New Moon Solar Eclipse

Tuesday, July 21 at 8:35pm, will be a total solar eclipse--the middle of three eclipses this season! This power new moon eclipse sits between two full moon lunar eclipses, one on each side, the powerful midpoint of the whole eclipse field this summer.

We had a full moon lunar eclipse on July 7th at 15 Cancer and Capricorn. This is a focus in our home and work lives--they are up for revision and change.

We'll have another full moon lunar eclipse on August 5th at 13 Aquarius and Leo.

These three consecutive eclipses will be some of the most powerful forces we have to work with this year. This Kali power is the power to make the changes we have wanted to make, build the bridges we've wanted to build, eliminate the things we've been wanting but unable to eliminate. These eclipses are touching into Pluto--our power, especially in how we express this power of life through our families, our children, our food systems, our money and banking system and our basic work infrastructure. Basic structures are in question.

Where is the power and where does it need to be? The eclipses will be assisting with some of this redistribution of power. This is going on inside of us--the kicking out of the corrupt guys--as well as on a country and world level. The old eclipse adage, "three days before an eclipse and ten days after, expect earthquakes and the death of Kings." The earthquakes happen internally also and the death of kings, is related to the death of our ego.

It is NOT a time to begin important things unless they are happening in a way that seems as if they take no individual effort, they are simply "happening through us." In other words, if our ego has a plan during an eclipse field, it likely will fail. If spirit moves through us during an eclipse season we may feel so empowered we are lit up like lightbulbs of clarity. This kind of clarity is available and possible during an eclipse. These eclipse windows were feared by the ancients and are loved by those who know how to manage invisible and changing power. This energy is GREAT for clearing out the old, facing difficult people--who may be placed before us, making improvement changes we have not been able to make before.

Many spiritual teachers say eclipses magnify the power of our thoughts a hundred-fold. Tuesday is a day to RESPECT as a POWER to manage with reverence and intention. This eclipse is a new moon, so the beginning of a whole new cycle of creation!! It is the longest eclipse (six minutes) to happen in hundreds of years before and after--so i hear!

Eclipses are our powerful allies for change. We can work with them by using their power to be Kali in our life, with a sharp clear sword that is ready to cut away the things that are bad for the whole. We may see the parts of self that we will now outgrow. Now is a great time to make an evolutionary leap with the least amount of effort--because the whole cosmos is doing it with us.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller

These are sacred portals, of death, birth, and resurrection. These three things are mysteries. Eclipses take us to the edges of our mysteries, this could be edges of fear or limitation, OR edges of grace or profound magic. With humility and persistent attention to what we "know," we can overcome almost any limitation in these portals of power. These are portals to be respected and even ritualized.

It is a day of the birth of new things. These things are being birthed at the very end of the sign of Cancer 29 degrees. New things being birthed in the composting crumbling deconstructing old. "Its the end of an era and we live in a dying empire--hey, --lets start something new!" That's the spirit of this eclipse!! Death is all around, and yet, flowers still grow out of the compost. Are you a flower or are you a composting old piece of empire?

I know i have both empire and flower inside. Darth Vadar, Luke and the whole team are all inside--right. So this eclipse is one of those mythic portals where what used to be, changes, radically, in the course of a few months, or a season!! Luke confronts his father, Darth Vader, finds heart, takes off the mask, faces his father's death, and his own darkness. We have the power to confront our own darkness and overcome it.

Remember to handle heavy machinery and our bodies WITH CARE and SPECIAL ATTENTION at this time, in the eclipse field, all the way through August 20th. Care and Corefulness. Utilize the energy for radical change and overturning the compost for new life. Blessings on all those who are crossing over and all those who are helping others cross over. Bless those who are kissing the edges of life and death--may you deepen and come back more soulful! Bless our shadow and our light, may they balance each other out into a beautiful expression of human art! May our masculine and feminine (sun and moon) finally find the ways to nourish each other as we hit our Second New Moon in Cancer this year!! Here comes Mama!

In the eclipse field,
May the Source Be With You,

Azlan White

Eclipse Consultations by Phone for $25
(20 minute sessions with e-mailed astrology chart)
Pay through PayPal at "Oracle Theatre"
or mail check to: PO Box 9012, Santa Fe, NM 87504

Happy New Moon in Gemini!!!

