Today’s partial eclipse of the Moon is conjunct a deep-space point called the Great Attractor (Planet Waves coverage here). Located in the general direction of the Galactic Center, but millions of light years past it, the Great Attractor is the ultimate Sagittarian statement, retreating from us at a million miles per hour, and drawing countless galaxies (including our own) toward it in hot pursuit.
It may be difficult at first to think on this kind of scale, but the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, a super-massive black hole located about 27,000 light years from us, is right in our local neighborhood. Sure, it would take us 270 centuries to get there traveling at the speed of light, but that’s nothing compared to how far it is to the Great Attractor. That thing, whatever it is, is 150 to 250 million light years from our galaxy.
Everything around us (that is to say, all galaxies in our local group) is being pulled in its direction. We don’t know what it is; nobody has ever seen it; astronomers infer its existence from many different characteristics (such as a powerful radio source broadcasting on every frequency except visible). It is located right in the middle of Sagittarius, which is why I mention it.
Monday’s Full Moon / partial lunar eclipse is conjunct this point, at 14+ degrees of Sagittarius. Think of a lunar eclipse as a veil being lifted off the personality, and a deeper layer of reality glimpsed at for a moment. This eclipse is revealing the presence of some force too compelling to resist, pulling you in the direction of your true quest. You might be experiencing this in a constructive, adventurous way; it may be rocking your world, or both.
Notably, there are many newly-discovered points clustered in the vicinity of the eclipse in mid-Sagittarius (Ixion, Pholus and others), and one of the things that may be revealed are the deeper motives of yourself and the people around you. What comes to light over the next 24 hours will help you understand ‘what is so’ in your life. When the lunar veil is lifted, information is going to come through. Take it under advisement; you’re responsible for what you know, that information will be potent and can influence the direction of your life.
Across the sky in Gemini, the Sun and Venus are approaching their conjunction Tuesday in Gemini, which is of course the Venus transit of the Sun (that link takes you to a compilation of my articles). This too is conjunct several of the smaller points, including Chaos (orbiting our Sun in the vicinity of Pluto), the asteroid Hermes and a rarely-used asteroid called Sulamitis, a character in the Song of Solomon.
The theme of the transit, and indeed of our extended moment, is following your own heart. It is said that Dharma is the path to enlightenment. What is Dharma? Some experience it as the thing they know they came here to do. Others experience it as a state of devotion to holding the world together: sincere choices to weave the cohesion that makes strong community. What you do matters less than how you do it.
Even if you’re someone without a strong sense of mission, listen for information about what you want to be doing. For now, set aside how you might get there or what it would take, and describe your chosen destination, path of action or activity. Engage with it some active way. Whatever you do, and whoever you connect with today, bring your deepest sincerity and sense of offering.
Note, if you’re prepping for your transit of Venus, here is a resource that will help you find opportunities to see it on video.
Thank you bkoehler!
Yes, that all makes alot of sense. I am an Aries with Leo rising and Gemini moon. Alot has been going on with me lately, thanks to the current astrological influences.
I do have my natal chart somewhere, but not everything has been unpacked, after the most recent of 2 moves, so am not sure where Sag is in my chart.
But, indeed, I go to sleep, lately, creating new designs, in a line of work (connected to what I do, but separate) which I haven’t been able to do for the past 18 years, and with a sense of excitement I also haven’t felt in a long time about my work.
And, of course, with my adrenal sleep issues, I shouldn’t be dreaming up ideas at bedtime, when I need to be sleeping, so I try to send them to the mental notebook and let them go until morning.
Health, for myself and my husband, has been my overriding thought/wish/intent recently, without which joyful new work cannot really come to fruition, and therefore is usually the thought I keep in mind when going to sleep. Would prefer a dream that says Health is on its way!
But, as you say, I am co-creating my world and it DOES feel great!, so I see no reason I cannot also find a way for Healing and Health to be restored.
Thank you, for your thoughtful and thorough insights!
