Friday, March 14 at 2:53 a.m. ET: Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse Uttara Phalguni 29°44 Leo: Conscious Attention / Conscientious Alignment

Eclipses are considered to be powerful revealing events that shine the spotlight on areas that have been hidden or are ready to be seen. They can make secrets public, as we always see in the news the days immediately surrounding an eclipse. They highlight our karmic connections and give us opportunities for further engagement or release. They can usher in massive change, especially if there are connecting to planets or degrees in our personal birth charts. Eclipses spotlight areas of our personal lives based upon the eclipse sign, the house highlighted in our birth charts, personal planets being affected by the eclipse, and planets in the same or close degrees as the eclipse. When an eclipse comes around, we get to do a deep dive into these highlighted areas as eclipses unveil and unravel karmas ready to be faced or released… or we can create deeper karmas during these times. How we engage right now will have a stronger influence than other times. This eclipse in Uttara Phalguni is highlighting our alignments, our actions and our intentions, asking for us to give conscious inspection, attention and alignment to these areas. (Long post with specifics below…)

The Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse “Blood Moon” on March 13/14 will be in “sandhi” end degrees of sidereal Leo called Uttara Phalguni, doubly ruled by the Sun. It’s a charitable sign with healing and humanitarian inclinations, and a strong sense of honor and duty. When prominent in the sky like it is now, it gives us the impetus and strength to face adversity, especially if the support is for the greater good. Uttara Phalguni strives to bring spirituality into daily life, so this eclipse brings the focus on our personal practices and actions, and asks that they be highly aligned and geared towards supporting causes beyond ourselves.

As the star of patronage governed by the deity Aryaman, this eclipse has us look to our agreements, our legal contracts and our personal commitments, and whether or not we are in integrity and honoring them (*but do not sign contracts on an eclipse). The symbols of this lunation are the legs of the marriage bed (representing stability and lasting relationships), and the hammock (reflecting the importance of rest and healing).

Since eclipses shine a super-powered spotlight on things connected to the eclipse sign — in this case 29°44 Uttara Phalguni — it’s important we look at these areas of our lives and make sure they are receiving proper attention. Even the translation of the name “Uttara Phalguni,” meaning the “latter fruit of the tree,” refers to the quality of the product (or the karma) that we create from our actions (or intentions): the fruits of our labor, whether they are in the material realm or mental/emotional/spiritual. Uttara Phalguni is always striving to merge the spiritual with the physical.

Because of this Moon’s strong drive to care for and uplift others, the Lunar Eclipse is bringing our attention to our relationships, our alliances, and our commitments. There’s a purity about this sign and so asks us to look at the underlying drive and motivation we have in the actions we’re taking. This is a sign that wants to do good and to be good.

But its shadow side can be neglectful of its relationships and commitments, or it can be controlling or dismissive. It can be so focused on its responsibilities that it can forget about joy and creativity. These shadow sides could easily get augmented now because the eclipsed Moon is literally in the shadow of the Earth; the material plane could override our deeper more genuine intentions.

Questions in the spotlight:

🌕 Who or what are your strongest commitments and duties to?

🌕 Are your personal health and practices included?

🌕 Are any relationships or responsibilities being neglected?

🌕 What’s asking for healing in your relationships, commitments or contracts? What is coming to an end? What’s asking to be released?

🌕 What’s driving you right now?

🌕 What are the “gunas” or qualities of your motivations and actions? In Vedic thought there are 3 main gunas: sattva (pure, light, peaceful), rajas (passionate, energized, agitated), and tamas (heavy, inertia, lack of thoughtfulness). We need all 3 but some can be more prominent. For ex: tamas helps us sleep, but can also bring about depression; rajas gets us excited but can also make us impatient; sattva supports spiritual practice but can also become sanctimonious.

General Eclipse Suggestions

To utilize this time and energy wisely, it’s recommended to go within using guidance from the nakshatra (Vedic sign) prominent during the eclipse. As eclipses have a magnifying effect, the suggestion is to not treat the time around the eclipse like any other day but rather to engage in spiritual and personal practices. For ex: doing yoga, journaling, grounding breathwork, intention setting, and focused visualizations before the eclipse followed by meditating around the height of the eclipse are recommended.

This Lunar Eclipse’s counterpart is the New Moon/Partial Solar Eclipse in sidereal Pisces Uttara Bhadrapada on March 29, which will undoubtedly be intense for many as Mars connections can create heightened anger and explosive energy. Since this Lunar Eclipse is ruled by the Sun, which represents the “king” and leader, this eclipse will likely be intense for people in prominent positions. As with all eclipses, be prepared for revealing bombshell stories to be made public.

 
::PEACE::