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| Art by Masashi Kishimoto |
Total Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon
in Scorpio: The Sacred NO
Moon opposite Sun- 5/15/22 @
11:14pm CDT
Eclipse totality duration- 1hr 25min (partial eclipse for 3hr 27min in total)
Visibility of totality- The Americas, Western Europe, and most of Africa
The stirrings in the Eclipse
Cauldron are highly active now, as Moon at her South Node prepares to redden in
the shadow of our Earth. The Way of
Scorpio is of Immersion and Becoming. It
is penetrating insight from transformative depths. It pulls you in. It uncovers your secrets. It goes to the edges of life and death to
experience and regenerate the power that moves us.
Moon feels all the
complexities of emotion in Scorpio’s fixed waters. With her, we are challenged to sink to the
bottom of something…to discover the crisis and catharsis of Deepest Truth. To meet this challenge, we can’t just dip our toes in. We immerse ourselves
completely, shadows and all.
And just as the shadow
overwhelms the Moon during this total eclipse, our own shadows will come to
call. Such crises are meant to be
private experiences, and yet some may erupt into the shared experience of the
Collective…too powerful to move through alone.
And what can we do to move
these crises toward the catharsis of Deepest Truth? Especially when we feel stuck…bounded by
societal constraints, or social taboos, or systems of oppression.
We dig deep, and we find our
Sacred NO.
Saturn and Vesta in Aquarius, Square
the Luminaries
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| 'Sacred Flame' by Joyce Huntington |
Saturn is still strong in his
diurnal air sign, and this Taskmaster is tasked to address the tension between
Taurus and Scorpio (Body and Soul). On
the collective level, we will feel the ‘full stop’ of boundaries that cannot be
crossed in our societal structures. This
echoes through to our personal experience as the necessity of ‘drawing the line’
on a crucial matter.
Vesta, whose efforts keep the Sacred
Flame lit for the community, joins Saturn to address the tension. She is Priestess, sovereign unto herself, and
supporter of strong sisterhood bonds.
Communal as her Sacred Work stretches, she is Goddess of Hearth and Home…the
realms of privacy and protection. When
working with Saturn at the apex of a fixed T-square pattern, the stress of
over-work may arise in the eclipse shadows.
Both Saturn and Vesta are well-known for carrying quite a bit of weight…they
are dedicated and devoted to their work, their responsibilities. But when the stress of over-extension becomes
too much, Saturn exercises the power of contraction. Combined, these two celestial bodies will
signal that Sacred NO to each of us. And
the squares suggest we must pay attention and respond to the Sacred NO we feel
within.
Mars and Venus, Rulers of Scorpio
and Taurus
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| Art by Geraldine Arata |
Mars is often known as the God
of War, or the planet of action. In this
lunation, though, Mars conjunct Neptune in Pisces is offering some helpful
advice toward stress relief. Mars likes
a challenge, and one of the main challenges Mars will be working with is easing
the extremes of emotion the Scorpio Moon will be navigating. Scorpio is Mars’s nocturnal domicile, where
Mars teaches a more measured way of action that focuses in on the underlying
motivations rather than immediate results.
And, through Pisces, the water trine vibration from Mars-Neptune to Moon
can suggest benefits from energetic healing of the emotions. In some cases, a practitioner of such healing
may be called upon. In other cases, we
may wish to find our own ways of moving the emotional state from crisis to
catharsis. Either way, such internal
movement is necessary to dissipate whatever muck we may be stuck in. While the opportunities for wise use of Mars’s
benefits will be subtle, there is no shortage of this offering of flow.
(Mars trine Moon-South Node = beneficial
flow and ease, Mars sextile Sun-North Node = opportunities through mutual
benefit, Mars semi-octile (22 degrees) Venus = activity addressing health
concerns, Mars semi-sextile Saturn = small opportunities for integration through
awareness, Mars sextile PlutoRx = opportunities through mutual benefit)
Venus is often known as the
Goddess of Love, or the planet of relating.
In this lunation, Venus in Aries has some subtle magic to offer through
aspect as well. Sun is in Venus’s
nocturnal domicile of Taurus…where Venus teaches the value of unfolding and
receiving. The two are in a 40 degree novile
aspect, which cultivates a nurturing bond between Sun and Venus. This can suggest the benefits of grounding
with support from those we love. Along
with this lovely vibration, Venus invites us toward other relational gifts to
help us work with the eclipse energies too.
(Venus novile Sun = nurturing
and bonding, Venus semi-octile Mars = activity addressing health concerns,
Venus septile Saturn = focus/commitment/sacrifice, Venus semi-sextile Uranus =
small opportunities for integration through awareness, Venus bi-quintile South
Lunar Node = advantage through perception and resourcefulness)
The South Node Eclipse
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| 'Loslaten (Let Go)' by Marjolein Caljouw |
This Lunar Eclipse at the
South Node will bring up the past in many ways.
It could be recent past, history long past, ancestral past, karmic past…or
any combination of these. At a South Node
eclipse, the shadows that arise are coming up for release. There is no room for growth if we keep
holding onto them as such. In Scorpio,
the way of release involves transformation…from shadow to wisdom. Scorpio has a purifying effect through this
transformation, where learning the truth about our shadows and releasing the
knots of emotion tied up in them can lead to becoming more in tune with our own
power.
So, ominous as a Total Lunar
Eclipse in the sign of the Moon’s fall can sound…make good use of the subtle
energies surrounding this time and engage in the opportunities for healing that
arise. Saturn-Vesta at the apex of this
T-square will be the obvious challenge, requiring us to set our boundaries in
no uncertain terms. But there is support
for this, if you can step back from your tangled up emotional state and take
notice of the invitations to unwind and let go.
Love and Gratitude,
Felina Lune Kavi
