This is the first Eclipse of the year
and here is what I wrote in my 2013 Gen­er­al Forecast:

Full Moon
Eclipse in Scor­pio (April 25) 

The five
eclipses of the year begin with the Bud­dha Moon! The ancient teach­ings say that
Bud­dha was born on, achieved enlight­en­ment under and left his phys­i­cal body on
the Full Moon in the month of Tau­rus. This Full Moon is about under­stand­ing the
dynam­ic rela­tion­ship you must expe­ri­ence regard­ing the ques­tion of Val­ue. For
in your very being you expe­ri­ence this truth, that you are an immor­tal in a
mor­tal frame. Val­ues are “eter­nal” (or time­less), yet their physical
man­i­fes­ta­tion is only for a time. The key teach­ing of the Bud­dha con­cerned this
way of under­stand­ing the jour­ney you must take as a spark of the Divine…that
you must learn the way, in fact become the way of Non-Attachment. 

Here is a
map of where the Eclipse will be vis­i­ble. It will be passing
over Europe, Africa and Asia mostly.

Held to be
one of the most spe­cial and sacred Full Moons of the year, this Bud­dha Moon,
cel­e­brat­ed in the Wesak Fes­ti­val, is so named because The Ancient Teachings
hold that Sid­dhārtha Gau­ta­ma, who became the Awak­ened or Enlight­ened One, was
born, tran­scend­ed and also left his phys­i­cal form dur­ing the Full Moon in the
time of Tau­rus. I wrote about the Spir­i­tu­al Sig­nif­i­cance of the Bud­dha Full
Moon in my 2012 post­ing which you may read here.

Each Full
Moon sig­ni­fies a rev­e­la­tion for you, for what was released as a seed at the New Moon
has now reached its cul­mi­na­tion or Flow­er­ing at the Full. The essence or
poten­tial con­tained with­in the seed, cre­at­ed when the Sun and Moon formed their
Con­junc­tion, has become ful­ly appar­ent and Man­i­fest­ed in the Fruit or harvest
offered to you as the Sun and Moon reach the cli­max of their cycle every month.

The seed
plant­ed in the Tau­rus New Moon will always seek to remind you of your essential
nature, of your true Val­ue as a Spark of the Divine…that you are Spirit
mov­ing through many worlds, through many forms and activ­i­ties in order to
ful­fill your one true purpose…which is To Grow…to Become a Self-Conscious
Divin­i­ty who Joy­ous­ly dances through the Ener­gies and Forms of Creation.

Yet one of
the great errors you will have to con­front as you move through all your forms
of man­i­fes­ta­tion is Attach­ment to these forms and so the for­get­ting of who and
what you real­ly are…and so instead of Joy, your true nature, you experience
the pain of loss and long­ing, you look back with regrets and ahead with fears…you
end up in a con­di­tion of Suf­fer­ing. You “for­get” that there is only
the Eter­nal Now in which you shall abide for­ev­er and always…

The Mes­sage
of the Scor­pio Full Moon is the core of the Heart Doc­trine as laid forth by the
Buddha…It is that the key to your Self, to the Truth of Who and What you are,
is found and secured by fol­low­ing the Noble Path, the Mid­dle Way, and you can
do this by stay­ing true to that Self who moves through but is not attached to
these forms.

You can do
this by Know­ing Your­self as a Spark of the Mind of the Divine, by Lov­ing Your­self as
a Spark of the Love of the Divine, and by Hold­ing Your­self as a Spark of the Will of
the Divine…That in your True and ever abid­ing “I” which lies at the
core of you, there is that Self which is “Absolute-Existence-Knowledge-Bliss”…and
when you Align your life with this aware­ness you can and will begin to fol­low the one true path of Spir­it, the path of a Free Being, which is the Path of Light
and Love where­in you will abide in a true State of Grace formed by Non-Attachment…A Free Mind, Uncon­di­tion­al Love and a Cen­tered Will.

There is a prayer that is offered up at such moments to cel­e­brate these “Gifts of the Spir­it”, yet is also a most valu­able mes­sage to think upon each and every day…It is called The Great Invocation:

 

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light within
the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our
minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the
Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our
hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of
God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the masters
know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call
Humanity

Let the Plan of Love and Light
work out

And may it seal the door

where evil dwells.

Let Light
and Love and Pow­er restore the Plan on Earth.