The entire
nodal cycle of the Moon is said to begin at the north node. Northward motion is
motion toward the spirit; southward motion is motion from the spirit, which may
mean either the release of spirit toward earthly manifestation (spiritual
Incarnation, sacrifice, the fall of the seed to the ground) or a withdrawal
away from spiritual values or from a condition of integration (thus, decay,
disintegration, excavation of unassimilable elements and refuses). [1]
Consider
the north node of the Moon as a "point of intake" (in ancient
symbolism the Dragon's Head) and the south node as a "point of
release"; (the Dragon's Tail) — or in a more strictly biological and
functional sense, as "mouth" and "organs of evacuation".
Generally,
eclipse lunar cycles mark a time of shifting into a new octave of experience.
They offer a time to resynchronize our selves with the ever-changing cosmic
currents supporting our evolutionary progression in consciousness. Eclipses
tend to bring about endings and new beginnings. A solar eclipse on the South
Node is essentially about ending a certain way of being that is no longer in
tune with our future. If change is resisted an eclipse can become stressful or
create upheaval bringing issues in the chart area that it falls to a crisis
point. [2]
Our solar
eclipse in the mundane tenth house conjunct the stars Schedar of Cassiopeia and
Hamal of Aries does not bode well for leaders described by these stars. [3]
That is not to say that election results will necessarily be against those
leaders but that the period that follows will bring a churning that will align
events with the cosmic principles outlined here.
Schedar, Alpha Cassiopeia, the head of the Queen,
tightly conjoining Hamal, is of “pride and arrogance.” Schedar is the head-trip
of the Queen in the glitter of her place of power upon the human stage.
Immature challenge and boast can express here with ramifications only
accentuating the drama of the tightening jaws of fear-based collective
consciousness (Cetus) and the butting response provided by the head of the Ram.
Hamal and Schedar can express as power struggles amongst leaders or those who
are headstrong, with lessons about how arrogance creates struggle in the
material world; and how compassion opens the way through.
A question
to consider: Will those in authoritarian positions continue to stand by in
arrogant denial, while immersed in their greedy and pompous side-taking, while
the greater human potential (Andromeda) and the people of the world remain
entrapped, about to be devoured into the digestive juices of the bureaucratic
monster (ole' Cetus)? [3]
The
Ascendant or the first house in a
mundane chart represents the public or the masses as opposed to leaders in the
tenth. Here the Ascendant [6le] is conjunct the stars of Cancer Praesepe and
Ascellus Borealis.
Praesepe embodies the essence of the Scarab /
Cancer theme: emergence out of darkness, dogma, and delusion, out of the
antiquated entrapments we had been living in, and our transmutation from
darkness into light. Praesepe is of new beginnings, migration, shedding old
skins, skeletons, and cocoons. It is of emerging out of the frenetic confusion
of mass consciousness; finding our new path and direction; leaving behind old
dwellings and the structures of consciousness they represent; and getting out
of our personal or collective dogma and the darkness it creates. As with the
migration of bees from an old hive, before identifying their new direction,
there can be frenetic confusion at first, a scattered sense and lack of
direction before moving toward their new home. This is temporary and is part of
intuiting the feeling for the right direction, much like turning in a complete
circle to identify the way that feels right. Praesepe asks us to step out of
our limiting environments and structures of consciousness and to find new
places fitting to our emerging new awareness.
This post
is not an attempt to predict the immediate
outcome of the Indian elections. Rather than prediction, the function of
astrology is to interpret – to reveal energies at work unsuspected behind the
veil of cosmic events.
A glimmer
of hope that the Indian masses may take the right decision to move away from
the past subservience to self-serving leaders can be seen if we progress the
eclipse chart to May 16 – when election results will be declared. The progressed IC is
conjunct Saturn [20sc52] which in turn is conjunct epsilon Librae and Zubeneschamali [19sc32] of the Northern Scales.
Zubenelgenubi / Zubeneschamali: Zubenelgenubi, the
southern claw of the Scorpion is the karmic seat for humanity; also Saturn's
exalted location; the life scenario we have established, our established
patterns. Zubeneschamali is the dharmic seat, reveals our need to resolve, to
balance our past experience. Success in doing so results in equipoise and
harmony from which solution is realized.
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