By Len Wallick
Sun and Moon cross paths in the sky tomorrow just before 5:00 am EDT. On the surface, it would seem that they will do so much as they did on the first day of June. Once again it is a New Moon and also a partial solar eclipse. Most of the similarities, however, end there. This particular crossing is, as many of us find ourselves, in a different place doing different things. It is also calling our attention in a different direction.
Just 30 days ago, the luminaries conjoined in Gemini. Both Sol and Luna were approaching one of the lunar nodes, where eclipses take place. They were close enough to that node so that the Moon partially blocked the Sun’s light. The shadow fell across the arctic regions, intersecting our northern geomagnetic pole. That’s the place where Earth’s magnetic field plunges back into its mysterious place of origin. The corresponding focus was the Earth and our relation to it. Specifically, how little we know of our planet’s interior workings and, by implication, our own. It also was a beginning, a portal into a period of changing patterns, both symbolic and real.
The symbolic patterns were expressed through the planets. Following the eclipse on June 1, numerous objects in our solar system commenced to changing sign or apparent direction at a rate exceeding one every two days. That sort of pace and complexity are not routine or customary. For many of us, the course of astrological events has been reflected in our own lives. Many found themselves adjusting to and integrating new patterns of living, either chosen or imposed.
Now the sequence of three eclipses in the period of one lunation (the period of time from one New Moon to the next) is coming to an end. We are emerging on the other side of the portal into pattern change. The question is whether the shift has yielded perspective on our individual and collective inner workings. We are now entering a period that combines juxtaposition and crossing. There we will find an opportunity to answer those questions by looking out.
Tomorrow’s partial solar eclipse finds the luminaries re-uniting in the sign of the crab. This time Sol and Luna are leaving the Gemini lunar node behind. Once again they are just close enough for the Moon to partially block the Sun’s light. This time, however, the shadow falls on the other end of the globe. While the event will be visible in theory, it is possible that no human being will actually see it.
The Moon’s shadow will fall over a relatively small D-shaped zone in the ocean just off the coast of Antarctica, south of Africa. It is an inhospitable place this time of year. It is very cold. It is very windy. Until recently there was nothing to distinguish the area. Just a few days ago, that changed.
A small asteroid, tentatively named 2011 MD was first observed on the day after the Cancer solstice, hurtling towards our planet. On Monday it passed within 7,500 miles of Earth. The point of closest approach is where the eclipse will fall tomorrow. This is no coincidence; this is a message. We have been crossed.
Just as the eclipse of June 1 intersected with a point directing us within, tomorrow’s event will beg that our attention be turned to that without. The period of rapid pattern revision, and the perspective it gave or took away, is drawing to a close. Now, emerging from the other side, we are compelled to enter a time of comparison and reorientation. Not only to appreciate how far we have come, but to realize how far we can go. While no human may witness the actual eclipse, it has been noted by an emissary from far away. A rock turned around as it passed us by. We should not be surprised, then, if we are asked, somehow, to turn around ourselves.
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Len, you are on top of it. I’ve wanted to respond but i’d have to say too much. All of the dreams visited on this website the last few days are touching this very idea. Many times when we dream we are every part of the dream, monsters and all. Something we’ve done in the past may not have been worthy, but our higher self always seeks to educate and instruct during the night, that we will learn and try to discover what we were meant to be. Why we chose life. Some dreams are prophetic, and I want the dreamer to dream again and ask for more information. We are coming to a time of reorientation, but also witnessing the collapse of time.
There are crimes i can’t forgive that i need to forgive, from my childhood. There is inappropriate behavior from my childhood that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. It came roaring to life the last couple of days but i turned my back on one of the people who wants forgiveness for her husband (her birthday was yesterday July 1). I ask myself why i wanted to be born – what did i need to accomplish? Time of comparison and reorientation. Maybe time to compare with what i know today and reorient the teenager I left behind over 40 years ago. Then I wonder how many other of my generation had these same issues.
Simple Gifts (early American tune)
T’is a gift to be simple, t’is a gift to be free
T’is a gift to come round where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves in the place just right
T’will be in a valley of love and delight
When true simplicity is gained,
to bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed
To turn, turn will be our delight
Till by turning, turning,
We come round right.
S/he was a babe in arms when s/he learned to turn from the evil and choose the good. Sometimes the best response to fear driven thoughts and anxiety is just to acknowledge them as thoughts, and only thoughts, and turn away to the joyous reality that a loving creation always has waiting for us. Just turn, just turning. That’s something I can always do.
be,
Thank you.
aword, prickle and of course, Len,
Could this be “a tree in the forest falls” moment? If nobody sees it fall, does that mean it didn’t really happen? Well, it certainly means that nobody is conscious of it, but yes, many things happen that we don’t witness or experience. Like viewing this eclipse. We have been enlightened though, whether or not we will visually experienced it.
Someone here at PW told a story of a recent dream where they viewed a phenomenon through a rear view mirror, which I take to mean ‘hind sight’. Like the little comet that points to the “D” where the eclipse could be viewed (that is if someone were there to view it) turned around. Like Len says, this phenomenon – three eclipses, a solstice, and multiple sign or direction changes – is DRAWING to a close. We must wait until after tomorrow, in hind sight, to get a new perspective on where we are.
Perhaps that little D zone in the ocean will bring us something divine.
be
I’m with you, aword. I don’t know if I can claim the different life approaches that you can, but I surely have been trying.
I am without a response, Dear Len – only in a holding pattern; a waiting – I know I have been approaching (my) life differently in steps of remarkable pace, yet nothing has “changed”. I believe this may be a phenomenon of which I am unfamiliar – that is, because the world has changed, and I have changed, I am yet without apparent awareness of the place I am now in. I suspect that awareness will begin to build shortly.
Thank you so much. With boundless Love,
Linda