Libra Full Moon Lunar Eclipse
Expectations, Catastrophic Thinking and the Art of Letting It All Unfold
We in the Spiritual / Astrological / Cosmic communities place a great deal of emphasis on Eclipses. Much fanfare courses through online. What it might mean, what catastrophes or great awakenings may transpire. Partly this is because we’re a culture in constant need of stimulation, always looking for the next best thing (which I’ll get to in a bit), and partly because it sells. Fear sells. So does overpromising.
Eclipses, astrologically speaking, are linked to the Nodes. The North Node and South Node to be precise. When a New or Full Moon occurs in proximity to the Nodal Axis, we have an Eclipse, which is why they’re often associated with fated events, a kind of cosmic intervention.
But not every person is going to be equally affected by an eclipse. This is where precise interpretation is needed. And even then, sometimes the experience felt is more subtle.
That being said, Eclipses are likely to bring news, or information to the surface. And tracking the Eclipses through our charts can be very helpful in gaining a sense of our broader trajectory.
This particular one is in Libra, the sign of partnership, diplomacy, marriage, contracts, co-dependency, balance, beauty (especially atmospheric beauty) and values. It’s a Full Moon, which brings culmination, clarity, release.
Emotions are likely to be heightened, we may feel more on edge, conversations could burst forth. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. It’s how we learn. Rubbing up against the world. Finding its - and our - edges.
When Daniel and I first started dating, he would ask me “what does that word mean to you?” Dating, to one person, may be getting to know you. To another, a more committed track. We’re opposites in every way. He thinks one thing, I, another. So many squares in our relationship, and yet, somehow, it works. It makes no sense on paper, but it works.
We have such a consumerist approach to relationship in our modern, swipe right / left world. People are seen as disposable, always looking for the next best thing. But we humans take time to know, to trust, to open up. We deserve that grace. Others do too. Discernment and curiosity make excellent bedfellows.
What is it that we’re seeking from those we’re in relationship with? Not just romantic. Work. Friendship. Family. What, really, are our values? Do we really live by them? These questions aren’t so easily answered. But they’re worth our time in their contemplation.
Life, in so many ways, is the art of relating. We need people. We need each other, we need interaction, communication, engagement. We cannot know ourselves in a vacuum. Navel gaze too long and we’re lost, spun up in our own solipsism, lonely and apart. Libra is the seventh sign in the Zodiac. The scales, balance, harmonization. It governs diplomacy, graciousness, elegance, beauty, marriage, contracts, co-dependence. This Full Moon, with Libra’s ruler Venus in Pisces separating from a Saturn conjunction has us looking at our values, and how our values shape our desires, and then our relationships. What do we expect of others? What do we expect of ourselves? Where do we need to compromise more? Where less? What are we negotiating? And why? Eclipses unfold like dominos, each one bringing us to the next, each one revealing the next layer or chapter. Nineteen years ago we experienced these same eclipses. What was happening in Spring of 2005? What themes can be threaded through? It’s not always so grand or clear, these things take time to understand, to clarify. But know the rumblings aren’t in our heads. Things are shifting. They are moving. It’s just a matter of how, and in what way and if we’re resistant or welcoming. Relationships are layered, complex, and dynamic - because we are. Ultimately, we’re being called to investigate our part, not just the wanting and needing but what we’re giving, too, what we’re withholding. “The cruelest thing” my teacher once shared, “is to withhold your loving.” How can we lean more into understanding, into building bridges instead of walls, into finding our way back to one another, as humans, to connect. It starts, always, with ourselves. The mirror, once again. Can we ever really know another person? Can we ever fully know ourselves? I’m not so sure. But it seems essential and necessary that we at least try. Isn’t it - in very large part - why we’re even here?
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