A User's Guide to 2022 - 2023 Taurus - Scorpio Eclipses 🌻🌙💫

With a set of dates in hand, when you look back on your life, you might notice eclipses that had struck your birth chart coinciding with totally momentous years in your life…

…pivotal years where events, settings, and key players du jour served as catalysts for maj’ life transformations. ✨✨✨

Special eclipse years herald events, settings, and relationships that, even if you don’t know the astrology behind those years, are nevertheless crucial plot points in the story of your life when told in retrospect.

Basically, with astrology, eclipses can help dissolve the sticky bullshit of our lives, and allow us glimpses at the meta narrative happening over and around our ego-drama. 🌕🌑🌀

in 2022, we have four eclipses happening in taurus-scorpio ♉️♏️ >

• April 30th, 2022 > partial Solar Eclipse @ 10° Taurus ☀️♉️

• May 16th, 2022 > total Lunar Eclipse @ 25° Scorpio 🌙♏️

• October 25th, 2022 > partial Solar Eclipse @ 2° Scorpio ☀️♏️

• November 8th, 2022 > total Lunar Eclipse @ 15° Taurus 🌙♉️
  

Depending on how well you know your natal chart, you might be able to glance at that list above know how close (+ what on your chart) will be in the line of karmic-fire… ⚡️🔥

…and if you get tripped, congratulations, you’re now experiencing an Eclipse Story! 🥳🙌🏻

what happens when an eclipse trips a planet, angle, or other special object on your chart…?

Idk, man. 🤷🏻‍♀️

And I’ve been struck (like—really struck 🔥) near the same chart markers, in the same signs and houses, and part of the same eclipse series… at least three times.

Last year’s Eclipse Moment was the first one that I recognized as coinciding with an eclipse: the prior two eclipses that had struck were discerned via (totally free ✨) Astro-Seek software, as well as journal entries from the same time period.

(NOTE > I’mma show you how to do the same later in this post. 😉)

I’ve also been able to compare the dates for past eclipses through other journal, planner, and blog entries, and trace major plot points in my life alongside these eclipse cycles.

For all these eclipse moments, it wasn’t just the signs, houses, or natal chart markers involved with the eclipse itself that determined what went down, but also the other planetary transits coinciding at the time.

IN GENERAL THO, you can expect bizarre moments to occur in coincidence with the eclipse trigger, even if you weren’t paying close attention (or didn’t even realize an eclipse was happening that day…? 🤷🏻‍♀️).

But even if you didn’t realize an eclipse was happening, or that it struck a marker in your natal chart, you’re guaranteed to experience something totally woo, as well as an ensuing disintegration of the status quo of your life spanning six months to two years. ⏱🗓

By the time you’re able to really pinpoint that something… is… happening (⁉️), your life might be on a whole new trajectory.

If you didn’t know an eclipse was happening, you might lose your fucking mind. 😱

BUT NEVER FEAR > I and other weirdos on the Internet have pooled our reference experience to help you mitigate the shit-river of woo that might course through your life pre- or post-Eclipse Moment ✨, forcing you at odd moments to articles such as this (😌)…

…when you’d rather be running into the ocean, texting your exes, setting your social security card on fire, or maybe just taking a nap and trusting that all your plans and expectations will stay intact. 🙈👌🏻

This post will teach you how to…

1) find out when, which, and where eclipses will trip your chart for the year 🗓,

2) how to compare an eclipse chart to your birth chart 🌟, and…

3) how to delineate (a.k.a. “deconstruct”) said chart…

…so you can hazard for the oncoming changes, pre-plan your coping strategy, and also track the meta-narrative of your transformation… 🌙🦋✨

I've also handy-crafted a printable worksheet to help you delineate the Eclipse chart, and meta-cogitate on your Eclipse Story, so that you can get an eagle-eye perspective on what’s happening…

…along with a journaling / personal inventorying process for really digging into the themes represented by the planets, asteroids, angles, or math points sharing the same signs / houses as (or ruled by ✨) the eclipse. 👍🏻

Basically, you’re about to become way more informed about the meta-cosmic subtleties sublimating your life, and everything might become way better, thx astrology! 🤗🌟

some primers, or preliminary tutorials for what i’m about to roll out ✨ >

🌟 FIRST, GET YOUR NATAL CHART + LEARN THE BASICS. I get my charts from Astro Seek (having moved on from Astro Dienst), but you have lots of options (this post suggests a few). I show you how start delineating your natal chart in this post, and if you need a deeper exploration, check out this post, where I ascribe movies, songs, and Internet memes to my own. ✨

🌟 SECOND, GET FAMILIAR WITH COMPARING CHARTS. I showed you how to do this in my synastry post (where I compared and delineated the synastry chart between me + a deranged barista ✨), and also in my post about how to read transit charts. ✨

Basically, you’re just layering the current transiting planets (including the eclipse ✨) over your natal chart, then imagining how what’s happening in the sky right now relates or interacts with the themes and arc of personal development indicated by your natal chart. 💁🏻‍♀️

Based on that comparison, you’ll be able to use the insight for a little personal inventorying and prepare for the transformative effects in store. 🧘🏻‍♀️🌟🧘🏻‍♀️🌟

NOTE > You’ll definitely want to conduct this process when you have time to not just gather up the charts (10-15 mins ⏱), but also research what the the planets, signs, and houses involved symbolize, and translate into, in terms of true-life experience (1+ hours ⏱).

Okay.

Ready?

WHERE + HOW TO FIND OUT ABOUT UPCOMING ECLIPSES 🌕🌑✨

(…FOR THIS OR ANY YEAR!)

OKAY, I’m going to walk you through three methods for investigating eclipses:

• How to look up oncoming eclipses for the current year. If you know your natal chart very well, you’ll be able to know at-a-glance whether anything in your chart shares the same sign and degree° of any of the year’s oncoming eclipses (so you can stay the hell HOME 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻).

• How to compare your natal chart to an eclipse transit chart (showing the current signs and aspects amongst all the planets on the day of the eclipse). You'll be able to see not just the pieces of your chart getting struck, but the other planetary juju that will be in play, which might become part of the theme of your Eclipse Story. ✨

• How to find your “personal eclipse cycle”, where all eclipses (in a certain timeframe) are due to trigger your natal chart, and when, for your entire life! 🙀

The third method hearkens back to my post about what happened when the June ‘21 Gemini Solar Eclipse struck my Vertex - Chiron ♊️🌀, about learning how to look up past dates when Eclipses might have struck your natal chart...

…whereupon you, too, might also discover that all of the most karmic-loaded, miraculous-seeming moments of your precious life somehow coincide with eclipses. 🤭🤯🥺

HOW DO ECLIPSES WERK, THO? OR WHY ARE THEY HAPPENING, WHAT ARE THE ASTRONOMICAL CONDITIONS OF AN ECLIPSE? 🤔

Eclipses happen wherever the Lunar Nodes are currently transiting (currently: Taurus - Scorpio ♉️♏️). Because eclipses arrive in pairs, and usually (but not always) within two weeks of each other, you can expect at least four eclipses every year (sometimes more).

