Your Moon Phase Mission: engaging your contribution to the collective

Moon Phases are Solar-driven opportunities

 to contribute to the whole of life. 

By identifying your lunar mission

 you can work with every New Moon

to strengthen that level of engagement

Renowned astrological figure Dane Rudhyar  (1895-1985 ) had a lot to say about phases of the Moon as a signifier of inherent potentials to live a meaningful life

Rudhyar considered that we are stamped at birth with the energy of the solar-lunar phase. He placed more emphasis on this than zodiac signs.

Though as explained the Moon alone has no independent phase - it is a phase relationship with the Sun.

From reading Rudhyar the significance of his insights can be expanded into the territory of spiritual meaning underlying these two major cosmic influences.

On that basis an extended context of interpretation and explanation has been added here in some respects to his fundamental work.

The Sun is King in our little cosmic zone and the Moon is responding in service to the impulses dispatched by the Sun. 

It is a Yin Yang dynamic interplay because the contributions enabled by the activity of the Moon are fed back into the collective realm of consciousness that the Sun can be seen to orchestrate. Therefore a feedback loop is in effect.

Rudyhar says the solar energy is being released into and through the Moon as a new life impulse.

The Moon itself has no true phases so it is a term of convenience. The Moon is a reflector of light and the light reflection shape and quality varies through the lunar month. The change in light reflection is 100% relevant to the type of solar impulse carried.

With there being 8 lunation types - related to the illumination state of the Moon varying from New Moon to New Moon.

New Moon

Waxing crescent

First Quarter

Gibbous

Full Moon

Disseminating

Last quarter

Waning Crescent

Each of us responds to a particular lunation type -and at each New Moon we have our distinct way of responding to the the type of life impulse generated by the Sun at New Moon.

Each period lasts around 3.5 days.

Because of the pulling power when the sun and moon align it is resonable to expect that someone born within around a day before New or Full Moon will manifest the impulse related to that period -so the boundary line in those contexts is likely to be more fluid than 100% fixed - example: a person in the last day of the waning crescent could show New Moon qualities in addition to those for the waning crescent

The sign energy at New Moon provides factors relevant to a natal chart [where and how]  the solar impulse wants to express. The timing of that expression may peak in the person’s natal moon phase period - but the qualities identified for the moon phase are likely to be engaged as the Moon strengthens -from the window opening 3 days before exact New Moon. Then the following polarity [Full Moon] energy is likely to integrate impulses developed at and during the New to Full moon period.

We each have a Lunation Birthday worth noting withing the period of around 3-4 days - when our birth phase repeats during each lunar month - and this can be calculated more precisely to match how many degrees of separation existed from the prior New Moon before the Solar birthday.

In this context of the solar-lunar dynamic the Moon is in charge of managing everyday world functioning in our physical material dimension.

On that basis the Moon is a regulator of tidal forces that permeate the physical and electrical/energetic/ethereal bodies affecting all of our ins and outs ups and downs in mental emotional hormonal nutritional overal body-chemical environments as well as the chakras and spiritual layers.

The lunar body is intended to serve the solar purpose.

The solar purpose is collective evolutionary and based on spiritual consciousness regarding our common source: our inherent connections to all beings, all of life.

The Moon functions to enable greater awareness of that underlying dimension of reality and therefore to behave and engage with the whole of life -people animals nature knowing we are connected. 

Each lunar type is therefore given a programme to follow to contribute to the Whole.

Some examples: 

New Moon: Queen Victoria of England

Waxing Gibbous: Joe Biden Hillary Clinton Queen Elizabeth Prince Charles

Full Moon: Donald Trump

Disseminating/Waning Gibbous: Diana (Princess) Hitler

Waning Crescent: Oprah Obama Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Waxing Crescent Lukashenko

(more may be added where found based on high quality data)

The phase types from New to Full Moon are primarily around the motivators of personal behaviour.

At Full Moon the results of that behaviour are ready for assessment - have the results been fruitful or detrimental?

Full Moon qualities begin to emerge at the Gibbous period which activates outreach which Full Moon expands even further into relationship building (or termination if appropriate)

The Full to New Moon range is much more strongly involved in behaviours that impact the larger collective.

The sequence from Full Moon based on Rudhyar's ideas is :

relationships, then the spreading of ideas, the building and structuring of societal networks and systems and the elements of service to groups.

