What I found absolutely uncanny is that the 1999 Solar Eclipse was pointing to the very same issues that the August 21st eclipse also illuminates. The many crises we face today were also obvious, but less pressing, in 1999. The need for a collective awakening and return to sustainable ways of living were also highlighted at that time.
Polarization and conflict were key points in the 1999 eclipse with the grand cross configuration. There’s no question that the succeeding years have seen increasing polarization and conflict on a global scale. The many crises we face that remain unresolved are escalating; environmental, social, political and economic. The polarizations are obvious. In the middle east there is the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the many islamic terrorist organizations, religious factions warring with each other. Worldwide we see the rapid polarization of wealth, the 1%-99% that birthed the Occupy Movement, the extreme political division between the left and right, nationalism versus globalism, the revival of the cold war between the US and Russia.
The position of the Moon’s Nodes, the indicator of the deeper karmic issues in the Aug 11th, 1999 chart, really hit at the heart of what that eclipse had the potential to catalyze in terms of transformation. Below is a summary from the article below.
Let’s attempt to summarize what the nodal positions tell us about the karmic conditions we must face, and how we might transform, transcend, and thus evolve with greatest ease into the new cycle. It seems that we are asked to face the karmic consequences of our individual and collective sleep in the ego-identified state, which is mirrored to us by the discordant, diseased and dying state of our world—morally, socially, politically/governmentally, economically, and ecologically. This requires us to wake up and stand free from the collective unconscious identification and all its beliefs and paradigms, which are causing us to charge over the cliff of natural and spiritual law into the sea of destruction and death. We must look at the signs and omens of the time as they are reflected by the trends in all areas of planetary culture and the ecosystem. We are asked to face what prophecy and ancient wisdom tells us about the death and rebirth that the cycles dictate. These signs become the basis by which we can end our denial and consecrate our existence to surrendering to the process and committing our personal will to evolving as quickly as we can. Most importantly, we are asked to find our true Self, and to follow the totally unique and individuated path of our soul. It is time when the soul of Gaia and humanity must break free to express and manifest its will and purpose. Let the soul manifest!
While no one but God is qualified to judge whether humanity has answered the call, it does not appear that we have had a true spiritual awakening and rebirth. We have not come to grips with the natural laws our species has violated. We have become more materialistic, have largely ignored the flashing red lights of environmental degradation, rapid climate change, the need to transition from fossil fuels to renewables, and to reduce consumption. The Pacific Ocean is polluted with Fukushima radiation and an immense garbage patch. Dead zones are appearing elsewhere around the planet. One could go on and on with a list of how the environment has degraded. I think it’s safe to say that while there has been some progress, we are far behind the curve of being able to transition in an orderly, sustainable manner to a post-industrial, post-materialistic, soul-based, world culture.
The forces of darkness, through the Global Elite that control the entire banking system, major corporations, and media, rule over the western world through the European Union and the shadow government in the US. The NeoCons took control of the US government in 2000 by stealing the election from Al Gore and giving it to George Bush, who was their candidate. Every President since then, until President Trump, has been placed there by them. The “Deep State” now controls Congress and the judicial branch and most of the major departments such as Defense, State, and Treasury, and they have encircled the President. This is why this time is so critical and why Donald Trump appears to be so prominent in the upcoming, Great American Solar Eclipse.
I invite you to read what I wrote for the 1999 Solar Eclipse as it will further elucidate and amplify these critical themes which we once again get to look at and hopefully address. For if we don’t, I would prefer not to contemplate how difficult things will be on this planet when the next Saros cycle eclipse arrives.