Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
—Winston Churchill
On September 2nd, a New Moon will grace the sky at 11° Virgo 04’ at 9:55 pm EDT. Those born under the sign of Virgo are often tasked to navigate their lives with critical discernment and demand for perfection. Even those spared a prominence of Virgo’s razor-sharp cutting edge must work on themselves even if the 6th House seems devoid of resident planets. There is still a sign on the cusp and a planet that rules that sign. We can grow forward along our evolutionary path by responding positively to the crises on our doorstep, or we can go kicking and screaming. Better to bow to master Mercury and let him have his way.
A double kite formation consisting of two (not so) minor and two grand trines is at the core of this lunation. Pluto and Neptune at the 29th anaretic degree of Capricorn and Uranus retrograde in Taurus forms a kite that engages Venus in her native Libra conjunct the lunar south node. Capricorn and its ruler, Saturn, are strict taskmasters. Their dynamics can be suppressive, repressive, and oppressive. They represent authority and demand that we recognize it. Like Pluto, in their way, “they take no prisoners.” However, they teach mastery and skills that we need to learn and better navigate 3D reality as we age and mature. Pluto, Venus, and Goddess of War and Strategy Pallas Athene in Scorpio (ruled by non-negotiable Pluto) form a kite with Uranus. The two “kited” crosses comprise two-thirds of a “Star of David” configuration. The archetypal dynamics of this chart are closely engaged, each supporting the other. Asteroid Astraea, the Greek Goddess of Justice, anchors one arm of the grand trine.
The oppositions to Neptune and Pallas are the resolution points, the “deus ex machina” to the “tri-bunal.” When events seem to be going sideways, engage with that which is greater than yourself, what is spiritual, metaphysical, transcendent (Neptune), to find solutions to difficult emotional situations and people that want to overwhelm you. Allow the impulses from your right brain (Jupiter), higher mind (Pallas Athene), and the seemingly impossible ideas and solutions that arise intuitively (Neptune) to pollinate and grow. Injustice is a viral variant out of control. (Astrea).
The Virgo Moon,
Applies to an Earth/Fire Grand Trine:
(Last Quarter) waxing square to dwarf planet Ceres
(First Quarter) waning square asteroid Hygeia retrograde.
Applies to a (Gibbous) waxing Opposition to Saturn in Pisces retrograde.
Separates from a (Gibbous) Sesquisquare to Eris in Aries retrograde.
Applies to a (1st Quarter) waxing squares to dwarf planet. Sedna Retrograde in Gemini and Jupiter in Gemini.
There are some tricky twists and turns on the road ahead. Unified, high-octane energy is woven through this celestial pictogram, remarkably intensified by the retrograde conditions of many of the planets, especially the outer “heavies,” Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Watch out for blindspots (Neptune), sudden, unexpected (Uranus) events initiate (new moon) karmic/evolutionary (lunar nodes) changes.
Pluto, now retrograde in Aquarius, is poised to re-enter Capricorn for the last time on September 1st, the day before the new moon. It will station direct again on October 11th and re-enter Aquarius on November 19th, where it will be resident until 2043-4.
Mars rules the lunar north node, our karmic potentials going forward: control anger and impulsive action, something we need to do even in calmer times. Make conscious choices. Act on what best supports your personal growth. Venus rules the lunar south node, our karmic history from the past. Identify what your critical priorities are if complex events unfold. What values are most important and must be held as sacred? Every crisis is an opportunity for change. Actively and consciously support that process. We do not have to repeat the same mistakes as the past (lunar south node). We can choose to make different, conscious choices to avoid repeated trauma. (Lunar north node/Uranus)
An underlying remedy to navigate emotional turbulence will be nurturing ourselves in healthy ways, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Take long walks. Spend some time in nature, especially in places where there is no city light. Read poetry. Soak in hot tubs and mineral springs. Help others. Volunteer. Nurture yourself.
Every crisis is an opportunity for change. We are passing through an evolutionary vortex energetically exposing our karmic necessities.
