SOLAR ECLIPSE
Note how tomorrow’s Solar Eclipse is in the heart of the Mercury and Venus conjunctions with Neptune, conjunct the sad Fixed Star of Scheat 29 Pisces. These are the retrograde contacts, so the second of a series of three – think “heart of the matter”.
The Eclipse also falls in a semi-square to Uranus, and this morning’s news brings a report of a massive earthquake in Myanmar. Details unclear as internet use is restricted, tsunami warnings?
Thursday 27 March GMT
- Venus conjunct Neptune 29 Pisces 19.16
Saturday 29 March GMT
- New Moon/Solar Eclipse 9 Aries 10.59
Sunday 30 March BST
- Mercury conjunct Neptune 29 Pisces 03.47
- Sun 9 Aries semi-square Uranus 24 Taurus 04.15
- Neptune ingress Aries 12.45
At a personal level, follow these timelines, especially if you have natal planets or Angles at or very close to the signs and degrees mentioned –
- 1 February – Venus conjunct Neptune 27 Pisces 1st time
- 27 March – Venus (retrograde) conjunct Neptune 29 Pisces 2nd time
- 2 May – Venus conjunct Neptune 1 Aries 3rd and final time
- 2 March – Mercury conjunct Neptune 29 Pisces 1st time
- 30 March – Mercury (retrograde) conjunct Neptune 29 Pisces 2nd time
- 17 April – Mercury conjunct Neptune 0 Aries 3rd and final time
WHAT DOES THE SOLAR ECLIPSE SIGNIFY?
In essence, Eclipses are points of significant change that often involve power issues and/or the crux points of triangular situations, ie as symbolized by the intricate relationship between the three bodies of the Sun, Moon and Earth. Who is going to overshadow whom?
Eclipses work in pairs, sometimes in threes. A Lunar Eclipse (on a Full Moon, two weeks ago) is therefore always followed two weeks later by A Solar Eclipse (on a New Moon, tomorrow) or vice versa.
IN YOUR OWN CHART – if you have planets or Angles (beginning to the 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th Houses) at or very close to the Eclipse degrees then these will be relevant to your own life events. If you haven’t then note where the Eclipse falls, which Houses are involved?
The closer the contact between the Eclipse degrees and your own planet/Angle then the more important it will be in terms of indicating life events. It may not be easy but when the shadows lift a new landscape is revealed. Often there’s a feeling of life will never be the same again, we find ourselves being moved on.
Here’s my checklist of Eclipse themes to look out, compiled over the years of close observations.
YOUR ECLIPSE CHECKLIST
- Being overshadowed, feeling in the dark
- Themes of empowerment – disempowerment, including transferal of power
- Themes of inevitability – Eclipses light a fuse that can’t be extinguished
- Themes of loss/endings that change your life and set you on a different path
- Themes of symbolic death/rebirth – out with the old, in with the new, literally or psychologically
- Sorting winners from losers between twos or threes (Sun, Moon, Earth), eg affairs, job applications or promotions, house buying, any competitive situation. One person’s loss is another person’s gain
- Relationships that end on an Eclipse are usually done and dusted
- Dealing with that which, until now, has been hidden from us in some way
- Revelations – sometimes on the run up to the Eclipse, sometimes even exactly on the day
- Revelations in the not very distant future, when we learn what happened when we weren’t looking, when we were in the dark or “when the light went out”
- Tipping points of change and goodbyes – no going back to something belonging to your old life
- Getting out of your own way OR standing up for yourself or for someone else who’s “in the shadows”
- In the natural scheme of things the Moon rules Cancer/4th House of home, family, property. So these issues are all extra sensitized in Eclipse seasons
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