FM Lunation 6

Full Moon in 14° Sagittarius, June 4, 2012, 4:12 AM PDT
Partial Lunar Eclipse, 4:04 AM PDT, visible from most of Asia, Australia, the Pacific, and the Americas.




For this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, I share my Seed Intention and Motive created for the New Moon Solar Eclipse (0° Gemini; Spiritual Principle of Placement), for this is what is coming to fruition and it feels related to everything I share below from Cayelin Castell, Connie Kaplan, and John Sandbach. In addition, I share a dream I had on June 1st that also feels synchronously connected to the powerful eclipse cycle we are in, as well as the overall energies regarding this year 2012 and the supposed end of the Mayan calendar. My personal take on the whole 2012 phenomena is that we are simply in the midst of a massive transformation and transmutation upon and within the Earth and all her systems.

One other point of interest is planet Venus’ interior conjunction with the Sun on Tuesday, June 5th at 6:08 PM PDT. Venus will be visible crossing the face of the Sun for those with proper viewing tools. More information from Cayelin Castell about this conjunction on the heels of the Partial Lunar Eclipse is here as a PDF.
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Seed Intention for the 6th Lunation: 

Collage Card by Jennifer Star

Embodied spirit
Experiencing this life
Embracing the love

My feet are ready—
Seeing into Mother Earth
She guides all my steps

The trees lift me high
Providing clear sight around
As I move forward

Changing positions—
Stepping into the reflection
Life mirrors to me 

Motive: 

Here is where I am
Now is the time to be here
Empty is the way


Dream 6/1:
Information is being communicated, through writing and images in a We'Moon datebook, that our current reality is out-of-sync with time (universal-time, not clock-time), and this is the reason for all the discord and out-of-balance elements on the Earth. With this information I am aware that the whole 2012 phenomena is when we are re-entering an in-sync time. I contact Connie Kaplan to see if she has also seen and knows about the information.

May the shedding of our old skins and emergence from the chrysalis be graced with ease and gentleness, and may cosmic love be our protection from harm and ill will during the vulnerable period of this transformation.

From Cayelin Castell:

The Partial Lunar Eclipse (14 Sag 09) center point is at 4:04 am and the exact Full Moon (14 Sag 14) is at 4:12 am. One of the most remarkable aspects of this eclipse is its connection to the area of the sky where the Great Attractor is located. Astronomers know The Great Attractor is the most massively huge object known in our region of space, but what it is exactly remains a mystery. This invisible “thing” is attracting millions of galaxies toward it at the rate of 24 million miles per day or a million miles per hour. That rate of speed is incomprehensible to our minds and our experience.

Milky Way Galaxy

This attractor factor is also pulling in our own Milky Way Galaxy, along with all the galaxies around us. Though even at this high rate of speed, it will be a loooong time before we have to worry about what this really means to Earth.

However, for those who have planets or angles between 10 to 18 degrees of Sagittarius, your life is greatly influenced by this celestial phenomenon, especially around the time of this Lunar Eclipse. Astrologers speculate that those who have 14 degrees Sagittarius (or more accurately 10 to 18 degrees of Sagittarius) prominent on their natal charts, they are the ones who are intended to have a huge impact on the masses and often do have a greater impact than what they may actually realize.

Philip Sedgwick suggests that those who have a connection to the Great Attractor hold the key to universal knowing whether they know it or not, as the Great Attractor is a doorway in to unseen dimensions. This is due to the massive gravitational force that seemingly bends the space-time continuum to give us a peek at the back of the Universe.

The energy and understanding around the Great Attractor calls to mind what it is that we are attracting into our lives based on our thoughts, feelings, and the actions we are engaging, and how we are helping to co-create the New Earth and, even more importantly, our lives. This is the time to be consciously intending our true heart’s desire and then be willing to focus our thoughts, images, feelings and actions on our intended reality, as all of these factors influence how we are vibrating and what we attracting into our lives as a result.

