MY GRATITUDE
to everyone who attended my webinar last week! I appreciate your
positive feedback, and also the suggestion to provide the slideshow
beforehand for printing and note-taking. We'll make sure to do that for
the next event in early July.
If
you missed this class, where I talked about planetary influences for
the next six months, no worries! You can still purchase the replay,
calendars, and slideshow. Just send an email to pam@northpointastrology.com with "Webinar Replay" in the subject line, and I'll reply with details.
Now, back to the show.
WE'VE ALREADY been
working with the influences of tonight's Total Lunar Eclipse for
several days, and we'll continue to feel its effects throughout the
coming week. In varying degrees, we will also work with the issues
brought forward by the eclipse for
the next six months, until our next pair of eclipses in July.
Here
are the essential elements of the eclipse, which reaches totality at
9:12 pm PST tonight (Sunday, January 20). Some of these I touched on in
last week's Journal, but all bear further exploration:
The Sun, Moon, Mercury, and North and South Nodes all in square aspect to Uranus and Eris. This
is a powerhouse T-square configuration, auguring major changes in how
we go about business in our personal lives and in the world at large. It
can stir up considerable anger (Eris), and contains the seeds of new,
revolutionary ideas that can alter our trajectory (Mercury square
Uranus).
The Moon in Leo conjunct the North Node in Cancer.
This is a North Node eclipse, which helps propel us further along our
evolutionary path. Events that occur now -- even the challenging ones --
are integral to the development of positive potentials in the future.
This conjunction across sign boundaries is complicated, since the fiery
impact of Leo the Lion, King of the Jungle, does
not merge well with the watery influence of Cancer the Crab, Nurturer
and Protector. When fire and water combine, we tend to see a lot of
steam.
However, in large enough quantities, water can also extinguish fire. We
might see this Moon-North Node alignment as representing a greater
shift that is occurring. This is the last eclipse of the Leo-Aquarius
polarity, a cycle that has been with us since 2017. After tonight, all
eclipses for the next 18 months will activate the Cancer-Capricorn axis.
We are moving from an emphasis on masculine signs to an activation of
feminine signs. The spotlight that has been trained on leaders and
showmanship now begins to highlight public opinion and the protection of
those who cannot defend themselves.
Mars in Aries square Saturn in Capricorn. Both
of these planets are in signs where they are strengthened, so this
square represents even further entrenchment in positions that are at
odds with each other. In brief, Mars in Aries support the rights of the
individual, while Saturn in Capricorn has its intentions firmly focused
on a goal, and is determined to accomplish that goal,
even if it means resorting to domination and control.
Venus conjunct Jupiter, conjunct the Great Attractor. Venus
and Jupiter are both "benefic" planets, usually symbolizing qualities
that we would call positive. When the two meet at the same degree of the
zodiac, we might expect heart expansion that allows greater love and
abundance to enter our energy fields. We could also anticipate enhanced
creativity and beauty to unfold in our art
and in our relationships. But with the two planets also aligned with the
Great Attractor (GA), we need to add another level of interpretation to
the mix.
The
GA is a gigantic black hole that is highly magnetic. It is drawing
towards itself our Milky Way galaxy and all other galaxies that are a
part of our "supercluster." By astronomers' calculations, we are moving
in the direction of the GA at a rate of 370 miles per second. But, at
the same time, the GA is also moving through space, being drawn
magnetically towards the Shapley
Supercluster.
Astronomers
also tell us that black holes are the source of all that is in their
vicinity -- which means that the GA is in some way the source of our
Milky Way galaxy. Symbolically, this inexorable movement towards the GA
represents our ongoing evolution -- and our journey home to Source. And
yet, at the same time, our Source is also evolving, being pulled to its
Source.
All
of that is a lot to digest! So what does it mean that Venus and
Jupiter, at the time of the eclipse, are aligned with each other and
also aligned with the GA?
I
think it certainly raises all of those positive qualities mentioned
earlier -- heart expansion, love, abundance, creativity, beauty -- to a
somewhat cosmic level. We might experience this energy as heightened
creativity and connection, either physically or metaphysically. It most
certainly provides the energy and opportunity to expand our concepts of
love, relationship, and beauty beyond the
confines of mundane reality and human definition. We are transported in
some way, if we can allow the experience to occur, and assisted in
evolving to being more heart-centered than before.
(The
energy of this alignment feels quite elevating, but not very grounding.
I've had to stop twice while writing about it to get my brain back in
gear so that I could keep the words flowing in some kind of meaningful
order!)
Mars trine Jupiter. This
aspect will be exact on Friday, but is also contained in the eclipse
chart. It is another positive influence, one that enables us to take
action (Mars) on our higher wisdom (Jupiter). There's not a lot of
restraint about this combination of
energies, especially with both planets in signs that they rule, and in
fire signs. If we are on track with the positive unfolding of our
reality, we can use this energy to catapult ourselves a few light years
ahead of our current location.
I DID A SHORT INTERVIEW with Elsie Kerns yesterday about the eclipse. The video is now posted to YouTube:
The
colorful graphic at the top of today's Journal is by Sherri A.
Nicholas, LMT, LPTA, EEM-CP. She created it after watching the 15-minute
interview about the eclipse. I'm fully impressed at how she captured
all the individual components! And I am pleased to share her inspiring
work with you.
Enjoy
this powerful Total Lunar Eclipse and the week to come -- may we all
reap the most positive blessings and potentials of this time!
IF YOUR BIRTHDAY IS THIS WEEK: As
an Aquarius, your natural tendency is to be on the forefront of
possibilities. You are the progressive thinker, and dedicated to new
ideas and how they may come to be realized, usually for the highest good
of the
collective. But even progressives are challenged to think outside the
box from time to time, often due to the need to incorporate the ideas of
others. If your birthday is in the first half of the week, you've
already been working with some of those challenges over the past year,
and will continue in that vein for a few more months. If your birthday
is in the last half of the week, you are entering a time of shifting
energies that is likely to alter your course in some way. For all those
who have
birthdays this week, this is a time of reinventing yourself and some
area of your life, so that it becomes a more accurate representation of
your authentic self. This year relates to another time in your life,
about 21 to 22 years ago, when you also experienced major change. Now it
is time to take the next step in your self-understanding and
self-awareness, so that the life you create from here feels even more
fully your own.
In Gratitude and Light,
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