Full Moon Lunar Eclipse – Eclipse Season Begins
We are in the last week of summer. Autumn begins on September 22, next Sunday. The eclipses prepare us for January’s change of the nodes, shifting from Aries/Libra (self-identity/relationships) to Pisces/Virgo (signs of service and saving – humanity being the world Server and Savior).
Eclipses and nodal changes are significant shifts for humanity’s evolution walking on the Path of Return, the Path of Light.
Eclipses: An eclipse means something is hidden. There are lunar and solar eclipses and they last six months, three months before and three months after the eclipse. A lunar eclipse means the moon is hidden. The moon is our past and how we live our daily life. When the moon is hidden (eclipsed), something within our daily outer lives is also hidden, meaning something in our outer lives has reached its completion and falls away
A solar eclipse means the Sun is hidden. The Sun is the life-giving light, our warmth, and in esoteric astrology, the Sun is the light of our personality.
When the Sun is hidden (eclipsed) something intrinsic, something essential within us has also reached its completion, its work complete, and it too falls away. The work of eclipses can be subtle over the six-month span of time. Eclipses make room for something new to appear, something greater than what was before and what disappeared.
The full moon of September 17/18, 2024, is a partial lunar eclipse (moon partially hidden) and its visibility is in the Americas, Europe and Africa. It is a solar festival at 26 degrees Virgo. Two weeks from the lunar eclipse, on October 2, we will have a new moon solar eclipse (10 degrees Libra). Rosh Hashanah begins that evening at sundown which is the beginning of the upcoming religious and seasonal festivals of autumn.
In very early times, before humanity was able to scientifically study the heavens, when eclipses occurred people became very frightened thinking the world was coming to an end. Now we know eclipses are signs of change and adjustment leading to a greater state of awareness. Everything in our world is in a state of evolution, which means everything is evolving to a greater goodness of itself. There is a natural pull from the heavens that underlies all that we do. A pull forward and upward into greater levels of harmony.
ARIES: There will be events and then a deep inward turning in order to understand with empathy and compassion. Others may come to you, attracted to your silence, asking for help. Be careful to remain in a state of retreat. Allow nothing to hinder the still small voice attempting to communicate with you. Tend to your health with the utmost care. Stand in the morning and evening sunlight.
TAURUS: Creativity, love affairs, romance, fun, play and things that call for risk taking. Games and sports and all expressions of the self. Will and willingness to love. Any and all of these will be affected, shifted, changed. Emotional comfort comes from creative efforts. Thoughts on children, a new baby, a family. A definite and clean break from the past occurs.
GEMINI: You think about home, either moving, a long vacation, creating a dwelling elsewhere for a time, redecorating, reconstruction or remodeling. Wondering what a true home means. Seeking deeper foundations and a greater balance between home and work. One’s biology, genealogy, early family life and childhood memories. Mother and nurturing of self and others. Building a spiritual home.
CANCER: As you give and give, you realize you would like to be given to. You are secure within your own self, your crab shell often protecting you. However, new values have arisen, a new code of ethics. You contemplate right and wrong, good and bad, light and dark. You consider spiritual resources and values, too. And how your life is shaped by these. You remember someone.
LEO: In search of new knowledge, developing mental telepathy, unfolding intelligence through new study, assessing how one relates to others. Is it truthful? Is it real? Building the Rainbow Bridge, walking the Path. Bringing others with us. Contact siblings or those we feel are brothers and sisters. A new level of education that is at odds with beliefs. Especially at this time.
VIRGO: You might feel your emotions more keenly, more deeply. Your feelings may be out and about for others to see. Your physical body and sense of self identity are changing. How people see you in the world is shifting, too. Your Soul quietly begins to speak with you about the purpose and plan for your life. Be still each day and ask the Soul for direction. Then listen in a garden of peacocks.
LIBRA: All the ties that bind you to others will be activated. You will seek which ones are real, which not. You will want a harmonious integration with everyone. You will consider integrating even those you have rejected in order to bring about a quiet poise and balance. This will challenge you, but it is good. See life as beautiful and bright, everything in your life a shiny milagro – a miracle, a surprise, a magical symbol of luck and hope for the future.
SCORPIO: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are your teachers these days. They bring you big jobs, big tasks. Helping you bring forth new understandings, research into and understanding of religious ideas, all to be used creatively in your work. You are to expand limited small minds into large spacious minds. So they can know the truth of the kingdom (Earth) and all of its geometric beauty. You are to use your ambition to serve and educate others.
SAGITTARIUS: Though you may not sense it, a new phase of life is being initiated. It will bring forth a healing and a fixing of what you thought was wrong or broken or not yet completed. You will seek a deeper cooperation with others, giving up something of self, so a greater intimacy can develop. You don’t understand all of this. It’s the great mystery from the shiny protective life-giving twinkling stars over-lighting you. A new profession, a vocation, an avocation, desire, aspiration or hobby subtly appears.
CAPRICORN: It seems the words for Capricorn are always hard work, responsibilities, ambition, achievement, and ladders to success. Let’s talk about foundations here. That ladder needs a firm foundation. Love is that foundation. Remember to have love with and in and for all that you do. Make that a conscious choice. Sometimes Caps are seen as hard and cold. We know you’re not. You’re just sensible, with sensible shoes. Do you need new ones?
AQUARIUS: You become more aware of yourself, your age, your talents, gifts and abilities along with your limitations. Impatient at first, you learn to have more ease, to adapt. They are lessons along the path. This is a positive time of learning, even if you feel somewhat restrained. Later you will see a new opportunity, possibility and perspective dawning. You will feel a new sense of strength, inspiration and confidence. In the meantime, be kind, always.
PISCES: Old identities, events, people, previous beliefs and ways of being seem to be falling away. Before they do, they call for deep understanding. They are shielded in swirling veils and swift moving clouds, so you don’t feel blame or guilt for any previous behaviors. That guilt can be painful. If these occur take Ignatia Amara, the homeopath that helps heal sadness and grief. Or Rock Rose, the Bach Flower Remedy. New values begin to emerge as the old drift away. New comprehensions, too. You are a vital part of “all things new” that will come to pass.
Risa – writer, editor, educator, teacher, psychological-spiritual counselor, mentor, astrologer & esotericist. Founder & Director of The Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute/College, a contemporary Wisdom School (center for spiritual discourse & study) for the Ageless Wisdom teachings. Foundations of the Teachings are the study & application of exoteric & esoteric Astrology, the Seven Rays, Theosophy, Esotericism, all religions, art, science & Raja Yoga meditation. Email: risagoodwill@gmail.com, nightlightnews.org.