Eclipses serve to place stronger exclamation marks around your personal contribution:what you can do and how.

There is much material online and in hard copy from Rudhyar. Hopefully this interpretation and expansion of his contribution can illuminate for readers a deeper level dynamic we can easily overlook.

Every New Moon we can look at the personalised impact of the sign and house placement in our chart -but we can utilise this knowledge on a deeper level to  know what our phase energy is and how our behaviour in the world can bring a contribution to the whole.

Try this online detailed Moon phase calculator to know your lunar birthday type

This calculator is set for Eastern Daylight Time so conversion needed for other time zones before entering birth time

Author's note

The June 10  2021 19 Gemini 47 solar eclipse New Moon falls within my first house and engages my Jupiter-Mars opposition from 1st to 7th as well as the vertical axis in Pisces-Virgo.

My natal lunar type is Gibbous.

Terror Erupts in Barcelona

The toll of fatalities plus injuries exceeds one hundred in the aftermath of terror-driven attacks in central Barcelona Spain, commencing around 4.50pm local time.

BBC coverage shows the route of the main attack, where a van driven at speed deliberately targeted pedestrians.
A violent and fatal explosion at a house 200kms south of Barcelona on Wednesday evening is believed to be been a related incident.
What is shown by astro-analysis is that as well as a known trigger for extreme behaviour being in effect: from 8am-5pm the time zone of Spain was affected by a solar generated geomagnetic enhancement caused by the particle wind from a solar coronal hole. Such strong increases in magnetic energy have been shown repeatedly to tip people over the edge, inciting to extreme behaviour. 

This extra trigger is in addition to the waxing or building phase of the total solar eclipse due to reach exactitude on Monday 21st August.
This eclipse [New Moon] sun-moon conjunction in Leo and in connection with Uranus in Aries carries a signature of dramatic violence.
Leo is the sign related to solar or sun energy and so activity generated by the sun is extra-strengthened in the time frame of sun in Leo [2017 = July 23-Aug23] giving a dramatic quality to global news
The Sun also made an exact conjunction to the lunar north node late on August 16 [Universal time]
Sun to node conjunctions occur along with significant events with implications for the mass of humanity.
Events* in Spain in addition to the domestic terror attack in Charlottesville US [analysis here ] may fulfil the potentials inherent in this potent eclipse -or there still could be more on offer during eclipse week as Venus and Mars both move into positions that involve their energies in the mix with Uranus and the north node, respectively in the period August 24-28.

Terrorism is designed to generate terror. Most of us will continue to pursue our daily lives but care, precaution and alertness are often necessary habits to develop in those contexts and locations most vulnerable to such merciless acts.

*A second terrorist plot was foiled hours later at Cambrils beach resort not far from Barcelona
Extensive photo documentation via Daily Mail UK

Dramatic Eclipses of August: Metiria Turei profile

update: August 9th: within hours of this post Metiria Turei resigned her position as co-leader. Although the event occurred faster than anticipated in this report, strong pressures have been in place for several weeks as indicated by planetary forces in effect. It remains that the late August eclipse will also be a time of challenge for her.

In mid July 2017 Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei opened the hornet’s nest of her personal past in a conscious political act revealed at the party's AGM intended to open the conversation about poverty in New Zealand, specifically how much of a poverty trap the country’s “welfare” system literally is.

Rejection of the messenger has come from a broad swathe of the media, from within her own party, from political adversaries and from the public at large –whilst also firming up support from those who’ve walked in those shoes.

Turei recognised the sacrificial element as a risk in taking this bold and arguably unprecedented step in NZ political discourse. Politicians are more known as masters of the dark arts of denial, deflection, ducking, deceit and the whole messy melange known as dirty politics.

Turei chose to turn that culture on its head and tell the country that over 20 years ago when raising a daughter alone she discovered what a financial struggle it was, leading her to obtain extra undeclared income from flatmates.

Failing to gauge the depth of public animosity towards those whose disabilities – physical, mental or psychological - mean they cannot be part of the mainstream system, Turei and her party had to lock in a firm defence of the essence of the argument: that poverty is an issue in NZ, that people cannot live with any dignity or any hope of escape while the welfare trap is sealed in so tightly by government policy of absolute minimal weekly maintenance for those who qualify for state support, coupled with minimal investment in assisting people to improve their capacity to move beyond that support.

