Winifred Hodge Rose
Someone recently asked about soul work during the upcoming eclipse–a good question! Here are a few thoughts about meditations we might undertake during that time. The eclipse will certainly be a good day for meditation on a number of topics, which I’m sure all of us can come up with for ourselves, but I’ll make a few suggestions here.
(1) Aspects of our souls are meant to shine out into the world. Which of those aspects might be eclipsed by inner darkness, and is it time for them to come forth and shine now?
(2) The Moon-dark covers, but in turn it also uncovers. What gets changed, there in the dark time, under the dark inner moon, that then is uncovered when the time is right? What is happening within our souls–one or all of them–during that gestational darkness?
(3) How do each of our souls react to the eclipse, in the ways I implied in the previous questions, or in other ways? Are some affected by it, and some not? How and why so?
Think about the word ‘apocalypse’ in the context of these topics: in Greek, it means ‘un-veiling, un-covering’. (Calypto or more correctly kalypto in Greek means ‘to cover,’ and the word-root ‘kal’ is linguistically related to the word ‘Hel.’) The word ‘unveiling’ implies something that is hidden but very beautiful or amazing, that will be revealed when the time is right, as the Moon veils and then unveils the Sun.
Here’s another thing to consider: from our perspective here on Earth, the moon and the sun appear to be about the same size in the sky–a perception that was assumed by humans until modern times–that the moon and sun are approximately equal. We now know that’s not true, but again from our perspective the moon is large enough to completely cover the sun in our sky.
What this means is that something smaller and closer to us can block out something that is much larger, more overwhelming, but farther away from us. This is a fruitful meditation topic too: in our own perception and awareness, what smaller but closer things are blocking our far-sight, our deep awareness of an expanded soular system and universe as a whole?