Honouring the Goddess: Equinox 2024 Lunar Eclipse

2024 Eclipse season is almost upon us.

This year, we have four eclipses in total to look forward to, including next week’s lunar eclipse in Libra, which will close out the rather difficult cycle begun in mid-October 2023 with the Libra solar eclipse. A full list of dates can be viewed in the video below.

Taking place just a week after the terrible events of 7 October 2023, in a saros series (7 South) marked by a vengeful Mars-Pluto square, this eclipse did, unfortunately, set off six months of war and strife.

Now, however, as we close this cycle out with the lunar eclipse in Libra on 25 March 2024, we are being presented with an opportunity to put an end to this challenging energy via diplomatic and/or legal means. With the two benefics, Venus and Jupiter still in orb of a positive aspect to each other, and also encompassing stabilising Saturn and change-bringer, Uranus, the possibility of successful peace talks emerging between now and June 2024 are very high.

This eclipse forms part of a saros series (VDB 113) that is rather unusual in that it has consisted solely of lunar eclipses since the last solar eclipse in this family back in late August 1848. It therefore does not form part of Bernadette Brady’s saros system, making it something of an astrological anomaly.

However, I see this as a positive thing – a breaking free from oppressive, monotonous or restrictive patterns that may have been frustrating growth, innovation or creativity. An idea reflected in the ‘translation of light’ from Venus to Uranus via Jupiter happening in the days bookending this eclipse, which can signal a joyful re-imagining of how things are – a kind of rewriting of the ‘rules,’ as well as positive paradigm shifts.

For anyone interested in the astrology of Saros Series 113 and what makes it so different and special, I’ve created a video about it, which you can view on my YouTube channel.

One thing we CAN say about it, is that it seems to be asking us to focus on restoring and rebalancing the sacred feminine – a theme further underscored by the position of the Moon in Gate 18, line 2 of the Human Design Bodygraph. Chetyn Parkyn interprets line 2 as being about Honouring the Goddess, especially any fears involving the power of the feminine that have been instilled in us by patriarchal religious or cultural systems over the last few centuries, as well as healing or undoing any wrongs or wounds from the past and becoming whole again.

This refines the message of Hexagram 18, which in the I Ching, is all about correcting what has been spoiled, including the rooting out of any disease, toxicity or corruption that may be plaguing a body or system. A powerful message, and one echoed by the Lunar Face for this particular event, which asks us to try and embody our ideals and truly live by them. In other words, walk our talk.

YOUR THREE MONTH LUNAR ECLIPSE CHEAT SHEET FOR MARCH 2024. LOOK FOR THE SIGN OF YOUR ASCENDANT AND THEN CONSIDER THE THEMES OF THE PAIR OF HOUSES FOR CLUES AS TO WHAT AREA OF LIFE YOU MAY BE MOST FOCUSED ON RESTORING BALANCE TO.

Here I feel I should emphasise, as I have done in my new section on planetary sect, that where possible, we should consider the sun-moon, masculine-feminine cosmic relationship as something more akin to the yin-yang principle of Chinese cosmology than say, literal men and women. We all have active, masculine – and receptive, feminine – aspects to our psyches, just as day and night, sun and moon are equal but opposite parts of the larger whole that is our cosmos, as per the hermetic dictum ‘the miracle of the one thing.’ Worth remembering in the overly polarised cultural milieu we seem to be living through right now.

The Sabian symbol for the Libra Lunar Eclipse is: THE IDEALS OF A MAN, ABUNDANTLY CRYSTALISED, TAKE FORM IN HIS INNER VISION. This points to increased opportunities over the next three months to realise cherished dreams, live out our values more fully, and generally turn thoughts into things. So, powerful manifesting energy, which is further amplified by Mercury’s ingress into Gate 42, a gate of abundance and increase in the creative, life-giving sacral centre, on March the 23rd where it will remain until the end of the month.

So, tons of potential over the next three months to realise goals and plans, heal what has been wounded or broken, obtain redress for past injustices, or live life more congruently and in greater harmony and balance.

OVERVIEW OF ECLIPSES FOR 2024

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