New Moon in my 8th house: Other people’s projects
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 …
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Eclipses: The Latitudes of Home
Each time the eclipse’s shadow falls across one of our guiding lights, we awaken to old fears and, hopefully, get a bit better at facing them. But the eclipse-touched places in us remain a little ajar, just below the surface. They are as rich as freshly-plowed earth and ready to receive the seeds of startling change…
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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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