Hi dawnbrocco,
I know a lot more about astrology than I do about analyzing dreams but this is what I feel your lovely dream might be saying. As you haven’t told us anything about your own chart, and that’s what dreams do.. . they talk to you through and about your personal unconscious, it is unlikely it would give you many specific clues to the transiting astrology. I get the picture that your left brain, the warm barn, was holding ideas you’ve created. Your “maternal” feelings (about these children of the mind) watched them play. Starting out small (dogs) they had become larger and stronger (horses) and even submerged themselves under water (feelings. . this WOULD be Moon related). It was night so everything was still hidden, yet you could see them clearly. It was winter, a period of incubation or hybernation, and you determined they still needed “mothering” so, instead of going to the left. .the corral. . where they could become “real” and put to practical use, you determined they should go to the right. . the barn. . to be warmed up and dried off. Your dream seems to know that, when the “right” time comes, they can safely make it to the left. . the corral, as there is a connection; the rope.
The fact that you had the dream between the lunar eclipse yesterday and the Venus occulting the Sun today has allowed you to make contact with your ideas and dreams and speed up the process of becoming conscious. Stephanie Austin says of the Sagittarius Lunar Eclipse in the Mt. Astrologer magazine, “During a lunar eclipse, we experience the Moon directly, without the light it normally reflects from the Sun, and it exposes a deeper level of our emotional reservoirs” (or inground pool in this case!)
I would guess that you have a strong Sagittarian bent. . Sun, Moon, Ascendant or a strong Jupiter perhaps. . that would explain the horses symbolizing your ideas and the timing of the dream. Perhaps tonight after Venus passes in front of the (conscious) Sun, you will dream or become conscious of ways to further your dream horses into reality. You are co-creating the world and it does feel good doesn’t it?
be
As a preface, I’m not as versed in astrology as others, just knowing a few basics, but interested, naturally!, in all its effects. I do, however, get info in dreams, like when my daughter would be born, and 2 exact dreams about a Saugerties property we were to find and be steward of, for 16 years, and others.
So, I’d like to share this morning’s dream with you.
It was night, and though there was no visible moon present, it was softly lit enough for me to witness this scene.
It was also winter, and there was a barn to the right, and a corral to the left, with a rope leading from one to the other, as might be found up north, so not to lose your way in a blizzard.
Horses, who began as dogs briefly, but then definitely were horses, began to exit the barn and head to the corral, running around in all the snow on the ground, until they broke through the snow and fell into the inground pool which was beneath them.
Unfazed, they swam, and played, and submerged themselves, lying still under the water a bit, before surfacing, jumping out and shaking off the water, only to continue romping in the snow.
From my maternal viewpoint, watching this scene play out before me, all I could think was they’re all going to get pneumonia and be ill! They need to dry off and go be warm – supposedly in the barn.
When I awoke I thought it meant something about Neptune in Sagittarius, but the moon is apparently also connected with water. Sag playing in the moon, in the emotional water?
It was a lovely, ethereal dream. But maybe someone with more astrological knowledge than I have can elucidate?
The Eclipse of the Moon compiled with the transit of Venus would have the power to sweep a world crisis?
Venus symbolizes love, its square with March is the shadow table or collective karma….
Connecting your words about dharma and active engagement with Len’s words about transiting Neptune and dreams, applying all via David Tresemer’s erotic phantasms and visioning technique to transiting Neptune conjunct my natal North Node (and natal Ceres).
Thank you for PW and all you do, and for providing so many tools and resources for this journey, and the alerts to pay attention.
JannKinz
Hi Lyd, Thanks! I’ve never seen de Amore online before! I found the essay in a doorstop-sized book on Orphic Mysteries at UC Boulder a few years ago. The photocopy I took doesn’t show that subtitle for the first part, and the Latin doesn’t either, so I am puzzled by its inclusion in this internet citation. “On the Origins of Love” on the other hand, is a very well-known Platonic dialogue from which the theory of soul mates is drawn.
Either way, Ficino’s essay is dense, but beautiful. Hope you enjoy it!
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Can somebody ‘splain the NoPantsArmy? It sounds very interesting, but I must have missed the original reference…
Thanks, Michele. It is the “being patient while healing” part that is difficult for me.
This just in: The NoPants Army ( I am a recent recruit) has raised over $10,000 since March due the love inspired by one graceful young woman. This in a city of 18,000 souls who seem to accomplish this type of thing on a daily basis. I am not shitting you. On a daily basis.
