❂ Developing Emotional Awareness ~> Total Solar Eclipse ~> July 2nd/3rd 2019

A heavenly union of the radiant Sun and reflective New Cancer Moon takes on a greater significance during a Total Solar eclipse, today at 10degrees of watery Cancer, @20:15bst (July 2^nd), when a cosmic kind of all-pervading consciousness has the potential to seep into our awareness and generate a personal emotional perception that stimulates a need to care and share in the coming months and years.

Visible from parts of South America, Argentina and Chile (at sunset), this is a total eclipse, in effect for 4 minutes and 27 seconds (equalling a 4 and a half-year influence). A Solar Eclipse is like the Dragon’s head rising up to dramatically remind us to remain centred in our naturally radiant presence in any circumstance, aware nothing is permanent, not even the sunshine during the day. During eclipse season, shifts in consciousness mirror shifts in the physical, the geophysical and celestial, as well as changes in mass awareness.

With a monthly conjunction of Sun and a New Moon, there’s always a sense of the new stirring within the heart-mind, emotions and intellect, as well as within our natural environment. But during a Solar Eclipse, when the Moon passes in front of the Sun, time literally suspends to create a sacred space within – and without. The moment of totality is exactly when the conjunction of Sun, Moon AND Earth create a powerful portal for magical human realization. All kinds of energies can ride in and out, seen and unseen. So it is most important to call in (Dharmapala) protectors and totems as spiritual bodyguards - especially during meditation and prayer, as that is when we are extremely sensitive and open. Ramp up the radiance of your natural light now; and even if you’re on the move, or waiting at a traffic light, take a moment to breathe in light and exhale love, and nurture oneself at all times.

This year’s set of eclipses are similar to those at the start of the millennia in 200, when Moon-ruled water-sign Cancer, as the destiny-fulling ascending North node (Rahu) merged with karmic earthy Capricorn as descending node (Ketu) indicating where we are coming from (collectively and individually). 

With both Sun and Moon now in feminine Cancer, it highlights streams of often unconscious emotions, and how strong we are in our personal flow; how deeply we feel when riding these waves, especially feelings about our families, including bonds to our global family, and how we are able to tend, feed and support children (or one’s inner-child), as well as the vulnerable and frail without putting profit before helping people. As this is a Moon-ruled eclipse in Cancer, now is THE time to honour the Great Mother Goddess and the Divine Feminine within (noting that we all have an intuitive feminine side, even guys!), and make offerings of kindness to those we love. 

On a psychological level, this eclipse also corresponds to primordial feelings that force one to face dark emotion in order to heal family fortunes, and let go of grudges and resentment; repairing ancestral connections and mending historical barriers by moving ahead, albeit sideways and cautiously, carrying the wish fulfilling gem. 

According to the Tibetan teachings Karma is multiplied 10,000x during an eclipse day, good or bad.

Epileptics should also please take note of eclipse dates, as they are often ‘seized by the moon’.

Also remember eclipses generally come in pairs (rarely threes); the next eclipse will be a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn July 16^th/17^th, when drawing lines in shifting tidal sands will provide inspiration and entertainment, if not stability. Great accomplishments are possible but not permanent – no thing is.

Meditation is therefore seriously encouraged during an eclipses, as our bioenergy, often called the chi or prana, the spiritual force field which constantly courses through the channels and nadis in our subtle body can ignite Kundalini Shakti to rise to meet at the forehead chakra – the all-seeing eye, and even the crown chakra can open during these sacred moments - which is why it is so very important to be psychically protected during what is probably one of the most powerful cosmic alignments that we can harness to help abide in this celestial state of non-duality..

Spiritually, this eclipse connects us to all pervading space which is empty of inherent existence.  How this eclipse actually manifests in our lives will depend upon where the eclipse degree lies in the horoscope and the aspects it makes to the individual chart. And it may take a while to see, as the effects of eclipses are said to last in the case of solar eclipses for as many years as minutes: This one is total of four minutes long, equalling four years of influence.  So it’s worth bearing in mind the power of the intention during this very potent occasion.

Be prepared.  Note the breath and how left and right nostrils are performing. Before the actual eclipse tune into your subtle body awareness: be aware of how the prana is flowing through you. Note which nostril is dominant; and how you feel. Are you hot, cold, humid or dry? There are certain  foods to eat to enhance or calm either of the main side channels: the right hand Sun and left hand Moon, (Pingala and Ida, (Roma & Kyangma (tib)).

(Personally, I find it’s always handy to have a glass of water close by during water sign eclipses and, being an emotional water sign, a tissue – tears can flow!).  Then, during the eclipse, while sitting in the seven point Varocaina meditation position, focus upon the breath, directing the centre of your attention to the own heart, mirroring the convergence of energy at the Solar System’s heart of the Sun and keep the flame of love alight. 

May all beings be clear and kind!

It’s also highly recommended to read Samanthabadra’s ‘King of Prayers’ during the eclipse:
https://fpmt.org/wp-content/uploads/prayers/king_of_prayers_c5.pdf With LoveLight, truth and thanks for sharing
the image: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/shakyamuni-buddha-the-dragons-story-ben-christian.html

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Square Dancing on Sun & Moon discs ☼ Solar Eclipse July1st

A dark moon is coming to rest before tomorrow’s last of 3 eclipses in one summery lunation. The previous two eclipses (the 1st Solar on June 1st & a Lunar eclipse on June 15th) opened the mind (Gemini) to portals of truth and light at the centre of the Galaxy (Sagittarius). For the Spiritual Warrior this one can open the floodgate of life itself, welcoming ancestors incarnating in the manifest universe.

