ECLIPSES-Lunar and Solar-Sept 2006

[gemstar]

Hello Chi-Congrats to you for saving so many Elephants' lives! What kind of work is this exactly? Policing for the authorities? A private group who patrols for infractions of sorts? I am curious!!

How great for you that a new home has been purchased! Real Estate around the world has sky-rocketed for all of us! Finding bargains is always key!

I took a look at your transit chart and was unable to read it clearly. It is much better for most people to view it using the free charts available with astro.com. The degrees and natal vs transit chart is much clearer to view for anyone who might be interested in reviewing it for you.

Was there a more specific question you had with regard to your chart?

Hugs-
GemStar

[digitalchi]

Hi GemStar! I am soooo chuffed about my elephants I am actually a (litigation) lawyer who does a lot of environmental and human rights work - I love it: it's intellectually absorbing + the results are profound! The new house was a HUGE lucky find - I was not actually even looking: it came to me. I am looking forward to - stripping and refinishing and making it a magic, restful haven! (my Pisces on the 4th is unnaturally strong).

I've photobucketed my astro.com chart i18.photobucket.com/albums/b102/DigitalChi/Transits.gif - hope it will be clearer. I couldn't tweak the time tho, so the sun and moon are not quite lined up. No matter, my birth details are on the chart.

I'm just nervous as to what to expect from this eclipse, and am trying to figure that out from what is touched off in my chart. There is a very definite focus, which is in itself suspicious (sorry, that's my Scorpio side, suspicious of the universe): career, values, "destiny" with the NNode. What are the likely effects of it all?!

[chrissymgreen]

dear d-chi,

i must admit i generally don't consider soft aspects like the sextile & trine in transits, progressions & directions. guess i lean a little close to cosmobiology/uranian schools of thought in that respect.

an eclipse situated on one's MC/Juno/Pluto, though, is definitely a major event. i know somewhere back on another page of this thread i quoted what a friend sent to me from celeste teal's book about eclipses on natal pluto -- if you didn't read that, you should go back & take a peek. it's pretty interesting what it says. basically the gist of it is to expect major change, permanent change that may take a while to manifest (in keeping with the symbolism of pluto and all that jazz). adding to that, an eclipse on the MC affects one's position in life -- it sounds as if this eclipse is already affecting you with the purchase of your new home. remember the eclipse isn't just activating your MC; it's activating the 10th/4th house axis. one house can't be considered without the other, and sometimes events pertaining to the opposite house can be detected at times like this. juno issues also seem like they will be highlighted: issues surrounding equal partnership and idealization, losing illusions & what it takes to have real sharing & honesty -- juno lessons revolve around being honest & accepting the partner for who he/she really is.

hope this is somewhat helpful.



chrissy

[samina]

Chrissy, it sounds like you have a good handle on the control issues described in that T-square, as well as a good plan to shift your lifestyle into one that suits you better! I'm so happy to hear that, despite some of your family challenges, you have a job that you find so fulfilling. Perhaps you could pick up some extra graphic design work -- a freelance project or something -- that would enable you to sock much more money away much more quickly, getting you to your eventual goal of being out on your own as well as helping your mom? Perhaps this eclipse will bring just what you need along those lines -- the opening of some new options to get your where you want to be, more quickly.

Gem, I very much relate to your poetic waxing of how you experience the creative revitalization of the homes you restore! I've done that several times in my life, with the pinnacle experience being the complete restoration of a Civil War period farmhouse on a 250-acre farm, withe very square inch being redone. I sanded all the floors myself, painted every room, repaired water damage, and brought the home to a place of gleaming radiance I wonder if it ever even saw in its long history. It was so beautiful... my dearest friend at the time cried when he walked in at the final "unveiling". And I did it during a time of intense healing for me -- I had systemic Lyme disease and was deep in a metaphysical approach to recovery, and all that energy went into the house. I loved that place.

I have a similar ability, I guess, to see the potential of a place that may, in the moment, be a dump, but which has the potential to make a magical shift and resonate with real beauty and warmth. I really look forward to being able to do that again in the future. Right now, my hands are full with my dancing and my book and my career shift. But one day... I love the satisfaction of that kind of work!

