Truth Gate:
Full Moon Sagittarius Eclipse
Tomorrow morning in the wee hours, May 26th 2021, we experience our first Full Moon Lunar Eclipse of 2021 at 5° Sagittarius. This marks the opening of our bi-annual ECLIPSE GATE, closing with a Solar Eclipse in Gemini on June 10th.
Tomorrow's Eclipse is conjunct my Nodal Axis and Opposite my Sun. Let me just preface today's newsletter by saying 'NOT ALL OF YOU ARE FEELING THIS AS MUCH AS I AM'.
I'm feeling it. A LOT.
So remaining objective for today's drop is... sticky. I feel like yelling from the rooftops "DUCK AND COVER YOUR ARSSES FOR THE NEXT 48 HOURS!!!!". Ha. Not super helpful. Nor accurate! Many of you will have NO problem with this Eclipse at all!
So instead of heading straight into the Dragon's mouth, I offer you a discussion on WHAT eclipses are and how they work. I am also sharing a 15 minute video on the over-arching 'theme', at the collective level, of this eclipse.
This energy feels too potent to be without a little bit of danger... but I'm sure you will feel what you are meant to feel.
And so... we begin.
Sun and Moon represent our Solar Masculine and Lunar Feminine qualities. Though there have been cultures that reversed the gender association between the two... so perhaps it is better to call them by their qualitative identities.
'generative vs reflective'
'day time vs. night time consciousness'
'outer vs inner self'
Whatever the vantage point, the SUN is that radiant FORCE of pure intelligence and action that pours its power onto RECEPTIVE MOONS surface. She then reflects that light back in ever changing ways, allowing us on earth to receive and translate it into tangible lessons, human feelings, and karmic story lines.
(I teach a course on this... which, as of now, is on hold. But let me declare unequivocally that the information passed from Sun to Moon is unbelievably powerful and influences our reality, whether we are aware of it or not.)
So on a normal Full Moon, the angle of the Sun relative to the Earth is such that light shines fully on Luna's face. The energy is HUGE as that radiance of light penetrates the darkness, bringing Masculine and Feminine into balance. This generally brings a feeling of being HIGH, being in a state of euphoria, receiving higher awareness and enlightenment, feeling a fullness or a completion of a lesson or an energy wave or 'information packet'.
But tomorrow, at the Lunar Eclipse, the Earth comes into exact alignment with the Moon's Nodal Axis (the southern and northern ends of its current ecliptic path, found in Sagittarius at the south and Gemini at the north) and is thereby so perfectly centered that it will completely block the path of Light coming from Helios. It will ECLIPSE the light.
So tomorrow there is ZERO light penetrating the Moon, even though it is still 'FULL'.
This creates an energetic opening that brings a sense of magic and mystery.
A VOID SPACE that opens utter chaos and disruption to the NORMAL FLOW....
Total devastation and usurpment of reality (yes, that is a word)...
Access to a lesson normally unavailable....
Eclipses were absolutely feared, through antiquity. They were thought to be disruptive and dangerous, to bring cataclysm, to topple kings, to upset 'earthly balance'. And yes, indeed they do. But what is this 'Earthly Balance' of which we speak?
Quite simply, the earthly balance we 'perceive' is the path of Karma.
Karma can be such a dirty word. Often we think of it in terms of retribution, pay back, suffering, shadow. "I have such bad karma in this life - surely I did something terrible!!'. Or alternatively 'Boy, is she getting pay back for some GOOD KARMA!! She is SO blessed!!'.
I don't give a lot of stock to the 'bad karma'/'good karma' paradigm. I think each of us is here to live out a story. Period. And to each one of us, our 'story' sometimes feels good and sometimes feels bad. Karma is simply descriptive of the particular 'dream' each individual human is dreaming. The lessons we are learning. And just by virtue of BEING HUMAN, we have Karma.
And KARMA, my friends, is what Eclipses like to get all up into.
Because sometimes we get VERY ATTACHED to our story lines, don't we? The King certainly is! No way he wants to be 'toppled' from his throne!
And so, Eclipses are feared. Because us cute fallible humans sometimes hate to change.
Well, good luck with that.
ECLIPSES are the game changers, the editors of our script.
They alter the story, delete portions no longer serving the plot, help us skip ahead a few chapters, bring back characters long forgotten, remind us of the chapters we tore out long ago.
Karma is powerful.... and so are eclipses!! Because often we are SO swept up in our own reality narrative that we just blunder forward and live things as if they were completely real!!!
Until eclipses hit full on. HAHA!! Then we get to SEE how small and silly we are. How flimsy our attachments, how inflated our belief that we are in control.
Then, we get a RE-WRITE.
HOW will we be re-written?
Darn if I know. Or if ANY of us does, until it happens.
That's what makes Eclipses so exciting - we have ZERO CONTROL OVER THEM AT ALL.
(For context, it has been strongly suggested to me that we DO NOT play with manifestation rituals at Eclipse time. This gate is powerful enough as is - if we put intention into it, the energy can blow up and backfire.)
And Karma? Well, as far as I can tell it is here TO BE RESOLVED and BALANCED in a loving way, so that we can align more deeply with that part of us that holds LOVE and WISDOM as its crucible, rather than suffering.
So tomorrow? Should you hide and cower it out? Or step fully into this black magical embrace and DIE to whatever higher impulse is trying to make itself known??
My advice is this:
Chill out. Relax. Do your day. Don't fret. And watch - watch well. Something is thickening, changing, bubbling up from beneath. If you can witness and flow, you will be better off than if you contract and get all cranky pants on it. SO imagine a force beyond you is giving you a leg up, working in your favor. It might not feel great, or it might! But your response to it is what will matter most of all. This is a DANCE OF AWAKENING, after all. It's always playing in our favor.
Eclipse Gate is OPEN NOW. Lasting at least 2 weeks, likely a bit more.
Enjoy the sparkle in the air, my friends. Magic is afoot.
Now to find out what part of YOU may be getting a little shake down, look in your chart at where 5 degrees of Sagittarius falls. That house may offer a theme.
And if there are any mutable planets between 0 and 15 degrees, this is important information.
You can create dynamic conclusions if you choose, or simply stay open to the aliveness as it plays out.
Here is a brief video I recorded, describing the more 'collective' vibe of this Eclipse field. This may or may not be how you feel it as an individual... so always be cautious when taking a 'blanket' interpretation. Look to the principles beneath - like 'what am I holding onto as TRUTH that may not actually be TRUE?'. or 'What NEW LEVEL OF TRUTH wants to be born in me?'.