An Opinionated Lunar Eclipse: Weekly Forecast for March 25-31

Hey friends,

Here is the weekly forecast, interspersed with some reflections from my recent trip to Costa Rica during last week’s Gate of Innocence. I have a bit of a cough and sore throat, so my voice is a bit raspy in this episode- apologies for that!

This episode goes into the lunar eclipse on the Aries/Libra axis. During this eclipse, the sun was in gate 17, the gate of Opinions, and the moon was across the sky in gate 18- the gate of Corrections.

Opinions come out of Innocence, as we start to assimilate all the information that we’ve perceived in the world around us. The gate of Opinions is about finding patterns within our experiences to influence our thoughts. Being so close to the beginning of this cycle of the year, and so close to the end of last cycle where everything was whole, this week’s energy still has a lot of hope, optimism, and knowledge that we are all connected. With this in mind, our opinions can be formed with the greater collective in mind, the desire to use our pattern recognition to help and support the larger world.

The full moon in Libra, in the gate of Corrections, reflects this wisdom. With the eclipse energy, it also brings to our attention difference between using the patterns we see for forming hopeful opinions that inspire action and using them for criticism, only seeking out problems, and blaming others. There’s a fine line between Opinions based in a greater love and opinions based on critique and correction, and this week will bring that to light in our lives in many different ways.

Sending love and care to you all! Take it easy on yourself and others this week, and give yourself space to breathe.

As the sloths say in Costa Rica, “Don’t hurry, be happy”.

See you next week for the Gate of the Hunter & Huntress and preparations for the Solar Eclipse in Aries the following week.

All my raspy-voiced best,

Alison

Your Weekly Overview:

• Medicine Wheel Direction: East 

• Element: Wood

• Pagan Season: Ostara

• Zodiac: Aries (March 19-April 19)

• Moon Phase: Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Libra (March 25th)

• I Ching Hexagram/Human Design Gate: 17 (March 25-29) transits into 21 at the end of the week (March 30-April 4)

  • 17 = Lake over Thunder (Sui: “Following”) or The Gate of OPINIONS

  • 21 = Fire over Thunder (Shi Ho: “Biting Through”) or The Gate of the HUNTER/HUNTRESS

Look at the Aries section of the wheel, the right side to the East, to find gate 17, the gate of Opinions. Notice that directly across the moon you’ll find gate 18, the gate of correction- this is the gate of the full moon lunar eclipse.

Here is some food for thought for this week of Opinions, from The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson. (Thanks to my mom, whose birthday is today, for sharing this with me!)

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Parents often have a sense of inadequacy when confronted on the one hand with the eager, sensitive mind of a child, and on the other with a world of complex physical nature, inhabited by a life so various and unfamiliar that it seems hopeless to reduce it to order and knowledge.

In a mood of self-defeat, they exclaim, how can I possibly teach my child about nature, why I don't even know one bird from another?

I sincerely believe that for the child and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

Once the emotions have been aroused, the sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and the unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration, or love.

Then, we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.