Feb

19

Filed Under Eclipses, Real Time Astrology

Because folks found it useful, and tomorrow’s the last of the 18-month overstuffed luggage Virgo-Pisces eclipses (harrah for Virgo and Pisces!) I’m excerpting a piece I wrote about eclipses last fall. Enjoy…

Eclipses move us along our evolutionary path, often with huge signposts, other times with a whisper – and always with an element of surprise. It’s like this:

You’ve been focused on redecorating several of the rooms in your house. Then there’s the attic: you’re stuffing it with all the things you’ve moved around. “Suddenly” the attic needs help because the roof is beginning to bow. It’s not really a surprise: out of the corner of your eye, you’ve noticed the bulging attic but you’ve been focused on other things. Now the attic demands your urgent attention.

You’re essentially learning about your blind spot. Again, this awareness surprises you but it’s old news, too. As with most surprises, when you realize what’s happening, the emotional shock and urgency (of a lunar eclipse) makes you want to take action. Immediately! (Solar eclipses can do the same, but the emotional, unconscious waters aren’t as stirred up so the path is more direct – and more likely to manifest an actual event). And here’s the take home eclipse lesson for you: listen, don’t act. The planetary weather’s too unstable, your emotions too highly strung. You have a tendency to overreact.

Let’s imagine another scenario. You realize you’ve been sweeping certain things under the rug in your relationship with your beau. This awareness comes on suddenly, emotionally, and you’re swept up in the urgency to resolve things, to clean house in that area of your life. Eclipses create that urgency to let you know it’s time. Not that it’s time to act: just that it’s time. Let things unfold naturally. Have that talk but don’t make any big decisions. If someone presents you with an opportunity to act and it’s an opportunity you’ve been waiting for, go for it. The key is, don’t initiate the big decisions but contemplate them. Wait until you’re feeling centered enough to act.

Eclipses also turn corners. Beginnings and endings happen – again the suddenness isn’t scary or unpredictable but that doesn’t lessen the bumpy-ness. You’ve reached the next logical chapter of the book you’ve already started. But perspective is challenging, especially around a lunar eclipse. You don’t have an arial view. It’s easy to feel like you’re at the hands of fate. Maybe you even feel like someone else is at the wheel, as you sit in the passenger seat holding onto the seat for dear life. Remember: “it” is not happening to you. “It” is your life unfolding. Actually, you can look at any major planetary/life event this way…a natural unfolding of your life path. It takes courage to grow.

flight crew So, what will you do with all your jumpy, eclipse live-wire energy? At the very least, eclipse energy is bumpy if not outright shocking. I think honoring the disturbance as the bump and adjustment phase of new awareness instead of an emotional symptom is a nurturing, healthy response. It’s easy to fall into the pattern of “I’m a wreck…I had no idea how much of a wreck I am, but now that I see the light…I’m an absolute mess.” My practical advice is: don’t go there. Like de-planing from a trip, “the cargo in the overhead bins of the cabin has shifted, folks.” Expect to be discombobulated; that’s the price of seeing something new. Embrace the new awareness. Look at the world through your newly granted third eye and walk around with it awhile. Observe the subtle shift in the way you’re feeling and thinking, now imagining all the possibilities this new awareness has opened up inside of you. Wonder.

Then, thank heavens that someone or something is moving you right along. Thank heavens you’ve been selected to move out of your holding pattern and into a fabulous phase/daze of expanded awareness. Thank heavens someone decided to turn on the lights. The next step is up to you.

This message was brought to you by: your astrological flight crew- delivering you to higher places, safely, sanely.

Feb

19

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