Our World Family

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This season’s Cancer Full Moon illuminated the face of a Lunar Eclipse beaming transcending rays of death and regeneration down to Earth. The Moon  in Capricorn was the culmination point on the ecliptic of a lunation cycle that began with a decisive Sun-Moon conjunction in Cancer opposing Pluto in Capricorn; a cosmic dance alerting us from the very beginning that the celestial atmosphere enfolding this lunar cycle could manifest in world events that would purge intense collective emotions. The June 22 birth of the Cancer New Moon was sandwiched between the sudden and brutal killing of Neda Agha-Soltan on June 20 and the unexpected and shocking death of Michael Jackson on June 25. The tragic passing of their lives penetrated to the core of the collective unconscious unleashing an out pouring of mass grief and public mourning that, at least temporarily, sought to unify individual differences and cultural diversities into a world family; the perfected mirror image of a Capricorn Moon.

This Lunar Eclipse was considered rather weak just grazing the Earth’s shadow, yet, strong enough to trigger a flood of collective emotion that each of us now has the opportunity to transform into a personal commitment to nurture, nourish, protect, and defend the needs of our world family. Saturn in Virgo disposes the Sun, Moon, and Mercury telling of a perfect time for us to use our discerning care in a world-wide distribution of the basic necessities of life under the umbrella of open communication.

On the day of the eclipse Mars in Taurus made a forceful square to Jupiter -Neptune conjoined in Aquarius  presenting a cosmic warning not to fall prey to our fear of scarcity by hording our wealth and damning the flow of our humanitarian care. Jupiter and Neptune are retrograde in Aquarius suggesting that our expanding optimism to dissolve  the boundaries of the realities that are preventing the world from uniting as one family will manifest outside our ordinary box of expectations; these are unusual times calling forth unusual solutions. When we are under the influence of Aquarius we are aware of the needs of humanity and the necessity to contribute our unique individuality on its behalf. The next Lunar Eclipse to illuminate near the Aquarius North Node will be in 2027 leaving us today with the sobering reality that consciously or not each of us on Earth is contributing to the evolution of humanity through daily actions that directly impact the quality of life for our world family.