Lunar Eclipse in Aries 2014
Lunar Eclipse in Aries 2014 “What’s Up” 4 NON Blondes
The Lunar Eclipse in Aries is the 2nd blood moon (total lunar eclipse) in a series of 4, continuing in April and September 2015 running on a common thread likely to show some culmination with the Yin Yang of the Aries /Libra axis. The main theme of this lunar eclipse is the lunar Moon Aries eclipse over Uranus Aries, ruled by Mars. Expect rapid, abrupt sudden turn of events, change of heart, separations, distancing, independent, impersonal action, revolts, the unexpected, the weird, wild, bizarre, unusual, life in the fast lane with rude awakenings. The Lunar Eclipse falls over the south node in Aries, a red flag wild card due south, rattling some chains and breaking out of anything outworn and outlived.
The Lunar Eclipse is polarized and au contraire with Aries (Mars ruled) oppose Libra (Venus ruled). Love and war meet where one and one should still equal 2 when unique individuals form a unit. Aries principles of self directed, decisive independent action offers authentic opportunity honoring to know thyself in order to just be yourself up against Libra principles of grace and compromise, cooperation stirring up some disparaging attempts at negotiation as agreements are hard to come by. Aries fights tooth and nail to keep self interest and self respect all contrary to Libra swayed by reasonable default with Aries direct action beating out any wavering Libra indecision, enabling or codependency.
The Lunar Eclipse forms several aspect patterns giving it rich and intense interweaving of patterns. The eclipse forms a kite with the grand fire trine, all wound up tight around the volatile tsquare to Uranus Pluto and the Libra Aries nodal axis accentuating the Lunar Eclipse potency and reach. The tsquare to Uranus square Pluto sets the stage with depth, rage, transformation, pipes, elimination, eruptions, power plays, abduction, an urge to purge, toxins, poison, emotional catharsis, and explosions ( Japan’s volcano eruption, Hong Kong protests). In health, anxiety (Uranus), acute episodes with bowel, bladder, elimination organs (Pluto) lower back, kidneys (Libra).
The complexity of the many aspect patterns is a matter of dominance as to which take over. Hard energies (squares, tsquares, oppositions) typically overrule, trump and call the shots over any soft aspects (trines, sextiles) where the fire grand trine becomes an easy mark for instigating the aggravation of the tsquare although the grand trine and kite patterns provide short term stamina, courage and drive to get through longer term challenges, hurdles and storms. With Mars part of the grand fire trine, ruling the Lunar Eclipse, we can see where the fall out default pattern may give out with aggression, anger, inflammation, flares ups, fires, infection and impatience.
Venus Libra ties into the tangle hitting on all cylinders into a tight link with the kite and the tsquare craving intensity, wild abandon, magnetic pull which can either go the way of charismatic or down the south slope with a bitch slap. Underneath the Venus Libra charming demeanor lurks a cunning agenda bound to get a little meaner with Pluto’s manipulative maneuvers yet escapes the clutches with Uranus release and unhinged escape routes, on the it’s my way highway .
Sabian Symbols.
Aries. “Brownies Dancing in the setting sun. This is a symbol of the essentially friendly relationships which exist between man as a person and the totally impersonal forces of nature. The cosmic integrity demands a continual reversion to pure source in the case of each segment of reality, and the universal activity provides a continual sorting and sifting of all things into convenience and order. Implicit here is the dance of life as an unending rehearsal and exhibition of every special capacity of selfhood. The keyword is invigoration. When positive the degree is simple good fortune together with unlimited opportunity as the direct fruitage of effort and when negative, delusions of adequacy with a complete inability to act in real – self interest”.
Libra. “A Boat Landing washed away. This is a symbol of the superficially unfriendly relations which exist between man as a person and the totally impersonal forces of nature. The reversed symbolism emphasizes the cosmic integrity as a continual attempt on the part of its overall ordering to restore each phase of reality to pristine conditions. ..stimulation to new accomplishment and a freedom from whatever has exceeded its usefulness. Implicit here is a challenge to pure individuality.
Mercury retrograde from October 4th to October 25th, with Mercury as a sitting duck with delays, stalls and someone didn’t get the memo. Mercury is retrograde in Scorpio and goes direct back into Libra October 25th. Mercury retrograde during this eclipse season raises more alerts and alarm bells with escalating emergencies, disruption, traffic incidents, accidents, rage and violence. Mercury goes combust with the Sun as Venus also builds to a superior conjunction with the Sun, October 16th to fulfillment at the Scorpio Solar Eclipse October 23rd. Mercury is combust/cazimi under the beams of the Sun, with Libra pressing urgency to peace against Aries radical warmongering.
Neptune sesquisquare the nodal axis is adding to things further with blindness, being blindsided, blurry, dizzy, leaky, uncertain, slippery fish, one that got away here today gone tomorrow, disappearing act and drug issues. Pluto repercussions also show as Pluto has been stationing at a sesquisquare to fixed star, Algol (Head of Medusa) indicative of the violence of ISIS beheading. When you do the math in astrology, sesquisquares (a square and a half- 90 degrees plus 45 degrees) and semisquares (half a square -90 degrees minus 45 degrees) are partial (minor) square 45 degree angles that often preview and proceed major square formations. These aspects become more serious and are not so minor when formed with the outer slow moving planets Pluto Neptune and Uranus adding a wide spread collective shift.
The threat of the spread of the Ebola virus fits in with Neptune insidious and Pluto notorious. Neptune is noted for involvement in historical pandemics. Starting in 2015 Saturn starts to build toward its square to Neptune. Pluto will also square the nodal axis where we can anticipate to see more about the fear and panic of contamination with an Ebola pandemic.
Hong Kong protests follow the Occupy movement revolutionary cries continuously escalated during the Uranus Pluto cycle which is particularly tied into this eclipse as a climactic pressure point as Uranus Pluto begin to separate and end the cycle in 2015. The reminder of the Tiananmen massacre in 1989 with the resounding Chinese communist martial music ringing the strong Aries autocratic stance hangs in the balance as the protesters wave the Libra democratic flag.