There is definitely some stinky stuff going on in our little city… But the love seems like a super-high-powered-stink-breaker-upper.
Oh. And my body doesn’t hurt anymore. Which no doubt points to an oft repeated PW statement about expression.
Special zappies for you, Carrie.
Love the comments here. Its palpable stuff. Last night I had a dream where I was at the front of an audience in a large room brightly lit. I was sitting in a chair and said, “so, instead of what you probably thought you’d come to see, I thought I’d engage you and talk to you a little bit about me. Think of it as a chance to ask me anything and challenge me. I need a lot of practice talking to a large group so, please, allow me to speak with you.” It was so bright though that I could barely open my eyes. I was talking with eyes closed which made me feel like I couldn’t properly engage with anyone. Also, I felt like my teeth were in the way, so I was not forming my words properly. But my enthusiasm was there!
Then I can’t help but watch this 4 min clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQjUL6OANzs
I woke up at 5:30 AM Sunday morning in pain. Turns out the gum behind three of my upper left teeth is swollen, infected and in pain. I went to the urgent care and got the antibiotics for it and began taking them. Last night I was able to sleep because after taking the antibiotics, the ibuprophen finally started working to kill the pain. I woke up at 5 AM needing more ibuprophen. I got up at 6:30 and took my antibiotic. The left side of my face aches off and on. Kind of hard to “feel” all the astrology with this all going on.
Dave is supposed to get his first summer check from his last job (his contract was not renewed) Wednesday. Teachers can have their salary spread over 12 months but this is the rez so until that check is in the account, I feel leery.
The hiring for the teacher job he interviewed for last week is supposed to be this week so if they want him, it is during this week that they would call.
I feel icky (stomach and overall physically) because of this infection and the drugs (antibiotics, children’s benadryl, and ibuprophen) I have to take for it. My head hurts even with the pain meds. They just take the edge off.
:::sigh::: I am also tired and needing sleep but cannot because my son’s friend is over for a play day; my son seldom gets that so I was not about to call it off. His friend brought his little brother (I am watching “him” for his mother so she can attend her oldest son’s last school days functions today and tomorrow) who is four. They will be back tomorrow for the whole day and will get to watch the Venus-sun thing with is (we have special glasses from the local observatory). The girls’ friend will be over as well.
My friend just had her baby early; she was at 37 weeks and they induced her because the baby stopped growing. She was born around noon yesterday and both are fine.
My life seems so mundane compared to everyone else here. It is difficult for me to feel “up” when I am sick. Feels like the big and momentous stuff is passing me by because of all the mundane living I have to deal with.
This is why sometimes I feel like the astrology does me instead of me doing the astrology.
Time to take more vitamin C and drink more water.
Indeed Jude, Walker also has a scandal in the works regarding a child he may have fathered but doesn’t share any responsibility for the care of (I read about this at starlightnews dot com), so the “shoe” in the Daily Kos story could describe what a “heel” he is is too.
Walker, to me, is represented by trans. Nessus also as he conjuncts the U.S. Pallas-Athene (Protectress of the State). She is poking the U.S. Moon (the “people”) right next to her to warn her of what all he is capable of. With transiting Asclepius conjunct Nessus and both conjunct U.S. Pallas (and therefore the Moon), it seems possible the voters will start the healing process (Asclelpius) by unloading this jerk. One can hope and dream if one can’t actually vote.
As for the bigger picture, the Lunar Eclipse chart has many tie-ins to the U.S. chart like the Saturn trine Mercury that ties into the U.S. Nepune, Mars and Pallas-Moon conjunction. There is a tight conjunction to the U.S. Atlantis (23 Taurus) from transiting Sedna (lack of maturity) and Ceres (revenge over loss) that concerns me somewhat in that our over-reliance on technology has many confused about the details of these elections (US Atlantis trine U.S Neptune in Virgo). Still these are the days of transformation and awakening so will try to keep a balanced and objective outlook.
be
love the repeating themes here today!
yes, i’ve been on an intermittent “clear it out, clean it up, sort though it, set it up, and make room” kick in my home (which is also my workspace) since last week’s virgo moon & dug in again yesterday. it’s feeling good, though i still have another layer or two i’d like to get to.
