Penumbral Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon in Sagittarius: The Edge of our Shadow

Penumbral Lunar Eclipse/Full Moon in Sagittarius:  The Edge of our Shadow

Moon opposite Sun- 6/5/20 @ 2:12pm CDT

'Chrysalis' by Kim Francis

This is a year of awakening to our responsibility; our ability to respond to each pressing call of our Earth.  We are transforming every single aspect of what defined us into what we will eventually become.  This is the Chrysalis of Transformation, and we’re in it…parts of us fighting against what is emerging, and parts of us imagining the new expression into being.  Make no mistake…it’s not gentle and beautiful what transpires within the chrysalis, not to the Caterpillar anyway.  Every cell fights against the inevitable transformation…as if battling a virus…until, eventually, that internal battle fades away to reconstruction and rebirth.

But this is a much longer process than that of the Butterfly.  This is a call that includes our whole human collective…all of our ancestral past and all of our descendant future converging into this extended turning point of present alterations.  It is like that process, though, of Caterpillar to Butterfly…in that the human identity (like the Caterpillar) was fixed on consumption, growing bigger and bigger, and eventually there was this call to stop all that consumption and go inward. 

Inside Humanity’s Chrysalis is a series of Dark Night of the Soul events.  We are faced with the worst of our shadows and challenged to bring it all into the light.  We are no longer able to escape the dark underbelly of what we have all allowed our collective identity to become.  Attempt to brush one instance of it aside because it’s too uncomfortable to see, and it will come back at us in still more powerful and more excruciatingly painful expressions.

Haunted by how Humanity’s past keeps playing out in our present, we cry out for justice…for drastic change…for healing that doesn’t just mask the symptoms but gets right to the roots of our sickness.  Together, we reveal the diseased root present in our human-made systems…we call it out and we disentangle it from our natural roots so we can finally BREATHE the whole of Humanity on this Earth.

A Reflection from the Gemini-Sagittarius Lunar Nodes:  The Calling of our Collective Soul

“Diversity is the lifeblood of the rebirth of consciousness around an idea.”  I said to my friend Amanda in her Astrology Hub podcast in early May.  The whole of the conversation was about Rites of Passage, and it was meant to inspire, ‘like seeds on the wind’, the honoring of the sacredness within the liminal movements of our life transitions.  We talked about how we’re in the thick of a collective Rite currently, moving through the ordeal of it together, and calling upon the Heart and Soul of Humanity.  But we also talked about our personal and societal Rites that integrate our unique experience within the larger group.  I feel this idea, honoring the liminal magic within the larger Crisis Acceleration of our time, is a rebirth of consciousness that encourages the diverse beauty and power within all of Humanity to thrive.  I feel it in my bones, my blood, my heart, and my soul.  And I have a feeling you’re feeling it too if you’re reading this.

This Triple Eclipse Summer opened with the Gemini New Moon on May 22^nd.  A few days later, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota by extreme and brutal restraint from multiple police officers.  The collective response that has swelled around our world since then, which is part of a larger call affirming that Black Lives Matter, has spread like seeds on the wind of this Gemini Soul Calling through the Heart of Humanity.  This is the Second Wave of this Rite of Passage we are going through now.  This is the crux of the Ordeal we are facing, and this is where community support is most crucial.

The First Wave of these larger Rites move us through the Separation phase.  In that time, Covid19 quite literally separated us in many ways.  The dark underbelly of that separation began to quickly reveal itself in the systemic inequality of class division…where those who have been long oppressed by the faulty privilege of White Supremacy in our societies suffered (and still suffer) most in this pandemic.  The unrest we are seeing in this Second Wave was already stirring in that forced isolation period.  And now, as Retrograde Season and Eclipse Season call our attention to the mistakes and shadows of both our recent and our historical past, we move in a collective effort to clear this karma and reassess the path forward into our future. 

You see, the Soul of Humanity IS moving from adolescence into maturity…it’s a Rite of Passage that is demanding our acknowledgement as we move across this threshold.  We, all of us, are not only here to witness but to engage and participate in this Rebirth of Humanity’s Voice and Identity.  There are many efforts to strangle this Voice, to keep us from moving across this threshold.  Because the true separation is from the control of a diseased and dying patriarchal world view.  Those that benefitted, still benefit, and cling to those benefits will not ‘go gentle into that Goodnight’.  Like the Caterpillar, they will fight against the imaginal cells creating new structure and new identity until they finally have to ‘give up the ghost’ of our consuming past. 

And we hear the tortured cries of these restraints, strangleholds, and fearful suppressions in ‘I can’t breathe’ seriousness. 

I can’t breathe in this isolation.  I can’t breathe the same air as my fellow humans.  I can’t breathe in public without this mask for protection.  Those all sound like complaints brought up because of Covid19, right?  But these are the very valid and life-threatened complaints of the Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Queer and Transgendered members of our society.  And when George Floyd echoed the dying words of Eric Garner from 2014…I can’t breathe…many more of us could see that the ‘power over’ chokeholds snuffing out the very people that need to rise, survive, and thrive in this larger human and civil rights movement are a clear and present danger to the emerging consciousness of our own Humanity.