A full moon will occur at 27° Aquarius 15’ on August 19th at 2:25 EDT. It is called the Sturgeon Moon. The Maine Farmer’s Almanac began publishing Native American names for full Moons in the 1930s, and these names have become widely known and used. According to this almanac, the Algonquin tribes in what is now the northeastern USA called this the Sturgeon Moon after the large fish that were more easily caught this time of year in the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water.
This full moon is also a supermoon. As it’s used today, the word supermoon was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979. According to Nolle’s definition, a full moon or new moon is a supermoon when it’s also within 90% of its closest point to Earth.1
At the full moon, Uranus in Taurus will perfect to a fixed element T-Square in that celestial moment. Uranus is the game-changer, manifesting what is unexpected, often traumatic, but usually progressive with long-term positive effects. Pluto retrograde in Aquarius squares the Sun and Moon, forming a partile (exact) fixed element T-square. Pluto, along with Neptune retrograde in Pisces, forms a “finger of god” Yod formation focused on the Leo Sun. These powerful outer planet dynamics create deep emotional rhythms, swirling pooled eddies of fears and memories of holocausts past. Human behavior echoes these tremors with “stranger than fiction” reenactment.
Saturn retrograde in Pisces opposes Venus in Virgo. They both square Mars-Jupiter in Gemini, forming a mutable T-square. Clashing views and opinions challenge ideas, beliefs, values, priorities, and authority itself.
Pallas Athene in Scorpio completes a fourth angle to the Pluto-Sun-Moon T-square, forming a fixed grand cross. Fixed crosses correlate to the long-term build-up of unreleased tensions.
Pallas is also the focal point of a “finger of God” Yod formation from Mars and Chiron retrograde in Aries. Mars is just beginning to separate from a new phase conjunction with Jupiter in Gemini. Mars is the god, and Pallas Athene is the goddess of War. Jupiter pulls their strings from “on high,” expanding and directing their roles. These two powerful Yods will act as a trigger mechanism to release the pent-up energetic stresses that have been building over time.
Mars and Jupiter are conjunct fixed star Aldebaran, which is linked with integrity and honesty. Aldebaran is one of the Royal Stars of Persia, called the “Watcher in the East.” Aldebaran was a great military god who gave victories to his followers, but only if they followed the strict procedures of his worship.2
This angular pressure from the Grand Cross and the Yods, as well as the potential for conflagration from the fire energy embedded in the explosive nature of Aries and Mars, the amplified erratic nature of Pluto at 0° Aquarius, the expansive dynamics of Jupiter are a recipe for a firestorm of disaster.
Guns are drawn and ready to be fired around the world. In the Middle East, the situation is ripe for explosive release between Israel and Iran, with the US engaged militarily as well. The incursion of Ukraine troops into Russia is still unfolding, and given the unpredictability, egotism, and intractability of Vladimir Putin, the situation is a powder keg. Threat-filled Chinese posturing vis-a-vis Taiwan and the South China Seas is also a ticking timebomb.
In the United States, with the US election only months away, the potential is rapidly developing that the outcome for Kamala Harris to deliver a historical turnout and potential win. It no longer seems to be so much a question of who will be elected. The burgeoning outcome presages the “firestorm” threatened by Donald Trump as the aftermath.
It is important to remember and hold onto the truth that these metamorphoses are the karmic necessities, the harbingers of a major planetary evolutionary shift. As human beings, we do not grow through mental exercise. We learn through direct emotional experience. It will be okay in the end. If it is not okay, it is because it is not the end.
The Cancer New Moon occurs on July 5th, 2024, at 6:57 PM EDT. The lunation occurs midway through the Moon’s native sign and generates powerful emotional currents that initiate a new cycle of self-understanding. This cycle asks us to question our values and priorities, challenging our ideas and opinions set in stone. This lunation empowers our individuality and authenticity, potentially realigning our relationships with ourselves and others.
