from the chair: 26th April 2013 Full Moon in Scorpio, partial lunar eclipse

Hi everyone!

The Taurus Sun is shining on Mother Earth igniting our hearts with love for our planet. Venus(the feminine) and now Mars(the masculine), both in Taurus too, are alleviating the tensions of the fiery tunnel of the past few weeks.

Recovering from last week:

Hopefully, you’re recovering some sense of sanity after last week’s build up to the Sun meeting Mars in Aries last Friday! All the fire, anger, resentment and reactive energies are beginning to settle now we have the Sun and Venus in Taurus. You may feel like you’re breathing again, even if you’re dealing with the aftermath of all the explosive feelings and often irrational outbursts and reactions.

Mercury is still in Aries until 2nd May, so be aware of fiery communications...not necessarily negative. But, your mind may still be working overtime, so if sleep eludes, just bear with it.

The physical body:

Nurture and nourish...no more burnout!!!

With all the planets in Taurus, you may be finding it necessary to get some body work to release some locked in energies, past lives/alternate realities, lost aspects. Cell memories are being released. You may find that long term aches, pains and illnesses are being resolved in this period of time as the cosmic energies are conducive to completion, release and resolution.

The earth herself is clearing and we’re doing it along with her. We’re purifying and reaching for a happy fulfilling abundant life on planet earth. The Taurus energy is offering alignment with the wealth of the earth herself. Stay tuned to the physical body in these next few weeks. The Earth Mother is here!

If you’re not taking care of yourself, nurturing yourself not just physically, but nourishing yourself with what brings you joy...get cracking! It really is all about love during this time of Taurus.

With Taurus, watch the throat chakra, neck. Taurus can be stubborn/wilful and the neck is all connected to that. Singing/Toning is good because Taurus has an affinity with music. ‘Not my will, but they will be done’

What’s coming in:

Eclipse season, starting with tomorrow’s Scorpio Full Moon partial lunar eclipse!

Our breathing space, whilst welcome, is in some ways temporary as we are just entering the first series of eclipses for 2013.

Starting with tomorrow’s eclipse, we’ll be moving into a 6 week period with eclipses every two weeks, shifting our perspectives, our ideas, opinions and our lives in the usual dramatic style of the eclipse energies. The changes emanating from eclipses may not manifest for a month, 6 months or even a year later.

26th April:

Full Moon in Scorpio partial Lunar Eclipse at 5.57 am AEST at 5 degrees Scorpio 46

Death of the old: Scorpio energy is all about life, death, rebirth, transformation and on the mundane level. relates to money (from sources outside income) sexuality and intimacy. The Phoenix is one of the symbols aligned with the Scorpio energy as it symbolises death and rebirth.

Endings so we can be reborn: How appropriate for this Full Moon to be Scorpio, as we have just emerged from all that fire energy of Aries burning us up and destroying something that needed to go.

The ‘final straw’: Full Moons bring culminations, something coming to a head, something completing. Scorpio adds to this ‘ending’, making it a more final ending than other full moons. This Scorpio Full Moon energy is putting a big ‘full stop’ on this destruction, finishing off what needs ending.

Deeply buried emotional energy seeks release: The impact of the Full Moon is with us for a few days following on from when it reaches fullness. Be aware of the emotions which always seem bigger than Ben Hur at a Full Moon.

This one is more so with Scorpio energy and the planetary line-up associated with the Full Moon at this time. Emotions could just bubble up and blurt out of you, because we are dealing with often suppressed, depressed, repressed energies which are seeking release. This is the kind of emotion that’s buried so deeply that we just don’t know it’s there. Now, that being said, it doesn’t mean these are negative emotions and it doesn’t mean they’re emotions that connect obviously to your life now as there is so much karmic release going on. We just don’t know which ‘lost aspects’ are seeking resolution.

The masculine warrior energy of Mars is coming to peace with the Taurus energy and we are being called to harness this masculine energy in taking our authority with our emotional selves. This is not about suppressing or overpowering. It’s acknowledging and accepting our need for balance and harmony, freedom from oppression from others or of others.

Rebirth: New Moon solar eclipse in Taurus on 10th May

We are clearing the way, preparing for our rebirth, the first taste of which we’ll experience at the New Moon solar eclipse in Taurus on 10th May.

That New Moon will be very much about bringing ideas, hopes and dreams into physical reality.

New information comes forth: Scorpio is ruled by Pluto, God of the Underworld, so you can imagine where the power of this Full Moon is taking us...deep within our hearts, memories (moon rules memory), unconscious. Now think positively here, because this full moon eclipse is guaranteed to bring something forth that you needed to know.

Digging for ‘gold’:

the essence of who you are and what you truly desire for fulfilment of your life on earth.

Full Moons bring illumination, insight arising from the unconscious and the Scorpio energy takes us deeper than usual into digging for the ‘gold’ that is us, our essence, our truth, our pathway forward. This full moon offers us deep truth which will resonate with us, inspire us and give us the impetus to move on and let go of past blockages.

Saturn, working with Pluto, is close to the Full Moon:
Off the treadmill!

Deeply embedded karmic burdens, patterns and ties are revealed....just love em’ and leave ‘em!

With Saturn close to the moon, karmic burdens and ties which have been holding us back, holding us down, keeping us from fulfilling our potential...are likely to be revealed. It’s our call to release them. Forgiveness of self, others is key to this release process.

Full Moons are all about emotion, the most expansive emotional energy of the lunar month.

