{"id":50121,"date":"2011-12-05T00:03:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=50121"},"modified":"2011-12-05T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:44:20","slug":"a-gateway-to-evolution-approaching-the-gemini-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/a-gateway-to-evolution-approaching-the-gemini-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"A gateway to evolution: approaching the Gemini eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wrinkles in time: the Mill Pond the morning of the Nov. 25 partial solar eclipse in Sagittarius, Casco, Maine. Photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is Monday, December 5, 2011<\/a><\/strong>. We are in the last several days before a potent total eclipse of the Moon. This Saturday, Dec. 10, the Moon in Gemini opposes the Sun in Sagittarius, in the complement to the partial solar eclipse two weeks ago. Eclipses are all a little different, yet share some qualities; one is the feeling that you\u2019ve stepped into a bit of a time warp (not the Rocky Horror<\/em> kind) \u2013 or a continuity shift. That is, eclipses are evolutionary gateways. We go through the gate no matter what we do or don\u2019t do, whether aware of the event or not. The beauty of working with astrology is the beauty of applied awareness \u2013 even in the smallest measure.<\/p>\n

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It’s always good to do something you really love on or around the day of an eclipse. The reason has to do with this shift in continuity; with it, stuck patterns can come released and new patterns can be established. This can be challenging, given adult obligations, but even a simple act of enjoyment or beauty (watching a sunset, preparing a favorite meal) is going to set an emotional tone of gratitude and love \u2013 always worthwhile intentions to set. At the very least, be prepared for what you ARE doing to be the thing you will be doing more of. Therefore do that thing well, and really get into it. In that instance, the emotional tone of gratitude\/enjoyment\/sense of purpose can turn out to be exponentially more important than the thing you are doing, in terms of the most important thing we can shift: our perspective and awareness.<\/p>\n

Why should an eclipse be able to work this way? Think about it: You wouldn\u2019t be shocked to reflect on the course of a month that had just passed and realize your perspective on something had changed. Well, a total lunar eclipse is like a month in miniature. In three hours, the Moon goes from full to new to full again in that short time. That’s the effect, however symbolic \u2013 and there is great power in symbols. If astrology shows us anything, it shows us that.<\/p>\n

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This eclipse, in particular, has some special astrological symbols involved. The eclipse is square a conjunction of the asteroids Apollo and Psyche in Virgo. This speaks to a self-critical quality that feels like: I am such a fuck-up, there must be something psychologically or spiritually wrong with me. I keep making the same mistakes over and over again and the only explanation I have is that I have some kind of deep-seated issue I don’t understand and that I fear that I can never resolve<\/strong>.<\/em> That last part is an especially vivid feeling associated with Psyche; Apollo is about making the same mistakes over and over again. <\/p>\n

Take a deep breath, and read that section in italics over again slowly. If it strikes a chord, you may be feeling like you have your work cut out for you right now. It\u2019s a harsh and painful thing to be feeling, true or not. Psyche has this odd illusion of a ‘sense of what will never heal’, but of course that is not really true — it’s part of what you might think of as the psychic wound of Psyche. Healing is possible, but a Psyche aspect can help us confront the fear that it’s not.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the beauty of this moment: These days near eclipses are available to you to re-pattern the \u2018mistakes\u2019 you may keep making with your choices as well as the self-critical script that goes with them. Even if you only set in motion one half of that equation, you\u2019re still on your way to shifting the other half, because our choices and our feelings about ourselves influence each other reciprocally. <\/p>\n

Because the Psyche-Apollo conjunction is square the eclipse, the sensation described above is the key thing to work with as one psychological complex. It ties directly into the stuff that has been coming to light since around Thanksgiving having to do with deep ancestral\/familial patterns. The effects you experience in your life have an actual cause<\/em> and you cannot work out the effect until you go to the deeper level. Don’t worry about \u2018going all the way in\u2019. This isn\u2019t about putting pressure on your self to \u2018get it right\u2019. Rather the idea is to go in the right direction, and then keeping going. You\u2019re on your way through the gateway anyway \u2013 might as well add a little extra awareness to the ride and see how far you go.<\/p>\n

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Today is Monday, December 5, 2011. We are in the last several days before a potent total eclipse of the Moon. This Saturday, Dec. 10, the Moon in Gemini opposes the Sun in Sagittarius, in the complement to the partial solar eclipse two weeks ago. Eclipses are all a little different, yet share some qualities; … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/50121"}],"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\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}