AstroFlash! Scorpio Solar Eclipse ~ October 23, 2014 2:56 pm PDT ~ by Jacqueline Lasahn

 

AstroFlash! Scorpio Solar Eclipse
~ October 23, 2014 2:56 pm PDT

~ by Jacqueline Lasahn

A solar eclipse intensifies the energy of beginnings activated by the New Moon. This lunation, in the first degree of Scorpio, sign of power, opens major window of change that will help the year’s end be the best season of 2014.

Its ruler, Pluto, has been a central player of the year’s tensions, thanks to a long-term square from uppity Uranus in Aries. In mutual reception with Saturn in Scorpio, Pluto has been helping us restructure our relationship with power, mostly power as projected onto certain figures who dominate the world scene, as well as circumstances and people that seem to control our lives. But power is actually a characteristic of the divine, one which we all share.

Whereas the Lunar Eclipse of October 8 activated the Dragon’s Tail, closing doors on the past, the present lunation conjuncts the Dragon’s Head, considered fortunate and opening the way for something new. It’s a key link in the return of the Sacred Feminine, initiated in 2012, when the Solstice Sun was symbolically reborn in the birth channel of our galaxy, as predicted by the Mayan thousands of years ago. For women—and receptive men (like those who read Daykeeper Journal)—it can open the way for living our deepest potential.


Scorpio is the sign of the witch, whose fierce goddess energy frightened the patriarchy in medieval Europe (and at one time or another in most of the world), causing women and their once honored powers to be suppressed. This isn’t to say that men don’t have some of the intensely transformative, magnetic energy associated with this sign, but its most ancient and strongest archetype is the female shaman. We think of witch-hunts as a thing of the past. Actually, they still take place, burnings and all, in some isolated parts of the world. There is also a subtler kind of hunt, in the form of social programming and inner voices, that makes us feel helpless or unworthy of power.


Goddesses are riding this Eclipse. Venus activates the love energy behind true empowerment, and Pallas Athena invites us to use our strategic skills to project the change we desire. Moon also trines Neptune as it transits Pisces, sign of its rule and of the Great Mother, throughout the current year and beyond. If you are or would like to be a teacher, healer or spiritual growth facilitator, this eclipse will empower and especially open that path.


What does empowerment mean to you? Is it the strength to focus on your spiritual awareness? The faith and confidence to live your potential? To love yourself and overcome deep feelings of unworthiness? To be free from a constant sense of fear? To stop waiting for someone or something to help you, and strike out on your own? Whatever it may be, the forces of the dark goddess are with you and will respond to your invocation...."


More: 

http://www.daykeeperjournal.com/2014/10/new-moon-scorpio-eclipse/?mc_cid=cc318936a1&mc_eid=e71c237d3d