This Full Moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow and give us a total lunar Eclipse. The totality will last for approximately an hour and 15 minutes. The term Blue Moon just represents two Full Moons in one calendar month. It’s the first of two Blue Moons in 2018. This is also the third and last in a series of three Full Moon Supermoons. So it’s not just a total lunar eclipse, or a Blue Moon, or a supermoon. It’s all three, a super Blue Moon total lunar eclipse. This eclipse can be seen in most of western North America, northwestern South America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, eastern Africa, eastern Europe, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

The last Supermoon total lunar eclipse was in September 2015. And the last super Blue Moon total eclipse happened on December 30, 1982. And it is sometimes called a Blood Red Moon because it will be so close to the western horizon at sunrise causing it to appear red.

I have people ask me if all of the hype about this complex Full Moon makes a difference in its intensity and impact on the earth. Two of the characteristics do add to its intensity, the increased gravitational pull on the earth of a SuperMoon, and the overall impact of a Lunar Eclipse. The energies of a Supermoon are immediate contributing to bigger and stronger storms and earthquakes due to its closer proximity to the earth. The effects of the Lunar Eclipse takes a few months to fully manifest and are not immediate.

A Lunar Eclipse can create a significant shift in the Collective Consciousness. With the Moon in Leo, it represents issues of the heart. Some individuals may feel deep emotions from the past that they are ready to process for understanding, clarity and healing. Those who will feel the most energetic impact of this Full Moon are those with significant Leo and Aquarius in their natal chart. Look at your chart and find which houses are impacted.

In addition, this eclipse activates an approximate two-week period (January 31st thru February 15th)between this Lunar Eclipse and the New Moon Solar Eclipse (on February 15th) when we will have increased power for manifestation. During this 16-day period it is most important that you become aware of your thoughts and consciously focus on what you truly desire. What you create with your thoughts, positive or negative, will manifest in your world and be projected out into the world during the coming six-months.

With the Full Moon in the fixed sign of Leo, we all could enjoy being social and entertained. Leo enjoys controlling the agenda, which is often in their favor. Leo can be the big child so this is a great time to be creative and playful and to enjoy your inner child. Be cautious however, the desire to be seen and valued can express in unconscious drama. Be aware of the impact your behavior and personality has on those around you. Be loving and generous and avoid being demanding.

The Sun is in Aquarius, also a fixed sign, means aquarians cling to their ideas and beliefs. They are very independent and freedom-oriented. They tend to be friendly, independent, quirky, progressive thinkers and humanitarians by nature. They are not usually very emotional or affectionate, and are the polar opposite of the more playful Leo.

While Leo Moon energy is heart-centered, the Aquarian Sun energy is logical and intellectual, creating a push/pull sensation in our emotions and our relationships. It is helpful to balance our emotional and intellectual natures, especially if we are open and willing to listen to, and consider the opposing points-of-view. You don’t have to agree but just the act of listening could bring insight and healing to a situation.

Mercury is at 29 degrees Capricorn. The 29th degree of any sign calls for a mastery level of development and expression. It is important to be in integrity with our highest truth in our personal, professional and political dealings; to be in our integrity with our words. It urges us to strive for accuracy in our communications with others.

There are two other planets in Capricorn, Pluto and Saturn. This is a time for taking a personal inventory. Are we taking responsibility for our commitments and obligations? Are we showing up? This is the perfect time to focus on personal mastery, and to honor with integrity our thoughts, words and actions. Pluto represents the death of the old ways and the birth of the new. Saturn represents old structures and habits. Use the energy of Pluto to break up those old structures and habitual patterns and start creating the new you.

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Published on Mar 15, 2013

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GRAHAM HANCOCK is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, and Heaven’s Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. His public lectures, radio and TV appearances, including two major TV series for Channel 4 in the UK and The Learning Channel in the US – Quest For The Lost Civilisation and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age – have put his ideas before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity’s past.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock’s early years were spent in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. Later he went to school and university in the northern English city of Durham and graduated from Durham University in 1973 with First Class Honours in Sociology. He went on to pursue a career in quality journalism, writing for many of Britain’s leading newspapers including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Guardian. He was co-editor of New Internationalist magazine from 1976-1979 and East Africa correspondent of The Economist from 1981-1983.

In the early 1980’s Hancock’s writing began to move consistently in the direction of books. His first book (Journey Through Pakistan, with photographers Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts) was published in 1981. It was followed by Under Ethiopian Skies (1983), co-authored with Richard Pankhurst and photographed by Duncan Willets , Ethiopia: The Challenge of Hunger (1984), and AIDS: The Deadly Epidemic (1986) co-authored with Enver Carim. In 1987 Hancock began work on his widely-acclaimed critique of foreign aid, Lords of Poverty, which was published in 1989. African Ark (with photographers Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith) was published in 1990.

Hancock’s breakthrough to bestseller status came in 1992 with the publication of The Sign and The Seal, his epic investigation into the mystique and whereabouts today of the lost Ark of the Covenant. ‘Hancock has invented a new genre,’ commented The Guardian, ‘an intellectual whodunit by a do-it-yourself sleuth.’ Fingerprints of the Gods, published in 1995 confirmed Hancock’s growing reputation. Described as ‘one of the intellectual landmarks of the decade’ by the Literary Review, this book has now sold more than three million copies and continues to be in demand all around the world. Subsequent works such as Keeper Of Genesis (The Message of the Sphinx in the US) with co-author Robert Bauval, and Heaven’s Mirror, with photographer Santha Faiia, have also been Number 1 bestsellers, the latter accompanied by Hancock’s three-part television series Quest For the Lost Civilisation.

In 2002 Hancock published Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age to great critical acclaim, and hosted the accompanying major TV series. This was the culmination of years of research and on-hand dives at ancient underwater ruins. Arguing that many of the clues to the origin of civilization lay underwater, on coastal regions once above water but flooded at the end of the last Ice age, Underworld offered tangible archaeological evidence that myths and legends of ancient floods were not to be dismissed out of hand.

Graham’s next venture Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith, co-authored by Robert Bauval, was published in 2004. This work, a decade in preparation, returns to the themes last dealt with in Keeper Of Genesis, seeking further evidence for the continuation of a secret astronomical cult into modern times. It is a roller-coaster intellectual journey through the back streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces in architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the world.

In 2005 Graham published Supernatural: Meetings with The Ancient Teachers of Mankind, an investigation of shamanism and the origins of religion. This controversial book suggests that experiences in altered states of consciousness have played a fundamental role in the evolution of human culture, and that other realities – indeed parallel worlds – surround us all the time but are not normally accessible to our senses.

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Published on Jan 27, 2018

Author and Producer Joel Bailey takes Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical poem, the Jabberwocky, and turns it into an epic, fantasy journey filled with parables that can be related to our current times.

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