In my last article on Mercury Retrograde I talked about how time cycles represented by the planets aren't machinations that play out according to neatly defined human measurements. It doesn't just "happen" one day and end the next. We make clocks and watches to match up with time, not the other way around. Time doesn't care about your calendar just like the tide doesn't care about your sand castles.
So it is with Lunations (new & full Moons) and Eclipses.
While it's technically true that an Eclipse is a relatively brief event where the Moon moves across the Sun, blotting out it's light, The deeper time cycle it represents transcends into the past and future by many days and even weeks and months. However, the immediate days surrounding it are the most intense and the issues tied to it will be undeniable and obvious.
As always, it won't manifest as a big, dramatic event unless it's closely aligned to your natal chart. That said, we can and do experience these things vicariously through the people and events around us.
SPOOKY BLOOD MOON OF REAL ACTUAL BLOOD
This is one of several Eclipses in a pattern of Eclipses called "Blood Moons" in which the Moon will appear red during the event. Big bloody period blood red. It's so red, omg.
I have written about this phenomenon and the paranoia surrounding it in my article on the previous Eclipse. As much as I love seeing that John Hagee motherfucker making a fool of himself, I'm happy to see that much of the fear-porn surrounding the event has not returned this time. Not that it isn't a time of tribulation upheaval and dramatic events of biblical proportions. It most certainly is. But we will, for the most part, be alive tommorow and the next day in order to clean up this disgusting mess.
The last Eclipse was part of the "Grand Cardinal Cross" in which 4 planets formed a large Square or Cross in the sky. It was one of those things that generated quite a few panic drenched facebook chain letters and then quickly evaporated after it was done. The over hyped Cardinal Cross is gone but the most powerful features of that alignment -Pluto aligned with Uranus, is still very much in effect as demonstrated by mass demonstrations, technological breakthroughs and, perhaps most key of all, revelations of profound corruption in all areas of leadership, government and-buisness.
This Uranus-Pluto thing (activated by this Eclipse) is very much in the spirit of the American revolution, WWII and the revolutionary spirit of the 1960's complete with a growing awareness of institutionalized racism and corruption within the Government and the
This Eclipse is directly lined up with Uranus, the trickster, revolutionary, libertine and rebel angel of the Planetary family. It's both the 'good guys' and the 'bad guys' who are done playing by the rules and are ready to initiate a new world order and destroy the old order. It's Nikola Tesla and Elon Musk. It's Adolf Hitler and George W Bush jr. It's Cops who have betrayed the public and the Public who are sick and tired of the racism and corruption. It's both. The disruption and chaos of collapse will be the fertile ground for a new world both "out there" but also in our own personal lives. So hang on if it's getting crazy. It will calm down in time. But not tommorow.
In our personal lives Uranus disrupts just as much and we, ourselves, may be the ones ready for a rebellion against the status quo and breaking out of old patterns that have turned stale. This Eclipse highlights that ongoing restlessness or unwelcome disruption in our relationships, careers, personal lives and families. Unless you are highly Uranian and loving excitement, Uranus can be very disturbing. Even then, you might be the disturbing force in someone else's life.
CHOOSE BUT CHOOSE WISELY
Eclipses are times of Crisis which is a term related to "choice", meaning this time is about forcing a choice upon us. We must choose. The time for waiting is over. Complicating things, is both Uranus adding the suprise factor and Mercury has just gone Retrograde so the available details may incorrect in some way. While Mercury is past it's most disruptive stationary point, it will eventually go stationary again at the end of of the month, before gaining speed and moving forward again.
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Where will this Eclipse highlight a crisis or "choice point"? Where will Uranus seem to be exerting it's disrupting, surprising influence and sudden changes?
For the following you will need to look to your RISING sign. Not your Sun Sign! If you don't know your rising sign you can calculate with the free rising sign calculator at Cafe Astrology. : Rising sign calculator. Those feeling the power of this Eclipse the most will have rising signs and planets in the middle degrees of the Cardinal signs: Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.
As always, this is an exceedingly brief look at what is going on for each rising sign and does not take into account a variety of factors that signify other evens in your life that can mitigate, exaggerate and modify these themes. (Email me to set up a consultation to get the real inside scoop on the astrological activity in your life at Ian @ pantheonastrology.com)
Aries : 1st House: Identity, self-assertion, selfishness, personal demands, the Face and outer appearance.
Taurus : 12th House: Hidden issues, self-undoing, secret or private issues, retreat, cooperation, hospitalization, retirement, completing old issues, subconscious drives.
Gemini : 11th House: Groups, friends and Acquaintances, networks, cliques, Hopes, dreams, gains, personal and shared goals.
Cancer : 10th House: Career, profession, position in society, public standing, reputation, authority figures, bosses, fathers, awards, responsibilities, desire for achievement.
Leo : 9th House: Travel, education, philosophy, teachers, foreigners, legal issues, courthouses, broadcasting and publishing.
Virgo : 8th House: intimacy, sexuality, psychological and occult matters, shared resources, inheritance, credit, loans, personal power of regeneration.
Libra : 7th House: marriage, partnership, close friends, rivals, open enemies and all important one-on-one interactions.
Scorpio : 6th House: health & illness of physical body, work, service, routines, habits, co-workers, hired workers and staff.
Sagittarius : 5th House: Love affairs, dating, games, fun, play fullness, entertainment and entertaining, performance arts, creativity, pregnancy and children.
Capricorn : 4th House : Home & family, houses, real estate, rentals, renovations and relocating, roommates and all who live in the home.
Aquarius: 3rd house: The Mind, writing and communications, siblings and neighbors, errands and movement within your local area, plans, media.
Pisces : 2nd House: Self worth, money, wealth and finances, personal assets and values.
