Neptunian Full Moon Eclipse

September 17, 2024, 7:34pm PDT, 10:34pm EDT; September 18, 3:34am BST, 9:34am AEST

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Eclipse season is upon us, with a partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces—minus total eclipse drama, but potent, nevertheless. With NEPTUNE conjunct this Full Moon, a spiritual influx along iwth some veils of illusion likely to dissolve in the common sense of earthy Virgo. Neptune is the planet of illusion, confusion and delusion, with its last few months in Pisces, a sign that often prefers to ignore mundane realities when possible. Common sense is at a premium these days, but with the Sun in Virgo, Pluto back in Capricorn, and Uranus in Taurus making a powerful grand trine in earth signs, insistent on grounding. On-the-ground situations will be hard to side-step, rather to take advantage of to Live the Dream.

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
I hope some day you’ll join us, and the world will be as one”
- John Lennon, IMAGINE

Neptunian Full Moon in Pisces channels the manifestational energy of the potent grand trine connecting all the earth signs: Sun in Virgo, Pluto retrograde back in Capricorn, and Uranus retrograde in Taurus. On-the-ground circumstances mirror our collective Big Dream. We are challenged to raise the bar on our vision of the future. Are you on board?

My Full Moon video with Honey C. Golden gives a very good start on the implications of the planetary patterns during this shady eclipse portal. We discuss how strongly we are immersed in the watery realm of Neptune in Pisces, with its evocation of Big Dreaming. We looked again at the ongoing impact of Ceres in Capricorn squaring the Nodal axis, our collective Line of Destiny. This dynamic T-square in the three cardinal , initiator signs with North Node in Aries, South Node in Libra, and Ceres in Capricorn are brought to a culmination or fulfillment of sorts, as Mars in Cancer fills in the 4th cardinal sign, a major TAKE ACTION moment. Self-care activity is primary as we continue to forge new pathways (Aries) into the future that we are creating together.

Mars joins Ceres and the Nodes to complete at dynamic grand cross, activating all the cardinarl signs toward growth and new horizons. Venus, beautiful goddess of love, in Libra is opposed by Chiron in Aries, indicating our call to healing love itself, including our primary love of Self. Only you can be you. Love and self-care are mirrored in the way we live our lives, our joy, delight and feeling of abundance.

Let’s take special note of Sparkling Mermaid Salacia, Neptune’s Queen, sending her shimmering liquid plasma light onto the North Node path forward. She lights up the path, like sunlight or moonlight across the sea, beckoning. We are about to look briefly at another Kuiper Belt creator in Aries toward which we are heading.

KBO SQUARE DANCE
I want to follow up that video discussion by focussing here on the quantum dimensions of some KUIPER BELT Objects, with a grand cross of these third millennium discoveries strongly activated and participating in our shifting experience. Whatever we call these bodies—KBOs,dwarf planets, TransNeptunian Objects (TNOs) or other— they invite us into an emerging level of quantum consciousness. Many of us are tuning in, as these refreshing creator deities invite us to expand our natural gifts of Intuition and Imagination.

KBOs help amplify nuances of this Full Moon and pull in the key Jupiter/Saturn square, alternating between focus and expansion. Mercury, keenly discerning in Virgo, closely opposes Saturn, offering sensible, ‘gut-level’ intelligence applicable to our daily priorities.

Starlady Varda is from Tolkien’s creation story in The Silmarillion. Varda was the highest divine feminine of the archangelic circle surround the throne of the Creator, who came with 13 others to manifest the Creator’s vision of Earth. Varda is the LightBringer. When Melkor, the fallen angel, who became the dark power in The Lord of the Rings, tried to destroy the world, she would bring light to every new era. She is present now as we experience the chaos of the old world and lift into the coming era of light.. Varda is currently at 25-26 Sagittarius, closely squaring Neptune while channeling inspiration from the Galactic Center point (26 Sag), the Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, Her light stimulates our imagination and stirs higher vision, third eye intuition of Truth, overcoming potential underlying anxieties Neptune is prone to.

