First Eclipse of 2020

There has been an undeniable pressure building since this year began, with visible evidence playing out in major ways seen in world events right now. It’s easy to be overwhelmed and even trepidatious about what is being stirred up and how it will play out, and while I don’t practice or support fear-based astrology (or its opposite of exaggerated positivity), there is a need to pay close attention and increase self-awareness and mindfulness.

On Friday, January 10 we have our first of six eclipses this year, a penumbral lunar eclipse at 20º Cancer visible from almost everywhere except for the Americas. This lunar eclipse is the bookend to the annular solar eclipse at 4º Capricorn that happened on December 25 to open our current eclipse portal. With Friday’s full moon eclipse, this particular eclipse portal closes. These eclipses on the Cancer/Capricorn axis (part of a Saros cycle, a series of eclipses repeating) may have similar themes to major themes of eighteen years ago.
Typically I do not recommend workings of any sort on an eclipse because the energy is electric but too volatile and can be like trying to drink from a fire hydrant of chaos. So not even charging your crystals, altar items, or water on this full moon. There’s a super-charged, unpredictable vibration that is palpable around an eclipse, especially if you’re sensitive. They carry gravitas. They usually usher in changes, beginnings, endings, something initiated and something dissolved, a cycle has reached completion. Everyone’s experience of the eclipse will vary, and while it may be mild for some, it can bring intensity for others, major breakdowns and breakthroughs. Some people may feel lost or uneasy, some may feel an amped up general aggravation. On eclipse day it is usually better to do grounding practices, to smoothe and soothe your nerves and mind, to be in a quiet, private mental space and care for yourself gently.
Look for twenty degrees of Cancer/Capricorn to see where the eclipse lights up your chart. Reparenting and healing generational trauma have seemed to be getting more attention and practice lately and may be appropriate practices to engage with or look into in the months after this eclipse. This Cancer/Capricorn polarity invites us to consider where we feel safest, most secure and at home, as well as our how we empower ourselves out in the world. The Moon now stands opposite the Sun, Mercury, Saturn, and Pluto, all in exacting Capricorn which sounds overwhelming, but being in her home placement of Cancer, and with her North Node also in Cancer, this Full Moon contains a powerful force in her own right. Cardinal signs may be feeling extra sensitive. Many people may feel disturbed or restlessness. Radical Uranus turns direct at 2º of Taurus on the same evening of the eclipse, which could add to the provocation of our psyches and feelings of agitation.
Keep in mind that we have the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Ceres and the South Node currently in Capricorn, and the intensification is building as the Saturn/Pluto conjunction approaches (exact this weekend on January 12). These two power planets meet meet up every thirty three to thirty eight years. And this will be the first time in many years that Pluto and Saturn have been conjunct in the sign of Capricorn. Sunday’s Saturn/Pluto alignment happens at 22º Capricorn and is also connects with Mercury. Saturn rules responsibility, tests, endurance, disciplined work, and Pluto’s realm is the Underworld/shadow realm and deals with elimination, transformation, and power.

Care for your nervous system and be easy and gentle on yourself and others if you’re around them. Take some time for a cleansing bath, do a long, supported restorative savasana, even take a nap when needed and if possible today and this weekend. Get some deep rest. Meditate and practice mindfulness moment to moment.
In the coming weeks and months, continue these practices. Go to therapy if you can, or sign up for a one of the behavioral health services apps that bring therapy to you through a phone call or text, or if necessary reach out to one of the free mental health hotlines if you need to talk to someone.

Email wildmoonwisdom@gmail.com for information on charts, Kosmic Koaching, or a tarot reading after the eclipse if necessary.

