Tuesday 2nd June 2011
New Moon Partial Solar Eclipse in Gemini
Thursday 2nd June 2011, a significant New Moon & Partial Solar Eclipse at 7.10am (EST, Melbourne, Australia). An excellent time for laying new foundations for your life or your business. Think big. In the air sign Gemini, great ideas come to the fore, you will find much communication opens to discuss new ventures.
Gemini as a New Moon signifies beginning to expand your interests to more philosphical and deeper topics. You will have a stronger desire to create harmonious linkages in your immediate surrounds, family, friends, community groups and your connections around the world.
Align and blend opposing forces and be an agent for Harmony, Light & Love!
Solar Eclipse – Significant Celestial Event
This is the first of a pair of eclipses (the second is the lunar eclipse on the Full Moon in Sagittarius 15 June), the effects of this lunation will be more significant than usual.
Solar Eclipses occur when the Moon passes in front of the Sun, temporarily covering all or part of it.
Eclipses are powerful and this energy will enhance your intuitive and telepathic powers.
The event is visible from high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.
The eclipse begins at sunrise in Siberia and northern China where the penumbral shadow first touches Earth at 19:25:18 UT. Two hours later, the greatest eclipse occurs at 21:16:11 UT. At that time, an eclipse of magnitude 0.601 will be visible from the Arctic coast of western Siberia as the midnight Sun skirts the northern horizon. Although most of Alaska and northern Canada will witness the partial eclipse, the southern limit of the penumbra falls along a curve from south of Fairbanks to central New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Reykjavik, Iceland receives a 0.462 magnitude eclipse just before sunset. Northern most Norway, Sweden and Finland also get a midnight Sun eclipse with the event hanging above the northern horizon. The partial eclipse ends at 23:06:56 UT when the penumbra leaves Earth just north of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean.
Source: NASA Eclipse Website
In Australia and New Zealand, the eclipse will not be visible – so the further East you are the more of the eclipse you’ll see.
The eclipse begins on Monday evening, 1st June in the Northern Hemispheres.
Sun rise in Melbourne, Australia is approx. 7.26am so we will just miss the peak eclipse phase. Watch the horizon for the rising sun/moon, and you may see something bold and spectacular!
Rare Eclipse pattern in 2011
Four partial solar and two total lunar eclipses take place in 2011. This 4:2 combination of solar and lunar eclipses in a single year is rather rare with only six cases during the 21st Century (2011, 2029, 2047, 2065, 2076 and 2094). The first and last eclipses always occur in January and December.
The dates and types of eclipses during 2011 are as follows.
The Constellation Gemini
Gemini is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for “twins”, and it is associated with the twins Castor and Pollux in Greek mythology. Its symbol is 
(Unicode ?). It lies between Taurus to the west and Cancer to the east.
Gemini is dominated by Castor and Pollux, two bright stars that appear relatively close together, encouraging the mythological link between the constellation and twinship. The twin to the right is Castor, the twin to the left is Pollux,
H.A. Rey has suggested the stars of Gemini show a pair of twins holding hands.
In Babylonian astronomy these stars are known as the Great Twins. The Babylonian Twins were regarded as minor gods and were called Meshlamtaea and Lugalirra, meaning respectively ‘The One who has arisen from the Underworld’ and the ‘Mighty King’. Both names can be understood as titles of Nergal, the major Babylonian god of plague and pestilence who was king of the Underworld.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_%28constellation%29
This New Moon Solar Eclipse is an enormous opportunity to share your emotions and make new beginnings in your relationships.
The characteristics of Gemini are: communication, language, education, learning, travelling (short distance), networking, relating, sociable, youthful, playful, restless, quick witted, mind, intellect, thought, telepathy, intuition.
This New Moon invites you to begin afresh and instigate new original ways of relating. Trust your intuition. Connect with the harmony of nature. Indulge in “Right Human Relating” and help bring Peace to Earth.
This Full Moon will highlight “Relationships”
Esoteric & Energetic meaning of Gemini
“The Light of Interplay”
Dane Rudyar, a highly respected astrologer of the 20th Centruy, gives a deeper meaning to eclipses. He says a Solar Eclipse is a time to step back and tune into the past and our feelings.
With this New Moon in a trine to Saturn in Libra, it will bring more stability to relationships. Stability and opportunity in new relationships, opportunity to heal old relationships where emotional issues still remain. Greater opportunity for humanity to relate in harmony.
I recognise my other self…I grow and glow. The Soul is the other self, and as the soul emerges triumphant over the personality/ego, the soul can bring greater direction and clarity – then the personality is a disciplined extension of the Soul.
The Energy of this New Moon Cycle & Practical Tips
Feel the energy of this New Moon Solar Eclipse in Gemini. Meditate Deeply and on the stillness within.
The energy is to seek “right human relationships” to relate to one and other wholistically. To synthesize and harmonize when relating to others and ourselves. Especially relationships of the past.
- Tune into the energy of being true to yourself and share what you are thinking to others.
- Feel the subtle power of this Solar Eclipse, as your true self comes to expression!
- Focus on your heart and mind and body will follow as love unites and fear separates.
Work with the heavenly energies and your life will flow with ease!
Tracey Stranger
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