From The Invisible Garment by Connie Kaplan:

14 Ecstasy

Collage Card by Jennifer Star

Ecstasy is simply the Divine flow of energy. It is energy (or light) flowing with absolute freedom to express itself and experience itself.

Ecstasy occurs when all of one’s bodies (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and energetic) are perfectly aligned so that energy is able to express itself truthfully through you. It is not so much an experience of orgasmic proportion as it is an experience of deep wakefulness. Your whole being is alive and alert—awake to its reality.

Ecstasy is the experience of a personal God. Each being is a unique configuration of energy. When one’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies are in alignment with their principles, the ecstatic experience of now occurs.

In the human body, Ecstasy expresses itself through the adrenals. The adrenals are an extension of the central nervous system; therefore, Ecstasy is connected to [the principle of] Intelligence through this physical connection.

Ecstasy is the white hole of creation out of which everything spews toward manifestation. For anything to exist, it must experience itself as ecstatically connected to its source.

Ecstasy is a principle of high energy, profound creativity, and deep awareness. It gives every spiritual practitioner access to awe. It brings every human to the threshold of Creation.

From John Sandbach:

Sagittarius 15

Prized possessions are disappearing, one by one.

(Omega Symbol) Although the loss of anything valued can seem like a tragedy, it always clears the way for something else to be gained, and carries a valuable message that needs to be listened to. This degree can deeply understand those messages and perceive how when anything is stripped away, the space opened up is an invitation toward higher consciousness. It is a golden opportunity to assimilate the bliss of non-attachment.

The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “A tidal wave approaching.” The tidal wave has not reached the shore – it is approaching. It is important to not react to change with panic, but simply to move to higher ground. We are being called on to use our intuition in determining that the tidal wave is approaching, or maybe to believe those intuitive ones who are telling us that it's coming, or maybe follow the animals as they instinctively move to higher ground. Such crises help us to see what is really important, and where our true priorities lie. And though they seem like disasters outwardly, they can bring so much wonderful and refreshing clarity in their wake.

This degree is ready to go at any moment, ready to flow with all great and momentous changes on the way. And, of course the death that we will all experience is also a great tidal wave approaching. It is best with this one, too, to move to higher ground.

NM Lunation 6

New Moon in 0° Gemini, May 20, 2012, 4:47 PM PDT
Annular Solar Eclipse, 4:54 PM PDT - Visible from South Asia, the Pacific, and North America

Since I've just returned from vacation, with the added challenge of my main computer having died while I was away and using another computer, I offer here to honor this potent time in-depth pieces from Cayelin Castell, Connie Kaplan, We'Moon 2012 datebook, and John Sandbach.

However, first I will share one personal piece—a symbol I wrote while on my vacation—that goes along with the Sun and Moon in Gemini. For you see, my daughter has a Gemini Sun and I have a Gemini Moon and Ascendant. All this also goes along with We'Moon's theme for this New Moon - The Flip Side:

Star Symbol: A woman travels by plane from west coast to east coast so as to experience the world of her daughter.
Changing positions. Stepping into the reflection in the mirror. An about face. Recognizing the beauty of the other, and the other world. Being that beauty.     ~J. Star

May you see in the mirror of life the beauty of All That Is as you place one foot in front of the other on the journey into the New Way.

From Cayelin Castell:

It is especially significant to note May 19, 20 and 21 this year as these dates not only mark the annual zodiacal conjunction of the Pleiades with the Sun but also the most potent time surrounding the Annular Solar Eclipse.

The Mayans left an important clue about this Timing, built into the pyramid (Kukulkan) at Chichen Itza. May 20 is exactly 60 days after the Spring Equinox and the pyramid rests near the 23rd latitude where the Sun reaches the Zenith (exactly overhead) at Noon when no shadows are cast by anything or anyone that is perpendicular to the ground including the pyramid. These days occur twice each year and were called the “Days of No Shadows” by the Mayans.

