SOLAR ECLIPSE / NEW MOON Oct 14, 2023 at 13:55 ET sidereal Virgo, CHITRA: WHAT’S YOUR KEYSTONE?
Eclipses are powerful events that shine a spotlight on areas of our lives, beliefs, actions and connections, and ask if they’re up for release or for further engagement. Eclipses reveal truths that have been hidden, and can usher in massive change, especially if they hit your chart in a profound way (this requires a reading or knowing the degrees of your planets). Eclipses magnify what we focus on so use this energy to help you on your path. Be clear about your intentions and meditate on this during the eclipse. Eclipses are not supportive times to sign contracts, lend money, or do typical everyday things. Focusing inward on spirituality is more aligned with the energetics of an eclipse.
The eclipses in Chitra and Ashwini (whose names mean bright and light, and are both ruled by Mars the warrior/activist) have us look at what we are thinking about, creating, and healing – and how we are taking mindful, inspired action in these areas. As we’re in Pitru Paksha, a time connected to our ancestors, the Solar Eclipse highlights patterns we are ready to break and what we are reinforcing. This eclipse is strongly linked to the mind (sitting with Mercury, ruled by Virgo, including the pada), asking us how much of our “programming” is conscious, mindful and by choice, and what old scripts we are unintentionally playing out, handed down by those who came before us.
The Solar Eclipse’s presiding deity is the celestial architect, whose energy is prominent now as we are in a place of re/building aspects of our lives – from a space of intentional brick laying, not repeating unhealthy past patterns from our own lives or of our lineage, with mindfulness as the keystone.
Questions to consider:
What is being revealed?
How’s your mindset?
Do you feel clear and organized? Or muddled and confused?
What are you creating?
Are you giving each “pillar” its proper attention?
Are you moving at a pace that feels like a hurried hustle?
Or are you able to keep up, moving quickly and swiftly?
What’s authentically yours in your life vs what was passed on to you?
What patterns are your breaking?
:::PEACE:::
