New Moon in 23 Degrees Sagittarius (Total Solar Eclipse) on December 14th/15th 2020
By: Chiron Yeng
Tags: Total Solar Eclipse, Spirituality, Astrology, Jupiter Saturn Transit, Transformation

The Precursor of the Decade

What is beyond this new light we are receiving on planet Earth?

Eclipses work in a way that our external senses — sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch are censored. Things do not seem as straightforward as they seem. Our senses become unreliable and we feel less in control as the driver seat now shifted towards the forces of nature. The veils are thinner, and our human consciousness entangled further with our unconsciousness. With the alignment of planets in the same plane (eclipse are formed with sun, moon, and earth in the same plane) there is a concentration of energy showered upon Earth. It is like having a magnifying glass concentrating the widely disperse energy into one spot.

This is a time when sudden breakthroughs and breakdown can occur. It is an opportunity to discover the truth of who we are beyond the ideas of who we think we are. Past, present and the future collapses and it is time to expect the unexpected. We may feel overwhelmed with the changes we are experiencing as Eclipses accelerate change. Divine intervention comes through easily, so it is best we learn how to have this presence serve our highest intention rather than being stuck in the whirlpool of our neurosis. The energy continues to reverberate for the next 5–6 months until the next eclipse cycle in May.

The Total Solar Eclipse occurs at 23 Degrees of Sagittarius. Connecting close at the Galactic Center, which is a supermassive rotational black hole, and in the sign of Sagittarius, the last fire sign of the zodiac, this Eclipse is massively pertinent for the evolution of human consciousness. We have Jupiter, the ruling planet of Sagittarius in the final degrees of Capricorn, raising steadily to meet Saturn for the Great Mutation on this Winter solstice. As for the counterpart, Mercury, the ruling planet for the Gemini North Node, joins both the Sun and the Moon at the South Node. Not to mention, Mars forms a perfect Trine with Mercury at 20 degrees Sagittarius. Lastly, with the cherry on top, Neptune is in its own sign, Pisces forming a square aspect with the Eclipse point.

When I see all these cosmic planetary alignment come together, the first and immediate thought that I had was all about turning backwards and inwards to reflect on old limiting conditionings that no longer serve the growth of our highest purpose and creative potential. By cleaning the slate, we prepare ourselves for further development.

Let me break this down.

Sagittarius as the last fire sign of the zodiac showcases the highest attainment an individual can pursue. She expresses the highest creative potential and reflects mastery of the human capacity. It is about our personal meaning of life and bringing that into full expression. This pursuit needs tremendous confidence that comes from our personal belief about who we are as an individual. In balance, Sagittarius can become the unexpected and plough through any obstacles of life that may seem impossible. It is the risk taker that can go towards the beyond. When out of balance, delusions of grandeur and overinflation of the ego can happen which results in radical war to fight for the one’s truth as the only truth. This sounds like a double-edged sword but if the sword is wielded correctly, the intelligence of this cosmic power will serve you rather than going against you. The risk for the adventure to arrive at your true mastery of your individuality is necessary.

Now we need to look at the ruling planet, Jupiter.

Jupiter had played an important role transiting the Capricorn planets on the entire 2020. Forming conjunction with Pluto three times this year and slightly beyond the reach of Saturn, there is a major upheaval in the political, socio-economical, governmental systems globally. Again, and again we are reminded to ask ourselves inside out — what is important? Where have we prioritized our principles and values? Pluto has the tendency to get real with anything it touches. And Jupiter, expands everything it touches. Now this Eclipse shows that Jupiter is at the final degree of Capricorn almost reaching Saturn — it shows that we have more reflection to do on our worldviews and beliefs of our socio-cultural conditionings. Traditions and customs are pertinent to our cultural identity and perhaps national identity. However, how much of those traditions and customs are uplifting and harmonizing us to aligned with the principles of life that is natural and spiritual by nature?