Every six months (for about 18-24 months), when the new or full moon graze one of the transiting Lunar Nodes, eclipses spark. ⚡️✨

Solar eclipses happen first, when a new (or “new-ish”) moon occurs within 10° of one of the Nodes. The solar eclipse sets the stage for the lunar eclipse, which happens within two weeks(usually, but not always), once the moon has orbited ‘round the chart to the opposite Node, typically at the next full moon (or “full-ish”) moon, following the Solar eclipse.

Once an “eclipse family” (called a Saros Cycle 🌀) finishes out, another eclipse won’t happen in those signs for 7-8 years.

Taken altogether, you can time and calculate how the eclipse cycle has underpinned your life over a span of 19 years, or essentially, the length of time it takes for the Lunar Nodes to transit back to the point where the eclipse had struck your chart.

DON’T WORRY, there’s a section below where I give you an opportunity to score a worksheet to help you sort all these factors, and also explain how these different factors actually impact your chart (and personal narrative, reflexively). 👌🏻

But it might help to visualize eclipses almost like pushing your consciousness in an upward spiral, in a process that never quite peaks, but tends to create bursts…

…or basically, you can think of eclipses as an astrologically-timed propulsion system, designed to thrust your life energies and circumstances into a higher stratosphere, a new elevation. 🌀

THIS CURRENT ECLIPSE CYCLE LASTS FROM NOVEMBER 2021 UNTIL OCTOBER 2023 >

Altogether, the eclipses from this current cycle are…

• NOVEMBER 19, 2021 > Partial Lunar Eclipse @ 27° Taurus 🌙♉️

• APRIL 3OTH, 2022 > Partial Solar Eclipse @ 10° Taurus 🌻♉️

• MAY 16TH, 2022 > Total Lunar Eclipse @ 25° Scorpio 🌙♏️

• OCTOBER 25TH, 2022 > Partial Solar Eclipse @ 2° Scorpio 🌻♏️

• NOVEMBER 8TH, 2022 > Total Lunar Eclipse @ 16° Taurus 🌙♉️

• MAY 5TH, 2023 > Lunar Eclipse @ 14° Scorpio 🌙♏️

• OCTOBER 28TH, 2023 > Lunar Eclipse @ 5° Taurus 🌙♉️

Eclipses are cycles that happen within cycles. This cycle last occurred Nov 2022 - April 2005, before that from May 1984 - April 1986, and before that from May 1966 - November 1967.

REMEMBER, it’s not only the zodiac signs where the eclipses are sparking, but the signs squaring them. In this case, TAURUS - SCORPIO are squared by LEO - AQUARIUS. ♉️♏️ / ♌️♒️

So, after you’ve checked for any angles or planets in the direct line of fire, check out whatever you have in Leo and Aquarius. Pay attention to anything within 2° of the eclipse trigger-points listed above.

FOR INSTANCE, if you have any planet (or angle, etc.) @ 25 - 29° of Leo or Aquarius, it was squaring the Taurus Lunar Eclipse way back on November 19, ’21. 

When planets square each other, it brings contention or struggle. If the eclipses coincide with a major epiphany or unlocks new motivations, but you felt yourself stymied in some way, note the natal chart and transiting planets in the signs “squaring” the Eclipse. ✅

OBVIOUSLY, because there are cycles involved, and because they can trip, trigger, or impact so much of our chart, eclipses make for totally fucking rad symbolic devices for time-keeping and personal inventorying.

Like—if you journal or document your life coinciding with your Eclipse Story, or during any eclipse season (even if not tripping a specific spot on your chart), you can collate the information, and trace the upward spiral of your life evolution, each eclipse cycle representing a different chapter that drove the evolution further along. 🥰👐🏻✨

major themes in store for these upcoming eclipses in 2022 >

🌟 PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE @ 10° TAURUS ON APRIL 30, ‘22 > Dissatisfaction blossoms into awareness. Occurs on the Taurus New Moon, and will highlight patterns and consequences lingering from past choices rooted in “worthiness” issues. You might catch yourself in the act of making a similar dissatisfying choice, and be presented with new opportunities. What kinds of choices, and in what arenas, depends on the house triggered by the eclipse. With Taurus, this could be anything from realizing the blockages to being present or how you’re living in the moment, to wanting to update or retrain in a new skillset. Peek at any planets between Taurus and Scorpio that might reflect the archetypes you need to re-evaluate. Also peek at your natal Venus (ruler of Taurus ♉️), and where Venus is currently transiting (Pisces ♓️) for more clues as to where you might experience “spill over” effects of the eclipse. ✅

🌟 TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE @ 25° SCORPIO ON MAY 16, ‘22 (BLOOD MOON 🧛🏻‍♀️) > Emotions condense, solidifying into awareness. You might feel them wet and heavy in your body. Occurs on the Scorpio Full Moon, and will coincide with a reprisal of where you’ve been (the past) and where you’re heading (the future). Scorpio rules the process of elimination (💩), whether that’s detoxing on financial or material issues, or past grudges and resentments. Catharsis abounds. Peek at natal Mars (traditional ruler of Scorpio ♏️), and where Mars is currently transiting (Pisces* ♓️). Also note that Pluto (modern ruler of Scorpio ♏️) is currently in the hinter degrees of Capricorn, revving to enter Aquarius (March 23, 2023). Check up on the house and any planets in Capricorn on your chart. Everyone will experience some sort of “closing out” vibes for this past decade. This article can guide you through inventorying the past decade of Pluto in Capricorn. ♑️

🌟 PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE @ 2° SCORPIO ON OCT 25, ‘22 > Because this is a partial eclipse, we might call it ‘Awakening Lite.’ Past situations believed to be put-to-bed might be resurrected, and point to outmoded feelings and behaviors working against the future you want (or hope for). This awareness might linger in your awareness (even if just somatically), making the future-oriented choices more obvious, and helping weight your actions towards into the direction you’re heading (unconsciously).

🌟 TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE @ 16° TAURUS ON NOV 8, ’22 > Status quo explodes. Secrets erupt, as well as scandals. Power struggling. Some relationships and situations won’t be salvageable, and possibly weren’t as practical or empowering as previously believed. Because this is an eclipse moment, you’ll be able to “see” the whole lay of the land: the wreckage, as well as the necessary reformation. This is your Scarlett O’Hara moment: “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

ALL OF THE ABOVE ALSO DEPENDS ON WHERE TAURUS - SCORPIO LANDS ON YOUR NATAL CHART > The houses hint at the activities, circumstances, and experiences where these Taurus - Scorpio themes will play out, while planets or markers in these houses hint at the particular instincts, drives, and energies that will be lit up. The closer the eclipse lands to the marker, the more lit that energy will be.

