Colours of Astrology - Q2 Energies - 2022

Crouching PLANETS

Kicking ECLIPSES

BY CRYSTAL EVES

Astrology, although often thought of as a dozen one-dimensional personality traits, is actually a robust craft that relates events in the sky to life on Earth. It is a rich, symbolic language that is usually conveyed through the use of metaphors and a fair bit of astro-jargon. But, if you’d like a simple way to experience what astrologers understand about the second quarter of 2022, I invite you to try the following exercise.

Find a spacious area in which to stand, and then assume a crouched position. Make yourself as small as possible, contracting all of your muscles, squinting your eyes shut, tensing your face and breathing in a shallow manner. Then slowly, ever so slowly, begin to relax and expand. Gently rise to a standing position while releasing the tension in your face and muscles. Open your stance, extend your arms up and out. Tilt your head to gaze upward, and open your eyes and mouth as wide as you can. Finally, take a deep satisfying breath in, before expelling your breath in a long, slow, calm exhale. That, dear readers, is what is happening in the sky.

No need to wait for an eclipse-kicking to find out you had the power in you already

Did you try it? If you did, no doubt you could feel the visceral contrast between the two postures and the relief that washes over your body when moving from that guarded, closed-off position to the relaxed, expansive one. Even if you didn’t try it, I’m sure you can imagine. (But you should still try it.)

When astrologers look to the sky these days, this transition, from tightly bound to more open and expanded, is exactly what we see. At the opening of this quarter all the planets are bundled together in one third of the sky; by the end of the quarter, they will occupy half the sky, and this expansion will continue throughout 2022.

The interpretation is that we are now unfolding and reintegrating. As we do, the new potential that we hold, the potential that has been forged since 2020, is making its initial debut in this nearly post-pandemic world.

Who have you become over these last two years? Be assured that you are no longer the same. Even if you haven’t noticed, you have definitely transformed during this time. You are older, for one. You have learned some tough truths about your values, your relationships and your resiliency. You’ve seen all the programs worth seeing on Netflix, plus a few more. You may no longer be interested in commuting to work, or wearing business attire from the waist down. It’s possible that your old jeans no longer fit your new body, and it’s more than probable that your old plans no longer fit this new time.

You may have evolved to be stronger and more purposeful, or you may now be feeling more confused and uncertain than ever before. Either way, making in-roads into this new time, with your new self and all of its potential, is what this quarter is about. It is time to appreciate all that you have recently become, and to allow this new understanding to guide your actions.

You don’t have to embrace this new you, of course, but it will be easier if you do. Clinging to your old life and plans is akin to going to dinner in jeans you’ve outgrown. It cuts off your circulation, restricts you at the core, and keeps you from enjoying the present moment. (If you lived through the 80’s you know this first-hand.)

Luckily, there are specific times when the astrology of this quarter will prompt you to ‘get with the program’ and that will be during the mid-spring eclipses.

On April 30th there is a solar eclipse in the sign of Taurus. It will offer a swift kick to anyone stuck in the old. (Financial astrologers are predicting that this eclipse might also affect global markets and geo-political developments.) From a personal perspective, any growth you have been forestalling, may now be forced on you due to circumstances, perhaps surprising ones. If you have already begun expressing the ‘new you’ in the world, this eclipse could lead to developments that highlight just how far you have come and where you might expand further, possibly through exciting, unexpected events and flashes of insight. This eclipse also has a soul-mate theme connected to it, so some of these electric developments may involve love, partnership, and circumstances triggered by others.

The lunar eclipse of May 16th is also landing in the fixed signs of Scorpio and Taurus, further encouraging stuck energy to move forward. In between these two celestial events, Jupiter, the planet of opportunity, moves into decisive Aries (at least for the time being) and this could lead to some bold action during the May eclipse that wasn’t possible prior to the first eclipse in April.

One way to work with this energy is to picture yourself having already achieved the growth that you are currently moving toward. The book is finished, the promotion gained, the new relationship has been found, and the harmony is restored. You already are this person who is capable of these things and as you relax and stretch out into this new territory with your fresh eyes, energy, and newly-forged self, you will see that this is so. No need to wait for an eclipse-kicking to find out.