And I would also *love* to see pix of your homes!!!!

sami

[chrissymgreen]

dear samina,

oh yeah, that's definitely a good idea, and one that has occurred to me! i started checking craiglist (for my area) under art/media/design a week or two ago and i have one potential client lined up. that sounds so official -- it's really just a guy who said he needed a brochure constructed in word made into a PDF. that's so simple, and compensation was listed at $150! now i'm just waiting for him to get back to me on what exactly he has. not only do i need the word document, i need the art files/photos he used because what i'll do is recreate the brochure using indesign. i'll have to have the art files. he said he'll back to me in a week or so.

if i can just get a number of these type gigs, my target date of april 2007 should be no problem to meet!

i have to say here too that i was probably a tad harsh about missy y-day. i just get a little frustrated at her irresponsibility and her clinginess. she's a good gal beyond that stuff; she just needs to grow up a little. i think being away from me will do her worlds of good -- because what seems to be happening now is that the more i pull away, the more she clings to me. this is a negative dynamic, and it's not helping her or i one bit.

recently missy got a job on the college campus i work for. it is a work study job in the library, but nonetheless this means she finds the time to stop my my office on a regular basis, which irks me to no end. also, y-day she told me she wants to sign up for water aerobics with me next semester (i take it every fall & spring). argh! i had to finally tell her firmly that i did not know what class i would take -- y-day she was pressuring me to tell her which class i would sign up for so she could sign up for the same one. well, i told her i did not know and she could sign up for whichever one she wants. i know that this way she'll either go ahead and choose a class or she'll drop it -- which is more likely because my sister does not like to exercise. i do not think she's really interested in water aerobics. she just wants another way to be close to me.

this happening y-day is why the post i wrote y-day afternoon was a little harsh & unforgiving. i do want to say that i love my sister, and i know we'll be much happier when i can be out on my own. this way she can grow up and learn to deal with what she has done to my mother financially. i think my father is getting a little fed up with her too. she ran up a $200 cell phone bill recently and he told her that this time he wasn't going to pay it. when i move out, i know that it is going to be hard on her and my mother. missy doesn't make a whole lot of money, nor does she have a steady job. this year she's been a job hopper -- she gets one and then there's something wrong with it of course so she goes and gets another. mom doesn't have a whole lot, either. i feel guilty leaving them like this but what can i do? i've determined that this situation just is not working for me. thing is, i just think my sister needs to grow up. me moving out might just do the trick.

plus too i am excited about a potential relocation. i really love austin, and i know i could probably get a job at UT or one of the other educational institutions there. if not there, then i'm also interested in working for a newspaper (oddly enough -- there's something about newspapers that i love, it's inexplicable) and they always need typesetters. freelance is always an option, too. i actually do not know for sure if i will relocate -- lots of stuff to consider before making that decision. that would entail me leaving a job i love, and i'd have to think long and hard about that. i'd have to make some decisions about my relationship, really think about what i want. iknow gordon would like it if i moved down there, but it's too soon for me to jump on that bandwagon just yet. typical me, i need tons of time to analyze my options first!


yeah, gemstar, i'd love to see some pics of your homes!!



c

[samina]

Well, chrissy, you'll have to keep us posted as to whether any new opportunities to move toward your goals surface due to the eclipses!

I've really noticed eclipses as being real hingepoints in my life, usually with just a tiny bit of hindsight. They're effects seem noticeable pretty quickly, I think.

Good luck!!!
samina

[digitalchi]

Hi Chrissy

Apologies for late reply - rushed off my feet with the house move: there are SO many things to do! I had read your post on eclipse-to-Pluto - major, permanent change: it made me a bit nervous Thanks for the heads-up on Juno - I wasn't sure how this asteroid would play out. I can feel it all starting to kick in with the house move ...

[ana]

The first eclipse is just opp my Amor and sq my Uranus The second one interest me more as it is just after my Jupiter in 5th so may be I will get to go on the trip interstate that I have been trying to do since April to see my daughter and lots of friends where I lived before It does not seem to be everyone's fate but for me if I try to travel when there is not some helpful aspect it does not happen and if I want to go out for a concert/ dance if there is nothing at the end of Pisces [my 11th house] it always gets cancelled one way or another.

