Eclipse season is upon us again!
The first of our two summer eclipses is occuring in the sign of Cancer. If you know or have access to your birth chart this eclipse will be impacting those with personal planets and/or angles of the chart from 6°-16° of the Cardinal Signs: #Aries, #Cancer, #Libra, #Capricorn.
The Sabian Symbol associated with this eclipse from straightwoo.com reads: "A large diamond in the first stages of the cutting process." Indicating that 'Focused training for perfection (is) in order to manifest an ideal.' While also reminding us to focus on the theme of craftsmanship; this can be working on your craft or respecting the work of others. A few years of Science classes taught me that it takes tremendous pressure and the right amount of carbon to even be able to create a natural diamond, much less a LARGE uncut diamond in the raw. So by looking at the Sabian Symbol and through it's theme of craftsmanship we can assertain that 'you' are the diamond and your growth requires that some parts of you are to be 'cut away'. This can be emotional baggage, childhood wounds, trauma, depression, etc. This signals the beginning stages of a change that has been building within you, now is a time to plant seeds of true self love to nurture you from here on.
Anything in your life that isn't making you shine, now is the time to release it to the Universe. You've felt this bruise growing under the surface, pointing you to what hurts for focused healing or focused hurling.
Big focus is directed inward as we have Jupiter at home in #Sagittarius, Saturn at home in Capricorn, Neptune at home in #Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn that are all RX (retrograde) as July begins. Mercury will soon join the RX party by the end of the first week of July.
The New Moon Total Solar Eclipse aspects should dance in harmony as the eclipse point sextiles to Uranus in #Taurus. Saturn (currently RX) in Capricorn is also harmoniously sextiled by Neptune (currently RX) in Pisces. This New Moon Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer is begging for you to tend to your needs first so that you can nurture that which you love in the ways that only you can. Mercury going retrograde in big hearted #Leo gives us a chance to truly reassess if the venture or craftsmanship is based in authentic love or egocentric love.
Mercury has just stepped into Leo and is slowing down in preparation for the July 7-31 retrograde period. We've been under the shadow of Mercury's pre-retrograde phase since June 20 and we will exit the post-retrograde shadow phase in mid-August. Leo hosted the last Total Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse in January at 0° there was a trine to the dwarf planet/asteroid Ceres in #Scorpio. I have written an article analyzing the Leo eclipses of 2017 & 2019 if you're interested
I'll provide a link to it here: Solar 2017/Lunar 2019 Leo Eclipses Astrological Analysis
Edit: July 3, 2019
I swore I hit share on this article four days ago. But here I am editing it to say it didn't share. I'm blaming Mercury pre-retrograde shadow phase on this. 😎