Vibe check: partial solar eclipse Tuesday morning
Insomnia? Agitated? Apprehensive? Tuesday at 6:48:34 am EDT is the New Moon and partial solar eclipse in Scorpio. The eclipse is exactly conjunct Venus and concentrates many other factors.
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TWICE A YEAR, eclipses come around. They are unusually close New and Full Moon events, meaning (for example) that the Moon will pass in front of the Sun rather than a little above or below it. Tuesday’s is a partial eclipse, so it won’t be an exact alignment, nor will it turn day to night anywhere. But it is still an influential event that will have effects many people do not understand.
For some background, check my recent article Dream is Destiny. Tuesday’s partial solar eclipse corresponds to a total lunar eclipse on Tuesday, Nov. 8, which is also the Taurus Full Moon. In my reading, the partial solar is the warmup event for the much more powerful total lunar eclipse in two weeks, which happens very close to the midpoint of Scorpio (at what is called the cross-quarter).
The most recent eclipse pair were a partial solar in Taurus on April 30 and a total lunar in Scorpio on May 16. See a full schedule at the very bottom of this post.
Omens or Portents
Eclipses have long been considered portents, or omens; it’s a little weird to the natives and the muggles when the Sun goes away or the bright Moon turns a grayish/pinkish color. Looking them up in old astrology books can be a bit chilling.
Setting aside omens, they tend to feel like moving through a Venturi. That’s when a gas flowing through a tube reaches a narrow point in the conduit and accelerates. This effect can be used to blend a liquid with a gas (such as in a carburetor, which mixes fuel with air so it can burn, and many other purposes).
When the Venturi effect is happening, a substance can change form as its speed of flow increases. And that is one effect of an eclipse.
Eclipses are palpable — you can feel them, and they have psychic substance — though there’s not usually an astrologer around to tell you what’s happening. At the moment, one is — so here are a few thoughts about eclipses generally, then I’ll get into the specifics.
Eclipses tend to be points of demarcation, when your life is significantly different in some way before and after. It may be helpful to think of them as marking approximately six-month ‘sessions’ of life.
The flow of events has a concentrated feeling, like everything is happening at once (a little or a lot more than usual).
Events can feel karmic, predestined or fated.
There can be the experience of several dimensions or seemingly separate fields of reality intersecting or converging.
One reason eclipses can have so much influence is that they represent several different cycles converging: that of the Sun, the Moon, and the lunar nodes. They are convergence points in space and time, and that is what we get.
Specifics for Tuesday’s Eclipse
Venus and Mars are both involved, which makes the astrology feel more personal. First, the eclipse is conjunct Venus. That is easy to see — the Moon, the Sun and Venus have obvious symbols and align at 2 degrees of Scorpio. What is not shown in this chart is that the Moon is making a total eclipse of Venus at the same time it forms a partial eclipse to the Sun.
This increases the influence of Venus in the chart, fusing it with the receptive energy of the Moon. Venus in Scorpio on its own brings a strong infusion of sexual emotion into the scenario, though that is possible to miss if consciousness is overwhelmed by the digital environment. In digital, we are all sexless and lack bodies.
Actual sexual energy is recognizable because it feels good. It’s not about power, money, politics, or identity. Any time those factors are involved, you can be sure that sexuality has left the building or is hiding under the bed. Sexual feelings are the impulse to connect. Either we make room for this and welcome it, or it pushes through in toxic ways.
Note that Venus is in a sign that Mars rules — Scorpio. In a sense it is taking the role of Mars, which is affirmatively expressed desire rather than projecting a dainty or ambiguous “come hither” vibe. Admit and acknowledge who and what you want.
Mars is About to Station Retrograde
Mars is in Gemini, in an unusual condition because it is about to station retrograde on Sunday, Oct. 30. It is standing in one degree of the zodiac for nearly three weeks. It is also square (at 90-degrees) to Neptune. This setup is every bit as palpable as an eclipse, and now we have the two happening together.
My observation is that the condition of Mars — stationary retrograde, and square Neptune — describes the aggressive mentality of our moment. It highlights the fact that the digital realm has denatured everything and turned people into nobodys struggling for attention and recognition. This is an effect of the electrical realm, and it’s especially an effect of digital.
Mars in Gemini is going to confront us with the problem of polarization. People love it, because it feels good to pick sides and go all-in.
Mars, Violence and the Identity Crisis
Mars is about identity, and when people feel they lack a sense of their own being, they can seek it out through mental, emotional or physical violence. For many people who hold themselves as civilized, this can manifest as license to act like an asshole. Note all the tailgating at 80 mph and other forms of useless aggressive conduct.
We establish our actual sense of being inwardly, not through the world. Search in the world and you will usually come up empty. Much of worldly accomplishment is driven by a vacant sense of self, and the need to prove something. This is why such spiritually vapid people can concentrate so much money and power. It’s all they have.
With Mars retrograde, the direction of travel and the flow of awareness must be inward. And in the case of Gemini, this calls forth what for many is the extremely difficult process of reconciling their inner polarities.
Eclipses Set Patterns
Make sure you do some of what you want the day of an eclipse. They anchor patterns. You may not get to take the whole day off to do your favorite thing, but make some room for it, as much as possible.
From the news desk, it is reassuring to see that New York City’s vaccine mandate was just declared to be null, void, and arbitrary by a State Supreme Court judge. We knew this was going to happen — so now what of those who lost their careers over this fraud and tyranny scheme? It would be nice if people could admit they were wrong, especially if they forced their views on others.
The Visibility of This Eclipse
The solar eclipse will be visible from eastern Greenland and all of Iceland, as well as most of Europe (except Portugal and the western and southern portions of Spain), northeast Africa and over much of western and central Asia. And there will be places to watch it online, such as Space.com.
Here are all the eclipses in proximity to today, via the Serennu website:
"Actual sexual energy is recognizable because it feels good. It’s not about power, money, politics, or identity. Any time those factors are involved, you can be sure that sexuality has left the building or is hiding under the bed. Sexual feelings are the impulse to connect. Either we make room for this and welcome it, or it pushes through in toxic ways. "
WORD!!
"My observation is that the condition of Mars — stationary retrograde, and square Neptune — describes the aggressive mentality of our moment. It highlights the fact that the digital realm has denatured everything and turned people into nobodys struggling for attention and recognition. This is an effect of the electrical realm, and it’s especially an effect of digital. ....
Mars is about identity, and when people feel they lack a sense of their own being, they can seek it out through mental, emotional or physical violence. For many people who hold themselves as civilized, this can manifest as license to act like an asshole. Note all the tailgating at 80 mph and other forms of useless aggressive conduct."
Yep, people feeling like nobodys trying to be somebodys.