Sun and Mercury at 21 Cap: A relay race
There is a hand off. This is a
collaboration of everyone's best efforts toward a discernable and
measurable goal. It is the initiation of one event that leads naturally to the next step and so forth until the goal is achieved.
Venus in Aquarius dances with Pallas in
Sagittarius at this eclipse. She also strains in semi-sextile to the
Capricorn train attempting to drag the entire configuration forward
away from hard edged traditional forms of leadership and toward a
more modern and encompassing framework. Lilith in Pisces meets the
Cap train by sextile. She advises a step back. To distance ourselves
so that we can see things more clearly and so that they feel less
personal. She asks us to question the roles we may unwittingly be
wearing simply due the conditions of our birth or culture. Meanwhile,
Lilith argues with Pallas in Sagittarius who seems to be Hellbent on
piecing together battle strategy from matters of world history.
Lilith thinks the strategy we need isn't found in the history we know
and may or may not have a thing to do with battle. She advises,”You
won't find the answers in history. It hasn't been written yet. We
need to dream up something original after we've dropped our pretense
and bias.”
21 Cancer: A prima donna singing
A singular voice stepping under the
spotlight. A grand performance.
Juno in Libra clashes with the eclipse
by square. She wants things even. By the books. She devotes herself
to the legal system, the avenues of decorum. Answering to Venus in
Aquarius, she demands clarity, truth and fact. Likely documentation,
too. Her aim is to bring settlement of the dispute. She believes in
mediation, diplomacy, discussion and debate. But, she's also very
black and white. She'll cut the baby in half to resolve the tension.
Even though, in square, Ceres in Capricorn could actually go along
with that. She has her sickle and is reaping in Capricorn, already.
The Sun and Moon wane in amicable
aspect to Vesta in Taurus and Neptune in Pisces. Each humbled and
softened by the experience. The Moon transits Neptune on Friday
morning (leading into our eclipse at about 2 PM EST) at about 8 AM
EST. A few hourse later, the Sun finds Mercury in Capricorn by
conjunction about 2 hours later and each await on that conjunction
degree for the eclipse.
Jupiter continues to shine his
spotlight in the deep dark closet secrets of the past. His presence
on the South Node could bring blessing to us for having handled our
resposibilities maturely in the past. It also creates a an excellent
opportunity for any type of work with ancestral spirits. It feels as
if they hover closely at this time. Plus, “the voices of the
ancestors” and the ways in which the past communicates with and
teaches us has been fairly thematic in my observations throughout
this whole Moon phase.
January 10 Uranus stations direct 3
Degrees Taurus: Steps up to a lawn blooming with clover
Increments. Moving toward beauty and bounty step by step.
The feel of Uranus in station is
impatient. Uncomfortable. It comes with cries of “ENOUGH” and the
sound of footsteps making a strong entrance or exit. The Earth
ripples as he stations to turn about. As for Mars, some men just
like to watch the world burn.
On a personal level, just the mention
of Moon in Cancer (let alone a Full one which is also an eclipse) is
enough to cause a flare of panic or anxiety for me Water Moons are
sensitive. As am I. So, the thought of dealing with more water and
folks also inundated by the same types of sensitivity, can be a bit
tedious. When you and the folks around you are dealing with high
emotional tides, it becomes important to step carefully ensuring you
are not merely unconsciously responding to pain and that you are able
to accommodate the potential of someone else being extra sensitive or
even irrational and yet, unaware of why or how it may affect what
they do or say.
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January 13: The Sun finds Saturn and
Pluto by conjunction. Venus enters Pisces
I don't know if the word “Sensitive”
resonates clearly enough to describe what I mean by it but with a
water Moon we feel beyond just our own systems. We feel the
environment around us just as if we were being touched by it or were
part of it. It's very easy for this type of sensitivity to passed
over by the outside world. We are told to toughen up. Suck it up. Dry it up. Get over it.
Stop being so sensitive. Yet, I think what some folks miss is the
fact that...lol...you can't. I grew up hearing this and thinking I
was doing something wrong because I was unable to stop the emotions
and feelings from coming. Through time and maturity, I learned about
boundary and grounding and how to eat and conduct my energy in more
masterful ways. But, even if there may be some Moon set ups who can
turn this type of thing completely off, there are some who cannot. I
am one of those folks. I cannot turn it off but I can raise my
awareness of it's influence and deal with that healthfully before
responding to the stimuli.