As the recent and distant past converge, they bring to light realities we can no longer ignore. This convergence will prompt us to recognize the need for enlightened self-care in dramatic ways that offer no opportunity for compromise. Be vigilant for erratic actions by others and be prepared to find mental, emotional, and perhaps physical refuge to avoid the turmoil. This is a time when self-care is not just a luxury but a necessity, a comforting anchor in the storm.
The antidote to the upheaval is to seek shelter from the storm in the people, places, activities, and visions that comfort you. The earth beneath our feet, physically and spiritually, is changing. So are we. Visualize a vessel of clear white light that radiates, surrounds, and protects you. Dream where you want the future to take us. Visualize your part in the journey.
“Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.”
—Kenny Ausubel “Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature”
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
On June 20th, the Summer Solstice occurs at 4:51 pm EDT. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is the longest day and shortest night of the year as the Sun reaches its zenith, its highest point in the sky. It is the celestial moment when the Sun is most powerful. In the Southern Hemisphere, the Sun reaches its nadir, the shortest day of the year and the longest night. We can feel a tangible shift as we reach the astrological midpoint of the year. This cardinal point opens our inner space through our emotional bodies. It is time to go inward, opening your heart space to ourselves, our family, and everything that nurtures body and soul. Midsummer is the Pagan holiday that dates back centuries, celebrating the changing seasons. Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” tells how love can make us behave strangely, captivated by our heart’s desire. We can all feel this emotional stirring as we pass through this celestial moment.
At the Solstice, the Sun enters the sign of Cancer under a restless Sagittarius Moon. Venus and Mercury seek sanctuary within the Moon’s protective and nurturing embrace. Luna’s energies undulate, deeply embedded in the swirling experiential Sagittarian events that awaken our minds and hearts. Discussions revolve around values and priorities, spanning a spectrum of personal and sometimes discordant expressions. Our hearts and heads are charged with active agendas, often in conflict.
Mercury and Venus are stressed by the lunar nodes, creating a “skipped step” condition. It seems that every day brings news of catastrophe, carnage, or courtroom drama, which lays bare the truth that our collective values and priorities ignore the potential of looming future cataclysms due to inaction, lack of oversight, and regressive public policies and attitudes.
Pluto retrograde casts an angular shadow across the Sun as he inches back, seeking some Capricorn sense of security and control. For a few weeks from early September to mid-November, Pluto will re-anchor our intentions and self-empowerment as it idles over the final degree of Capricorn one last time before returning to Aquarius, parceling out Uranian energy for the next twenty years.
Neptune, in the final moments of his native signs of Pisces, exhibits angst and disillusionment. Its difficult relationship with the Lunar stellium in Cancer adds to the emotional stress. “When are we going to get our priorities straight?” Our higher minds and intuition are awakened as the god of water and the sea connects with strategists Pallas Athene, Uranus, and Sedna. Pluto empowers Neptune with highly individualized self-expression, while Vesta overlays the need for sacred authenticity. Astraea reminds Neptune of the injustices that abound in our awareness.
Neptune’s square to the Sun in the final zodiacal moments of Pisces and its opposition to the Lunar South Node illuminates our decline towards a historical, social, and political precipice. Fate already hangs heavy over the moment. The Lunar South node ruled by Mars chants a choral message again, asking, “Isn’t it time that we stopped repeating the past as the future?” Eris rattles our cage with contentious questions that evade answers.
Take time to escape the summer “heat” or the brutal Arctic cold, depending on your earthly latitude. Seek refuge in the natural world. Immerse yourself in your favorite healthy pleasures: bike, hike, camp, rockhound, wildcraft, paint en plein-air, and find refuge among family and friends. The storms will continue to rage around and eventually subside, but we can now weather the storm by finding shelter in our favorite people, places, and things.
“There are no sidelines. There’s no one sitting this one out. This is no hoping that someone else is going to come in and save the day. There is no cavalry. We are the cavalry.”
On May 25, 2024, a significant celestial event unfolded as Jupiter embarked on a transformative journey, entering the sign of Gemini. This marked the beginning of a twelve-month internship, a period that holds profound implications for its impact on our time.
