April 8, 2024| 11:20 am (PST) | Keyword: Resolution
The upcoming eclipse is revisiting the sign of Aries as it did last April—think back to that time period and the significant changes that may have taken place in your life. The cautionary warning for that moon in anaretic degree was a lack of preparedness and the underestimation of adversaries. In a broader sense, this brings to mind the Gaza-Israel conflict.
However, this is a decidedly different moon where the focus is on resolve and the use of great willpower and determination to both start and finish projects. It can mean greater involvement with Aries persons (sun, moon, rising) as well as those with significant Cancer placements in the natal chart. Beginning over the South Pacific Ocean, the eclipse will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada, and these regions may be particularly significant to events over the year.
You can expect the unexpected from this eclipse with events that occur out of the blue that cause you to make adjustments to your plans, especially in connection to information, study and dealings with those at a distance. Disruptions will tend to interfere with the flow although your flexibility in adapting to change may prove to be advantageous.
On a darker note, the energy can promote inordinate pride and ruthlessness with a focus on dangerous enemies and relentless fighters for a cause (who may be one and the same). Beware of persons who can act as a destabilizing force in your life. But even in the face of hostility and conflict, there’s also hope for reconciliation.
These situations might highlight those who excel in military careers, engineering, police work, and heavy industry. It can also bring attention to those with a talent for speaking out and can manifest through persons whose lives revolve around research, announcing facts, or who make it their mission to find out information and announce it to the world. This might also include those gifted with spiritual or prophetic insights or the lovers and keepers of archaic or secret knowledge. Negatively, it can play out as a gossiper and difficulties in keeping a secret. This also indicates an emphasis on spies, undercover agents, and national secrets revealed.
To review, if the current eclipse Moon touches on a natal or progressed planet, significant events will manifest through noteworthy experiences and activities symbolized by the eclipsed planet. The closer the nodes to the luminaries, the more powerful the eclipse.
With the Moon in a prominent, very public angular house, a significant transformation is likely to occur within your career or professional sphere that could require the examination of your goals and aims in life. Public recognition and social achievement may be very important to you, but if you’re still struggling with the energy of poor preparation from the last eclipse, you may be frustrated by the lack of success. If so, you’ll find that events in life will force you to come to terms with your identity in order to express your fullest potential. There can be major changes in vocation or you may lose or quit your job, especially if your position or employer conditions become unstable. For some, there’s a marked increase in visibility that can bring publicity that is either positive or negative. It may be important to protect your reputation and avoid any over-extension in credit.
Additionally, with the eclipse falling in the house that belongs to Saturn, you may have concerns surrounding the welfare of a parent. This moon is traveling with Chiron which can emphasize the pain you may have suffered as a result of rejection by a parent-figure. The possibility exists for hardship, personal sacrifice, responsibilities and duties that affect your life and that of others. As an adult, you’ve become especially good at looking after your loved ones, sometimes at the expense of self, but you need to nurture yourself. This moon can stir emotions about family and fitting into the group or the choice for departure from your upbringing.
More positively, your employers will be interested in developing your abilities, and you may receive greater responsibility or be asked to play a greater role in the decision-making process in your work environment. The inability to make changes for improvement that affect efficiency, can mean that work becomes more tedious, detail-oriented or repetitive and involves more paperwork.
For some, material growth is favored and professional success can flourish if you’re willing to put forth the necessary effort. Perhaps the motivation is that you’re uncomfortable with your present position or prefer self-employment. You’ll be making decisions that influence the direction of your life with the long range in mind. These decisions may be career-related but may also relate to other major life transitions that include marriage, leaving home, moving to another country or making a total lifestyle change.
Some of your decisions may include whether to attend college, change professions, or relocate. In some cases, the choice for relocation may pull you out of a successful position. This is can be a good time to undertake new studies or training that may help to advance your career. This can take the form of self study if you possess the motivation to learn on your own, but either way you should participate in intellectual pursuits. However, if you’re seeking to continue your education, it’s possible you may experience a minor impediment or delay. This may be due to the desire to devote yourself fully to studies which can mean waiting until you handle outside issues.
Perhaps you’re currently doing a great deal of creative intellectual work in order to share your experiences with others. You may decide to teach, rather than study, and if so, you may work on organizing your lesson plans. Issues that cause frustration may arise while trying to integrate your knowledge into a cohesive body of work. If you’ve taught in the past, you may need to reassess your abilities given new situations or obstacles.
