New Moon and Solar Eclipse

1st June 2011 at 21:02 UT ~ the Sun and Moon are at 11 Gemini in Gate 16.6

We also have a partial Solar Eclipse happening in the Arctic Region, which includes Iceland and Japan.

This New Moon and partial Solar Eclipse takes us a step further along our journey of freeing up our bodies from the deep conditioning that has had them enslaved.  The Sun and Moon are in Gate 16, which is called Delight or Enthusiasm.  It seems as if we are trying to find a new pathway in the dark, but it’s not the darkness that is confusing us.  Our bodies have been cut off from their natural intelligence and left to fumble through a fog of mesmeric messages designed to confuse us into losing our way.  And now, like a new and largely unknown territory, we are reclaiming them and all their abundance for ourselves.

There is one significant karmic kick here though.  The abundance will only flow when we align with a greater good.  If we focus on short term personal gain we are right back in the old reality, even though it may for awhile look like something new and different.

Makemake and Quaoar have been significant in the lead up to this New Moon.  They represent the period when Europeans began to colonise indigenous areas of the globe.  When the Europeans attempted to take advantage of the new lands – Rapa Nui (Makemake) and the Los Angeles area (Quaoar)  – they devastated the indigenous people and their land.  They took the women for sex slaves and the men for agricultural slaves.  They didn’t understand the intelligence of the land and decimated it’s abundance in their ignorance and greed.

We are coming to a completion of that way of obtaining treasure.  Within you, the karmic cycle is also completing on a personal level.  You no longer seek to ‘colonise’ your body in order to obtain treasure, status or love.   We are looking for a wholistic alignment with universal order that is created from love.

Sun and Moon in the Gate of Enthusiasm and Delight

Gate 16 is well connected just now.  You can see that it creates a channel with Saturn, who is hanging out down in the Spleen Centre.  And it is also connecting with Mercury and Venus at the Throat Centre.

This is a gate that carries a very positive energy of enthusiasm and delight.  It seems appropriate, since it carries the energy of the Gate of Depth (48) up to the Throat to be expressed.  How else can we express the deep well of joyfulness and life that lives in our very cells, except with enthusiasm and delight!

I’m starting to see keys in the Human Design charts that unlock our DNA to reveal what is hidden within us, and this is certainly one of them.

In line 6 we find the ways in which we have become confused and ungrounded, given to flights of fancy and imaginings that have left us living unhappily in castles in the air. When we take life moment by moment we never get ahead of ourselves.  A very wise friend gave me some advice years ago when I was struggling with a problem. He told me that it would take 10 steps for me to complete what I was trying to do.   I was only up to step 2 of the process, but that I was trying to live in step 8, trying to rush ahead.  That tends to be my weakness, but I know some of us tend to try to hang back and do all they can to avoid having to take the next step.

This New Moon occurs in a position that has us believing we are further along the path than we really are.  That’s because we can feel the future in our cells, we understand how it will play out.  What we have to be careful of is that we don’t try to live in a future that hasn’t arrived yet.

When we live out of the moment, either in the past or the future, we are unable to sense what is really going on, or what is really possible.  When we live in the moment we get tangible results from our efforts and can begin to perceive things in their right proportions.  Our imaginings can then be grounded in reality.

Master Huang says that this hexagram was originally about giving and receiving, allowing ourselves to receive the assistance we need, so that life becomes a delightful experience.  After all, each one of us needs to breathe in and breathe out!  If we move forward too quickly, we miss out on seeing the assistance when it is offered and end up trying to hold the entire world on our lonely shoulders.  This is a collective creation, not an individual one!

Mercury in Gate 8.4 adds it’s voice – we connect with something larger when we are able to put our own experience into perspective.  Venus tells us that we attract what we need when we let boundaries and differences fall away and connect with each other from a simpler, deeper inner way of knowing each other.

The Circuitry

This New Moon activates Saturn, Uranus and Pluto through the circuitry. You can see them all there on the diagram.   The Sun and Moon are also trine Saturn astrologically, adding to the importance of the channel itself. (Sun/Moon at 11 Gemini and Saturn at 10 Libra)

Uranus

Let’s start with Uranus.  Newly arrived in Gate 17.1, it heralds a shift in the hierachies of mental power in our culture.  Gate 17 is complex in it’s operation because it is a mental gate that relates to the Spleen Centre or body energy.

This Understanding Circuitry works with pattern recognition.  It’s something that helps our survival; once we’ve figured out the way things are, we store the information in our DNA.  If we didn’t do this life would be like the movie 50 First Dates, every day we’d have to figure it all out afresh.  There’s a downside with this though. We can get stuck in our patterns, believing that what our DNA and ancient reptilian brain are telling us is more real than what’s truly going on.  We’ve all had that experience!

Enter Gate 17, the way in which our mind projects our old patterns out into the world in order to keep us alive.  As this is a gate about leadership, one of the ways these old patterns work is to project our leadership out into the world and work really hard to make sure people follow our ideas about life.  No deviation allowed by followers!  That would be highly threatening. Being opposite to Gate 18 (correction) this gate is very sensitive to critisism.  In fact it can experience critisism as a life threatening event.  In Gate 17 line 1, Uranus is asking us to step outside of our safety net and explore new ideas and new ways of relating.  Let your pattern of understanding get shaken up by others a bit, and try out new positions in the leadership hierarchy.

Pluto

Transforming our fears and frights into a calm and grounded experience of joyfulness, Pluto must be loving this gig in the Gate of Joy (58).  In line 4 we are trying to work out who to spend our time with.  Who will bring joy into our lives?  We feel under great pressure to decide all the details of our lives (Uranus will shake that up for us!) but Pluto keeps bringing us back to this one truth – be here now.  We are learning about a new power, largely hidden from mass consciousness, that of choosing joy in each moment.

Saturn

When this combination of gates is clear of blockages it works to show us how we need to move forward.  Gate 48 is a often a major block.  It’s the Gate of the Well, a communal resource that is always flowing and clear.  It represents our qi, as it flows through our bodies, connecting us to our bodily intelligence.  It represents the cellular activation of our natural gifts and their fractal pattern of connectedness with others.

This is an intelligence that is invisible in our culture, and I usually find people with this gate (including me) can have absolutely no idea of the value of what they have to share with others.  It holds a deep and abiding fear of inadequacy because these cellular gifts only activate in relationship – they have to be called out by others.   And because we have learnt not to trust our body, we mostly resist that call.

Here’s what Hilary Barrett says about Gate 48  line 2:

At least the water is flowing clear, and there is some life and activity at the well. But people only experience the well’s dark, isolating depths and all they see is what they can believe in – a small visible and immediate boon for themselves.  Since it’s hard to imagine a well in such poor repair becoming something permanent and dependable, people are not inclined to invest themselves in the cooperative work needed to build such a thing.  Hence there will be small fish and no big crops as people focus on small personal gains.

This is incredibly significant just now.  We are being called to connect from the place of our delight and enthusiasm, to share and co-create from calm, clear joyfulness.  We can release our old conditioned stranglehold on the struggle to survive, and trust what our bodies are telling us – that everything is wonderful and we are in the midst of creating something that will benefit all of humanity.