The March 14th Total Lunar Eclipse. Philosophical Recalibration Time.

  

 I don't often share timely astrological writing here, as I prefer to keep this a tidy collection of timeless astrological ruminations.  However, I thought I'd share what I wrote for my Facing North Facebook Page here.  Fakebook?  Really?  Lame, I know, but people respond there, and the dialog is active.  If you are interested in me writing about the lunations every month as well as other daily activity, meet us over there in corporate controlled Zuck land!   In the meantime....

  At 2:53 AM EDT on March 14 we have a total Lunar eclipse in Virgo. So begins a heady month that astrologers have been eyeballing for many years. Despite this full lunar eclipse happening over the entirety of North America, I don’t see it as being a particularly nasty time. The key word here is confusion. An eclipse itself hides the light, and this light is in a strange place to say the least. The Moon will be in the ninth house (in the Washington D.C. chart) of philosophy, law, and religion, ruled by a Mercury which is stationing retrograde, right on the IC of the chart in the third house of communication. The Sun is coming off a sobering meeting with Saturn, and moving into the wild influence of Rahu, and the obfuscation of Neptune. 

     The Moon in Virgo wants to calculate and categorize all the things within its domain, being the eighth in this chart, I’m inclined to view this as shared resources and trust more than death. Call me an optimist. Ruled by a frustrated Mercury, full of fire in Aries, Luna is unable to accomplish much other than rethinking its entire domain. The Moon, with Ketu, wants to give up. It will have sextiled Mars earlier that day, who’s had a rough few months slogging through Cancer backwards and blind. Perhaps now, with the benefit of forward Motion, Mars will help urge Luna onwards, in the ninth house of higher philosophical issues, to bust through the fog and rethink where she is headed. This is a big recalibration moment for the Western world.  

    The Moon will have also squared Jupiter early that morning, which is also ruled by a fuzzy and frustrated Mercury. The emphasis is powerfully upon letting the ideas that frustrate us go, and to consider new horizons and perspectives. There is help here from an enlivened Uranus, whom the Moon is applying to a tight trine with, excited for its final degrees of Taurus to be over, and its (what some consider exalted) time in the exciting domain of endless ideas, Gemini, where it has traditionally had a heyday of invention and innovation. The emphasis is to push past old worn out ideas, and embrace the new. Sometimes we cling too desperately to the old order, to our own detriment. Life changes, and so must we.

     That pileup at the end of Pisces is going to get more complicated as Mercury and Venus join the show before the solar eclipse at the end of the month. This lunar eclipse is an opportunity to back down from our fortified ramparts and consider if maybe the hordes outside are really just looking to trade with us the wares we need.  

    The Sun, or King, in this chart is wildly confused. Pushed and pulled in multiple directions; seeing the dream of Neptune, wanting to grasp everything life has to offer with Rahu, but being restricted by Saturn. Pay little mind to the bluster of the rulers in these coming weeks. They know what they want less than we do. Many words will be spoken, and vanish in the fog, hidden behind the Earth. It is the Moon that will steal the show, a ruminating ruby, shadowed, but exiting the other side with a renewed appreciation for its own power to control the tides.  

    If you’re awake, I recommend meditating through the totality of the eclipse.  It is a powerful moment when the Sun, Moon and Earth align, and you can feel the tension build, and then release.  If you get quiet enough and listen, you will feel the exact moment of totality.   Often, this moment of release will come with a profound message which relates to the house axis in which the eclipse takes place.