Varda and Manwe are the highest Divine Feminine/ Divine Masculine pair in Tolkien’s creation story. As Varda is circling the Galactic Center point, Manwe has recently crossed the Aries point in 2021-2023, currently at 3+ Aries. Closest to the mind of the Creator, Manwe is renewing the original divine blueprint and leading us to recreate it. The Nodes are heading back to line up with Manwe in December, just in time for a New Year. We will meet him again. What are your Varda and Manwe positions?

ALTJIRA

Altjira, the Aboriginal creator god of the Arrernte people in central Australia, emerged from the Great Dreaming. One story says that when he came down to create Earth and all its creatures, he walked with the feet of an emu bird. He soon retired back into the Great Dreaming, leaving other gods and ancestor spirits in charge. Image from Planetary Gods & Goddesses Coloring Book, colored by astrologer Sarah Treadwell.

Aboriginal Altjira, a double-bodied KBO, joins Jupiter in Gemini for an amplification of ancient storylines, translating a variety of perspectives likely to challenge hard-edged belief systems. Can we playfully entertain diverse points of view and add new pieces to the larger picture of life? In their astronomy, the Aboriginal people saw an emu, central to their creation story, as Altjira takes on emu feet to create the world.

ORCUS

The Mouth of Orcus, a sculpted cave in a park in Bomarzo, Italy with an inscription over its entry that reads “All Thoughts Fly.”

Etruscan underworld god, Orcus, rules oath-making and oath-breaking. At 16 VIrgo, it is very close to Mercury in its most skillful sign and deeply embedded in the square dance. . Perhaps we need to break some habitual, repeating patterns in how we think— about things, life, ourselves— the language we use is largely culturally coded. How do we think and perceive, from a clear, original, honest perspective, superceding old mental programming from our education and acculturation. How does that perspective land on you? Has your mind changed after this last, rigorous retrograde of Mercury? There is a lot of talk about breaking agreements that are outdated, constricting.

TEHARONWAKO

Teharonwako was also known as the Original Farmer, planting the Three Sisters—beans, corn and squash— as well as sunflowers. It is said he put a sunflower in the sky to give light. Image detail from my Planetary Gods & Goddesses Coloring Book (available on Amazon).

Iroquois Teharonwako recreates essential life forms sent from the previous world where he was conceived. This includes all creatures on Earth. He breathes his own spirit of life into humans, instruct us to honor the sacred rhythms of life on this planet according to the original blueprint. His jealous and deceitful twin brother, Sawiskera, constantly tries to undermine this divine work, throwing shadows and turning the people to division and fighting. Teharonwako returned as the Peacemaker to remind us of our spiritual nature and restore harmony.
Teharonwako, at 21 Pisces, is closely conjunct this Full Moon, also Neptune and Saturn. This Eclipse calls for the Peacekeeper, a spiritual mission.
Ken Carery’s book, Return of the Bird Tribes, tells a version of this story. A timely publication in 1988, it is worth a reread at our current juncture in the Great Awakening. In turned a page in the book and found this to share:

"Healthy intelligence never tries to hold on to the truth. Can a fish hold the ocean? Can a bird hold the sky? Healthy intelligence knows itself as a center of creative description, living within an infinite ocean of truth that stretches forever in all directions. Health human identity does not rest in a conception of the mind; it rests always in spirit.”
…”Frequent communication with the great eternal Being at the center of all life keeps you clear, pure, connected. After such times of communion, you go back to your individuality…”

significantly changed in some essential way.
How is the light changing and expanding your energy, letting go of what is not in integrity with this new era?

It is as if this square dance of KBOs stand at the four corners of this LunarEclipse Portal, waving through with such inviting light all the way to the September 22 Equinox, just days after this Eclipse. We have a choice to make, which road to travel. If we are in the moment, in our flow, there is no hard choice, we naturally take the path that is ours to take. It’s just a matter of staying centered and in synch along the way. This takes careful attention.

”Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
-Robert Frost, from his famous poem

Which road beckons you?