{"id":39318,"date":"2011-05-31T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=39318"},"modified":"2011-06-01T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T02:46:32","slug":"eclipses-as-pattern-setting-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/eclipses-as-pattern-setting-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipses as Pattern Setting Events"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cars exit the Phish concert at Bethel Woods in White Lake, NY Saturday night. This is one of the few roads into the property, hence one of the paths trodden by many tens of thousands of kids who attended the Woodstock Festival held at the same location 42 summers ago: the former Yasgur's Farm. Photo by Eric Francis. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is Tuesday, May 31, 2011<\/strong><\/a>. The Moon will be in Taurus until 7:56 pm EDT, when it enters Gemini. The Moon’s last aspect is a conjunction to Mercury, which is a way of saying put your feelings into words. Once the Moon separates from Mercury just past noon EDT, we will be in a void-of-course phase for several hours. Moon voids are the time to pause in the action; it’s neither the time to push the river nor start anything new. The afternoon may have a languid feeling, though this will be more than compensated by the rapid approach of the partial solar eclipse after the Moon ingresses Gemini.<\/p>\n

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As you may have noted from yesterday’s edition<\/a>, eclipses are pattern-setting events; this means they can be used to dissolve patterns and establish new ones. Because this eclipse is focused on the South Node of the Moon (called Ketu or the dragon’s tail), that is about releasing blocks, enmity, psychological and language patterns that don’t work, and making peace with your neighbors. Look for the opportunities to do this; you will not have to make the opportunities.<\/p>\n

Wednesday is a day to set aside as much time and energy for the things you love to do. One way to establish a new pattern, or for that matter, to dissolve an old one, is by taking action. So plan for that. I once described eclipses as \u201ccosmic repeating stations.\u201d That is, they can act to increase more of what is going on in your life. This does not mean you need to cram the day full of every blessed thing you enjoy — loading it with a sense of expectation, obligation or desperation — but rather, feed some loving and nourishing data into the system and let it grow.<\/p>\n

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Amanda pulled together some information from prior articles about eclipses that she thought might be useful, including the idea that “eclipses work on three levels, broadly speaking. The first is personal. The second is collective. The third is where the personal and the collective intersect.\u201d That’s from an article called Understanding Eclipses<\/a>. How exactly would the personal and the collective intersect? Hmm, they do it all the time, for example, every time you cross a street. Look for the metaphors in your life that amount to doing that — and notice when the light is red, when it’s green and remember where you’re going.<\/p>\n

Another, Gemini-styled, involves what you think and what you say. What you think is personal territory; the moment you speak, it becomes collective territory. In that same article, you can read, \u201cWith eclipses, the inner always does well to precede the outer. There is you, then there is your expression in the world. You move in your heart or soul, and you move on the physical plane. When eclipses work in reverse, when they make us catch up, when they remind us when we’ve abandoned our evolution, it’s not so pretty at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

She found this caution in a 2004 article<\/a>: \u201cFor anyone not having such a good time of things — as eclipses tend to be times of increased activity, problems can coalesce, and other weirdness can unfold on the way to being released — take a time out and ask for healing and repair. Stop what you are doing. Ask for help. Get with some friends, or pick up the phone and call somebody you love. And\/or, make a list of what you need to resolve in your life, and do any one thing in that direction. It can be the smallest gesture. It is going to be a real step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

We live in intense times, and the first third of this year has been a wild ride full of pressure to hunker down and self-protect. But if we want more openness, more connection and more love, then we need to start this eclipse period by offering that to ourselves, our immediate loved ones and then the world. We need to remember to share the very things we desire for ourselves; the simplicity of that idea can be deceptive. Wednesday’s eclipse is square Chiron in Pisces. So if you find yourself tripped up unexpectedly by tension seemingly coming out of nowhere, have dreams in the next couple of nights that appear to be signaling old wounds to your psyche, or find your creative pursuits manifesting pain you no longer thought you needed to think about, don\u2019t be alarmed. Ask yourself a question, listen for the answer and gently move outward from there with your exploration in a way that brings you pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Tuesday, May 31, 2011. The Moon will be in Taurus until 7:56 pm EDT, when it enters Gemini. The Moon’s last aspect is a conjunction to Mercury, which is a way of saying put your feelings into words. Once the Moon separates from Mercury just past noon EDT, we will be in a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}