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| This total eclipse can be viewed from the Western Americas, the Pacific, Australia, and South-East Asia. (Eclipse Art by Donia Lilly) |
Total Lunar Eclipse in
Sagittarius: Tangled Up in Old Ideals
Moon opposite Sun- 5/26/21 @
6:14am CDT
The Full Flower Moon blossoms big
and red in some parts of our world, as perigee Moon conjunct her South Node
will edge into our Earth’s umbral shadow for 14 minutes and 30 seconds of Total
Eclipse. A South Node eclipse carries
the shadows of our past into our immediate present…confronting us with the need
for rapid change. Transforming old
karmic lessons into newly discovered wisdom is never easy. We can neither
escape the confrontation nor erase what has brought us to this point in our
evolution. The nodes are knots of fate where
all kinds of storylines become entangled over time…yours, mine, and everyone else’s. But every once in a while, an eclipse will
draw out a thread from the knot so that we may make a significant change to the
collective story. But like with the
Wheel of Fortune, the results can go either way.
At the apex of a T-Square with
our luminaries, Jupiter in Pisces is pressed to find peace in our conflicts…but
inclines us to either expand upon it or escape entirely into a dreamscape. Jupiter is strong in Pisces, where our largest
planet is traditionally in his nocturnal rulership. And such strength while at the apex of a
T-square can certainly amplify things.
Essentially, Jupiter has a benefic and jovial influence…yet, when
stressed, it has the inclination to increase the stress. Jupiter can also bring about ‘too much of a
good thing’. So with the Piscean desire
to escape this ‘Mad World’…we may see significant shadow effects of ‘Spiritual
Bypass’.
But there are more subtle
energies aligned at this time to provide a bit of a safety net for our
experience. Saturn in Aquarius sextile
Chiron in Aries bring opportunities to work with the lunar nodes in beneficial
ways. Saturn’s influence reminds us to
establish Aquarian structure with a more humanitarian and progressive
approach. And Chiron’s influence reminds
us to tap into Arian self-reliance and heal ourselves to heal the whole. Together, they are calling for integrity
through responsible healing.
Saros Series 121: The Shadowlands of Utopia
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| Thomas More's 'Utopia' |
This is the last of the Total
Eclipses from this Saros Series 121…as the ones that follow in this series will
recede from partial to penumbral for centuries to come. In 1516, when the first Total Eclipse of this
series happened, Thomas More completed and published his book ‘Utopia’…a
fictional and socio-political satire that has had significant impact upon humanity
ever since (even influencing those who have never read it). The name of this fictional island, Utopia, is
derived from the Greek prefix ‘ou’ (meaning ‘not’) and ‘topos’ (meaning ‘place’)…together
meaning ‘nowhere’, as in the place does not exist. Yet because the pronunciation is the same as ‘Eutopia’,
which is Greek for ‘Good Place’, the word Utopia is more often considered now to
be an ideal place, or a paradise, where everything is perfect. And the reality is that, because humans are
fallible, such a place cannot exist under human rule…and especially with our ways
of settler colonialism still taking up space across our lands.
Fast forward to the last time
we had a total eclipse from this Saros Series, in 2003, and a U.S.-led
coalition began the invasion of Iraq…the first stage of the Iraq War. In the same month of that eclipse, George W.
Bush gave his infamous ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech, assuring that “major
combat operations in Iraq have ended. In
the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed…” and
televised in front of a banner that read ‘Mission Accomplished’. This stunt was heavily criticized as
premature, at best, especially later as the guerilla war began. It is no coincidence that hints of false,
utopian idealism were present during that eclipse season as well…when the
reality was that ‘nowhere’ prevailed with this controversial conflict.
Today, the long-standing conflict
between Israelis and Palestinians is heightened after attempts were made by
Jewish settlers to evict Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem. Jerusalem has long been a divided, disputed
city (though it was captured by Israel in 1967, the year of another Saros
Series 121 total lunar eclipse). Its
ownership is still disputed, but Israeli officials claim it as the undivided
capital of Israel. And though the Trump
Administration showed a formal recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by
moving the U.S. Embassy there in 2018, most nations do not acknowledge the city
as belonging to either Israelis or Palestinians. In the future hopes of those in conflict,
Jerusalem has long been wished for like a type of Utopia. Politically, it is like a ‘nowhere’ land that
cannot be claimed by any of its occupants, and yet the on-the-ground
experiences of it is something much more dystopian.
At this time, we’re being
asked once again to take a hard look at the shadows brought about by our
collective and national quests for the utopian ideals of humans. In almost every instance of a people or
nation trying to prevail as bigger, better, faster, or stronger…it is at the
expense of other people, the wildlife, or the Earth as a whole.
And though these are some of
the larger, collective threads being pulled at from the knot of the South Node…there
are individual threads we’ll each be discovering in our personal
experience. We may ask ourselves about
our own Sagittarian ideals…what ideological, philosophical, political, or
religious remnants from our ancestral past are asking for release and
transmutation in our own lives? In your
natal chart, the house where Sagittarius is will show where the eclipse shadow
will show up to be confronted. And if
you have any planets in close aspect to the 6th degrees of
Sagittarius or Gemini, they will give you more clues about the lessons you’re
working with at the beginning of this Eclipse Season.
Love and Gratitude,
Felina Lune Kavi
P.S. For a deeper look into the nodal knots of
this Eclipse Season, I have detailed the Gemini-Sagittarius lessons in this previous
post: The Dragon’s Flight into the Gemini/Sagittarius Axis
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