John Major Jenkins, author of the Maya Cosmogenesis, indicates that the pyramid Kukulkan, (a.k.a. Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent) tracks the Sun-Pleiades-Zenith conjunction. The Crotalus rattlesnake found repeatedly in Meso-American art resembles the Mayan glyph “Ahau” (pronounced Ah-how) for the Sun and relates to the flow of time or the flow of consciousness through the seasons of life as they end and begin again.

“Tzab” is the Mayan word for the Pleiades, also known as the rattle of the snake. When the Pleiades conjuncts the Sun at the zenith, the rattle is in place. This Sun-Pleiades-Zenith alignment is occurring during a 72-year window, from 1976 to 2048, with the well-known date of 2012 at the center.

Interestingly and highly synchronistically, on May 20, 2012, the Sun-Pleiades-Zenith passage features a solar eclipse, meaning the Pleiades and the Sun are joined as the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth. The eclipse accelerates energy and the Sun is a doorway or catalyst, activating the Pleiadian stargate. The eclipse is accelerating what is already in process as well as what we hold in conscious and unconscious intention so it is important to be mindful.

The waning Moon conjuncts Mercury (20 Taurus) in the morning sky of May 19th, less than 10 degrees from the Pleiades. This adds an additional transformational message (from the realm of crazy wisdom) to alchemy of the eclipse.

Here is a crazy wisdom thought designed to shift your point of view:

"I am not who you think I am. I am not who I think I am. I am who I think, you think, I am." ~Napolean Hill

The Sun enters Gemini at 4:05 pm on May 20 where it remains until the June 21 Solstice activation at the Galactic Gateway. The Gemini mysteries include the art of being in the moment, spontaneous, outrageous, hilarious, and entertaining. This is the domain of the trickster who defies logic and reason, who goes beyond the ordinary boundaries of duality, who demonstrates that things are not as real as they appear, leaping empty-handed into the void knowing and totally trusting s/he has transcended the laws of duality and is now living total freedom.

Today is the Annular Solar Eclipse (Zero Gemini) exact at 4:47 pm conjunct the Pleiades with Jupiter and Mercury nearby. The annular phase is visible on the Chinese Coast, the South of Japan, the Western United States and Canada.

Eclipses open portals from the Great Above. These doorways are opportunities to consciously connect with what is hidden within in ourselves. Essentially, the Moon is occulting the Sun or covering it so that it is hidden for several minutes and then begins to reappear.

This imagery speaks to the conscious choice to surrender into the great void or great unknown. Out of this chaos a new world is birthed. Through the accelerating or quickening of the eclipse energies this new world grows and takes form at an amazing rate of speed, emerging more and more fully into the light of our awareness with each passing day. What is hidden shall be revealed, just as the Moon covers the Sun, hiding it for a space of time and then moves on uncovering what has been hidden ultimately revealing the possibility of an entirely new reality.

Today’s Annular Solar Eclipse is seeding and accelerating change that takes us beyond the confines of duality. These changes will continue to find their expression for many months to come creating the space for each individual who chooses, to freely and authentically express who they are.

The best way to participate with this timing is to let go of all possible attachments to outcome, surrender to the evolutionary changes and trust that by doing so, we will find ourselves exactly where we would want to be if we could fully imagine where it is we are going. Remember this will take many months and even years to unfold but the evolutionary changes, that will revolutionize our lives, are being seeded today.

“Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.” ~Sri Ramana Maharshi

From Connie Kaplan:

0 Placement

Placement is the original principle. In other words, for something to manifest in form, it has to establish stability. It has to locate itself in time and space on the cosmic grid, and it has to be defined by the relativity of that establishment. Placement could be called the "power of limitation" or the "power of being defined by boundary."

Outside the human body, Placement expresses through the natural micro universes of the earth. Our Mother Earth is composed of billions of universes, all of which operated interdependently. While they do not necessarily hold a conscious awareness of the human realm they do hold a level of conscious communication with all sentience. They weave together the foundation of the planet.

