Be Ready When the Moon Comes Visiting
Everybody knows that the sky changes every day, but there is another kind of
change that you many not know about.
The signs and planets above us are constantly dictating our destiny, but most of us
don’t have a clue how to understand this.
You can gain some very startling revelations that will convince you that you really
need to pay more attention to what’s going on “up there.”
All you need do is keep track of the Moon’s daily journey through the heavens and
you wlll soon become convinced that you have been depriving yourself of some very
valuable information.
What the Moon does for us on earth is to set the energy and mood for the day. It
stimulates our psychic energies.
Haven’t you ever noticed that some days are full of fiery energy, frustrating and
angry? Other days are very social, gentle, upbeat and cooperative. Your good and
bad days may be more connected to the Moon than you realize.
For example, some people are born angry. A skilled astrologer can find the cause of
this anger by looking at the relationship of a person’s inner planets in their birth
chart. Some people’s inner planets are in harmony and others are not.
If you discover that you have a tendency to explosive outbursts, you obviously have
some planets in your birth chart that are not in harmony. A skilled astrologer can
explain this to you. He might say something like, “Your Pluto is in the sign of Leo
and your Moon is in he sign of Scorpio. This is a very stressful combination of
energy because. . .”
“What does that mean?” you ask.
“It means that you have a tendency to have very strong emotional outbursts.”
“What can I do about it?”
“You can begin to observe those days when these energies are going to be triggered
by the Moon and you can gain a better insight into what causes this to happen.”
“As the Moon travels through all the signs in its monthly cycle, it energizes and
shines light on your own internal energies. In a sense, the Moon’s energies are
traveling through you. When it goes through the signs of Leo or Scorpio, your anger
pattern of Pluto versus the Moon will be trigged within you.”
This dialogue reveals the value of watching the passage of the Moon each month.
the Moon travels not only physically through the heavens, but psychically through
your inner world. If you know your own birth chart and where the Moon is each day
of the month, you can make some amazing discoveries whenever it energizes the
psychological patterns within you.
These patterns are already set within you at birth. I call the analysis of these
patterns “Planetary Psychology”© I created this new wave in human awareness
because it is far more accurate than traditional psychology. This is why many
Jungians, who practice astrology, are really practicing Planetary Psychology©.
This is a more accurate term than astrology or astropsychology.
If you would like more information on how to read the planets and learn how to
watch the Moon, check out the website below. then you will be ready when the
Moon comes visiting.
© 2006 Randall Curtis
Randall Curtis is a professional astrologer with world-wide clients.
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The Perfect Moon
When we look to the night sky, most of us see a shining orb that changes size and shape and a whole bunch of pin-sized lights. It’s now common knowledge that the moon affects water movement on earth. The tides ebb and flow with the pull of the moon.
We are made of 90% water, so it would make sense that the phase of the moon affects us as well. No scientific research has been conclusive in this area, and so it remains theory - although widely accepted.
With such a powerful force above us, shouldn’t we try to understand the moon’s mysteries? Start small. Try to pay attention to what phase the moon is in. Is it actually full or does it just look full? Do you find that you feel different when the moon is close to full? What about when the moon is close to new and you cannot see it at all?
Tradition states that a waning moon (decreasing in visibility) signals a time of ridding your self of negativity. Kicking bad habits, losing weight and releasing negative thought patterns are examples of traditional waning moon activities. The cleansing energy peaks at the moment of the new moon (no longer visible at all).
A waxing moon (increasing in visibility) is a good time to bring positive things to you. Start new projects, open your self to new experiences - love, laugh, live. These are the trademarks of the waxing moon. This positive energy peaks at the moment of the full moon (fully visible).
The moon is actually only full for moment before it begins to wane, it is in constant motion. The concept of perfection can be seen in the face of the moon. The laws of physics state: The only constant is change.
This leads one to further speculate that perfection, then, can only exist for a moment before it is lost and changed into something else. Unless, perfection is change and imperfection is stagnation. If the latter is truth, nature is perfection.
So much to learn from the perfect, unassuming moon.
Ivy Mills has been researching chemical sensitivity and natural alternatives for over five years and has brought her knowledge to the marketplace in her company, Valhalla Essences. Her personal experiences have fed a passion to help others with the same problem. Ivy welcomes others to share their stories and experiences on her blog, Peaceful Power.
Tags: astrology, Moon, planets, rising moom, spiritualityThe Total Solar Eclipse
Astronomer Johannes Kepler did not have the benefit of sophisticated telescopes or computers yet, in the 17th century, he was able to establish a proven harmonic relationship between the planets. In his third law of planetary motion Kepler states: The orbital period of a planet is proportional to its distance to the Sun This was first revealed in his seminal work Harmonice Mundi or ‘Harmony of the World’ in 1619. It is also known as the Harmonic Law.
Kepler’s discoveries still hold firm today and corroborate the Pythagorean based theory, that the fabric of our existence is woven with number.
One of the ways that we can visibly observe the presence of this theory is in the relationship and planetary intervals between the Sun, Moon and Earth. More specifically in the observation of Eclipses that occur in regular, repeating numbered patterns known as The Saros Cycle. On Earth we can witness anything between two and five solar eclipses in a year. The periodicity of each cycle is 18 years, 11 days and 8 hours and there are some 70 eclipses (lunar and solar) in each Saros series, spanning 1,260 years.
