The last eclipse of 2016 is also third in a series of three eclipses, taking place with a Full Moon lunar eclipse this Friday 16th or Saturday 17th, depending upon where you are in the world. At 24° 20′ PISCES, and @19:03 UT,
it’s worth noting how this Full Moon penumbral eclipse highlights the
visible and the invisible, the real and imagined, with psychic threads
connecting heaven to earth. We won’t actually see Luna turn red, instead
the Moon will only appear slightly darker (over Europe/Africa); but
because it is the Full MOON closest to the season-changing equinox, when
geomagnetic activity is already heightened and Earth’s auroras and
magnetic fields are stronger, we are cosmically bound to feel a powerful
surge of deep emotions which an eclipse in a water sign arouses; these
feelings can illuminate and connect the natural beauty of the
heart-mind, as well as bring to light the previously hidden or
unconscious.
For those who have planets in either the
sign of the Fish, Pisces, or the purifying Goddess, Virgo (check your
horoscope, especially around 20-28 degrees of the mutable signs (Sag and
Gemini included), looking for long-term timing within the coming
turning points – because eclipses always present some kind of watershed
moment – look back to August 2007 when taking stock of where you are
now, examining (during this currently detailed obsessed retrograde
Mercury) what kind of conditions are being created for the future in
very practical terms; then project forward to September 2024. This is
when our next set of Pisces-Virgo eclipses will take place. So instead
of now feeling like you have little or no control over what might be in
store (which can happen when Piscean energy abounds), this Full Moon
also suggests visualisation is instrumental when unlocking the power of
the mind, and is the precursor to solidifying long-held dreams. It’s a
great time to make a creatively empowering ‘vision board’ and send the
message out into the universe of not what ‘stuff’ you want, but how you
would like to feel in the future. This
is not to say concretising certain dreams can’t or won’t happen sooner,
as they can and will (again, check your scope for timing), or that the
journey to fulfilment isn’t more important than the goal, as the only
time that really matters is ‘now’. But in a world that naïvely demands
instant results, it is sometimes more helpful to think in ways that one
can abide happily, all-the-while dedicating towards the realisation of
long-term objectives. Remember: it can take lifetimes to achieve
enlightenment and that forgiveness and kind-heartedness are the
all-important means to awakening awareness, fulfilment and attainment.
Pisces easily senses what others are
doing through its ability to tap into the unsaid by reading between the
lines. A simple brushstroke on a painting, a note within a tune, a swish
of fabric or a glance or look can often tell Pisces everything it needs
to know; for the sign of the Fish most situations are often felt on an
intensely psychic level before any actual manifestation takes place. In
the reflective light of this Full Moon, I cannot emphasise enough how
the importance of working with our intuition is currently heightened
(especially now, with the exact third and final Saturn-Neptune Square in
conjunction with the Full Moon, when an irresistible force meets
immoveable object).
Pisces also helps us to release into the
void feelings that prevent us from moving on with a happy heart. Even if
it means making a sacrifice for the great good of the whole, this Full
Moon can even help realise how we play unconscious power games of victim
or martyr, wanting to be either the saviour or be saved, as sinner or
saint. There are, however, different expressions of wanting to make the
world, our world, a better place. We can work on a very practical level,
for instance, with unseen bio-energy, by understanding the living
biofield, with its interacting, pulsing electro-magnetism, can actually
have a huge impact upon our everyday lives, enabling the creation of the
changes we want to see.
The presently exalted Mercury, retrograde
in Virgo, asks us to be practical about our innate sensitivity to our
personal and interpersonal environment (and continues to implore that we
remain level-headed (especially with invisible energy) until the end of
the separating shadow period, Oct 6th);
it’s those strange, funny feelings in our bones or waters, or
sensations in the pit of our stomach that now also clamour to be
acknowledged, listened to and dealt with in a very practical manner,
i.e. with benevolence, working towards the greater good of all (not just
humans, or those we personally know, but for all beings, seen and
unseen).
As the Moon now begins to connect to the
South Node (aka Ketu, or the Dragon’s tail) many will tune into the
collective undercurrent, with all its infectious hysteria. If you find
yourself ‘picking-up’ subconscious but overwhelming emotions, which when
analysed you sense are not yours (or even if they are) know they too
will pass. Instances of ‘Deja vu’ are almost bound to slip through the
rip in the fabric of space-time this lunar eclipse presents, so that
feeling of ‘already experienced’ could even be a past-life connection;
the trick is to reflect and try to remember what happens next, in order
to direct life more lucidly.
While this is a Moon phase when one could
be easily swept away by the oceanic, hopefully by a song and dance,
sound or gesture, there are other important celestial factors to
consider: because this Pisces Moon is also with its’ divinely inspired
ruler Neptune, associated by a wide orb of 14 degrees; Luna is closer to
the witnessing wounded-healer, Shamanic Chiron, which is at 22° degrees. Putting
these astrological pointers together, and coming from the global
perspective, one might say this Lunar eclipse highlights a need to
observe the underlying deep disturbance coming to light which concerns
the element of water; and from a personal level, this will affect
emotions which flow through the body. It is rather fitting that all over
the world people are now realising the importance of clean water
(during the Virgo-Pisces axis); not just for physical health, but also
how such purity resonates with the clarity of our own feelings; as the
human body is made up of anything from 65-90% water, helping ourselves
to be less complicated or polluted by disturbing emotions means that we
are also able to of greater affect in the world.
From an Esoteric astrological point of
view, in the run-up to the Full Moon, and indeed even the Lunar Eclipse
itself, we are also blessed by the starry auspices of ‘Ursa Major’, a
fabulous star system that navigates our Northern Pole Star. Ursa Major
is also known as the ‘Great Bear’, the ‘Big Dipper’, or the ‘Saucepan’,
as it changes from being a container that holds to one that pours with
the seasons. Now it is the
container. The seven stars which make up the Great Bear constellation
are also known as Rishis, or seven sages (according to Vedic and Tibetan
astrology); these seven stars also relate to the seven rays, and the
seven main chakras, as well as seven colours, traditional planets,
musical notes, major organs in the body, and days of the week. As such,
right now there is a connection to the magical number 7 that represent
spirit dissolving into matter. This time of collecting and blessing
water magnifies the positivity of ‘good stars’ (Sun & Mercury trine
transformational Pluto (esoteric ruler of Pisces)), as the water is
instilled with magical healing properties that could even help to
unblock, pacify or activate chakras, and align the light-body, so that
every action is one of goodness, every thought beneficial and every word
spoken is constructive and helpful.
Astral tip: The Virgo-Pisces axis also
activates our innate LOVE-WISDOM. So even if being saintly is way out of
reach (keep working on it ;)), this full Moon is an optimum time to
tune into dreams and take note of all messages of the night, as the
crystalline light of the phantasmagorical Pisces moonbeams reveal a
previously hidden Divinity that emanates universal love.
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