If you’ve been feeling the emotional waters rising & watching the bones of old tragedies washing up in the psychic tides over the last couple of weeks, take heart lovely friends, you’re right on time for this week’s Scorpio Lunar Eclipse, which takes place on Saturday 6 May @3:34am AEST. It’s the last eclipse we’ll experience on the South Node in Scorpio until 2040, which makes it a potent & potentially cathartic culmination to this nodal eclipse sequence. And it brings opportunities to deep clean the ancient sewer gunk blocking our channels of power & to clear the karmic patterns, trauma responses & power dynamics we’ve been working with over the last year & a half.
The ancients considered the Moon, the luminary associated with nurturing & sensitivity in her ‘fall’ in Scorpio, sign of trauma, death & transformation because emotions here can feel intense & overwhelming. On this week’s eclipse, that’s more the case with Mars, planet of conflict, severing & violent passions ruling the Moon from its own fall in Cancer, sign of the Moon’ This state of mutual reception by fall provides a very interesting context for this final South Node Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio.
Though both planets struggle to achieve their natural intentions in these signs, their mutual interest in each other’s context suggests an opportunity to further cooperative aims through experiences of difficulty. Any psychic detritus washing up on the tides this week alerts us to areas inviting our attention, investigation, empathy & trust. They point both to deeper processes of transformation underway & powerful opportunities for release, reset & reorientation. Practice compassion & actively self-soothe while feeling into difficult emotions during this eclipse window, seek wisdom that calms & inspires when overwhelmed & rest lovelies. We’ll be actively nourishing a future we can passionately commit to while potentially identifying actions & strategies that could help us feel more empowered & secure.
Scorpio is the sign of alchemical transformations, of the wisdom derived from wounding & of evolutionary developments in freedom. As we incrementally abandon our rudimentary defense mechanisms, we release ourselves from the drama of our fears & take flight. On multiple levels, this eclipse invites us to trust our own lives & let go in places where we’ve become rigid with fear. Control, which is naturally signified by Scorpio is also an instinctual response to trauma but this week’s Lunar Eclipse asks us to consider where it might have become part of the problem.
Where have we been holding on to archaic patterns that prevent growth? The South Node, described in Vedic astrology as the severed body of the eclipsing dragon Ketu, is associated with processes of cutting away, emptying & elimination that lead to spiritual growth & purification & is said to rule Scorpio. Scorpio is associated with the expulsive functions of the body & the cycles of mortality, putrefaction & composting that foster psychological renewal & enrich terrestrial wealth. Lunar eclipses in turn are associated with conclusions & endings, often personal or familial & with course-correcting shifts that align us more authentically to our path by suddenly upending the status quo.
Mercury entered the heart of the Sun on Tuesday, passing the halfway point in its retrograde journey through Taurus, indicating the potential for emerging solutions re matters of business & material security, rethinking values, tech & problematic financial & self-worth related ideas born of trauma. Scorpio’s modern ruler, Pluto, planet of psychological depths, death & rebirth experiences & hidden truths also stationed retrograde on Tuesday following a brief reconnoitre into Aquarius. Both planetary retrogrades further emphasise attention on the past as a means of maximising the psychological and healing potential of Saturday’s Lunar Eclipse. With the Sun close to Uranus, planet of sudden breakthroughs & Jupiter & Venus making a sweet sextile to one another, both in the bounds of Saturn, planet of crystallised reality, itself in the rulership & exaltation of both benefics, our intentions to free ourselves from our own limiting patterns just might bear fruit on this eclipse.
Venus moves into Cancer on Monday 8 May softening Martian tensions in the sign of the Moon. The Sun conjoins Uranus late Tuesday night & early Wednesday May 9-10 as Mercury edges backwards toward the amplifying North Node. Stay open to unexpected insights & intuitive breakthroughs re relationships & the past, family dynamics, money matters, creative innovations & comms. Jupiter enters Taurus on May 17, emphasising financial security & collective values while hopefully enhancing opportunities for increased abundance & self-worth. All in time for another powerful New Moon in Taurus on May 20. Any emotionally cathartic space-clearing we can do around Saturday’s Scorpio South Node Lunar Eclipse should help to prepare the ground for the sweet crops we plan to sow then.
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