Sagittarius Full Moon Lunar Eclipse:
Metamorphosis Through Crisis

Guest written by Torrence Tremayne
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June 5, 2020 — Today’s full moon lunar eclipse takes place on the Ascendant of the United States of America and all eyes are on the burning empire. Today marks a week of nationwide protests, civil unrest and mourning, sparked by the horrific lynching of yet another Black American, George Floyd, a 46 year old father who’s life was mercilessly taken by Minneapolis police on Memorial Day. Floyd’s murder was recorded by terrified bystanders and quickly spread via social media as Gemini season commenced.

With the Sun now opposite the Sagittarius Moon and in conjunction with retrograde Venus in Gemini, “We The People” have no choice but to contend with our house tragically divided and the current (Gemini Sun-Sagittarius Moon) White House occupant no longer simply flirting with authoritarianism but beginning a very dangerous liaison. “We The People” must reckon with the orthodoxies foundational to this white supremacist, settler colonialist project - the original sins of land theft, genocide, and chattel slavery.

Envision the sixth Major Arcana Tarot card, The Lovers, in the reversed position. The popular Waite-Smith version of the card depicts a lush scene in the Garden of Eden from Genesis, featuring the archetypal Divine Lovers of Christian lore, Adam and Eve. Mars is in Pisces exchanging inflammatory square aspects with the Sun, Moon and retrograde Venus. The square aspect being cast from mutable signs, hints at rapid dissolution and metamorphosis through crisis. Any lingering illusions of a paradisiacal American Eden, free and fair for all people, have been justly turned upside down. Many of us are grieving, not for an American Dream deferred but for an American Nightmare we have never been able to awaken from.

If you are a person of privilege in America, now is the time to awaken, listen, get comfortable with being uncomfortable, interrogate Whiteness within and without, say the wrong thing and hope to learn from it, make personal reparations to Black Americans, put your body on the line and show up in solidarity not just for our liberation but ultimately, for your own.

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