Eclipse Aspects to Natal Planets: The Narrative of Change
Planets woven together by difficult aspects describe your defining attributes; each time an eclipse scores a glancing blow off these aspects (about every four and a half years), you’re given another chance to become a little bit more…you.
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Astrology Highlights for April 17-23, 2023: Emigrants
How would you know when the time was now, when your happiness, livelihood, or even your life depended on leaving everything familiar to seek a better life somewhere else?
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Episode 30 | Cancer Solar Eclipse: You’re Buffering
April and Jen offer a summary of something summer-y: The Solstice, followed a few hours later by a Cancer New Moon/Solar Eclipse. Mercury also feels the crab’s pinch as it turns retrograde. And Mars hears opportunity calling from Jupiter and Pluto’s general direction.
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Cancer Solar Eclipse: Who’s Driving?
“Going deep” is unquestionably one of the assignments for this Solar Eclipse, with the Sun and Moon in Cancer exactly opposite Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto symbolizes the necessary functions of tearing down, rooting out decay, and winnowing out weakness. But sometimes, its destructive side gets out of control.
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Solar Eclipses, Lunar Intuition
At a Solar Eclipse, the earthy part of you may feel a little cold, compacted. Take a time-out; sit at the knee of the wise Moon and let her reflect the Sun in you. Is there a wildish ego that’s running around unchecked? What is the part of you that you’re trying to disown? Let the Moon guide you, like a wise mother, toward self-acceptance and humility.
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New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Scorpio: Breaking Open, Breaking Down
Eclipses in Scorpio can tap into fathomless wellsprings of emotion, much of it old and painful. Where do you have a backlog of emotional energy that needs to be discharged? Where have you taken a particular course of action as far as it can reasonably go? Where is life ready to break you down and build you back up, stronger this time?
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Previewing the May 20 Solar Eclipse: A glass-bottomed boat
Expecting affairs of the human heart to follow the rules of logic and reason is a recipe for dissatisfaction. Don’t ignore underlying problems in your relationships, but seek solutions not with your brain, but rather with your heart. Sit knee to knee with the one you love, and peer into your relationship’s wondrous fathoms through your own “glass-bottomed boat.”
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Eclipse Guest Post at MoonCircles
I contributed a guest post on the November 24/25 Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius over at MoonCircles: Eclipses signal moments of transition, and often disorientation, when things are revealed to be other than what they had seemed. This week’s Solar Eclipse falls in Sagittarius, the sign of higher education, sports, and …
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The “Diamond” Eclipse: Push back
Saturn’s your personal coach, kicking your ass all the way to the finish line. When he’s done with you, you’ll be huddled in a corner, weeping – or else stronger and more glittering than you ever imagined you could be.
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January 4 Solar Eclipse: Marley’s Ghost
In this eclipse chart, Saturn in Libra is a Jacob Marley figure (Saturn rules business, and Libra represents partners), contesting the single-minded ambition of the Capricorn with a single question: What good are achievements if you have no one to share them with you?
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