Cancer/Capricorn Eclipses July 2019 : Reparenting & Repatterning

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: Reparenting & Repatterning :

July 1    Mars → Leo

July 2    Total Solar Eclipse 10º Cancer (9:55am pdt) 

               New Moon in Cancer (12:16pm pdt)

July 3    Venus → Cancer 

July 7    Mercury Rx 8º Leo (until July 31, D at 23º Cancer)

July 8    Chiron Rx Aries 

July 16  Partial Lunar Eclipse 24º Capricorn (11:55am pdt)

              Full Moon in Capricorn (2:38pm) 

July 19  Mercury → Cancer 

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We’re about to enter July’s astrology, and it’s important to pay attention because this will be a month of tender feelings and potential major reconfigurations. The eclipses are coming, with Mercury turning retrograde in between them. The first eclipse of the month occurs on July 2 with a Total Solar Eclipse at 9:55am (California time) at 10º Cancer. This water sign is the traditional archetype of the Great Mother and nurturer, representing the act of mothering, the home, children, roots, familial bonds, emotional security, and protecting what matters most. The sensitive Crab’s primary experience is feeling - it feels everything. So this eclipse will highlight home and family in some way and will likely stir up some big feelings around these ideas. Cardinal signs will be one of the groups affected strongly (Capricorn, Cancer, Libra, and Aries), but everyone will experience the effects of the eclipse. Where you’ll feel it depends on your individual chart. You can look at 10º Cancer in your natal chart to get an idea of where the eclipse will initiate shifts in your life or sign up for an Eclipse Report (details below).

A Solar Eclipse means it will also be a New Moon (in Cancer, 12:16pm). We have eclipses every six months, when the new or full moon aligns with the ecliptic and the nodes. The North Node activation opens a kind of portal, and events that occur often feel fated and life rearranged. Although it will be much easier to fall into comfortable patterns of behavior when the shifts hit, it will serve us to instead forge a new way or make a different, less predictable choice. And remember that eclipses are cyclical, so you can also reflect back to 2000-2001 to revisit major themes or changes occurring then to get a hint about what this eclipse cycle will bring for you. With the Cancer Sun eclipsed by the Cancer Moon, our lunar unconscious becomes primary and our emotions will be heightened, but our physical energy may be quite low. Cancer rules the belly, breasts, and the womb, governs nutrition and digestion; we could have more stomach aches or ailments during this eclipse. Pregnancy may be a result of this eclipse cycle for some. We are encouraged to adopt the Crab’s preferred expression, the language of emotions, when navigating their space. Their arena is all about emotional bonds, home and where we feel most at home and secure, and family and nurturing. These are general vibes that this eclipse will bring up for us. Like all signs, Cancer has its balanced and luminous expression and its shadowy side… which we should all be aware of. We must watch for spreading ourselves thin, giving to the point of exhaustion and mothering others at the expense of our own well being and sanity. 

The gift that the sign of Cancer brings to these cosmic proceedings is one of potential emotional healing. We have an opportunity to heal old wounds and repattern our thinking and behavior to reflect our growth, our authority. We can default into karmic patterns, staying stuck, or lean into the uncomfortable and make a new path. 

The cosmic power grid gets a zap, a power surge.

Reparenting and repatterning is a major theme for this eclipse cycle along the Cancer/Capricorn axis and that’s the work we’re being called to explore. With the Cancer/Capricorn axis being activated, there will be an emphasis on home/career, private/public, inner work/work in the world, mother/father dynamics. We can observe and work with our unloved or unparented parts, doing inner child work (integrated Cancer), taking responsibility for ourselves in conscious adulthood and embodying our sovereignty as powerfully as we can (integrated Capricorn). This Cancer/Capricorn dynamic can also be explored and understood as the Unmothered Mother/the Patriarchy (“shadow side”)… and the Divine Feminine/Sacred Masculine (in the more conscious expression). The celestial events are felt personally but we can see a clear exhibition of it socially/globally as well, with female reproductive health and body sovereignty being debated and decided (by the Patriarchy and its minions), and in the separation of families and horrors of immigrant children dying at the border in the country that should be the beacon of leadership. 

