"Lunar Eclipse in Capricorn
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The lunar eclipse occurs halfway through the solar cycle where the nodal axis rests. Since last May the nodal axis has been in Cancer/Capricorn.
A couple of weeks ago we had a very powerful solar eclipse in cancer. This eclipse is compelling us to concentrate on issues related to trusting our feelings and intuition. It throws down a very important and complicated challenge to us all. We must examine the difference between our emotions and our deeper, intuitive wisdom. It's very confusing area of life that many people have a hard time even recognizing, let alone examining.
Our feelings feel like our feelings, what's the difference between "emotions", "intuition" - it all feels the same. Well, they're not only different, they're completely opposite. Our intuition is the source of our wisdom as a being - and the wisdom of all beings. Our emotions take us totally away from that wisdom. Intuition is calm and peaceful - like the surface of a lake with no waves. The emotions are extreme. Wave after wave. When we look at the surface of a lake with no waves, we can see all the way to the bottom. It is clear. But drop just one pebble into the water and it creates enough ways obscure our vision. We can't see to the bottom anymore. The same thing is true with our mind. The waves of emotion obscure our true nature.
Yet many times we say "I'm so intuitive" or "I'm just going to trust my intuition here" and we make terrible mistakes. We were not trusting our intuition - we were trusting our emotions. The emotions are based on our fears - our desires - they are very biased toward what we want and certain buttons that are pushed based on our past conditioning, habits and routines - what is familiar, what we're comfortable with - not necessarily what is good for us. That's why if we had a difficult past, we will gravitate toward difficult experiences in the future.
When we are deciding what to do, we will tell ourselves that we're following our "intuition". But it usually is not our intuition, unless we've calmed our mind in some way. This process and connection to our emotional life originates from the moon and is expressed through the sign of cancer, where we have this current solar eclipse cycle."