by Robert Wilkinson
Over the next 4 weeks (and 51 months due to the Eclipse effect), this Solar Eclipse in Scorpio will help to stabilize much in our lives by filling the voids resulting from all we've lost the past two years. This Eclipse will actually be a very favorable relief for many of us who have been waiting to see old patterns end, and there is great productivity and many gifts come to those who open to a deeper and wider social experience. Here old losses set up future gains, and forgiveness will open the flow!
Over the next 4 weeks, the New Moon in Scorpio introduces us to a time of new experiences in our feeling connected with people and situations, with Venus bringing gentle beauty and appreciation to all we attempt. This will be a highly productive Solar Eclipse, with a promise that as we connect with the sources of Life, we shall find something released.
This New Moon in Scorpio is watery, stabilizing, intensifying, gifting, productive, and will make some things crystal clear. For the most part, there are nothing but great aspects, so whatever is taken away by this Eclipse will no doubt lead to stabilization and clear understanding of the consequences for past actions and inactions. In fact, it's easy to see that this Eclipse will lead to major karmic corrections, clearing the way for integration and training in connectedness.
This is the sixteenth in a sequence of New Moons that fall in the same sign as the following Full Moon. This is assumed to be the “normal order of Lunation Suns,” whereas the other Lunation order is the opposite, where the New Moon Sun falls in the sign preceding the Sun of the following Full Moon.
In other words, this New Moon in Scorpio will also have a Full Moon Sun in Scorpio. This is the reverse of what we experienced between July 2011-June 2013, when we had a sequence of Lunations where the Full Moon Sun was in the sign after the New Moon Sun.
We shifted back to “normal” with the New and Full Moons of last August. Since I explain this phenomenon and what it means in the Full Moon articles, I’ll elaborate more on this shift into the “normal order of things,” and when the pattern will next be reversed, in the next Full Moon articles coming in about two weeks.
The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced in Libra, purified in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.
An Overview of the New Moon
With so many favorable aspects and only one minor frictional one, these next 4 (and 51) weeks should be unique, productive, and favorable for those who have been in training to embrace a new life adventure, or who are willing to accept a training to become a vehicle for Divine interaction. Many of the gifts and unique conditions promised by this New Moon will show us new ways of linking our values and relationships to a deeper experience of Life, with the ability to see cause-and-effect cycles from a different angle of vision.
This Partial Solar Eclipse New Moon will change the energy significantly for the good! It’s stabilizing and reinforcing, and while all Eclipses take things away, they can also bring something that replaces what was lost. This is one of those really beneficial Eclipses that during its time of influence, will bring some major good to those affected by one or more of the many favorable aspect patterns present at this Eclipse.
The next 4 weeks (and 4 + years) we are able to get to the core of things with a stabilized feeling-flow, so take this opportunity to direct your feeling-knowing to the next level of understanding. This feeling-knowing is stabilizing our Dharma in very specific ways. We’ve been in non-stop feeling-knowing class since June 2013. This has been the time to build an adequate Astral (emotional) vehicle during the quickening following the global human transformation that began at the Winter Solstice 2012.
This New Moon Solar Eclipse will jumpstart Scorpio energy wherever it falls in our chart, while simultaneously beginning the shutdown of some superficial part of our life where the dues have been paid. This month (and 51 weeks) will be highly active and future oriented. The only thing that will interfere with rapid expansion is internal clinging or resistance.
Because it happens in Scorpio, Mars is the worldly ruler of the Lunation, and Pluto is the spiritual ruler. Due to the position of Mars the backdrop to the message of this New Moon Eclipse puts the focus on truth, imagination, openness to a greater life adventure, and the transference of some greater vision or possibility. As Mars has some great aspects, look at it as a training period for something that will be mastered in 2017.
So this New Moon Partial Eclipse in Scorpio is ruled (in worldly things) by Mars in Sagittarius, which is ruled by Jupiter in Leo, which is ruled by the Sun in Scorpio. This creates a ”chain of dispositors,” which is a very powerful self-referencing energy loop. Along with Neptune in its home sign, these three planets dominate the background for all the planetary energies. Because they are so harmonious by sign and aspect, this Eclipse period should be very good to many.