Neptune is in a flowing positive trine with the Full Moon:

opening the channel to a more evolved vision of life! spiritual release!

This energy is working in beautifully with the release of the karmic ties/burdens and memories. We all carry a commitment to growth and evolution in our earthly lives. Our soul calls us to break with the negative and less evolved patterns of the past, to change the way we have lived to our own detriment.

Spiritual knowledge accessible: Divine guidance!

Everyone is different with our own ‘brief’ but we also have a ‘brief’ for the planet. Everyone carries a different ‘load’ depending on our soul’s choice, but it is about our own personal evolution as well as contributing to the evolution of the planet. The energy of Neptune working with the Full Moon, is opening us up so we can evolve our emotions into a higher order, into a more evolved expression of ourselves.

Full Moon in Scorpio opposite Sun in Taurus: Grounding deep emotions and feeling the earth upholding us and our life on earth!

The Full Moon calls for a balancing act between our inner and outer selves. Both sides of our being are asking for expression and we’re called to attend to both these energies. Scorpio is water and emotional whilst Taurus is earth, practical and grounding.

Purifying, distilling, creating a vintage wine: empowering ourselves to be our essential selves!

The Taurus energy, Mother Earth, is holding us through this Full Moon as we get in touch with the deep emotions of Scorpio, the burdens and hard working energies of Saturn which are being released and evolving into the higher consciousness of ‘taking our authority’, ‘owning our mastery’ of life on earth.

The Sun in Taurus is close to Mars in Taurus: Masculine energies find empowerment and release through earth and water!

All the fire of Mars is finding safe release in the energies of Taurus. The fire of the Sun and Mars is being counterbalanced by the water of Scorpio, which are both being held by Mother Earth. We need our masculine self empowered and ready to play its part in taking us out into the world, supported in the knowledge of who we really are with no need for false pride or puffed ego. We are who we are!

The Sabian Symbols for this Full Moon:

From Cathy Pagano at http://www.wisdom-of-astrology.com/astrostarsarticles/the-cosmic-story-scorpio-lunar-eclipse-2013

The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 6* Scorpio is: The Gold Rush tears men away from their native soil. Rudhyar says, ‘this is the passionate search for new values which promise a more abundant life.’ This is the symbol of a passion that fires the imagination to make us leave home and the ‘known’ for our dreams and visions. Scorpio looks for the intensity of transformative experiences. This Moon will be shouting out our secret desires to live more and better by dying to our fears.

The Sabian symbol for the Sun at 6* Taurus is: Cantilever bridge across a deep gorge. Dan Rudhyar says that this image ‘suggests the conquest of separativeness through group cooperation’. In working together to build a bridge into the ‘unknown’, people overcome our collective obstacles. These are the tests of our evolution as a species. Taurus’ often tends to be independent and doesn’t ask for help, so this image from the symbols suggests a new way of creating the Garden for all of us. Not alone but together.

More detailed information on the Sabian Symbols from Linda Hill at:

http://sabiansymbols.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/04/security-is-not-the-meaning-of-my-life-great-opportunities-are-worth-the-risk-shirley-hufstedlergold-will-be-slave-or-maste.html#more

Where will the eclipse be visible: From Jonathan Cainer at: www.cainer.com

A partial Lunar Eclipse will be visible on Thursday evening* (or Friday morning) from some parts of the world. But even if you are in a place from where it can be seen, you'll actually need to be looking at the Moon! These days, with so much to watch on TV, the sky holds our attention less than it once did. Plus, just as TV signals can fluctuate in strength, Moon vision requires the sky to be fairly cloud-free. Thankfully, it has an impact whether we see it or not. That impact for us all this week will be (in different ways for different signs) a realisation that something we thought was hopeless is hopeful after all!

*Parts of New Zealand.
In Western Europe and West Africa, the eclipse is visible at Moonrise.
In Australia, Japan, Eastern Russia and Indonesia the eclipse is visible at Moonset.
In Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southern Africa, India, most of China and most of Russia, the entire Eclipse is visible.

The eclipse will be brief but it will be be powerful. Like all eclipses, it symbolises a chance to reboot your life.

A partial lunar eclipse is a wonderful phenomenon to observe but you can still feel the benefit of this astrological influence - even if you don't witness it. It symbolises a big opportunity to move on from the past by letting go of an old fear. The details will, of course, vary from sign to sign and from person to person. But because it is a partial eclipse, somewhere in the equation it may involve going to the brink of a big decision, looking carefully at what it might lead to, then deciding whether to go ahead or pull back.

From Sydney Observatory: for those in Australia

Early on Friday morning there is a short and shallow partial eclipse of the Moon visible throughout Australia. It begins at 5:52 am AEST when the edge of the Moon moves into the Earth’s shadow and finishes just 31 minutes later as it exits the shadow. At maximum eclipse only 2% of the Moon’s width is covered.

Upcoming Dates:

2nd May: Mercury moves into Taurus

10th May: New Moon in Taurus Solar Eclipse

10th May: Venus moves into Gemini

Eclipses for 2013: Greenwich Mean Time
Lunar Eclipse Apr 25 2013 (GMT 20:06) 05° Scorpio 46'
Solar Eclipse May 10 2013 (GMT 0:24) 19° Taurus 31'
Lunar Eclipse May 25 2013 (GMT 4:09) 04° Sagittarius 07'

Lunar Eclipse Oct 18 2013 (GMT 23:49) 25° Aries 46'
Solar Eclipse Nov 3 2013 (GMT 12:46) 11° Scorpio 16'

That’s it for now folks!