Eclipse season is here again...

It's all somewhat intense in the heavens right about now. The cardinal grand cross was exact last week on the 23rd and 24th April, there was a lunar eclipse on the 15th and a solar eclipse yesterday. The renewal brought by spring may be especially deep and powerful this year.

The cardinal grand cross brought us some intense and heavy energies, stepping up the current Uranus Pluto square with a dose of Martian energy, all helpfully expanded by Jupiter the wise teacher. If you have personal planets around 13* of the cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn), you will have been aware of these energies building up. I don't have planets there, and I still felt it. A grand cross consists of four squares and two oppositions, and may well leave us feeling blocked at every turn. Deep transformations can manifest here, and the established order (on whatever level you like - outer, political and collective or inner, emotional and individual) will fight back hard. Adding Mars to the mix increases the likelihood of confrontation, the authentic self demands to be heard and expressed, the structures around us either block our way or threaten to topple under the weight of all that intense planetary energy. Thank goodness for Jupiter in Cancer keeping us rooted in the healing power of surrounded ourselves with loved ones, of using our imaginations. As ever, these big configurations bring opportunities for genuine and lasting change, if we can just hold our awareness and not get burnt out.


The two eclipses are trigger points for these energies, and the lunar eclipse two weeks ago may well have made confrontation even more likely, as lunar eclipses tend to bring things to a head. Yesterday's solar eclipse, on the other hand, gave opportunities for healing, for channeling something new from spirit into matter. All those blue lines, trines and sextiles, nicely balance out the challenging red lines of squares and oppositions. Once again it's Jupiter giving us something positive to work with, as the focal point of a kite in opposition to Pluto. There is great wealth in this opposition, and inherited power. The trines pull Saturn (a teacher like Jupiter, but not always such a kind one) and Chiron the wounded healer into the mix. Healing is possible, if we are willing to face the fires of the underworld. As these intense energies back off a little, we can dive into the depths of the water trine and bring back treasure. 
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