As previously intonated, this triple eclipse season aligns a Divine Union of Sun & Moon to Earth, in such a way that encourages one to let go and release the outmoded, and embrace the inner-light connecting us to Spirit – It’s just a small matter of tuning and riding into those subtle wave and spin vibrations to hold the light ;) Through breath-work and, in this instance, a Solar eclipse meditation in a calm and protected manner, we're potentially enabled to observe and release past negativity (usually on out breathe) and, utilising compassion in action (being good to oneself) to relax in the non-conceptual, Divinity within. In Buddhist teachings, one uses any realisation as a means to understand emptiness (but that’s not what I am purporting to achieve in this New Moon Solar Eclipse report :)). So while Kundalini meditation is powerful (and always done with the master's guidance), due to the sensitive nature of  cosmic rays the best any ordinary individual might hope for during this eclipse is the ability to find a balance between rational and intuitve, yin and yang in active refelction.

The celestial aspects involved in this last eclipse include the extraordinary Cardinal Cross of the Central Spiritual Sun, accenting the need to square up to and act upon what might initually seem to be hard and difficult issues, all the while taking into consideration almost every sphere of our lives, showing care to self and others as a Cancerian Mother would her child. It is therefore of utmost importance to observe how we feel during this Cancer new moon, particularly noting any impulse, intuition, and sensation.  
  

At this New Moon partial Solar eclipse on Friday 1st July at 9:54BST the Sun and Moon are at 9 degrees of moon-ruled watery Cancer, opening the way for instinctual awarness: Emotions are a means to enlightenment.  

It is with thanks to Bernadette Brady who alerted me to the fact that this is also a new 1226 year Saros cycle, being activated with 'The Cardinal Cross of the Central Spiritual Sun' as its signature. This is a very special Solar eclipse indeed. ~> Now is THE time to call in our dharma protectors, so we can fully embrace our spiritual discipline, revel in truth, and free the awakened and compassionate heart-mind ~& even if it takes 1000+ years to do so! :)) _(♥)_ 

Maybe it will take that long to complete the Cardinal Cross mission? Who knows? It’s a good guess the mess we humans have created so far is going to take a while to clean up. What we can say with certainty is that we are at a very challenging moment in time, with fast-moving energies calling for us to be incredibly self-aware and come from the altruistic heart, especially amidst change and the endless authoritarian power struggles, and still keep the value of Mother Earth in Jupiterarian positive life-affirming perspective.

Yet the Cancerian nature of this eclipse, as Goddess of the Sea, reminds me to honour the Great Mother Divinty and nurture family and self in relation to the evolving mass consciousness. Through kindness to all beings, and undstanding how we all suffer we can develop devotion and, dare I say, Bodhicitta, the precious altruistic and awakened heart-mind.

This Cardinal Cross of the Central Spiritual Sun is not one to be nailed upon the starry fermament forever; while its' essense influences the resonnance of the next thousand years, still the zodiac turns. This actual Cardinal Cross pattern remains with varying planetary players until 2015 (ish), after which the heavens become more mutable, invoking wisdom from our current action. Forming the Solstice axis of the cross, Spirit Sun and Soul Moon are in Cancer, in opposition to powerful Pluto in Capricorn; renewing structure through intense and often difficult to see crisis (Nuclear radioactivity, for instance). Across the Equinox axis of balance and assertion lie awakening Uranus in dynamic Aries (with Goddesses Ceres, the Earth Mother, and Black Moon Lillith, Goddess of the Void) in opposition to disciplined Saturn in harmonious Libra, together they encourage a focus upon each individual heart to be alert and at peace.

Not only are Sun & Moon key players in this Cardinal Cross (first activated Lammas 2010), but they are also in a helpful trine aspect to the Chiron Neptune conjuntion - healing Chrion with the seas of Neptune. When we combine this celestial energy with the Cancer Sun-Moon square to Saturn, Pluto and Uranus, it can be summised as “Collective mass consciousness restructuring the Wounded Water”. There are several points to note here: One is that Cancer is esoterically ruled by oceanic Neptune, emphasising the water element. The other is how this eclipse is taking place over the Antarctic, focalising and stabilising the heavenly union in trinity - Sun-Moon-Earth - upon the very part of our planet where our world's water meets. The Antarctic has a loop of cold and salty water flowing all around it, the thermohaline current, and is where super-gyers swirl into the deepest layers of the ocean’s undercurrents.  This Moon therefore is key to restructuring water and emotion, through penetrative wisdom and intuitive vision holding the remedial intention is crucial.

 Water is symbolic of memory and emotions. And as this eclipse holds point of focus upon undulating depths, it is similarly symbolic of our deeper feelings, which are likely to be the ongoing source of profound healing and purification, a soothing refreshment. Water offerings with love & gratitude work on unfathomable levels.  Most who read this are probably aware of Dr Emoto’s work with healing and restructuring water; so while he is organising a world water healing day every month, this New Moon Solar Eclipse could actually be seen as THE seeding moment of a momentous 1000+ year healing, when at the end of this period we really do understand the our true nature, one that karmically encapsulates the Central Spiritual Sun.  So let’s not forget how one drop of water can take a 1000 years to complete an entire loop of the thermohaline current and send our loving prayers and best intentions to the world's seas, oceans and rivers during this eclipse, asking for clean and pure restructured water, so symbolic of the clear and unobscured emotion we require for enlightenment.  _(♥)_

Thanks to unknown natural life photographer and visionary illustrators <3 :)