How the eclipse day itself plays out, and how these themes, contexts, and energies come into play will also depend on other transiting planets (in the sky during eclipse day), and which planets they aspect in your chart.

🌟 HOW TO LOOK UP UPCOMING ECLIPSES >

1. FIND OUT THE DATES OF THIS YEAR’S ONCOMING ECLIPSES. Hit up the Astro Seek Solar + Lunar Eclipse calendar, which lists all the eclipses that will happen in the year, along with important details, including what kind of eclipse (solar vs. lunar 🌻🌙), how impactful (partial, total, etc.), and which family or series (a.k.a. the Saros Cycle number, more about that below 🌀✨).

2. NOTE THE SIGN(S) WHERE THE ECLIPSE(S) WILL OCCUR. Eclipses don’t just trip one sign, but its opposite as well. This is the oomph of the eclipse: it basically synthesizes (ding ding ding 🔔) the themes and motifs of polar opposites in your life. SO FOR EXAMPLE, if the April 30th Partial Solar Eclipse is due to strike 10° Taurus, take a peek on your birth chart at what’s hovering at 10° Scorpio. ♉️♏️

3. OBSERVE THE DEGREE NUMBER ° OF THE ECLIPSE(S). This is critical. The degree point tells you how close and specific the eclipse will affect you. If you have Mars at 10° Taurus (same sign + degree as the upcoming partial Solar Eclipse on April 30th, see below ✨), BRACE FOR IMPACT. 😬😱

HINT > If you’ve entered your birth data into the Astro-Seek Natal Chart Calculator, pan over to the sidebar listing all your natal planet positions to see all the signs / degrees clearly stated. 👍🏻

Note which houses on your chart will be struck by the eclipse, which is as easy as noticing the signs of the eclipse. Unless you have intercepted signs, where the house engulfs an entire zodiac sign (read more about that here ✨), you’ll be able to follow along and intuit the activities or field of perception (indicated by the houses ✨) that will be affected.

HOWEVER, along with knowing how close the eclipses are from hitting specific natal planets, you’ll want to know about any other transiting planets that might cast their juju on the situation!

🌟 HOW TO COMPARE YOUR NATAL CHART TO AN ECLIPSE CHART ✨ >

1. NOTE THE CURRENT TRANSITS ON ECLIPSE DAY. On the Astro-Seek Eclipse calendar page, click the orange hyperlink labelled “eclipse chart”. This gives you an astrological lay of the land for the eclipse, showing you which sign and aspects each planet is throwing around on this day.
   
   For instance, it might be useful to know that transiting Venus will be exact conjunct (“side-by-side”) the October ‘22 Scorpio Eclipse, and that transiting Uranus will be close-by the North Node in the opposite sign (♉️).
   
   OR BASICALLY, during this eclipse, Venus and Uranus will be opposing each other, and conjunct the Lunar Nodes. This opposition will mean something different for everyone, depending on their natal chart, but will feature the energies of Venus (🌸) and Uranus (⚡️).
   
   With the Lunar Nodes in the mix, you can guess that whatever happens during this time will have a karmic flavor, and will ruffle certain circumstances (specific to where the eclipses are sparking).
   
   IMPORTANT TAKEAWAY > During eclipses, everyone is having their own Eclipse Moment, where they’re confronting results and circumstances that are now in change mode, whether seeded in an earlier phase of life, or inherited from past lives*.
   
   *If you want to keep it secular, you can think of “past lives” as the epigenetic and societal conditions which have shaped / are shaping your karma (as well as your destiny 🌀), and for which you will have to suffer the consequences of, even though it’s happening on a super-subconscious level that your ego doesn’t identify with and prolly doesn’t want to account for. 🤷🏻‍♀️

2. COMPARE THE ECLIPSE CHART TO YOUR NATAL CHART. Hover your cursor over “Free Horoscopes” in the Astro-Seek navigation bar, and select “Transit Chart Calculator” from the dropdown menu. (Or just go here. ✨)
   
   Enter your birth data, then enter the date of one of the upcoming eclipses. Select 12pm as a time, and your current location, or wherever you expect to be located when the eclipse pops off.
   
   TA-DAAA, you now have a transit chart comparing your birth chart to Eclipse Day! 🎉

Print ‘er off, and circle where the eclipse action is taking place, then delineate the chart according to some of the methods I talked about in my post about reading a transit chart, such as looking for a “t-square” pattern, etc.

Wherever a transiting planet (in the sky at the time of the eclipse) makes contact with one of your own planets (or angles, etc.), that’s what you’d want to consult with Google about. What do the planets involved symbolize? What’s their relationships to other planets (the aspects)? What themes are the zodiac signs bringing to that relationship? What are the arenas, fields of experience, or activities where everything will play out (indicated by the houses)?

Use the hints and clues provided via Internet astrologers to help you build an intuitive image of the transformation indicated by how the eclipse(s) are interacting with your chart.

The next couple sections will help you trace the future and lineage of these transformations, as well as explore the themes and circumstances that have been (or will be) impacted.

🌟 HOW TO LOOK UP ALL ECLIPSES THAT WILL IMPACT YOUR NATAL CHART (WITHIN, LIKE, 5 YEARS) 🗓 >

1. VISIT THE ASTRO-SEEK “ECLIPSES IN THE NATAL CHART” CALCULATOR. Enter your birth data, and select a time frame. By default, the calculator displays eclipses from the current year to five years from now.

2. SELECT THE ASPECTS. I keep it at conjunction, but you could also select “squares”, “oppositions”, or “all aspects”.

HINT > you typically want to be aware of the opposite point of the eclipse, so before you heave a sigh of relief that the eclipse will strike 10° Taurus, where you have no natal planets, angles, or points ✨, take a peek at 10° Scorpio. ✅

OBVIOUSLY, make special note of any planets, angles, or special points within a 5° orb (“span of degree numbers”) of any + all the eclipses in effect. eclipses that come within 5° of your Sun, Moon, or the degree of your Ascendant (the starting line of your chart), signify pivotal years. 😳🤩

Noticing any of that for this year?

Welcome to your Eclipse Story. ☺️👐🏻✨

OKAY, now that you have all the charts you need, you want to start delineating and brainstorming about what might actually show up to sabotage your life. 🦖

HOW TO CREATE A PERSONAL ECLIPSE RECORD

Eclipses are cyclical. What’s about to happen echoes the past, or is about to become an echo. 💫

SO, if you’re up for it, let’s go ahead and create a journaling / self-inventorying process guided by your upcoming Eclipse Moment!