The Sun is but one star amongst an infinite number of others, within an infinite number of galaxies. However, without this star and indeed the solar system, life would just not exist. Although, in the greater scheme of things, the Sun is a fairly insignificant star, its size may be better appreciated when I tell you that, hypothetically, it could accommodate one million planets the size of Earth. Being approximately 109 times the diameter of the Earth, the Sun is 400 times greater than the Moon’s diameter, whilst the Moon is approximately one-quarter the Earth’s diameter.
In one of the most beautiful displays of perfection and synchronicity known to Man, under certain conditions the disc of the Moon is able to completely blot out the light of the Sun, which throws a path of darkness over the surface of the Earth. It is an event known as a Total Solar Eclipse.
Due to its distance from the Sun and Earth, and the plane of its orbit when it comes between them, the Moon will periodically cover the face of the Sun in various degrees of obscuration. Thus we can have Total, Annular, Partial and Non Central eclipses.
The next one in the Saros cycle, is a Total Solar Eclipse, which will occur on Mar 29 2006 at 10.11:21 GMT for duration of 4 minutes and 7 seconds.
The area of darkness that the Moon’s shadow will cause is known as the path of totality. This eclipse has a path of totality that sweeps up from Brazil crossing the South Atlantic Ocean and making landfall through Togo, Benin. Nigeria, Niger, Chad,Libya and Egypt and then extending on up through Turkey and ending in Mongolia.
With the introduction of space probes such as SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), those in scientific community are beginning to understand the forces that the Sun can have upon the Earth. Particular attention has been paid in recent years to the impact of Solar Flares and sunspots on the Earth.
In brief, sunspots are the visible affects of the Sun’s magnetic forces. Sunspots have now been shown to have the greatest affect upon life on Earth when they are either most prevalent at times of Solar Maximum (around 100 sunspots), or most absent (zero sunspots) known as Solar Minimum. In yet another display of collaboration within the Universe, this sunspot cycle lasts for around 11 years - just short of the Eclipse cycle, enfolded within the longer-term solar activity cycle that lasts for 80-90 years. (Known as the Gleisberg cycle).
At times of maximum sunspots the Earth’s gravitational field is severely impacted causing migratory animals to lose their bearings, whales to beach themselves and lose directional ability. Power outages occur, electronic equipment, including mobile phones can go haywire and satellites in space can even be destroyed. Conversely, between 1645 and 1715 in a period known as the ‘Maunder Minimum’, the lack of solar activity led to the period known as the Little Ice Age.
It is therefore safe to extrapolate that if alterations to the surface of the Sun causes recognisable terrestrial events, that the entire light of the Sun being obscured from the Earth is going to have enormous consequences. Something that observers of rhythm and pattern (also known as astrologers!) have known since the beginning of civilisation.
This upcoming eclipse is one of three in the last century to occur in the sky at the 8th degree of the zodiac (8 Aries). The other two were in 1968 and 1987. This one however is expected to be the most potent. We judge this by the fact that the other two were not total eclipses and they did not last for even one minute of time. This eclipse is 4 minutes and 07 seconds in length.
The fact that we also have planets aligning with the Galactic Centre at the time of this eclipse and in angular relationships (or harmonic resonance) with other planetary bodies will also prove significant.
Empirical evidence shows that eclipses have most impact on those countries that lie under the path of totality and those for whom the degree of the eclipse resonates with their birth moment in someway. By this I mean that any person, country or manifest object whose inception involves 8 degrees of the cardinal signs (Aries, Libra, Capricorn or Cancer) is likely to experience events that mirror the celestial event.
Using our theory of number underpinning the Universe, the conjunction of two planets is thought to resonate to the number one, the number of Unity. Within ‘Unity’ all that is enfolded will unfold in the course of the cycle and indeed, continue to unfold further through subsequent cycles.
As the disc of the Moon is symbolically ‘putting out’ the light of the Sun, this correlates with events, which possess a quality of death and rebirth ‘the ending of one phase of being and the beginning of a new’. As the cycle unfolds the Sun, Moon and other planets will make aspects to the original eclipse degree of 8 Aries, triggering International events at those places where the eclipse is either visible, or is rising or setting at that location, or makes transits to chart positions.
People (or any other thing made manifest) who are born on or around 29 March +/- 3 days in any year, will find their lives and fortunes resonate strongly to the Solar/Lunar cycles and in particular to future eclipse cycles.
In fact, if the planets are analogous to the mechanism of an intricate celestial clock, the revolutions involved in eclipses may truly be described as the markers of time - the important cycles of destiny.
Kathryn Cassidy is a professional astrologer. She was first taught by traditional astrologer, Derek Appleby and later worked with Sun sign astrologer Jonathan Cainer for four years before securing her own astrology column in an internationally distributed magazine - Journal.
She now hosts a blog called Collaborating With Fate http://collaboratingwithfate.blogspot.com
where she discusses all aspects of astrology, with an emphasis on planetary cycles and the harmonic rhythms inherent in our Universe.