Astrograph  October 27 2013

Saturday afternoon’s Last Quarter Moon puts us in a reflective mode, in keeping with this final quarterly phase of the lunar cycle, during which we attempt to assess who we are, and where headed, from the standpoint of recent experience. This is also in chime with the Mercury Retrograde period that we have been in since last Monday, another cosmic factor drawing us toward the inside. We stand at the midpoint of two eclipses, with the next, a powerful Solar Eclipse in Scorpio, to come on Sunday, November 3rd. We might therefore at this crux of time be able to look more deeply into both our situation and also ourselves. In this we are aided — and drawn to an other-dimensional viewpoint — by an extreme emphasis at this juncture on Neptune, the astrological archetype of numinous awareness beyond simple logic. Still, we can trust the truest part of our interior vision right now, even though it feels like we are living within a dream.

by Eric Francis

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Astrograph  October 17 2013

Friday’s Aries Full Moon is also an eclipse, although we cannot necessarily see it. This means that this Full Moon is a stronger and more intense lunation, so that the symbolism of its planetary configurations will last for the next six months or so into the future.  And that very future is also far from certain, given the predominance of the outer planet alignments over this same period of time.

Uranus and Pluto, already less than one degree away from the next installment of their iconic square with each other, become exactly square on November 1st, and then again on April 21st of 2014. While these fourth and fifth passes are not the final pair, they are perhaps the most intense. In the meantime, the lunations of this climactic end-of-year period, including the Last Quarter Moon of Christmas Day, December 25, feature an exacerbation of Uranus and Pluto in their revolutionary square alignment. We are in for a season of massive change, both individually and as a society, and no way around it.

Then, too, Mercury is just about to turn retrograde, and we are in for a particularly severe retrograde period since Mercury is in close parallel to Pluto as it stations on Monday, October 21st, and because Mercury conjuncts Saturn twice more in the course of its backward and then its recovery motion through Scorpio.

Around us and within us, our Cosmos is alive with the fierce, insistent energies of big change and deep transformation.  The Moon is waxing towards a potent Lunar Eclipse in Aries at 7:37 p.m. EDT Friday. 

Eclipses are game-changers. They’re the Universe’s most dramatic way of bringing change into our world and our lives.  This one is aligning our right brains-- where 96% of all we know is stored, beneath the threshold of our conscious minds -- with all that's happened in the last two years.  It's calling us to break new ground in our relationships with ourselves, each other -- and Life.   

A whole order of being will end with Friday night’s eclipse, and a new one will begin.  Between now and November 10, reality is being reshaped at the energetic level -- within you and around you.

The energy field is already live.  Around you and within you, the stage is being set:

* The Sun is getting closer and closer to the reversal of its magnetic poles.  This reboot of our Star's energy happens every 11 years -- and like everything else in our Universe, this time will be super-charged by the scale and scope of simultaneous energetic changes taking place.  While no on eknows exactly when the polarity reversal will happen, it's imminent.  The Sun has sent forth two M-class solar flares in the last two days, with a third expected tomorrow -- each one upleveling our vibrational frequency.
 

I’VE BEEN REVISITINGmy notes from my teleclass back in June, where we talked about planetary influences in the last six months of 2013. Here’s what I wrote in my script for October:

“October seems like a turning point month to me. An important shift is set to occur in the weeks leading up to the Lunar Eclipse on the 18th, a shift that marks the next step in our evolutionary process.”

Based on my own life and recent conversations with clients and friends, I would say there’s a strong sense of “turning point” in the air. Something is ready to shift.

THE ENERGIES seem to be swirling in place at the moment. What is happening is a clearing of lower vibrations from our emotional, mental and physical bodies. The result is that we are experiencing similar challenges and situations over and over as the energies circle around.