Eclipses are electric, bringing swift changes, elimination and closure, new beginnings, sometimes upheaval, revelations, and always transformation. They can bring epic evolution as well as life events with energy that feels destined. Sometimes events are set in motion during the eclipse and it can take six months to see what exactly was rearranged or reconfigured. Take time to tune in deeply to your intuition and clarify what matters most to you, what your emotional needs are and how to self-soothe, and be open to a new way.

The second eclipse will be on July 16 at 24º Capricorn, along with a Full Moon. And 2020 is six months away.

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Email wildmoonwisdom@gmail.com to sign up for an Eclipse Report for a deeper look at where the eclipses land for you and support in how to work with them, including what to look out for and personal suggestions ($44 full report, $13 for summary for July 2 eclipse only). Tarot readings and other astrological services available as always.

xo,

KK ♡

PS. Check out the work of Dr. Nicole LePera, the holistic psychologist, on Instagram and at yourholisticpsychologist.com for information on reparenting and more.  

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We're entering the Eclipse Portal once again this year. In February we had our first Lunar Eclipse of the year at 22º Leo, then a Solar Eclipse in Pisces. On Monday, August 7 on Lunar+Solar Lammas, the Aquarius Full Moon will be exact at 11:11am (CA time). The Lunar Eclipse occurs at 11:22am, 15º Aquarius. We'll experience the visible and potent Solar Eclipse on August 21 at 28º Leo.

All Eclipses are activators and accelerators, bringing about sudden changes, complete dissolution and exciting initiations. These upcoming astral blasts may be connected to events that happened 18/19 years ago. In my public teachings and writings over the years I've advised students and clients to make it a "no whine zone" during the Eclipse Portal, and this is because energetically this is such a charged and fertile space that we seed with our words and thoughts. Be as considerate and clear-minded as you can be navigating these next weeks, which will take focus. Generally speaking, an Eclipse is like a whirlwind of seemingly chaotic energy swirling through your life, doing (what looks like) damage but also rearranging things to work and flow better. Things can get turned upside down. It's like an energetic electrical power surge, where all the power shuts off, then resets everything as it's turned back on. So your considerations can be around what you're ready to release in a big way, maybe something you haven't felt strong enough to let go of on your own until now, and what your genuine invocation is.

Aquarius is a fixed air sign, ruled by the planet of change and originality, Uranus (modern ruler). Aquarius is the Water Bearer dispensing wisdom, the mad scientist, the outlaw misfit, the logician, the humanitarian, the rebel genius, the hermit mystic. Part of the inherent paradox of Aquarius is that it's the sign of idealism and humanitarianism, but is often emotionally detached in interpersonal relationships, it is the sign of friendship but also the contented outcast, the scientist and the artist, the progressive yet extreme and fixed in opinion. We will need to find a way to make an impactful offering to the collective, to humankind, through means of our unique expression of our radical individuality.

Possible themes for the Aquarius Eclipse include: truth-telling, friendship/aloneness, belonging/being an outcast, justice/political extremism, leadership/radicalism, sincerity/shock value, loyalty/detachment, independence/collaboration, communication, questioning everything, analysis, unconventionality, invention, hopes and dreams, disruption, originality, avant-guard, wisdom. 

Keep in mind that Mercury (in Virgo) stations on Saturday, August 12 in the evening, and will be retrograde until September 5. So this week, as you work within the explosive and electrifying energies, try to also tie up any loose ends with technology and communication before station day. Mercury's backward motion is an opportunity to slow down in every way, from your mental activity to your literal activity (including walking, asana, driving…). The past will likely show up in one form or another, so be prepared. And if something important does resurface, it's because it needs another look, or a bit more attention. After acknowledgment it may finally be able to be released, so that there can be closure. 

If you're interested in more insight or how to work with this intensity, for a short time I'm offering an Eclipse Portal Guide to assist you. Send me an email letting me know you'd like it. ($17)
I also have Retrograde Relief nervine tonic, Mugwort & Rose Dream Potion, and body/anointing oils ready to ship out this week. See the Kosmic Apothecary page.