Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius: The South Node Seeding

 

Art by Susan Seddon Boulet

Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius:  The South Node Seeding

Moon conjunct Sun- 12/14/20 @ 10:16am CST

 

In the shadows of Eclipse Season, we begin the last lunar cycle of 2020, a year to remember.  Here in the Northern Hemisphere, as we approach the Midwinter Solstice, we welcome the Long Nights Moon cycle.  Our sisters and brothers in the Southern Hemisphere, as they approach Midsummer Solstice, welcome the Strong Sun Moon cycle.  Together, we are welcoming a shift of season that holds a solar standstill and a Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. 

We also say our goodbyes to the previous Jupiter-Saturn cycles so we may usher in the Aquarian air of the next.  As the story goes with the 20 year conjunction cycle of these two planets, ‘one king dies as the next king reigns’.  This Aquarian conjunction happens on December 21^st, Solstice Day, and carries a strikingly similar theme to a story of our Solstices.  Within each solar standstill, the Holly King and the Oak King engage in battle.  Each rules for half a year, before the other usurps them.  This story tells of the growing, dying, and rebirthing of the Sun throughout our seasons. 

'The Riddle of Strider' by J.R.R. Tolkien

And within this total solar eclipse, this ‘death and rebirth cycle of the Sun King’ theme is accelerated as the shadow of Moon sails across our Sun for 2 minutes and 10 seconds of darkness.  Not all Earthlings can visibly observe this totality, but every one of us can feel it.  On the other side of this eclipse portal, a rapid rebirth of light ensues…reminding us of so many ‘changing of the guard’ moments in our Earthly lives. 

This total eclipse is at Moon’s South Node…seeding a new cycle with Sun that honors the fruit, flower, and root from whence it came.  Within this seed, past provides future potential as we approach Solstice.   

Yes, but shadows…so many of us would hide from seeing the truth within them.  The Shadowland seems dangerous territory…we cannot rely upon our sight and we are challenged to practice the extra-sensory navigation we were born with, but often forget how to use.  The Unknown envelops us as we cross into the Void.  We search for some comfort or safety as we have known it before…but there is only what can be birthed from this darkness.  Even the words to describe where we are now have acquired some dreadful connotation from a past that has tried to dissociate from Goddess Wisdom.  But as all Dark Moons in Dark Nights teach us, light is reborn in the dark. 

 

South Lunar Node in Sagittarius 20

Sabian Symbol- ‘in an old fashioned Northern village, men cut ice from a frozen pond for use during the Summer’

 

There is an interplay of hindsight and foresight within this last month of the 2020 vision…one in which the shadows of the past reveal a message for the future.  Where we come from arrives at this threshold in a transformed state, supporting our growth into where we are going.    We are leaving something behind in a South Node Eclipse, but we carry forth the past that matters most to our growth:  the wisdom of experience.  This is where hindsight gives birth to foresight in Sagittarius South Node medicine.  We anticipate the needs of our Collective Soul by surviving and learning from past experience.  Within this symbol, we carry forth what we need of “frozen” memory as a way to care for each other in times to come.  The South Lunar Node, a portal to the soul’s past, carries experiential wisdom from our Ancestors that they pass through to us.  In bringing forth the ice cutting symbol, our Ancestors of many realms provide insight to the natural cycles.  As Earthlings, this is our rhythm…the drumming of Gaia’s Heart.  Listening to that rhythm, even in the dark, connects us to the beat of our Collective Earthdance.  There is a message in that song, being seeded now within the compost from past cycles, of planning for our Descendants…considering who we are as Ancestors and how we may show our support for the future Now.  This message, this cyclical rhythm of Mother Nature, it holds true for us even through the Shadowlands of our journey on Earth.

 

Moon-Sun in Sagittarius 24

Sabian Symbol-  ‘a bluebird perched on the gate of a cottage’

Our luminaries resonate with the medicine of Bluebird…often considered a threshold guide in many cultures.  Bluebird sings a Sacred Song to the rhythm of our earthly cycles and invites us to show our true colors. 

You may have heard of the Bluebird of Happiness.  As a child, I first encountered this winged symbol in my favorite Shirley Temple movie…where her character follows a bluebird into a magical Otherworld much like White Rabbit leads Alice and a Twister guides Dorothy.  The coming-of-age journey of these young girls mirrors Bluebird medicine, which guides us through our passages in life.  The search for happiness brings us through unexpected realms…what we once knew can go through reversal to be understood more wisely.  And so not all experiences on the path to happiness are as joyful as we hoped.  

When Bluebird perches on the gate, as it does in this symbol, there is an invitation to a journey guided by what illuminates happiness.  There is a promise of joy and good fortune here, when we move beyond the gate, and yet happiness is not separate from the blues of our sadness.  There is a type of joy that is only experienced through grief…one where compassionate care and support embraces us in both states at once. 

Sadness and Joy with core memory
in 'Inside Out'

This is a theme seeded now and amplified in the Solstice Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.  Jupiter expands, Saturn contracts.  Jupiter is jovial and festive, Saturn is serious and solemn.  And their conjunction has them expressing as one for our Collective…just as a New Moon marries the Spirit of Sun and the Soul of Moon in the Matter of Earth. 

 

Perhaps, in our pursuit of Happiness during this holiday season, we may find the truth of that journey in our Sadness.  What we have collectively experienced throughout 2020 has largely been a Saturnian lesson of limits and responsibility.  The year began with a Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Saturn’s nocturnal sign of Capricorn earth, a necessary breakdown of our societal structures through soul crisis.  The year closes with a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Saturn’s diurnal sign of Aquarius air, a productive progression of ingenuity for our societal systems.  As we head into 2021, multiple planetary cycles are seeded in Air signs.  But what have we learned of our Earth cycles?  We will carry forth the wisdom of those past experiences, both happy and sad, to inform and provide for our future.

You may ponder, in this eclipse, what you have learned from your past adventures…in the saddest challenges and the happiest blessings.  What truth have you found there that can sustain you through the months ahead?  The hard work initiated this year does not disappear after 2020 closes and the new year begins.  We are to see it through in new ways.  And in this renewal of many cycles, we have a responsibility to ourselves, to each other, and to our future…that this new vision of society is sustainable and supportive of Life on Earth.

I wish you all a Blessed Solstice, Happy Holidays, and a Prosperous New Year!  May our light shine bright, even through the dark.

 

Love and Gratitude,

Felina Lune Kavi