Eclipses and the New Year 2010
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Lunar Eclipse Starts the New Year
2010 – What a beginning! It is not very often that the new year will start off with a Lunar Eclipse on New Years Day!!!!!!!! While on the West Coast this celestial event will be at 11:13 pm, the rest of the country–which most importantly means Washington DC will experience this eclipse at in the wee hours of January 1, 2010.
What a way to start the new year off! What might this mean? Well, the moon will be at 10 degrees of Cancer and since the United States is a Cancer Nation (sounds ominous,but it is a great nurturing sign, actually) this means that the US is in for a very emotional roller coaster ride. Cancer is the mother of the zodiac and with the eclipse in Cancer it probably means that this health care issue is not going to go away quietly, something has to be done. There has to be a compromise. A bill must be gotten out of the senate. There are just too many people who are not covered with health benefits in this country, supposedly a country so devoted the “pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It seems to me that life and happiness in this day and age means health care for all, not just a few. However, it is not my purpose to drone on and on about health care or the political winds that will blow during this politically charged year when Obama will be facing the congressional elections, a true measure of the country’s response to his administration. The solar eclipse in July will probably be the turning point and it is in the later (19) degrees of Cancer and will bring about some sort of national self introspection: what is the US all about, any way and how much longer can this split of red and blue states go on. There may well be an event that will bring us together like 9/11, but hopefully not that traumatic.
What about Me? What about the Eclipses of 2010 and Me? I am glad that you asked that question. The new year will bring about a lot of personal introspection and transformation. With the Sun at 10 degrees being sandwiched between Mercury (19) and and Venus (7) and Pluto (3) lurking about there is the indication is that the ego (Sun) is going to be the focus of a lot of attention. If we can imagine that on the macrocosm the eclipse hits at the ego or unconscious of a nation, we can say that on the microcosm (those parts that in sum make up a huge part of the macrocosm) we the individuals will be facing a large shift in the making of each individual’s “personal myth.”
Jung taught that each of us is on a quest to realize our self that is a personality identity that transcends the ego and makes for a larger and more encompassing aspect of the individual. The self is a complex mix of the human being. Let’s say that means the “being” part of being human. This sense of self, this identification of a connection to a larger whole of which the individual is integrated into a greater universal is done through the creation of personal myth.
What is personal myth? A personal myth is that large conceptual story of experiences and dreams that create a personal hierarchy of values and archetypes. There are many archetypes and sub grouping. For example the mother–there is the good mother, the bad mother, the child destroying child mother. There is the wise mentor mother who gives advice and takes on younger people as surrogate children. There is the mother who wants to mother everyone by working in charities, and other worthy causes. And within that fabric of the mother there are subsets, what is the daughter concept that created this type of mother. Each woman carries part of her mother with her as part of a personal quest for self.
So in 2010 each of us will be face an in depth review our personal myths. How did we become the people that we are at this time and how can we make our journey to that complete self that will create the most positive karma for our soul. This is the challenge and I think that we are going to see more and more people turning to trying to define their self in a way that includes more service, more love, more reaching out to those in our communities. Secondly with the recession we are all forced to look at the amount of materialism in our lives. We will become more minimalistic. The astrology to me is clear — we are heading into a large change in the consciousness of the planet and this has to start with the individual. How can it start any other way.
For all the negative things that can be said about the recession, it has forced those of us who live in this land of plenty to start thinking about what “plenty” really means. During a recent trip to India to the the samadi place of Shirdi Sai Baba I learned alot about what it takes to make people happy and that material possessions are not as big a part of it as Americans might think. People will start thinking about that is really necessary.
On the web more and more websites are promoting not only the “green movement” that is seeking to save the earth, but site which are directed at the individual and the journey of the self. The whole phenomena of blogging for example is a great diversification how information is communicated. And more and more bloggers are asking the question: what are it important issues in self individualization. This is the issue, I think that the eclipse cycles of 2010 point to.
The astrology of the solar eclipse in January can point to a national monetary problem, but on another scale it points to a growing rethinking of the relationship of materialism to the growth of the human soul While a lot is said about the practical aspects of Capricorn. The fact is that Capricorn is the beginning of the return of the light. The ancients (and Ptolemy) looked to the astrological starting point of the solstice. To those of us in the northern hemisphere this means the end of the receding of the light of the sun and the beginning of a new cycle of growing light. It is the winter that defines us, it is the winter that tests the carrying of the fire within (the point of the start movie “The Road”) each of us. Winter in the developed countries is not as stark as it used to be. The supermarkets are full. But the depression, the struggle for meaning in the self unfold during winter. Ask any psychiatrist.
My advice: as 2010 unfolds , start a journal if you haven’t already. Start a dialogue with your inner core. Are you living the life you really want. Do you need all the possessions that you have. Are there ways to simplify your life. Are you going in the direction that you want. And for the many boomers that are in their latter mid-life there is the issue of self redefinition, for them this will be a most interesting year. With the last of the Saturn Uranus dance of the changing of foundations and inner structure there will be more and more changing in the idea of what it means to go older and the options of the older sense of self and the goal of living the good life.
Hang on — 2010 will be quite a ride.