Blood Moon Eclipse 5/15/22

News headlines all weekend preceding this Blood Moon Eclipse in Scorpio pound a steady beat we never want to read: In the U.S., 4 separate mass murders by gun stain states from Wisconsin to New York to Texas to California.

This Full Moon is known by some as the Wesak or Buddha Moon, and at its highest aspiration, bodes a time for spiritual reverence and growth. This Eclipse: bright, big and highly visible across the Americas, Europe and Africa makes us marvel at nature’s pulse of beauty.

Yet humanity continues to let our worst natures run wild, despite centuries and millennia of warfare that should have dulled our taste for terror by now. You’d think. We want to blame recent decades of “lone gunman” rage from warped psyches. We dream up euphemisms for grueling personal conflicts, and wars both ice cold and red hot.

These latest 4 mass murders didn’t happen without some prompt from the 400 million guns the U.S. owns as a nation. Yes, that’s 400 million. What did we expect as we cave repeatedly to those who fan the flames of fear with faulty reasoning? (“A good guy with a gun” rhetoric is so destructively disingenuous.) Do we still fantasize that more guns will nurture peaceful non-violence in our citizens’ hearts and psyches? Or have we just given up and retreated into passive cynicism?

Scorpio as a symbol is complex, with animal energies from the desert-dwelling scorpion to the beauteous butterfly and the soaring eagle, each masterful in their own domains of transformation.

Does humanity have the will to transform our kind from wanton wastrels into ethical guardians, partnering with nature to raise out vibration collectively and individually? The time to make a difference is now.

— Love, Diane

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