Full Moon Eclipse in Aquarius: Your Future is Calling

Tomorrow, we have a Full Moon in the fixed air sign of Aquarius. Aquarius the Water Bearer is the sign of the future, of ideals, of humanity. It is buzzy, electric, visionary energy. Aquarius does not wait for the rest of the world to catch up; she blazes forward, trusting what she sees in entirety. A heralding voice of progress, the responsibility of Aquarius is to tell the rest of us what is coming down the pike. Even if it seems irrational, odd, strange, or whacko, the news is important, and if we pay attention to Aquarius’ original drumbeat, we will dance into the future with graceful aplomb.

This week’s Full Moon is indeed a Lunar Eclipse, which always makes me feel two things at once: 1. Nervous and 2. Excited. I get nervous because full moon eclipses have a huge buildup and often remove things from our lives, out of nowhere. Big surprise! The cosmos decides! Someone or something is not needed in our lives anymore and – whoop, there it went – that element is swooped away. I get excited because of the profound switch-up occurring on the cosmic chessboard. Like a Bishop traversing the diagonal or a Knight hopping and stealing a piece, an eclipse is like the hand of the Goddess, coming down and saying “All change!”

The game, after an eclipse, will look entirely different in some significant way. Sometimes, it feels like a wipe-out. But we must admit it’s the Universe’s way of keeping things very interesting. If we look close enough, we see that we are not individually responsible, we are not separate. There is an amalgamation of an infinite number of causes and effects – past, present, and future – that have conspired to this one pinpoint in time to make this event or change occur. Therefore, no need for guilt or shame or misplaced pride. In the midst of the events of an eclipse, we watch, we experience, we act, we react. Like a movie.

 
This Uranus-ruled eclipse could come through like a forest fire, a flash flood, a meteor shower. Any concept, idea, person or thing that is holding us back from shining our light will be plucked away.

Future Star Child

This lunar eclipse is a beautiful cosmic configuration with Aquarian air and Leo solar fire converging, creating simultaneous action and inspiration. It is mentally energizing and hyper-invigorating, to the point that it can feel overly stimulating, wildly intense. Aquarius – the future star child – reminds us to heed the soul’s calling. Events occur, seemingly from the outside, that appear to happen to you yet are simply necessary; this is a calling to ‘come home’ to your spirit.

The Aquarius part of your birth chart, or even having an Aquarius in your life, is a beacon, a way to tap into your inner integrity again and again. Represented by The Star card in the Tarot, the Water Bearer replenishes our visions and reminds us of our deepest universal callings. Aquarius reminds us we are made of stars. Twinkle, twinkle beautiful one! It is important to be on good terms with your spirit!

If you have the luxury of reading this forecast, you have the wherewithal, the resources, to free yourself, in a collaborate fashion, from the ties that trap, bind, smother, squelch that spirit. In fact, Aquarius says, you have a responsibility on a relative level to do so. In the absolute plane of Existence, it doesn’t matter what you do or where you go. But on the relative plane, your soul will shake, rattle and roll you over until you fess up, own up to your own sacred power and authority, and express your true calling.

If the eclipse comes through like a tornado, or a bolt of lightning, behold the truth! Clarity and calm lie in the “I” of the storm of your own inner knowing. How will you know what to “do” when or if the rug gets pulled out from under you? Drop in deeper; inner listening is vital. You may have to batten down the hatches to listen more closely. Even in the midst of sparkling summer sunshine, you may have to draw the blinds and hide for a day or three to HEAR your spirit. 

What is that thump, thump, thump…? It is the beat of your own heart drum. What is that raging roar? It is the ocean of Existence, the wave of your soul pounding the surf, waking you up again and again to your True Nature.

Be raw, courageous, hold onto nothing. Not even your own past or future identity. If you step forward into the siren’s call of your soul, you will reclaim your voice. Feel that? That's the soul going for it, pushing you into the future, your purpose.

Trust, and walk through the stargate. Behold the portal of this full moon Aquarian eclipse. Your future is calling.

 Erin Reese is an author, spiritual guide, astrologer, and modern psychic reader based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with clients all over the world. For readings and spiritual counseling by Skype, phone or email, contact her directly. She can be reached at erin@erinreese.com.

The Future Is Now

Here's a little ditty for those who may be experiencing fears of THE FUTURE...

A few years back, I met with a couple of non-professional life coaches, a man and a woman, in a North Bay café. These volunteer folks were well-meaning community members; we were gathered together, ostensibly, to look at my finances and work life. I was curious to see if there was something I might have missed in the material realm that could be nourishing to my bank account. So I availed myself of some old-fashioned financial coaching.

Financial coaching was going to take a different tack with someone like me. I’d been traveling between three continents constantly since 2006 – several years sans permanent home, car, or stable job. I was essentially a spiritual counselor and modern day monastic. When it comes to livelihood, I suppose one could ask: Is that cool? Is that healthy? Sane?