Inside the human body, Placement lives in the "eyes" of the feet. These two chakra points, or points of energetic focus, are the human's rooting places. People have energetic openings in the bottoms of their feet that can potentially communicate with Mother Earth, and which one can open and close at will.

Placement is the originating principle of form, and sound is the "In the beginning" movement out of the No Thing. Placement, establishment in space and time, is the primal Ascending Principle. [Placement] is by definition an integral part of any person's existence.

From We'Moon 2012 Datebook:

I stumbled over it one morning
in my bare feet and
pajamas, sprawling—
the drink on the night stand
overturned, dripping—
the cat nonchalant
as if she knew it would happen.
Only I could possibly trip over the sky.

We buried it in the backyard.
The way it folded up
and fit into a shoebox
was no less disconcerting than
the way it had fallen,
left nothing behind,
or the way ordinary dirt covered
it up and crab grass
tried to grow there.

All this time all our concern
had been focused on
things below us and
what would happen if the
bottom fell out and
we fell out of power.
So much time wasted on
watching our own
feet, and still tripping.

I think Up has our attention
now. It is all I think
about, not feet but
wings, and never mind that
humans fly like doves
confused by traffic
lights. Still we shall have to
rise up and put in a new sky.
 ~ Mia Howell 2010

From John Sandbach:

Gemini 1. A naked man on an ice floe feels no cold. 

TITLE: THE QUEST FOR HIDDEN MESSAGES

Omega Symbol: The ability to go where few can go, or would maybe never dream of going, to travel the farthest reaches of the spiritual realms. Whatever prevents other people from going further doesn’t keep [some] from [their] explorations. Always willing to look beyond boundaries, to be in communication with places usually thought of as being “off limits.” Able to intrude into wastelands and lost places for the purpose of redeeming them and discovering their hidden treasures – just trust impulses and follow where instinct guides.

The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “Knots in a cord. They are a message in code.” In any line of communication there may come places where the energy becomes blocked. This degree has a direct and clear sensing of where these are. And even though one is trying to communicate something, the places of misunderstanding are always trying to communicate something else – something deeper. And, of course, we would like to avoid those communication snags, to get beyond them, but this degree senses that there are important things to learn from the gnarled, garbled areas of message sending. It is in those places that fears and limitations lurk, and it is there that those fears and limitations can be uncovered, unsnagged, untied, and released. To go into these scary places is just as threatening as floating away naked on an iceberg – but there is so much to be gained from the attempt to achieve greater clarity, for as we strengthen our ability to communicate with others, we perfect our ability to communicate with ourselves.

Pleiadian Symbol: Deep in the sea a mirror watches the sky. The realization that emotional depths reflect spiritual heights.
Azoth Symbol: A large diamond found in an area where diamonds are never found. The ability to discover great value in unexpected places.

Seed degree: 
Aries 3. A sacred mirror which is kept in the inner sanctum of a temple. Omega Symbol: Looking deeper and deeper into the sacred mirror we see through all surfaces into the spiritual self beyond space and time. The outer casing of the Great Pyramid being removed. Chandra Symbol: We use the past to serve the needs of the present – until we at last perceive the cord of time along which all karmic knots are stored.

Fulfillment degree: 
Aries 6. An actor forgets his lines and makes up new ones. Omega Symbol: Tapping into the clear, cold clarity of the imaginal waters, we spontaneously bring to life new facets of ourselves. An aquamarine in a woman’s navel. Chandra Symbol: As we come to understanding the messages contained in the karmic knots of our life, we realize that freedom comes through feeding and nurturing the spirit within.

Solar Eclipse Over the USA

"The ring of fire:" Astrophotographer Dennis L. Mammana
photographed this annular eclipse behind palm trees
in January 1994. Copyright D. L. Mammana.

From Science @ Nasa:

Mark your calendar. On Sunday, May 20th, the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire. It's an annular solar eclipse—the first one in the USA in almost 18 years.

