It does mean the universe wants you packing your bag and getting ready to take your long awaited show on the road. It is time. It is your life.


Why are you wasting a moment more of your life on situations, people or stories that don't work, support, love and adore you any more?