Divine Union

Last night was a New Moon. On night's of a New Moon, the night is particularly dark, because there is no Moon in the sky at all. The Moon, as she swings around the Earth, is positioned in the same place in the sky as the Sun. As the Earth turns away from the Sun, as we enter into night, we turn away from the Moon as well.

The New Moon, like all Moon phases, reveals the relationship between the Sun and the Moon. Just by looking at the phase of the Moon, you can tell where they are in relationship to each other. At the Full Moon, she stands directly opposite her dance partner, and the night is full of light as the Sun's beaming glow reflects off her fully lit face. At a Full Moon, there is a sense of a culmination, a fully manifested expression. A New Moon has the energy of something just beginning. What is it that we might be beginning, today?

There are New Moons each month, but this particular New Moon is special. This New Moon marks the beginning of the eclipse window. The next Full Moon will be a Lunar Eclipse, and the next New Moon, a month from now will be a Solar Eclipse and ALSO the Autumnal Equinox. (Eclipses don't always happen around equinoxes, but it happens predictably. Last year and this year, the eclipses line up with the equinoxes, and the last time it was lined up like that was 2006. Not extraordinarily rare, but still worth noticing.)

Eclipses and equinox transitions have some similar energies. At the time of the equinox, the day is exactly as long as the night, but this is a transitory moment of equipoise. If we take the cycle of the year and translate it into a linear sine wave, the equinoxes are the time of year where the line crosses the X-axis, where the rate of change is the most significant. These equinox times are the times of the year of the most rapid change, where we shift from light into darkness at the autumnal equinox, or darkness into light in the spring. Themes of change, transition, and transformation.

The eclipses portend similar themes of transformation. Eclipses come in pairs. We have the Lunar Eclipse followed by the Solar Eclipse. This pair creates the pillars of a gateway, a passage that we emerge from, different from who we were when we stepped in. As we move towards and through this pivotal energetic passage this next month, we step a little deeper into our destiny, or calling, and our true identity. In order to do this, we must leave behind that which is inhibiting our alignment with those energies that are calling us forward.

The alignment of the Moon, Earth, and Sun during the Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse, before the Autumnal Equinox.

We have this opportunity today to take a look at what kinds of energies are living within us that don't hold up in the light of the truth of our togetherness, our innate worth and power. As we hold an open mind to consider and allow for those energies to release, we also note that these Solar and Lunar cycles are relational. The process we are moving through does not and cannot occur in a vacuum. We are all in this together.

The term syzygy means union. It is a Greek word, that is used to describe the special alignment of the Moon and the Sun at either a Full Moon or a New Moon. Syzygy shares the same etymological roots with the word zygote, the initial single cell that contains a complete set of chromosomes from both the sperm and the ova. Syzygy also the same root word for the word Yoga. It means union. Carl Jung used the term syzygy to describe the internal union between internal masculine and feminine aspects of self. According to Jung, the meeting in dynamic union of the internal masculine and feminine polarities within results in actualizing the self at a higher level of psychological maturity, individuation and wholeness.

And Jung was very clear that these internal masculine and feminine energies are not merely personal. This is not just an aspect of our personalities— these are universal archetypal energies that are alive and expressed individually within an person. These archetypes masculine and feminine energies can be seen in the Sun and the Moon. What we are speaking of here is the Hermetic principle of "as above, so below." The interplay between the Moon and the Sun is not just a poetic metaphor for our internal masculine and feminine energies, they ARE our feminine and masculine energies because we are that. Everything is ONE thing. Our internal journey towards internal union is not separate from our cultural turning towards union of masculine and feminine energy towards our next phase of evolution because I am WE, you are WE, WE are WE and we are all together! When we begin to feel into that archetypal energy we are operating in a transpersonal field, and it is in this realm where alchemical magic can happen. It's from this place that I'd like to continue.

We have an opportunity unfolding before us, as we enter into this eclipse window, to expand into a new phase of our existence as a species and as a planet. Creation requires the flow of energy between masculine and feminine polarities, at all levels of the divine fractal being that we are. We are our species, our planet, our universe, we are our families, our communities, and our personal and individual selves. We are this whole, interrelated being, and conflict between masculine and feminine energies will only ever limit our awareness of and embodiment of the truth of our union. What have we been holding that perpetuates this schism, and subsequent restriction? What could we be willing to release, in order to step forward? What can YOU release, in order to step a little closer, that isn’t contingent on “well I would if they would.” Don’t imagine that they have the power that YOU hold to step a little closer. You are we. The power is yours.

In the societies that we have created, and that we have been living in, we have witnessed perfectly reasonable justifications for one side of this polarity to have a fear of, or resentment towards another end of the polarity. Particularly, our eyes have been opening to the distortions in relationship between the polarities that patriarchy has propagated. The distortion, and it's outcomes, and the grief, rage, and resentment are valid, and warranted; from the perspective of history, and experience.

When we look through the eyes of history and experience, we can find the justification. What I am calling for now is a release of our attachment to this way of seeing, necessary though it has been. I am wondering if we can loosen our need to prove how warranted our grief and rage is, by truly letting it be. Truly let that grief and rage be valid from the perspective of history and experience. YES. It is heard, it is honored, it is valid. AND. Can we also allow for another way of seeing? Can we also allow for the singular focus of the inevitable truth of the collaborative union between masculine and feminine energy? Could this way of seeing carry us into the unknown, into someplace we may have never walked before, a road for which we have no precedent and therefore drawing upon the traumas of history would do us no good.

What I am calling for now in this revolutionary times of widespread awakening, is a return to the very first commandment; to love God with all your heart, and all your mind, and all your soul, placing no other false gods before the Truth. There is a single-sighted focus on the inevitable requirement of our togetherness. From this unified eye focused on that one truth, let us forsake the other false idols, not to invalidate their existence, because they have the right to be. But to release the idea that our resentments and the legacy of hurt are more powerful than the limitless creative potential of our togetherness.

Who and what might we be, if each one of us awakens to the truth of our togetherness, and finds the courage to step into that oneness?