Lunar Extremes
from May Celestial Timings
The North Node in Aries brings us into the thick of the nineteen
year Lunar Standstill or Lunar Extreme when the moon makes
its widest deviations from the celestial equator (the due
east-west line projected from horizon to horizon across the
sky). All this year (and last year and next), twice a month
when the moon is near 0° Cancer and 0° Capricorn,
it rises and sets much farther north or south than normal
(at greater than 23.5E declination).
Ancient peoples from around the world built monuments, practiced
ceremony, and gathered in community every nineteen years to
witness this dramatic phenomenon at Full Moon (during Winter
and Summer Solstice). In healthy community, social structures
are periodically updated to meet evolving realities. The Lunar
Standstill seems to correspond with this wave pattern when
we *dream the dream forward.* Every 26,000 years, as now,
the *out-of-bounds* moons align with Galactic Center and Galactic
Anti-center, the most intense axis of evolutionary pressure
that we know, an alignment that the sun never precisely makes
because Galactic Center lies 5.5 degrees off the ecliptic.
At the turn of the 21st century, the questions around healthy
structures for the ongoing survival of humanity have taken
on intense and catastrophic overtones*with global warming,
toxic oceans, troubling genetic experimentation, over- population,
rare and virulent disease, and the potential for total collapse
of the social-economic order. And yet, there is reason for
hope, for the information that is seeded during these lunar
extremes is an answer to the huge challenges we face. From
the highest perspectives, galactic intelligence is giving
us the information we need to come into a profound state of
harmony as a planet.
Those on the front lines of this Cancer/Capricorn work are
receiving all new information and inspiration, and being called
to step up and lead the way to human planetary wholeness at
perhaps higher octaves than since the dawn of consciousness
on this planet.
Also, June 11 the Full Moon will be at its greatest declination
or extreme (to the south) all year. But this is covered by
this powerful Plutonian umbrella, an energy magnified tremendously
by Jupiter in Scorpio, the fact that Mars and Venus only meet
in the Underworld this Mars/ Venus cycle (conjunct Sun) and
a rare 8th Venus gate (shamanic death-by-intent initiation)
at Fall Equinox that will feature the virtually invisible
moon occulting Venus in the hour before dawn!!
Katy Morikawa ShamanicAstrology.com
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