Thursday, Sept. 7 at 7:51 pm British Summer time and 2:51 pm Eastern Daylight Time, there is a partial eclipse of the Moon at 15 degrees of Pisces. Note that some ephemerides and chart services will list this time as being about 10 minutes earlier -- the time of the Full Moon and that of the eclipse differing by about that much. The eclipse is concurrent with the Pisces Full Moon, but the moment of exactitude of the eclipse and the associated lunation often differ by a few minutes. Not sure why?? anyone know??Interestingly, Pluto's current news making can be linked to the upcoming full moon eclipse on Sept. 7th. Apparently it is called the "Hermit" Eclipse because it is hardly visible. The Hermit in the tarot represents a time of disengagement and withdrawal, just as Pluto appears to be doing now (in terms of collective labelling - and on a larger scale, re the closure cycle of an ending Age.) The Hermit's inner journey is a rich one. Eclipses put us on alternate paths, perhaps Pluto is currently embarking on the same. (Note that Pluto will turn direct Sept. 4, just a few days before this upcoming eclipse.) Wonder what’s next!
This lunation is remarkable for at least three reasons: one is that it squares the Great Attractor in mid-Sagittarius to one degree of exactitude. The Great Attractor is different than the Galactic Core, though located about 12 degrees away {The Earth and Sun are now aligning in the direction of the midpoint of Sagittarius, halfway between Scorpio and Capricorn. Among the many strange marvels of the sign that contains the galactic center is another galactic point called the Great Attractor, located at about Sagittarius 14 degrees and two minute}
Anything involving the Great Attractor tends to have a polarizing effect, where two sides of a situation are seen; where people tend to choose sides; and where dualism is strongly emphasized. This is a distinct characteristic of the mutable signs, beginning with Gemini and with the dualistic property being just as strong in Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. The mutables are signs where you can petty much count on an "equal and opposite reaction" at any time.
Next, the eclipse sets off the core 1960s astrology, in particular, the Uranus/Pluto in Virgo, opposite Chiron and/or Saturn in Pisces. This configuration lasted in many forms from around 1963 through 1968, and a much wider range of years (about 1960 through 1970) is being activated by unusual activity in both Virgo and Pisces. For example at the time of the eclipse, there are three points in Pisces (Uranus, North Node and the Moon) and five in Virgo. Eclipses tend to peel back layers, and I think this will reveal some true colors of how people relate with their 1960s astrology.
The Sixties configurations are a rather diverse mix of Abbey Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, John Lennon and Hitler Youth. Or, as you wish, Kennedy and Nixon. In other words, there are qualities that are genuinely liberating and refreshing, and others that are the very essence of conservatism, fear and contracted awareness. All together, it's an interesting mix, and I've been learning about it in Rick Tarnas's book Cosmos and Psyche; he devotes about a third of the book to this one setup, tracing it back in different forms through the long cycles of history.
Last, this is the lunar eclipse just prior to the annular (not "annual") solar eclipse at 30 degrees of Virgo on Sept. 22 -- just hours before Equinox and the Libra ingress of the Sun. Among the many parallels between 2001 and today, we have an eclipse of the Sun on the Aries Point. Now, if it's at 30 Virgo, how is that the Aries Point? Because it's less than one degree from Libra, and that is opposite Aries. The entire cardinal cross -- made of the four cardinal points or first degrees of the cardinal signs -- acts with equal intensity as the Aries Point.
The life force of the Sun and Moon reflect back and forth and through the Earth. It's like the gods turned the amplitude up to 10. Well-balanced and well-connected people soar with this high test energy. For others, the wheels can fall off. The police and emergency rooms are always busy on a Full Moon; this is an extra Full moon. The signs involved, Virgo and Pisces, give us an indication of the issues that are likely
to touch us.
Virgo is the experience of adjusting one's behavior to fit in with the world.
Pisces is the experience of being adjusted by the world.
The key concept here is "adjustment" to an outer reality.
This eclipse may bring us new information about the people and lives outside our home and family. We may encounter conditions that we can't avoid or change and to which we must bend. There is also in this duality the theme of image and reality. Pisces is reality on many levels especially a surface level and a depth level.