[AquarianEssence]

I need to spend more time looking at this, Jade. This eclipse is 4 degrees before my post birth full Moon and my husband's pre birth new Moon. Yesterday, my son who just turned 13, in an attempt to manipulate me (Scorpio rising) started throwing accusations at me. First he said "you aren't listening" because I disagreed and told him no. Then he said, "You know, people think you're weird and maybe even doing witchcraft. I wonder what the court would say". He is trying to badger me letting me go live with his dad even though he'd be completely alone when ever he's at work. Here there is at least one other person at all times. He's doing a pretty good job. I don't even like him this last year, although I love him and my responsibility as a mother is #1. My answer to him? "I know. When you're dad told this to the "officials" during our divorce, they just laughed. " Then he started cutting down our home compared to his dad's. His dad designed and chose the quality of the construction of our home. He is currently doing the worst of the Virgo nature. He punished me for having him wash a door by scrubbing little areas so much there's no finish left. So now I have a poka-dotted door. He took the tung oil and stain right off.

Back to the eclipse, things are coming to a head just like the full moon. Looking back 18 and 19 years ago, we finished this house enough to get an occupancy permit and moved in around the eclipse in 87. The house still isn't finished and needs all new outside doors and I need to do something to change the grade at the lower level door as the house just setteled again and the entry slab now slopes toward the door bringing in every rain. Fortunately, that's the basement and there's a floor drain not too far but it has rotted the threshhold and drywall around the door. I know it sounds like Scorpio, but I have Scorpio ruling the 4th and both I and the ex have Scorpio Moon. I spent 88 laying out garden beds and learning which led to opening my greenhouse in 90. I did manage to get him to help me finish the kitchen counters that year so I didn't have to prepare our food on plywood any more. I painted herbs on tiles to form a border and just kept bugging him after they were done becuase they needed a permanant home.

If I progressed the prebirth new moon @ 4 Virgo like solar arcs, 4 degrees would put it on my 2nd cusp and the full moon phase would be 19 degrees. When I was 4 years old my paternal grandpa came to see several times but each time my mom would have me taking a nap and wouldn't let us see him. I would close my eyes real tight to make it look like I'd been sleeping so she'd let me get up. The trick didn't work, I hadn't thought about the time aspect. Uranus, grandpa is in my 12th square Neptune in the 3rd so this brings in the Pisces energy. My mom was a stubborn Taurus with a Scorpio revenge nature against my dad. She grew out of it about 30 years later.

This eclipse falls on my husband's asc/desc and is square exact his IC/MC. In 86 his first son was born and in 87 he began his sales career which he did off and on, mostly on until he met me. Now he's found himself with this eclispse doing backbreaking concrete work. I don't know if this is an appropriate connection but I've read that a 4 degree aspect is concrete, which makes perfect sense. This is 4* from his prebirth new moon and he's now doing concrete work. Hmmm. His MC is Gemini sales, though.

[gemstar]

Hey Everyone...

Been buried by the craziest of issues lately...dental issues...wild animals in house, a snake that is!! ...the snake is dead now....wild delivery guy who loudly whispered lewd things he wanted to do to me, great....issues with subcontractors and a father who just continues to tell me what a failure I am. (Oh, but I am not being critical of you he says, just stating FACTS)..OK, uh, thanks for nothing dude...oh yeah, totally PIA and weird happenings. I have been wiped out and wondering why these weird things have popped up suddenly. This upcoming lunar eclipse is directly opposed my natal Uranus/Pluto at 15-16 VIR and square my natal Mars at 16 GEM Hmmm...

Anyway, this article is mostly focused on transiting Pluto moving DIRECT on September 4th but it is technically linked by square to this Lunar eclipse...well, the Moon moves so quickly, I feel that it's influence will be felt not only by those people with planets at the 15 degree mark but those who are also being affected directly at the VIR 24 mark....

