Solar Eclipse Today:
Times of this configuration in our skies occurs
January 4th,
beginning 6:40 GMT or UT,
peaking at 8:50 GMT or UT
concluding at 11:00 GMT or UT
Some Time Zone Translations:
Jan 3rd: Hawaii: Beginning at 8:40pm HT peaking at 10:40pm HT
Jan 3rd: Pacific Standard Time: Beginning at 10:40pm PST peaking at 12:40pm PST
Jan 4th: Eastern Standard Time: Beginning at 1:40am EST peaking at 3:40am EST
"Solar or Lunar Eclipses: While the degree of an eclipse remains sensitive for 6-12 months, the change you consciously make endure for the next 18-19 years. How good can it be? How good do you want it?" Grace Check your Horoscope for Jan 4th
Saleena: My intention here is to quickly give a mix of details and interpretations to help you get an idea of what the potential is in consciously participating in this portal.
Deep Healing Symptoms
Personally I have cleansed something deep out of my lungs and heart in the last 5 weeks. Some old grief and many layers of it, some of them surprising. I know others who seem to be experiencing these kind of respiratory-lung-heart symptoms. My digestion has been challenged as Solar Plexus – blockages to full power – are being released. Old beliefs and programs that have to do with the fullness of my higher dimensional being coming into the Earth Plane. Landing more fully in my body to co-create. The ability to more fully express who I AM.
We are at the end of a 5 week time of deep healing, spiritual expansion and personal empowerment. Here's what Allison Rae – Star Priestess says:
"Shrouded in mystery, the serpent awakens. As the Sun encounters the great healer Ophiuchus, we plunge once more into the depths of becoming. Rebirth awaits. A shamanic journey begun a year ago will carry us through the holiday season this December and into the new year. Along the way, we fuse with the galaxy through a series of planetary alignments that awaken the soul to higher truth, deeper purpose, divinity.
Between now and January 4,
we have the chance of a lifetime
to choose a destiny for
ourselves and our world."
"This year, the lunar and solar cycles dovetail in a rare and miraculous Total Lunar Eclipse on December 21 just hours before the Solstice alignment. Because the eclipse portal connects with the equator of the Milky Way, we could soar to new heights with the creative potential of this alignment.
We're reborn January 4
with a Solar Eclipse on the
Capricorn New Moon.
The Serpent Holder initiates this sequence. As a year of chaos and questions comes to a close, we have another five weeks to clear emotional debris and create intent around how we'd like to shape our reality through 2012 and beyond. This applies on a personal and planetary level.
Our inner journey during this time
reflects the Sun's transit.
The period will be
intense, volatile and transformative.
Expect disruption.
Eclipses break up energy patterns,
shaking the foundations
of the established order.
Think back to the raucous months of June, July and August of this year. We progress to the next level now, six months later.
It's time to tally up
the lessons learned,
reconfigure our lives and
decide how we'll move forward."
Read more Tales of the Serpent: Allison Rae's Blog; Evolutions
Solar Eclipse in 2011,
Surya Grahan January 4th
Bill Belew Blogosphere Buzz Examiner
The start of the year 2011 has a solar eclipse in store for us all. This eclipse will occur on Tuesday, 4th January 2011.
This will be the first solar eclipse for the year 2011 and the next will happen on June 1st of this year.
This is a partial solar eclipse visible only in Europe, North Africa and Central Asia. The first penumbral shadow of the eclipse will touch the Earth in Northern Algeria at 2:40 PM Tuesday.
In fact, there are two major events going to take place tomorrow, on Tuesday, Jan 4th, 2011, a meteor shower and a solar eclipse are in store for the Earth. Read More
The shadow will start travel towards East, Western Europe respectively as sunrise eclipse. The sunset eclipse will be seen from Central Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Northwest China.
A partial solar eclipse will occur on January 4, 2011. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the moon's shadow misses the earth.
The partial eclipse will be visible near sunrise over most of Europe and northeastern Asia. It will end at sunset over Western Asia. It will be visible as a minor partial eclipse over Northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
Greatest eclipse occurs at 08:50 UT in northern Sweden where the eclipse in the horizon will have a magnitude of 0.858. At that time, the axis of the Moon's shadow will pass a mere 510 km above Earth's surface.[1]
Global Circumstances and Animations
Jade Wah'oo:" Whether you are on the eclipse-visible side of the planet (Europe, North Africa, Western Asia) or on the night-side of the planet, where Sirius will be visible overhead, or even in areas where neither is visible to you, know that the whole planet – and all of humanity – will be immensely activated by this event.
