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by Cayelin K Castell
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring,
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien
This prophetic statement from the Fellowship of the Ring fits the energy being activated in this August Eclipse Season. It seems especially true for the August 1 Total Solar Eclipse at 9 Leo illuminating and accelerating the mysteries of the King Queen archetype. Plus Venus, Mercury and the Sun all pass by Regulus, the heart of the Lion and the royal star of the King and Queen, this month. Mercury and Venus pass by Regulus during the time between eclipses in the Cross-Quarter between seasons. The Sun joins with Regulus on August 22. (See Aug 5, 7, 10 and 22 Daily Timings for more).
In a Total Solar Eclipse the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth casting a shadow over the light of the Sun. Night descends into day then after a few moments the light returns as the shadow of the Moon moves off the Sun literally enacting the line from the above verse that says “A light from the shadows shall spring”.
The sword or blade in the next line is a symbol of divine authority, divine kingship and the responsibility that comes with embodying divine power. Working with the imagery of renewing the blade and the light springing from the shadow tells us that perhaps what was broken in the Leo mysteries of the Divine King and Queen was the forgetting that we are all divinely created and we all have the right and responsibility to determine our own life path as the masters of our destiny.
This August 1 Total Solar Eclipse begins a two week Eclipse Window or Cauldron of accelerated transformational change that lasts until the Partial Lunar Eclipse on August 16 suggesting this time is ideal for renewing the blade and reclaiming the crown. (See Aug 1 and 16)
We also have the 08-08-08 Triple Infinity Time Gate. Barbara Wolf’s Global Meditations sent out this announcement about this Timing.
08-08-08 is a magical moment when the entire world will be coming together in thought because of the opening of the Olympics, which, according to ancient tradition is a moment when war stops and athletes compete in an ethical manner. 08 08 08 is a moment when there will be a huge concentration of mass consciousness. Subscribe go to http://globalmeditations.com/subscribe.html (See August 8 Daily Timings for More about this Magical Timing)
Definitions
Solar Eclipses occur during New Moon times when the Sun, Moon and Earth are so perfectly aligned the Moon is passing between the Sun and the Earth blocking out the Sun.
Lunar Eclipses occur during Full Moon times when the Sun, Moon and Earth are so perfectly aligned the Earth passes between the Sun and Moon and the Earth’s shadow is seen on the face of the Moon.
Sample of Daily Timings
Aug 1, Friday. South Node Total Solar Eclipse (10 Leo) with four planets in Leo http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2008-Fig01.pdf Solar Eclipses occur during New Moon times when the Sun, Moon and Earth are so perfectly aligned the Moon is passing between the Sun and the Earth blocking out the Sun. This alignment unlocks and activates key light codes opening new portals of accessibility located in this area of the sky.
The path of the Moon's umbral shadow (the darkest area or blackest part of the eclipse shadow) begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow (a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra), which includes northeastern North America, most of Europe and Asia. Special website with extra information and links to live eclipse webcasts can be found at the NASA Eclipse Website http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2008/TSE2008.html for the August 1st Eclipse.
This Leo Solar Eclipse carries the seeds of knowing our divine essence and the royalty we all are. The opening quote from the Lord of the Rings in the introduction to this month’s Timings reminds us we all have the opportunity to regain our royal crown through radical self-love and self-confidence and to consciously embody the codex of divine light information that is being activated.
It may help to remember that love is not so much something we do. Love just IS. It is a state of being. It is easier to access this state of being when we are in a place of acceptance. Resistance to what IS consumes large amounts of energy ultimately weakening and depleting our life force. Acceptance however, does not use up our life force energy and has the power to transform naturally and easily. This means the accelerating light codes coming in through this Leo Super New Moon Eclipse can more easily manifest. Remember reality is not fixed but responds to our thoughts, feelings and actions. What we are thinking, feeling and doing today is being further accelerated and activated by today’s Eclipse.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~Buddha
Aug 2, Saturday. Cartago, Costa Rica celebrates this cross-quarter timing on August 2. This is when La Negrita is honored and celebrated. La Negrita is a small Black Virgin statue found by a young girl in 1635. The statue demonstrated magical powers by always mysteriously returning to the spot where it was first found. It was decided a church should be built on the spot and that is where La Negrita resides to this day. On August 2, Pilgrims from all over Central America journey to honor her. http://www.isls.com/costarica/destination/cartago.html
The Moon conjuncts Venus (23 Leo) for the first time since Venus rose as an evening star last month. Venus and the tiny crescent Moon may be visible low on the western horizon after Sunset. This is calling attention to the passage of the Queen of Heaven (a.k.a Inanna) through the first gate out of the underworld (The first gate is also known as the Gate of Authority where we realize we are the author of our own life).
