“Love is a burnin' thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire”
-Ring of Fire by June Carter Cash
Our last Eclipse of 2024 is in Libra, the airy sign of the peacemaker, diplomat and mediator. It’s planet is Venus, named for the alchemical goddess of love and beauty. Expressively, now there is a need to create harmony with Libra, to balance and bring all things in our lives into healthy interdependence.
This is an annular solar eclipse, where the Sun and Moon meet in sign and degree. Eclipses of the Sun, unlike Moon are often associated symbolically with new beginnings, though both types of eclipse are also kinds of endings, with people, places and things dis and re-appearing in our lives.
Physically our Moon blocks our Sun, so that only a sliver or ring is visible. Symbolically, Moon is received into the Sun as they conjoin. The Solar energy is re-set AND we enter a new lunar cycle.
Typically, an eclipse that occurs close in sign or degree to your own natal nodal axis, or in major aspect to it (the eclipse cycle at your birth) or to your luminaries, ascendant or angles of your chart will serve to make a difference in your life.
Eclipses can trigger major personal growth of experience, and from a mundane standpoint eclipses can engage collective planetary aspects forming too, especially with outer planets.
Aspects in an eclipse give clues to how it will more fully express itself. Now, we have a super close conjunction with Mercury and Black Moon Lilith (Moon’s lunar apogee) and a square from Mars in Cancer, and Ceres in Capricorn. Juno is also loosely involved in the bunch at 18 Libra.
These planets are engaged in a dialogue, aspects are relationships of course, and there are points and counterpoints here. Venus, Mars and Saturn happen to be locked in a Grand Trine, that is, flowing with each other, in agreement.
An interpretation of this combination can be that even as we may not always be aware of how "unaware hurt people, hurt people" affects our relationships we can use self-awareness or dialogue to get clues regarding our part in any dramas unfolding. Why can't we get along" says our planets in Libra. Saturn in Pisces to Mars in Cancer to Venus in Scorpio states ”I need to learn trust if I want to love deeply. We are all interconnected, and this awareness fuels my compassion and forgiveness of others transgressions”
If we feel overwhelmed by our emotional passion now, this Air element Eclipse is extremely useful in conflict resolution, as it can clear a playing ground, it’s a “let’s start over” kind of energy.
The Sabian Symbol for the event is:
Libra 10: A CANOE IS APPROACHING SAFETY THROUGH DANGEROUS WATERS "We can trust that we are being led to where we need to be… we may have been ‘shooting the rapids’ lately, but now we can find ourselves arriving at that safe, calm place… ah the relief of the safe waters.
This Symbol speaks of getting through difficult times in life and coming out the other side. It also infers being able to bring calm reassurance that a time of calm is approaching." -Sabiansymbols.com
Things may end now- cycles are forming and ending, the snake is eating it’s tail.
Let’s choose Love and resolve to get along.
Peace!
Michelle
Art - erikajaneamerika.com
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