Eclipse in Cancer, Chiron in Pisces

by Eric Francis Coppolino, June 29, 2011

For the past couple of years we have been living under the influence of an alignment in the cardinal signs—Pluto arriving in Capricorn in 2008, followed by Saturn and Uranus making their way into Libra and Aries. These three powerhouses have been dancing around the early cardinal cross—right around where the Sun is when it changes seasons—stirring up all kinds of mischief and adventure. The cardinal cross consists of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.

I am sure that most of us would prefer to forget the first half of 2011, with its assassination/shooting, quake, tsunami, and multiple nuclear meltdowns, tornadoes, floods, and fires—along with a rapid sequence of revolutions and crackdowns across North Africa and the Middle East, and political protests in Wisconsin and Ohio. Edgar Cayce would be impressed. A lot of these stories are still developing; reporting about them is passing out of vogue. For example, there is a nuclear situation unfolding at two power plants in Nebraska that is being shut out of the news.

All of these events and the ongoing political madness in the US are associated with these slow-moving planets coming in and out of aspect to one another, as well as their proximity to the Aries Point. Fast refresher on that: The Aries Point, which means the first degrees of any of the cardinal signs, is the intersection where what we think of as news becomes personal, and what we think of as personal becomes news. Since the summer of 2001, the Aries Point has been hotly reactive, associated with one huge event after the next.

Now there are planets aligning there. When you get three planets in aspect like this, particularly the slow moving kind, you get a number of different cycles coming together, and that always stirs the pot. But the energy of these longstanding aspects can seem to be dormant and then be precipitated by Sun/Moon events. The first of these was the summer solstice, when the Sun entered Cancer on Tuesday, June 21. Whenever planets are grouped around the Aries Point, the change of seasons becomes a more distinctive turning point. The reason is simple: In addition to the power surge of the Sun entering a cardinal sign, it immediately begins to make aspects to lots of other planets. That is what’s about to begin with the solstice, one of the strongest power points of the year. A solstice is not merely the change of season. It’s as if the entire cosmic dynamo changes directions, at least from our perspective here on Earth. It’s a moment filled with tension and bursting with potential.

During the Sun’s first week in Cancer it formed aspects to Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus, Chiron, and Pluto. Said simply, a lot of energy was created, and it’s looking for someplace to go. On Friday, July 1, the planets on the cardinal cross (Saturn, Uranus and Pluto) will be set off by a partial eclipse of the Sun—the third eclipse in a rapid four-week sequence spanning June 1 to July 1. What happens is that the Sun and the Moon move into an exact alignment in the one quadrant of the cardinal cross not occupied by planets. This runs considerable energy through the whole cross, and is likely to come along with a new wave of unusual news events and personal developments that call for emotional maturity and the willingness to turn rapid change into opportunity.
Usually there is one barrier to that: Fear. And the loss is obvious if you think about it: Fear is generally what prevents us from making the most of our circumstances, and the result is a kind of spiral. This is intentional on the part of world managers.

I’ve mentioned the “shock doctrine” concept a few times: It’s a way of making news that makes people cower, so that political and business agendas can be advanced. Basically it’s turning Pearl Harbor into Coca-Cola, a consistent, dependable product. But this would not work without being keyed into a deeper but misdirected survival instinct, which tends to work on the level of an unconscious reflex, and basically as a result we become the prisoners of our own fears. When we talk about growth, enlightenment, or spiritual consciousness, what we really mean is not being held hostage by our own fear impulses. I know it seems like there is a lot that can go wrong in the world, but there always was. These fear impulses are torturing us as individuals and adding up to a big mess in society.