The Scorpio seed indicated by this New Moon helps us renew our commitment to a deeper experience of life, and embrace a more robust approach to life's contests. It will eliminate negative Saturn residue from late 2012, and the strong trine to Neptune will show us how to get beyond discouragement and through karmic adjustments, reorient toward a new stabilization in our lives. Due to the favorable Water trines and Fiery quintiles, this should be a really enjoyable Eclipse period!
Jupiter will be leading the occupied span of signs for quite a while. Because Venus in Scorpio leads the Lunation, this should be a period where people and relationships will be important, so embrace a wider experience while also being detached and noble. The very strong quintile from Venus and the Eclipse to Jupiter will make for special gifts for those with planets or angles near 6-10 Gemini, 18-22 Leo, 30 Libra-4 Scorpio, 12-14 Capricorn, and 24-28 Pisces.
You'll note that Pluto is within range, but since the aspects are separating, it shows a) those specialized seeds have already been sprouted, and b) once transiting Pluto hits 13/14 Capricorn, it will make the exact quintile and biquintile to the degree point of this Lunation and Jupiter. That will unleash powerful Eclipse effects throughout the next 4+ years, as will all transits to any of these five zones.
The Grand Irrationality
The reason this section is a recurring feature in the Lunation articles is because it was set into long term play by the 2011 Solar Eclipse, which is triggered each time any transiting planet occupies any of the 7 zones of the Grand Irrationality. Since then it’s been reinforced and triggered by various Lunations, planetary stations, and transits.
This Lunation finds the Grand Irrationality is not an active force, since it is not being triggered by any other planet (though of course those places with any of the 7 “hot zones” occupied by the Asc or MC will find themselves confronting their destiny.) And due to Saturn moving away from Pluto, we now are in a period of having just 2 points of the 7 pointed Star pattern occupied by Neptune and Pluto.
Even though it’s not specifically triggered in this Eclipse, Here’s more about it if you’re not familiar with For those who are new to the site, here’s a bit of explanation about this thing called “the Grand Irrationality” associated with why everything continues to be so weird. As I’ve explained many times before, the Grand Irrationality is a long wave non-rational influence that has put everyone on Earth on the unceasing edge of major choice and change.
Everyone has been confronting inner compulsions, continual choices that seem to have a major impact on our destiny, and occasionally irrational behaviors in others or external conditions. It is why things seem to have an unending hard edge, why so many choices are continually thrown in our faces that require immediate attention, and why reason seems to fail at critical moments of decision.
When the Grand Irrationality is in play, it’s a time when things don’t have to make sense. Get used to it, since we’ve been living with it for about 20 years, and will be in play for a few more years to come.
Thresholds of important choice and change that have heavy future implications were set into play by a number of factors in 2014, including Venus going stationary direct conjunct Pluto at the end of January 2014, along with Saturn moving in and out of the 19-22 Scorpio zone. Even though it's still leaving the Scorpio zone, it's just separating from the biseptile to Neptune and now makes a semisquare to Pluto.
Please refer to the articles I gave you about Mercury retrograde back then to learn more. I’ve written extensively about the Grand Irrationality in the articles Astrology in November-December 2013 - The Grand Irrationality Affecting Everyone and Astrology in late November and Early December 2013 – In the Heart of the Grand Irrationality. These articles sum up what we’ve been dealing with, so please check them out again! (And yes, I know I've been promising to update them, which I'll get to at some point after I get back from NY.
The current degree spans that trigger this transformative mass configuration are around 19-23 Scorpio, 10-14 Capricorn, 2-6 Pisces, 23-27 Aries, 15-19 Gemini, 7-11 Leo, and 28 Virgo-2 Libra. If you have a planet or angle in any of these zones, you are making critical choices and decisions that will alter your future in important ways. And because it’s in motion due to outer planets, these are pretty much forces beyond your ability to control, even if you can always control your response to these critical events.