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…Or, you can just use a diary, planner, or google .doc to keep a personal eclipse record, + this is what you want on it:

DATE OF ECLIPSE >

LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE OF THE ECLIPSE >

TYPE OF ECLIPSE (total, annular, North Node, South Node) >

SAROS CYCLE #

GEOGRAPHICAL REGION OF ECLIPSE >

ECLIPSE OCCURS IN MY ______ HOUSE.

RULER OF THE SIGN OF THE ECLIPSE IS ______ IN ______ (sign) AND MY ______ HOUSE.

ECLIPSE (Sun or Moon) CONJUNCTS [0°] MY…. >

ECLIPSE (Sun or Moon) SQUARES [90°] MY… >

ECLIPSE (Sun or Moon) OPPOSES [180°] MY… >

Count any planets, angles, or points within a 5° orb.

BTW, this section post was informed primarily by Bernadette Brady’s The Eagle and The Lark, as well as this blog post from StarCats explaining how to create an Eclipse Record (as well as who they got this info from, Karen McCauley of Astrodynamics of Venice ✨), for which I have translated into a trusty worksheet to help you delineate and plan your Eclipse Story! 🙌🏻

Along with the rote information, you might want to dig into the super-subtle subtext of the eclipse transit. I’ll explain what this information is, and how it might help you interpret and predict what’ll occur below.

NOTE > This is definitely upper-division astrology-work, and you don’t need it in order to predict how the eclipse will work on you (not unless you’re working on your doctorate in astrology, I guess).

But if you’re curious to know what the eclipse means for your life (beneath and beyond the narrative you’re manufacturing 😳😅), this is literally all the intel you’ll need. 👌🏻

QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF ABOUT THE ONCOMING ECLIPSES >

• Which planet “rules” the sign of the Eclipse? (Learn more about rulers a.k.a. “dispositors” here. ✨)

• Is that planet (the dispositor of the Eclipse) transiting within 5° of another planet (on Eclipse day)? Does that planet aspect any of your natal planets? (Conjunct, square, trine, sextile, or oppose... learn more about aspects here. ✨)

• Does the Eclipse conjunct a fixed star? FYI: “fixed stars” in astrology don’t transit… they are pinned in a certain sign @ a specific degree°, and sometimes unveil uncanny esoteric synchronicities. 🤩 (Read more about fixed stars here. ✨)

• Where (indicated by the house placement ✨) does that fixed star land in your chart? Where is the “ruler” of that fixed star in your chart?

• What’s the Saros Cycle* that this Eclipse belongs to? How long has it been active? (I say more about Eclipse Saros Cycles below, but go here to learn more. ✨)

• Is it a partial, annular, or total Eclipse? This tells you the strength of its impact. Also note if the “umbra” (or glow) was visible in your region, and if prominent, note any major coinciding news headlines.

• Finally, is it a LUNAR or SOLAR* Eclipse?

*what’s the difference between a solar and a lunar eclipse? 🌕🌑 >

A SOLAR Eclipse happens during the New Moon when the Sun and Moon are transiting the same sign. When the actual eclipse occurs, the Moon is passing over and obscuring the Sun. The Sun symbolizes the power of consciousness, including the feeling of control over our choices and future. 

While the future is eclipsed (😄), the past and unconscious issues (symbolized by the Moon) erupt and come to the fore. You become very aware of these issues. Eclipse-related events (or ensuing after the eclipse) occur in such a way as to help you process out some of the more recessed issues in your life that have subliminally blocked your way into the future.

“Look in a new direction during a solar eclipse, because that’s where opportunity lies. This can feel scary, since letting go of control will be necessary. Eclipses can also stir up buried desires, forcing us to acknowledge what we really want. Remember that change is inevitable! And it can be a beautiful thing once we finally surrender. These momentous new moons push us off the starting block and into new waters. But we have to move fast since just like an eclipse, the manifestation period is both rare and brief.”

— MindBodyGreen, “Lunar and Solar Eclipse Calendar”

🌟 IF YOU’RE STRUCK BY A SOLAR ECLIPSE 🌕 > Solar Eclipses bring fresh starts and good news, sometimes opening secret trap doors. Time is quickening, almost like we’re careening through the days, haunted by anticipation, hangry for something or someone specific. Sometimes the news arrives as “subjective and ambiguous as gossip”, and becomes valuable in 5-6 months as the eclipse continues its cycle.

A LUNAR Eclipse occurs during the Full Moon when the Sun and Moon are transiting opposite signs. Earth is suspended between them. While the unconscious is eclipsed (😆), the future and your personal agency (symbolized by the Sun) become too obvious to ignore. All that remains are the decision-making and action-steps. 

“Lunar eclipses are prime time for doing shadow work and dealing with feelings we’ve ignored. Buckle up, buttercup! Situations could pivot abruptly or come to a sudden, unceremonious halt. If anything in your life is “eclipsed away,” here’s our advice: Stop chasing and give it some space. You’ll either manifest a better option or circle back to this later—after you’ve processed the lesson and evolved!”

— MindBodyGreen, “Lunar and Solar Eclipse Calendar”

🌟 IF YOU’RE STRUCK BY A LUNAR ECLIPSE 🌑 > Lunar Eclipses bring final endings, nostalgia, and the re-surfacing of buried hopes and dreams. Hit up Spotify for playlists from the year(s) of your previous Eclipse triggers. Haul out your old diaries and agendas. Scroll through archived photos.  Astrology Zone remarks this is likely occurs at a full moon lunar eclipse. ✨

SO BASICALLY, Solar Eclipses lead the way, and determine where Lunar Eclipses will later fall.

ALSO, Solar Eclipses are not random. Each Solar Eclipse is part of an “eclipse family”, called a Saros Cycle, or Saros Series.

*what does ‘saros cycle’ mean? what are we referring to? 🌀 >

Every Saros Cycle births a new or first eclipse. Each Saros Cycle originates at either the North or South Pole, and “lives” for about 1300 years. Once started, it will circulate the planet, at timed intervals, to the opposite pole.

Every 18 years (…and 9-11 days), the Saros Cycle fires off an eclipse. Each eclipse in a Saros Cycle will spark about 10° further along the zodiac from where it last sparked (from 0° to 10° Taurus, then from 10° to 20° Taurus, and so forth).

In 1,280 years, the Saros Cycle will have traveled from one pole to the other, and finally close out, producing a total of 70-72 eclipses in about 1,280 years. 😳🤯

By the time the Saros Cycle finishes out, it will be back in proximity to the sign and degree where it originated.

Most often, for studying Saros Cycles, you would want to work with “long-lived” charts, like for nations, or with a theme that can be traced through history, such as “science” or “art” or language”.

“For example, the year that Gutenberg invented the printing press (1452), the year that Copernicus published his theory that the Sun was the center of the Solar System (1543), the year that Newton published his Laws of Physics (1687), the year that Einstein wrote his ‘Theory of Relativity’ (1905) were all years that Saros Series 14, North and South were producing eclipses. Whether it is Saros Series 14 North or Saros Series 14 South that is responsible would require further research. However, the years of 1452, 1543, 1687, and 1905 are all connected astrologically and astronomically to one Saros Series and, as we can see, the significant historical theme of these years is that of publications which changed the world.”