i’m rehearsing a new play, and while i devoted some time to learning lines on saturday, that needs more attention. but i did indulge in sharing unbridled joy at a contra dance that same night — that’s a vibration always welcome in the world and in me.
i woke right around eclipse time (as i’d set my intention to), but sleepiness and the rain lulled me back to the dreamtime instead of getting up to greet the day. there was one dream i recall (not actually sure if it was from before or after waking up the first time; i think before). it’s still a little too new and inscrutable, so i’m not going to share it here. but its was definitely interesting. just a little dark — but with some curious movement. hmmmm…
usually i like to be sure i indulge in some photography and self-loving around eclipses, but the rain all weekend has impeded both. somehow, the weather seems to have drowned my libido, despite the crush i’m harboring.
we’ll see what the day brings — i have a session scheduled later with an energetic/spiritual healer i’ve been working with. i have a feeling it’s perfect timing for such a thing!
yes, oh yes, love accompanies chaos … achingly true and so perfect. thank you mystes and judith, and all you beautiful souls.
Breathe deeply and I cal do this.
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“Therefore there are three worlds, and three chaoses. In all of them finally, Love accompanies chaos, precedes the world, wakens the sleeping, lights the dark, gives life to the dead, gives form to the formless, perfects the imperfect. Greater praises than these can hardly be expressed or conceived.”
– Marsilio Ficino, De Amore
Remarkable quote, mystes, resonates right down to my toes! ” … precedes the world, wakens the sleeping, lights the dark …” And so it is. May each of us see the results of that this week, this day, this hour.
For me, the waterworks started on Sunday morning and continues. I’ve been profoundly moved (and misted up) again and again by people and events that seem to have risen above the crowd, brilliantly lit and shining so as to be impossible to miss. By their intent shall ye know them. Heart activation proceeding nicely. Wow. Just … wow!
Interesting tattle-tail speculation, be, as Mr. Walker is being investigated by the Fed. Wisconsin NEEDS to drop this jerk on his head as a clear message to the Koch conspirators and the corporate party repressions, but Walker himself is in deep legal doo-doo (couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.) This is evidently not getting press time due to election law, but that deed is only days away now … and AMAZING daze, I should add!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/03/1097088/-That-other-shoe-is-about-to-drop-for-Scott-That-Governor-s-boot
thank you for the company, carasusanetta … my brain was spinning like mad but deep down there was calm. connecting this calm with others feels very nice, like a time out or a spa massage. I really appreciate the respite.
mm
Well, I threw away a bag of papers, then I opened a coconut with hammer and screwdriver (there might be a simpler way but this is how I do it). Now I am watching a fun and deep video and laughing.
I started my adventure on this planet doing theater (in the streets and not) and painting. I’ve been feeling in the last days that I would like to come back to the theater and the *fun* of it. Like Uranian theater.
‘For now, set aside how you might get there or what it would take’.
There, it’s really really me.
For the moment, that’s enough.
Love you, planet wavers.
MM – that is totally what my panic has been about. I’m not there yet, but definitely in the weeds and realizing such.
Notably, there are many newly-discovered points clustered in the vicinity of the eclipse in mid-Sagittarius (Ixion, Pholus and others), and one of the things that may be revealed are the deeper motives of yourself and the people around you. What comes to light over the next 24 hours will help you understand ‘what is so’ in your life. When the lunar veil is lifted, information is going to come through. Take it under advisement; you’re responsible for what you know, that information will be potent and can influence the direction of your life
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I am moving from a sense of loss and confusion here (with friend telling me that she would not allow me to use “her resources” to help a friend with her chart) to the clarity that indeed I’ve been hiding what I love and who I am in order to be OK with those around me. It is time to shake that off and see this for the window of opportunity that it is. It’s funky, freaky and I’m digging for the fun … hell, can’t say why but astrology turns me on.
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Mystes, yes, I found clarification. Initially landed here, at this site: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~alfar2/ficino-love.htm, which contained the title, and translation by Sears Jayne, 1994. Curiosity led me further, where I’m now charting unfamiliar contour lines….oh lucky me !!!
Again, thank you.