Neptune and Chiron at the Cusp of the Age:
Now that these two are well into Pisces, they are no longer at the Cusp of the Age. Since they first entered the zone back in 2011-2012, we’ve been navigating through the threshold of an entirely new era that will not resemble the old Age in any way within just a few decades. We’re already solidly in the Dreamscape, and are already seeing long wave manifestations of the ending of the old and the emerging field we’re all learning how to maneuver through.
Other than the brief look we had in mid-2011, this is only the thirty-fourth New Moon with Neptune in Pisces for the next approximately 150 years. We had Neptune in Pisces for the 3 New Moons for May, June, and July 2011 which gave us a front end look at how Neptune will function through 2025.
Between August 2011, when Neptune retrograded back into late Aquarius, and the January 2012 New Moon, we were given one last look back at a greater ideal, and the changes of the last half of 2011 helped many to break out of our "chrysalis" and transform how we live and all our relationships. That is now established in the collective consciousness, as well as a growing sense of the larger light field in which all sentient Beings live and love.
If you want to know what's coming for many years to come, take a look back at the intuitions and sense of belonging to a vaster interrelated whole you were shown in May, June, and July 2011. It may help to give a sense of our collective lesson in dissolving our separateness as we finish this transition through "the Winter of the 21st Century" on our way to Spring, beginning in 2025!
In 2011 both Neptune and Chiron revealed our unique part to play within a larger light/life field. During that time, these planets at the beginning of Pisces and end of Aquarius occupied degrees representing "the Cusp of the Age," the span where the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius meet. The article deals specifically with the first degree of Pisces, which is where the Precessional point occupies at present.
From one point of view, where we were collectively between February 2011 and March 2012 revealed what the period of (approximately) 1990-2140 is all about in the broader context of human evolution. I suspect that future generations will look back at 2011 and 2012 as being crucial in showing long range patterns of larger evolutionary necessities. You can find more about what we’re going through to get to the coming Age of Aquarius in the article The Sun Enters Pisces Today Illuminating the Cusp of the Great Age, Where The Age of Pisces Gives Way to the Age of Aquarius
Neptune and Chiron dancing between signs on "the Cusp of the Age" had the effect of making it seem like we have all been occupying a very weird dreamscape which we'll be navigating for years to come. The trick for us is to apply our new strengths and understanding freed from the ghosts of the past, and by riding the waves of intense (but curiously steady) pulses of spiritual energies shaping our minds, we can find techniques where our efforts will lead us to forms of good fortune.
In this chart, Chiron is at 14 Pisces. This will help us heal anew through our positioning within collective consciousness, helping us to find the right "camouflage" so we can do the work we need to do. We are solidly in a time of healing through accepting and demonstrating positive Pisces attributes, strengths, and blessings.
This continues to show us how to merge the sacred and the everyday in our lives. Over the past couple of years, we have healed through knowing what we stand for, and heard a call to a life renewal that is now front and center. We’ve had to let go of unnecessary baggage to quicken the pace in achieving some social goal, mastered something important in our spiritual quest, been offered higher responsibilities, and been shown what spiritual goals we’re fit to accomplish.
In this chart Neptune is at 5 Pisces. The degrees Neptune is transiting in 2014 is a span we haven’t experienced for almost 150 years, and the degree where it went stationary retrograde in June 2014 shows that we’ve all being summoned to hear “a call to renewal,” where “tomorrow acts through today.”
This month’s degree is related to collective lessons we were first exposed to in the Spring and Summer of 2013, and as it's the degree Neptune will go stationary direct in the middle of November, this marks a platform in collective consciousness that will lead many out of discouragement into a new understanding of their place in the Whole. And of course, the Eclipse trine Neptune in Pisces shows that forgiveness and compassion will allow much to slip down the time stream with no stuck emotional residue.