An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the sun, but the lunar disk is not quite wide enough to cover the entire star. At maximum, the Moon forms a "black hole" in the center of the sun...

Read the full article here.

Cayelin Castell in her Celestial Timings also has this to say:

The Pleiades figure strongly into the current Turning of the Ages as the Maya were tracking the time when the Pleiades would be conjunct the Sun on a zenith day (Day of No Shadows) at certain latitudes. A zenith day happens when the Sun passes directly overhead and no shadows are cast by the pyramid, or by anything exactly perpendicular to the ground including a person standing perfectly straight, hence the term Days of No Shadows.

This year on the zenith day (May 20), at the latitude of Chichen Itza where the pyramid known as Kukulcan is located, there is a rare Annular Soar Eclipse. Each Moon conjunction with the Pleiades leading up to May 20th is helping to prepare us for potent solar infusion of energies from the Pleiades being accelerated by the eclipse when the Sun and Pleiades are conjunct. This is one of the major astronomical features of 2012 and worth noting as we head toward that time.

FM Lunation 5

Full Moon in 16° Scorpio, May 5, 2012, 8:35 PM PDT

Skywatchers take note: The biggest full moon of the year is due to arrive this weekend. And because this month's full moon coincides with the moon's perigee — its closest approach to Earth — it will also be the year's biggest. Watch the video below from Science@Nasa for more information. Full Moon overview below video.

Full Moon Overview

This is a BIG time we are in. The whole world is in a state of transformation that cannot be denied. Much is dying away, composting, preparing new soil for the seeds waiting for the right time to sprout and grow.

The Spiritual Principle of this Scorpio Full Moon is Unity. In my personal natal chart, I am contracted with Unity with my Neptune in 16° Scorpio. Thus, this is a personally powerful Full Moon for me, as is this entire Taurus lunation as mentioned in the New Moon overview. What I share next really says a lot about who I am, and why I created 13 New Moons Lunar Journal and this blog – what I feel to be new paradigm tools.

According to Connie Kaplan, Neptune represents the Birth Group Support. Neptune is a generational (slower moving outer) planet and there are many “pods” of us who were born with Neptune at 16°, and Scorpio specifically in April/May (Neptune retrograde) and September/October (direct) of 1964, the year I was born. Kaplan goes on to say that “Your birth group [with Neptune in Unity] came into incarnation with the imperative to teach Unity. You are an initiatory part of the great wave of consciousness that swept the planet in the last 50 years of the twentieth century. You are tearing down old systems that perpetuate separation: organized religions, racism, sexism and genderism, governments that override the will of the people, corporations that become top heavy. While at times it may not seem as though your message is being heard, because there are so many of you the message continues to echo through the ears of people of good heart, and Unity will eventually win the hearts and minds of us all.”

Before offering in-depth perspectives on this Full Moon in 16° Scorpio from Cayelin Castell, Connie Kaplan and John Sandbach, I leave you with my own “Star Symbol” that feels related to the energy of this Full Moon phase:

The face of a young weasel peeking out of a hole in the ground.

Curiosity pulls one to the surface, even though there is safety in the depths. Not quite sure if it is a good time to emerge fully, but wanting to try. Peeking out, retreating, and on and on again until the outside feels as safe as the inside, or one is willing to take a leap of faith.     ~J. Star

From Cayelin Castell:

Happy Lunar Beltane, Cinco de Mayo, and Guatama Buddha’s Day of Enlightenment always celebrated during the Full Moon in May. The astrological cross-quarter known as Beltane occurs May 5th as the Sun crosses 15 Taurus. Beltane is a time of maximum fertility, abundance, sacred union, sacred pleasure, and honoring of the Beltane sacred fires through feasting, song, dance, celebration and joy. The month of May and Beltane reminds us life is good, and is to be celebrated and enjoyed with gratitude. The more grateful we are, the more abundance we attract. Gratitude is like a magnet drawing more of itself to itself.