So why did an apparently humanitarian gesture from an advocate of the social justice wing of the Greens go so terribly wrong, rejected by the minds of so many?


An Astrological Assessment

A partial view is offered by comparing the energy on the day Metiria was born in February 1970 with the energy in effect in the late July-August period in 2017.

Without a time and place of birth the standard full picture is unavailable in this process but when something big erupts - an earthquake, a plane crash, a meltdown, a crisis - there are multiple signifiers able to give some clues.

Firstly August itself is the drama month. The Sun has a more potent energy in the late July-late August period. 

It’s not solar radiance/sunlight, it’s not visible, its an energy that promotes intense reactions and fundamentally drama on account of human responses to the strong energy – though for those who have the good side triggered its very warm and loving vibes.

August 2017 has two eclipses 

Paired eclipses –solar and lunar happen at least twice a year. This year they are in the drama month and so the intensity is raised and when the Leo tribe [which includes Taurus, Scorpio and Aquarius -and Metiria has all four of these energies] is under attack the most basic survival instincts are aroused…fight to the end or the death

Eclipses that directly impact an individual will occur at or in very close proximity in actual position to one or more factors present at birth. These factors –primarily the positions held by planets – occur at specific degree points so it is readily obvious to see if there is any current influence that sends a tuning fork response back to the birth energy of a person.

The first eclipse of August was early on Tuesday the 8th at 15 Leo-Aquarius [ Leo Sun, Aquarius Moon making it a full moon lunar eclipse.

The Moon in Aries on the day of the Greens AGM [16 July] activated her Mars and her fighting spirit was triggered more intensely by this eclipse. This confirms that her ongoing anger/frustration at government social policy needed to be called to account. And that time arose.

Metiria was born with a warrior energy [Mars at 14 Aries] supplementing her renegade spirit intent on social justice [Sun in Aquarius] She has lived her life according to these prime motivators.

She has the benefit of a deep thinking, analytical and insightful mind [Pluto in Virgo blended with Mercury in Capricorn ]

She believes in friends, networks, communities and working together for shared social cohesion [Sun and Venus in Aquarius]

A compassionate philosophy underlies her thinking [ Neptune in Sagittarius ]

She is prepared to martyr herself or make great personal sacrifice for the larger benefit of the collective of humanity [ North lunar node in Pisces ]

Her fighting spirit kicks in when threats to personal survival arise [Mars in Aries, Moon in Taurus, Saturn in Taurus ]

Loose boundaries and bending the rules are also natural traits of those with strong Pisces and Aquarius energy and these qualities are always personal risk factors when such people have to be curtailed by any strict system or conditions – like a river bypassing a blockage or an animal confined to a yard.

The second eclipse – August 21st - is a total solar –involving a New Moon in Leo [spanning the whole US continent in its area of visible totality –so watch the drama building there as pathways of eclipses are very important]

This eclipse effectively at 29 Leo will activate all birth energies very strongly which are in the range 28 & 29 Leo and 0 Virgo.

Metiria was born with Venus and Mercury at 28 and 29 degree positions so both will be strongly triggered continually by the building eclipse which has the potency of change energy driving it all through August [Uranus at 28 Aries ]

By week’s end –Thurs-Fri 24-25 August when Venus reaches 28 degrees and with the lunar node at 24 Leo maintaining for a month its exact opposition to her birth Sun chances are high that listening to her heart, abandoning ego, putting family before public life could see Metiria let go of her co-leadership of the Green Party, the battle relinquished, the larger picture embraced.

Such an act would thoroughly complete the sacrificial element for the benefit of the larger good [ the influence of Neptune in transit conjunct her Pisces north node ]

With Mercury in Capricorn Metiria would definitely feel a sense of responsibility and an urge to do the right thing -offsetting the looser elements of her personality. 

The question is whether Neptune can affect her to such a degree that she takes the personal out of the equation and trusts that her actions in precipitating the crisis, in the larger scheme of things may well have done her party and the Left the best favour ever - as well as raising the profile of a very humanitarian issue. 

Sometimes to win you have to lose.


Metiria Turei full transcript of AGM speech

Here's just the things you might see during a total solar eclipse

prominences and corona on display      via NASA

The Shifting Sands of Identity, Gender & Sexuality

The Shifting Sands of Identity, Gender & Sexuality

under a PISCES SOLAR ECLIPSE

 FEBRUARY 2017

We are constantly embedded in a complex mix of energies and how those energies impact us or motivate our thoughts, feelings and expressions is dependent too on a complex mix of energies -where we are located, the context or environment in which we find ourselves, the time that the energies are in effect, who we inherently are - what aspects of us can be aroused....