Although not as powerful in her detriment, Venus is working to bring favorable circumstances in your business and professional life to attract situations and/or people that facilitate your work. Communication with superiors can help you move forward and good negotiating skills can garner support for your proposals. The advantage is to network and make business connections now in order to plan for future career developments. Those in authority are favorably inclined toward giving you the opportunity to establish a mutually beneficial relationship that can advance your career goals for many years to come. Any enterprises you begin now may have positive influence on the future.
Friends can also be of considerable benefit in assisting you in reaching your goals and helping you to make the necessary connections. In certain cases, these objectives can only be fulfilled through pooling of resources or the involvement of several individuals. Realization of a goal may depend on the group while still allowing some measure of individual success.
On the other hand, you may not be able to rely on old friends or groups for total support if the larger objective is to function independently. You need freedom to accomplish the goals you’ve set for yourself and don’t want to be restricted by people or outmoded ideas. In response, you’ll either seek new freedom through the groups you identify with, or you’ll rebel against their standards. But this is a time of risk-taking and new goals should depart from your norm. If you fear what others think, you’ll be forced to suffer great anxiety in trying to maintain the old environment.
New associations will provide the support for new endeavors while still lending a sense of belonging. You’ll be attracted to new kinds of friends and old friendships may fade away as interests shift leading you to join new groups and meet new friends while spending less time with old ones. This may be attributed to a marked decrease in common interests, sudden attractions and/or separations. Infrequently, you may have a conflict with a friend or your friend may become unpredictable or involved in an upsetting situation.
Conflict can also erupt between partnership involvements and career demands. In order to fulfill your goals, you’ll have to fight for freedom and this issue will be crucial in one or more areas of your life (specific areas are indicated by Sagittarius and Pisces house cusps). You’ll need to gain mastery over these restrictions in order to accomplish your ideals. If you’re frustrated, this is likely to be a negative form of rebellion, rather than a positive pursuit of independence. However, this eclipse fuels inventiveness and flashes of genius that can prompt intuitive leaps, insights, good ideas, visions or vivid dreams. This new found inspiration is likely to pull you away from your social life or relationship. This may cause strain, but it’s a time when you need to be free, if only for a few weeks.
It is notable that an interception is causing blockages and delays with the axis that ties to creative expression and group involvement. While it may be easy to start things, the tendency is to not follow through to completion. This will create problems in the area of children, romance, and pleasure as well as with friendships, ideals and wishes. The habit may be to start a new interest and just as suddenly give up on it, start a romance but fail to sustain a relationship, have a child but not adequately care for it. The challenge is to use urges productively while also contributing to society. Alternatively, it can mean maintaining friendships that cause nothing but suffering that should have ended a long time ago. Understanding social graces and acceptable parameters determines your associations and the subsequent and consequential effect on your life.
Additionally, the interception provokes you to examine your outlook about money, possessions, personal values, sexuality and the impact of those beliefs on your sense of self-worth. The axis ruling these areas is in anaretic degree indicating a sense of urgency surrounding these matters, shifting conditions and situations that move beyond your control. For some, events activate the millionaire’s degree, but for others it brings the end of a cycle related to home, career or the life.
The career changes you make are focused on bringing you greater satisfaction and fulfillment in your profession. Fulfillment is more important to you than money, status or recognition. Your spiritual beliefs must manifest through your career options to fit your spiritual intent. That can mean enduring a period of unemployment because you do not wish to settle for less, but belief in self is paramount in order to push for career options. If you lack clarity in what you want, you’ll spend most of the time rejecting jobs you don’t want. If you’re clear on your desires early, you’ll move steadily toward a new professional endeavor.
In fact, Jupiter is supportive of the success of large and noble projects, especially those in which you dedicate yourself to the larger goal for the good of culture or society. You may feel a strong sense of purpose that drives you to align yourself with a mission, idea or vocation that guides your life. Although Jupiter sits in the interception, the message is to practice patience and not give up. Rewards will come from unexpected sources and luck and opportunities from unexpected directions that require effort to achieve the optimum benefit.
This moon is meant for extending the olive branch to establish peace through actions of diplomacy and persuasion rather than force. The advice is to heed the volatile nature of situations, and approach with tactful deference the person or people concerned. This awareness comes with the realization that you may not be in a position to issue commands or to act domineering, although passivity too is ill advised. Rather, you must humbly and actively seek to resolve situations in order to be assured of a positive resolution.
Through the wisdom gleaned from pain and experience, you’ll come to understand the power of industry. The key word for this cycle is resolution signaling the need to determinedly work in the vigorous fight against the opposition while also avoiding behavior that is mean-spirited and lacking in moral principles—both to transform self and those who contend against you.
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