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.
To gain more perspective on your particular situation, it can be helpful to review previous years when eclipses fell very close to the same point in your chart. Make a note of these dates, and use them as a journaling exercise for recalling where these eclipses fell in your chart and the changes that were occurring in your life then:
September 7, 2006: Lunar eclipse at 15.00 Pisces
December 4, 2002: Solar eclipse at 11.58 Sagittarius
September 6, 1998: Lunar eclipse at 13.33 Pisces
March 9, 1997: Solar eclipse at 18.31 Pisces
June 4, 1993: Lunar eclipse at 13.54 Sagittarius
December 9, 1992: Lunar eclipse at 18.12 Gemini
March 7, 1989: Solar eclipse at 17.09 Pisces
September 11, 1988: Solar eclipse at 18.40 Virgo
March 3, 1988: Lunar eclipse at 13.24 Virgo
December 4, 1983: Solar eclipse at 11.47 Sagittarius
March 1, 1980: Lunar eclipse at 11.19 Virgo
September 6, 1979: Lunar eclipse at 13.13 Pisces
June 4, 1974: Lunar eclipse at 13.57 Sagittarius
The chart for this Lunar Eclipse includes Mars at 29 Virgo – the degree of the upcoming Solar Eclipse. People seem especially edgy right now, tired, frustrated, alternating between anger and the blues; something’s got to give, for all of us individually and collectively – and it will, at the New Moon/Solar Eclipse on September 22. Until then, heed gentle Pisces’ compassionate nature, and resolve at this Full Moon to be patient with others… and gentle with yourself, too.
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