So the available energy at any time - existent and embedded in us - is capable of wearing many different -but related - faces or morphing into variant forms - depending upon the type of and degree of resonance with each individual

Selecting universal themes from the signature of any significant energy event -like an eclipse - involves selecting from a range of related possibilities/probabilities which are consistent with contemporary themes impacting humanity.

In 2017 there is again in the world a widening divide at the same time as a merging together -conflicting and contradictory forces which are creating deep divisions in communities, within nations and in global politics.

Many can detect elements of prior extreme historical periods when brutal and repressive forces led in the worst cases to the outright slaughter of great numbers of people who were depicted as deficient, defective, threatening, impure, unholy - attitudes that are based not in a rational mind but stem from a far more instinctual panic residing in the ancient part of the human brain.

2017 is occurring at a time of expanded social awareness where one sector of humanity is predisposed towards inclusion and so this is some protection against a potential outright contagion of instinctual panic and a return to widespread repression of our species' progression towards greater expression of true humanity.

Sometimes it feels like there is not just one human species but two - at war - with completely different consciousness - and in truth this consciousness difference is real because without love, compassion and inclusion and without embracing an expanded view of human potentials and variations our humanness remains very primitive.

The Pisces solar eclipse of late February 2017 sees compassionate energies from the sun and moon merging in conjunction = a new beginning, elevating for many their capacity to feel empathy and support for others, wanting to help and understand those who are suffering, mistreated, excluded.

Mercury and Neptune also in Pisces at the time of the eclipse add further emphasis to this refining influence..enabling many to resolve to "become a better person".

Along with this surge comes a big dose of "confidence to be different" - from the Mars and Uranus combination in Aries - and with Jupiter in Libra linked in - social confidence, joy and pleasure have certainly been delivered to many by this eclipse.

Many will feel predisposed to assert who they truly are

With a 6 month effective process an eclipse is usually a life-changing influence

A very appropriate example of the eclipse effect was on display in Auckland on Feb 25 - the pride parade celebrating gender diversity.

A colourful and high energy community event supported by thousands of observers, this LGBTI event typifies the spirit of inclusion, diversity, fun, - essentially with the message that being different is actually the underlying human condition - we are all essentially "different" -though for many that difference has been repressed in so many contexts.

ln fact the age of labels must surely be close to ending within this context of the fluidity of identity and of gender and sexual preference being so much spoken of -and when young children are independently self asserting their preferences we truly are living in a new age of expanded social dynamics.

The essential message of this eclipse was earlier posted as follows:

The best of February 2017

could be discovered in the context of the Pisces solar eclipse energies of the 26th.
After the Fire comes a lot of Deep Water.

An outpouring of compassion or a sense of one-ness and connectedness is possible in mass gatherings that address the fundamental relating issues facing humanity.
On a personal level the same opportunities are on offer:

How can we co-exist in a better, more harmonious, compassionate way?

How can I access my strength, bravery and confidence in order to enhance my enjoyment of others in social interactions?

A nation that feels inherently secure does not need to banish broad swathes of humanity but until the end of 2017 a pronounced fear of the foreign has more opportunity to take root where that fear is encouraged.

On an elemental level -torrents of water are the likely outcome in many global locations

EXTRACT FROM 2017 ASTROLOGY

Analysis: March 2016 Potent Pisces Eclipse

A potent total solar eclipse in Pisces in March 2016 comes bundled with multiple heavy hitters on board.

March 9 2016 total solar eclipse via NASA

Pisces events involving the sun, moon or other planets generate much more sensitivity and compassion in people but also the extremes of feeling that lead to escapism, addiction, seclusion.

Illusion, delusion, confusion are also strongly activated by the combination of Pisces and it’s paired planet Neptune.

Both the planet Neptune and the related sign Pisces are prominent is March 2016.

Piscean and Neptunian influenced people can be among the most religious, in extreme cases the devotion leads to a cult of adoration centred around a charismatic figure onto whom godlike qualities are projected. Religious fundamentalism is another path – one followed by those who emphasise the notions of purity and purification to a level that requires punishment, repression, even annihilation of those who fail to adhere.