A brief taste:

PLUTO TURNING DIRECT ON A LUNAR ECLIPSE FULL MOON

This doesn’t happen often and it’s mightily significant. If there was EVER a FULL Moon that got a power kick this year, it is this one occurring on September 7, 2006. A full moon means things come to a head and pop open and decisions are made and acted/reacted too at that time. Add to this, it is an eclipse energy so that light is shined into each of us to illuminate a dark space in ourselves, so that we might become aware of it--and change it for the better, one hopes. Freewill choice here, as always. The Full Moon eclipse occurs at 15 Pisces and 1:42 a.m., PDT, on Thursday. And the transiting Moon is in Pisces which is square Pluto in Sagittarius; so it’s going to be a day of blockages being blown open (think heart attack here for some individuals), push-comes-to-shove kind of energy that is going to be around. A square is an energy that means ‘stumbling blocks or building blocks’ time, expression and action by individuals. Virgos and Pisces and people, by proxy to this sky square between Moon and Pluto on September 7th, are going to get a tsunami of energy coming their way and seeing a lot of blockages or halts to things they wanted to move, get blasted open. Or, at the very least, you will receive openings and awareness upon which you can then act upon, accordingly.

For some, your feet are going to be held to the fire and only pain will force you to change or move. Just remember: you don’t have to go this route...you can SURRENDER to a HIGHER POWER, instead. And in doing so--you don’t get burned. So be prepared for some major shifts in your life or career because Pluto’s nuclear tonnage is behind this FULL Moon.

www.medicinegarden.com/astrology/plutoDirect_080406.html

Good reading!!

Hugs-
GemStar

[samina]

Gem, what a WEEK you've had! Man-oh-man... kudo's to you for handling it with such grace. Shoot -- even without grace, who cares? Ya got through it!

Your dad sounds like my greek grandmother -- I remember when she told me similar things. It's amazing how blinded people can be by their own neuroses. Remembering that always helps to take the "charge" for me out of those situations. Personally, I think you're amazing, girl!

Thanks for sharing that article above. It reminded me of where the up-coming full moon is taking place -- with all this astrological activity, somehow I'd forgotten. And it makes sense that Pluto is involved. I had such a powerful event take place at work yesterday, involving explosive emotions (on the part of my boss). I was wondering what to attribute it to -- it didn't feel like the Sat/Nep opposition, which was "exactly exact". Now I get it. This is what I wrote towards the beginning of the thread:

The Lunar eclipse at 15Pisces occurs in my 6h house, exactly sextiling/trining my natal 2nd house Neptune and 8th-house Jupiter. Would definitely anticipate a change in work & means of income. Am working diligently toward that end right now, and would imagine that I'll see evidence of these efforts around that time.

Last week I started a new job, a part-time gig for very little money, but it offered quick cash and something to bide my time until the next piece of the puzzle falls into place. I got to work side-by-side with a friend of mine who started there before me, in a small office working for the business owner. But my first day there I could see that it wasn't something that would last long because the owner was very untrustworthy in his relationships -- he regularly blamed others for his own short-comings, and put them down behind their backs to make himself look good, and attacked them very quickly over issues where he hadn't provided enough info to them so they could do their job correctly. I saw this on the first day, and knew that eventually he'd overcome his initial politeness & would start directing these tendencies toward me.

And over the course of the the last couple days, that's what he did, bizarrely exploding at me yesterday over two instances where I was asking questions about things he'd decided he'd already told me, but never had. He became completely enraged and had to leave the building! And once he returned, he never revisited the issue or apologized for having been out of line. So, the writing on the wall had developed flashing neon lights: each day that I go there may be my last, because I'm not being paid anything near what would inspire patience in me for this kind of nonsense. I'm ready to leave at the drop of a whisper of his sarcasm.

So, I'm even more highly motivated than before to make a work & money shift in my life. And this little job has helped in that regard because I've been so busy cleaning up & reorganizing this man's business activities, it's energized a strong industriousness that's carrying over into my *own* life! For that I give so much thanks!

I feel like this next week will be very much about focusing that energy on my own affairs & making progress with my health book, which once complete will powerfully impact my day-to-day affairs & ability to make money through a new source.