The intensity of the Scorpio Full Moon includes edge walking into new territory that can be scary and exciting at the same time. It is also about connecting desire and personal will with the divine source as a way to manifest divine desire into physical form. The challenge for Scorpio is to not be attached to how the manifestation looks but rather be attentive to the ecstatic life force energy being generated, because that is the ultimate desire of Scorpio, to be plugged directly into the life current itself.

Full Moon in Scorpio is a highly charged experience of raw, primal life force energy enlivening passion, magic, personal power, and manifestation.

Mercury (24 Aries 39) is opposite Saturn (24 Libra 39) challenging the OLD world view or belief that we are flawed as human beings and must somehow prove ourselves to an outside authority, often depicted as a Father God that is judgmental and vengeful. Mercury has to do with how we think and perceive reality and Saturn has to do with the collective beliefs and structures of reality that influence what we know or think we know.

This Timing is excellent for examining your beliefs and points of view. Are your beliefs based in fear and judgment of yourself and others? What if you truly believed you are a divine being, capable of creating your life in anyway you consciously choose? What if it is truly your intent to do just that?

From The Invisible Garment by Connie Kaplan:

16 Unity—To define Unity, let us start with the metaphor of the seed. The seed of anything has its core, and to get to that core the shell has to be broken. A seed creates what it is programmed to create—an acorn will not ever create a peach tree because life regenerates sameness.

Each human being is the result of a genetic line, which is one of the strands that sews the fabric of the cosmos together. Life longs to see itself mirrored in itself. Life, through DNA, is programmed to recreate itself in images of itself. This principle of Unity is the expression of life that identifies itself in partnership with itself.

Outside the human body, Unity lives in the genetic lineage—in the gene pool. [Those] who are contracted with [or resonate strongly to] Unity are often cleansing or purifying the gene pool. Aspects of the lineage that are not serving the greater family of man will be eliminated through these people. Aspects of the gene pool that are strong, benevolent, and important to the evolution of the species will be amplified in them.

Inside the human body, Unity lives in the ribs. The rib cage is the sacred container for the vital organs. It protects the delicate parts of the body so that they can do their work. This is the same function that the genetic patterning plays in the being. The basic structure is strong and protective so that the nuances and subtleties can emerge.

From John Sandbach:

Scorpio 17. Empty rooms with perfect walls and floors.

Omega Symbol. When empty space is created a place for something new to come in is made, and when this is done continuously a clear, clean place on which the mind can project its imaginings and thereby come to know itself is maintained. This degree has a gift for clearing out the past and for staying prepared for whatever is coming toward it out of the future.

The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “The mountain abode of a hermit.” There's an ability here to operate at a remove, to do what can be done without being so affected by the energies of others and the world of humans in general. A freshness is brought to whatever is encountered, helping to divest from the mental and physical pollution with which we are always having to contend. How clear this mountain air seems to be, how refreshing, and how much its atmosphere seems to give us greater space and freedom in which to move, just as the empty rooms of the Omega Symbol do.

Seed Degree: Libra 20.
In a lush, dark forest a unicorn prancing. (Omega Symbol). Finding purity and clarity deep in the inner richness of ourselves inspires us to make a larger clearer space for ourselves in the outer world.
A man with a single horn coming out of his forehead. (Chandra Symbol). Becoming acutely attuned to the power of our own intuition assists us in removing ourselves from all confusing and disturbing energies so that we may commune with the creative intelligence of the universe.

Fulfillment degree: Aquarius 19.
Suddenly a woman laughs, now knowing why. (Omega Symbol). Clearing our lives of that which is unnecessary or merely taking up room gives us a space in which to experience joy in its pure form.
Loud crushing noises as a glacier moves. (Chandra Symbol). Retreating from the conflicts of the world we are then freed so that we may experience our own inner conflicts and allow them to spontaneously unwind – even though this may take time and patience.