Because Neptune has not experienced 6, 7 and 8 Pisces for over a century, it indicates that collective consciousness in 2014 has been in an “unknown zone” of experience, feeling what it stands for amidst the swirl of the tides, “hearing the call” during the Summer of 2014. This continues to strengthen our intuition and emotional intelligence, as well as a greater feeling-connection of our positioning within a vaster field. By April, we'll again enter uncharted waters.
More on Saturn’s Universally Important Influence
Saturn in Scorpio continues to put a focus on eliminating stagnant feelings and responses, finding appropriate boundaries and a sense of responsibility for our magnetism as we continue to shed various “skins of personality.” This Lunation shows Saturn with only a decile from Mars and a semisquare to Pluto.
Scorpio helps us make choices about what to eliminate, what to regenerate, and how to let go of all that we don’t want nor need to take with us into the future. Now that Mars conjuncted Saturn in late August at 18 Scorpio, we’re into a two year period when we’ll see what we’ve completed that has transfigured our lives.
It is also showing us an on-going process of self-transformation at the end of a cycle if we’ve done what we needed to with excellence and found the right perspective on the dues we’ve had to pay these past two years. And as I’ve told you before, when in doubt, you might as well let go, since you cannot hold on to those things anyway.
Saturn continues to help us see a) how we have shifted our magnetism on relationships since last Summer, and/or b) how we need to find a new view or way of understanding the losses and eliminations of the past we’ve been through. Now we’re flowing into a long wave period of finding the right focus to allow inspiring teachings to transform our daily lives.
Because of Saturn’s path the past year, through our magnetism and desires we have begun to demonstrate a higher level of social functioning. Now that we’ve learned what is permanent and stable in our life structures, this is the next step in practicing those Saturn lessons.
Saturn has now entered a part of Scorpio that is beyond what it's known for 28 years. We are headed toward Sagittarius, which will be a MUCH different Saturn experience than we've had! This one will help us raise the instinctual to the intellectual. We've now glimpsed what's on the other side of "the veil," faced fear, and deepened our faith.
So we’re now in the last act of the play of Saturn in Scorpio, where we complete eliminating and regenerating, seeing what to let go of that which no longer works. We have found ways to get focused and clear about what structures are worthwhile and which need eliminating or purifying, and have finished the long wave process showing us how to conduct ourselves at a higher social level of interaction. This gives us another period of seeing how to focus our social-emotional energy.
As Saturn rules the bones, and Scorpio rules regenerative processes, you may want to regard the current Saturn in Scorpio transit as symbolizing a type of “bone regeneration,” or the elimination of all in our skin and bones that would block our ability to meet and greet others at a higher level of dignity, reserve, and “civilized” behavior. This shows us a long wave elimination and regeneration work each of us is doing in our own ways and times.
2012 finished our philosophical and ideological understanding in life areas related to Libra, Capricorn, and Aquarius in our charts, and since October 2012 we have entered a Scorpio experience of an intensification of magnetics to attract what we need and repel what is not needed. Saturn in Scorpio will continue to be a MUCH different manifestation of Saturn than we were used to between 2010-2012!
Due to the 2012 and 2013 Scorpio Solar Eclipses, we’ve been looking back to rehearse the future after eliminating elements of the past. This opened the doors that we walked through in late December 2012 that continued through January 2013, and the Solar Eclipse from November 2013 renewed the pulse. Whether we want to or not, we’ve all had to be willing to embrace a purification process, especially purifying the life of stuck feelings and desires, and open to a new game and a new way of playing that game.
This is the ninth Lunation with North Node in Libra and South Node in Aries. Good for reasoned, balanced action! With NN in Libra, our greatest development is through our ability to balance, weigh, judge fairly, be diplomatic peacemakers, and generally cultivate our grace, style, elegance, and sense of beautiful forms.
We have now entered a time of growth through learning how to repair or reconstruct whatever we need to, and can grow by seeing the balances or imbalances in our relationships. Where it is in this Lunation chart shows we can grow through permanent truths and wisdom rather than transitory things and views. Study whatever “ancient wisdom” resources present themselves, and you’ll repair something you never knew needed it. Here we continue learn why we went through repair, reconstruction, or reclamation some things in 2011-2012.
