September 2006
The Star of Hardcore Purification
Watching the Vedic Moon
The Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse of September 2006
happens on Thursday, September 7, at 11:43am, in the lunar sign of Purva Bhadrapada.
A lunar and solar eclipse happen every 6 months. During the lunar eclipse, the Sun and the Moon line up with the earth directly in between them, causing the Moon to go through the Earth's shadow. This symbolically represents a time when human inner well-being is cut off from it's natural source of Light, provoking inner exploration into the very nature of being alive.
This Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse occuring in Purva Bhadrapada, whose "shakti" or power is to raise spiritual awareness, does this through austerity of some kind - elected, or imposed.
Therefore, this is a very powerful time for inner work, spiritual practice, and retreating/regrouping/reconnecting with your inner Being. Ironic that it occurs at the very beginning of a school year, when life takes many of us in a more active direction.
Purva Bhadrapada is no sissy lunar sign. It has a strong energy, capable of extremes. This is not a time for light and sweet Grace. It is a time for fierce Grace. (In the Hindu tradition, this lunar sign carries the energy of Rudra, a most "hardcore" form of Shiva.)
The chart for September 7 seems to show strong religious fanaticism, capable of violence - the hardcore self-study types among us, can notice in ourselves, any of these tendencies, no matter how subtle.
Planning & Scheduling
Living In Accord With The Seasons
The astrological landscape includes:
Mercury and Mars sharing the sign of Virgo during the middle of September (exact on Sat. Sept. 16), which can bring "hot", aggressive communications, debating facts, methods, and the mechanics of situations.
Saturn in exact opposition to Neptune from Aug. 29 - 31: This transit point is the first of three oppositions made by these two planets with very opposite energies. Where this transit occurs in your chart, will represent an area of life in which you may feel a little stretched by your own, inner, conflicting needs for right brain vs left brain approaches.
Full moon/Lunar Eclipse on September 7, New Moon/ Solar Eclipse on September 22.
The energy of eclipses is best understood in the metaphor of the light of the sun and moon being "overshadowed". Thus, these dates, (and the period between the two dates) is to be avoided for advancing your life's material affairs, and to be used for promoting your life's spiritual affairs.
Mercury goes retrograde from Oct. 29, 2006 until Nov. 17, 2006
Do while Mercury's retrograde:
reconnect with old friends
revisit older ideas
edit and review art projects, writing projects, photo albums
clean up your hard drive (back it up first!)
Avoid signing contracts, embarking on journeys, or scheduling yourself too tightly, until Mercury's direct. (Appointments tend to change, events have a higher chance of being canceled, information gets lost..)
Pluto: Dwarf Planet
Relegated to the Underworld by the IAU
On Thursday, Aug. 24, the IAU - International Astronomers' Union - demoted Pluto from planet status to dwarf-planet / trans-Neptunian object.
Pluto had been discovered in 1930 by Clyde William Tombaugh, an American astronomer in Flagstaff, Arizona.
For vedic astrologers, this poses no problem, as the only "grahas" (literally, seizers) considered in natal horoscopy, are the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. (The two shadow planets Rahu and Ketu are ecliptic points, which are not actual celestial bodies but are seen as important indicators in a horoscope.)
For the western astrological community, this poses a bit more of an issue. But still, western astrologers have been also using the "asteroids", as they are called in western astrology, bodies such as Ceres, Juno, Vesta, Lilith, and even a body known as Chiron, (a satellite of Pluto) in it's interpretations.
It is doubtful that Pluto's demotion will affect the actual practice of western astrology very much. It may, however, affect astrological textbooks.
Planets
(author unknown)
Here are nine planets that we know.
Round and round the Sun they go.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars,
These are the planets near our star.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, too.
Neptune, Pluto, we can't see you.
These are the nine planets that we know.
Round and round the Sun they go.
Watching the Vedic Moon
The Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse of September 2006
happens on Thursday, September 7, at 11:43am, in the lunar sign of Purva Bhadrapada.
A lunar and solar eclipse happen every 6 months. During the lunar eclipse, the Sun and the Moon line up with the earth directly in between them, causing the Moon to go through the Earth's shadow. This symbolically represents a time when human inner well-being is cut off from it's natural source of Light, provoking inner exploration into the very nature of being alive.
This Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse occuring in Purva Bhadrapada, whose "shakti" or power is to raise spiritual awareness, does this through austerity of some kind - elected, or imposed.
Therefore, this is a very powerful time for inner work, spiritual practice, and retreating/regrouping/reconnecting with your inner Being. Ironic that it occurs at the very beginning of a school year, when life takes many of us in a more active direction.
Purva Bhadrapada is no sissy lunar sign. It has a strong energy, capable of extremes. This is not a time for light and sweet Grace. It is a time for fierce Grace. (In the Hindu tradition, this lunar sign carries the energy of Rudra, a most "hardcore" form of Shiva.)
The chart for September 7 seems to show strong religious fanaticism, capable of violence - the hardcore self-study types among us, can notice in ourselves, any of these tendencies, no matter how subtle.
Planning & Scheduling
Living In Accord With The Seasons
The astrological landscape includes:
Mercury and Mars sharing the sign of Virgo during the middle of September (exact on Sat. Sept. 16), which can bring "hot", aggressive communications, debating facts, methods, and the mechanics of situations.
Saturn in exact opposition to Neptune from Aug. 29 - 31: This transit point is the first of three oppositions made by these two planets with very opposite energies. Where this transit occurs in your chart, will represent an area of life in which you may feel a little stretched by your own, inner, conflicting needs for right brain vs left brain approaches.
Full moon/Lunar Eclipse on September 7, New Moon/ Solar Eclipse on September 22.
The energy of eclipses is best understood in the metaphor of the light of the sun and moon being "overshadowed". Thus, these dates, (and the period between the two dates) is to be avoided for advancing your life's material affairs, and to be used for promoting your life's spiritual affairs.
Mercury goes retrograde from Oct. 29, 2006 until Nov. 17, 2006
Do while Mercury's retrograde:
reconnect with old friends
revisit older ideas
edit and review art projects, writing projects, photo albums
clean up your hard drive (back it up first!)
Avoid signing contracts, embarking on journeys, or scheduling yourself too tightly, until Mercury's direct. (Appointments tend to change, events have a higher chance of being canceled, information gets lost..)
Pluto: Dwarf Planet
Relegated to the Underworld by the IAU
On Thursday, Aug. 24, the IAU - International Astronomers' Union - demoted Pluto from planet status to dwarf-planet / trans-Neptunian object.
Pluto had been discovered in 1930 by Clyde William Tombaugh, an American astronomer in Flagstaff, Arizona.
For vedic astrologers, this poses no problem, as the only "grahas" (literally, seizers) considered in natal horoscopy, are the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. (The two shadow planets Rahu and Ketu are ecliptic points, which are not actual celestial bodies but are seen as important indicators in a horoscope.)
For the western astrological community, this poses a bit more of an issue. But still, western astrologers have been also using the "asteroids", as they are called in western astrology, bodies such as Ceres, Juno, Vesta, Lilith, and even a body known as Chiron, (a satellite of Pluto) in it's interpretations.
It is doubtful that Pluto's demotion will affect the actual practice of western astrology very much. It may, however, affect astrological textbooks.
Planets
(author unknown)
Here are nine planets that we know.
Round and round the Sun they go.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars,
These are the planets near our star.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, too.
Neptune, Pluto, we can't see you.
These are the nine planets that we know.
Round and round the Sun they go.
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posted by marga at 9/26/2006 08:04:00 PM
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