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The Earth satellite, the moon, has long been the subject of all kinds of fascinating legends and myths associated with the celestial body and its cycles.
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| Moonlight in Naples / Ivan Aivazovsky / 1842 |
For thousands of years, people have used its light to guide them in the dark - personifying the moon as a deity. It has influenced the behavior of all living things on earth including the weather, tides, people, animals, and plants.
Lasting three hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, the November 19 lunar eclipse breaks monumental records. There hasn’t been a longer partial lunar eclipse since 1440. According to NASA, it will remain the longest eclipse for the next 648 years - until the next one in 2669.
Plus this lunar spectacle has the Moon passing so deep through the darkest part of the Earth’s shadow that it almost qualifies as a total lunar eclipse and barely a penumbral one.
full beaver blood moon over NYC
According to astrologer Cathy Pagano, Eclipses represent portals of transformation and awakening, opening us to unknown parts of ourselves. Perhaps it’s time to cleanse and heal past life patterns that tested us to grow.
Lunar eclipses often finish up old business. Eclipses sometimes bring fated events into our lives that help with the evolution and growth of our soul, especially if they contact any of our natal planets.
Eclipses come around to ask, Are you living from the heart? Taurus asks, What is of value to you and your life? Scorpio asks, How long are we going to hold onto childhood’s traumas when the world needs us to grow up?
At times things look sunny on the surface - yet there may be some limiting [beliefs, doubts, or blocks] in the unconscious that need to be cleared out - to get closer to our truth.
How exciting to be at the forefront of shaping a new vision of life for a new society. What do we each have to do to make this a reality today?
This year, the harvest moon falls on Monday, September 20 - just two days prior to the autumn equinox.
Farmers Almanac facts & folklore
The word equinox comes from Latin aequus or “equal,” and nox or “night” because on the equinox, day and night are roughly equal in length. When the sun crosses the equator from north to south, this marks the autumnal [Sep or Oct] equinox and when it crosses from south to north, it marks the vernal [March] equinox.
This pick of the week is brought to us by The Moon Omens Team.
Full Strawberry Moon in Capricorn: On June 24, 2:39 PM ET, we experience a Full Moon happening at 3°27’ of the sign of Capricorn.
Feeling like things are breaking down and falling apart can be scary. However, there is always something on the other side of a breakdown.
There is purpose in what’s unfolding, and we are being invited to experience the breakthrough that our breakdowns create space for in our lives.
Full Moon’s offer us light in areas of our lives that have lacked the clarity and answers that we’ve needed.
Typical of how 2020 is unfolding, we are being treated to two full moons this October. Do you know when they will appear and which one is the blue moon? wonder | wander | world love fall season in the East Coast and this is just the type of geekery we enjoy fully.
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| Chani Nicholas horoscopes |
On Thursday, the first of the month at 5:05 p.m. EDT (21:05 UTC) October's first full moon - known as the Harvest Moon, will light up the northern night sky. It has many other nicknames by different cultures. The moon will appear full the night before and after its peak to the casual stargazer.
The Harvest Moon in Aries is a fiery full moon - a rallying cry for courage, a cautionary call against despair, and a strong stirring of our soul. It is a sounding of the alarm, warning us to take none of our individual freedoms for granted - a plea to take all threats to justice seriously.
Time of illumination & revelation.
October starts and finishes with a full moon - the blue moon in Taurus in October 31 will gift us with the beautiful energy of expansion and focus. The Sun at 8º of Scorpio and the Moon at 8º of Taurus create opposing energies that we can bring together and harness in our favor.
Taurus energy is sensual and sensuous - there’s a great potential in taking care of oneself and our life with love and time. By doing so we give space for ideas, insights, and fresh solutions.
a time of ripening, completion, and release
The Harvest Moon is the full Moon which occurs nearest to the date of the autumnal equinox - this year it was on September 22, which means that the October 1 full moon is the harvest moon and the Hunter’s Moon is on October 31, on Halloween. This moon has not been fool on this holiday since 1944.
On this day in 1944, British mosquito planes successfully targeted the Gestapo headquarters at Aarhus University in Denmark; German vessels in the port were also scuttled, removing the last Kriegsmarine presence in the Aegean Sea; and French serial killer Marcel Petiot was apprehended at a Paris Métro station.
Let's hope we fare as well or better this October 2020!
