Happy Earthly New Year!

It's here! The Full Moon in Cancer and lunar eclipse happen at exactness today (2:13 pm EST). With a lunar eclipse, the Earth moves between the Sun and Moon, casting its shadow on the Moon. The Moon, then, is not reflecting the Sun's light. The Moon in Cancer (home, oceanic depths, the soul's womb beginnings) are mixed with the Earth's real currents. This blocks out the Sun in Capricorn, and the materialist view, the social conditioning, the purely rational.

It's a chance to just be, and see, without the overbearing vibe of what's been overlaid (by society) on who we are. It can be very soulful and emotional! Saturn's scythe brings major changes in relationships. We may lose ties that keep us from being who we are. Readers, this happened to me yesterday, when a cousin decided to "Hide" my feeds from Facebook. She said she was offended by my posts, one that disturbed the whole clan that questioned the premise of war. I come out of a heavy southern tradition of great emotional investment in God and guns, and the two often go together. But she also didn't like the "earthly" ones in particular. While it's hard for me to disappoint family, I see this Full Moon/Lunar eclipse as that kind of profound crossroads. Where we bid farewell (perhaps with some sentimental sadness), to the past, and let our hearts be fresh and open to the new.

This Full Moon bathes us in the shadow of the Earth's depths. Last night, in the class Springing Karma, Mark Borax talked of Capricorn as the sea-goat with the mermaid tail, "that moves in deep psychic emotive currents in the water." And that we're now being asked to allow our souls to plunge to the root, to commune with the Earth's ancient history and rhythm. That 2010 will take our spirits high, with incredible energies coming into the Crown chakra. This brings the "X-Factor" of surprises, and sudden illuminations that await us. But that there's an equal settling into our bodies and relationship to the Earth, in this marriage of heaven and Earth.

So, I wish you a fabulous good time, on the cusp of this most significant year. Tonight there may be intensity and it's good to be aware of personal safety. But the sudden events of the eclipse could be good ones, too. Like being proposed to, or having an old love return. News of a new baby, or "change of heart" about your life purpose or career. It's about opening the heart and aligning with the heart beat of the Earth. Here's hoping we find our way in 2010, with courage and trust, with our new hearts leading the way!