Eclipsed!
I came down with a humdinger of a cold a week and a half ago, and it’s still kicking my ass. Meanwhile every blogger and his mother has already weighed in on the Pope, Charles and Camilla, that woman who died (Shiavo?), etc. I have no further insights to offer …
Read MoreTempting the gods.
Charles, Charles, Charles… It seems to me that when you schedule your wedding on the day of a solar eclipse (square Saturn), with Mercury retrograde, you’re just tempting the gods.
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Eclipses in Capricorn: The Winter of Our Discontent
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 …
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Eclipses in 8th and 2nd Houses: Crisis in Intimacy and Self-Sufficiency
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 …
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Eclipses in 9th and 3rd Houses: Crisis in Mastery and Skill
by April Elliott Kent This is PART 6 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 been some months since the death of her mother, and our young woman has a secret: …
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Eclipses in 10th and 4th Houses: Direction and Connection
by April Elliott Kent This is PART 5 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 a couple of years since our young woman rediscovered that story she’d written, and eclipses have …
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Eclipses in 11th and 5th Houses: Crisis in Reception and Self-Expression
by April Elliott Kent This is PART 4 of 7. | Read Part 3 here Don’t know how to find where an eclipse will fall in your birthchart? This post will help. After awhile our young bride, a little stronger and better rested, emerges into the world to reconnect with …
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Eclipses in 12th and 6th Houses: Crisis in Retreat and Adaptation
by April Elliott Kent This is PART 3 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. After the hectic activity of eclipses moving through the first house and seventh houses, eclipses move into …
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Eclipses in 1st and 7th Houses: Crisis of Individualism and Relationship
Eclipses falling in the first and seventh houses don’t always describe a marriage, but it is an event that well describes the fundamental crisis of this cycle: profound challenges to self and identity brought about through close relationships. It’s a cycle that frequently describes turning points such as marriage, divorce, or moving away from home.
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