Lunar Eclipse lighting our fire

Holy Moly, this Lunar Eclipse in Aries that's happening on Tues night/Wed morning has been packing a punch for days already, especially if you have any major points or planets ranging in the 12-18 degree vicinity in your natal chart.

Lunar Eclipses are often about inner shifts, realizations and things coming to light that were previously unknown. This Eclipse is conjunct Uranus so this could play out with something really unexpected coming out of left field knocking you sideways. Or, it might just give you a little wobble and you'll find yourself happily surprised to see how far you've come now that things no longer rock you out of your centre quite like they used to.

Uranus also triggers our freedom-needing, rebellious side that wants to break free from any shackles or situations that have made us feel tied, bound or restricted. We need to watch our emotional responses right now because not only is all this happening in impulsive Aries, but it is a Grand Fire Trine to boot! Mars is in Sag, and Jupiter is in Leo, just adding some pep and fuel to a fire that is already crackling with electricity!  You might feel like someone has lit that fire underneath you, prodding you to confront unmet potentials within you, and triggering you to question your life and how you're living it. If you're feeling this, you're probably not feeling it in a dreamy, watery kind of way, but in an urgent, "I need to take action now, get out of my way!!!" kind of way.

With Uranus involved - and the Grand Fire Trine - we have to be particularly conscious not to project any fury and frustration outward at the nearest innocent bystander, or run away from home/our family/job/relationship in the heat of the moment - and there will be plenty of heat/inner fire/explosiveness/anger/frustration/irritability/volatility/passion stirred with all this fire energy.

We want to take a breath, and use this influence to check in with where we are out of balance - or feel out of balance. Where are we neglecting our needs/dreams/desires/fire/creativity/potential, and what can we do about it? How do we want to best express this energy and passion and fire that is awakening from within us? Do we need to shift our perspective? Do we need to discuss a change of schedule with our boss or partner in order to get more time to do what we feel we need/want to do?

None of this is easy. This eclipse and the trine is on my Chiron so for me it's been feeling like someone going back and forth over any remaining old wounds/old beliefs saying: "Do you feel that? Do ya? Do ya? What are you going to do about it?" It's been very challenging to 'just breathe', (and I can't say I've mastered that having quite the emotional releases lately) but at the same time sometimes it feels good to let the inner dragon roar and have a wail and express ones needs clearly!

The question for all of us now is: how to use and express this energy in a positive way rather than a destructive way be that destructive toward self or others. On a global/political level there is mucho projection going on right now particularly of the fiery kind, and if my personal projections have reminded me of anything it is this: while it temporarily feels good to unleash ones pent up emotion by hurling it outside of ones self, ultimately the source of that emotion continues to reside within us until we have addressed it.

Unhealed inner anger is generating so much outer conflict and violence, which in turn is triggering the community's anger, and the vicious cycle goes round and round. It is a natural human response to feel angry at what is inhumane, and yet to stay in anger is to perpetuate a cycling loop that is surely at its expiration date. Anger can definitely be a motivating energy, but we want to be motivated toward good actions rather than fuel the bad. When you feel anger coming up, flip it round and feel it as passion. Ask yourself okay, what is this feeling reminding me? What reality/behaviour would I prefer to be witnessing/experiencing right now instead of what is? What can I personally do about it? If I can't do anything personally right now, what thoughts/prayers/visions/love can I direct to the situation?

This Fire Trine Lunar Eclipse is powerful and in many ways I'm loving it and am grateful for it - in other ways it is most definitely a time to watch your temper, remind yourself to breathe before flying off the handle or taking any impulsive actions (especially with Mercury Retrograde making things a bit pear-shaped when it comes to communication), and bottom line: look within for the true source of whatever it is you are feeling. If fire is erupting from you, excellent - find out what emotion/dream/wound/desire/need within you is seeking attention, expression or balance.

How are you all feeling?

(c) Dana Mrkich 2014

www.danamrkich.com

NSW Fires and Lunar Eclipse in Aries

With 100 fires burning in the state of New South Wales (Australia), and hundreds of homes lost in a single day, this is as close as you get to a mass experience of Lunar Eclipse in Aries (18/19 Oct).

Lunar Eclipses are traditionally about letting go, healing and transformation through emotional release, while Aries is a fire sign, known for courage and force. Watching the interviews on television, the predominant response from those who have just lost everything they owned has been “It’s just a house, it’s just stuff, we are so grateful we all got out alive.” This is not to diminish the loss of the life one creates with a home, or the emotional impact of such a loss, as will likely hit once this initial shock has passed. It is however characteristic of the general Australian attitude, that no matter what comes our way we get up, brush ourselves off, keep trucking forward and re-build. Some things just cannot be re-built, and so this is also a time to send prayers to those grieving the loss of livelihoods and cherished momentoes.  The fires came fast and furiously, with people barely having time to grab their hard drive or laptop (this is where the photos are these days) and their pets – and some not even able to get to that.

The loss experienced by these people today, and their attitude toward it, puts everything else in perspective.  Final year high school students were sitting for their final exams. One student said she’d worried and stressed out so much over these exams, but seeing many of her friends lose their homes “makes me think there are worse things out there (than an exam). 40 homes were lost in one street alone in the Blue Mountains, which seems to have been the worst affected area.

Everyone is also talking about the miracle that more lives weren’t lost. At the time of writing, one man lost his life trying to save his home, and our thoughts are with his family. It is truly a mark of just how phenomenal and dedicated our Fire Crews, Emergency Service workers and volunteers are at their job. They have done, and continue to do, everything in their power to warn people, get them to head to safety, then stay behind to try to save homes, often while their own homes are burning down. These people are courage personified.

So here we are, with destruction and devastation around us and on the television screens, yet the prevailing theme being expressed over and over again is one of gratitude and appreciation: for life and for the service being provided by others.

Most always, when a Lunar Eclipse influence hits you, it is an emotionally powerful experience. Often raw, sometimes painful, it always offers insight and healing in some way. The ultimate effects (and reasons) are often not known for months. There will be hundreds if not thousands of stories of people saying “Because the fires happened we did this….or we didn’t do that…..or I started doing something I never used to do….or I stopped doing something I should have stopped a long time ago.” On a wider level, questions will be asked about the impact of climate change on our weather and future weather events. On another level we have to respect the fact that we live amongst Nature, and Nature does what she does. She did it long before we were here, and will continue long after.

So a Lunar Eclipse can also be a time of surrender, and it sounds ‘all spiritual’ to say it, but a surrender to something greater and higher than us. We can’t control everything, and that is emotionally so confronting and scary, yet it’s the truth of our lives. Things happen. Sometimes we know why immediately, other times we’ll never know why until we pass on to the other side of the great veil. Yet if we take the attitude, like the people affected by these fires have, that there is always a gift, always something good that you can somehow find in each difficult experience, then that’s when we can truly allow ourselves to be opened by such experiences, and not become further closed by them.

Thinking of everyone affected by the fires, and by all difficult experiences right now. Prayers also to the fire crews, SES, fire service volunteers and all others that are working hard to protect lives and homes. Prayers also to the wildlife and all animals.

© Dana Mrkich 2013

Dana Mrkich is an Energy Intuitive, Author of A New Chapter, Creator of E-course Create a Life you Love and an inspirational teacher, writer and speaker. For more info, please visit her website, join her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.