And all that seems to describe spot-on the astrological nuances triggered by this up-coming full moon!

Say, Jade... your pre-natal moon is exactly on my 6th-house 18 Pisces Chiron! Among numerous qualities, my Chiron placement has helped very much with an ability to create order out of chaos. And that's what's generally going on for me right now, on a number of levels. How bout yourself... what house is your pre-natal moon in? I must've missed that.

I am loving hearing about this eclipse energy in people's lives -- it's fascinating how it so clearly ties to your chart placements!

A very industrious Samina.

[gemstar]

Hello Samina...

That current employer sounds like an ass!!! As I have grown older, (oh so old at 40! Hahaha..) I have less and less tolerance for that kind of treatment. It is negative energy to say the least!! My natal Scorpio Neptune conj ASC absorbs other people's 'stuff' too easily at times....I am impressed you show up each day!!

Well, sometimes just 'doing' is enough to get you motivated to get a move on with organizing your own goals and life. You certainly have been working toward that...even if it is only in 'thought' at times. As a Gemini, I am ALWAYS in 'thinking-mode' and like to believe it is part of the planning stages for ACTION!! YOU GO TOO Girlfriend!!

You know something, I love to remind people that the power to make money-and oodles of it- is in each of our hands. The main thing that keeps us back at times is our own limiting thoughts. Isn't that the simple truth (once you cut away all the daily excuses and reasons of why we aren't there yet...)?? Gotta love those success stories out there of people who dare to dream and dream big! Why not and why not you??!!

Years ago, I met a man who began the American Paint chain called Scott Paints. He named it after his son Scott. Bernie was a sweet man who is no longer earthbound and truly impressed me with his ability to go beyond the average line of thinking. He didn't begin his paint company until he was in his late 50s. An age when most people are begging to retire!! He began with one store and eventually went on to 'brand' the store and sell paint franchises over the next 35 years! I think it is brilliant to believe in yourself and your abilities to make money at all ages! Like many multi-millionaires I know personally, there are usually stories of great losses and risks taken...nearly every one of these people!! And each time, they rose from the ashes bigger, richer and stronger than before! And usually with deeper spiritual understanding! Now that is COOL!

Really, the world can be limitless...no matter what your circumstances. Finding the inspiration to keep going toward what you desire and dream about sometimes is the tough part of 'getting going'. My father has the typical 1950s mentality that women need to be told what to do...and women should not question the all-knowing man. He used the word 'bitch' to describe me and my holding strong on an issue with a sub-contractor who was trying to take advantage of me. Nice. Ugh....such a downer at times. My father is especially insulting to my high intelligence no less!! Huh-llllloooo...Merc in 9th here....nice try!!

I smiled when you wrote of reminding oneself of the person's neuroses when they are being less-than-kind to you. My Cancerian Moon is reactive and frustrated by my family. It is a trigger I am really trying to extinguish. Lately I have been distancing myself and not extending my reach toward them. It was working just great until I slipped and called out of concern due to the Tropical Storm which was in effect here in Florida earlier this week. It was hitting me first in SW Florida and no one had called to check on me so I called up to them (north of where I live 100 mi). I was nice. Damn it. Dumb move. As soon as I exposed myself, BAM, the hammer came down. Now what was the definition of 'insanity' again?? Hahaha.....yes...the last few weeks have been really sucky and I felt pushed to defend myself more strongly than usual. Just odd. Life was not letting me be complacent whatsoever....and a wild poisonous snake in my house no less!! Just bizarre! It couldn't be just a garden snake...oh no. Gotta be a creepy one! This has never happened in my life! Now....he is living in snake heaven/hell and telling his snake-buddies the tale of the crazed blonde gal who was not to be trifled with for one moment!!