Pisces people are the most likely to be deceived – or to deceive others and many will either fall prey to being conned or to defraud others -so watch out for cheats, frauds & thieves when Pisces is strong.

Pisces is in polarity with Virgo and recent months have seen many unable to zone out into Pisces mode because of too much work -a situation triggered by Jupiter in Virgo. The effect is again very strong this month.

The Pisces state of mind is the opposite of the Virgo state - Pisces sees the bigger picture, the interconnectedness and the spiritual flow between all beings, all things. Virgo is the analytical mind that sorts into categories, classifications, systems and functions. This is intended to attain efficiency and perfection, neatness, tidiness, orderliness -but Virgo can get so caught up in fine, hair-splitting detail that the meaning is lost. Pisces needs a bit more balance in order to step out of the chaos of the Whole picture. 

Balance is always a theme when two polar signs arise together.

In this new millennium there are many indicators of the return of religious fundamentalism and this energy is emphasised in the time frame of the March 2016 total solar eclipse New Moon in Pisces.

Eclipse energy has a much wider window of effect than the usual monthly Moon events. 

Building energy can be triggered even weeks in advance of the exact conjunction of the eclipse Sun & Moon and the themes exist in their potential activation state during at least the 6 month period until the next eclipse period.

Why is this eclipse so potent?

Multiple energies will leapfrog and synergise in a chain reaction effect. This eclipse carries along with it many other planetary forces in a tight range of connectivity.

Powerfully built eclipse formations such as this occur in the context of world events with mass impact.

March 2016 has two eclipses

March 9 total solar in Pisces

March 23 lunar at the full moon in Aries-Libra

The month overall has energies likely to manifest through the following themes -some but not all will occur in your location, some will have global implications.
People born March, June, September, December of any year are most likely to experience effects carrying one or more of the Pisces-Virgo, Aries Libra themes :

• Extreme, fluctuating, volatile and contrasting conditions
• Big winners, big losers in financial/economic/business contexts
• Environmental/climate/weather extremes
• Structural earth stresses – seismic and volcanic
• Structural collapse – in any context
• Economic consequences as a result of stalled growth
• Global markets, economic indicators show extremes
• Restrictions, mass layoffs and slumps in the job market
• Destructive, anarchic human extremism driven by repressive ideologies, fundamentalist or purist religious dogma
• Further hardening of political response to migrants, foreign nationals.
• Further indicators of unpredictable unprecedented political events
• Travel advisories or alerts, travel restrictions, problems or cancellations

The Aries-Libra eclipse late in March 2016 has more financial/economic effects –with big losses in some sectors, big gains in others, consequences for employment, mass job losses

War and Peace =Mars and Venus energies are also on the table. More aggressive activity, more efforts at peacemaking, co-operation, building rather than destroying relationships.

March 26  follows the March 23 eclipse with a quartet of energies in the 16-17 degree range:

Jupiter-Saturn-Venus-Pluto.

This means Venus is the target of 3 planets that are determined to engage

Venus is money, love/relationships, peace.

Jupiter is an expanding and beneficial bringer of abundance

Saturn is a contracting and restrictive bringer of losses

Pluto is a challenging, sometimes cruel force that can destroy so that the new can be born

So overall there are more difficulties, more people encountering the suffering aspects re relationships, money and harmonious balance –versus maybe the 1% who always gain when the majority fall over – as is well known in the stock and share markets of the world and when housing values collapse – so this late March eclipse may be a significant crisis indicator for the world economy.

In addition starting from this late March period the Saturn-Jupiter stress could be a risky than usual time for overseas or foreign travel - the eclipse influence can extend this risk period for 6 months from March - and April-May 2016 could see a major aviation tragedy.

Eclipses - how do they work?

The fundamental significance of eclipses is that they have the power to amplify whatever forces are operating in the time frame, in addition to the basic consequences of the sun and moon working in tandem.

The result is that eclipses are known as signposts or markers of significant global events

How are patterns identified?

The mathematics are always the first clue.

The geometric mathematics of astrology range from simple angles such as 90 or 180 degrees through to much more unusual divisions of the 360 degree circle. All these different angles have signature effects.

But what makes a pattern easier to spot is when multiple planets occupy a narrow range of degree positions.

The eclipse for March 9 2016 has a tight grouping in the range 16-22 degrees.

