Partial Solar Eclipse/New Moon in Leo: The Revelation




Don't get too hung up on how I titled this Moon. I mean no Biblical implication. What I see coming as a Revelation is more about each of us on an individual level than anything else.
Let's have a look and see if I can explain what I mean. First, leading into this final eclipse of the season, we had both the Sun and Mercury square off with Jupiter. Each aspect bringing forth more and more information into the collective, yes. But, even on a deeper level than that, if you were using the power of the retrogrades for introspective purposes, you likely gained a little more insight into yourself. That's largely what retrogrades say to me for the most part. It's a time of self-reflection and introspection more than an outward venture. That does not mean that progress cannot be made. I've witnessed that to be untrue too many times first hand. However, it is a time in which we can look at our own past and experiences and learn from them while also gleaning maturity and wisdom that can be put to use as we continue to move forward.
Our guide for this Partial Solar Eclipse is the High Priestess. The most simple observation I've had from dealing with this card is that there is always more going on that meets the eye. The High Priestess is intuitive and unwritten language more so than she is dusty books with directions in regard to how to access and commune with divinity. She delivers an unspoken type of knowing while also offering us a chance to peer behind the veil in an effort to glean a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us. That knowledge is not automatically given. You kind of have to...do exactly what the retrograde planets call us to do. Get quiet, introspect/reflect and get in really good tune with yourself.
To emphasize this “behind the veil” feel, we also have Jupiter waxing back into trine with Neptune while the New Moon itself sits at the apex of a Yod between the Pluto/Neptune sextile. Those three in any kind of mixture is some mighty powerful mojo. Alright? And then we have the fact that Saturn and Uranus are in trine, also. That too...powerful stuff.


So, what we are looking at here is over a month of being pulled toward introspection amongst challenges on a personal level and an uncertain atmosphere within the collective. Many...and I do mean...MANY have spun out in frustration in response to this Mars retrograde in play with Uranus. That is another factor that has catalyzed an opportunity for self-knowledge in regard to what triggers certain emotional responses and how we handle them kind of from a position of auto-pilot. The auto-pilot responses being the curiosity presented with this. As in, once noted, a person can be quite prone to ask themselves where that knee jerk response came from...ultimately finding it in something connected with their early life or even in the behavior patterns of their family.
Yet, the retrogrades have taken us even deeper than what Mars has done. Mars being an imperative factor, though, as he does rule our very first sign in the zodiac. Plus, bearing importance as he lingers around the South Node (past Mars history on personal and collective levels) as well as in square to Uranus. Uranus' operation is to bring wisdom, clarity and consciousness to Mars as an end result while also catalyzing change. In other words, the Mars Rx, Uranus, Chiron in Aries and the factor of the SN are all meant to show us how we might trip ourselves up right off the jump and help us to learn to refine our actions to a more effective end. Meanwhile, at these early degrees, we also have Saturn holding us to accountability. And, also still weighing in as traditional ruler of Mars in Aquarius with Uranus holding space in modern rulership.
Saturn calls us to accountability. With his retrograde, we reflect upon past experience, work accomplished in the past and test the sustainability of structures we have constructed in our lives thus far. We can evaluate all this rather soberly as long as we take a position of accountability and boundary in it. It is that realization of accountability and consequence in the realm of past action that (even if connected to regrettable outcomes) shows us that we do have some power in the situation, itself.
Interestingly, the Mercury retrogrades all take place in fire this year. There was a retrograde in Aries that gave us all a chance to review the ways we engage, initiate, deal with our anger (or not) and to rethink/reconstruct the whole of that dynamic or merely see it from a new perspective. But, in the chain reaction of retrograde planets recently, Mercury was one of the last (save Uranus) to actually turn retrograde. Almost as if the other retrograde planets led us to this reconsideration of self as a whole. Interesting part of that being...Uranus and Chiron are actually going to review their previous signs briefly. Still holding in semi-sextile and both still “playing” with Mars. So, there will be more opportunity to bring what was once unconsciously “hurting” us (Chiron in Pisces) and bring it to stronger awareness. Our growing awareness then feeds into Uranus Rx into Aries which, once again, helps us bring more personally gleaned wisdom to the table in regard to how we engage, initiate, feel motivated, inspired and how we deal with anger to the fore.

The “Big Revelation” that I speak of is actually a spotlight that is shone on matters of “self” more so than something that is revealed within the collective. Though, something happening within the collective that bears affect upon the whole in some way (or even more than one thing) is not completely out of the question. The bigger and more relevant issues delivered to us under this sky are very personal and very direct hits that could come to us in a way that are difficult to put into words. So, remember, if you feel like you must be connected to every little blip in the radar that comes across your TV or computer screen 1) the reason behind why you feel the need to be overly engaged in that is something to look at 2) the reason you feel helpless to be of assistance is another and 3) your reaction to it is actually the big deal here among with a whole array of other personal things over and above the circumstances within the collective that may have catalyzed it to begin with.
Pluto and Neptune have been within orb of a sextile and is found so in every chart of every person who is alive at this moment on the planet. The two represent generational issues (conditions of life that we are all born into) while their aspects to our personal planets depict our connection to these generational issues. That last part has a wide variance. But, if you have something in aspect to one or the other, then that planet aspecting one also, in some way, aspects another.


These two are the very essential building blocks within the houses that metaphorically “built” each and every one of us. Cornerstones, in a way. At this Moon, we are given the opportunity to consciously assess how we have incorporated those cornerstones into the building of the “whole” of us. Things that have affected us since we made our entrance into this existence and likely didn't even realize it. With that, we are also given chance to make these facts more conscious and subsequently choose our actions more wisely in light of what they have to reveal.
All that information is the what the High Priestess represents. We don't have to look behind the veil. But, doing so helps us achieve a more firm understanding of ourselves and, in turn, hands us the reigns to make adjustments/foster a new perspective all of which can lead to better quality of life for ourselves. That, in turn, trickles out into the collective making us stronger as unit. Because...that is how this works. As above, so below. As within, so without. The biggest thing you can do to help the condition of this world is to fix what is broken within yourself. That's how you become the most effective in anything, really. And, those weak spots, unconscious spots...those ways we essentially defeat ourselves before we ever even get started is what we have the opportunity to view under this Moon and through the next two weeks to the Full Moon in Pisces (which, I think looks delicious, btw).
All that being said, I've heard a lot of fantastical stuff about this Moon. And, a lot of it is just that. I'm not saying it isn't a powerful lunation. I'm saying it is not going to solve all the worlds problems. It is not going to shoot us all up to a new dimension of consciousness. It is not some magical gate that we walk through that solves anything on a collective level. When you wake up on Sunday the world is going to be a lot like you left it on Saturday. Ok? The only thing due to change is YOU. And only if you decide to do this deep self-consideration, confrontation, healing and acceptance within yourself. If you do it will continue to become more clear is our ability to tap into the truth of ourselves. What that does is help us more consciously engage in the world than we did before...IF WE CHOOSE! Not everyone will. But, those who take the time to get good and centered in themselves while striving toward really healing/accepting the parts within that need it, will be the ones who actually begin to really make a impact on how we all move forward from here. Yet, many will be left behind in that. Stuck and hardwired. Slain by unconscious anger/engagement mismanagement (as well as emotional mismanagement) and fear. We grow or we stagnate. What continues to grow eventually overtakes what becomes hardwired, rigid and unable to adapt to an ever changing world. Essentially...it all starts with you. It really is just that simple.


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