—Bernadette Brady, “Predictive Astrology: The Eagle and the Lark”

IF YOU WANT TO LOOK UP THE SAROS CYCLE > Each Saros Cycle is named after the pole where it originated (north or south), and numbered between 1 and 19, depending on its number of occurrences.

IF I HAD THE TIME… I’d want to study the Saros Cycles of the eclipses that FER SHUR have tripped my chart, probably limited to the late 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries, following along my mother’s family narrative, just to see if any eclipse themes coincide with major events or turning points in our family’s (robust) oral history.

“The periodicity and recurrence of eclipses is governed by the Saros cycle, a period of approximately 6,585.3 days (18 years 11 days 8 hours). It was known to the Chaldeans as a period when lunar eclipses seem to repeat themselves, but the cycle is applicable to solar eclipses as well.”

— NASA, “Eclipses and the Saros”

IN 2022 ✨, our two Solar Eclipses are part of Saros Cycles 119 (April 30th, 10° Taurus ♉️) and 124 (October 25th, 2° Scorpio ♏️). Click those links to see the dates and links to charts of other eclipses in these families, which might lead you to make some genius observation concluding that reincarnation is real, and maybe also time-travel (email me).

You can find a whole mess of eclipse dates with links to their families over here, and see examples of how Saros Cycles might ultimately unfold within a natal chart in this legit as hell, in-depth PDF. 👌🏻

what's the difference between a north node eclipse and south node eclipse? >

The North Node symbolizes where we’re heading, whereas the South Node symbolizes what we’re releasing.

🌟 A North Node Eclipse happens when the new moon is next to the North Node (when you notice the moon + sun glyphs in the same sign close-by the north node glyph). North Node Eclipses affect your personal situation, your psycho-soma, your life trajectory. Days and weeks leading up to the Eclipse might feel frazzled and draining, and then suddenly feel as though you can take destiny by the helm.

🌟 A South Node Eclipse happens when the new moon is next to the South Node (when you notice the moon + sun glyphs in the same sign close-by the south node glyph). South Node Eclipses feel as though other people and external circumstances are colliding with your trajectory. A situation might be wrenched from your control, and other people are factored into your life course. The sign and house can hint at the type of circumstances.

Remember, the transiting Nodes determine where eclipses will spark. When the Nodes enter new signs, you can predict that within the next 18-24 months, they’ll eventually trip whatever points, planets, or angles you have in those signs.

When comparing the eclipse chart to your own, pay attention to which Node is where.

Along with that, note other planets transiting around the Nodes. ✅

what aspects should i look for between an eclipse chart and my natal chart? >

Remember, aspects describe the type of relationship between objects, and some aspects are considered friendlier than others.

“Every astrologer will probably have a different answer to this question. Since eclipses are interjections in one’s life. I feel it is best to use only major aspects. In fact, in my own work, I tend to look for only conjunctions and oppositions. The use of the square is optional and I tend to use it if the eclipse is squaring a natal luminary.”

—Bernadette Brady, The Eagle and The Lark

Luminaries are the Sun and Moon, a.k.a. the “lights” of the chart. ✨

If you’re a little wobbly on aspects, check out Alice Sparkly Kat’s Five Techniques to Assess Aspects, and compare with CafeAstrology’s article on the same topic, as well as this article on aspects from Well + Good (just to round it all out).

how big of an orb (or degrees° of distance) should i look for between an eclipse and my natal chart? >

Still focusing on just major aspects (conjunctions, oppositions), Bernadette suggests focusing on a pretty tight orb of 2-2.5° for conjunctions, and 1° for squares.

how long do the effects or consequences of the eclipse last? >

Bernadette Brady thinks this is a philosophical question: What is the PURPOSE of eclipses… in astrology? 🤔

“If we decide that eclipses have very little purpose and they tend to be like a fly in one’s soup—halting the proceedings but having very few major consequences—then the effect of the eclipse could be considered to last for just the period of the eclipse season. If on the other hand, our definition of the purpose of eclipses is that they have a profound effect on the person’s life, then although the tension may last for only a few weeks, the effect may be considered to last a lifetime.

Let us imagine eclipses like spotlights shining on the pathway of your life. These lights are not on all of the time but they switch on, catching you in mid-action, so to speak. As this spotlight shines, it will illuminate an area of your life. Whatever has been pushed to one side of shoved under the carpet, will become obvious. This bringing to the surface of hidden problems can be dramatic and emotional. However, it is an opportunity to become aware of issues that may need some work. You can, of course, choose not to work on the problems which have come to the surface; you could choose to blame it all on someone else, and so on. But, this may not lead to a healthy future. If you do choose to accept the challenge offered by the events of the eclipse, then although it may be a hard struggle—or possibly just an easy ride, depending on the Saros Series…”

OKAY, SO WHAT CAN YOU DO ONCE YOU KNOW YOU’RE DUE FOR AN ACUTELY FATEFUL ECLIPSE MOMENT? 😬 >

If the eclipse is set to land on an angle, another axis (the Vertex or Lunar Nodes), or a planet (especially your Sun or Moon, a.k.a. the “Luminaries” of your chart), you can expect weirdness.

Like—a doorway appearing out of nowhere, a messenger, an omen.

As well as a cascade of synchronistic circumstances prodding you into a new direction, with correlating new feelings and headspace.

Eclipses don’t CAUSE the change… they just signal that the change is happening.

And the most infuriating part…?

It’s totally solo.

Even if it happens in a crowded room.

Even if it happened on somebody else’s face.

Even if it provoked maj’ personal undertakings the likes of which you yourself have never heard-tell, have never read about in a short story or blog post, and for which there is no concrete reference guide in which to compare your own experience.

You are isolated with the beauty and magnanimity of the event. 👐🏻✨

It’s your own special secret thing that happened.

Your’s alone, to ponder half-naked in your darkened bedroom at 2AM while re-playing a sloppy Chelsea Handler podcast you’ve already heard and finishing off two bags of apple chips (so now there is nothing for your children’s lunchboxes).

And even if you think of totally brilliant explanations and analogies for the cool great thing that’s happened…

…nobody is there with you to “get” it.

Just you, and your journal. ✅

(And maybe your dead landlord’s ghost. 😳🤔)

So, enjoy!

HOWEVER, because you’ve read this intel that I’ve arranged for you (you’re welcome, my pleasure)…

…you are at least aware, and hopefully forewarned, that a dramatic personal experience is in store, and that the abstract, and self-referential quality of it will likely provoke anxiety and awkwardness, where you might feel like a stranger in a strange land…

…SO HOPEFULLY, those weirdsy weeks leading up to, during, and following the actual eclipse won’t feel as bizarre, infuriating, or catastrophic.

