by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon Eclipse of Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Leo will bring tremendous benefit to those who have trained, and willing to double down on that training to demonstrate their power over the lower Self while demonstrating skill, valor, courage, and self-discipline.
So what can we expect this month? Since all Eclipses shut something down, this Penumbral Lunar Eclipse begins a long period of things getting "shut down" in the houses it occupies in our charts. Given that it happens with some productive, spiritual, and irrational aspects, this one will bring some powerful releases along with major favorable leaps forward, with movement that dislodges stuck things.
This Eclipse will be visible during Moonset between the areas defined by the line from Madacascar to eastern Iran over to the line from Manchuria down to Java. It is not visible in Japan, far eastern Russia, Oz, NeZ, across the Pacific or western Alaska. It is visible at Moonrise in almost all of North America, all of Central America, and all of western South America. The whole eclipse is visible east of a line from Maryland down to western Venezuela, far west Brazil, and the western border of Paraguay, all the way over to a line running from Madagascar to western Iran. In other words, if you’re in eastern Canada, Brazil, Africa, Europe, Scandanavia, or all of western Russia, you get to see the Eclipse in all its glory!
It’s important to remember that most worldly events follow celestial events. Whether an event happens simultaneously with or later than an Eclipse, or some aspect configuration, is conditioned by many things. Sometimes a decision is made that will affect many things in the future, but we don’t know about that until the result manifests.
The time of an Eclipse is when the future effects are set into motion. Regard it as beginning a process of elimination to come to an understanding in the future about why those things had to be shut down for a while, or leave the life altogether. We have to close out parts of our past to create space for future ways to do our Being. Eclipses create excellent time periods to do that.
For example, the Eclipses in Gemini and Sagittarius in 2011-2012, both Solar and Lunar, served to shut down old ways of life, thinking, and understanding wherever we have Gemini and Sagittarius in our charts. There's a lot about them in the archives if you want to know more about their influence in recent years. The Eclipses in 2013 shut down old ways of life, feeling, and valuing wherever we have Taurus and Scorpio in our charts, and the Wesak Full Moon Lunar Eclipse opened us to a form of “Buddha Wisdom,” as much by what it took away as by what it introduced.
The September 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse was the last for many years where the Nodes were in Libra and Aries, showing we had been in an era when those signs have been most affected in our charts. And in an interesting note, both Lunar Eclipses in 2014 occurred in Aries/Libra, but the Solar Eclipses fell in Taurus and Scorpio. In 2015, both Lunar Eclipses occurred in Aries/Libra, but the Solar Eclipses fell in Pisces and Virgo. So the long wave Solar eclipses were working on different areas of our charts than the short term Lunar eclipses those years.
The March 2016 Solar Eclipse was in Pisces, but the Lunar Eclipse was in Aries/Libra. The September Lunar Eclipse was the first to fall in the same axis that the Lunar Nodes occupy, as the North Node was in Virgo, and the South Node was in Pisces. That firmly accented growth in Virgo and release in Pisces, with a tremendous focus for the following 4 months due to the Harvest Full Moon Eclipse at 25 Virgo/Pisces that lasted almost 4 hours.
We again shift with this one, since it falls in the Leo-Aquarius axis, while the Nodes will occupy Virgo-Pisces. However, the coming Solar Eclipse falls at 9 Pisces, which will highly stimulated the Nodal axis. Both Eclipses in August will involve Leo-Aquarius, and by then the Nodes will also occupy those signs.
Using the NASA Lunar Eclipse page, we find the timing on this event:
P1 Penumbral Eclipse Begins: 22:34:16 UT
Time of Greatest Eclipse: 0:43:53 UT
P4 Penumbral Eclipse Ends: 2:53:26 UT
In the next parts coming this week, we'll explore the qualities of the Full Moon, the Sabian Symbols, the aspects, configurations, and other specifics of this Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Aquarius-Leo.
© Copyright 2017 Robert Wilkinson
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