Take a bit of time,
enter into peace,
join in the conscious activation
of our planet. Please."
Read More: Solar Eclipse Alignment – Sirius Connection Jan 4th 2011
“Capricorn Solar Eclipse on Jan 4th 2011
calls for Action to
Accentuate the Positive!”
Just a few days into the new calendar year, it will bring in 2011 with a big bang, with 13 Capricorn 38 Solar Eclipse at 1:03 a.m. PST on January 4th.
With the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus,
heralding brilliant out of the box ideas
to create and solve situations at hand,
and the revolutionary tendencies
instilled in our psyche to
break out of the same as usual
routines and compromises.
This aspect of the two planets
is demanding that we
begin to have foresight and
stop depending on hindsight
to solve our problems.
The usual tendencies of
keeping the peace and
not rocking the boat is about to be
booted out the door and that
we are about to show a
new side to our attitude,
that business as usual is
no longer acceptable.
With the Eclipse square Saturn our dependence that others in the know should know better is being replaced with thoughts and convictions that those who have created the crisis and problems because of greed need to be responsible for their decisions.
Our responsibility at this time is to
begin to take accountability
of our own direction and destiny,
and to realize that
we are the
creator and designer
of our future.
With the Solar Eclipse helmed in by Mars, Pallas and Pluto,
the need to take action and
not wait for others to create our reality
is at our door step, in which we can longer avoid.
The Zodiac and its energies are demanding
answerability,
transparency,
cooperation
and
integrity
in all our dealings.
“The Sabian symbol for the 14th degree of Capricorn is taken from “The Sabian Symbols in Astrology by Marc Edmund Jones”, and what follows are my comments.
Capricorn 14 An ancient bas-relief carved in granite. This is a symbol of the immeasurable potentiality of the present moment as a recurrent manifestation of all that ever has been or that ever can be, and of the ability of man to capitalize on opportunities thus brought to focus in himself and his world at large again and again. Here is an absoluteness of self as it proceeds to express itself with true conviction, and a completeness of its achievement as it acts with the over-all perspective of which it is capable. The keyword is foundation. When positive, the degree is a gift for bringing all things into a pattern of convenience and thereupon precipitating an inevitability of desired results, and when negative, meaningless limitation.
The concept that is expressed from this Sabian symbol is the…
…immeasurable potentiality of
living and experiencing
the present moment
and the
solid foundation we need to build upon,
for the future.
We need to be aware that
everything we put our mind to,
may not have a successful completion.
What is important and necessary is that
we need to accentuate and concentrate on
what we are good at and capable of doing,
and working along those lines to
improvise and accomplish that (which)
we thought might not have been possible.
Once we allow our authenticity,
honesty, philosophy and
our true spiritual nature to express itself,
our higher spiritual self will guide us
through the rough waters of life.
Being true to ourselves and our nature,
and by living the moment,
the truths and path we seek for,
will be revealed to us.
In this way we would be
proud and honored to have
our story and accomplishments
carved in granite for those
who come after us to be
inspired and guided by.
The keyword is to accentuate the positive,
and the pathway to success will reveal itself
to each and every one of us.
From: Lincoln's This and That Astrology
Solar Eclipse on 4 January 2011 and the USA
From Cosmic Intelligence Agency – Zone X
Centre: US Independence Declaration (1776);
Surround: Partial Solar Eclipse on 4 Jan 2011
Chart by Kairon for iPad
This bi-wheel illustrates the chart for
the signing of the
US Declaration of Independence on
4 July 1776 in Philadelphia.
There is some dispute as to the correct time, but here I have used 5pm. The most significant points made in this article are not reliant on a correct time in any case as they relate to transits to relatively slow-moving planets in the chart.
This has got to be one of the most studied horoscopes in the world, depicting as it does the birth of the most powerful nation-state in modern history. With the Sun in Cancer, together with a Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer, we have an image here of intense patriotism, and a vision of unparalleled opportunities for pursuit of wealth and happiness.
Cancer can of course be fiercely protective, even violently protective, and very sensitive to criticism; but it can also be childlike and whiny, and expect a lifetime of having its needs met without giving anything in return. While it would be unfair to accuse the USA as the only political entity in the world that has displayed these traits, it would be churlish to dispute the reality that it is this country that consumes more energy resources than any other, and that spends more on defense than all other countries combined. A truly hard shell enclosing a very soft interior.