Are we living the life we are destined to live by cosmic law that is your heart’s desire or are we living the life that we have been programmed to live? This Eclipse calls for such reflection.

Another sign for such reflection is where Mercury is located. Mercury involved in the Lunar South Node calls for critical thinking, fact-checking, and comparing diverse source of information to answer the question above. Interdisciplinary and multicultural by Gemini’s nature, there is a need to objectify our personal agenda, beliefs, and missions to move forward eventually. The Lunar North Node always points towards the next collective consciousness evolution and maturation. The significance of having the ruling planet of the Lunar North Node all the way back to the South Node shows that we have to backtrack, clean out the slate, work through unfinished businesses and re-understand why do we even believe what we believe in the first place. Mercury represents the power of the mind to question, relearn and make necessary strategies. Keep anything that serves our highest growth and release anything that is not. What is being released becomes fertile nutrients for the soil. Especially with the perfect trine between Mercury and Mars that is a sign of severance of old ideas and rediscover the power of the individual. Tread gently moving forward to claim your empowerment of your inner purpose and authenticity and be conscious about how you might come off too strongly to others. Find the balance to dare yourself to speak your truth without being too righteous about it. This means share what you need to share but don’t expect others to agree with you or even, understand you.

The Milky Way where the Galactic Center is located around the final degrees of Sagittarius.

Now for the significance of the Galactic Center. It is a vacuum gateway. We do not know what is in there. It is an abyss that holds great force reminding us that elemental forces of nature are always more powerful than our human control. In many traditions, this part of the sky is linked to the place where souls exit from our human realm. Perhaps there is something we are ready to let go and release. In the very Sagittarian expression, “Take a leap of faith, take the risk you had been contemplating for the longest time!” In the darkest night, is the beginning of light. We are on the collective journey to recover our confidence and relationship with the Almighty Life.

Here is where Neptune is giving us a hint. Usually when there is a planet squaring the Lunar Nodes, it shows a point of conflict or challenge that needs to be worked on to move towards the North Node. It also shows the balance point between the polar nature of the Lunar Nodes. Neptune in Pisces calls for interconnectedness, equanimity, neutrality, and the cold, blunt, truth that is beyond human interpretation. We live in an environment where information and data are overwhelmingly increasing in number. From false news, to independent news, to opinions of blogs and writers, conspiracy theorists, we become too distracted with the outward world and suffer from information overload. We do not know who to believe and have forgotten our inner source of knowing. Neptune is reminder for us to tune out to plug in to our immediate experience of life — the raw, unfiltered phenomenon of the elements in nature. Nature is not out there in the wild. Nature begins with us, within us, and expands outwardly. Neptune reminds us that we need to empty the cup of our mind because the true nature of the mind is the luminous blue sky without the clouds. When we empty the cup, we see the true reflection of the world around us.

Cultivate stillness, meditative states, and mindfulness practices as we proceed forward. We can then find the wisdom within us to decipher and discern what we need and what we do not need. This is simply by being intentional with our life. As human beings that makes us Be-ing, it shows we can make conscious choices and be intentional beyond reactionary, instinctual circumstances. Spirituality then, is about shifting reactionary behaviors to have response-able choices.

This is the precursor of the upcoming development in this decade. We are up for a bumpy ride as we are in the middle of transitioning into an advance technological, high civility, enlightened society. Before that, we have some groundwork to cover — we need to rewrite our old narratives and envision anew what is possible.

Such answers come from the basis of The Great Mutation or the Great Conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn which will continue in the sign of air for the first time in 800 years on the critical degree of initiation of 0 degrees Aquarius on Winter Solstice, 21st/22nd December.

The Great Mutation Saturn-Jupiter 0 Degrees Aquarius on Winter Solstice, 21st/22nd December.

Let us talk about this megalithic astrological connection.

