This is the first of two Solar Eclipses this year. Here is what I wrote in my Gen­er­al Forecast:

Solar Eclipse in Tau­rus (May 9)

The first of two Solar Eclipses this year as the Moon crosses
the face of the Sun, but because of the Moon’s dis­tance from the Earth, it will
not com­plete­ly block the Sun so that there will be a “Ring of Fire”
of the Sun’s light around the Moon’s shad­ow. This type of align­ment is called
an annu­lar eclipse (annu­lus means “bright ring”). This near­ly total
eclipse will be vis­i­ble in North­ern Aus­tralia and the South Pacif­ic and here is
a map of its path. Here
is an ani­ma­tion show­ing how the Eclipse will move across the Earth.

The mes­sage of the Tau­rus Solar Eclipse is cen­tered again upon
the ques­tion of val­ue, but this spe­cial New Moon will release a deeper
under­stand­ing as regards your under­stand­ing about the nature of true
val­ue, how it aris­es, grows and is sustained…The answer, quite sim­ply, is
that it is to be found in your expe­ri­ence of your Self. It is this, your
“trea­sure in heav­en”, that you take with you from life to life, and
all the efforts you put in to bet­ter your­self today will be there as a gift to
your­self in this life and in life after life.  

This
align­ment of Sun, Moon and Earth is a beau­ti­ful demon­stra­tion of how the
Ener­gies and Forms of your Uni­verse are embraced with­in a Greater Whole, and
how each finds Mean­ing and Sup­port in their intri­cate pat­terns that form and
informs their rela­tion­ship with one anoth­er. Of course, you and they are
con­stant­ly engaged in this Song and Dance of Spir­it, but in a Solar Eclipse you
can actu­al­ly wit­ness this won­drous exam­ple of how you on Earth and these Worlds
around you are bound with one anoth­er in a great com­pa­ny of Forces, Forms and Formations
as you jour­ney in these Spaces of Space together.

Every New Moon pro­vides a release
of Spir­i­tu­al Inspi­ra­tion to help you under­stand the next step in your journey
of Self-Becom­ing. But an Eclipsed New Moon car­ries an even deep­er, more
mys­ti­cal mes­sage for you. The Sun is the Bear­er of your Infi­nite Poten­tial, it
is your Pure Being that is Becom­ing by mov­ing into and through these realms of
Self-Real­iza­tion. The Moon is the bear­er of your past which you stand upon and
draw from in life after life. But Luna’s Ancient Offer­ings are often entangled
and enmeshed with unseen, non-inte­grat­ed and uncon­scious ele­ments whose effects
will often man­i­fest as pat­terns (Emo­tion­al Com­plex­es) that inevitably create
obsta­cles and bur­dens for your journey.

The Eclipse of the Sun,
aligned for you so per­fect­ly with the Moon, focus­es the Solar Rays so that they
burn through these Karmic Shad­ows, illu­mi­nat­ing for you what was beyond your
ordi­nary pow­ers of per­cep­tion. This may of course, as indeed it should,
Pre­cip­i­tate or bring into Illu­mined Activ­i­ty that very Karmic Pat­tern. This
will bring about, prob­a­bly as it must, very painful mem­o­ries as well as
chal­leng­ing re-enact­ments of these trou­bled Energy-Forms…But it is also by so
doing the way by which you can ascend to your Greater Understanding…For your
Inte­gra­tion and Redemp­tion of these buried trea­sures, that were caught within
these Ancient and most like­ly Self-Destruc­tive pat­terns, can only be
accom­plished by remov­ing your Self-Cast Shad­ows so that you can re-integrate
these Ener­gies into more devel­oped Forms of Self-Realization.

What then is the core mes­sage of this Eclipse in Tau­rus? The
prin­ci­ple mes­sage that Tau­rus car­ries for you is that your source and measure
of val­ue is with­in you, it lies with­in your heart of hearts, it is your spark
of the Divine Flame you know as your High­er Self or the Beloved…it is your “Trea­sure
in Heav­en”. But between you the Pil­grim seek­ing to be reunit­ed and to
dwell in this Place of Beau­ty and Peace, with the Spark of the Divine abid­ing in Eternal
and Uncon­di­tion­al Love, between you and your Des­tiny there is the Great Work, of
lift­ing your­self up and through these forms that Veil you from your Self. For
you will often find your­self so Enam­ored and Glam­ored by these Mate­r­i­al Forms
you jour­ney through, you for­get who and what you tru­ly are…These Forms permit
you to move in these Realms of Mat­ter, but you become lost as in a World of Mirrors,
catch­ing the Light of the Spir­it in only Refract­ed and Bro­ken Forms…

But if
you would but open your Heart, and Lift your Eyes beyond your Self-Cast Shadows
you would see-through into that clear­er Sacred Space…And to help you in this,
these great Lords of Time and Space Dance and Sing, they bestow their combined
ener­gies like beam­ing bright lights, which dis­pel those refract­ed and Illusional
appear­ances so that you can find your way…So that you may make your way
Illu­mined, Lov­ing and Free…

This
is what a Solar Eclipse is for…

It
is intend­ed to shake you to your core.

To
make you sit up and take notice.

To remind
you from whence you came…

And to
where you must journey.

It
is your Ser­vant and Liberator…

Light­ing the Way…

For you, the Pil­grim, reach­ing for the Stars.

Venus leaves her Earthy and Luxuriant
home realm of Taurus…and your appre­ci­a­tion, enjoy­ment and indul­gences in the
Beau­ty of your phys­i­cal world will now yield to a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence and expression
of your sensibilities…Venus moves from Earth to Air, and with Gem­i­ni the
delights that mat­ter will reside in and flow from and to your Mind as you share
your expe­ri­ences, thoughts and ideas with one another.

Gem­i­ni delights in com­par­i­son and
con­trast, in curiosi­ties and the delights of Diver­si­ty. Your tastes are going
to reach out, whether in Music or Food, in Friend­ship and in Love, as the
ordi­nary will give way to the extra­or­di­nary, to expand­ing and appre­ci­at­ing the
deli­cious vari­ety that your world has to offer.

For the next three weeks, you will bend
and stretch, com­pare and con­trast and jug­gle the delights of the Rain­bows of
Val­ue, Beau­ty and Love in your world. You will dis­cov­er new sensibilities,
dis­cuss and debate and share with one another…because this is your time to let
a thou­sand flow­ers bloom.

With the Eyes of a Child…

With Won­der and Amazement…

Cel­e­brate you and your world…

Sur­round­ed in Beauty.