The upcoming Lunar Eclipse (Full Moon) on January 31st at 11 degrees Leo/Aquarius has Venus tied in but none of the outer planets, bar mild aspects to Neptune (inconjunct and semi-sextile) so looks reasonably amiable. I’m informed that the Moon is exactly conjunct the minor planet Ceres, though I can’t verify that.
Ceres was the Roman name for Demeter, goddess of the harvest, whose daughter Persephone was carried off by Pluto to his underground lair. She was so grief-stricken and enraged by her loss, she laid the earth barren until a deal was struck to allow Persephone to come back to her for six months of the year. One version is that Pluto groomed, then raped Persephone, but she also married him and remained happily wedded for part of the year. So it can be seen as a maiden’s initiation into sexuality and mature womanhood. It’s a complex story involving agriculture and food, fierce maternal instincts and vengeful possessiveness. Mama Demeter was a worthy opponent of the masculine Pluto and struck a hard bargain. #metoo, #timesup and Women’s March all fit the picture.
The Partial Solar Eclipse (New Moon) of 15 February at 27 degrees Aquarius is square Jupiter and sextile Uranus and in a Saros Series that is concerned with the enthusiastic expression of ideas, which will flood out. Follow the new with speed should be your motto. (Bernadette Brady: The Eagle and the Lark.)
Neither eclipse looks malefic. Though it will affect those whose charts it impacts. For example, Trump’s Pluto in Leo catches the Lunar Eclipse and his Mars in Leo opposes the Solar, so both will rattle him, challenging him to change. Theresa May is also likely to get a jolt with her Venus, Pluto, Moon in Leo getting shaken. The USA chart’s Aquarius Moon will be triggered, depending on the start time, by either Eclipse; as will the UK chart and the EU, both with heavily Fixed charts.
My daughter is due to have her first baby in the next two weeks. I will be very surprised if she goes beyond the lunar eclipse! She is also Aquarian (29th) as am I,17th …so there will be the Aquarian triad. I’ve told her to get packed and ready on that date!
Trump’s true Lilith is at 1 degree Aquarius. The sun passed through this degree when author Michael Wolff said Trump is having visits in the White House with a mistress. He hinted it was a porn star.
Whew!As a woman of a certain age
I am glad I will get to dish it out and
not take it.The January 31 lunar eclipse exactly conjuncts my Mercury-Sun-North Node while squaring my Jupiter.
That was quick! Amazing writing as usual. Sounds right about matching the female mood, at the moment though. Without being put down for it, woman want to take back the role of the dependable family matriarch who can cook well, knows how to sew a button, knit a scarf etc and keep her family together(Moon/Ceres) in good and in bad…and somehow ends up helping family and society through this role
rather than be known as a seductive ‘femme fatale’ mostly known for her looks, as if a woman is only her physical body (opposition to a combust Venus) and not what she could actually do for herself and others.