Astrology doesn’t predict outcomes as much as it reads the energy of events. So what does that energetic weather feel like now? In a word- tense. Fixed signs often denote a building tension where one side needs to give. We are literally living under this pressure of polarities. But you don’t need an astrologer to tell you that.
Additionally, this is the first and only time in our US history when an eclipse coincides with an election day*. Obviously, that portends an important and eventful day historically. But you also don’t need an astrologer to tell you that.
You just need to be paying attention.
Besides simply mapping the current terrain, astrology can also highlight themes, possibilities, and potentials. It can show the best trail between two points, the most optimum choice point. But, like a map, we can choose to follow it or not. Free will is a persistent thing.
Where the eclipse happens geographically is also essential. In this case, the path takes it across E. Europe, Asia, Australia, and North and South America. Go here to look at the specifics of the eclipse itself. Where this eclipse occurs in your chart also denotes more specific personal information.
It also must be noted this Taurus Full Moon Lunar eclipse is a North Node eclipse. Astrologically speaking, the North Node offers us the way forward. It reveals the medicine of our time. The remedy to all the unveiling.
If we choose to use it.
With Uranus joining the Moon and Mercury standing with the Sun, we can expect some sudden unveiling and surprising events, culminating in some needed albeit perhaps messy releases of tension. Like earthquakes, both literally and figuratively, tectonic plates release stress when they move. The road forward is paved with innovation, discovery, and an abrupt departure from old and outdated ways of thinking. This clash between new and old is exactly where we find ourselves. There are those that want to evolve our ideals and norms based on new information and the natural evolution of progress and necessity. There are also those that want to go back to what was (even if what was is part of the problem that got us here).
Astrologically, speaking there is no going back, but the conflict between growth plates is palpable. Mars retrograde in Gemini, echoes this theme of conflict. The high destiny of this placement is responsive growth via accountability and technical truths. The low destiny is reactionary destruction. Either way, the air is ripe with potential and thick with pressure.
The Sabian Symbol for this eclipse also highlights this theme- A battle between the swords and the torches. Confronting dualities, both inner and outer, is exactly what change feels like. In those moments, we can react in old habits and wounded places or respond in new, more grounded ways. This eclipse asks us to choose. Because Taurus, a steadfast Earth sign, reminds us there is a side that is more right and more accurate. There is a better choice. The benefit of the doubt is necessary and healthy in some conversations but woefully unhealthy, even destructive in the face of deep injustice or deception. It is our job to discern between the rightness and wrongness of actions, ideas, and even parts of ourselves.
In the words of James Burgess, “We must learn to discern between what ennobles us and what betrays spirit.”
Because Taurus reminds us of simple and essential truths and values. The last Scorpio New Moon Eclipse keyed us into what is truly important and what isn’t. The rightness of Taurus truth is not measured by mere technicality but also morality. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. It is found in accountability. Honesty. Tenacity. Perseverance. Authenticity. Peace. It is found in walking the talk.
Conflict is inevitable. And it is vitally alive in the tension of our time. What isn’t inevitable, though, is how we choose to engage in it. Good conflict grows us. It challenges us and expands our thinking. On the other hand, reactive conflict only wants to win or annihilate. It is cruel and addictive. It defends and deflects, fueling itself with self-righteousness. Nothing can grow there.
I suspect this Full Moon eclipse will reveal both. It will be up to us to choose wisely.
To be responsive rather than reactive does require inner reflection. We must be willing to see our world differently. To be accountable. Humble. To have conversations with the intent to understand and be ready to be wrong. We also need to spot reactive conflict and call it out for ourselves and others. To turn away from it, even when its gravity pulls on a convenient narrative. Even when it entertains us. Even when it makes us feel special- like WE have all the answers and are on the “right” side. If we are on the side of reaction- i.e., name-calling, bullying, contempt, hate, grift, conspiracy, we are on the wrong side.
Eclipses remind us of the ever-present ability to course correct. We just have to be brave enough to do it. And we aren’t going to get away from the tension of this time. It is part of the necessary change. What we do have control over is how we show up to it.
“The challenge of our time is to mobilize great masses of people to make change without dehumanizing one another. Not just because it’s morally right but because it works. Lasting change, the kind that seeps into people’s hearts, has only ever come about through a combination of pressure and good conflict. Both matter. That’s why, over the course of history, nonviolent movements have been more than twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.”~Amanda Ripley, High Conflict: Why we get trapped and how we get out
*And the next Election Day lunar eclipse won’t occur for another 372 years, on Nov. 8, 2394.
~This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse occurs at 16° Taurus.
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