Apologies for not being able to get this on the blog with a little more lead-time, but I hope a few readers are able to plant some seeds for this last spring eclipse! — Amanda
We have one more eclipse this spring. And though it is not aligned with Taurus, the fixed earth sign at the peak of spring, the earth is still very much a focus for many of us — and a primary element in a cool experiment in applied astrology. You still have time to try it with the Sagittarius Full Moon and lunar eclipse (exact at 12:25 am EDT Saturday). Len Wallick shared the project with me a few days before the last eclipse in Taurus.
It can be easy for astrology to get very abstract, and we don’t always make it practical, tangible and visible for ourselves; its cycles ask us to look and think in longer spans of time that can be hard to reconcile with the speed of a life lived partially online. But we can be an agent in those cycles, in addition to being an observer, when we consciously engage in simple exercises linked to the natural world.
According to Len — and the kind woman who taught him this experiment — planting seeds at a spring eclipse (no matter if the Sun is in an earth sign or not) can help you to focus on what’s moving in your life as an eclipse unfolds itself through time. Len shared the technique with me two weeks ago, when it suddenly dawned on me why I was having such a hard time ‘reading’ the chart for the Taurus solar eclipse.
It was such a striking chart, with all those planets in Taurus so close to the Sun and Moon. I kept thinking its significance for me should be obvious, arriving on my birthday as it was. But every time I looked, I drew a blank; and then I realized: with this event conjunct my Sun, it was in my ‘blind spot’.
I mentioned this in passing to Len via email that day, and he gave the best reply: