Today is Monday, December 12, 2011. This weekend’s total lunar eclipse — and an eclipse season dating back about a month — is behind us, but we remain in a delicate moment. On Tuesday, Mercury, a planet associated with the event (which was in Gemini, ruled by Mercury) stations direct. If the eclipse was a moment of transparency, you can anticipate that continuing as Mercury slows to a stop during the next 48 hours, and switches to forward motion. Mercury stations often arrive with that property of ‘the truth revealed’.
Meanwhile, this eclipse has changed some things, including some deeply significant ones. Take a deep breath and look around your psychic landscape for a moment if you haven’t already done so since Saturday. Does it look any different? Feel different? Can you account for what specifically has changed? Notice the factors and notice how they may still be in motion. Another layer of truth is likely to come out with Mercury stationing direct. Plus, these stations always require a few days of adaptation and perhaps a few extra conversations to clarify what is what.
But — let’s review a bit, so far. Chances are the air feels a little more relaxed than it did on Friday. That Gemini Moon over the weekend seemed to amplify whatever mental tension was building, but ever since it moved into domestic, nesting Cancer – the sign it rules – you may have noticed that your emotional flow has softened your thoughts considerably.
Are you feeling the sense of flow or release? It could have to do with the release of anything from ancestral baggage you were finally able to recognize as not your own; to a messy relationship; to a goal you have long been working toward or a debt paid off. Don’t think that you didn’t ‘do the eclipse right’ if you’re not sure. Whether you experienced a dramatic release or something imperceptibly subtle, you are somewhere other than where you were before – and that landscape has been one full of shadows and profound inner searching for many of us.
The period of Sun in Sagittarius has, for some, been a perfect confluence of energies for creating feelings of paranoia; for others, it has been a deliciously deep investigation complete with unexpected, and timely, revelations. Wherever you find yourself on that spectrum, it might be a good time to pause and consider the difference between fear and paranoia. After all, Mercury stationing is always a good reason to pause, or at least to slow down your thinking, reactions and driving by a notch or two. Notice how close to the edge the world feels, how much of the time.