We are coming into a new phase of a 800-year cycle in the Air element. The dance between Saturn and Jupiter is so intriguing as they meet every 20 years in a conjunction. For the time span of approximately 200 years, they stay in one specific element. For the last 200 years, since 1802, begins Saturn-Jupiter conjunction in Earth signs. And in 1980, the first Air sign conjunction was in Libra, signifying change is approaching before the Great Conjunction anchors into a series of Air sign conjunctions for the next approximate 200 years. This is happening on December 21st 2020. The reason why it is 800-year cycle is because we have 4 elements — Fire, Earth, Air, Water, respectively in that sequence. The last time we have Air conjunctions of these visible planetary giants was exactly 800 years ago in the year 1226, also in the sign in Aquarius but at 2 degrees. On December 21st, 2020 it is significantly curious that they landed on 0 degrees Aquarius, which is a critical degree that signifies initiatory beginning of a new era.

To put things into perspective, let us first talk about what they mean symbolically before we check out these patterns in history.

Saturn and Jupiter when they meet up are known as the Great Chronocraters, meaning they carry significant markers of time. As a pair they reflect societal conditionings, worldviews, values that are adopted, the philosophy and ideology that is implemented as a way of living. These elements reflect the type of society and human experiences that we have. This reflection involves political changes, socio-economic development, socio-cultural movements, shifting of education systems and evolution of lifestyle changes. As markers of time, they signify the end and beginning of a certain era, especially when they just enter a new element also known as the Great Mutation.

The general premise we are experiencing 2020 onwards is shifting from earth to air. In chemistry, this process is changing from solid to gas, which is called sublimation. Symbolically, that is how our society will be changing. Things that used to be carried out in a physical manner turns into a virtual manner. From the way we run education, how we carry and make transaction with our money, the way we socialize, our lifestyles, and new legislations will begin to shift towards virtual spaces. Physicality will turn into Virtuality. Sublime isn’t it?

We can expect is the speed of how human activities will be running. Physicality reflects a denser component of nature. Air reflects lower density meaning, and at equal force, Air can propel further and faster. Information that people used to get was by the word of mouth to newspapers and books, which upgraded into telegrams and morse codes. Eventually the era of the internet came which revolutionized how information was transferred. We are entering a new era of technology of how fast information can be transferred across the globe, but can our human system cope with such profound upgrade? If we are not centered and prepared, we will lose track in the information virtual world and lose track of actual reality.

The transition to Air is the openness to ideas, diversity, and multidisciplinary efforts. Global efforts and collective collaboration are more prominent coming into this era. Identification to one’s own nationality, racial and cultural background, beliefs, religion, spirituality, and political ideas will progressively become more open for tolerance and civil discussion. More of the population will progressively abide towards new ideals of egalitarianism, globalization, and enlightenment. Cooperation between nations as a global world is necessary to tackle difficult crisis such as climate change and reversing environmental destruction, world population, world hunger and homelessness and as we proceed forward in the next decades — the world may probably need to start to cope with mental health such as chronic depression, suicidal tendencies and anxiety which all may turn pandemic.

Lastly, there will be a significant evolution of applied technology necessarily so. Earth technology will shift into Air technology — what does that look like? We can count on the size of technology to diminish almost into thin air simultaneously increasing in power. Remember the old days that phones used to be this big and chunky briefcase? Perhaps holography will come into application for the masses.

As much as shifting to the Air signs bring enthusiastic changes to our human life, it is also extra troubling because we can become more disembodied, detach the importance of physical needs (such as touch — look how touch-phobia have people been ever since COVID-19 begins), and becoming progressively out of touch from actual reality because of the emergence of virtual spaces. The problem is not the progress but how mature is our consciousness when this progress arrives at our doorstep.

