Dragon Rider Total Solar Eclipse
New Moon at 19 Aries 24, April 8, 2024, 11:22am PDT, 2:22pm EDT, 7:22pm BST, April 9, 4:22am AEST
Year of the Dragon, Sun Dragon Total Solar Eclipse on the Dragon's Head!
With Chiron: Synchronicities Strike like lightning bolts to light the way. Be brave.
We have a powerful theme emerging in our celestials and in our collective consciousness. Following the trail of synchronicities in our lives, we know we are on our true path, each one.
Most of what I wanted to share about this Eclipse was said on the video with Honey Golden, linked in my last substack post. Do find it there or on her youtube channel. The most essential point is that, with Chiron precisely conjunct the Eclipse New Moon, we are on a collective shamanic journey! We look into this Solar black mirror to see what needs to be healed in order to move forward as the Sun is reborn and a new Life beckons.
Here I want to share some things that have popped up from a variety of sources.
I refer again to Stargazer Li:
“We've been learning all this year new ways of being, preparing to meet this ‘accelerant’ of a happening, and now it's time to walk and talk our "shape-shifting to meet the moment" selfhood!
Life is shifting our sense of purpose and identity, away from wounded willful insistence, asking us to show up willingly as Love, meeting what's unfolding in a spontaneously emergent way, healing and teaching through being manifest, in action, living our gifts!”
I love that she calls this eclipse an 'accelerant'. Also she reminded me to mention the several planets that might be visible during totality: Venus close and bright to the right/west of Eclipsed Sun with Saturn and Mars further to the right/west. Mercury a bit to upper left/east, Jupiter further left/east. Mercury is typically rather faint. The 'devil's' comet might be visible near Jupiter. Binoculars could come in handy, but be careful. Comets are cosmic messengers, more likely from Angels than devils. Let's rename this one! One the key things we are doing these days is to alchemize negative to positive. If you even think about this potential, you are capable of doing such deep ‘magic’.
Flowers essences are gifts and messengers from Nature, like stars are in the heavens. Here are a few that seem relevant to this Eclipse.
This is one of these aetherically resonant orchid essences that can be useful on this particular Eclipse Vision Quest.
Behold the Silence,
"provides a pathway to enter into the profound silence of universal being and invites us into a new relationship with the future. As the reality of the future becomes more and more present in the depth of our inner silence, the past goes back into itself so that we no longer hold the past in the present. In this way our former actions or karmas dissolve. What remains is unobstructed action."
And here is one from Green Hope Farm, [they have an excellent line of animal wellness essences] which caught my attention because of the name. Belerophon was the young man who emerged from the severed neck of Medusa riding Pegasus, the Flying Horse. I mentioned that large mythic story off Andromeda in the Eclipse video. Alpheratz is one of the four stars of the Great Square of Pegasus and also marks the head of Andromeda, the Chained Princess.
The North Node is aligned with Alpheratz now and into June. Let's unchain that princess! This story has intrigues me as it connects to my North Node, so it is a myth related to my destiny. I have been rewriting this story for decades. Obviously I am called to share some of this writing as we go along post-eclipse.
This North Node eclipse has so many wild connections, numerous storylines with mythic and Biblical implications, including the collusion of Nature, in some unexpected, mind-altering synchronistic, mythical/mystical/magical, even miraculous ways! It’s entertaining and confounding, is the eclipse even real, some say. I’m preparing to believe almost anything by now, but I aspire, seek and imagine positive outcomes. Isn’t that my job as a Sagittarian?
One intriguing story I have read is that two broods of cicadas that will arise from their burrows, after more than a decade underground, at around the same time in the Midwest U.S. This apparently happens around the crossing point of this 2024 Eclipse, that travels from southwest to northeast across North America, and the 2017 August eclipse that arched across the United States from northwest to southeast. These two broods will be thrumming with their particular mating musicality for a short period of time, one of so many heartbeats of Earth.
What door will open for you during this Eclipse? Whether you are in ‘totality,’ or see the Dragon take a big or small bite of the Sun— or not. No matter where in the world you are, you will feel such an Event that has focused so much collective attention. Globally we will witness the ripple effects throughout this lunation cycle, through to the September/ October eclipse season (when Pluto is finishing up in Capricorn), and into 2025.
One more note to share, very promising. Although I haven’t been able to take on a full study of Vedic Astrology, I have been interested in the 27 Nakshatras, or Moon Mansions, asterisms visited by the Moon each night. This is a foundational component of Vedic (and Arabic and Chinese) Astrology, with reference to a lunar calendar. The Nakshatras are like another whole zodiac of constellations, with rulerships, deities, totem animals, traits, etc., and each has a particular ‘shakti’ or goddess power. It is at least as important what your Moon Mansion is as your Sun sign.
[If you are interested, a good introduction is The Nakshatras: The Lunar Mansion of Vedic Astrology by Dennis Harness. Kenneth Johnson goes deeper into interpretation in his book, Mansions of the Moon: The Lost Zodiac of the Goddess.]
This Total Solar Eclipse occurs in the last nakshatra, Revati, “The Moon of Splendor,’ the most auspicious and blessed of them all. A bevy of small stars in Pisces makes up this Nakshatra, of a devotional, spiritual and kind nature, associated with prosperity, and “the great womb of Mother Divine, revealing the end as well as new beginnings. The presiding deity is Pushan, ‘the nurturer’… protector of flocks and herds and invoked in the Vedas for safe travel…This is a good nakshatra for the Moon to be residing in when one is beginning a search or starting a long journey,” writes Dennis Harness. Revati gives the power of proper nourishment. The Divine Mother feeds us “our daily bread” on many levels. What new sustenance awaits our hungry hearts and souls as the Sun ‘dies’ and is reborn before our eyes?
I was delighted by this nakshatra location for the Eclipse journey we are all embarking on— our search for the new kind of world we seek to experience, with fresh and creative fields of endeavor to entice, excite and engage our hearts and souls. What visions will we see during this Solar Black Whole? Do you believe in MIRACLES?
As my last offering in this eclipse post, I share An Ode to the Solar Eclipse in Aries by my colleague, Sherile Turner-Miles:
* * * SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE! * * *
Watch for upcoming invite to
Pluto Master Class: Exploring Pluto’s Aquarian Invitation
Save the date: May 18.
“The discovery of Pluto was due to a remarkable chain of accidental events spanning several decades, decreed by fate....Its nature is more strange than ever. Its status as an object is engulfed in mystery. Everything about Pluto was unexpected. One can only speculate on what new things will be learned about Pluto in the future. -Clyde Tombaugh, discovered Pluto in 1930
We zoom out and then zoom back in, exploring Pluto’s
* astronomical breakthrough into a new definition of our solar system;
* connection to large collective cycles;
* mythic mysteries and
* alchemical process of transformation, personal and generational.
Followed by Pluto Generation Sharing Circles, small discussion gatherings for folks with particular Pluto signs, starting with the intense Pluto in Scorpio generation.
Contributors will get first dibs on tickets.