New Moon
Solar Eclipse
May 20, 2012
0 Gemini 21’

Awakening brings its own assignments, unique to each of us, chosen by each of us. Whatever you may think about yourself and however long you may have thought it, you are not just you. You are a seed, a silent promise. You are the conspiracy. – Marilyn Ferguson

I heard the phrase "Think In" when asking for guidance for what to share for this pivotal New Moon Solar Eclipse in the sign Gemini. These words reminded me of sit-in, “a form of direct action that involves one or more people nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.“ (Wikipedia). I also got an image of the book, The Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson, which informed the reader that conspiracy is from the root, conspire meaning literally “to breathe together.”

As many spiritual aspirants have learned to do, I opened the book to see what counsel might be on the randomly selected page. My eyes fell upon:

“The power of intuition can be extended from the individual to a group. A conference brochure invited, ‘Come, let us drink at the well of collective intuition.’ Groups of the Aquarian Conspiracy often listen for inward guidance, like Quakers seeking inner light at a meeting. Rather than charting their activities exclusively by logic, they seek a kind of consensual intuition. They report a sense of direction as a group rather than inventing it. It is as if teams of archeologists were digging, not for the past, but for the future.”

I am suggesting that a thinking together is called for and that this thinking must be inner directed, where we each get quiet, close our eyes, and breathe deeply and quietly and ask for a sense of how we must conduct ourselves in order to bring about the resolution of conflict and the promotion of the common good. There is no reason why, for example, 99% should be frustrated by 1% in a democracy, except that there is perhaps something collectively disempowering in the thinking of the 99%. We need a think-in to take back or reclaim the will-to-good.

The Eclipses always occur in pairs, about two weeks apart. This New Moon Solar Eclipse will be followed by a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on June 4th. Eclipses occur because the New and Full Moons occur in the proximity of the North and South Nodes, which are the names given to the points along the elliptic where the paths of the Sun and the Moon intersect each other at opposite points. This New Moon Eclipse conjuncts the South Node, which is called The Dragon’s Tail and opposes the North Node, The Dragon’s Head. The South Node represents the point of automatic, habitual behavior. In Gemini this might mean thinking the way we always thought, or following conventional thinking, such as believing the 1% are powerful and difficult to defeat.

This New Moon is a great time for new thinking, and thinking in a deeper, more meditative way, trusting that we can have a meeting of the minds in the vast mysterious quiet of the dark. Mercury, the messenger, is the sign that rules Gemini, and Mercury in this chart is conjunct optimistic, benefic Jupiter. In our thinking inward together, seeking the instruction of the inner teacher, we entertain faith and not fear. We will think our most powerful thoughts, invoking the power and presence of the Divine Mind, asking for and expecting a revelation of the Divine Intention and the primal will-to-good.

Let us think inwardly, without fretting, fearing, or flailing. And let us do this in the spirit of non-violence, including non-violent language in our thought. Violence is the language of fear. It is important that we do this on a collective or group level and on a personal level in our one to one relationships.

Let us remember that we are not trying to change others, but to change ourselves. “No one can persuade another to change,” writes Marilyn Ferguson, “Each of us guards the gate of change that can only be opened from inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.”