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This month begins a new eclipse season. We will have two eclipses very soon, a lunar eclipse on June 26 in Capricorn (full moon) and the other will arrive as a solar eclipse in Cancer (new moon) on July 11.
If you haven’t read my June 2010 forecast on Astrology Zone that I have prepared for you, please do, for the first eclipse that is arriving this month might turn out to be quite intense for the world. If you are within a certain mathematical range, you might feel the eclipse in a more personal way.
Eclipses aren’t like any other phenomenon in astrology. They strike quickly and in unusual ways. Often the catalyst to change is triggered by an outside event that has nothing to do with you or anything you did, but that will come in and change certain elements in your life anyway. I feel it’s the universe’s way to keep us on our toes and flexible. Also, eclipses look for broken or outdated situations to sweep away to help you make room for the new. Some eclipses are shocking or jarring and others are harbingers of good news.
The coming June 26 eclipse will have an especially strong impact because Uranus will be in sharp angle to the full moon eclipse and Sun. Also, Saturn will oppose Uranus and Jupiter, while Pluto will conjoin the full moon and argue with the other planets. All will square off at 90 degrees to each other, or stare at one another at 180 degrees, forming a cross pattern in the sky – this is considered stressful.
We have not seen such an extreme eclipse in years. Actually, astrologers have gone back 500 years and we have not been able to find anything like the one that is due June 26. Let me reiterate that not everyone will feel the events of June 26, and that is an important point. Please check my June report to see if you might feel some changes. I always feel it is best to know something may come up, so that I can have a flexible schedule to respond to any event that I might have to decide upon.
Events that come up as a result of an eclipse have more weight than events brought on by a normal new or full moon. In fact, an eclipse is like a turbo-new or full moon – it packs much more energy and punch and feels like three rolled into one. An eclipse may even bring on an event that seems “fated.” Eclipses always bring unexpected changes of direction.
The eclipse does not have to fall in your sign to affect you, but it would have to be within a ten-degree range of a natal planet in your chart. In this case you would need a natal planet within ten degrees of 5 degrees of a cardinal sign: Aries, Libra, Cancer, or Capricorn. I can’t see your chart from here, so it’s just wise to wait and see. With Uranus so prominent, what comes up will be completely unexpected anyway, coming out of left field, but I can narrow things down for you.
Eclipses in the same family of signs tend to be connected like pearls on a necklace. It is as though the universe realizes that we can’t handle too much big news all at once, so it is divided up into pieces. We are given news of something that is changing or needs to be changed, but further information does not come until the next eclipse, at which time we are ready to move forward.
For this reason, think back to what occurred on December 31 and just after January 15 for clues, for those were the last times we had eclipses in this family of signs.
Eclipses shine the bright light of truth on the part of your life that is touched by the eclipse. Most of the time, eclipses act as brilliant illuminators, revealing a condition that you were unaware existed. They can also act as catalysts to a major life decision. Also under an eclipse, you may finally understand the true character of a person near you.
With all eclipses, something ends and something else begins. During an eclipse period, you may feel like you are walking across a bridge to a new place of the mind and heart, but with no ability to turn back to where you started. Said another way, the door of part of your old life will slam shut and lock tightly behind you as you walk over the threshold. You won’t be able to go back to your old life after the eclipse, but upon reflection, you might not want to anymore. You have grown, and now you are ready to face the future with all the surprises and gifts the universe will have ready for you. Armed with the necessary facts, you will now understand a mystery that was never clear to you before. The universe wants us to embrace all that is new, not go back to the old tried and true.
In about six months, we will have another set of eclipses coming on December 21, a total lunar eclipse (full moon) in late degrees of Gemini and on January 4, 2011, a solar eclipse (new moon) in Capricorn. The December 21 eclipse will begin to usher in a new series of eclipses in Gemini-Sagittarius, just as the old series of Cancer-Capricorn, begun last summer on June 7, 2009, begins to wind down and officially end on July 1, 2011. Often when a new family of signs starts up, an old family of signs ends.
Thank you Susan for the update.
New Moon – May 13, 2010, very powerful and full of surprises.
The New Moon, carries multiple meanings you can expect it every 28 days. From earliest times, the moon has served as a consistent method of measuring time. The lunar calendar continues to indicate the timing of sacred rituals in many world religions. In this way, it is a common denominator in the on-going practice of many traditional arts and cultures a unifying symbol we can identify in this work to help sustain traditional cultural life by the peoples of California.
In many Native American cultures personification or deification of the sun and moon is usual and the two appear as characters in several Native American stories. Origin stories accounting for the moon are also prevalent. For example, in California Maidu cosmology, it was Creator who caused his sister the sun and his brother the moon first to rise.
Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Islamic, Theravadan Buddhist, Chinese, Pagan, Gregorian, Mayan, Sikh, Japanese, Tibetan, and Jainist practitioners among others, follow lunar calendars to celebrate holy days and festivals. Festivals of the new moon are observed among many peoples, and thankful prayers are said for the reappearance of the extinguished light in the sky. The full moon is seen as a climactic period of the month; the Jewish Passover is celebrated at the full moon, and the Christian Easter, occurs on the first Sunday following the full moon after the vernal equinox. The Chinese lunar calendar consists of twelve months, or moons, each with particular sacred meaning. For example, the First Moon, the beginning of spring, is the time when the household gods and the spirits of the ancestors return home and are received with ceremonious offerings of food and drink.
Many farmers consult their almanacs for the moon phases before planting each spring. Some believe that the light of the moon is the time for planting crops that grow above ground and the dark of the moon is best for root crop planting. The full moon nearest the autumnal equinox is called the harvest moon; the full moon following the harvest moon is called the hunter moon. Fishermen also gauge lunar cycles in which full and new moons are the most propitious times for abundant catches.
There is a plethora of examples about the moon relationship to the practice of traditional culture.
The new moon is the birthing cycle of the moon’s various phases. The new moon phase is an optimal time for planning and seeding your intentions. Seedlings need a period of gestation before they break through the soil and reach for the sunlight. This is also true for our ideas and our desires. The dark side of the moon, with its mysterious unseen forces, offers a nurturing environment where our intentions can establish roots before their miraculous manifestations begin to sprout and reach out to the stars.