With the Moon in Aquarius, the people are multi-ethnic, multi-faith and multi-cultural to an extent not before seen in any other nation in the world. One of the characteristics of American society has been the expectation that one is free, free to pursue the lifestyle and ideals that one cherishes, but without interference from the state, or from other people who have different points of view.
The very large federation of states, all unique in their own way, is the concrete expression of this placement. Aquarius is the most political of signs, the most objective and principled, and the sign that looks at life as though through a prism, split into it’s many distinct hues.
Sun square Saturn gives the rather Puritan, unforgiving approach to law and order, the attachment to venerated traditions of government, and the supreme position and importance given to the Constitution and the legal profession in matters of everyday concern.
Mercury opposite Pluto aptly describes the powerful oligarchs who have fashioned unrivaled communications, transport, media and information technology industries, the penchant for secret intelligence networks, and the microcomputer and digitalization of society which largely originated from American research and development.
Mars square Neptune is the perfect symbol of the fetishization of military life that has become such a characteristic feature of American culture. From the mythic westerns and lone ranger archetypes, through the Hollywood action movies, this glamorization of violence and overly physical portrayal of sexuality has progressed to a massive military sector of national activity and a strong lobby for the right to bear firearms for personal protection.
If the time is correct, Sagittarius rises, giving the country an aura of adventure, growth, optimism, freedom, but also of religious zeal and directness of expression.
On 4 January 2011 (UTC), there will be a partial solar eclipse at 13 Capricorn. This is shown in the outer ring of the bi-wheel (ignore the AS and MC on the outer ring). As you can see, this eclipse directly opposes the US Sun.
This is a significant alignment and is suggestive of a time of extra importance in the 3 months before and after this eclipse. But what makes the alignment more interesting is the co-occurring transits from outer planets also visible at this time.
Firstly, the US is experiencing transiting Saturn conjunct natal Saturn (i.e. a Saturn Return). On previous occasions when this transit occurred, the following events took place:
1863/64 – Civil War
1893/94 – Economic depression known as ‘the panic of 1893′ which involved over-development of railroads and the government buying up masses of silver; this was the worst downturn in the US prior to the Great Depression in the 1930′s.
1923 – establishment of the American Law Institute
1952/53 – Korean War ends without peace treaty, CIA helps topple Iranian government in a military coup, CIA starts Project MK-ULTRA, using LSD on people without their consent, and launching an entire 2 decades of secret mind-control experiments operating entirely outside the law
1981/82 – President Reagan authorizes the CIA to recruit and support the Nicaraguan Contras, essentially fomenting a coup in a sovereign country. This operation became complicated in subsequent years by the alleged involvement of US-sanctioned arms sales to Iran to partially fund the assistance to the Nicaraguan anti-government forces (Iran-Contra scandal).
What we see in common at these times
is a testing of the
integrity of the justice system,
the rule of law and re-definition
of what are the boundaries
between the government
and the governed and
how these boundaries are
respected or transgressed.
Saturn in Libra is about fairness, it is about how authority is shared amongst different groups, and ultimately it is about transparency and legal accountability.
Currently we can see how the US government has changed the meaning of so many of the laws enshrined in the Constitution that it is difficult to recognize it any more. Torture is legalized, the President can elect to have any citizen killed by dictat, citizens are routinely sexually assaulted by the authorities in airports, and corporations are now unrestrained in how much they can donate to a politician’s electoral campaign.
Essentially, political process has ceased to be within the realm of control of individual citizens, and Congress has devolved to a rubber-stamp for implementing the agenda of corporate elites, the military-industrial-intelligence complex and the oligarchs of high finance.
The Sun-Saturn square from Cancer to Libra in the US chart says something about the…
…challenge of leaving
one’s private comfort zone,
one’s cocooned child-like existence,
safe from the cut and thrust
of public debate,
and actually engaging with others
in an intelligent, rational, balanced dialogue,
where all the facts are
transparently laid out,
and nothing is hidden
from public oversight.
With the January eclipse locking into this square from the Capricorn end, the
focus is directed at
individual citizens’
personal responsibility
towards turning things around,
growing up and waking up
to the reality that the
government and the powers that be
will continue the slide into
police-state fascism
until they are confronted with
real opposition.
The government and their security and intelligence apparatus are not projections of parental complexes within the minds of citizen-vassals; they are just other adult men and women who have usurped their positions of power unjustly and who need to be held accountable for it – this will require people to develop some backbone and stand up for the original principles in the Constitution.
Saturn, Capricorn and Libra are ‘hard’ archetypes.
They insist upon
engagement and commitment,
otherwise they will be lived out as
superficiality and tyranny.