For my Moon in Pisces, I think of it as
being like a fish in water. If a rock is thrown into my pond, even if
I don't see it happen or hear it...I can feel that something has
happened just from the change in the vibrations of the water around
me. Even though I don't know what it is, I know something has
happened. And, it's not just ripples in the environmental atmosphere
we pick up on. It's also energies from people. Animals. Inaminate
objects, even. The acuity and ability to interpret/respond to this
sensitivity varies. As does a person's actual awareness of it
happening and bearing influence upon their lives.
SN: Birds in the home singing happily
Domesticated and complacent with the
conditions
Moon in Cancer is tenderly sensitive.
She is a nurturing soul. Wants you to eat. Worries if you are warm
and safe. She is protective. Standing up for her cubs when they are
too young to defend themselves. She is in tune energetically with all
who fall under her wing. Because she is sensitive and she feels the
connection deeply in her core. It's not like a passing thing. It's
rooted. It's part of her. She can feel it. When she is full in the
sign of Cancer, we are also more inclined to “feel” connection.
Or, Empathy. Or, Emotion. Or, be susceptible to feeling the anxious
station of Uranus in Taurus. Or, be more susceptible to feeling the
heavy thunder of the pile up of stuff happening at the end of
Capricorn. With Mars in Sagittarius, if we are not aware of this
increased emotional type of sensitivity we could overreact to it.
Take things too far. Try to do too much or extend into acts of
grandeur. With awareness and an ability to healthfully cope with our
more sensitive emotional body, we can employ Mars in Sagittarius
toward actions that are a full illustration of our truth. We can make
steps in faith (Mars in Sagittarius) led by a desire to just do the
right thing (Jupiter in Capricorn) and create healthy and
sustainable change in our world (Uranus in Taurus). Problem
being...who knows much about coping healthfully with the emotional
body? As a species we kind of suck at it. As this eclipse happens,
folks will be very sensitive. The Moon is Full in Cancer. There is an
eclipse. There is heaviness that has been building for quite some
time. At this point, folks are straining against the edges of that,
tired, don't feel safe, are worried about their loved ones (while
more strongly feeling their connection to them at the same time) and
in general are fighting off tidal waves of emotions due a wide
variety of stimulation coming to this system. Those little more minor
everyday irritants can begin to feel like the most uncomfortable
little grains of sand right on your most vulnerable tender piece of
skin. Pearls are not made because the oysters are comfortable. And
the problem of “irritant” is solved by way of gentle
encapsulation not smashing, destroying or devouring. But, accepted.
Embraced. Smoothed.
Eclipses create an atmosphere of
erratic energies. This one crests with a Uranus station and collision
of 3 planets, an asteroid and the Sun on the same degree of
Capricorn. The emotional temperature will begin to drop following
this lunation on the afternoon of Jan 10. It's a long and incremental
stairway down, tho. Plus, even after the actual lunation the Elephant
stomp of ENOUGH from Uranus stationing in Taurus is yet to come.
Until he turns around we are all on edge waiting for that last shoe
to drop. Some, unable to endure the angst, frustration, increased
sensitivity or discomfort of the uncertainty found in these times,
may “drop the shoe” in their life in some way (ie: create their
own explosion) just to either regain some semblance of control or to
offset the tension. Tension that continues to build all the way up to
Mercury, Ceres, Pluto, Saturn and eventually the Sun all piling up in
Cap between the 12th and 13th.
Right now, we have all the ingredients
swirling together in one big pot of uncertainty.
Tarot has simple advice in regard to
handle the ordeal, though. At this Full Moon, we are given the advice
of the Page of Cups.
What if, instead of escaping and
boundaring out what our systems are trying to tell us through our
emotional body, we just felt it? What if we just cared? How scary is
that? (I know it's pretty scary. Perhaps even more so than the
material world threats we are dealing with in our day to day. It's so
much easier to just say you don't give a fuck or pretend like you are
so tough) What if...in spite of our need to feel in control and have
all the answers we just asked with sincerity...”what can I do to
help.” Or said, “I've made a mistake. I would like to apologize.
What can I do to help heal our relationship?” Or spoke truthfully
and openly about how we felt instead of lying to support the highest
bidder or to make ourselves look to be something we are not? What if
we wrote love poetry with our words instead of rhetoric and
misinformation. What if we dreamed of compassionate and beautiful
possibilities instead of regimented and destructrive ends. What if we
dared to be just vulnerable enough to shed a tear in public in regard
to something that touched our hearts even if it did not touch us
directly? What if instead of building walls we dared to wear our
hearts on our sleeves? What if dared to leave messages of
inspiration, whimsy and kindness instead of striving to be clapback
mind virus of the day?
