The Eclipse is Coming!

The eclipse is coming! The eclipse is coming! 

The significance of this eclipse, while ranking a few decibels below the urgency that fueled Henny Penny’s misaligned pronouncement that the sky is falling, the sky is falling, is none-the-less enormous.

Now I admit, I think all full moons are significant.  So much so I’m either locked in my office and tapping the creative wave bequeathed by the moon’s reflection of the sun, or I make a pilgrimage to some remote location to bask in the unencumbered lunar glow.  This month, oddly, I completely forgot to look ahead at the astrology and invited my parents to fly out and visit me on what appeared to be a good “non-holiday weekend” to share some quality time with the two who came together to form the one (me).

How did this happen?  How did I blindly surrender my rigid maintenance of writing during not just a full moon, but a LUNAR ECLIPSE?!  I’ll tell you how, and then I’ll elucidate why I couldn’t have planned this any better.  And I suspect your personal narrative will relate in some way to what I see.

How this eclipse slipped my mind is easy.  Mercury’s retrograde.  The planet that impels our thinking mind, or lower mind, is doing it’s thrice annual electric slide backwards in the sky that takes our mind down memory lane, and gives us all kinds of discombobulated reviews of oft intense feelings.  Some not so pretty.  Others not so ugly.

*Here’s a retrograde moment... my sister just called, and we had a lovely conversation that our busy schedules seldom afford, while I was writing about our parents.  This strikes me as a perfect example of Einstein’s "spooky action at a distance,” later termed quantum entanglement, where two related or entangled particles, separated at vast distances, continue to directly influence the other.  All too similar to everyone's inextricable connection to the sun and the moon, reflected genetically through our parents.

The fundamentals of quantum entanglement segue nicely with why I overlooked this full moon.  Because I’m not in control, that’s why.  A force beyond my control-hungry ego set this up.  And that’s the power of this eclipse.  The power to unite above with below.  Within and without.  And the opportunity to bow at the sacrificial altar, have the courage to LET GO, and surrender the ego-based idea that I’m in control.

The new moon solar eclipse in Sagittarius on 11/24, and the upcoming full moon lunar eclipse in Gemini on Saturday, 12/10 at 6:36AM (PST), both occur during Mercury’s retrograde transit.  This is no small potatoes.  It’s not every day the dynamic core of our issues (our mind) exposes itself on a level so vividly clear one moment and precipitously truculent the next.  It’s as though we’re dancing the tango with the erratic complexities of our inner-world, and then all of a sudden we become the floor upon which those erratic complexities seem to be relentlessly stomping a Texas two-step (steel-toed boots included).  Sound familiar?

A couple of quick caveats... My personal exploration of healing, be it physical, energetic, emotional and/or psychological unavoidably influences what I’m about to share regarding this eclipse.  The enormity of this opportunity, regardless of whether you resonate with my pithy anecdotes, is universal.  Also... while multiple planetary transits and their mutual interactions are at the root of what I share, I’m inclined to focus this message on the qualitative nature of this eclipse and what’s to follow.  Email me if you want quantifiable planetary aspects.

Allow me to continue with exactly what’s available, in quantum proportions, during and beyond this eclipse.  We have an incredible opportunity to heal the noxious feeling of separation that plagues our perception.  On one side we have our linear mind, and its unconscious fixation on past traumas that function to contract around all the uncomfortable energy that’s arising.  And on the other side we have our intuitive mind, inspired to expand and create with the intensity being generated in our solar system right now.  First we have to get up close and personal with our unconscious analytical mind, and the survival-based patterns of control it designed.  Like yin and yang, the the two hemispheres of the brain are at the same time separate and interdependent, which means they cannot function without the other.  If we avoid making conscious our unconscious, if we ignore the value of remembering the wholeness of who we really are, the melody of our heart’s song is inescapably orchestrated through a thinking mind that dooms us to replicating our past.

“What you think about, you bring about.” - Napolean Hill

The Sun and Mercury are both in the sign of Sagittarius, the devout explorer of truth and expansion into our higher mind.  Because this time of year gives us the least amount of sunshine, we’re each called to draw forth more light from within.  This light can weave through our memories, and transform them into the batter with which we consciously create.  The full moon is in Gemini, which represents the lower mind, and the opposing Sun is in Sagittarius, the higher mind.  Let this opposition expose the misaligned beliefs and negative emotions that generate the unconscious patterns conditioned by your past.  Do they allow the light to move freely through you?  If not, let them go.  And by let them go, I don’t mean forget they exist. I’m saying let them be free.  Allow that energetic charge to fuel the heart’s fire to create the life you came here to live.  What was once limitation is now an even greater expression.

Did we really come here to perpetuate the unconscious imprints of our childhood?  Or to repeat those handed down from our ancestors?  We had plenty of positive experiences too, and we received conscious attributes of incalculable value from those same ancestors.  Now’s the time to integrate it all.  This planet needs us to shine our light, yet so often when we do, the shadow of the mind rises up to blind us.  As Earth orbits directly between the solar and lunar bodies, the full eclipse will project our planetary shadow onto the surface of the moon.  And that shadow will finally be exposed as the fraudulent denying mechanism of the ego.  Thy will be done as the alchemy of the Self rises up to show us the light beyond our separate self.

Like a moonbeam of divine fuel, let the elixir of the soma rain pour down through the chakra of your crown.  Align the hemispheres of the brain, quiet the chaos of the mind, and orchestrate the symphony of your heart’s song.  The wattage of how much light we can shine is expanding exponentially to balance the darker aspects that are surfacing in our dualistic world.  Like the dance of the lower mind with the higher mind, we're at choice to where we put our conscious attention.

Fortunately my higher mind pulled the veil over my eyes and prevented my conscious attention from identifying with my lower mind's resistance to compromising my alone time with the full moon.  In that, we can always trust that wakefulness will triumph over sleep.  And the triumph of higher mind has coordinated an opportunity to share this eclipse with my mother and father, the two people who represent the origins of my feminine (lunar) and masculine (solar) energy.  This is blessing beyond proportion.  A cosmic Mastercard commercial with the “priceless” tagline.  And a moment to remember and appreciate that I'm not in control, and the universe has my back.  The more I get out of the way, the more it guides me in service to the light.

"The fates lead him who will.  Him who won't, they drag."  Seneca wisdom

I wish you all blessings of light as the nights continue to grow longer and the days shorter.  May we always remember our light inside the darkness.

Thank you for your contribution to our collective awakening.

Stellar blessings,

Ryan

www.bodyworkastrology.com

ps  The forecast moving forward...  Mercury goes direct 12/13, and Jupiter goes direct 12/25, at zero degrees Taurus.  We can give tangible form to our conscious expansion, and reign in the prosperity and abundance that is our birthright.  Help us transform our world in 2012.  And do so with all your heart.