Caner Full Moon January 19, 2011

[wickfordbard]

Every year at Winter Solstice, the world stops and holds its breath – will Light and Life return for another year? We are blessed by having it so. Each year the Sun returns and brings new life with it. Ancient peoples and modern religions celebrate this return of the Sun with celebration and festivals.

One of those ‘sons’ is called the Prince of Peace at this time of year. He is called this at his birth on the Sun’s return. The Light of the World wants Peace to reign in this world of ours. Those are our cosmic instructions.

And so each year, in that moment of greatest darkness, we each secretly yearn for the new ‘light’ to bring us a life of peace, a life of joy and a life of love. Unfortunately, we’ve talked ourselves into believing that we can only find that peace in an ‘other’ world - in another life.

But two things happened during this Winter Solstice season that might have changed this old story. During the 12 Days of Christmas, January 4th represents the 10th sign of Capricorn, the one concerned with our social structures – the structures that determine how we relate to each other. January 4th was the day of the Capricorn Solar Eclipse as well as the last conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces. Perhaps that day was the beginning of a new story. It was, after all, the cosmic New Year.

The symbol for that solar eclipse/new Moon at 14*Capricorn is: An ancient bas-relief carved in granite remains a witness to a long-forgotten culture. The solar eclipse seeded this urge to re-discover the things that have lasting value. The way these values or archetypes are re-discovered is through the doorway of the Collective Unconscious.

Continued at: <http://www.wisdom-of-astrology.com/astrostarsarticles/cancer-full-moon-january-19-2011>

[Howler]

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