MYTHIC TIMES: MOON MAGIC August 2008
August is a transformative month beginning with a Total Solar Eclipse whose effects extend through the lunar cycle ending on August 30. This is an Eclipsing Moon. Mid-August, shooting stars will be streaming brightly from the sword of Perseus while the Moon swings low through Scorpio. Venus returns to the sky this month appearing next to the crescent Moon on the evening of August 2. Mercury, Venus and Saturn hang low together in the west just after Sunset on Aug 13-15. Following this close encounter, Venus rises higher and higher over Saturn for months to come allowing love, grace, beauty and truth to steadily grow in influence. The August 16th Lunar Eclipse offers opportunity to eliminate whatever might be disturbing our world. This is a Full Moon to celebrate.
Total Eclipse of the Sun -August 1st at 6:13 am
A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth with the Moon close enough to Earth for the lunar disk to fully cover the Sun. This spectacular natural phenomenon is the most powerful event that can occur in the heavens. It is Mother Nature's principle editing tool for eliminating patterns of thought and behavior that trouble the world. Whatever needs eclipsing will surface during the days and weeks before this cosmic event.
Everything starts new following a total solar eclipse as a brief collective psychic shut down is followed by a “reboot” to a new operating system. A total solar eclipse breaks up old psychic patterns freeing energies for new creation. These energies re-constellate around any new purpose or initiative brought forward during the waxing Moon following the eclipse (beginning Saturday evening August 2).
Druids built fires and beat drums following a total eclipse of the Sun. This was done to break the old spell of astral shadow, to restore natural order and to power on a new mythic story.
"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." - Tuli Kupferberg
Dark of the Moon - Look Within -July 31–Aug 2 and Aug 29-Sept 1
The Dark of the Moon is a 3-day period beginning the day before a New Moon and ending at Sunset the day after when the new crescent is visible. While generally unfavorable for outward activity, these three days are ideal for inner realization and communion with the soul. This is especially so for a total eclipse of the Sun.
Ideally we take time off the day of the New Moon and practice silence as much as possible. Quiet at the dark of Moon opens inner knowing. This is an opportune time for putting down new psychic roots to draw from the well within. All we need to do is slow down and tune inward.
The Crescent New Moon - A Time to Sow, August 3-5
Traditionally New Moon means Crescent New Moon. The New Moon on our calendars is actually the midpoint of the Dark of the Moon time. The Waxing Crescent Moon generally becomes visible the evening after a New Moon. The lunar crescent appears Saturday, Aug 2nd alongside Venus and Mercury. This is a time to light ceremonial fires and beat drums. The next five days (Aug 3-8) are ideal for all new beginnings. Important meetings and new work are best scheduled during the waxing moon that extends from Sunset on August 2nd until the Full Moon on August 16th. Anything begun during this time is apt to be more successful.
Mid-Leo Power Gate, Aug 6-8
Old world pagans, druids and nature magicians recognized Mid-Leo as one of the 8 times of the year when fire magic is most powerful. Midpoint Leo, the power gate of fire, culminates the ancient festival of Lughnasa or Lammas that begins August 1st. Followers of the old faith would go to mountain tops and hills where they would share bread (hence Lammas or "loaf mass") believing it imbued with transcendent spirit. This is a time for realizing dreams, actualizing ambitions and renewing cultural ideals. Mid-Leo is especially a time for illumination. Dreams, animal signs and omens (chance happenings) indicate what's to come in the autumn season. Take note!
Moon Out of Bounds South, Aug 9 - Aug 13
The Sun’s north-south movement sets the boundaries of the Zodiac from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer. The Sun moves within these boundaries, but the Moon can go Out of Bounds.
The Moon Out of Bounds South moves through the “underworld.” This is a time to go beneath the surface of things, to do research, change habits or renovate our inner world. During this time we may experience emotional challenges relating to any area of life where we’ve been blocked or where we are hiding something from ourselves.
When the moon “rides low” our inner world is illuminated and the unconscious is energized so individual, group and global patterns can be revealed and reformed. Moon Out of Bounds South is ideal for rewiring our subconscious circuitry or changing old habits.
Moon Out of Bounds North - Aug 23 -27
Out of Bounds North is easy. Everybody is more open and apt to listen to new ideas. During this time the Moon is "riding high" in celestial latitude, giving us more latitude and imagination. We can enter “the higher world” where new ideas are more easily and successfully shared. This time is ideal for important meetings or social gatherings and to make new announcements, do promotions, or bring new discoveries to public view.
