This is shaping up to be quite a year. In the wake of the shadow cast on this earth by arguably the most potent North Node eclipse of our times, we are ready to emerge anew.

It is Solstice. The Sun is at 00° Cancer, what astrologers call "the World Axis" (0° Cardinal signs). In just a few hours, the Moon will pass before the Sun, obscuring his majestic glow, all but for a bright ring of fire (corona) around his edges.

It takes lifetimes, entire generations of shielded hand-me-down care for a fine vase to become a valued piece of cultural antiquity. It takes all but a second for it to be shatterred and worthless.