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Today is a day of power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Eclipse\"<\/a>

“1851 07 28 Berkowski<\/a>” by Berkowski. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ok yes, most days are powerful days if you\u2019re on your game and ready to embody your intentions with skill, but today is a different day, special in and of itself. There is a special gravity to this eclipse.
\nThis day of total eclipse, a new moon at the omega of the zodiac, tipping right into the equinox is a rare conjunction of patterns. It creates an off inflection for extra agency in your personal choice about perspective.<\/p>\n

Stick with this<\/h2>\n

Before we leap off a precipice of hand-waving, the reason it is valuable to share this is because you and I can both look at the facts of the natural world and see these patterns. That is objective. What we think about them and what meaning we might take from them is subjective and that means we can have an interesting conversation.
\nThe equinox (the time where the night and the day are equal in length) happens twice each year, a moment of unity and convergences in the dualistic dance our tilted axis moves us through between light and dark. Eclipses form and pass as our Earth and the moon spin and dip to each other as together we weave our way in orbit around the sun. The zodiac represents a different view of our orbit, seeing the canopy of stars and planets from the overlay of an ancient pattern that each adjust as the days move along. The natural world is filled with countless such patterns and tides gracefully interacting with each other and forming the normal and significant events that are a backdrop to our human patterns \u2013 civilisations, generations, families, birthdays and so on. So many patterns, so many scales of activity and timeframes and perspectives of meaning.<\/p>\n

Why that\u2019s great news for you<\/h2>\n

Sometimes life is hard and unpleasant. Sometimes when that happens, nice people might say \u201cthis too shall pass\u201d and they\u2019re trying to be helpful, but it never helped me to feel any better.
\nThat was until I was able to think about it in perspective of the Earth moving around the sun and the four points along that path that you can prove with nothing more sophisticated and complex than a stick in the ground \u2013 the solstices and equinoxes. These give the phrase \u201cthis too shall pass\u201d some meaningful context.
\nThe Wheel of the year is a bigger picture that I can connect to. I am part of an enormous organism \u201clife\u201d that on this Earth is so ubiquitous as to be taken for granted. Yet in the universe and indeed in the galaxy we know, we can still prove that it is unique to our planet. (No matter how many probes and expectations and hopes and movies we may make or have about the prospect of finding more planets, more somehow of \u2018us\u2019. Although I\u2019m not confident that our collective ego would survive if we sadly turned out to not only \u2018not-unique\u2019 but actually something more like the shunned \u2018hillbilly\u2019 inbreeds of the galaxy that nobody wants to have to call the police on at a wedding but everyone expects that there\u2019ll be a fistfight inevitably leading to blood and tears. But I digress.)<\/p>\n

So. Equinox, eclipse – whatever?<\/h2>\n

Actually a total eclipse doesn\u2019t happen as regularly or often as you may think \u2013 at the end of this month we have another, and then there won\u2019t be one for ages. You may have a handful or two of chances to see one in your life (North Pole inhabitants are the lucky ones in this particular instance). This particular one is also a \u2018supermoon\u2019 the name for when the moon is particularly close to the Earth there will be king tides because of it. Those are both facts of the science of Astronomy.
\nAnother element of interest to today is from the art of Astrology. This Eclipse happens while the moon is in the last degree of the 360 degrees of the zodiac. That is very unusual. I don\u2019t know how often that pattern happens, but you\u2019re unlikely to come across that one again in your life. You don\u2019t need to believe in astrology or astronomy for both of these things to be happening. They\u2019re going on without you. You can choose what, if any, of this information you take away to apply to understanding your own life and the events and tides you experience in it. Your quincunx is yours to dance within.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your gravitational force?<\/h2>\n

To be human is to seek connection (or to judge \/reject connection if you are rebellious and need something to push against) we move between sets of belonging. It is a force at work within us.
\nOddly this is how it is for the stars and planets too. All matter in our galaxy, and in the universe, is bound to each other through subtle, powerful, complex forces and we call it gravity. You and I have no problem believing totally and implicitly in gravity when we play on a swing, catch a ball or drop our toast. Can you easily believe in the power of gravity across a galaxy? Be honest with yourself.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a big question.<\/p>\n

Challenge yourself and expand the edge of that belief to the limit of your comfort and look out from that vantage point. What on the horizon makes you uncomfortable? Breathe here for a while and contemplate the nature of things that are unknown or seem impossible. Can you comprehend the vastness of space and the invisible strength of gravity that leads to slow, graceful orbits that human minds can map and trace into the future? What forces pull on you in ways you do not understand but feel to be real? Relationships? The moon? The enormity of the earth below your feet, abstract concepts like money or the type of time that glaciers count?
\nYou may well decide to ignore today other than as a functional section of the weekly calendar. What\u2019s for dinner? Where are the house keys? Or you may drift into an awareness of the bigger patterns of your life that swing around less often than a week and sit underneath the life that is passing in a blur. We are interested in revealing more about life than is held in a spreadsheet. To do that we are on a path of expanding our awareness, our interest, our willingness to hold multiple ideas and possibility. Today, with our total eclipse in the closure of the zodiac on the cusp of the equinox we are in a powerful place of choice.<\/p>\n

Open yourself to the idea that you\u2019re part of this single world, we\u2019re together in the gravity of the situation. Patterns are happening around us, within us, even as we shape the events of our lives. Our social and emotional connections to each other give us our relationship gravity, sometimes those orbits put us in the dark, wondering if \u201cthis too shall pass\u201d and of course the answer is yes.<\/p>\n

Yes, everything changes, and when it comes around again it will be both different in particulars and the same in pattern.<\/p>\n

In the dark of this night that is united with day, know that you belong and are part of this mighty dance of the heavens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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