New Moons typically usher in new beginnings. However, in this particular case of the 2012 Total Solar Eclipse New Moon in Scorpio, there is a special kind of new beginning as our Light and darkness merge. And under Scorpio’s influence, we will be merging the darkest of our darkness and the brightest of our Light together to establish our whole selves. This is an opportunity to experience our Oneness within our individual selves and outwardly with All-That-Is.
This will also be a North Node eclipse, meaning that we will experience endings and new beginnings that move us forward and upward in the evolution of humanity and of All-That-Is. This is confirmed by the fact that with Mercury Retrograde in play during this eclipse, this is a time of going back to “make adjustments or course corrections” so that when Mercury goes direct again, we can earnestly progress forward and upward. This New Moon eclipse – exact on Tuesday, November 13th at 2:08p – will give us our “final” opportunity for major adjustments before our courses are set.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying you won’t be able to make any changes after this eclipse. We are always able to make adjustments as we travel our paths, of course. Adaptability, as always, is our best ally as the only true constant in life in change. However, the changes we experience leading up to and during this eclipse collectively comprise the major change and choice of course we are embarking on. The destinations we desire and choose when we experience these 2012 Scorpio Total Solar Eclipse changes will determine the paths we take to get to those destinations and/or to accomplish those goals.
The impact of these changes, along with other changes that are likely to occur under and as result of the influence of this Scorpio Total Eclipse will bring massive changes to how we perceive ourselves as individuals and as a collective whole. As Scorpio deals with our deepest emotional truths and our most vulnerable intimacies, our collective moral and ethical beliefs and practices around matters of money, material resources, sexuality, power, and influence are the matters that are shifting and changing. What has traditionally given people and institutions status and influence (and therefore, power and control) is losing its validity. Keeping these emotional secrets and pretending that emotional expression and vulnerability is weakness no longer serves us well.
We’re seeing it now – people in prominent social and professional positions are resigning after having scandals revealed. Just in these last few days, the director of the CIA here in the US, the leadership of the BBC in Great Britain, and even the puppeteer who gives expression to Elmo! Deep emotional and sexual secrets and allegations (true and false) are being exposed and/or made for all to see, compromising the integrity of their roles in their institutions and in our society as a whole. As we see our most revered social, professional, and political leaders toppling under their emotional truths, we are awakening to the real shift that is occurring.
The “end of the world” supposedly forecast by the ending of the Mayan calendar next month is not so much a tangible one, but an emotional-spiritual one. The world we have known before now no longer serves us well. The world that is emerging – one in which our emotional, heart-based truths are dictating our courses in life – is now the world that is emerging and gaining influence. We are no longer willing to live lies by betraying our emotional and spiritual truths in order to obtain or sustain institutional power or control, destroying all that betrays our inner truths or does not ring true to us in order to create space for what does express our deepest truths to be born, to emerge.
That said, after having much of this year of 2012 to look at ourselves and our lives and choose where we want to take ourselves, we are now being asked to make these choices for ourselves. We are also being asked to make them from our most vulnerable inner truths.
Scorpio energy wants what it wants, and it doesn’t settle for less – it is an all-or-nothing energy. It is both extremely destructive and powerfully creative, purging what does not serve you so that what will can come into your life. And because it is a fiercely intense and powerful emotional energy, Scorpio really speaks to what your heart wants and believes it is worthy and deserving of. Your heart wants what your heart wants, and it will do everything…or sometimes, nothing to get it.
That said, if you do not want to make the choices for yourself, the Universe will often make them for you. This is more likely to show up as your being subjected to the choices of others – you will need to respond or react to their very decisive (and possibly extreme) choices. You will find that you need to adjust to others rather than having others accommodate or adjust to you.
If the idea of being at the whim of others does not appeal to you, the question to ask yourself is…what do you really want for yourself and your life?
Now is the time – during this Scorpio Total Solar North Nodal Eclipse – to be really honest with yourself and confront your deepest emotional depths (both desires and fears). The Universe is listening, and is entering your coordinates in its Universal GPS. Your course is being set to go wherever you are choosing it to go right now. Scorpio is very intentional, so be intentional and specific in your prayers and requests for assistance. Be careful what you wish for – you can probably get it, though it may not show up as you expect or hope.
A few other influences of note on this Scorpio Total Eclipse day:
- At the time of the eclipse, there will also be a Water Element Grand Trine of Saturn in Scorpio, Ceres in Cancer, and Chiron in Pisces. (3-4°) This lets us know that the changes we are undergoing will be mostly about our values and morals regarding our survival resources (such as money, home, food, sex, etc.). The emotional impact of those morals and values will affect us at the innermost cores of our beings, and the changes we experience as result of that impact can be healing and enduring for the collective whole…and for our individual selves if we allow them to occur in our lives.
- Uranus is also at 4° in Aries, so unexpected actions and events will act as a challenging catalyst for positive changes in and healing of values and morals in regard to our financial, material, and physical resources. And the unexpected will come by our own hands – it will be the unexpected actions or results of our actions that have us recognize exactly what we are committed to creating in and through our lives. You may be surprised at what you are willing to do to get the outcome you truly want. You may be even more surprised when you actually do it.
- Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius squares Neptune in Pisces, bring a harsh dose of reality and truth to what seemed like an ideal manifested or “a dream come true”. The rose-colored glasses may come off of what seemed to be an ideal situation for you.
- A few hours after it makes its blunt statement of truth, Mercury Retrograde moves back into Scorpio to take its role on the demolition team, joining the Sun, Moon, Saturn, and the North Node already in the sign.
I would love to know how this Scorpio North Node Total Eclipse plays a role in your life! Please comment here in the blog or on the Life By Soul Facebook or Google + pages to share your experience of this extraordinarily powerful and profound moment in time.
Thank you for reading and sharing. Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