Indeed
deep space is even more than
this divine femaleness (underlying, overseeing)
uncontested, boner-free, unimpeded
incomprehensible endlessness, World
Womb
A rare day working from home, so I can easily and safely post commentses today.
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Similar to Paola’s money woes, I have yet to be billed by a security company, my representative is AWOL, and I have been trying to get them to tell me how to access my account… I’ve yet to receive a bill or statement or link online to do so. At the same time, I can’t get my checking account to reconcile and I can’t find the discrepancy.
And speaking of dream time, wow, last night was a doozy. I had a dream I was in this weird town, in this house we were renting from some froofy lady… there were kittens everywhere (as there were in real life). Then I remember going outside, and it was wildly stormy. Like, seek shelter kind of stormy. Then I saw these large flying creatures and was happy because I thought they were ravens. Then it turned out that they were mucking huge bats. Then I realized I was very near a bunch of flying insect nests/hives, and they were crawling all over me, and that’s why the bats were there, to feast on the exodus-ing bugs (I’ve done that in real life, only once… too many bugs for me, but the bats were cool). I started freaking out because I was _covered_ in bugs. And the bats were very big. Size of an adult raven kind of big. (Disclosure – I watched Jumanji a few days ago).
Got away from the bugs, but the bats were still there. The sky was always swirling and grey and orange and purple and black.
We made it into some building that was really spiritual… as in, lots of people did lots of spiritual work there. I don’t think it was the same building we were “renting”. At some point, got into some room that ended up being a ritual and I was told that I had offended the great Baron (of voodoo culture. There is a _very_ specific reason I’m not writing the rest of His name, and I’ll get into that in a bit). But thinking about it now, I remember there was doubt there. Like, I _might_ have offended him. I don’t remember much else about the ritual. The room it was in was all old wood, some of it decaying. I remember some… stones or metal or something. All browny colored. At this point, I have recollection that the room just opened up, but I can’t remember if it opened up outside, or into a hallway or bigger room or something.
I remember being very concerned about this, and I wanted to find out more, find out why, what could be done. I found my way into a small, private room with two women in it (who I think may have been Asian). They were definitely older and devotional (not like nuns, but devoted). I remember trying to ask what was going on, and I think I was told that I shouldn’t be there, like I was interrupting something. I think I got shooed out of a tiny door, through a tiny doorway… and that’s all I remember.
So, with the Baron. There was this guy, we’ll call him Drama Boy. I do not call him by name either, very on purpose. While initially he was a friend, just by associating with him, my life went to crap, and my loved ones were very affected (like, illnesses, deaths, etc.). When I severed contact with this guy, things got Better. The once I allowed him back in, things went Bad. So, no more contact. Okay. It’s hard, and he tries a lot. The fact that he’s mutual friends with some of my friends doesn’t help. He has badness that follows him and I don’t want any of it. Anyhow, Baron was his patron, or at least he said he was. So I’m very leery of this whole thing. I don’t do much with that pantheon, so my knowledge and exposure is very limited. On the other hand, this guy, in a fit of rage, tried to destroy and desecrate his now ex-wife’s statues of Guadalupe and Mary (or whoever they were… she was Mexican). He couldn’t manage it and they sliced his hands up. Anyway, he’s, uh, not always very smart.
And that’s all I need to talk about him, because just talking about him makes it worse.
I wasn’t going to put a whole lot into it, but then I discovered that the lunar eclipse was last night, _and_ I can post on PW, so there you go.
Lyd, you’re welcome… but one note: this wasn’t from “the Origins of Love” (by Plato), it was Marsilio Ficino’s 15th C essay “de Amore” – an Orphic Neoplatonic work.
Yes, I am having myself a time! there I was thinking how nice it was to have such a friend that would bring me into her home and treat me as her family … until she refuses me to talk astrology with anyone as I “use her resources” as, she said: “astrology is morally wrong” … OMG. I did not see that coming. I knew she was really hooked on the bible and as such a person really really hard on herself and tending to over-judging (imho) but I never thought there would be a time where I was called out for astrology. Wow. Polarities abound! and now I’ll go look for another place to lay my chart-loving head.
yikes!
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Patty, what a wonderful dream.
It is this whole book-translating job that has no sense anymore.
