Thursday Thirteen Vol. 7

Thursday Thirteen Vol. 7

Thirteen Eclipses Near
15 degrees of Mutable Signs

Today’s Lunar Eclipse (11:42 am PDT / 2:42 pm EDT) features the Sun at 15 degrees of Virgo and the Moon at 15 degrees of Pisces. Eclipses touch roughly the same terrain in your chart every four and a half years or so – first by conjunction, then by opening square, then by opposition, and again by closing square. When eclipses fall very close to a natal planet or angle (I use 4 degrees of orb either side, though I know many astrologers widen that orb) by one of these aspects, old business is yanked out and thrown open on the table for all to see. The catalyst for this process of examination might be an external event, sometimes even a dramatic one; but it might also be an internal revolution, one of those mysterious emotional turning points that seem to come from out of the blue – but which, in hindsight, has been a long time coming.

If there is a natal planet or angle in your chart between about 11 and 19 degrees of a “mutable” sign – Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces – this is a moment of reexamination, and probably a bit of turmoil. Some of the resolutions that emerge from the two-week period between today’s Lunar Eclipse and the September 22 Solar Eclipse will be profound and lasting; others may feel intense now, but ultimately have little lasting affect on the outer circumstances of your life.