As the ruler of Sagittarius, Jupiter shares a unique and powerful bond with the sign of Gemini, forming an archetypal singularity. This bond, a polarity that encapsulates our mental nature, spans from the data and facts we collect to our expansive beliefs. Gemini, the student and the learning process, and Sagittarius, the teacher and the knowledge dissemination process, mirror this polarity. Gemini represents our neighborhood and local community, while Sagittarius encompasses the larger world and the diverse belief systems within any large group of individuals.
As Jupiter approaches the Sun and Venus in Gemini, opportunities for new growth and self-actualization will arise, as well as focus on real priorities and more thought-out agendas. Some help comes from Neptune in Pisces to dream new realities that replace outworn actualities.
At the ingress, Pluto, retrograde in Aquarius, embeds Jupiter with a powerful energetic boost of individuality and creativity. The frequency also carries a sense of aloofness and distance. Jupiter peers into Pluto’s rearview mirror to assess the past. How has power been exercised? How has individuality been expressed? Has creativity generated anything new, or does it just seem like overworked same-old, same-old?
The Moon in Capricorn casts an emotional crisis-laden light that pressures Jupiter to work to restructure the shape of things. The proximity of Jupiter’s recent meetup with Uranus tells us that we should continue to expect an increase in erratic, individualized behavior politically and with the weather. Jupiter is aligned with nature in all its aspects, including climate. The Moon in Jupiter’s native sign will redouble the intensity of our collective experiences.
Challenging aspects to the lunar nodes say that the fate of the future is being ignored due to involuntary adherence to the past. What we call destiny hangs in the balance. We are repeating the mistakes of the past, not working on what needs to change, and preventing progress from occurring. Too many realize that the “dream” has gone dark from their perspective.
Pallas Athene confronts her father (Zeus/Jupiter), offering strategies for new breakthroughs. But commitment is required to become effective. This Jupiter transit has the potential to create the building blocks for the future that address the increasing potential of horizon extinction events that we face as neighborhood, nation, and planet.
The second part of my Pluto Paradigm series, “Pluto in your Natal Chart: Houses 1-6,” is on the Kepler College YouTube channel. Find out what Evolutionary Astrology has to say about your natal Pluto placement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYN_AhpZcZM
As Spring whispers its emergence in the north and Autumn pipes retreat in the south, we feel Gaia’s energy shift and reverse gears. We feel intoxicated by the sight of tender emerald sprouts poking up through the ground or the musty heady smell of falling leaves.
In the heavens above, the stars and planets mirror the terrestrial changes heralding the advent of a new dawn. Birth is a challenging process. It is a painful delivery and a mystical birth. In a way, death is much easier. It just happens. Birth is another story altogether.
Astrologically, we are moving through the birth canal. There is the release of blood and the shadows of past trauma. As April unfolds, we will be visited by both.
On April 1st at 27° Aries, Hermes stands still, preparing to begin his backward march. Dane Rudhyar calls this celestial marker, “A large audience confronts the performer who disappointed its expectations. The necessity for mature preparation and self-criticism.”
At this degree, the Winged Messenger will trace his steps back to 15° Aries on April 25, activating complex personal geometry with Saturn in Pisces and Pluto in Aquarius. Saturn is uneasy in watery, boundless Pisces. Too many emotions flood the senses, weakening mental constructs, which will have a positive outcome. Pluto is enthusiastic in Aquarius, churning deep currents of emotional growth. Who we are becoming, individually and collectively, is directed to overcome what has become stagnant. The overflow of the Sun conjunct the lunar north node, and Chiron and Eris conjunct the Mercury station in Aries is the celestial petrie dish for self-actualized evolutionary growth. The planetary lineup of Mars, Saturn, Venus, and Neptune in Pisces is the fertile, watery abyss awakening new consciousness and connecting to Spirit.