It is the Way It Is, and who could ever change that?!

In 2011, I had a spiritual awakening in which the conceptual 'me,' aka the separate will, fell away. That awakening has been a wonderful, horrible* thing, a realization that the ultimate ground of inner peace is unshakable, no matter what. Even if there are tsunamis and earthquakes within and without this body-mind being, nothing changes the serenity of the I of the storm. Plus, I know I can’t do anything that isn’t in the Flow of Life anyway; a home and a car will come when they are meant to come into my life.

But I still live in society and occasionally need to have a look-see at my life through society’s eyes, for better or for worse. That day in the cafe, my volunteer coaches sat me down over coffee and listened to the way I live my life – from moment to moment, from moment to moment – and said, “But how are you planning for The Future?”

The Future… I thought to myself. The Future. The term sounded completely foreign to me, as if I’d just heard it for the first time. A fascinating concept that once had a meaning. I looked and looked into Consciousness and could not find a Future anywhere.

What is The Future? I asked myself right then and there. I was bobbing my head up and down. My physical body contorted and moved around the coffee table. I practically peered under the table to look for a future. I crawled inside my own skin and into the workings of my brain to find anything at all resembling a Future. I was totally stumped. Just like the small self of the “me,” an illusory central locus of doer-ship, I could not find it anywhere at all. No such thing existed at the moment. It was a word, Greek to me in actuality.

After about a minute, with all sincerity, I told the man and woman coaches, “The Future? It doesn’t exist. I honestly cannot find a Future anywhere.”

I started chuckling softly to myself as I stirred my cappuccino. It turned into a semi-mad giggle as I was tickled at the concept. The man and woman looked at each other.

Oh dear God, clearly they think I’ve lost the plot!

“We don’t know what to do with you,” the woman said. “You are a special case.”

I felt bad for them. I realized I wasn’t a good candidate for their free financial planning session. I was a train wreck in their eyes, and I was potentially someone who may need serious psychotherapy. Yes, I was a person who had lost the belief in the mind… and was quite fine with it. Out of curiosity, I kept stirring my cappuccino and sincerely kept looking for a Future somewhere in Consciousness. 

“Oh! Wait, wait, wait!” I declared, having an epiphany. “The Future does exist… when it comes into the Present Awareness!” I smiled gleefully, like a little student who had finally come up with a correct answer. I had found something to say to please the parentals.

I had found a Future! And the future is Now.

Say, for example, it comes into my current awareness that I want to book a flight to India, departing this coming January. I find myself going to the travel website now, and booking the flight. That action happens NOW. I book NOW for something that may or may not actually happen. But the action is always NOW, rising up from the Ground of Existence.

How does this play out for big-ticket item planning, like buying a car, a house, or preparing for retirement? Same thing. You have a current awareness that holds strong enough TODAY that it is time to put money aside for that which you THINK may happen. You don’t know that you will buy that house, or even that the retirement funds will be there when you’re 65, or that you will live that long. But your current awareness directs an action to set up whatever you set up today. And the next day, your awareness may change. The money may disappear suddenly, or you may opt out of the system entirely and go raise sheep in New Zealand. You have NO idea what will happen next. You can only surmise. You can only act on what is NOW.

Check yourself now (and I'm right there with you, my friend!) -- How much unnecessary fear and anxiety is pulsing through the body-mind based on ideas and concepts of what may be? Be especially vigilant and alert to what others tell you that you should be doing. If you’re like me, I’ve been especially susceptible to others’ conditioning and projections. Can you STOP buying into an empty thought of Future (or Past) for just one moment? Try it, then try it again. You may find you have a lot more time and energy when you rest in the now, and see what arises, all by itself.

Erin Reese is a writer, astrologer, and psychic reader based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For readings and spiritual counseling by Skype, phone or email, contact her via email at erin@erinreese.com. Like to offer a unique, lasting gift to a loved one for the holidays? Consider giving them an astrology or psychic tarot consultation!


(*The "horrible" aspect of the spiritual awakening, for some of us, is the relative loss of ego-ambition which destroys the old drives to achieve for the sake of proving one's existence. I am now in an embodiment process that is like having no self-editor and no lid on Pandora's Box, for better or for worse - but we'll get to that another day.)

AND NOW, A WORD FROM ECKHART:

The only existence of what we call "Future" is as a thought in your head. Beyond that there is no such thing as Future. If there were such thing as Future, somebody - some great explorer - would have found it and we would have a monument: "He discovered the Future." So far, it hasn't happened, and it's not likely to happen because it is a conceptual thing only. When the Future comes, which is a thought, it can only appear in the space of your aware Presence (the light of Consciousness) - it can only appear as the Now. Whatever form it takes in the space of Now (that you are) something appears. It's the Now - the form of Now. So, no such thing as future. The Future is a thought. And this also applies to The Past.

  

~ Eckhart Tolle, "The Future Is A Thought"