Posts Tagged: Eclipses

The cycle of eclipses moving through the houses of the horoscope presents opportunities for understanding and healing.

At this lunar eclipse, know that the Earth is offering you something, some smooth block of marble, a piece of wood, a section of clay. Open your instinctive mind, and ask yourself: What is it that wants to be brought into being? And what is the right tool with which to carve it out?

The potential for military conflict that I explored at the December 21, 2010 Lunar Eclipse is unfolding exactly as expected: Eclipses bring matters to a turning point, whether they’re matters of love, loss, financial changes – or conflict…. (T)his eclipse degree is conjunct the fixed star Betelgeuse (27 Gemini), a star associated with both war [...]

Eclipses are coming! Eclipses are coming! Time to hide under the bed, batten down the hatches, buy duct tape to seal off the doors and windows? In a word, no. But we astrologers can sound a little like tabloid journalists as we breathlessly – urgently – proclaim the drama of an impending eclipse. Don’t eclipses [...]

I’m not a sound sleeper. The question each night is not whether I’ll wake up, but whether I’ll be able to get back to sleep once I do. Some restless nights my eyes open and my mind immediately begins flitting from topic to topic like a fickle honeybee. I think about getting older, and about [...]

This may seem ironic in view of my last post… but here are a few things my colleagues are up to that I thought you might find interesting. The witty, urbane, and whimsically Canadian Matthew Currie has published the first in a series of small yet delectable e-books. This one provides a thoroughly readable introduction [...]

I became an astrological eclipse-watcher completely by accident. In the early days of my practice, I decided one week to prepare a lecture on eclipse cycles for my intermediate astrology class. I did a little research and found quite a bit that had been written about the astrology of eclipses applied to politics, natural disasters, [...]

by April Elliott Kent Chances are, we’ve never met – and yet, I know something about you. Without a doubt, right at this moment, there is a dramatic relationship change going on in your life. This month’s eclipses in Libra and Aries carry an easy-to-parse message: your relationship style has outlived its usefulness. Don’t feel [...]

These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.  Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourg’d by the sequent effects…we have seen the best of our time. (The Duke of Gloucester in King Lear, Act 1, Scene 2) The Duke of Gloucester [...]

by April Elliott Kent This is PART  7 of 7. | Read the previous installment here Don’t know how to find where an eclipse will fall in your birthchart? This post will help. It’s perhaps a year since our protagonist made her dramatic leap of faith, throwing herself headlong into a bold new enterprise. The [...]