2010 Capricorn Full Moon

by Stephanie Azaria

Partial Lunar Eclipse

June 26, 2010

7:31 AM EDT / 4:31AM PDT/ 11:31 AM GMT

4 Cancer 46 / 4 Capricorn 46

In the past year issues have been surfacing for everyone involving the fundamental question of where and with whom we feel at home. Some of us have shelved the question, or turned a blind eye to it, but ignoring the issues hasn’t made them go away. They have been rumbling in the background and they’re are roaring back up to the forefront with the partial lunar eclipse in Capricorn on June 26.

These issues are the byproduct of the current cycle of eclipses in Cancer and Capricorn, the most recent round of which started last July. Eclipses happen every year, and whether they’re a major event for you usually depends on whether they set off anything in your chart. This cycle is different, because it involves needs that settle into our cells before we are capable of conscious thought, as early as in the womb. These needs retain a profound hold, no matter how mature, powerful or successful we may become, and they come up in some way for everyone to deal with each time the Cancer/Capricorn eclipses come around. Underlying major life decisions at these times are certain key question: Where’s your mommy, who’s your daddy, where’s your blankey, and where’s your special place in the home?

This eclipse cycle is awakening and rebooting these themes of home, family, career and security we last addressed from Christmas Day 2000 to late June 2002 and late July 1990 through December 24, 1992. Last summer, the themes took on a pronounced era-ending quality. The balance of power shifted in many a blood relationship, especially among siblings. Mantles of leadership passed from elders to the next generation. We had the celebrity death epidemic, which escorted out culture figures who’d had a defining impact on specific decades (Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze) if not on entire generations (Walter Cronkite, Ed McMahon), and kicked shut the door to the 20th century in its wake. We had another round of retrospectives at the Cancer lunar eclipse on New Year’s Eve, which was a pleasingly nostalgic time for any.

Now we have reached the next stage of culminations and goodbyes. This month’s Full Moon is the first measuring point of what’s been building in the new directions and paths that began unrolling at the Capricorn New Moon solar eclipse of mid-January. To help you zero in on the core issues in play for you, think back to a couple of earlier periods of time. This weekend’s event is a parallel to the lunar eclipse that occurred on June 26, 1991. It is also at the exact degree (and a more distant outgrowth) of the Cancer solar eclipse of December 25, 2000, a sober and sobering time that had a sharpness to the air foreshadowing Pluto’s entrance into Capricorn.

This weekend’s event has huge overtones of nostalgia, memories and actual contact with people and places from the past. Immerse yourself in it. Every wistful memory, every photograph, every oldie and every communication with old friends will reawaken the taste of life as you once knew it. Savor the sensations, and notice how you react to them. Some will have lost their flavor, some will have lost their appeal, and some will have turned acrid. You could well learn something about one or more of them that affects and shakes up your attitude toward them — like my learning at my 10-year high school reunion that the reason the iced tea always tasted so good at a friend’s house was that her mother put one full cup of sugar in the pitcher. Some of these revisitings may also be for the last time, like having one final cigarette before quitting. We’re going to be saying goodbye to a lot — and we’re going to have an intense, immediate and refreshed experience of what is leaving before or as it recedes to the past.

Actually, we’re the ones that are moving on. The planetary energies accompanying this Full Moon propel us into impulsive, bold leaps into free agent status, breaking out on our own with no looking back. The aspects zoom in on our long-term security needs, shove us into healthy choices and boundaries and slice off attachments that do not support them. If that elderly relative who shoots you down in front of the rest of the family zaps you this weekend, you will not only draw a line, but you’ll use indelible ink and then build a steel wall over it, too tall for anyone to climb or get a ladder over. The Moon is very close to Pluto, in the same degree, bringing those sublingual needs to the fore and inspiring drastic action to make sure they are met. The Sun is traveling with Mercury, putting us in the flow of information about emotions, family and groups with which we have identified. The two pairs (Moon and Pluto, Sun and Mercury) are squaring Saturn on one end, demanding a look at boundaries, foundations and choices, and also squaring the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction at the beginning of Aries, setting off explosions of new perspectives on our lives and motivations to go for it.

These aspects are locking together in a grand cross, the configuration that will define the summer. Eventually all the points in the cross will be in the beginning degrees of the four cardinal signs. Right now, the leg with Saturn is still in the mutable sign of Virgo. In other qualities, a cross might make us feel pulled in four directions and unable to move in any. This one won’t feel like a log jam. With the cardinal emphasis, it brings the current change energies directly into our hearts and minds and spur us to action. Just remember: Doors are slamming shut and bolting behind us. This is a time of no turning back.

Here is Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol for the Moon at 5 Capricorn, reprinted with her kind permission from her book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition:
INDIANS-SOME ROWING A CANOE WHILE OTHERS ARE DANCING A WAR DANCE.