'I Can't Breathe' by Hippy Potter

This IS a movement of Love, as well as a Revolution of Consciousness that moves through much larger cycles.  The current manifestation of it has grown up from the Uranus-Pluto Conjunction Revolutions of the 1960s.  That seed sprouted in the powerful, revolutionary turning point of the 7 Uranus-Pluto squares of our previous decade (2012-2015).  These outer planets are change agents…the Planet of Awakening and the Planet of Alteration.  And in 2013, when Black Lives Matter was written into a message of Love from Alicia Garza to the Black Community…it was in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman who murdered Trayvon Martin in 2012.

2012 was a momentous year for many reasons, but it was not only the start of the 7 squares previously mentioned…it was also the year of Venus’s last visible transit across our Sun in this lifetime.  In that time, Venus was retrograde in Gemini.  Right now Venus is retrograde in Gemini for the first time since then.  Just two days ago, Sun and Venus Rx met in Interior Conjunction…echoing the kind of Consciousness that was raised in our Collective Heart 8 years ago. 

And at the time of this particular Full Moon Eclipse, the Gemini Sun is in the very same degree Venus was in during that powerful 2012 Transit (Sabian Symbol for this degree:  ‘a woman activist in an emotional speech’).  None of this is coincidence…this is all part of our cosmic storyline.  The time to ‘grow up’ in our understanding of what it means to be human is NOW.

The Mars Square:  A Call to Action

The Divine Masculine planet, Mars, is in a strong square with our luminaries during this Full Moon.  This creates an aspect pattern called a T-square, where the planet at the apex (Mars) carries the brunt of the oppositional tension and is spurred into action.  Mars is the battle-ready planet of action and drive, so he prefers the dynamics of the square to get things moving.  However, Mars is extremely forceful at this apex…and can incline some rage and emotional outbursts within the collective. 

The degree of Pisces that Mars is in (Sabian Symbol:  ‘a flow of inspiration’) is essentially an inspiring and creative degree.  However, Mars can just as easily incline temptation toward more aggressive and destructive expressions while under the stress of a T-square.  The call with squares is always about taking necessary action to address the tension, often in effort to bring about balance or justice between opposing forces.  We might want to check in with our agitation before acting upon it…to find the underlying inspiration that needs to come out and flow. 

Mars does have his signature all over this eclipse series (Saros Series 111).  Even the very day of the last time this eclipse happened (May 26, 2002), the Odyssey discovered ice deposits on the planet Mars.  In this eclipse's 1984 occurence, we identified the 'enemy' we were battling, and the AIDS virus was given a name (though so many still assumed the 'enemy' were a group of people).  But the protests and riots that we see in this time were also strongly apparent in another eclipse of this series in 1966…with eruptions of anti-war protests, the launch of the Black Power Movement, and many civil rights events.  Even in my own city of Omaha, there were what were called ‘race riots’ that year. Currently, our city is under a strict curfew to try to control what has emerged after George Floyd's death, and what has been exacerbated after James Scurlock was shot here last weekend. 

  

In this current call to action, the raging stress of Mars themes demands justice.  The unrest is palpable.  The long history of inequality that is systemic in both our societies and in our beliefs has brought the world to a fever pitch…and our actions must address the shadow we’ve been largely bypassing.

Eclipse at the South Node:  The Shadow Work

This Moon carries the shadow while near her South Node in Sagittarius during this penumbral eclipse.  Eclipses at the South Node carry quite a bit of heaviness from our past.  You’ll see shadows of our collective past resurfacing as well as ghosts of your own personal past casting some shade over your emotions.  Why?  Because they have yet to be released fully…they need some closure from us.  So whatever is coming up for you, there is some karmic residue there that needs your attention.  It is time to clear it out so that it, and you, can move on.

The Moon at this time is in a degree (Sabian Symbol:  ‘seagulls fly around a ship in expectation of food’) that calls attention to our complacent opportunism toward convenience and privilege…which keeps us in invisible chains to societal structures and belief systems that keep feeding our unchecked consumption, but hold us back from our true freedom.  Sagittarius is a freedom-seeking sign, and yet the Moon right now shows us the full expression of where we have been led astray from that inner sense of freedom.  And the penumbral shadow of the Earth on Moon’s surface shows us the last grasps of the more subtle forms of slavery that persist in our modern age.

The gift within this shadow is a remembrance of who you really are, what your truth is at a more primal level.  In addressing this search for truth, we may help to bring it out collectively as well. 

Sun-Venus at the North Node:  The Light Work

As mentioned previously, the Sun is at the degree of Gemini which recalls the Venus Transit of 2012 (‘a woman activist in an emotional speech’)…bringing to light that the AIR of our communication (Gemini) needs to be in balance with the Fire of our beliefs (Sagittarius).  How we respond with our voices, and what we say, is important in this time.  But it is even more important to listen, with our hearts open, to those who are needing to speak to heal the emotional trauma of their cause. 

Be present in witnessing and listening to different perspectives than your own.  Understand that the pain erupting in this time is not a mistake.  It is part of a healing process that happens when we go through these collective Rites of Passage.  Sun and Venus invite us to support each other.  Gemini is the sign of the twins…the siblings.  And our brothers and sisters are hurting.  May we all be there for them and respond with love.

Love and Gratitude,

Felina Lune Kavi

Art by Keetatat Sitthiket

“I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.”

- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
1967