A threshold is a line that separates two territories of spirit and I think very often, how we cross, is the key thing. When we cross a new threshold, if we cross worthily, we heal the patterns of repetition inside of us, that have us caught somewhere. — poet John O’Donohue (1956-2008)
Today is Friday, December 9, 2011. Hopefully in between wiping the kids’ noses (or your own), holding down the day job (or second or third job) and Facebooking your fingers off, you’ve managed to find some still, quiet time to listen inwardly, reflect and demonstrate your devotion to something that truly feeds your soul.
And if you’re not sure that you have, you still have the weekend to carve out some time for yourself and drop in. Saturday is the big lunar eclipse day, with the Gemini Moon opposite the Sagittarius Sun.
The peak of the eclipse occurs at 9:32 am EST with the Full Moon technically at 9:36 am EST, but we receive them as the same event. Better still, the last two weeks plus a few days after tomorrow all count as the special ‘eclipse zone’, in which you can get the wheels of your life turning. You haven’t missed your chance to guide your life in a certain direction – in fact, that opportunity is always there for you; there’s just a cosmic boost right now.
Using it with conscious intention will get you that much further. The theme of this eclipse is: Get it. Internalize the learning, the spiritual theory, the concept you’re trying to grasp in therapy. Understand that growth is a practical matter. In part, what we’re being called to see are the things we miss over and over again. Embrace the obvious and make the obvious choices that you may be resisting.
As we head into the final hours before this eclipse, Uranus stations direct in the first degree of Aries – a surge of electricity as we cross this threshold. When Uranus first touched the Aries Point, the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened – and in the nine months that have passed since then, we’ve barely begun to grasp the reach of its effects. Now Uranus will soon be leaving the Aries Point, that spot where the personal is political. That’s it, onward — an extended event synchronous with Arab Spring, the uprisings in Wisconsin and Ohio, and the sudden, unexpected advent of the international Occupy movement. Uranus is still in the game, but we’re now moving past the threshold. The next stop for Uranus is the Uranus-Pluto square on June 24, and in truth, that’s when the fun really begins.