Full Moon Dragon Tail Lunar Eclipse
March 25, 2024 at 5 Libra/Aries 07, Midnight PDT, 3:00am EDT, 7am GMT, 4pm AEDT
With so much attention on the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse, let's not forget this more subtle Lunar Eclipse, that can help us rebalance and prepare for the larger phenomenon in two weeks. This lunation will not be a dramatic sight, as it is a penumbral eclipse—no big bites taken out of the Moon. Still, it is an eclipse and hold potent life changing dynamics, especially if you have Sun, Moon, Ascendant or planet on or opposite (therefore conjunct Sun) that eclipsed Moon.
I always read Stargazer Li's newsletter blend of Mayan calendar,*[see below] Astrology and Stargazing. She describes this Full as “glancingly eclipsed by subtle shadow. This penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible from Japan, through the Americas, all the way to western Europe and Africa. Starting just before 10am (Pacific time), peaking just after midnight, and ending around 2:30am (Pacific time)," 5:30 Eastern, 9:30 GMT.
Any eclipse is focused at the North Node or the South Node, the two Sun-Moon orbital crossing points that align with Earth to activate an Eclipse. This eclipsed Moon in Libra is near the South Node, or Dragon Tail, representing patterns from the past that need to be 'clipped', eclipsed, to allow us to move forward. This is not a time to dilly-dally, to hem and haw about what to do. Consider carefully, make a clear, intentional choice and stick with it, being aware of habitual reactions that are holding you back. Making no decision is a decision in itself.
The Moon is a satellite of Earth, in a monthly rhythm with biological and emotional effects. It reflects the Earth. During a lunar eclipse that reflection is interrupted— allowing automatic patterns to be likewise interrupted. I am wondering more about the meaning of this phenomenon. This will likely be part of my conversation with Honey C Golden on Full Moon day, which will be aired on her youtube channel later in the day, a kind of follow up to this post. I will post the video here as well.
The prominent Aries activity— with Sun now in Aries, as well as a close trio of North Node, Chiron, Mercury— is prodding us forward. The Aries Equinox turned the seasonal corner into a quicker pace.
Since 2024 began, the planets have been bundling up closer and closer to each other. Charts have been looking rather lopsided, with planets in just a few signs. This Full Moon is a singleton balancing out the rest of the planetary field. That is the job of Libra, to balance, and conveys the main theme of this Eclipse.
With fresh trails beckoning with inevitability, we likely need to rebalance our life activities. I know I have needed more self-care and home-making time, as well as time for a family emergency. I need more time out in Nature and less at my desk. That's why this post is coming out 'at the last minute.' It's also easier to feel the energies unfolding as we get closer to any lunation. It's more about (Chironic) experience in the NOW rather than theorizing or imagining too far ahead. My advice as we move closer to this potent Sun Dragon Eclipse on 4/8 is to BE HERE NOW as fully as possible from NOW through then.
The Eclipse Adventure is on!
On the other side of this Lunar Eclipse the Moon wanes, giving us two weeks to weigh the Scales in determining how we move forward on our Life Path. We can note and shed old paradigms and conditioned patterning, breaking agreements (with yourself as well as others) that have lingered on beyond their expiration date and are no longer reasonable or relevant.
You can tell based on how you feel. Don't you want to engage more deeply with what feels good, joyful, and fun, including the people you spend time with? At this point, there is no time to waste with those who deflate your energy, or with whom you feel no real connection with or who aren't holding up their end of the relationship. No judgement, this is a natural process in major times of transition as we are in. Use your own parameters of how you feel with each person and the quality of the dynamic. May Love rule the encounter, heart to heart.
Be vigilant about maintaining your integrity rather than accommodating beyond that point of integrity where you get out of balance. What happens if we base choices we make in each moment for their joy-factor, aesthetic value, sweetness, kindness and delight. No more push and pull, but an organic flow that evokes the best experiences in life ad brings out the best in each other and in life. We have Mars, Saturn, Venus and Neptune all in Pisces to help us out with this, with extra sensitivity. Venus will cross into Aries on April 5; Mars on April 30 (its own sign), to heighten the forward initiative.
[Looking ahead, Saturn starts transitioning into Aries in May 2025; and Neptune (almost! this July) formally in late March 2025. Neptune in Aries! what an intriguing thought.]
