This is a “big” month astrologically.
What does that mean?
The good news is it means there’s lots of cosmic juice, powerful potential, and transformation at our fingertips. There are increased nuggets of wisdom, evolution, synchronicities, epiphanies, signs, and experiences that get our attention. Imagine a cosmic finger pointing you in the direction you need to go.
The less good news perhaps is these times also tend to be full of uncertainty, challenge, confusion, and intensity. We cannot change in our comfort zone, after all.
Eclipses always ratchet up the learning as they dance with the nodes of fate. The Solar Eclipse in Cancer (July 2nd) began the revelation by illuminating where we require a recalibration of empathy, feeling, cooperation, and overall feminine genius in our lives.
This Full Moon ellipse asks us to DO something about what we have learned. Lunar eclipses are the release points of the cycle, encouraging us to take some intended action forward.
A Lunar Eclipse always occurs at a Full Moon when the Earth is exactly between the Sun and Moon casting a shadow upon the Moon itself. We (the Earth) must decide how best to shine (Sun) now that our unconscious (Moon) has been revealed. Another way of saying this is our Moon (emotions, memories, stories) are darkened for a moment so we can proceed forward in a new way. We can respond not just react.
We must keep in mind this is a South Node Lunar Eclipse though. This means the more shadowy Capricorn layers are the parts requiring assessment, action, and release. We also have Pluto and Saturn (both retrograde) joining the South Node party, adding their love of shadow walking. Mercury is also still retrograde, offering its own unique form of wisdom. (For more on that go here).
The themes arising are not really new- just more intense (see the good news above). Astrologers, including myself, have been focusing on the recalibration of Capricorn and Cancer all year.
In short, Capricorn symbolizes essential structures, frameworks, leadership, maturity, mastery, systems, centers of power, authority, and masculine energy. Looking outward, that looks like government, infrastructure, laws, and politics. Looking inward, that looks like the fundamental laws that govern our psyche- our beliefs, stories, ideals, perseverance, and goals. Done well, our Capricorn force offers maturity, realism, tenacity, discipline, boundaries, self-reliance, and integrity, which create the structure for our authentic mission in the world. Done less well, and you have fabric with no foundation. Frameworks lacking sincerity. Motion minus discipline. Laws devoid of humanity. Neediness discarding self-sufficiency. Authority sans honor. Power bypassing empathy. Greed ignoring service. Instead of having the inner advocate offering practical and honest assessment, you have the inner critic kicking you right in the limitation.
Structures and boundaries can become a peace or prison, depending on which part of us is running the show.
You just have to glance at any news headline to see this current Capricorn realignment. The correction is now.
What happens when structure meets a bit of chaos?
Significant, albeit sometimes messy, change.
Enter Eris.
The dwarf planet Eris, named after the Greek goddess of strife and discord, squares this Full Moon axis rocking foundations. Eris is described as the feminine equivalent to Mars, the god of War. Myth tells of Eris, being a little unique in her feisty feminine fierceness, was the only goddess not invited to the trendy wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Not taking the slight well, Eris took revenge at the wedding and inadvertently started the Trojan War.
While the tale may point out her reactive and vindictive nature (a shadow characteristic of this force), Eris also points to the vital need to rebel in the face of unfair or unjust conditions. Obviously, Eris also carries a powerfully feminine genius and need to fight for fairness and equality, which is undoubtedly an elevated theme of late.
She also reminds us that chaos is not necessarily something to fear. In fact, it is a required part of change. The word itself references the void or state of creation. Chaos can dismantle what is no longer serving to make room for something more in alignment. Eris topples what needs toppling so the new can be rebuilt with more integrity. The dance of Capricorn and Eris shakes up what needs rebirthing, rips apart unjust ideals, and destroys structures without honor. Capricorn shadows explode so needed light can get in.
“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”
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Revolutions, the call for significant transformation, are happening in both our outer and inner worlds. I do not need to tell you that. You are living it.
By definition, revolutions are notoriously messy.
And messiness often equates with uncertainty.
And uncertainty often leads to fear.
Eris teaches us this fear isn’t meant to stop us but to be the kindling in the fire of courage. She inspires us to harness the power of the rebel and start a revolution of our own. She reminds us to embrace our own beautiful brand of rarity. She gives us the grit and endurance to keep going despite the weariness, fear, confusion, and frustration. She reminds us standing on principle often looks like a marathon not a sprint.
So welcome the opportunities of dishevelment, disorder, and confusion. In fact, kick a few bricks over yourself. Look for frameworks that need redoing. Seek the reality checks, lines in the sand, forced stops, and brick walls of reality. Identify what isn’t working no matter how hard you push, manifest, or attempt to vision board away. Look for the places the inner critic runs rampant. Go even deeper until you find the inequality that needs balancing, facts that need checking, beliefs that need updating, and history that needs changing.
Detonate a few truths bombs of your own.
Once and for all.
This is what a correction feels like. Birthing is always chaotically wild and tempestuously brilliant.
Embrace the chaos. Let it seep into your pores. Let it free you from the confines of rigidity and it ignite a spark of originality that overshadows any expectation.
Because we must first clear away the old before we can rebuild in a way that is more real, more empowering, and more authentic. We cannot change what we cannot see and we cannot heal what we cannot feel.
“Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos.”
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