A last-quarter “crisis in consciousness” Moon opposing asteroid Vesta and Astraea sets up a Cardinal Grand Cross squaring the lunar nodes. A “Finger of God” yod formation pointing at the Moon intensifies the necessity for resolving a “skipped” evolutionary step. Emotional distortions harbored from the past must be examined and reintegrated as a positive understanding of the potency and purpose of crisis and trauma. Authenticity and addressing injustice are high on the agenda.
An Earth Grand Trine to the Moon conjunct Ceres from Jupiter conjunct Uranus in Taurus and Juno Rx in Virgo speaks to reviewing our commitment to nurturing the process of becoming. Ceres carries karmic history with the Moon and lunar south node. Ceres evokes the mythology of Demeter and Persephone: divine Mother, her molested daughter, and the sexual misconduct of an older family member. Rape has many manifestations. Sadistic rape. War rape. Rape of the land. To name a few. We have been seeing evidence of this around us.
Saturn “kites out” the grand trine, emphasizing that the way forward is by taking responsibility for what we do.
A total solar eclipse occurs on April 8th at 20° Aries. It will be visible across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Its pathway will run from Mexico to Maine. This is the new moon event that initiates the next lunar cycle. The Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury, Chiron, Eris, Hygeia, and the Lunar North Node span the sign of Aries.
Mars, the ruler of the Aries array, is in Pisces. His fire never goes out. In water signs, it simmers below the surface or boils over. The archetype of Pisces is programmed for deep feelings and emotions. It is not always the most balanced. Boundaries are obscured or absent altogether, making us feel off balance and on shaky ground. Saints, saviors, and martyrs populate the cast. So do those who would betray, abandon, and misinform us. With a crisis-producing inconjunct from the Moon to Mars and Saturn, hidden agendas and aggression are possible.
Neptune is at Pisces’s anaretic (very last) degree and is the baseline for Mars and Saturn. This is a “ring not pass” condition. Some essential evolutionary changes must now occur for progress and resolution.
The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Taurus makes a difficult angle to the Moon. Self-serving agendas can populate unexpected events and rattle personal boundaries for security and self-reliance. The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction on April 20 is the major outer planet event of 2024, second in importance only to Pluto’s transit of Aquarius. This heavy outer planet cycle underscores and sets the evolving base note for Pluto over the next twelve years.
The Ceres-Astraea opposition sets up a Cardinal Grand Cross. Asteroid Astraea’s karmic burden involves the Sun and the lunar north node. Astraea was the virgin goddess of justice. During the Golden Age, she dwelt upon the earth with mankind but was driven away by the increasing lawlessness. Zeus then set her amongst the stars as the constellation Virgo. Astraea was closely identified with the goddesses Dike (Justice) and Nemesis (Rightful Indignation).
Neptune is at Pisces’s anaretic (very last) degree and is the baseline for Mars and Saturn. This is a “ring not pass” condition. Some essential evolutionary changes must now occur for progress and resolution.
An Earth Grand Trine from the Moon in Virgo and Ceres in Capricorn trines Jupiter and Uranus at their conjunction. Self-reliance, self-nurturing, and work on the self is the recipe for success through this timeframe. We need to ask ourselves some hard questions. Who am I becoming? Where have I not taken responsibility for my deeds and actions? What do I need to work on to be a better me?
An almost Star of David forms as Mercury stations and amalgamates the frequencies of the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Ceres, and Astraea. This portends an open channel for deep personal examination, responsibility for our choices, and the direction our lives are going. However, these are trines, not squares or oppositions. We must consciously work with them to activate their potential. If we don’t wake up to what is happening, this opportunity will drift by in the wind.
An eclipse season is an approximate 35-day period during which at least two (and possibly three) eclipses will occur. Typically, there are two eclipses in one eclipse season and two eclipse seasons in one calendar year. Eclipse seasons typically have at least four eclipses per year. Eclipse seasons repeat in cycles of 173.3 days (somewhat shy of six calendar months).