The story of Inanna is the cosmological telling of the cycle of Venus. Venus just rose into the evening sky after a long journey with the Sun that began in early May and ended in mid to late July. Now the Queen of Heaven is meeting with the Moon seven or eight times over the next few months retrieving the vestments she was required to release on her way into the underworld. The vestments at each gate symbolize the chakras. When on her way out of the underworld Inanna retrieves her vestments in the opposite order she gave them up.
The exact vestments or symbols vary depending on the source. Every version I’ve seen describes the vestment of this gate as the royal robe or “garment of ladyship”. This symbolizes the return of Inanna’s life force (first chakra) and the authority she has to determine her life path. Venus has come face to face with her shadow self having died to all that was not her true essence. This Moon Venus conjunction (still within the potency of yesterday’s eclipse) is symbolizing the retrieval of healthy life force energy that can now be appropriately directed toward the fulfillment of her true purpose.
This timing is especially important for all those who are turning or have turned a multiple of 8 (8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88 etc.) between August 24, 2007 and mid-April 2009 as you are in your eight year synodic Venus return representing a powerful 584 day initiation process with the divine feminine. This timing is also important in the collective sense representing another opportunity for the divine feminine to reclaim her strength and power as it relates to the healthy use of her life force energy. In the sign of Leo this is the expression of the feminine we refer to as the Amazon Queen who shows up with such charming, charismatic self-love that it inspires others and also reflects to them the magnificence of their own divinity.
Meteor Showers
Perseids are active from July 17 to Aug 24. The peak is August 12-13 though not so visible due to the waxing gibbous Moon. 
The Perseid meteors appear to stream away from their radiant near the border of Perseus and Cassiopeia. And while you're outside on a dark night, don't forget to look for the Double Cluster and the Andromeda Galaxy, two of the easiest "faint fuzzies" to spot with your unaided eyes. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/8935687.html
Night Sky Highlights
This is one of the best times of year to see the Galactic Cross near Galactic Center located between the constellation of the Archer and the Scorpion.
This is Sky Map of Galactic Cross near Galactic Center Mid-August around 9:30 pm local time. Blue line marks the Galactic Equator. The Green line marks the Ecliptic (path of the planets and the intersection of these two lines is where the December Solstice Sun in now rising.
Visible Planets
(These are the highlights for this month with more details and interpretations shared in the Daily Timings)
- Sun (9 Leo to 8 Virgo) reaches the astrological cross-quarter between the Summer Solstice and the Autumnal Equinox on August 6, 7, and 8. On August 1 there is a total eclipse of the Sun visible in Russia, Mongolia and China
- Mercury (12 Leo to 3 Libra) is within six degrees of Regulus from August 6 to 14 with the exact pass on August 9 and 10. Mercury is so low in the evening twilight it may not be possible to see this conjunction. Mercury will be easier to spot by August 22 still within 1.2 degrees of Venus. Mercury sets just before Venus nearly an hour after Sunset.
- Venus (24 Cancer to 1 Libra) Venus is within six degrees of Regulus from July 30 to August 12 with the exact pass occurring on August 5 and 6. Venus is easier to spot at this time than Mercury and is setting about an hour after Sunset as August ends.
- Mars (18 Virgo to 7 Libra) is now only 1.7 degrees magnitude and much dimmer than Venus, Mercury, Saturn and Regulus though it is still higher in the sky having already passed Regulus last month. Mars is setting just over an hour after Sunset by month’s end near the same time as Mercury and Venus.
- Jupiter (14 Capricorn 40 retrograding back to 12 Capricorn 38) lights up the night sky at -2.5 magnitude still near its maximum brightness this year and is moving back toward the nape of the arrow of the Archer.
- Saturn (8 Virgo to 11 Virgo) is beginning this month having now moved beyond the six degree range of Regulus. Mercury passes Saturn on August 13 and Venus joins with Saturn on August 15 when all three planets Mercury, Venus and Saturn are within less than 3 degrees of each of other. Saturn disappears from view by the end of the month.
- Moon (goes through all the signs in a month starting May in Gemini and ending it in Cancer) The Moon conjuncts Mercury on Aug 1, Venus on Aug 2, Saturn on Aug 3, Mars on Aug 4 and Jupiter on Aug 13.
Invisible Planets
- Uranus (22 Pisces 10 to 21 Pisces 10) stationed direct on Nov 24, 2007 at 14 Pisces 46 and stations retrograde June 26 at 22 Pisces 39.
- Neptune (23 Aquarius 14 to 22 Aquarius 25) stationed direct on Oct 31, 2007 at 19 Aquarius 15 and stations retrograde on May 26 at 24 Aquarius 16.