Secondly, Pluto, transiting through 5 Capricorn, is opposing Jupiter. The traditional moral codes, the religious practices and the view of the future are facing intense pressure: perhaps without any awareness of what is taking place, attitudes are becoming black-and-white, hardened, absolute, vicious even. Projections fly around, fundamentalism takes root, scapegoats are found, and all the while there is a sense of outrage over the loss of freedoms. With the opposition, there is always someone else to blame.
The Jupiterian sense of optimism, common benevolent humanitarian impulses, mercy, charity: these deep archetypal aspects of national character are being put through the meat-grinder as the true reality of economic, political and social circumstances becomes more overt.
Breathtaking hypocrisy is the order of the day: the FBI designs terror plots and gives young clueless Muslim patsies money to carry them out, then springs them as terrorists.
Habeas Corpus has been relegated to the dustbin.
Pilotless drones slaughter innocents in Pakistan in the name of ‘protecting our freedoms’.
And contrary to the wishes of the majority, taxpayers’ money is diverted to the accounts of the obscenely wealthy elites, whose own greedy mistakes are thereby rewarded.
If the moral universe seems to have
turned upside-down,
this is because the blessed archetype
of the greater benefic has been
gutted, pulverized and
thrown on the trash-heap as
Pluto exposes the rot in the
morals of the national psyche.
Thirdly, the transiting lunar nodes, which are about to take their perennial retrograde steps from Capricorn/Cancer into Sagittarius/Gemini, are now transiting Venus, the lesser benefic and symbol of general social happiness and wellbeing, economic vitality and money. Specifically, the south lunar node is conjunct Venus. Suggestive of a fated time of irreversible, make-or-break decisions, the nodal axis is of course central to the phenomenon of eclipses.
Something is happening with the currency around this time that may very well have implications for its value well into the future. And this will be intimately connected to general economic health and welfare of the people. My guess is that it is not a positive development from the perspective of the average citizen.
Fourthly, the US Moon is being conjoined by transiting Neptune and Chiron, at 26 and 27 Aquarius. The Neptune-Chiron conjunction has been present for the past 2 years or so, and has corresponded to a sense of disappointment, a feeling of having been deceived, which really points more than anything else to our own willingness to be deceived, our unusually keen capacity to tune into the hypnotic political mantras of highly-skilled manipulators of public expectations, ideals and hopes.
Aquarius, being the sign of political idealism par excellence, has shown how everybody can be a star over the past 13 years of Neptune’s residence there; it doesn’t really matter if you don’t really have any principles, all you have to do is appeal to the group’s need for affirmation of the legitimacy of its diversity. Like a reality TV show, a sort of narcissistic reflection of what we aspire to, but with no inherent talent, vision, leadership or genuineness of character, for the last decade politics has degenerated into focus-groups, political correctness, spin and constant abrogation of responsibility for decision-making to unaccountable quangos, or to divine revelation, in the case of Bush and Blair.
Obama, the Neptunian saviour who had the audacity to hope, whose change could be believed in, whose origins and identity were suitably diverse, is now reviled by a bitterly deflated people, whose projections, denial and blind emotional investment in a thoroughly corrupt system of politics has delivered them exactly what was predicted – a yes man to power, incapable of any action that might change the nation’s course.
Chiron’s gift is pain, often the pain of shame, of being rejected from the mainstream of consensus normality. Two years ago, some people felt they were somehow wrong or rejected if they did not believe in the messiah; now they taste the shame of not wanting to trust their own intuitions for the sake of maintaining the collective trance.
We have all been victims of trance abuse,
all of us who have ever been
unwillingly taken in by advertising,
public relations exercises,
television, political speeches,
religious rituals.
But what has taken place in the USA
in recent years has been trance abuse
on a scale that has been
truly shocking to behold.
These are the flavours of the times. The world is watching developments in the USA with a keen interest, as befits a nation of such historical, military and cultural might.
The upcoming eclipse, like all eclipses which trigger zero-ecliptic-latitude points in national charts, represents a particularly significant guidepost in time for the fate of this enormously powerful nation and its people.
With the USA soon approaching its Pluto Return (due around 2021/22) one vast cycle of death and rebirth is about to come to a close. The 7 exact Uranus-Pluto squares will start to hit from 2012 to 2015, these being the opening squares from the seed conjunction in the mid-1960′s, and it is a matter of historical record how vastly significant that decade was in the transformation of politics and culture in the USA; this current decade may well represent something of a reprise.
One thing is certain:
by the end of this decade,
the United States of America
and its people will be
fundamentally transformed.
