Here we are, at the end of the last decan of Aquarius, for the Part II observations. Today there was a new moon, and eclipse at the penultimate Aquarius degree. The Tabula Mundi card for this decan references an eclipse, but a lunar eclipse instead of like today’s new moon eclipse, which is actually a solar eclipse, when the Sun in Aquarius is eclipsed by the Moon in Aquarius. The Moon rules Aquarius decan 3, so is especially relevant here.
Excerpt from Book M: Liber Mundi, for the Seven of Swords and Aquarius 3 decan:
“From the Priestess card, for the Moon, we see the Moon itself in the background, at the dark and sometimes blood red stage of the totality of a lunar eclipse. In a blood moon eclipse, people sometimes experience negative effects. At the physical level there can be lethargy and at the psychological level, negative thoughts especially about spiritual motifs. The moon’s action of “flux and reflux” leads to vacillation and instability, and people are more prone to make poor decisions as the intellect is compromised.”
While this has been a fairly uneventful decan personally, I have noticed the lunar effects of “flux and reflux,” or the waxing and waning of both the energy of the physical body, and the mental realm (Aquarius). I’m sort of an honorary Aquarian, in that I have it rising natally, plus two important personal planets there. So I definitely do the usual Aquarian thing of detachment very well. I can live in my head and “suppress and deny” the physical. But lately I’ve been tuning into that. And I have definitely noticed the waxing and waning of these energies. Ignore the body for too long and your energy, both physical and mental, will definitely flag. I’m learning to be more strategic about that – strategy is a theme of this card.
But for the record, I see today’s solar eclipse as a positive event – at least as much as an eclipse can be seen as positive. For they aren’t exactly auspicious, especially in Vedic astrology. But eclipses come in pairs, so today’s new moon solar eclipse will be followed by a lunar eclipse at the next full Moon. The time in between these two events is potent and portal-like. One can and should consider today: What do I want to release through this portal? As in, something you want to no longer be with you. I’d suggest releasing what you realize is futile. And at the same time, what instead do I want to enter through this portal in its place? As in, a recomposing or transformation of your state of existence.
The Sabian symbol for this eclipse is about transformation: Aquarius 29, “A butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.”
Today is also the Lunar New Year, which feels like a potent time for an eclipse. We release the year of the Wood Snake, and usher in the year of the Fire Horse. From Earth to Fire, or Yin to Yang, which echoes the transition of both Saturn and Neptune from Pisces into Aries. They meet at the fiery start of the Zodiac, at the Zero Point, or zero degrees of Aries.
But there are still lots of planets in Pisces. The Moon already entered Pisces after the Aquarian eclipse, to join Mercury and Venus. And sometime tomorrow, the Sun is also moving on to the next decan, the first decan of Pisces. We are almost to the end of the decan walk.
Yet it always begins again; after Pisces the Sun continues on into Aries, to a new decan walk.
Welcome to the year of the Fire Horse.
