The majority of focus has been on tomorrow’s solar eclipse as well as the Grand Conjunction on the Winter Solstice… However, these are just the jumping-off point for the most important heavenly event for the US, which is needed for the Grand Conjunction to manifest its energy concerning the Age of Aquarius. This occurs on February 19, 2022, the USA will have its first-ever Pluto return, a groundbreaking moment that changes the world as we know it.
In this moment, let’s look at what is in store for us via the Goddess of the Eclipses—the Death Goddess.
The metaphor for the violence done to the goddess as a representative of natural order and the balance of the natural world appropriately takes the form in the celestial sphere as an abrupt and frightening change in the heavens: an eclipse. The actions of this goddess as eclipse are not the warrior goddess archetype but the intellectually powerful and disturbed nature of a goddess represented as a raging fury determined to shake the universe, darken the skies, and set the world into a readjustment of its values after experiencing the chaos of the unnatural. Eventually, her power is to astound, frighten, and horrify to create the required and necessary change to the culture of the patriarchy that is out of sync with nature. Therefore, her power dwells in the unmasking of uncertainty and the shocking of humanity to evoke revenge and correct misconduct through a demonstration of cosmic change. The figure of the archetype must therefore rely on the seeds of destruction planted in the human imagination to evoke such monumental shifts in cultural behavior. Like the eclipse, the goddess demands a recalibration of the universe as divine feminine ruler of the heavens to create a shift in paradigms guaranteed to repeat itself when necessary.
The Goddess of the Eclipses consequently represents our ability to foresee the inevitable need to revenge, protect, defeat, and change. She is more powerful than a warrior and more vengeful than a fury, possessing the qualities of both with the added attribute to evoke transfunctional and universal change within a timed sequence and cyclical paradigm all designed to protect what has been wrongfully violated: her feminine self. The evolution of The Goddess of the Eclipses is subsequently rooted in the goddess of the Neolithic peoples. Here, the goddess represents cosmic and heavenly change and the power to create a monumental shifting or turning point in the consciousness of humanity when witnessing a cosmic and celestial darkening of the universe. Much like an actual eclipse, the goddess must evoke a temporary awe and possible fear of the ability of the goddess to create an abrupt change in the cosmic order and restore that order as a figure who must regenerate the comic flow of energy in a timely and cyclical manner for transformation and change to occur. Before the myth of this eternal return from stasis and order to chaos and back, and before the order was disturbed by the violence it endured in the patriarchal cultures in the history of mankind, the pre-patriarchal cultures of the Neolithic era give some indication as to the origins of this goddess.
The goddess of the regenerative forces belongs to a long line of matrilineal figures that Marija Gimbutas calls the Goddess of Death and Regeneration (The Language of the Goddess 2001). Her symbols included the vulture, the owl, the boar, and the dog and her domain reached from Europe to the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Neolithic era. The Goddess of Death and Regeneration was represented by predatory birds such as the vulture and the owl that feed entirely on carrion. The vulture figures on a fresco at Çatal Hüyük depict vultures that have decapitated the dead and taken their souls which inhabit the head of the deceased. Gimbutas remarks that the wings of the vultures which resemble the brooms or brush sign perhaps “denotes the energy and power of the Death Goddess as does the witch’s broom of European folklore” (Language of the Goddess 189). Likewise, the owl as a bird of prey with oracular powers is “an incarnate manifestation of the fearsome Goddess of Death” (190).[i]
[i] Helen Benigni’s paper “The Goddesses of the Eclipses,” Academia.edu