This Full Moon is a special one in that it is occurring during a partial eclipse. In the sign of Pisces, I would think this makes it super sensitive and even spiritual. Endings are part of Full Moons and especially Lunar eclipses. With transiting Uranus being touched as the tr Moon sweeps by, maybe this will be the sudden trigger to release issues and situations which need to find completion. My love is dealing with some really heavy stuff...so much so that he has gone into hide-mode. Boy do I dislike that part of some Piscean natures....face up to Life dude. Deal. That hiding thing kills me.....so I suspect this Lunar eclipse falling direct on his natal Moon will be the end of things he has been struggling with for some time. This is good. I wish none of us had to suffer through events...but hey, that is how we develop CHARACTER n'est pas? So we live and hopefully learn....and some lessons are too unbearable to repeat!

As an opposition (lunar eclipse is in my 4th) for me between my 4th and 10th houses....hard to say. My natal planets in VIR 10th have me a bit freaked out at the moment as tr Uranus in my natal 4th is coming soon to oppose the hardest aspects in my chart!! Natal VIR 16 Pluto-Uranus conjunction PLUS a square to GEM 16 Mars in 8th!! Eeks.....throw in tr Pluto squaring Chiron-Saturn conj in late degrees Pisces....man. I am planning it being mostly GOOD changes! I personally don't find this natal double-square to be so hard...let's just call them 'interesting'. I can be a powerhouse once my mind is made up about something....but I have been drifting a lot over the past few years as I work on this project and regain my emotional strengths. Good transformations are coming.....I haven't built up enough things to lose since the last wipe-out 5 years ago!! Hee-hee.....somehow I have learned to be less confident that things/life will remain the same! I know better now....so I am more humble and obliging to change. Funny how life unfolds and changes your thinking after a clean sweep! So, I am sorta checking out this Full Moon and wondering what it will bring. Oppositions still baffle me somewhat. They can be completely wonderful energy to work with....right? That is my vote....challenge doesn't scare me....just a little help with the navigation is all I simply request!

Dad is going to Ireland and Scotland for two weeks....Mom is putzing around with her life after returning from Canada...my bros are doing their things across the nation.....it just leaves Me. Me and my project which awaits me today. I am still getting a Mars push somehow to create something BIG that will allow my creativity to really shine....and make money again. It is rather interesting that the only naysayer about my project is my father! My Bank President has been here (he approved the loan) and is amazed and impressed with what I am doing!! What a great Pis Mooner....he called yesterday to check on me and give me extra encouragement. Wasn't that nice??!!

Samina....yes, do that job with a very detached attitude. Other than a few dollars, certainly Universe has led you there to be inspired to move your money-ideas in new directions! (As if you didn't already know....but you do! ) I am right now giving you the 'singular eyebrow raise' with my best Scorpionic ASC glare from my green eyes....to pass onto that butt-head of an employer. (Notice I won't write boss....it is too close the the word ass....I might write something worse!!) Hee-hee.....

Bring on the Lunar eclipse...I am ready...are you all??

Signed....GEMSTAR-the Snake slayer, (hey, he was jumping and trying to bite me!!)

[gemstar]

Hey Jade...if you get a clearer handle on the pre-natal Moon info, please write out a simplified post as my mind glazes over about the whole thing!!

Thanks!

PS-Yes, some friends were amazed that I didn't call animal control or whoever to deal with the snake. Hey, when I had him where I could SEE him (under my grand piano), I was not going to let him slither away into the unknown walls of my home!! Just lots of screaming and shovel-jabbing...chipped a tile in the process but managed to do the deed nonetheless!! The funeral was attended by my faithful mailman Jimmy who happened to be driving up to my house at the peak of finality for the scary snake. I yelled to him like a little kid: "Hey Jimmy, SNAKE...SNAKE!!!!" He is a cutie and came running up and like a typical boy (he is 56yo), he picked up the dead snake and examined the head....ewwww. He then buried it for me and I hoped it didn't come back from the depths of the soil with more vigor to attack me!!

What is it you Aussies say? CRIKEY??!!
Yep....

Hugs-
GemStar

PS-Yes! That article was really interesting!!!!! Glad you liked it!

[samina]

Oh, Gem, whatta gem you are -- I so appreciate your holding fast to the belief of the power in each of us to create our own reality and all the money we need. I hold to the same thing, but I'm generally not surrounded by individuals who would nod their heads in supportive agreement if I were to verbalize my convictions, so I generally keep them to myself, or find gentler ways to assert the same thing. Because I believe the more we verbalize, the more we shoot out those conviction into the physical universe with the power of our voices carrying the resonance of our feelings, the actual *frequency* our nervous system generates when we feel the certainty of this power... then the more powerfully we can manifest in this world.