A Brief Reflection of History to Envision a New Future

To bring everything into perspective, when Saturn-Jupiter entered Earth signs conjunctions, it was the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution. This had to do with mass production, assembly line and technology reaching the working-class people. Even though the Second Industrial Revolution was dated 1870, signs of it were found during early 1850s. And 1840 was the year when Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions officially entered Earth signs. It was on this age of time that we began plundered natural resources and the land at large proportions, had drastic pandemics, economic crises, and the worst war in the human history. As we advanced with more power, the more destructive we became. This truly reflected the dark ages of the Middle Ages and most significantly the Black Death.

In contrast, the first air conjunction we have was in 1980 and subsequently this year 2020. Even in just a short span of 20 years, we saw many signs that it ws the beginning of air sign that such technology of the internet and the computerization of our industry had begun to bloom. Globalization began to happen at a rapid rate. Technology of airplanes which shortened the time to get from one place to another encouraged more movement around the globe for migrations. When this picked up pace, business opportunities and collaboration bloomed and before we knew it, running an international business became possible and easily accessible. International treaty, diplomatic collaboration between nations and trade agreements became active as a necessary component to elevate the standard of living between nations. 2020 December onwards, we are officially entering the digital age. What is the potential beyond what we already have now?

Renaissance is a time when human mind thrived in the culture of humanism.

What about 800 years ago when Saturn-Jupiter is in the Air signs? It was 13th century that marks the beginning of the Renaissance period, but it was not until the 14th and 15th century that anchored and highlighted the best qualities of Renaissance. Some of the quality has to do with a cultural movement called humanism that has to do with man was the center of his own universe, and people should embrace human achievements in education, classical arts, literature and science. Most significantly, the Renaissance is a shift of bringing darkness from the Middle Ages into light when issues such as war, pandemics, plagues, barbarianism shifted into the highest of human potential in cultivating culture, art and sciences, technology, and philosophy (https://www.history.com/topics/renaissance/renaissance). Perhaps 2020 and beyond could reflect a new era of Renaissance. However, as history suggest, this probably will not set in at least for another century when we are in the middle of the cycle.

Isn’t it curious that we have COVID-19 before we transition into an era that is focused more on our humanity? Mirroring the Black Death that came before the Renaissance period, does COVID-19 plays the same catalytic potential to bring our human consciousness to be more enlightened and mature? Each 800 years brings a new plane of evolution that is cyclical.

Opinion and Reflections

So, what can we expect from here onwards? We are taking another step up the ladder of evolution to advance our human consciousness from darkness and reach a new maturity of how we approach life and the art of being human. This time, we are not alone. We have a technological counterpart called Artificial Intelligence that we need to have a serious conversation about. How do we maneuver such great power? Technological advances are great, but it needs to be paired with consciousness maturity. This is where we will be challenged significantly for the next 200 years.

We have no choice but to evolve. We have a powerful eclipse portal that can help elevate us to the next level. Now is the best time to make use of that, relief and release old wounds, forgive and heal the emotional traumas, and most importantly, to clear the slate before this next step of enhance progress that is going to happen at all levels. These groundworks are necessary to elevate our human consciousness to meet the capacity of our technological prowess.

My final sentiments lie in this premise of cultivating our personal meaning, knowing our purpose of living and harness that into our life intentionally and consciously. Are you living the life you wish for or are you living the life you have been conditioned, programmed, taught to live? The former is having the ability to respond accordingly to changes of our environment with skillful means and wakeful intelligence and the latter is simply a reaction — an unconscious reflex from one cause and effect to another, which is the nature of Karma. To go beyond the bondage of negative Karma, we need to be intentional every step of the way.

Emerging during the synchronistic period, I feel it is part of my destined path to offer the pathway to assist people to remember and restore their relationships with their personal meaning and life purpose. Being a transformational coach and an evolutionary astrologer made me understand the tools that I had discovered along my personal quest of self-discovery were first to alleviate the struggles and healing crisis of my own before providing them to the collective after testing them. December 2020 onwards, I am emerging and I want to make it known to you, my readers, listeners and community out there that I am 1000% committed, empowered, and available to help you live the life of your highest creative human potential.

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