Balsamic Moon – Make a Wish, Aug 27 and 28
August ends with a tiny crescent Moon rising before the Sun. This waning crescent will be especially pretty through binoculars as it appears right next to the Beehive star cluster. The Balsamic Moon, also called the Wishing Moon, is the best time for putting wishes on the air and for bringing people to mind that need healing. Needs felt now invoke response from the coming lunar cycle. Wishes made at the Balsamic Moon come to fulfillment at the next Full Moon on Sept. 15. Make a wish and get ready for a new story.
Eclipse Addenda
To better understand the nature and effects of an eclipse, astrologers consider its Saros cycle and the original chart of the series. The August 1st solar eclipse is one of the Saros cycle 10 South series. Based on number, this eclipse is related to Tarot Key 10 The Wheel of Fortune:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RWS_Tarot_10_Wheel_of_Fortune.jpg (The August 16 Lunar Eclipse is also Saros 10)
The August 1st solar eclipse signals great changes for the world with many new opportunities, especially for those attuning to spirit within in this time. South Node solar eclipses signal collective pattern breaking that may occur through political changes or through earthquakes and other natural disasters. These Earth changing events may precede or follow in the month of the eclipse.
According to the astrologer Bernadette Brady "The nature of this series
is one of breaking out of a very negative situation where there is no hope to a more positive space that contains many options. The solution will be shown by the Cosmos and needs to be taken up without much delay." For more information about eclipses and the various Saros cycles see Bernadette Brady's The Eagle and the Lark - a Textbook of Predictive Astrology.
The August 1st 2008 eclipse has a positive transforming quality as Pluto is in a friendly Grand Trine with the newly returned love goddess Venus and her underworld compadre Persephone (Eris). This Grand Trine releases its power (via a square) through the dwarf planet Ceres, the Great Mother goddess and revealer of the Mysteries. We're in for a very interesting and enlightening moonth.
A Solar Eclipse note from Vicki Noble:
"Native people tells us that eclipses amplify whatever we're doing by millions of times, so make good karma now and try not to be harmful in any way. Say your prayers, make your wishes, do your mantras, sing your chants before you go to bed, and perhaps your dreams will bring a message of positive healing power. Astrologers tell us that eclipses always effect world events which unfold in the months and years following the eclipse itself. This Solar Eclipse falls at the same degree as the Ascendant of the chart representing the New York Stock Exchange, so expect some kind of roller coaster ride in the next few weeks and months.
"Our ancient ancestors went to great lengths to honor, mark and celebrate Solar and Lunar eclipses for many millennia. Some of the most beautiful earthworks in the world, such as Stonehenge in England or New Grange in Ireland, or even the Butte in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, have been arranged and modified in order to accommodate and record eclipse cycles.
"May this holy time be a blessing for each of you and all of our kin. May the world be illuminated by the light of the spirits of peace and love. May we all be part of a transformation and healing of this beautiful planet that involves a return of the values and energies of the sacred feminine." - Vicki Noble
Excerpts from Kelley Hunter's Cosmic News letter:
"TOTAL ECLIPSE of the SUN!! On August 1. In the dramatic and heart-centered sign of Leo, with Mercury and Venus in attendance, this eclipse will be visible in a narrow corridor across half the Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia and—significantly in view of the 08/08/08 Olympics— China.
You can see a live webcast of this eclipse from China! NASA gives a link:
http://sunearthday.gsfc.nasa.gov/2008eclipse/ . What a prelude to the world games. The eclipse will be seen as partial in northeastern North America, most of Europe and Asia. It’s at 6:22 am EDT, 11:22 am GMD.
"There was a very powerful related eclipse on August 11, 1999. Does that date ring a bell? Some issues might be coming back around. During an eclipse, it appears that the light is turned off and turned on again. As in Heaven, so on Earth. Something in your life is turned off and relit. What is that for you? The next Full Moon on August 16 will be a partial lunar eclipse.
"With the party in Leo, let’s not forget to look at the leading edge of this eclipse, with the North Node of the Moon in Aquarius. The Node aligns closely with Chiron, the Shaman, and Neptune, the Dreamtime planet. We are asked to come into a new energetic alignment with each other and the cosmos." Contact Kelley kellhunter@earthlink.net to be added to her newsletter list.
Cosmic Connections
The Solar eclipse of August 1, 2008 (Saros cycle 10 South)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_1,_2008
The Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 (next total eclipse of the Sun)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_2009_July_22
"All About Eclpses" at NASA's 3-D Learning Center
http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/classroom/eclipse.shtml
Esoteric & Spiritual Astrology
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~lzmagnus/Esoteric1.html
Solar Eclipse Crop Circle in Wiltshire England
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/honeystreet3/honeystreet2008c.html
Astrolabe, current chart, astro*weather http://www.alabe.com/
SpaceWeather.com http://www.spaceweather.com/
Sky & Telescope's Skytonight.com http://skytonight.com/
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