Saturn-Pluto-Uranus-Jupiter-Sun-Moon at 16-17-18-19 degrees are all tightly connected to each other

Chiron at 20 degrees closely conjuncts Sun+Moon

The lunar nodal axis at 22 degrees links Sun-Moon-Jupiter-Chiron.

updates & relevant news

March 4 Balcony collapse injures students - an example of structural collapse that is a current theme
March 8 Historic ferry sinks -all maritime vessels are connected to Pisces energy
March 8  Tennis royalty Maria Sharapova responds to failed drug test, loses major sponsors. provisionally suspended pending investigation - this event signifies a person very challenged by the eclipse energies. Pisces is connected to all drugs/medications.
March 8 Migrant crisis deepens in Europe -BBC report

March 11 strong quake shudders central New Zealand
Eclipse time frames regularly associate with increased seismic or volcanic unrest
March 11 global economy increasingly sombre

March 11 Trump rally erupts in violence - the extreme ideology element in the eclipse forecast is captured in this heated political contest

March 13 Terrorist bomb attack in Turkey's capital

             Ivory Coast attack by Al Qaeda linked militants

March 19 another bomb attack in Turkey

Many significant fires also clustered around the eclipse. This was not due to Pisces energy but due to the connected planets Pluto-Uranus-Jupiter - with Uranus being in the fire sign Aries -all forms of aggression were amplified by Pluto combining with Jupiter channelled through Uranus= sudden fire in elemental form, sudden aggression in people.

March 20 in the building period of the Aries-Libra lunar eclipse multiple deaths from a bus accident in Spain -all were female students. This event reflects the travel warning due to Saturn square Jupiter. All forms of transport are vulnerable in this period - land, sea, air
March 20 - car goes off pier into sea -Northern Ireland multiple deaths
March 20 Egg sized hail in China -reflects the extreme weather indicator in the astrology forecast

March 22 terror attacks in central Brussels, capital of Belgium. Two main transport hubs affected -the international airport and a central metro train station.
Multiple deaths and injuries. Twin blasts were activated around 8am local time, with a third around an hour later. Islamic state claimed responsibility. Suspects on camera wheeling trolleys into the airport. Updates
Lunar events are known to coincide with extreme behaviour and the March 23 eclipse, as forecast in report, stimulated aggressive activity, while the ideological extremism stimulated under the early March eclipse remains in effect. No surprise that transport networks -as warned here - were targeted.
March 26 Multiple examples of job cuts

March 27 Al Jazeera announces 500 jobs to be cut
March 27 Easter bombing in Pakistan targets Christians
March 29 NZPost announces 500 job cuts

SOLAR ECLIPSE IN TAURUS APRIL 29 2014

MONEY POSSESSIONS SECURITY

These are the key energies and expressions

 linked to the sign TAURUS

In the six month time frame until the October solar eclipse in Scorpio, the state of people's physical and material security will be emphasised -and important red alerts are involved

This solar eclipse operates in the same time frame of the April 15 total lunar eclipse [a Full Moon with Sun in Aries, Moon in Libra] and so many of the activations explained in that analysis remain emphasised by this solar event [ a New Moon, with both Sun and Moon in Taurus]

Both of the energies related to money - Libra and Taurus therefore remain strongly emphasised but the forecast involves warnings.
On a bodily level Taurus is the energy of food, the substances we consume for energy. But how much do we need?

Read first the full April 15 report

Important sections from that forecast include:

Each of us has to assess where we are investing too much and where we are investing too little in our capacity for relating.
Libra also has a connection to economics and finance so the issue of imbalances in the global economy must also be highlighted in this eclipse time-frame as well as in respect to the separate state of the books run by the government and individual personal and family budgets. 
The global financial crisis is far from being a distant memory. It lingers on in many places and in many lives.
This is still a period of high risk in terms of financial returns.

In financial matters the risk is deals that fail to pay off, or scams and schemes that are increasingly preying on the unwary.
More caution than usual is advised under these deceiving influences regarding people and money.