During the time Saturn occupies the last half of Scorpio (between Nov 2013 and Dec 2014) it is concretizing and structuring what we learned via the North Node when it was in middle and late Scorpio. Though the lessons will take a Saturnine form, we are now almost at a threshold of reviewing how we’ve contacted our innermost “God force” and move beyond old forms. Last Autumn we learned to go to our “center of reality” and see how Spirit and Soul are dancing with whatever in our personality is conflicted. Now we get to do transmutation practices.
This Lunation features some very powerful aspects, mostly very favorable and specializing with only one frictional influence. I’ll cover these in part 3 of this series, along with the Sabian Symbol for the Eclipse. This will be a specializing period leading to creative-expressive gifts and a sense of freedom wherever Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune are transiting and rule in your chart.
I’ll close today by reminding you that we’re in the heart of the long wave friction and crashes symbolized by the encroaching Uranus square Pluto indicating the global collision between a new humanity and an old slave system. So while we all get a joyous break from the pandemic friction in some really productive and unique ways, just keep relying on the emotional intelligence and stability you’ve cultivated since last Summer, and as always, show patience.....
Previous Articles in this series:
Astrology in October 2014 - On The Threshold of An Annular Solar Eclipse at 1 Scorpio
Since the Solar Eclipse in Scorpio from last November is still a powerful influence, coming to the fore since Mars transited that degree a few weeks ago, here are the articles for your review.
Astrology in November 2013 - On The Threshold of a Hybrid Solar Eclipse at 12 Scorpio
The Hybrid Solar Eclipse at 12 Scorpio Nov 3, 2013 Pt. 1 - Who Does It Affect and for How Long?
© Copyright 2014 Robert Wilkinson
thank you robert! that sounds so very positive! my moon is a 1° scorpio at the beginning of my 8th house and i am ready to get shifted... quite amazing how i've felt that something profound is changing inside of me since the beginning of this week.
Posted by: nicole | October 22, 2014 at 12:54 PM
Thank You Robert for sharing your gift. My MC is 5.53 Scorpio. I know that you use a tight orb span of 2/3 degrees before or after. Do you feel that for those of us who are on 'the cusp', we will not be impacted the same or to a lesser effect? Nontheless, my poor little ASC( 12.37 Cap)is due for another electric shock therapy treatment with Uranus/Pluto exact square @ 12.35 Cap in December.
Posted by: clay | October 22, 2014 at 03:28 PM
Thank You sir! Do you think that those who have planets/angles that are 5 degrees away will be impacted by this eclipse. I ask because my MC is at 5.5 Scorpio and often have planets that fall just beyond the spans that you offer.
Peace and blessing to you,
clay
Posted by: clay | October 22, 2014 at 03:31 PM
Hi Nicole - You're most welcome. I wrote about an Eclipse on my Sun in an article linked inside the Oct 20 Threshold article. While some things were difficult to let go of, it also led me to the love of my life and a very public recognition.
Hi Clay - Well, it falls in your 9th. That has a huge number of meanings in itself. And of course, the Eclipse quintile your Asc makes for unique blessings opening you to a larger social life. And don't forget it trines your Uranus.
Posted by: Robert | October 22, 2014 at 04:15 PM
hi Robert,
this sounds like a wonderful eclipse!
if mars is in scorpio in the 12th (which is sitting in exact trime to transiting Neptune) and its being conjuncted by the eclipse .... is this something which will be known, or because its the 12th house....remain unknown?
thanks much,
Christy
Posted by: christy | October 22, 2014 at 07:56 PM
Hi Christy - I assume you mean your natal Mars is in early Scorpio and is being trined by transiting Neptune. Of course it will be known by you, and depending on how you show your Mars to the world, perhaps by others as well. An old way your Mars functions will be shut down. Perhaps an old motive as well, or an old way of "being" Mars in Scorpio that has brought you sorrow will end.
Posted by: Robert | October 23, 2014 at 08:08 AM