The surface often masks a deeper and more powerful force beneath. Think sunfish and "Jaws". There is chaos here in Pisces, confusion and mystical union as well. Virgo, by contrast, is order we maintain like the slots in a spice rack. Things are evaluated and assigned into a logical order. Think computers and military hierarchy. This Lunar Eclipse puts us in between these two forces and brings us
people and events from which we can learn more about the roles we play in life's drama.
Aries Point on google:
In astrology, there is a special measurement we can look to reliably when we are seeking evidence of tremendous public projection potential. This is known as the Aries Point, yet it refers to zero degrees of all cardinal signs — Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. Use an orb of two or two and a half degrees maximum (which means that a planet at 29 degrees Virgo or 28 degrees Sagittarius, etc., would be considered at the Aries Point). Use planets, the Ascendant, MC and midpoints only. (Interior house cusps are not reliable, given there are a plethora of house systems in use).
The history of the Aries Point has its roots in the Uranian School of Astrology through Hans Niggemann’s The Key To Uranian Astrology. Reinhold Ebertin developed the Aries Point further in his cosmobiology work; much later, Gary Christen’s offering in the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR) further outlined the concept.
It was Noel Tyl who brought the Aries Point forward convincingly into mainstream psychological astrology with his presentation of the Aries Point in Synthesis and Counseling in Astrology in the mid 1990s.
The Aries Point in the horoscope has a link that is both astronomical, because it is the all-important cardinal axis, and astrological because it keys the sense of initiation within the ‘feel’ of cardinality in the horoscope. However, it is not only the sense of initiation within the Aries Point (which is characteristic of cardinality in general) bur rather its great potential for public projection related to that planet or point and its related rulerships.
My very first entry at Dear diary land was an article I began on The aries point..
More stuff aries point
science of aries point
Googled: The Great Attractor
The Great Attractor: the Great Attractor is, or seems to be, and then move into the astrology.
According to the University of Illinois Cosmos in a Computer web page,great attractorThe Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies [Andromeda is our nearest galactic neighbor, not counting our own sub-galaxies, or clusters] are the dominant structures in a galaxy cluster called the Local Group which is, in turn, an outlying member of the Virgo supercluster. Andromeda -- about 2.2 million light-years from the Milky Way -- is speeding toward our galaxy at 200,000 miles per hour. This motion can only be accounted for by gravitational attraction, even though the mass that we can observe is not nearly great enough to exert that kind of pull. The only thing that could explain the movement of Andromeda is the gravitational pull of a lot of unseen mass -- perhaps the equivalent of 10 Milky Way-size galaxies -- lying between the two galaxies."
Okay, interesting enough. Some invisible "thing" with the gravitational force of an object with a mass ten times our own galaxy is drawing the Milky Way and Andromeda together, and it's believed that the two galaxies will eventually collide.
But now consider this.
"Furthermore," the authors continue, "our entire Local Group is hurtling toward the center of the Virgo cluster at one million miles per hour. The Virgo cluster lies some 50 million light years from Earth. Only the central region is shown [in the photograph] above, containing two giant elliptical galaxies, M84 and M86. The visible part of the cluster is but a small portion of what seems to be out there. Nevertheless, the Virgo Cluster, along with several other large clusters, are in turn speeding towards a gigantic unseen mass named The Great Attractor."
University of Illinois
But.. I also wanted to add that although we are also experiencing the exact opposition of an outer planet (Neptune) with Saturn for the first time since the Saturn-Pluto opposition of 2001-2002. While Saturn-Neptune does not have the friendliest reputation in the world, I think it's something of a breather compared to the hellfire and brimstone of Saturn-Pluto. But as we've seen, this configuration is associated with flooding and levees breaking, and a flood is just a very slow kind of fire.
Still, the astrology of summer 2006 is considerably mellower than that of summer 2001. For one thing, the June 21, 2001 total solar eclipse, just four hours into summer, was more exact and focused, even a menacing eclipse: a total eclipse on the longest day. Here we have a partial eclipse on the day of balancing.
We do have an echo to 2001, only in a time when a much larger segment of the population is both enlightened and literate, and hip to the bullshit that's been dished out for five years.
peace!
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