To see a lunar eclipse, the moon has to be above your horizon. So it has to be night, or close to night, and that only happens for half of Earth at once. A total solar eclipse can be seen only from a narrow track along Earth’s surface. The accompanying partial solar eclipse can be seen only in areas adjacent to that track. The moon’s orbit is inclined by 5 degrees to the ecliptic (Earth’s orbital plane). The new or full moon usually swings too far north or south of the ecliptic for an eclipse to occur.
Twice every month, as the moon circles Earth in its orbit, it crosses the ecliptic (Earth’s orbital plane) at the nodes. If the moon is going from south to north, it’s called the moon’s ascending node, and if it is moving from north to south, it’s called the moon’s descending node.
Eclipses are evolutionary release valves. Karmic energy that has been resisted or denied demands an outlet. Lunar eclipses are intense emotional releases. Solar eclipses are the intense unfolding of self-actualized soul-intended life changes.
The Lunar Nodes
The south node correlates to the past, what has come before. It is the composite of our previous lunar personalities and our emotional bodies. The north node points towards the future. But it is a “probable” future. More than one potential future stretches out from the present. The choices that we make in the present direct the future. When we repeat the choices of the past as the present, the past repeats as the future. If we make different choices, we create a future different from the past and the present.
“In your terms, there are unlimited probable future events for which you are now setting the groundwork. The nature of the thoughts and feelings you originate and those that you habitually or characteristically receive set a pattern, so you will choose from those probable futures those events that will physically become your experience.” —Seth Speaks (Channeled by Jane Roberts)
Pisces New Moon
The new moon on March 10th at 21° Pisces signals the onset of the first eclipse season of 2024. There is a sense of dormant incubation to this new moon. This current full moon feels like a powder keg preparing to explode in astrological and mundane times. All the planets are sandwiched between Jupiter and Pluto, packed into a wide 1st quarter, “crisis-in-action” square of latent compressed and unresolved emotional energy. Mars and Pluto in Aquarius are the flashpoints, flint on steel. The pressure of this karmic “hand grenade in a steel box” will continue to strengthen until the full moon lunar eclipse on March 25th, when the energies will be unleashed.
Libra Lunar Eclipse
A Penumbral Lunar Eclipse occurs at 1:00 a.m. MST at 5° Libra. Eclipses occur in 18-year cycles known as Saros cycles. It is part of Saros Series 113, which last occurred in 2006. That year, the International Astronomical Union defined a “planet” for the first time since Galileo, demoting Pluto to dwarf planet status. Ironically, it was also the year that NASA sent its first probe to Pluto. This eclipse will be visible and most energetically active across North and South America, Western Africa, and Eastern Australia.
A lunar eclipse can occur only when the full Moon is within 11° degrees of either lunar node. A solar eclipse can occur only when the new Moon is within 17° of either lunar node.
A full moon is a point of release. A lunar eclipse is a full moon on steroids. Often, something has been building for months or even years. Something major in life comes up for review and revision. The balloon is up. A flag is raised.
Libra is about balance and equilibrium, establishing a rapport between opposing forces, opinions, and personal perspectives. At this full moon, the relationship goddess Venus, the sign that rules Libra, resides in Pisces and is sandwiched between Saturn and Neptune. Libra mirrors our relationship with others. More importantly, Venus, as the ruler of Taurus, mirrors our relationship with ourselves. Both sides of this astrological equation are active. “How do I love me/thee? Let me count the ways.
Mars, the ruler of the Aries array, is also in Pisces. His fire never goes out. In water signs, it simmers below the surface or boils over. The archetype of Pisces is programmed for deep feelings and emotions. It is not always the most balanced. Boundaries are obscured or absent altogether, making us feel off balance and on shaky ground. Saints, saviors, and martyrs populate the cast. So do those who would betray, abandon, and misinform us. With a crisis-producing inconjunct from the Moon to Mars and Saturn, hidden agendas and aggression are possible. A waning trine from the Moon to Pluto in Aquarius does nothing to relieve the pressure. Instead, it cries out for an outlet to release the heavy emotional burden. It is false to think that trines and sextiles are good and squares, oppositions, inconjuncts, and sesquisquares are bad. The facilitating aspects can make us couch potatoes. They come and go unnoticed. The hard aspects get us up off the couch.