- Pluto (28 Capricorn 52 to 28 Sagittarius 31) stationed direct on Sep 7, 2007 at 26 Sagittarius18 and stations retrograde on April 2 at 01 Capricorn 09. Pluto reaches opposition to the Sun on June 20.
- Chiron (18 Aquarius 53 to 17 Aquarius 17) stationed retrograde May 25 at 21 Aquarius 09 and stations direct October 25 at 16 Aquarius 02.
Daily Highlights
(The details and interpretations for each day are given with the Daily Timings)
Aug 1, Friday. South Node Solar Eclipse (10 Leo) with four planets in Leo along with the South Node.
Aug 2, Saturday. Moon in Leo conjuncts Venus (25 Leo) at the First Return Gate from the underworld and then moves into Virgo
Aug 3, Sunday. Moon conjuncts Saturn (8 Virgo) and Venus is approaching Regulus exact tomorrow and the next day.
Aug 4, Monday. Moon conjuncts Mars (21 Virgo) and moves into Libra and Venus (28 Leo) trines Pluto (28 Sagittarius.
Aug 5, Tuesday. Venus moves into Virgo until August 30 and remains within 6 degrees of Regulus until August 12.
Aug 6, Wednesday. Mars (22 Virgo) opposite Uranus (22 Pisces) and Mercury (23 Leo) opposite Neptune (23 Aquarius). Mercury (22 Leo) is within 6 degrees of Regulus starting today until August 14.
Aug 7, Thursday. The Lammas or Lughnasah Cross-Quarter (Sun at 15 Leo) and the Moon moves into Scorpio.
Aug 8, Friday. First quarter Moon in Scorpio (16 Scorpio 38) in the Cross-Quarter Window.
Aug 9, Saturday. Mercury (28 Leo) trines Pluto (28 Sagittarius). Moon moves into Sagittarius.
Aug 10, Sunday. Mercury Moves into Virgo until August 28. Moon occults Antares (10 Sagittarius). Chiron North Node exact conjunction (18 Aquarius).
Aug 11, Monday. North Node and Chiron are both within less than a degree all month and made their exact conjunction yesterday in alignment with the alpha star Sualocin in the constellation Delphinus, the dolphin.
Aug 12, Tuesday. Moon conjuncts Pluto (28 Sagittarius) and moves into Capricorn. Perseids Peak.
Aug 13, Wednesday. Venus conjuncts Saturn (9 Virgo)
Aug 14, Thursday. Moon moves into Aquarius
Aug 15, Friday. Sun opposite Neptune (23 Neptune) and Mercury conjunct Saturn (9 Virgo 28)
Aug 16, Saturday. Moon occults Neptune a couple of hours before the exact Full Moon Lunar Eclipse (24 Aquarius) also near Chiron and the North Node at 18 Aquarius.
Aug 17, Sunday. Moon moves into Pisces and Mercury (13 Virgo) trine Jupiter (13 Capricorn)
Aug 18, Monday. Moon conjuncts Uranus (21 Pisces). Chiron and the North Node still at 18 Aquarius
Aug 19, Tuesday. Moon moves into Aries and Mars moves into Libra
Aug 20, Wednesday. Sun (28 Leo) is passing by Regulus and trines retrograde Pluto (28 Sag)
Aug 21, Thursday. Moon moves into Taurus and Mercury conjuncts Venus (19 Virgo)
Aug 22, Friday. Sun moves into Virgo and Mercury (21 Virgo) is opposite retrograde Uranus (21 Pisces)
Aug 23, Saturday. Last Quarter Moon (1 Gemini 12) near the Pleiades and Venus (21 Virgo) is opposite retrograde Uranus (21 Pisces)
Aug 24, Sunday. Preview of the Venus Mercury and Mars conjunctions next month in Libra
Aug 25, Monday. Moon crosses the Galactic Edge as it moves into Cancer
Aug 26, Tuesday. Saturn (11 Virgo) and retrograde Uranus (21 Pisces) have moved within 10 degrees of an exact opposition occurring on election day Nov 4.
Aug 27, Wednesday. Moon moves into Leo and Mercury (28 Virgo) squares Pluto (28 Sag).
Aug 28, Thursday. Mercury moves into Libra.
Aug 29, Friday. Venus (28 Virgo) squares Pluto (28 Sag)
Aug 30, Saturday. Virgo New Moon (8 Virgo)
Aug 31, Sunday. Venus (1 Libra) Mercury (4 Libra) and Mars (8 Libra)
Other Resources not already mentioned:
The Astronomical Calendar 2007 by Guy Ottewel
The Celestial Guide 2007 by Jim Maynard
Sky and Telescope Magazine January 2008 Issue
www.sky.org/skywatching
Sky and Telescope Website
Star Maps are from Starry Night unless otherwise noted
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