What Goes Around
MONDAY'S ECLIPSE
Astrology is all about cycles. If a major transit is bringing events or changes to your life, chances are (if you are old enough), you can look back and find a parallel event.
Take for example Monday's Solar Eclipse (Oct 3, 2005, 10 Libra 19). Many people are already noticing the changes it has begun to bring into their lives. An eclipse brings your focus to a particular area of your life (depending on your own chart)...and demands change. Sometimes something is actually eclipsed out of your life. Sometimes, it is temporarly put aside so you can focus on other things. But always, it brings about long lasting changes.
And for some, the eclipse follows on the intense changes precipitated over the past year or so, as Pluto was hanging around 20-23 Sagittarius (culminating in the Pluto Station in early September.) Pluto comes along and, in some way, strips you naked, vulnerable. Oh, in the long run, it is for your own good, but it can hurt like hell, especially if you try to hold on tight to what is being ripped away.
We can certainly lay claim to living in interesting times.
But remember, Astrology is about cycles. This week's eclipse was not unique at all. In fact, an eclipse remarkably like this one occurred on October 3, 1986 (at 10 Libra 16.) If you can remember what you were going through then, it will better help you understand what is going on now. What was eclipsed from your life then? What changes did you make back then?
And even Pluto had a parallel influence back then. In October 1986, it was in the middle of its travels in the vicinity of 7 Scorpio. Every part of your chart that has felt the conjunction, square or opposition from Pluto in recent months felt a semi-square or sesquiquadrate back in the fall of 1986. Can you find a parallel between then and now, and your feelings of losing something....or of being completely vulnerable?
I suspect that such parallel astrological events occur because we have a lot of lessons to learn....and there is no way we could learn them all at once. So the Creator, in his infinite wisdom, only gives us so much to deal with at one time.
If you are old enough to remember 1986....what lessons did you learn then that could help you better deal with the lessons you need to learn now?
And if you aren't old enough to remember 1986, don't feel left out. There is another Solar Eclipse in 19 years (October 2, 2024, 10 Libra 04) that you will call upon you to use the lessons you are learning now, in 2005.
As to what might have been eclipsed at the time, the only thing I can think of is my sense of duty and doing what I should and ought, as opposed to doing what I wanted. As to how this might translate to this month's eclipse, while I don't want to repeat unhealthy patterns, perhaps I need to take a look at what purpose some of the shoulda's and oughta's have in my life, and if what I wanna's are in fact more healthy to be doing. (Comment this)
As to what might have been eclipsed at the time, the only thing I can think of is my sense of duty and doing what I should and ought, as opposed to doing what I wanted. As to how this might translate to this month's eclipse, while I don't want to repeat unhealthy patterns, perhaps I need to take a look at what purpose some of the shoulda's and oughta's have in my life, and if what I wanna's are in fact more healthy to be doing. (Comment this)