The Moon on the lunar south node carries a heavy emotional payload from the past. The Aries Sun on the lunar north node activates sudden, impulsive, knee-jerk responses.
The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Taurus makes a difficult angle to the Moon. Self-serving agendas can populate unexpected events and rattle personal boundaries for security and self-reliance. The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction on April 20 is the major outer planet event of 2024, second in importance only to Pluto’s transit of Aquarius. This heavy outer planet cycle underscores and sets the evolving base note for Pluto over the next twelve years.
A Ceres-Astraea opposition sets up a Cardinal Grand Cross at both eclipses as the pair square the lunar nodes. Any celestial body squaring the lunar nodes creates what is known as a skipped step condition. Ceres carries karmic history with the Moon and lunar south node. Ceres evokes the mythology of Demeter and Persephone. Divine Mother, her molested daughter, and the sexual misconduct of an older family member. Rape has many manifestations. Sadistic rape. War rape. Rape of the land. To name a few. We have been seeing evidence of this around us.
Asteroid Astraea’s karmic burden involves the Sun and the lunar north node. Astraea was the virgin goddess of justice. During the Golden Age, she dwelt upon the earth with mankind but was driven away by the increasing lawlessness. Zeus then set her amongst the stars as the constellation Virgo. Astraea was closely identified with the goddesses Dike (Justice) and Nemesis (Rightful Indignation). — https://www.theoi.com/Titan/Astraia.html
At the Libra Lunar Eclipse, Mars’s opposition to Juno draws a mutable grand cross in the sky, squaring an opposition between Pallas Athene and the minor planet Sedna. This celestial mix pulls together elements that speak to fidelity and commitment (Juno) to our free spirit (Mars), accessing higher knowledge (Pallas Athene) and increased consciousness (Sedna).
Aries Solar Eclipse
A total solar eclipse occurs on April 8th at 20° Aries. It will be visible across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Its pathway will run from Southern California to Maine. This is the new moon event that initiates the next lunar cycle. The Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury, Chiron, Eris, Hygeia, and the Lunar North Node span the sign of Aries. The leader of the pack is Mars conjunct Saturn in Pisces, detailed above. Neptune is at Pisces’s anaretic (very last) degree and is the baseline for Mars and Saturn. This is a “ring not pass” condition. Some essential evolutionary changes must now occur for progress and resolution.
This eclipse will be visible across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Its pathway will run from Southern California to Maine.
How To Navigate The Eclipses
Overall, the Fire signs Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius can navigate these turbulent waters by allowing themselves to openly express what they need to do to help themselves grow and move forward. Set a controlled backburn to limit the damage and voice an alternative dialog when necessary
Earth signs Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn can safely navigate this eclipse by finding their self-authority and self-nurturing. Commit to your sense of self-worth and individuality. Express your authenticity. Become your mother or perhaps your father.
Those with primary planets in Water signs Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces will be okay if they practice self-care adhering to their values and priorities. Follow your heart-centered vision.
Air signs Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius will find safe passage by self-empowering. Practice self-care. Allow what comes to you intuitively to override what you think is the rational solution. Pay attention to whatever comes to you out of left field, even if it feels bizarre.
Ceres is approaching the south node of Pluto. I will have more to say about the planetary nodes in another article. Put your effort into caring for those you love. Begin with yourself. We chose to be born in these times. It is not what happens that makes the difference. It is how we respond to it. Carpe diem.
These guidelines are based on the four elements: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Knowing the actual details of a natal chart yields a much deeper understanding of how these celestial events will personally impact you. Whenever we look at any transit, the impact will depend on the consciousness brought to the event. More self-awareness can potentiate a wider range of expression. Less self-awareness will limit the ability to navigate the transit without intense karmic necessity. In all cases, the degree of intensity of the event will correlate directly to what we each need to grow forward. I encourage you to contact me for a personal eclipse reading that will focus directly on what is impacting you now.
