Eclipse Season Is Upon Us!
As if we needed any more excitement, eclipse season is upon us. The first in this spring/summer series, a full moon lunar eclipse that landed in Sagittarius on June 5, may have brought some hidden aspects of your life into the light. I know it did for me. Something happened that seemed to come as a total shockeroo—until I thought about it and realized, Nope, I'd actually been expecting this for some time!
Whatever came up for you that weekend will reverberate through the rest of the year and will colored and modified by the next eclipses, on June 21 and July 5. If you're thinking, "Wait, I thought eclipses occurred in pairs," pat yourself on the head and grab another cookie. Normally they do, but because of a rare second Cancer new moon this year, we have a third eclipse in that lunar cycle.
This upcoming pair are the last of an eclipse series over the past two years that fell in Cancer and Capricorn, along the natural houses of home/family and career/future. These are also the most traditional signs, often associated with the archetypal parents as well as well-established paradigms. And it's been kind of hard to miss the fact that wrecking balls keep hitting many of those wobbly structures.
On June 21—the summer solstice—we'll have a new moon solar eclipse at 0º 21" Cancer. The last time we had an eclipse on the solstice was in June 2001, sandwiched in between that controversial election and 9/11. Then, on July 5, as the last firecracker fizzles out in the night sky, comes the full moon lunar eclipse at 13º 38" Capricorn. We won't have eclipses in these signs again until 2027, so let's figure out what they're trying to show or teach us before we close the door on 2020.
But a lot depends where they fall in your personal chart, so whip that out and see which houses contain 0º Cancer and 13º Capricorn and reflect on the areas of life associated with those sectors. If you have any planets, points or major axes (1st, 4th, 7th or 10th house cusps) nearby, pay extra attention to that. I work with pretty tight "orbs" for eclipses, so if you have anything between 28º Gemini and 3º Cancer for the first, or 11-16º Capricorn for the second, you might personally feel this energy unspool over the two weeks that follow each, and even for the next six months.
Eclipses are like bursts of energy: Solar (new moon) eclipses can turbocharge brand-new initiatives, ideas and relationships. Anything you're just getting off the ground gets a little extra pixie dust sprinkled on it. Lunar (full moon) eclipses can help things culminate or reach a turning point. But you have to be willing to let go of preconceived notions, especially limiting ones, and find a way to dance with the divine. Spoiler: Control is an adorable human illusion.
And with the cosmic communicator (and trickster) turning retrograde this Wednesday night/Thursday morning (just after midnight EDT), things could really start to feel super-charged, either in an exciting "Woot, I've been waiting for this!" kind of way or a #@&%!! cartoon-cursing kind of way. You already know this, but here's a reminder anyway as we head into this intense season: There is no "out there." Whatever you're experiencing really is of your own making.
So set some big exciting goals for yourself, both in terms of what you'll call in and what you're ready to release, definitely focusing on what you need to release. Because without knowing you well, I'm pretty sure that the latter will affect the former. And whatever you do let go, do so with profound gratitude for everything it gave you.
