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| Solar Eclipse painting by Sue Halstenberg |
New
Moon/Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer:
The Blessing in Disguise
Moon
conjunct Sun @ 2:16pm CDT on July 2nd, 2019
This
piece is dedicated to my friend and teacher, Dan Furst, who passed
away on June 23rd. He would have had a brilliant piece of
wisdom to share through video on this Solar Eclipse, as he embodied
the medicine of the Sacred Clown/Thunder Shaman well.
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| Dan Furst in Japan playing Kaminari, The Thunder God (1988) |
The
Eclipse Cauldron opens at the start of this Blessing Moon cycle.
Other names for this lunar month are the Buck Moon or the Thunder
Moon. This New Moon will be a potent one to bring forth your
intentions and drop them into the cauldron to brew. The Thunder
Shaman and the Deer Medicine of this cycle give power to this mix of
energies and provide their blessings toward pure intent.
During
Eclipse Season, what we encounter continues to be a theme that plays
out for another half year until the next eclipse. However, it also
carries a theme that returns every 18 years. Each time, we have an
opportunity to learn something new of this energy.
What
is the blessing in what may appear to be a curse in this greater
cycle? A brief look into some of the stories of this eclipse series
may enlighten us to a larger theme, while focusing in on the degree
of this eclipse can show the more specific medicine that can help us
move through our collective karma.
Saros
127 Eclipse: A Tale of Two Brothers
If
we go back to the last total eclipse in this series, in 2001, many of
us will remember a tale of two towers that followed. If we go back
to the eclipse in this series with the longest duration, in 1532,
there is a tale of two brothers that lead up to the disintegration of
the Inca Empire that year. The Inca Civil War, a war between
brothers Huascar and Atahualpa, was a precursor to this eclipse in
1532. By the end of it, each were captured and killed. That is
simplifying a very important story, but I encourage you to read other
accounts of it if you haven’t already. It holds many clues to our
current return of this eclipse, and the disintegration of power that
is happening now.
In
this eclipse energy, there is an underlying theme of separational
extremes...often pulling at the roots of family and homeland with
fear and hostility (the shadow of Cancer energy, where this and the
previous 127 eclipse took place). In each opportunity to face this
shadow, we have a choice. The more we choose to tune into the
balance of power that togetherness brings us, the more we will see it
reflected in our outside world. Of course, it is difficult to hold
that frequency of love and compassion while faced with this shadow.
It is much easier to fall into the traps that divide us and
disintegrate our own power.
This
Saros 127 Series brings us to the Ascending Node of the Moon, the
North Node. Here, the Collective Soul has an opportunity to take in
the very medicine that heals the greatest rifts of our time...and to
learn something new and integral to our Soul Story. North Node
medicine is not comfortable to swallow. Often, it appears as
something we’re most afraid of...our fears of the unknown. And yet
it’s actually the thing we need most to move the karmic
entanglement out through the Descending Node. During this eclipse we
have Saturn Retrograde, Lord of Karma, at the South (Descending) Node
of the Moon. We may be dealing with some heavy restrictions in our
ability to let go of what is blocking us. Saturn provides us some of
our hardest work in his lessons, but it is always in effort to guide
us to the most sustainable rewards.
Because
shadow themes will reveal themselves from past 18-year cycles, we can
anticipate a personal theme before we encounter the new lesson. In
the window of converging timelines with this eclipse, what reveals
itself in your awareness will be calling your soul to recapitulate.
Moon
and Sun in Cancer 11
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| George Carlin, one of my favorite comedians... one of Dan's favorites too. |
The
Sabian Symbol of this Solar Eclipse is ‘a clown caricaturing
well-known personalities’. In a time of such seriousness and
drama, Sacred Clown medicine is key. This is Heyoka bringing in the
lessons of Great Spirit through humor and opposites. This is the
Trickster showing us how we trick ourselves. In Tibetan Buddhism,
this is the Crazy Wisdom the guru adopts to shock students out of
fixed cultural and psychological patterns. This degree highlights
the path of the Thunder Shaman, who teaches through contrary humor
and exaggerated extremes of order vs. chaos.
Take
a moment to check in with yourself...is your perception of current
matters so serious it stresses you out? Or are you wearing the guise
of the clown too often in a way that hides your true feelings behind
smiles?
Either
way, the Sacred Clown medicine of this Solar Eclipse will provide the
opposite balance for us...and a deep belly laugh at what is revealed
can open us to great medicine. Try not to get too frustrated by the
opposition to your current state of feeling...it is best greeted as
an honor to have yourself revealed as part of the Cosmic Joke. It
shakes us awake and reveals our truth...allowing for authentic action
through compassion.
This
Blessing Moon begins with a watery, intuitive connection that
involves past feelings as well as new encounters. Our choices bring
lasting effect throughout the next half of our year. There is a
helpful sextile to the asteroid Vesta in Taurus, which brings an
opportunity to have good rapport with the Cosmic Priestess of Hearth and Home at this
time. Vesta’s wisdom is one of focus and dedication, which meets
the Sacred Clown wisdom to illuminate the vitality of Community.
There
is also a Cardinal Grand Cross with our luminaries and the asteroids,
which inclines a crisis that requires a balancing act. In opposition
to this Solar Eclipse is Persephone retrograde in Capricorn. In
squares to this axis is Ophelia in Aries opposing Eros-Iris together
in Libra. If any planets in your natal chart are in 8-12 degrees of
Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn), you’ll be feeling
these energies play out more strongly than others. It may pull you
to all four corners as a call to balance the opposites and center.
With
all of these mythic storylines of the asteroids at play, there may be
a lot of drama pulling us to our extremes and pushing us to take
action...so the luminaries advise tapping into some comedy to balance
the drama.
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| Felix Fawkes Kavi today on his half-birthday, sitting in our Green Man Tree. Felix is our own little Contrary Clown. Ask him to smile, and he'll give you a funny face. Ask him for a funny face, though, and he'll give you his most serious look. |
"Humor
is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one
sits on one's bottom." ~Taki
Love
and Gratitude,
Felina
Lune Kavi
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