At a Lunar Eclipse, even a partial one
such as this, the Earth seems to move between the Sun and the Moon.
If we can envision that, it means that a brief moment of separateness
is called between our planets in Capricorn and the Moon. As if the
Earth cuts off Pluto, Saturn, Ceres, Mercury and the Sun's influence
upon the emotional body represented by the Moon leaving us without
logic, without the urges of ego, without the violent and destructive
history and leaves us with just feelings. Pure emotion. So pure and
so true it likely cannot be captured in words.
January 12: Mercury, Saturn and Pluto
at 23 Capricorn: A soldier receiving two awards for bravery in
combat.
Jupiter's position at this eclipse
hints at hope. It advises of working within various tensions...not
avoiding them..but working within them to create harmony. If there is
tension, usually that tension can be tuned. Jupiter in Capricorn is a
shapeshifting trickster. He douses us with bad luck and almost
comically convoluted circumstances to test our integrity. He operates
to validate a person's faith in doing the right thing. But, that
promise is vapor as the person is called to do it. He plays us like a
fiddle and that magic fiddle draws out the truth of our character.
And, typically for me anyway, it really seems very often that the
“Right thing” to do in any given situation is the freaking
hardest. There have been many times I have looked the Universe in its
eye and asked...”can't you just black my eye or something,
instead?” Because that feels much better than quelling my ego,
swallowing my pride and just doing the right thing, sometimes.
Jupiter in Cap at 9 degrees: An angel
comes carrying a harp.
The sound of hope. Working within
various tensions to create harmony.
Can you be imaginative enough to
believe in hope, peace and love? The Page of Cups can. His visions
are rich, clear and plentiful. He is, admittedly, naive. Has a
tendency to be a bit of an escapist. But, wow...what a gentle
romantic! What a lover of love! His music flows straight from his
open yearning heart. He knows its all pretend. But, he also
speculates everything is. After all, aren't we all just dressed up
pretending to be whatever it is we want folks to think we are?
North Node at Cancer 8: Rabbits dressed
in clothes on parade.
Bovee slates the theme of this as
appropriation. It is acting out of character for me. Meaning, rabbits
don't wear clothes anywhere unless there is a human involved. So,
these are beings being dressed in something other than their normal
attire. For what purpose? For public procession.
The problem with the Page as advice is
much of what he is able to do comes with a certain type of privilege.
The Page has the luxury of being able to dream. He has the luxury of
being allowed to spend time talking to a fish and spending wistful
time in day dream. At this time, on our planet, that is privilege
afforded to few. So, I do not think that the Universe is advising us
to just head into denial, escapism or spend our time day dreaming and
writing poetry while the rest of the world burns and breaks apart.
Not while around the world other people are watching their lives
topple. Not when there are millions of people out there who haven't
eaten. Who are not warm. Who are inundated with fear. Who don't have
a safe bed to hide away in. Who are not ok...
No. That's not the message here. The
message being given to us is to care.
The Page of Cups is one of those blokes
that has no choice but to be sensitive. He cries as if it were
breathing and hurts when there is hurt around him. He's not going to
go out and commit acts of superheroism to save the world. Alright? He
is not the ambitious type. But, he will reach out and touch and
console the person who is suffering that may be sitting right next to
him. He will cry with you. He will ask how you feel and what it is
you need.
Still, he needs protection. Our
personal safety and security needs to be our number one priority. Our
health. Have we eaten? Have we slept? Are we ok? Deal with that
first. Then, as the Cancer Moon would have us do, start checking in
with your loved ones. Your neighbors. Your friends. Those that are
suffering. Orphaned. Those that have not eaten. Those that don't feel
safe. Those that are not given the privilege of having their very
basic needs met. Those who may be suffering with the influx of
emotion and do not understand how to cope. Doesn't call for yelling.
Doesn't call for pounding of war drums. Doesn't call for acts of
violence. All it asks is that you allow yourself to care and that you
gently reach out in response to that. Find and bring your last little
fuck to the table. This Moon and all that follows her is likely going
to strip us all of our ability to turn that caring off. Perhaps,
that's the real point here.
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