We also see Black Moon Lilith in that lean half of the chart, with a Lilith Flash (both mean and true position exactly aligned) just a few hour before the eclipse at 19+ Virgo, most closely interfacing with Venus in Pisces. A Lilith flash my be a soul signal of some kind. What do you think? Black Moon in Virgo, as I have been saying, is intimately connected with our subtle senses. It feels very involved with the soul-directed recalibration of our physical bodies during the high-intensity frequencies washing into our system.
Sabian Symbol for 20 Virgo:
A Caravan of Cars Headed for Promised Lands—
”There is a feeling of needing to move on to new thoughts, a new way of doing things, possibly even on to a new way of life, but you are not alone, There are several others who share the same impulse. Setting out on a new venture. Venturing into life with like-minded companions.
Seeking new territory. If negative - foresaking the individual path in favour of the less satisfying, but more secure, common path.”
- The Sabian Symbols as an Oracle (Dec.1995 edition), by Lynda Hill & Richard Hill
This wash of light may be amplified as the Sun moves forward over the next few days for a March 29-30 conjunction with Salacia at 9 Aries— She of the Shimmery Sparkling waves of liquid plasma light infusing our solar system and bodily systems with radiant fractal crystalline geometries. Allow your body to rest and be less about busyness, in order to allow time for these light frequencies to properly migrate and integrate through your various energy bodies and right down into the cells.
Back to the present: Mercury is already in Aries, as of the March 10 New Moon, and will go retrograde in Aries on April 1 (no, I'm not fooling), extending its mental fireworks in that fire sign through to May 15. That's a long time for fleet-footed Mercury to be in one sign; yet it revels in Aries. Those mental fireworks spark fresh neural pathways in the brain, igniting excitement, distinctive originality, inventive brilliance. Dormant potentials wake up, turn on and change our mind. Light-directed frequency waves rewiring perceptions between head and heart, altaring our outlook on life. This is a collective process right now, heightened by Pluto in higher-minded Aquarius, so expect some mind-blowing ideas, information, news and options to emerge. Turn on, Tune in and Drop Deeper In, using that Aries retrograde to rewire further and heal any blown fuses especially during the April 8 Eclipse and onward. Personally, I expect I will be glad to have that retrograde review and revisit time to integrate all the newness.
My Solar Eclipse preparation time began weeks ago, as is true for many of us, and is many-layered. As you may have noticed, I am participating in a Great Eclipse Sound Healing Retreat day with Melinda Kinzie and Katherine Elder. I had been planning to be in my snow bird home in the Caribbean for March-April. I was not keen on being in Vermont for the Eclipse. However, those tropical travel plans were not weaving together smoothly; other unforeseen priorities arose. From the start, Melinda's vision for the event included me. I was not sure I wanted to participate, rather leaving the Chiron-infused Solar Eclipse day open to spontaneity. It came to the point where I had to make a commitment. For supportive clarity, I consulted the Black Moon Astrology Card deck for a 3 + 1 card pull. I really like this deck full of various astrological factors. Here is what came up:
Solar Eclipse! Chiron! Lunar Eclipse! + South Node!A clear message, completely eclipse related. I made the commitment to be there for the 4/8 Eclipse event, with my attention more clearly focused on this Lunar Eclipse as well.
All this week, I have been preparing to write this post, putting it off each day as I was engaged in consultations and otherwise felt like doing other things. My heart was also communing with my sister who is currently in a hospice house. Each day I was pulling a card, which I considered to be related to her process. Finally, today, before collecting up the cards, I took a look at the sequence as a whole.
North Node-Life's Purpose Solar Eclipse-Revolution Chiron-Healing
+ Saturn-Truth [and make it real]
It all seems be pointing one way. Onward!!
It’s after 10pm here in Vermont. The Full Moon has risen, just hours away from eclipsing, and is pouring its friendly Libra light onto our freshly fallen foot of snow. I am going to go out and greet it, breathe in that fresh Green Mountain air and Full Moon Light.
Dream well.
* If you want to learn more about the 13/20 Mayan calendar , a truly more natural way of marking time, another resource is the new Quantum Compass: Navigating the Galactic Flow with Bella Alvaran and Davyd Farrell on his youtube channel. The latest one is here.
Oh my goodness Kelley, so many words and songs of wisdom
The tears flow
as we step gently X