I saw in that a journey of the Fool Perceval, through the Wasteland to the Grail Castle, where he fails to ask the Grail Question and must leave and continue his journey. I see there the Wounds of the Land and the awakening of Arthur the King by Merlin, and eventually the return of Perceval to the Grail Castle for a second time, there to witness the Grail Vision again, and this time to ask the Question. That eclipse I called The Challenge, and indeed it did seem to throw down the gauntlet and issue individual and collective challenges to us all, taking us into difficult individual journeys across the span of 2000. The polarity then was in Leo and Aquarius, and moved from there to Cancer and Capricorn, the signs of the Summer and Winter Solstices. After August 1999 there were to be no more total solar eclipses for nearly two years.
Eclipses slip back in the zodiac so that each occurs a few degrees earlier than the last.
But the spotlight remained with the fixed signs, and particularly with Taurus as we experienced the Jupiter Saturn conjunction and a new 20 year cycle of these two planets in their dance with one another, and the grand Line Up of planets in Taurus, all in May 2000. And now we have crossed that bridge, and are coming to the close of this phase of the journey. The next total solar eclipse is on 21st June 2001 at midday on 0 degree Cancer, the Midsummer Solstice which I have long called The Grail Eclipse. Although not visible in Europe, this is an eclipse which will undoubtedly affect us all. Midsummer solstice is the festival of Alban Heruin, also known as Light of the Shore which gives us a glimpse of the meeting point of earth and water, of this world and the otherworld.