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Capricorn Full Moon:
January 9, 200120:25 GMT 13:25 MST 15:25 EST 12:25 PST 14:25 CST 5:25 GST (1/10)
Rituals lift us from mundane concerns and connect us to the greater flow of things. Our MoonCircles CyberRitual is a monthly experiment in collective attunement -- to each other and the moon. Across time zones, we collect our creative energies into a healing meditation, as a gift to ourselves and the world. Feel free to harmonize at a time of your own convenience, so that our astral voices may continue throughout the moon's waxing and waning cycles, as in a round.Cancer/Capricorn Lunar Eclipse
As the Moon in Cancer approaches fullness opposite the Sun in Capricorn, it is that time of year to meditate on the archetypes of the Great Mother and Great Father; to seek to balance their energies within ourselves, and reflect on their dynamics in the world without. The total lunar eclipse that occurs this Full Moon underscores the growing tension between humanity's heavenly parent-gods, and the child-shadow of earth, visible between.You might say that the Solar Father is outshining the Lunar Mother. Indeed, the cosmic set-up that marks this month's Full Moon is an apt astrological metaphor for the current political climate. As President-elect George W. Bush seeks to put into place a cabinet that endorses mainstream, Saturnian patriarchal values that are anti-affirmative action, anti-environment, and pro-big-business, the more inclusive, nurturing Cancerian "mothering" ethics of the moon are eclipsed.
It is a pivotal time to make one's voice heard in the political realm. But
mystics know that genuine political change cannot occur without corresponding inner work. For what we are witnessing externally mirrors the ongoing imbalance in the cultural collective psyche -- the tension of the opposites that is continually seeking to come into new levels of harmony.Earth's shadow made visible at this Full Moon, asks that we look at ourselves, globally and personally. Take a moment to peer within the magic cauldron of your own psyche. Examine the alchemy of your own "inner government." First, call up the imprints impressed on you by your own mother and father. Who in your family set the rules and enacted discipline? Who nurtured the hurt wounds and cared for your needs? Were these two forces temperate -- or immoderate and extreme? Were they in balance or in conflict?
Now, look at your own life. How do you parent yourself? Are you harsh toward your needs and emotional vulnerabilities, repressing and rejecting that side of yourself? Or, are you awash in self-pity, indulging yourself as a helpless victim and lacking the will to endure life's hardships? What about the way you live your life? Does the larger share of your day go toward work and duty, while forgetting to smell the roses and gaze at the sky? Or, do you while away time day-dreaming and musing, ignoring the hard work necessary to accomplish your life's purpose?
However you design your ritual this Full Moon, a fine intention would be to come into wise balance within yourself. You might picture yourself the child of a sage father and a loving mother. Nestled between them, you receive those qualities each embodies in its highest manifestation. From the father, discipline and mastery. From the mother, creativity and compassion. Together the Solar King and the Lunar Queen form an archetypal model of cosmic parents - the ones we wish we had had, and the ones we wish we could embody to our own selves, our children - and see reflected in society at large. Breathe this balance for the world.
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