Article courtesy of Vivienne Micallef-Browne | Empower Astrology
Magical, Mystical New Worlds are emerging.
“Ring of Fire” Solar Eclipse in Pisces, 26th February 2017 at 8 degrees, 2:58 pm UT.
Eclipses are the most powerful transits that you can experience. They herald major beginnings and endings, burning and purifying.
Solar Eclipses tend to create new beginnings and bright new opportunities.
Usually, they are exciting, are often very positive, and bring news out of the blue.
A Solar Eclipse happens when the Earth, Moon and Sun are perfectly aligned in a straight line and the Moon covers the Sun’s center, leaving the Sun’s visible outer edges to form a “Ring of Fire” around the Moon.
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This Solar Eclipse in Pisces is immensely significant as the major activity and karmic cycle for 2017 to 2019 begins now, as we say goodbye to the last Eclipse in Pisces until 2034 and we herald in a new era. Leaving behind self-doubt in exchange for self-confidence, as the eclipse cycle and the North Nodes shift into the sign of Leo in May for the next eighteen months. We already felt the beginning of this shift at the last Lunar Eclipse in Leo on Feb 10th, bringing a desire to live our lives more authentically, based on a healthy self-love and ego. So that we can shine our light into the world and develop our talents and creative potential.
An Eclipse opens a portal, releasing waves of energy that is available to us all, giving us a rare opportunity to get in touch with and listen to the inner voice of our intuition, our inner knowing and wisdom, our inner compass.
It´s time to listen to the language of our heart.
“The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.”― Jalaluddin Rumi
Neptune, the ruler of Pisces in her own sign, conjoins the Solar Eclipse and invites us to let its energy wash over us helping us to gain insights and heightened awareness, enabling a huge shift in consciousness.
Unearthing our long-buried passions and desires, that have been buried under layers of fear, apathy and self-delusion. Igniting the passion of our souls once again and rooting out and releasing any toxic emotions, people or situations blocking our higher path.
Anything that we have been holding onto that no longer serves our highest purpose will fall away. Whether that be people, circumstances or limiting and negative patterns of thinking and behaving.
Especially where power has been chosen over love.
Resulting in a release of any last karmic baggage as the path we are embarking upon requires that we travel light.
“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
― C.G. Jung
At this Eclipse in Pisces, the Sun and the Moon meet in perfect alignment and melt together in a symbiotic embrace. Bringing our hearts (Moon) and our conscious will (Sun) together in perfect unison. We will suddenly KNOW what we want and what is right, as a door and portal opens to our heart’s desire. With four planets conjoined in Pisces, this can feel magical and mystical, our intuition is exceptionally high and we have the ability to access our higher consciousness and cosmic wisdom.
Mercury, the planet of our rational thinking, also in Pisces, conjoined to the Eclipse, perfects this exceptional merging of mind, body and spirit on an intuitive and emotional level. For some, this can mark a time of sudden awakening and even enlightenment.Within you is a greater, wiser self that knows no fears, worries, but is infinite and boundless.
Dreams and intuition are flowing strongly through Neptune.
Take time out at this Solar Eclipse to listen to your inner voice and intuition as the North Node of Fate in opposition, exerts a strong magnetic pull to your higher calling and purpose.
The power of envisioning, believing and creating opens the gateway to let miracles in.
The Eclipse marks both an ending to our delusions and an awakening to our real possibilities. We now have the power to turn our dreams into reality. Neptune is infusing our consciousness with inspiration, spiritual creativity and has the power to make miracles happen.
“Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
-John Lennon
An Eclipse always happens close to the nodes of fate where fate and destiny put us in the right time at the right place, helping to initiate a course correction where necessary so that we can step up to the next level of our evolutionary development. Important people can enter our lives that feel fated or events out of our control can take place.
These fated karmic meetings can especially occur in our love lives as we are coming up to the next Venus retrograde phase after two years in one week.
Our relationships can feel especially magical and romantic now. Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousnessAs deeply compassionate and sensitive this Solar Eclipse in Pisces is, there is at the same time a powerful underlying energy at work. An energy that is strong, formidable and a force to be reckoned with, as Mars the warrior in Aries is in his own sign of Aries conjoins with Uranus the planet of change, shocks and surprises. Fiercely independent and not willing to play it small, courageous, outspoken but often short-tempered, Mars in Aries will be making a lot of waves. Both are in a tense aspect to Pluto (power, control) and Jupiter in Libra (fairness, Justice). We will have huge drive, energy and motivation to make breakthroughs and achieve real progress now.
However, people that abuse their power will come up against huge resistance and power struggles are possible. Toxic behaviour will no longer be tolerated and it’s time to liberate ourselves from any such constraints. We will find it easier than usual to set firm and healthy boundaries.
This could also mean breaking with your own toxic behaviour patterns as well as from outside people or forces. There is also a need and liberation to be found in speaking our mind and truth. This eclipse conjunct the south node of Pisces enables us to leave behind years and even lifetimes of karmic self-defeating habits of self-doubt, feeling the victim, savior syndrome, addictions and delusion. We need to go where the REAL love is.
We have the opportunity to burn away old karma in love and dysfunctional patterns forever.
This is heart opening energy.
“What happens when people open their hearts?”
“They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
The Eclipse conjoined to the South Node of fate is a balancing out of karma, bringing our past actions to fruition for good and the bad, personally and collectively.
We need to learn from our past mistakes, release the past and embrace our future and true life path (North Node) with greater wisdom, compassion, optimism, determination and faith.Neptune helps us to see the bigger picture. Helping us to let go of what we can’t control and trust that the Universe ultimately has a bigger plan for our highest good even if it doesn’t seem immediately apparent.In our personal lives as well as globally and politically, we need to base our decisions and actions on compassion for the good of the whole. And not fall prey to deception, fear, delusion and manipulation.
We can see the effects of Mars in Aries conjoined to Uranus now exact to Eris the great Awakener, as we see worldwide demonstrations and for fairness and equality. Now very strongly felt in opposition to Jupiter until October 2017, which is a power to the people aspect.
Together they are the great Awakeners. Bringing us insights and revelations that have been hidden from us perhaps even for years, giving us the potential to free ourselves from outdated beliefs, inner and outer constraints and self-imposed emotional bondage.
There will be a huge desire to break free.
Uranus the revolutionary and bringer of change together with Eris the goddess of discord, who represents the voice of the oppressed, are pushing the reset button to enable us to live a life of inner and outer freedom based on truth and justice.
Aries, the warrior, has the courage to implement the necessary changes and take action.
We can no longer turn a blind eye to injustices either on a personal or global level.
This is an inner and outer revolution and awakening on a personal and global level.
We will feel clearer, more positive and self-confident about any major decisions or changes to be made now.
And ultimately we are being guided towards a higher conscious state, higher forms of love and happiness in our lives.
It’s time to stop playing small and having critical self-doubts.
It’s time to heal and love.
To let love expand into our hearts, minds and into our lives.
“May we all wake-up. May we all become enlightened. May Mother Earth come back into balance. May we all heal physically, emotionally, spiritually and on a planetary level.
May Love become our religion.”
-Mia Genis
Article courtesy of Vivienne Micallef-Browne | Empower Astrology