Eclipses are coming: Point your canoe straight down the river
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Dear Friend and Reader:
We are in the season of eclipses. This is another one of those situations where you could say that such events tend to represent an acceleration of the historical process and a concentration of experience. But these days, who can tell?
Let’s see if we can sort this out.
A solar eclipse is approaching overnight April 19 to April 20, and a lunar eclipse takes place with the Sun on the Beltane cross quarter, on May 5. Both take place in Mars-ruled signs, Aries and Scorpio.
In the next set of eclipses, coming in October, are both in Venus-ruled signs: the solar in Libra, followed by a lunar in Taurus. I’ve never noticed this kind of pattern; I am curious how it will manifest.
If you look up eclipses in an old book, you will discover that astrologers of yore say they represent blights, pestilences, seditions, anguish, scarcity, plus various mischiefs, sorceries and calamities thrown in for good humor. This is starting to sound like your average day on the planet.
Eclipses are the original astrological omens (meaning a predictive augury), and their abuse is part of what gives astrology a bad rap. We’ve all heard the story of Magellan telling the natives he had the power to make the Sun go away, and Columbus (using an almanac by Regiomontanus) saying he had the power to make the Moon go away.
Modern psychological astrology looks at eclipses more kindly, as points of transition and transformation.
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