By the point you learn this, I’ll haven’t adopted my very own recommendation.

I all the time advocate for doing much less throughout eclipse season (on this occasion, all 4 weeks of Aries season), however particularly on the day of eclipses (on this occasion, March twenty fifth and April eighth). A part of the rationale I do that is that in this time interval, life is particularly unpredictable and unstable. Energy surges abound, life occasions quicken, and there’s a common uptick in change. Why add to the chaos? Why not be the calm within the metaphoric storm?

Even our firm, CHANI Inc., will probably be closed for the week of March twenty fifth (this primary eclipse has neatly aligned with our annual workplace vast closure for spring break), however life had different plans for me this yr. As a substitute of taking this time to floor and relaxation, my routines will probably be out the window and upheaval of every kind will probably be taking place.

We should all reside our lives.

As I’m going into this era of irregular all the things, with a toddler in tow, I’m attempting to organize by getting as far forward on my work as doable and having extraordinarily low expectations. Like, virtually none. I’m training being in acceptance of no matter comes my method and anticipating issues to get a bit of turbulent. I’ll clearly fail at this. Loads. Like, largely. I’m going to attempt to have low expectations right here too. Possibly I’ll ship myself a few calendar invitations: “Examine your expectations” on March twenty fifth, or “Be variety to your self for having expectations once you stated you wouldn’t” on April eighth.

Skeptics of astrology usually say that one of many issues they don’t like about its setup is the idea that all the things is predestined. They don’t wish to be managed. To that I say, me both. Truthfully, I’m a fairly feral human. I used to be born to 2 contrarians, individuals who prided themselves on being defiant rulebreakers. They’re my tree; I’m their apple. Nonetheless, I’ve examined the effectiveness of astrology lengthy sufficient to be humbled into trusting its climate report.

Skeptics additionally like to inform me (unprompted) that astrologers are all the time predicting doom and gloom. I’d must partially agree. That’s the data that they most likely obtain from the media and the algorithm — as a result of inside tech-capitalism, that’s what will get probably the most engagement. However I’d prefer to parse some issues out right here about astrology and this present eclipse season x Mercury retrograde (reminder: Mercury will probably be retrograde from April 1st to twenty fifth). Astrology’s essential operate is to inform us concerning the high quality of a sure time period. If we lived in a world that was simply and truthful, and we met a troublesome astrological second as mature, variety, critically considering adults who refuse to be complicit in programs of supremacy, difficult astrology would manifest in very alternative ways.

The doom and gloom will not be the planets. It’s this iteration of our existence.

The very fact of the matter is that many people are simply starting to do the very arduous work of awakening to all of the methods by which our world is run by a struggle machine dressed up like progress. Even when we knew this earlier than October seventh, we may extra simply dissociate from it en masse. The final six months, nonetheless, have cracked the facade of enterprise as ordinary.

Lately, I’ve been trying on the astrology of the mid-to-late Nineteen Sixties. I began doing so as a result of mates of ours of their 70s saved saying that the present motion for Palestinian liberation feels just like the anti-war actions of the ’60s. So I started to dig. Astrologically, there are numerous hanging similarities, a few of which Thea Anderson, Eliza Robertson, and I discuss within the newest episode of All the way down to Astro. One among them is that within the late ’60s, the North Node of the Moon was in Aries and the South Node of the Moon was in Libra (this occurs roughly each 19 years). Meaning the eclipses of that point are selecting up on the identical themes as this time. Particularly, struggle and peace.

The final eclipse we had close to the South Node in Libra was on October 14th, 2023. It was the primary of three that can happen within the span of a yr. Monday, March twenty fifth, brings the second of those eclipses and harkens again to what occurred in October. These two moments in time are totally different, however tied collectively. 

Like us.

Astrology is beneficial after we use it as a know-how, like a mirror. It supplies a mirrored image, a context, a degree to meditate on. When two occasions are tied collectively over a span of time (whether or not or not it’s now and final October, or now and the Nineteen Sixties), we search for parallels and progress: Is there an echo? What has been the ripple impact? What has shifted for the reason that preliminary occasion? What has come to be due to it? One of many adjustments, one of many impacts that we are able to see from the final eclipse season to this one is that many people, many extra of us than earlier than October 2023, know that our collective liberation is the one factor that can save us — and our activism is making an impression. 

Throughout the final couple of weeks, we’ve heard Chuck Schumer — a long-time supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu — calling for the prime minister of Israel’s substitute. And now the US is asking for an instantaneous and sustained cease-fire. This can be a turning level that’s far, far too late and much, far too little. All of this demise and destruction was avoidable. On this extremely bleak and horrific time, these two occasions are, nonetheless, indicators that our protests are making an impression.

There was an enormous tradition shift within the late ’60s, and there was an enormous tradition shift for the reason that final eclipse in Libra. Could we be fortified by this. There may be an awakening taking place, and we should work with the momentum we’ve constructed to direct our human story away from a lot pointless destruction. Libra is the signal of the scales, justice, equality, concord, and wonder. And the final six months have had us intensely centered on what these ideas imply in actual phrases.

I hope we use this time, this pivotal second, to relaxation after we can and rejoice the wins that come, the shifts we’ve made, and the progress that has collectively occurred since October so that every day, after we return to the work at hand, we’re fueled by the data, and proof, of our collective energy.

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