Last Eclipse of 2021; Sagittarius Solar Eclipse-December 4th.

Most New Moons excite the hell out of me. I get happy and excited at the prospect of sitting down and setting my intentions for the month. It is a ritual I have been performing for over the last seven years, when I decided to dive even deeper into astrology for the umpteenth time since I turned 13. I still have my first astrology book, The Complete Book of Astrology, by Marshall Cavendish Limited 1992, a memory that I go back to often when I need to remember how to draw a chart by hand. An art that seems to be long lost in the age of being dependent on the quick casting of charts through Astro.com or my Solar Fire program. And to top off patterns, this book was published when the North Node was in Sagittarius, my natal eighth house.

 Drawing a chart by hand, is metaphorically and perceptively like learning how to do a manual blood pressure. The art of listening for that first thump, after pumping the air up to 180 on the sphygmomanometer, if they have a semi normal blood pressure to begin with, and then listening for that last thump to read the diastolic measurement. If you are proficient enough with experiential wisdom, you can read the sphygmomanometer by the bounces from systole to diastole, no prob. I prefer manual bps any day, especially knowing how some people just electrically screw up the electrical monitors. Western medicine fails to recognize that us humans, some humans, can affect electricity in odd ways that make no sense in their perception of “Let’s book a patient for a 15 minute slot and pretend we have a relationship that actually heals.”
I digress in my passionate condescending judgement of what western medicine has become in its more- now-than-ever iatrarchal phase. So, let’s get back to the passion part. New Moons and Lunar Returns are my favorite times of the month where we can sit down and ritualistically intend to set desires, intentions, and wishes. It works. It really works, especially when your feelings are on cue and the intentions match the sign and house in your natal chart, and of course, there is more analytical patterns of intentions of reading your Lunar returns that makes the intentions set even more powerful.

Eclipses are known to be extremely powerful, and many alchemists, astrologers, and magicians meditate more than performing any kind of spell work because of how awry eclipses can be. But spells begone, our emotions are at their peak around eclipses and it is those emotions and our reactions with those emotions that really set the pace for the six month conjecture of events that karmically bind us to our journeys.
Saturday, December 4th at 2:43 a.m. E.S.T., we will have our last Sagittarian eclipse until 2029. (Watch another attempted “Great Reset” happen). This New Moon/Solar Eclipse brings Libra as the Ascendant, Venus, it’s chart ruler, the lover of love, of relationships, of sensuality, of equality and justice to these new beginnings. Sagittarius conjuncts Mercury in the third house of seeking truth through communication and learning, through our relationships with our communities. Mars hangs out in the realm of self-worth, pushing our limits of transformation, his square to Chiron and Jupiter amplifying our need to reassess the tangible and nontangible things that keep us alive, to transform those wounds that have jaded us and moved us far away from what is actually important to the essence of our souls.

​Neptune, as she turned direct just a few days before, trines Mars and sextiles Venus conjunct Pluto, who sextiles back to Mars in its compassionate, ever encompassing grand mini trine, a blessing joining a second grand mini trine of Chiron sextile Saturn, trine the Sun-Moon-Mercurial stellium, who sextiles back to Saturn. The gifts of holding onto what is most sacred, in our homes, in our relationships, in the work that Neptune impelled on her own six-month journey. She wholly embodies tough, steady love to comprehend the power of our individual souls and our close connections through the awakenings that Uranus strikes and ambushes us along with the North Node conjunct Ceres, nudging us through this phase of higher learning. Lilith is opposite the Sun, Moon, and Mercury, the balance of raw, kundalini, root chakra power to hold us in a state of diversity as we continue this quest of what is authentically enlightening.

Deep, I tell you, deep. It is my deepest and wholehearted belief that we are each here on our own mission. Mine has never been on the not-so-heavy side, in fact, I am often way too serious for my own good, even underneath the intense optimism of possibilities and the fairy wings that keep me grounded. Did you just read that right? If these fairy wings did not flutter so damn quick, it is quite possible that I might have sank deep into oblivion these last few years.
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I am so grateful for learning how powerful our emotions and thoughts are. In fact, in 2011, it was during the North Node in Sagittarius that I learned these important lessons. An epiphany not quite realized until I researched the years of the Gemini-Sagittarius eclipses. It also reiterated the importance of patterns and themes that astrology does bring into the picture. It is like cooking with the same recipe that you may or may not decide to add or subtract an ingredient or two, or perhaps the flavor comes more from the love behind the recipe. A little more magic to think about.
Interested in how Gemini-Sagittarius showed up in your life? Or how about the upcoming Taurus-Scorpio lessons just six weeks away. Email [email protected] for an astrological or oracle card consult. Happy Eclipse Finale and Happy Holidays!