This Hubble Space Image so reminds me of the spirit of this new moon in Gemini! A new birth--twin intentions!!! As we step into a new creative cycle, we have yet another opportunity to revise, start over, create anew!! Especially with mercury retrograde, there is a feeling for many people, in some area of life . . . "this or that" is not how i want to do it--especially over the last few days. So, today is the ultimate "reset" button day!! We can say "Reset!!" I choose to do it "this" way--instead, i'm going to "start over" in a new way that will really work better in the long run. Welcome to our whole new life, beginning TODAY!!! Happy New Moon in Gemini!!! I love Gemini energy because it is happy!! So a day to plant seeds of joy! What seeds can we plant today that will lead to our fullest expressions of joy at the full moon in two weeks? (our fruition and flowering for this new moon seed today) Hooorrrayyyy!!!

May your heart seeds be planted in the rich soulful soil of the collective dark sky of archetypal human consciousness!! And when this seed of today, planted in "yesterday's dark night," flowers at the Full Moon, may your flowering be a fullness of joyful emergence into your heart's untapped potentials for expanded states of joy!!

Note: I will be updating this blog again, now. I was evaluating how to share these stories and for now, this will do.

Phone Readings - I am available for telephone half hour "weather forecasts" of your personal astrological weather. These sessions are $30. Special for now. Please leave your name and phone number at 505-920-0199.

Oct 23 Waning toward a New Moon in Scorpio

The moon is waning in a cycle that was about freeing ourselves of unhealthy or unbalanced relationship. We are just finishing the lunar cycle that began with a new moon in Libra. There is an evolutionary archetypal shift between relationships of attachment, versus relationships of unconditional love. Now is the time to focus on unconditional love, which is "loving no matter what."

Now, the moon wanes into the dark insecure time, when we need deeper rest and we need each other to hold the light as we dip into the shadow side of our own personal lunar natures. The moon is in virgo now and will spend its darkest low point in the sign of libra, where it started--for our final relationship purification and release. From Saturday night through Tuesday, we are in a time of releasing, letting go and purification or deep rest and recuperation. If we have impulses to rest, its good to honor them.

The new moon is in Scorpio on October 28. This new moon is near a mars in scorpio. This cycle, we will be bringing solar light to masculine power and misuse of power. Scorpio is the realm of sex, death, other people's money, taxes, credit, and deep shamanic or psychological transformation. Scorpio is connected with the archetype of the phoenix who rises from the ashes of death, transformed. The pure power of scorpio can be as high as grace and miracles, as mundane as tax forms, or as low as our darkest human shadows and misuses of power.

With all of this knowledge we have of how power can manifest, it is our responsibility to expose the misuses of power we see, whether they are in our mates, our political leaders, or our electoral voting machines. At the same time, at this new moon, we want to expose our own misuses of power, which tend to look like forms of self-oppression, fear, obsession, lack, greed, or jealousy. Feelings of jealousy point to our deepest purest desires. This is the lunar cycle to be aware of all of the ways that we get tripped up in our power. During this new moon in scorpio we can claim our power in alignment with integrity and build a power base that is unstoppable in moving toward its goal. When our purpose is aligned with the desires of life itself and the cosmos, we can experience an alignment between our personal power and the grace of the universe. This can be our intention for this new moon. We have two weeks, from the new moon on Tuesday night, October 28, while the moon waxes toward the flowering of this power alchemy, at the full moon.

This new moon photo was taken by Alireza Teimoury in Esfahan, Iran
I was seeking a new moon near power lines, because that is how i see the scorpio new moon. Power lines have become a symbol for me of Scorpio and Pluto. This photo was accompanied by a poem that carries the themes of the scorpio archetype, so i include it here. This poem can be found on flickr.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Poem by Alireza Teimoury:
In my dreams I'm dying all the time
As I wake its kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie
So this is goodbye
This is goodbye
Tell the truth you never wanted me
In my dreams I'm jealous all the time
As I wake I'm going out of my mind
Going out of my mind
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Obsession, jealousy, lying and death are all potential manifestations of scorpio power. It is good to be aware that grace, deep healing, transformation, the gifting of financial resources, and sexual ecstacy also live in the realm of scorpio. It is the season of scorpio and time to choose how we will manifest, express or heal our deep scorpionic sexual creative power. This is a perfect cycle to trade places of shame and resentment for foregiveness and generosity of spirit.