April 25th Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio

The April 2013 Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio: A Pit Stop in the Evolution of Human Consciousness

The starry heavens will be presenting to us a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse at 5 degrees Scorpio on April 25th. Is it just me, or does it seem like 1 thing after another...the skies are always filled with drama. We just came off of a very difficult Mercury retrograde period in Pisces (Mercury isn't good in Pisces as it is), and a very tense square involving Uranus, Sun, Mars, Venus in Aries, squaring Pluto in Capricorn. Before we have a chance to catch our breath, in comes the Eclipse.... and its in Scorpio....conjunct Saturn.... opposing Mars, Venus and of course the Sun in Taurus. In and of itself the Full Moon can be a handful, but its a LUNAR ECLIPSE and eclipses in their own right are intense "course changers", so to speak. A HUGE Spotlight will be thrown onto Scorpio, AND on all of our dysfunctional behaviors, choices and patterns (usually unconscious) that have messed up our lives, AND that no longer serve a purpose for us. By now, you should know what they are. The **it has already hit the fan for everyone with Saturn and the Node transiting Scorpio for a while now... we all have had our tango with some wound, hurt, power struggle, blind spot, behavior, pattern, and deep-dark emotion/issue. So, we are already aware on some level of the issue(s). This Eclipse simply rubs our face in it and makes it CRITICAL.

It takes us deeper into the heart of it and with Saturn conjuncting the Moon, a very serious and responsible tone characterizes this Eclipse. This is the time to take ultimate responsibility (Saturn) for our "STUFF". This is "Dragon Slaying" time. Its time to cut loose the things that drag you down. Scorpio is the realm of psychic vampires that suck all of your precious energy and resources. These are varied and can include toxic friendships, toxic relatives, toxic partnerships, toxic ideas, toxic beliefs, toxic emotions, toxic behaviors, toxic thoughts, toxic patterns, and the list goes on.

Hopefully you've got the idea here. Get out the scalpel and start "cutting". To give you an example of this....My father was having car trouble recently.... it was having trouble starting up periodically. He found out it was a bad battery, but something was draining the battery. When the battery is drained, the car cant function properly. What is draining your "batteries".... emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually? Your task for the next 6 months (the length of time an eclipse lasts) is to figure this out. Master this task and Saturn will reward you... if not now, later.


More:

http://astrologicalawakenings.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-april-2013-lunar-eclipse-in-scorpio.html

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I can think of one thing this might be, but I am actually really curious what this is going to be. Because it seems like whatever this is, even though it's going to be tough, that we will get out stronger in the end.

Just in case people think this moon is only going to affect 1-11 degree Scorps..think again

"A Lunar Eclipse occurs on April 25, 2013 at 5 degrees and 46 minutes of Scorpio (opposite the Sun in Taurus), affecting people born with personal planets and points at approximately 1 to 11 degrees of the Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius) most significantly.

http://www.cafeastrology.com/2013eclipsescharts.html

The first Lunar Eclipse of 2013 occurs on 25th/26th April, so hang onto your hats and hold your horses, because some interesting times are ahead! The impact of a Lunar eclipse is more often felt internally, at the level of feelings and emotions, in our soul and spirit. Its shifts can be huge if we allow them to unfold as they must, but they are largely on an inner level. Of course, once the inner changes, the outer is rarely far behind, but for now let's look at the internal world of this Lunar Eclipse??_.

In the sign of Scorpio and conjunct Saturn, here we see deep emotional lessons at hand for us. We may find our emotions stirred up in ways that throw us off track for a while. And with Mars in Taurus taking a significant role at the time of this eclipse, those feelings may be powerful and tenacious. We may even find that our usual coping mechanisms or emotional management techniques no longer work, leaving us little choice but to face and feel what may appear to be the general detritus of our unconscious.

At such times it's easy to feel defeated or discouraged, but this eclipse is best seen as an inner purging, clearing out the dusty corners and rotting matter of our minds and hearts, making them ready to receive something altogether more beautiful and life-affirming in due course. After all, the compost heap may not be the most eye-catching part of a garden, but its input most certainly makes the other parts beautiful and vibrant! At the time of this eclipse we may find ourselves looking at the compost heap with our back to the garden, wondering where on earth all our commitment to our personal and spiritual development has really gotten us if we can still feel this way after all this time and hard work!

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But this is a phase we??re in, a process. This is the first eclipse of three (two more next month), and if we want the other two to do their thing with us, we need to comply with the demands and challenges of this one. And the heavens offer a very significant helping hand with this compliance in the form of the Asteroid Pallas teamed up with Venus: Here's the Warrior Queen hand in hand with the Goddess of Love in the earthy and tenacious sign of Taurus. In this friendship we see natural remedies of the land applied to heal our inner and outer wounds. We see powerful healing energies flowing through the earth with which we can connect deeply now. And in forming a Grand Sextile with Pluto and Chiron, these two goddesses team up with the most profoundly transformational and healing powers in the cosmos to come to our aid.

So, yes, this is a purging, but it is most definitely a healing purge, a cleansing of mind, body and soul, preparing us for the new energies to be brought forth at the Solar Eclipse on 9th/10th May. However we experience this time, and of course our personal experience will be uniquely ours no matter what the overall picture may be, we can rest assured that none of this is pointless or without meaning. The challenge is to find the meaning, or to live without knowing it and still have the faith to carry on. It is to find the key to our own healing, or to continue without it knowing that when the time is right it will make itself known to us. It is to look our own darkness and pain fully in the face, perhaps for the very first time, and to know that however dark it may be in the there, the tiny stars still break through the night sky to light our way and without the darkness around them we could never appreciate their beauty.

And so it is with us. This lunar eclipse may well bring our shadows into consciousness, but in doing so it reminds us that no shadow can be cast without a light shining close by. This week we can find that light amidst the shadows, and know that it will guide us onward if we will but follow.


http://astro-awakenings.co.uk/lunar-eclipse-in-scorpio-25th26th-april-2013

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