Because it was always due to happen…

…because eclipses are cyclical… 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

So, when it happens (whatever it is), it’s happening right on time.

“Around the time of the eclipse (a week before and a week after) even a seemingly insignificant event can create the so-called ‘domino effect’.

First we feel the tension rising, then we get ourselves into a new situation, feeling that we cannot turn back any more. That’s why during the time of an eclipse we have to watch what we do, when we do it, and with whom we do it. Generally, a feeling of decisive and irreversible events taking place often accompanies every aspect that eclipses form by transit to points in the birth chart... During those times we feel as though something, or someone, has drained our energy. That’s the reason why eclipses are accompanied by such difficult experiences. As a matter of fact, we feel as though something, or someone, is holding us in place. This is when significant life situations arise that delay our reaching a decision, or render making proper decisions difficult for us.

That’s why around the time of an eclipse we sometimes get ourselves involved in arguments, or other people’s personal problems or emotional battles. All it does is distract us from pursuing the right path, or from following the right direction in life, career, etc.; yet, it’s something that’s impossible to avoid, and the best thing we can do is to watch out not to let our emotions cloud what’s really important and prevent us from doing the right thing.”

— Astro Dienst, “Eclipses - A Meeting with Destiny”

COUPLE OF FINAL TIPS FOR LEADING UP TO, OR IN THE WAKE OF THE ECLIPSE > Avoid issuing ultimatums, and keep your schedule flexible. Allow up to ten days to pass before any significant decision-making.

If your Sun or Moon are due to get tripped, you might actually get hit with a head cold, or some type of sickness, or otherwise enter a weakened state that encourages a slowing down. Pre-stock some herbal teas, fresh ginger, and manuka honey. 👍🏻✅

Even if the eclipse doesn’t hit your Sun or Moon (but is due to strike another planet or point), you might feel drained or scattered in the weeks leading up the eclipse. Keep your journal, planner, or a pad of paper nearby, for jotting down on-the-fly to-do lists, and random lines from a manifesto (or break up letter) you might be inspired to write.

If the eclipse is due to hit an angle (the Ascendant, Descendent, Midheaven, or Nadir), it might denote a change in how you’re moving through life.

If the eclipse strikes an axis of your chart, such as the Lunar Nodes or your Vertex ✨…

…well, these are the most karmic triggers (#IMHO), the thoroughfares of our chart that thread this current life to our past and future lifetimes… 🌀

…and require their own write-up, which I’m working on, so subscribe to find out when it goes live (and also score your Eclipse Trigger worksheet)!

YAS, GIMME A CUTE WORKSHEET!

ANYWAY, MORE RESOURCES FOR DELINEATING ECLIPSES ✨ 

• PREDICT HOW THE ECLIPSES WILL IMPACT YOUR LIFE, FULL SCOPE > How the Eclipse might affect you based on Rising Sun, and check out When an Eclipse Hits the Astrological Houses. 🌕🌑💫💫 

• TRACKING MARS (A.K.A. THE CATALYST OF YOUR ECLIPSE MOMENT)? 🔥 > This CafeAstrology article explains more about Mars transits (especially to particular points in our charts), and this article tells you more about Mars’ retrograde (including 2022 dates)

• CURIOUS ABOUT ECLIPSES AND YOUR LOVE LIFE? 💞 > “Additionally, ANY Eclipse, in whatever zodiac sign it falls, can have a meaning for your own personal love life when it falls in your 5th house OR falls in the 5th zodiac sign counting from your Sun sign OR ascending sign.” Compare with these other astrological clues for timing relationships. 🌟

• WHAT TO DO WHEN ECLIPSES STRIKE DIFFICULT ASPECTS 😬 > “Planets woven together by difficult aspects are as strong as steel. They represent problems you can’t ignore, and conflicts that chew at you until you find a resolution – or at least détente. They describe your defining attributes; and 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. … Personally, however, we tend to experience eclipses most strongly when they form close aspects (especially conjunctions, squares, and oppositions) to planets in our birth chart. Each time an eclipse aspects one of the planetary crosses that you bear, a narrative of change emerges – one that is repeated over and over throughout your lifetime."

• PAY ATTENTION TO COINCIDING TRANSITS FROM OTHER PLANETS! > Starsign Style parses ALL the current transits and themes of the 2022 Eclipses (cool to know: transiting Venus + Jupiter will be exact-conjunct in Pisces 🌸🕊♓️)

• This astrologer goes over other astrological details of the current Taurus-Scorpio Eclipse series, starting with the original eclipse that happened in November 2021 (when this current series started) ♉️♏️🌀

• BTW, EarthSky has intel on the science and geographical impact of the May 2022 Eclipse (high tide warning! 🌊)

• Also, you might need and love the “Project Mayhem” allegory for the Gemini 2021 Eclipse from Aeolian Heart Astrology (refers to the eclipses that sparked 2020 - 2021). ♊️✌🏻🤣✨

• RITUALIZING YOUR ECLIPSE? > Check out Aeolian Heart Astrology’s free class on astrological magic ✨, plus Mystic’s Eclipse best practices ✨, the AstroTwin’s take on Eclipses ✨, and about Miriam’s aesthetic jaunt through her neighborhood during the Beltane Eclipse (April 2022) ✨

• For an intensive DIY on where / how eclipses have impacted your chart, you might want to check out my post about finding your personal eclipse cycle. 🌀

• HOW MIGHT THIS YEAR’S ECLIPSES AFFECT US ON A MACRO-LEVEL? > “In 2022, there are two partial solar eclipses—meaning the Sun won't be entirely shrouded. The first is in Taurus on April 30, then six months later, a second one arrives in Scorpio on October 25. These will affect the way we "do" money. While they are bound to bring new developments in decentralized finance and cryptocurrency, there could be crackdowns and regulations to contend with. The global economy overall may experience surprising shifts as we figure out how to support world citizens during the ongoing pandemic.”

okay so, i totally realize that knowing the astro-trivia of your weird day doesn’t actually fix or do anything about the drama set off by an eclipse…

Knowing the astrology might just help open up that secret side-convo you need to have with yourself about the changes that are coming (maybe urgently). 😬😅

And also to remind you to stay home during eclipses…

…or if you have to venture out, you now know which days to stay away from prisons and bikini bars. ✌🏻

Until the next eclipse 😳😘💫…

What to Do if You Get Hit By an Eclipse! 😱💫💥

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What is the astrology of eclipses? Like—what do they mean, what can they do? This post shows you where + how to find info about your personal Eclipse Cycles, plus includes a ton of astro-inspired speculation about what happened when the Gemini Solar Eclipse in June 2021 tripped my Vertex-Chiron in my 8th House (bc no one had educated me about eclipses, damn it). 🙈

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If you “felt” something totally woo in May-June 2021, you might’ve been hit by the Eclipses. 🤩💫

For me, pour moi > the June 2021 Eclipse grazed my Chiron-Vertex in Gemini ♊️, simultaneous to Chiron transiting over my North Node in Aries ♈️, possibly at the exact moment I was looking into and saw a blue light flash in a barista’s eyes. 😳🙈

Like—literally the worst barista. 