Earth itself being a tiny fragment of the massive solar system, experiences the strain of the energy tensions of strong planetary alignments - as we are experiencing continually 2011-2016 and so extreme events have become almost daily news in this extended time frame.In New Zealand, Christchurch is a real life social laboratory revealing what happens to a place and its people when the lives of the majority are significantly usurped and turned upside down by extreme natural forces. But this is just one example across the world. For some it is flooding, or fire, or landslides. 
Political eruptions and war affect even more of the world's population


The April 29 Solar Eclipse forecast

The cardinal cross remains strongly in effect with Mars and Uranus in opposition and Jupiter and Pluto in opposition -each planet being also at right angles to the other pair.

Essentially this is how these planets are presently positioned in the solar system 

Historical evidence shows that very dynamic forces are activated when four planets are arranged in this cross arrangement, with the current four being arguably the most potent combination in the catalogue of solar system forces.

Pluto and Uranus have been at right angles since 2011 and remain in effect till 2016.

The present addition of Mars and Jupiter amplifies the extent of pressure affecting all species and our environment regarding evolutionary change -whether that is change by transformation, destruction or regeneration

The cardinal cross effect is primarily involved in the restoration of BALANCE

This affects how we relate to ourselves, others, other species, our resources, our environment = everything

Imbalances in any system whether that is biological or environmental/atmospheric cause malfunctions, disease, disturbance.
With the association of Taurus with food -asking questions about our level of consumption is relevant -is it too little or too much?

Persistent extreme weather events and major climate change, are indicators of imbalance in the natural environment and atmosphere.

Stress, disease, violence, degenerate behaviour are all signs of imbalance in the individual and societal systems.

The process of rebalancing is often enforced by outer events: ask the people of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, ask the people of Christchurch NZ after their earthquakes, ask the people of Sendai Japan after the tsunami. Once your world is turned upside down or annihilated, your balance is lost and must be refound.

This eclipse has a big sign reading BIG LOSSES
More tragic events involving water, literally as an element of change. 
The sea and severe rainfall are the most likely scenarios.

Extreme natural forces out of balance frequently express as wind -including hurricane and tornado events. The building phase of this April eclipse saw a trail of tornado-generated destruction across Arkansas and other central southern states. The more than 50 separate tornadoes documented, the half-mile-wide twister near Little Rock and winds up to 150mph [240kph]make these events a significant manifestation of the extreme stress of cardinal cross energies.
In real terms, like lightning earthed to a ground point, the full force of solar system derived planetary energies in extreme combination are funneled into earth's atmosphere and earthed with resulting destruction.

For many, water will also dissolve and dematerialize money, possessions and security.
This can occur through water damage ruining possessions and affecting financial status
But will also occur through the Neptunian arts of theft, fraud, deceit: many will be the victims of loss of money through devious exploitation.
The warning is to personally avoid fraudulent or dishonest practices under these influences -and to avoid people of that character - as any tricky schemes are likely to backfire

The energy of drugs, alcohol, addictive substances and addictive-compulsive behaviours are also associated with these warnings.
People's material and financial wellbeing and security are extra prone to being undermined by conduct related to substance abuse or addictive behaviour.
Aside from the drain from drug addiction or alcoholism on a person's bank balance, this is also most commonly expressed in big losses as a result of gambling -whether that is in casinos or in investments or sharemarket trading -or supposed get-rich-quick schemes.

Food addictions are also on the agenda for consideration. Too much of anything, even water, can kill.

Whatever your vices, now is not the time to let them get way out of control. The failure to show restraint will not be a pretty picture on account of the extreme annihilating forces in effect.

This forecast is written at a time when New Zealand battles with the ravages of synthetic cannabinoids aka legal highs. 

The present National government failed to protect the society of NZ, in particular vulnerable youth and imbalanced adults, from the toxic cocktails contained in these chemical formulae.

Large numbers of mentally disturbed users have flooded emergency clinics and local communities have launched vocal protests in response.

Despite saying a ban was impossible, the government announced on April 27, in the context of political pressure from the Labour Party, that within 2 weeks the products would be banned rom sale until proven low risk.

The risk of blackmarket activity and stockpiling is evident -along with a surge in withdrawal crises overloading medical services.

This issue of the effect of an addictive substance in radically altering the mind and body is very relevant in the time frame of this eclipse. - news report

People born on or close to the eclipse date April 29 are strongly affected, along with those having significant planets close to 9 Taurus.
The cardinal cross affects all planets at 12-15 degrees especially if in Aries, Libra, Cancer or Capricorn.
Well-known people born April 29 include Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day-Lewis, Uma Thurman, Jerry Seinfeld, Andre Agassi.