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Reviewing unresolved issues
LAURIE BAUM
A SOLAR Eclipse at mid-month and a Lunar Eclipse at the end of December will reinvigorate unresolved issues from 19 years ago and make December a month of reversals.
Traditionally, eclipses cause a sudden change in the prevailing order. They occur in pairs of two or three every six months. Each of these groups of eclipses repeats itself in 19-year cycles.
The Solar Eclipse of December 14 falls relatively close to the Saturn-Pluto opposition in Gemini and Sagittarius, which will accentuate painful choices between doing what is right and doing what is expedient. Then, the Lunar Eclipse of December 30 conjoins Jupiter, the planet of good luck. This celestial alignment will heal wounds opened in the last quarter of 2001.
To gain greater understanding of the meaning of the eclipses in your personal life, you may want to refer back to December 1982. Issues you were trying to resolve during that period in your life will be raised once again — although this time at a higher level because you have 19 years more of maturity and experience to guide you.
Eclipses are powerful catalysts for emotional and spiritual growth. During a solar eclipse, the emotion-stirring light of the Moon momentarily takes precedence over affairs on the Earth. During a lunar eclipse, the rational rays of the light of the Sun momentarily dominate earthly affairs. In both cases, the Earth's magnetic field temporarily goes out of balance because the normal gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon together is temporarily disrupted. Weather patterns are disrupted and clouds, rain and windstorms are common reactions to the eclipse cycle, especially in the few days preceding an eclipse. After an eclipse is completed, earthly affairs never return to the way they were before — in both subtle and obvious ways. Furthermore, when the energetic point of an eclipse is revisited in the future, the issues triggered by earlier eclipses are activated.
Think back to December 1982. Think about the areas of your life that you focussed on. Think about the reactions that you had. How would you like to be different? Then, think about December 1987 and October 1989. These were the months when Saturn, the planet of earthly manifestation, touched the points of the December 1982 eclipses that will be re-triggered in December 2001. These intervals will give you clues as to the lessons you are mastering at this time in your life.
Finally, think ahead to February 2003 and May 2004. These are the months when Saturn will reach the opposite polarity of the December 2001 eclipses and you will see significant progress, resolution and healing on the issues that you honestly confront at this time. Issues that rise up at the eclipses rarely have quick solutions or resolutions. But with sustained focus and effort over time, eclipses can teach valuable lessons that will raise you up to a higher and more conscious state of evolution.
The Solar Eclipse occurs at 22 degrees of Sagittarius on Friday, December 14, from 20:48 to 20:53 GMT. The Lunar Eclipse occurs at 8 degrees of Capricorn and Cancer on Sunday, December 30, from 10:30 to 10:42 GMT.
The author is not available for personal astrological predictions.
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