Not in terms of quality or standards.

But. Like. Attitude.

The cascade of spooky-cute synchronicities has set fire to my own bad-intimacy issues, which I didn’t really know about, wouldn’t have been able to even conceive of, until researching the area of my chart activated by the Eclipse, so I’m learning extra about my own human condition, yay astrology. 💫

Are you also having an Eclipse moment? > You might be, if your Nodes land in Gemini-Sagittarius. ♊️♐️, or if the Node of Fate drifted upon any object in your chart, not necessarily your own Fate marker. The Nodes interact with the very matrix of circumstances, so usually, whatever planet, point, or angle they touch will become super-activated in your consciousness.

Enter > synchronicity. 🧁✨

With the Eclipse involved, the transit will help crystallize brand-new awareness, catalyze soul-level intentions, and realign us with our ultimate project.

What I myself have learned > you can basically use Eclipse astrology to explore any troubling ennui or feelings of aimlessness in your goals and dreams, while also probing your darkest personal pain as it commingles with your ultimate destiny and fruition. 💁🏻‍♀️

And also use it to autopsy your failed marriage, initiated during the last Eclipse set in 2011. 😅

SO, LET’S EXPLORE ECLIPSE CYCLES! > This exercise might be for JV baby-astrologers who are already familiar with their natal chart, and know where to go to get more info (Internet witches, etc.).

Don’t worry—I’ll link you everywhere you need to go to get charts and intel, all you need is a grasp of the lingo and familiarity with charts in themselves…

Without at least that much, the woo level here is equivalent to me asking you to maintain eye contact with me as we walk off a ledge into floating space. 😳

This is a very Looney Tunes approach to astrology, btw. 💁🏻‍♀️

OKAY, I’m about to supply hella research clues to guide your Eclipse interpretation, and hopefully re-inspire your true destiny. 🙌🏻

And perhaps in a few weeks, we’ll find out I was able to use this astro-awareness to prevent myself from making really embarrassing public mistakes and maybe jumpstart a repressed healing crisis, idk, let’s see how it goes! 💫

WHAT IS AN ECLIPSE? LIKE—ASTROLOGICALLY?

An eclipse happens when a new or full moon comes within 20 degrees of either the transiting North or South Node. These aren’t planets, but where the Sun and Moon intersect along their orbits. 

Thus, when it grazes the ecliptic, the new or full moon activates its own pathway. The ecliptic becomes illuminated by the condition of the moon, as well as by the melange of the other transiting planets’ energies. 

Your own planets, angles, or points will also become illuminated (or, more accurately, thrown into hyper-karmic flux😵‍💫 ), if any happen to be in the line of fire.

FYI: The North and South Nodes on your chart represent where eclipses were sparking during your birth year. Astrologers use the Nodes to describe your “karmic path”: the South Node representing past conditions you’re moving away from, and the North Node representing the conditions aligned with your ultimate purpose. (Read more about the Nodes here. 🐉)

Your North and South Nodes always carry a bit of karma-drama, and if you have any near-by planets.

So, when an eclipse comes upon any marker in your chart, it’s like astrology-fairies tearing down the curtains. 🧚🏻‍♀️

You suddenly “remember” the original project, or become lucid of a deeper intrinsic motivation you’ve always carried with you, like soul-tension that occasionally creeps into ordinary awareness. 

Through snap-crackle-pop synchronistic circumstances, you become well-notified about hidden possibilities, often coinciding with the appearance of fateful relationships, strange guides, and hella magnanimous omens.

Eclipses bring about karmic plot twists, and point to tension between our karmic project, and the circumstances, situations, and relationships we’ve engineered for ourselves.

There are two types of eclipses…

🌟 Solar Eclipses happen during the new moon, when the Sun and Moon are exact, in the same degree in the same zodiac sign. You might feel off-kilter for about 3-5 days before or after the eclipse, as though you’re walking at a tilted angle (but also thinking crystal clear 👌🏻). Solar Eclipses also tend to herald bright, shiny, new beginnings, and sometimes coincide with mega-new realizations or unexpected good news.

🌟 Lunar Eclipses happen with the full moon, and the Moon glows a tan-red hue, known as the Earth’s shadow, or umbra. This is also known as the “Blood Moon,” and, fine okay, the color does resemble a used maxi-pad, but that’s life, weirdo. Lunar Eclipses tend to be accompanied by more sentimental-nostalgic feelings, and their circumstances have more of an emotional finality or rounding-off. Buried memories or dreams also begin to surface around the time of a Lunar Eclipse, particularly in the 3-5 days before + after eclipse day.

What exactly do eclipses trigger…?

Epiphanies. Catharsis. Changes of heart. Dates with destiny. Pennies from heaven. Walk ins. Last glances. Final follow-ups. New faces, new vistas. Situations, even long withstanding ones, will either coalesce or fall like like water.

The somatic depth and clarity we experience when struck by an eclipse is powerful enough to demand a response. An eclipse sparkles and glows in our soma (which is tied to the Moon), more intensely and specifically according to the point in our chart being activated.

And everyone is experiencing the eclipse, even if not everyone is having a specific point triggered… (maybe this is what co-creates the percolating effect that seems to happen on the periphery during the eclipse portal… 🧐).

And all we can we can do is notice the signs, and allow the circumstances that unfold to inspire our next steps.

WHAT CAN WE “DO” WITH ECLIPSES?

…AS LITTLE BABY ASTROLOGERS?

Not everyone experiences an intense effect from an eclipse. Only in the years and seasons where there’s an eclipse that strikes close-by (within 0-5°) a planet, angle, or point in your chart.

So, you might not have had a recent Eclipse Moment, but perhaps you’ve had one in the past, or will have one in the future. 

Finding out if you’re having an Eclipse Moment depends on…

1. Knowing your birth chart very well (do you know all the planets you have in Gemini - Sagittarius? how about the degree number?),

2. Knowing how to look up + interpret the influence of other transiting planets during the eclipse (what other planets are interacting with your chart right now? what kind of influence might they have on your unfolding eclipse story…?), and…

3. Knowing your personal Eclipse Cycles. 💫

If you know (like, utterly) that you had one, you can use Eclipse moments to get back on track—however that looks. Depends on your chart, the Signs of the Eclipse, and other transits happening, because those describe other major awareness that might factor in.

Also, any super-conscious action you take.

