Full Moon Eclipse

The lone wanderer stands atop an endless hillside, fueled with the harmony of rebirth. While arriving late to the soiree, the Messenger is captivated by heroic isms thrashed about by his fellow comrades.

The old Sky God had filled the young deities with stories of an impactful revolution yet-to-come, where life’s boundaries would be tested, until, “something breaks.”

“An answer is brewing,” Uranus beheld. “Do you think you understand? Let go of your concepts of knowing. Only the unimaginable will be manifest.”

One by one, while Sol illuminated the impassioned path toward destiny, wild stories were told, and listened to, preparing our archetypes for war. The Messenger watches our world—an eye or two toward others—with great anticipation.

“Almighty Sol, grant me your grace!” Mars charges his opponents—time, lust, and sorcery—with the stoutness of earthen armor, enlightened by the Sun. On the battlefield, the Old King is summoned from slumber to find himself challenged by none other than his younger form.

“From the depths of the underworld, let Karma be unleashed upon the stubborn realm of man!” the Lord of Time cries from the shadows. “You wish to challenge your own future? The light of Luna reflects secrets harbored for months passed. As you run wild-eyed into confrontation, I pray that you have settled your debts.”

Suddenly, the sky turns black, and the silver light of the Great Mirror shines upon the battlefield, and the warriors’ crisis turns inward.

“Your tug of war will have no winner,” commands Uranus, “until the Great Destroyer decides which concept to collapse first.”

“Aphrodite, I beg to share your bed,” the Healer Chiron pledges to the goddess, “Spill the blessings of your heart unto the world.”

“You are wise to seek me out, centaur,” the goddess replies, “For I alone carry the verdict of this battle.” Thus, she reveals the decapitated crown of the snake-headed Medusa from under her brow, embodying the great strategist, none other than Pallas Athene.

“My lady,” Chiron replies. “Your people trounce the battlefield in agony. Their Karma is too strong for them to gather their senses. Allow me to help them find solace in their wounds, and ease their passing, so they may know balance.”

“You have my blessing,” Athene replies. “But know, the ease of the passing of the world is not dependent upon the warriors you see before you. They are cattle. The feminine rulers must rise.”

The Great Queen Hera, overwhelmed with the shifting in the roles relationships, demands recompense. She wails, as the older and wiser: “You, daughter, have grown too close to your father’s side. There are still many who cling to the old traditions and ways—you might ask them to give up their lives?”

“There is no time for compromise,” Athene responds. “You see our children thwart themselves with their own suffering—see how they lash and cry out, unaware of their own doing. Give us balance, or give us death.”

“Death may be the true awakener,” Demeter adds, joining her sister goddesses in council. “It was unto death that I gave my daughter, and unto death that our children receive the greater awareness of their transformation.”

“The sands shift too quickly,” Hera retorts. “We are too foolish to plant life in stale earth.”

“Trust in your children,” Demeter returns. “They have their own dreams to settle. The earth shifts, and life will be born anew. The goddess is awakened.”

Meanwhile, the centaurs are invited to dance. Absolus seeks to calm the wild scrutiny of his intoxicated brother, and mediate the foreboding rebellion. While the former takes council from Athene, he understands the wholeness found in balance.

Seemingly abiding to the secret forces, he is countered by freedom-raging Nessus, reacting on stubborn instinct during troubled times on Earth. Nessus represents the churning and boiling that arises in the hearts of mankind—the need to fight, respond, and belong to the world.

Neptune reigns from her oceanic underworld, asking the dream of androgyny to be reawakened upon the planet. Her awareness implores us to ask, “What is a good dream?” And, to know the difference between the fears that keep us alive, and the fear that is illusionary. For our warriors to victor, disciplines will be mastered in the darkness.

While Saturn continues to test our spiritual aptitude on the inter-dimensional battlefield, both processes are asked to be integrated and illuminated with patience and maturity.

“The forthcoming enlightenment may be challenging to accept—deep, soulful, and karmic. Let relationships be brought to justice,” Athene commands. “Awaken the feminine within. Prepare your soul for renewal.”

The Messenger, pleased with the scale such antagonism invokes, settles down on the grass atop his hill, and listens to the air whistling among the green.





For the learn’d astrologer:

3:58 PM – 04/25/13 – 5 degrees Scorpio

In Mid-April, Mercury joined Mars, Venus, the Sun, and Uranus in Aries, adding a degree of clarity to the fiery pulse of our collective revolution. Now, all but Mercury and Uranus have transitioned into Taurus, beginning to shape the personal seeds planted into conscious thought of what they will eventually become.

Mars is conjunct the Sun during this full moon eclipse, bringing aggression to an intensified release of emotional karma from the lunar opposition in Scorpio. Retrograding Saturn in Scorpio is conjunct the full moon, heightening the degree of debt being paid during the dream manifest.

Neptune in Pisces brings an element of illusory pleasure to the mix, trining the moon/Saturn conjunction and sextiling the sun/Mars. For the sake of taking the edge off, you might allow yourself a few sensational indulgences over the weekend.

Venus is conjunct the asteroid Pallas, channeling Athena, Roman goddess of wisdom and strategist of war. She begs us to integrate the feminine hero to bring the aggressor Mars into balance. Think Joan of Arc, especially with the next enflamed Pluto/Uranus square right on our heels. Being in Venus’ ruling sign, Taurus, the divine feminine is honored rather than sacrificed.

The asteroid Juno (Hera) in Aquarius squares Venus/Pallas, the aspect of marriage unsettled during the airy transit. As paradigms of equality and relationship change, the generational transition may come with discomfort and an unwillingness to let go of older traditions. Ultimately, however, the old will be forced to bow to the new.

Along with Neptune, the asteroid Ceres (Demeter) also trines the moon, creating a delectable grand water trine that speaks to the importance of death before rebirth, perfectly rounding out the theme of this full moon. As Demeter’s daughter Persephone received sexual illumination in the Underworld, her mother came to understand that she must let go in order to receive. Thus, the cycle of the seasons was born to “meter” our process of growth and transformation.

Travelling through the Underworld is necessary to let go of our demons and receive spiritual healing, and this eclipse asks us to travel the deepest and darkest yet, allowing that which has been ailing us to burn off into the mist.