Commentary: ‘Indians-Some Rowing a Canoe’ is an image of people pulling and working together in a communal effort to do something or to get somewhere. The fact that some are ‘Dancing a War Dance’ may be the reason some are ‘Rowing a Canoe’ in the first place. Perhaps they need to make a show of strength and define their boundaries. My friend, Dale O’Brien says of this Symbol: “the purpose of the ‘War Dance’ is not merely to evoke frenzied anger, but to see a vision of the battle yet to come, a mystical warrior’s preparation. It is as if the consciousness of the “in trance” dancing warrior is also at once in warrior’s activity (e.g. rowing a canoe).” Maybe they have to “row” through enemy territory and are confronted by the prospect of an attack.

Oracle: In the situation facing you, some people will just want to get on with the job and get somewhere fruitful whilst others are seeking to solve things with aggression. It may be necessary to solve things with a firm determination and vigilant approach to others. Aggression isn’t ever really the answer. However, to make a show of one’s intentions and position, and the effort that one will go to defend it, may ultimately win the respect of those around. Who’s doing the ‘War Dance’ in this situation? Is it you or another? Perhaps you take turns with each other, with everyone ending up either ‘Rowing’ or ‘Dancing a War Dance’. There may be an element of the enjoyment of drama and getting people whipped up. This can be exciting for a while, but can quickly become tiring or boring. As they say: “keep rowing, but row away from the rocks.”

Keywords: Some getting on with their lives whilst others are not. Vehicles of discovery versus arguing and bickering. Threats and intimidation. Making a show of power and mobility. Cooperation bringing release from difficulties. Mobilizing forces. Psyching oneself up.

The Caution: Making one’s case whilst having to be continually on the move. Being emotionally charged. Arguments and bickering that halt forward movement or growth. Intimidation. Moving targets. Superficial shows of strength for display purposes. Making a lot of noise. Pulling faces. Gestures that threaten. Accepting no opposition to progress. Aggression.

He who rocks the boat seldom has time to row it. Bryan Munro

There will never be an army of perfectly nonviolent people. It will be formed of those who will honestly endeavor to observe nonviolence. Mohandas Gandhi

No man can paddle two canoes at the same time. Bantu Proverb

Like watermen that row one way and look another. Robert Burton

One of the songs I’m gonna sing is “We all in the same boat brother. You rock it too far to the right you fall in the waddah, rock it too far to the left you fall in the same waddah, and it’s just as wet on both sides.” Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter

Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbol for the Sun at 5 degrees Capricorn is:
AT A RAILROAD CROSSING, AN AUTOMOBILE IS WRECKED BY A TRAIN.

Commentary: ‘At a Railroad Crossing, an Automobile is Wrecked By a Train’. This image sounds rather ominous, however the only way that an ‘Automobile’ can get ‘Wrecked at a Railroad Crossing’ is if it gets in the path of the ‘Train’. The ‘Car’ in this Symbol represents the free will of the individual, having the ability to go in the direction the driver chooses, and the ‘Train’ represents a carriage for many people, the collective. The ‘Train’ can only go on its tracks; it has no ability to maneuver tricky situations or to change direction quickly.

Oracle: Although this Symbol often sounds worse that it often really is, there is a need for caution. The individual’s ideas or actions will not easily survive in a collision with the more powerful collective, especially if they are reckless or not carefully thought through. Even with the best of intentions, this may not be a good time to be insisting bravely that you or your needs be considered. The collective has so much momentum; it will not stop its course to think about what’s happening to a single individual. If someone pits themselves and their energies against a group or society, there is a good chance that they will lose, at least in some way. Be careful how much you take on in this situation. This Symbol was prevalent in the life and death of Princess Diana. She was endeavoring to “outrun” the media on the night of her tragic accident. It seems sure that she was fed-up with compromising herself with the needs of the media, her driver speeding in an attempt to outrun them. One can only speed for so long in life before one becomes an accident victim or some other kind of statistic. If you examine what risks are being taken in your situation you may realize the need to slow down or not feel the need to “win” or “outrun”. Done carefully however, you can indeed challenge the “big guys”, winning and coming out on top.

Keywords: Not looking to the consequences of actions. Recklessly going for an objective. Not considering the ramifications. Lots of people causing problems with scheduling. Having the guts to go against society or “the big guys”. Cars, trains. Individual rights. Rebelling. Crossroads. The need for good timing.

The Caution: Recklessness. Sacrificing individuals for larger gains. Working until one drops. Not looking left or right for possible trouble. Going in the wrong direction. Working at cross-purposes. Not nourishing one’s self. Putting the desire for gain before one’s more basic personal needs. Valuing possessions before people. Talking so no one gets a word in. Going off the rails. Upsetting or obstructing others. Wreckage. Emotional panic. Spinning out of control.

Haste makes waste. Saying They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them. Eeyore – Winnie the Pooh

Cover me, I’m changing lanes. Bumper sticker

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road. Bumper sticker

Everything is energy in motion. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. Bumper sticker

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi

The major cause of auto wrecks is a screw loose in the nut behind the wheel. Bumper sticker

Decisions are like switch points on a railroad track. They determine where you will end up in life. Elder Richard G. Scott

*The excerpts from Lynda Hill’s book The Sabian Symbols As An Oracle, the Special Edition, © Lynda Hill 2002, have been reprinted by permission of the author.