Post Eclipse Apocalypse

My mind keeps turning "post-eclipse" into "post-apocalypse".  And for good reason it seems.

Apocalypse comes from an ancient Greek word that actually translates as a discovery or disclosure of knowledge.  An illumination even.  

Eclipses are known for their power to bring lasting change to our lives, precisely because of their inherent function of illuminating - bringing awareness to that which we were previously unaware.  

If our consciousness creates our reality, then new awareness creates a new reality, and we have experienced an "apocalypse".  We cannot go backwards in consciousness.  One cannot un-realize what has been realized.  Once you've bitten into that apple, there's no going back.  

But rather than this being our damnation, it is our salvation.  Once we become conscious that we possess the amazing capability to create our experience in the world, we acknowledge our responsibility and step fully into our power. We take our place as this link, this bridge, that brings the vision of our higher selves/source and manifests it in the material world.  We create.  We create what we are guided to create.  We do not simply fill a space and survive.  We follow the guidance of our hearts, the direction of our desires (not our fears) and we create what we our passion calls us to create.

But first we must experience the realization (or more likely a series of realizations over time) that makes us aware of the illusions that keep us trapped by our fears, living from the place of those deep primal wounds.  

This full moon eclipse with Chiron was an opportunity to get a peek at whatever those wounds might be for you. 

In real life, this presents as the aha moment when you realize some defensive or compulsive behavior you engage in is, rather than being "just the way you are", actually linked to some traumatic event early in life.  Maybe you always need to know the whereabouts of your significant other and you've felt it is just common courtesy and part of being in a relationship, but now you realize it links back to the fear you felt that time you got lost in the grocery store when you were four years old.

The formula goes like this:  initial trauma/abandonment wound = accepting an idea about yourself/the world because of that experience = living from the place of the wounding in fear and therefore recreating the experience in your life.  The idea was accepted as a "rule to live by" in your attempt to keep yourself safe and from experiencing that pain again.  However, by holding on to that belief and fear in an effort to avoid it, you give it so much energy and power that you continue to attract it.  Hence, "the wound that will never heal".

So now we are working with the waning cycle of the moon, integrating and assimilating whatever information we just received about ourselves and our lives.  

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The Upcoming Astrology

As the moon wanes, we are in a cycle of release.  On the deepest level, this is about releasing whatever ideas and beliefs you've been holding within that are no longer relevant in your life.  This then will translate out into the more mundane and superficial levels of your life like a pebble dropped into water creates ripples.  Mercury retrograde along with the sun in Virgo is keeping the focus on our inner processing, helping us to sort the information we are receiving for the next few days.  On September 22nd, Mercury will station direct, meaning this processing and emphasis on thinking and communication will intensify, and then as he moves direct, things of this nature naturally free up and begin to move forward as well.  

The sun shifts into Libra on the 23rd, shifting our focus to Libra's concerns of relationship, harmony, cooperation, and balance.  Venus is just finishing her transit of her own sign of Libra and shifting into Scorpio on the 24th, but Jupiter is just get started on a year-long transit of Libra, and Mercury is preparing to enter Libra on October 8th.  

As we release with the waning moon, we will reach the "waning square", also known as a "crisis of consciousness" on Friday September 23rd when the moon in Cancer squares the sun in Libra in the wee hours of the morning.  This is the halfway point between the full moon and the new moon and pits the sun in harmony-loving air sign Libra against an emotional Cancer moon.  The moon rules our triggers - those intense emotional reactions we experience when one of our wounds gets poked and our fears come up.  Libra wants partnership and cooperation, balance and harmony, above all.  So at this juncture, the realization of the full moon eclipse may really get driven home.  We may get more reasons to release those beliefs and behavior patterns that are no longer serving us.

Venus is about attraction, not domination.  She asks us to align ourselves with our desires.

On September 26th, Pluto finally turns direct in Capricorn, and then on the 27th Mars moves out of Sagittarius and into Capricorn.  This should feel stabilizing and like we are now picking up speed.  

The 27th through the 30th will be the dark moon, and the most potent time for turning inward and really assessing what is to be released in order to create what you truly desire.  

The new moon in Libra will be on September 30th at 6:11 p.m.  With Jupiter in Libra for the next year, this is a beautiful new moon during which to place intentions in the area of love, relationship, harmony, partnership, balance and cooperation. How can you be more interdependent, relating to others in a healthy balanced way instead of swaying towards too much independence, dependence or codependence?  Remember that Libra is ruled by Venus, and Venus rules attraction.  The law of attraction says like attracts like.  Venus asks you to align with that which you desire.  Venus' ultimate message is that the foundation upon which everything else is based in our lives is our self-love.  

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The magic elixir that heals that wound is self-love.  The only protection and security we need is self-love.  The path away from abandonment is self-love. Yet without the "apocalypse" - that discovery - we cannot access what allows us to transcend our wounds.  I say "the apocalypse" is better thought of as a turning point in our personal journey of consciousness where we have a major illumination that allows us to finally access our self-love and come back to ourselves - to stop abandoning ourselves and placing our power outside of ourselves - so that we may realize a different reality based in love rather than fear.  I say "the apocalypse" is our personal salvation, and we are each our own savior.