For example, one way I have found to express my awe at this power is that I've said so many times this year "how incredibly lucky I am" as I've also opened both palms of my hands and looked at them. Somehow, my less metaphysically oriented friends have understood that on some level. They realize that I'm talking about a protective force that has enabled me to go without a full time job ALL YEAR, and still not have my life fall apart. And that really does feel like an outpouring of the ability to manifest that I've held to & believe in & manifested for some years, now -- like a layover of goodwill.

But now I'm on the razor's edge. Time for new demonstrations of that conviction. I'm very *enlivened* by that!!!

And you're so right about the guy I'm working for... he's a fool and I haven't a moment of stress worrying about that situation. I'm already preparing to move on. All I have to do is reach out & pick up a few extra shifts at the restaurant where I work on Saturdays and I'll make more money than I do at that office in a week. In this instant, although I need cash, I feel like I hold all the power because he doesn't pay me enough to be valuable to me. That's a good feeling, to be on that side of things when conflict arises!

Gem, your snake story just cracks me up! LOL
And, although I'm no Aussie, "crikey" is a very common saying in our house. What a great word! LOL

Happy eclipses, everyone!
Samina

[AquarianEssence]

This is too weird. I tried twice yesterday to post more on this. The first time about 4:30 dinner interupted and it was lost at reconnect to the internet for some reason. Then I got all the way to the post button, I'm sure I saw it but it's not here. Fortunately I thought it was good enough to turn into a full article for my reconstructed web site so I saved it. Maybe its not and that's why it disappeared twice. But anyway, here it is.

I've been thinking some more about an eclipse falling on the prebirth new Moon. Of course, it seems any time I start pondering, something leads me to the dictionary. Did you know?...

eclipse L. eclipsis: Gr. ekleipsis, an abandoning, eclipse, failing <ekleipein, to leave out, pass over, fail; ek-, out+leipein, to leave... any over-shadowing or cutting off of light. A temporary obscurity or dulling, as of fame, glory, etc. To darken or obscure the fame or glory of, outshine, surpass.

This reminds me of the Hebrew festival of Passover.

The prebirth new Moon is the seed you were infused with to carry you through life and is connected to the pars heyleg showing much about your purpose for incarnation. The Sun plants the seed within the Moon and it is her mission to carry it through to fruition. If the seed that is planted falls on shallow, rocky or otherwise inpentetrable soil it fails to take root and would be aborted by the time fullness of her cycle comes around. Even if the seed is planted in fertile ground, other things can interfere. This year everything we planted in our garden was eaten by theives of every sort; rabbits, woodchucks, deer. An ealy frost could have wiped it all out before the animals even had a chance. And then there is also the Black Walnut tree close by that is toxic to certain plants and inhibits growth. I think it is the same with the seed of our Sun-Soul. That mission is ingrained into us but the elements of life can put up roadblocks.

My husband planted his seed in me expecting me to carry out his purpose and shine for him. When I shined in my own right or received the praise and glory for our wonderful children he was resentful. Not enough to ever drive them to a soccer game or a friends house, but resentful still. When he discovered my achilles heel was to attack my fitness as a mother he told me, "I've found my power. My power is my boys." The hatefulness in his face was scary. But he has used that power well in an attempt to make me shine for him as he intended. This is a rather distorted comparison with the husband symbolizing the Sun and the wife symbolizing the Moon.

I think, from the meaning of the word eclipse, when it falls on the prebirth new Moon, it can show us where the rocks are in our soil so we can remove them. Perhaps we can build a beautiful rock garden with them. It can show us what hidden enemies are trying to hinder and steal the glory of our light. It can show us the toxins that glow in the dark so we can remove them or our garden. It can show us clues as to where we can outshine even the brightest star.

Interesting, my ex' first name means notorious, middle is man of the isle, last means an excessive amount of will. May the higher will be done. No man is an island.