July 2018: Friends or Lovers or How is this gonna work?

The July 27 total lunar eclipse at the full moon will bring up for many people that age-old dilemma: are we friends or lovers?

 and how is this gonna work?

The Leo Aquarius eclipse brings the instinctual Lion energy in opposition to the conceptual human. In a sense they represent ancestral past and evolving future - after all the Age of Leo prevailed in the time of the Great Sphinx 4 or 5,000 years ago and the Age of Aquarius is where we are gradually transitioning to in the present century. So how is this going to work ? -for humanity in general, so accustomed to living through the romantic impulses of the heart of the Lion and less used to the detached and independent style of relating more as friends than mutally possessed objects with sometimes life or death consequences. Leo is all about drama remember whereas Aquarius say "chill".

This is a very fixed eclipse - all the zodiac signs related to stubborn patterns are featured - Leo Sun, Aquarius Moon, Leo-Aquarius lunar nodes, Mars in Aquarius, Jupiter in Scorpio and Uranus in Taurus - and they all play a role in making this a turbulent time in trying to resolve the dilemmas around relating dynamics.

All the fixed signs are very intent on their survival - money, power, attention, independence are all in this mix -along with insecurity, jealousy, possessiveness, love, hate, shared assets - as well as the typical Aquarian cool, intellectual detachment, intent on the freedom to come and go and preferably not make any big commitments.

This issue of what are we? now strongly faces people in their attempts to connect.

Trying to find words to define something that may be experimental and against the norms or prior personal experience. This is the age of wide spectrums so in theory anything goes - until the primitive emotions try to get on top and control the situation. 

The shifting tide is towards Aquarius so there's opportunity on your side to try doing things differently to how you have done them in the past when it comes to the sequence of meet, like, feel attracted, lots in common, sex, living together and commitment. The recipe can be rewritten.

The costs and benefits of your relating dynamics are on the table during the 6 months of this eclipse period and for many this will come down to choosing friendship over sexual intimacy or intense friendship over being in a lovers arrangement.

Some relationships will be restored, healed, intensified through well reasoned mature arrangements under the effects of this eclipse.

The commitment or freedom argument is still likely to arise for many but the most successful responders to this eclipse can use compassion and empathy to resolve issues of insecurity, possessiveness and challenges to ego or self esteem in order to take a chance on relating in a way that blends freedom with commitment.

Some will crash and burn due to excessive unrealistic expectations and projections -not seeing the other clearly, as they really are - or where the mind-altering effects of drugs, alcohol or fantasy really create an out-of-touch, wishful thinking bubble in which relating is expected to succeed. It wont.

This eclipse is paired with one in early July which has strong themes of relating in a general way

Astrological factors considered:

The collection of synergised energies from 2-6 degrees : Uranus, Chiron, Saturn, Mars, Sun, Moon, lunar nodes. The fulcrum of these is the Saturn-Mars connection and these two link exactly to the Venus Pluto trine using 24th harmonic.

Jupiter trined with Neptune pick up Venus and therefore Pluto tags along.