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For some background information on eclipses, read the previous column. 

This Full Moon on July 16th at 3:56am with the Sun at 24? Cancer 19' and the Moon at 24? Capricorn 19', brings in the first harvest of the intentions set at the New Moon two weeks prior. Remember that the eclipse energies are harvested over a 20 year period.

The retrograde Mercury has moved back to the degree of the New Moon Eclipse and will station to return to direct motion the next day. It is now in quincunx with Pluto. This indicates a period of ?instant karma? - where you?re shown through your thoughts how your intentions can come true or into form very swiftly. The gift of Pluto is to show you that there is great power in changing your thoughts to change your reality. Mars is still within a few degrees of the Sun, so it is still a potent force of action in this chart. It is continuing to activate our collective will towards whatever we place our intentions. It is also in quincunx to Uranus, which makes its force exceedingly unpredictable.

Venus in Leo and Jupiter in Gemini are in a very nice sextile aspect, uniting and expanding our ability to be communicative and receiving energies is a grand and dramatic way. They are both in aspect to Neptune in Aquarius, bringing the gift of the Divine presence to help us understand these gifts of the Full Moon.

"Inside Degrees" indicates that the Capricorn placement of the moon suggests we be our true authentic self, cautioning us against taking on a role or ?costume? that covers up our actual identity to such a degree that we cannot truly know ourselves. We may forget why we have taken on this identity or mask.

This supports the need to be sincere in the thoughts and desires set forth at the New Moon on July 1st.

New Moon Eclipse in Leo

The Solar Eclipse is on July 30th at 4:26 PM at 8? Leo 12'. This last eclipse of the summer is the reward for the patience from the demands of the earlier Cancer New Moon. Phew! Even with a few oppositions (Sun/Moon to Neptune and Jupiter to Pluto), there are several trines and sextiles to bring us some ease and grace. Only one quincunx is present, the same we?ve had since the Mercury Retrograde on the 22nd of June - Mercury to Uranus.

It seems that we are urged to truly and fully release all of the mental tensions we?ve had for a very long time. Trusting the process of our growth as humans, we are finished with this prolonged exposure to releasing our old dysfunctional thoughts. We will have the usual two transiting quincunxes between Mercury and Uranus next summer which will be over with in two to three days each.

This eclipse, we connect strongly with Neptune. Along with the veils to the other dimensions being thinner, we need to pull in our box of spiritual tools to keep our psychic shields up and our awareness higher so we can discern what is around us on the etheric planes.

Jupiter is sliding more and more towards exact opposition with Pluto. This has great import for all Geminis and Sagittarian people. This polarity will focus your awareness on your joy, expanding all you touch and consume (so watch the waistline), bringing more wisdom into your life, and allowing you to understand the power of transformation much more clearly.

There is also a very nice sextile between Mars and Saturn at the 29th degrees of Cancer and Taurus, respectively. These two anchor the action and patterns for right use of forcefulness acknowledging long term results.

Ellias Lonsdale states that the degree of this eclipse is... "the bare stark truth. The singular accomplishment of heavy labors...The long way around to a very simple quality that would mean nothing unless it were first gone..."

Therefore, at the Leo New Moon Eclipse, take a breather or a small break to gather your thoughts. This event empowers your abilities to create on all planes of existence with great ease. Your thoughts, intentions, and prayers in any direction may very easily manifest results. I suggest that you offer thanks for the clarity and the efforts you have made to grow from the insights gained in the prior 28 days. Give thanks also for the opportunity to go with the flow and for how you have been brought safely to this moment. Acknowledge that further growth and maturity of wisdom, self-awareness, and creation are at hand and you accept this knowledge and empowerment with joy, sincerity, and deep awareness of the responsibility.

All you who have strong Leo energies in your chart, this is the last eclipse in your sign for a couple of decades. (Next summer, the eclipses will be in Cancer.) Therefore, don?t pass up this opportunity to be in your glory and create wonderful things, events, and experiences, that enhance the joyous, beneficial, and creative experiences of life for all the peoples of the world.

May you all walk in beauty. 
Malama pono (take care). Namasté.

P.S. For those interested in other sites on the Internet about eclipses, please check these sites: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/extra/TLE2000Jul16.html and http://earthview.com/tutorial/patterns.htm Thanks to Stuart Zinner, fellow Mauian, for sending me these excellent links.

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