Wake-up call. I don’t know what to do exactly, so I think I’ll go in the other room and throw away old papers. Clean the old to make room for the new.
The eclipse is square my Moon.
I was dreaming this morning (during the eclipse) that market customers were stopping at my house to pick up products, and the big thing I was offering was locally grown Pure Cane Sugar. I also had eggs from another vendor which i sold for no profit. The ladies were in my kitchen bagging up their sugar and putting my home printed labels on the bags. All in all, it foretells a happy time ahead.
Thank you for the quote Mystes!
Mystes, a thank you bouquet for “On the Origins of Love”…the essential ingredient, essential now and tomorrow.
This eclipse conjuncts my natal Mars, and Venus to a lesser degree, near the Ascendant.
Clear vision and a clear purpose. What a superb feeling!
The world is not enough..but it will have to do..
We are also clear with any gig: you don’t make me work for the money twice. Set that up at the beginning and collect commitments. You have to be assertive. It’s your money.
Also when in doubt, go higher. Find the head of accounting…these people like the books to add up at the end of the month.
I got the direct numbers of two people who work for the payments. None of them answers.
Thank you Eric.
This is a wake up call for me, in some way.
OK, dream mavens, here’s some fun. I had a PWfm dream last night after a meditation session full of watching myself have a mini-panic attack (typed panic attach. Must be a clue). Is this full-moon and Venus transition jitters or what, I don’t know, but I was having a conversation with Eric in the PW kitchen about his latest PWfm. I don’t remember many details other than I remarked at how amazing it was that he could continue cranking out such amazing work at such a rate on so little sleep…
Yes. They told me that she has been sick all last week. She will sent the payment this week. I asked them to send it today if possible.
Paola,
Find the accounts payable person. Whenever you have a freelance gig, you have to know one person in payables to expedite your payment. I’ve never found this not to be true.
ef
I’m listening. I’m listening SO HARD.
Ok, it was a joke. I found them on the phone – at least.
The publishing house for which I work should have sent a payment last week – that hasn’t arrived (yet). I sent an email on Thursday morning – no answer. I tried to call this morning – no answer.
Ok, Universe, if it’s a joke…
If it’s a test to see how calm I can remain… I’m not calm at all!!!
Breathe….
Speaking of veils lifting and info coming through, at the time of the lunar eclipse, Tattle-tail Askalaphus will still be conjunct the U.S. Sibly Sun and square the U.S Sibly Saturn. I’m wondering if the Wisconson recall election to remove Scott Walker from office won’t have some bearing on this aspect as it will coincide with the newly retrograde Nessus conjunct Dr. Asclepius the asteroid, both conjunct the U.S. Sibly Pallas-Athene and only one degree from the U.S. Sibly Moon.
In addition, transiting Atlantis is at 13+ Aquarius and sextiles the eclipse Moon to form a yod with Askalaphus (conjunct U.S. Sun), with Asky at the power point. That in turn, brings us to transiting Vesta sextiling Askalaphus (+ U.S. Sun) which then forms a yod with the eclipse Moon (+ Great Attractor) who this time is now the Power Point.
That infomation could be potent indeed, especially since Atlantis and the Sun will form a Grand Air Trine with the U.S. natal Sibly Saturn in Libra. Veils may lift and walls may come tumbling down, either way.
be
I could definately be delusional… But it looks like – between transits and natal placements – grand trines are reproducing at a most astonishing rate.
Going to sleep thinking this is absolutely fine by me.
That quote is amazing, Mystes.
Conjunct Chaos, eh? Hoo boy…
“In the Argonautica, when Orpheus, in the presence of Chiron and the heroes, sang about the beginnings of things, following the theology of Hermes Trismegistus, he placed Chaos before the World, and located Love in the bosom of that Chaos, before Saturn, Jove, and the other gods; and he praised Love in these words: Love is the oldest, perfect in himself, and best counseled.
“Therefore there are three worlds, and three chaoses. In all of them finally, Love accompanies chaos, precedes the world, wakens the sleeping, lights the dark, gives life to the dead, gives form to the formless, perfects the imperfect. Greater praises than these can hardly be expressed or conceived.”
– Marsilio Ficino, De Amore