Deirdre has a great article today on the upcoming eclipses this summer:
Although we have a month to go, I consider eclipse season to be in full swing now. The June 8 lunation opened a door to some specific geometry: 17°+ Sagittarius was the June 8th Full Moon. The July 7th full moon will be at 15°+ Capricorn and it will be an eclipse, too. Being so close in degree, these full moons will both effect charts sensitive at the mid-degrees, a port of entry for the first in a triplet of eclipses this summer.
Looking at a list of eclipses between 1980 and 2020, seventy-five percent of summers have one pair of eclipses on just one axis. This summer is now in the twenty-five percent and has three eclipses on two axes. From what I see, usually when three eclipses occur in a summer, this pattern will repeat every other year three times. This means the summers of 2009, 2011 and 2013 (when Pluto is in early Capricorn) will have have three eclipses each on two different axes, as did 1998, 2000 and 2002 (when Pluto was in early Sagittarius), as well as 1980, 1982 and 1984 (when Pluto was in early Scorpio). It started to be a tidy geometric package, and then I noticed 1991 was a irregular, isolated summer of three eclipses and it had the nodes freshly in a new sign. Besides 1991, the eclipse pattern I am diagramming seems to roughly parallel Pluto’s ingress into a sign.
Eclipses have fascinated humans throughout the ages. The nodes of the moon are known as the Dragon’s Head and Tail, and in many ancient cultures it was said that during an eclipse a dragon did battle with the moon – a myth that has a basis in science because of the proximity of the Moon to the lunar nodes, or dragon, during an eclipse. The blood red color that the Moon turns during an eclipse was said to be the Moon’s blood, adding to the fervor over the “death” of the Moon during an eclipse.
Eclipses do not affect everyone in the same way, and in my experience unless the degree of an eclipse is within a degree of a planet in your chart it is not likely to affect you in a significant way. If you are affected directly by an eclipse, expect something to change or to be altered irrevocably – there is an unmasking process that can produce some interesting revelations!
posted June 8, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Very interesting and very well-coordinated geometric findings by Ms. Deirdre! Thank you Ms. Lynn for sharing!
posted June 8, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I hope, unmasking process and interesting revelation should have been peaceful and beneficial for me.
posted June 8, 2009 at 1:11 pm
I have 18-degree natal Sun Conjunct Jupiter in Cancer. This Lunar eclipse in Capricorn at 15-degree shall take place in my 2nd house making almost polar position with my natal Jupiter and Sun. So, Light in the both worlds of my 2nd and 8th Houses.
posted June 8, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Hi – thanks for the article – one question, wasn’t the June 8th Full Moon 8 degrees – i believe it was here in Oz!
marilynx
posted June 9, 2009 at 6:00 am
>wasn’t the June 8th Full Moon 8 degrees
Full Moon was at 17 07 Sagittarius.
Solar Eclipse on July at 29 Cancer forms a powerful quincunx to the Aquarius stellium of Neptune, Chiron and Jupiter and trine to Uranus in Pisces.
posted June 9, 2009 at 6:03 am
Forgot to add: July’s Solar Eclipse is on 21/22 depending on your proximity to the International Date Line. In Hawaii the peak time eclipse is on the 21st at 4:34 p.m. This is the longest total eclipse of the Sun in this century – over 7 minutes totality at its peak.
More information found at NASA site:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009.html
posted June 9, 2009 at 8:09 pm
thanks – was getting my ‘wires’ crossed – too much Uranus input!