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October 2014 - Eclipses and beyond
With Fall equinox we've entered the final 3-months of 2014. Fall
season carries a similar energy to the phase before New Moon which is
about re-orientation.
On October 8, we'll have the pleasure of witnessing the second of
four consequent total Lunar eclipse in 2014 and 2015. This is a rare
spell of 'blood moons'. The fact that all four of them are culminating
over the Americas hints that the New world is where polarities are
expressing most prominently. And two weeks from now, in the afternoon of
Thursday October 23, Canada and the US will be treated to a partial
Solar eclipse (see chart).
Eclipses always carry important messages, they are creation events.
They're re-tuning our intentions, opening doors, revealing new
possibilities.
Overall planetary occultations happen quite regularly, they show up
in series. Between December 2013 and October 2014, thirteen times the
Moon passes over Saturn for an hour or so. And since August 14,2014, and
into December 20, 2015, the Moon occults Uranus nineteen times. However
because the Moon is much smaller than Earth, occultations can only be
seen from certain areas.
Earth's satellite functions like a lens, it bridges us to the
planets and stars, allowing for celestial energy to activate the vast
spectrum of feelings and emotions.
Saturn's Scorpio passage (October 2012 - December 2014) has
definitively proved being a difficult stretch. After we were one year
into it the Moon's path started crossing right over Saturn, difficulties
and challenges became more tangible. Hardly anyone has been spared from
rough waters. We aren't just working through personal karma, woven into
our personal story many broader issues have come up in our collective
face.
For three months, from August to October 2014, Saturn and Uranus
both are within the Moon's path, thus being occulted. Saturn represents
the old, Uranus the new. We're in a transition providing a prime chance
to make peace with the past thus freeing up tremendous
resources.
Nothing like the Jupiter/Saturn cycle allows us to understand our
present times. Jupiter and Saturn are the two largest planets of our
Solar system. Called 'social planets' their cycle represents society in
its slow but steady evolution from one state to another.
Since 1802, the two gas giants have been meeting in earth signs -
Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo, setting the precondition for our extremely
materialistic society.
It so happened that in 1980/81 the two planets had their first
meetings in cardinal air, in Libra. Thus the year 1980 opened the gates
for a new epoch which eventually will take us into the year 2219.
Their following conjunction occurred in May 2000. The new millennium beginning with a Jupiter/Saturn conjunction was a great omen! It was a euphoric time, full of expectations, dreams, and visions of an approaching new dawn. However, anybody knowing just a little bit about astrology could have
guessed that continuation of the free spirited and interactive flair of
the previous two decades was very unlikely.
The fixed earth sign Taurus was where Jupiter and Saturn were meeting in May 2000. The two giant planets were back in fixed earth, setting the pace for another twenty years, a timespan that eventually would bring this materialistic episode to its completion. Most likely by pushing their measures to ever crazier extremes.
And as we all know, Taurus' backslash was pretty malicious,
crushing in with a big boom. Preceded by a total Solar eclipse right on
summer solstice 2001, at 0° Cancer, the 9/11 attacks shook us to our
bones and marrow.
It soon became clear, it was not all that easy to leave the past
behind for good. Spiritual eighties and mighty nineties had lifted our
feet off the ground. From such aloof vantage point the danger was we
would see the world through colored glasses.
However there's no question, great ideas were born in these last
decades of the twentieth century. After all, by May 1998, Earth's axis
was dead-on aligned with the Galactic equator. Galactic emanations were
downloaded into the our planetary grid, the medicine wheel of solstices
and equinoxes. Such thing last occurred 26,000 years ago.
We're now 14+ years into this 20-year cycle. It's a fact, 9/11
catapulted us right back into dark ages. Amidst endless wars, ongoing
worldwide financial crisis and accelerating environmental destruction
we're looming at the edge of the abyss.
Over the coming decades local communities will replace central governments, interstellar travel will become an everyday affair and extraterrestrials living amongst us will be part of our daily life. Technology will jump to whole new levels. Artificial intelligence will take on most of the workload, leaving people with way more free time. Wealth will be re-distributed and poverty only will exist as a faint memory.
In order to take wind out of the sails we have to face the ghosts
of our past. And despite growing pains we have to make sure to hold the
vision of a harmonious future. We have to allow being pulled by what's
to come, to zoom in on the small light at the far end of the tunnel. As
this might be an age of darkness we should know that before sprouts can
break through the ground, first a supporting root system has to be in
place.
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