Because… free will, hopefully? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Basically, knowing your Eclipse Cycles and their astrology might help you articulate the ineffable—an unfollowed calling or dilapidated relationship—so that you might reframe the woe, guilt, and suck, and start moving forward. ✊🏻

Also, this is kind of critical > Eclipses are cyclical. 😳

So, whatever you’ve let pass by, whatever you decided was over or not quite ready, it’s coming back atcha.

We can start using Eclipses by revisiting the passages of our lives coinciding with Eclipse dates. If you’re someone who diaries, vlogs, records music, or in any way documents their life, you’ll have an advantage. 👍🏻

Start hauling out your diaries and agendas from those years, it’s time for a life reappraisal! 🤩✨

for me, in particular, i became urgently concerned with eclipse lore after seeing a metallic blue flash in a barista’s eyes, starting as tiny pricks of light and swelling into blue-silver orbs. ⚡️

(Email me right fucking now if this has happened to you, ever 😳😱)

When I try parsing out the days leading up to this flash, it’s like describing what I forgot to notice while hurtling up a freeway onramp—it’s this thundering stream of details I wasn’t tuning into, just accelerating until I was going the velocity.

And if you asked me, “How did you get here?” I’d say, “I took the freeway.”

But it’s all these details that… when I reflect back on when they were happening, as I was entering the freeway, those details might actually have been hyper-crazy, or almost carnival-like… 🎠

Because all of these circumstances were extraordinary. This is not one of the baristas I chitchat with. This is the barista that, upon spotting at the register from the street side window, I might keep walking further down the street… to hit up Sbux. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why? > Because this fucker uses every conversation ventured as an opportunity to grandstand—most often, TO MY AND MY THEN-HUSBAND’S PERPLEXITY, to judge our life choices, which we never even volunteered as topics of conversation. 😡

SAMPLE > “Hey guys, welcome in. Out enjoying the day as a family?” “Sure are!” “How old is this little guy, again?” “Five years old!” “Wow, that’s great to hear. Must be hard getting anything done for yourself, right?”

Well. Ya, I guess—anything not related to the life cycle….?

….idk, what am I supposed to say? 🤨

ANOTHER EXAMPLE (in response to me walking in with my baby in the stroller + five year old in tow) > “(after a long pause, no greeting) Hey, look—this is cute ‘n all, but I’m not buying it, alright?” “Haha, okay? We make it look cute, but it’s not for sale…” “I know, I just mean—I see your rig (the stroller), I see you doin’ it, and I think it’s great, but it’s not for me.” “Okay. Haha. That makes sense, because it’s our’s, haha. Ya, we sure are cute… thx guys, have a good one!” 💃🏻(Haha = my codependent laughter.)

Just.. what??

Do you get why I’d just keep rollin’?

ANYWAY, between May-June (when the Eclipses struck) > I launched an Internet-based business while simultaneously divorcing my husband, requiring me to stay out of the house, so I was spending hella time at the neighborhood cafe around, dressed like a homeless pervert (“Spice Girl Unabomber” = my 2021 style direction ✨), and pretty much melting all of the collagen out of my body with espresso and premium chocolate.

Basically, leaning hard into my codependency patterns. 👍🏻

and during the eclipses when i was haunting the cafe, the barista caught me eyeing his forearm tattoos >

…dousing gasoline on his flaming-toxic-ego, and permanently rendering me into a horny-housewife joke for the amusement of his baby barista-harem.

(The baby barista-harem = who I am actually very emotionally codependent on, so, ya, lots of issues stirred up here. ☕️)

Scopin’ his tattoos look was not a special occurrence or out-of-the-blue thing > I will draw you a map right now of Gen X-age baristas / weed tenders with forearm tattoos across south San Luis Obispo county (where I live) and days of week / times of day you might chance upon them, because I literally have a circuit of cafes-restaurants-boutiques I patron especially to be serviced by men resembling Art Alexakis (of the band Everclear, here is the “Heroin Girl” video), and in fact this is such a quirky truism about my erotic proclivities that upon our first cafe visit after relocating to our new neighborhood, when exiting our first (awkward) interaction with this barista, my then-husband murmured “That looks like trouble.” 😕

I totally forgot about all this until writing this up > I had not even picked up on the Eclipse barista as one of my targets / prey / types, though I remember searching his face and clothes as we inched forward in the queue, trying to decide if I recognized him or not (not).

(This is actually a hallmark of first encounters with people who later become linked via Vertex activations—I say more in my tutorial on the Vertex a.k.a. Destiny Point next week. ☺️)

ANYWAY > this boring exposition is meant to orient you to the key details that (1) my antipathy with the barista was established, and (2) I glanced at him in a way that made his nuts ache, because he changed his work schedule to coincide with my visits and started dressing like my ex, and Idk if these details are relevant, but they are the details on-ramping us to the actual Eclipse weirdness—

The blue light (which I might now worship) > and I can’t just ask, “Hey dude, did you see a blue light on me a couple of weeks ago? It might be hella occult…” ⚡️

Because the following day, I offered to walk the little dog that lives in his car while the barista is working (it was 87°, yo), but he said no, then YELLED AT ME to not come back to the store. 🔥🔥🔥

But I did—on his days off.

So, he changed them.

Then hid his car in a different parking lot.

What?? Thuh?? Fuck??

SO.

Now we are gossiping about it…

With astrology. ✨✨✨

anyway, how eclipses work >

Eclipses happen in “seasons,” starting in a Sign and its opposite Sign (like Gemini-Sagittarius ♊️♐️) and lasting two-ish years. They also “live” for about nine years.

So, the 2021 Eclipses in Gemini-Sagittarius ♊️♐️that just occurred also happened 2001-2003, again 2010-2013, and now from 2020-2023. This 2020-2023 window is the timeframe for the current Eclipse Story.

If you can read transit charts (this article explains how to do your own transits) and want to get adept with the Astro.com chart calculator, you can totally cast transit charts for May-June of those years.

SO, every nine years, as the Nodes drift through Gemini-Sagittarius ♊️♐️, you might become reborn to the “big purpose” issues symbolized by any planets or points hanging out in those Signs, especially if the Eclipses happen to land on them.

For me in particular, the Gem-Sag Eclipse ♊️♐️triggered my Chiron ☌ Vertex > These aren’t Nodes or even planets in my chart, but one gimpy asteroid that happens to be leading a very codependent Point of Destiny. (Read more about Chiron over here, and more about the Vertex or Point of Destiny in your chart over here. ✨)

translation > the eclipse-fates tickled my deepest childhood pain, while simultaneously bringing my most secret-dream-destiny to climax. 🐵💦

When I look at those sets of years corresponding with the Gemini-Sagittarius Eclipses ♊️♐️ (2001-3 and 2010-3), I recognize harsh territory—the Elephant Graveyard of my life. ❌

When I hold that up alongside to my current life experience, and I can sense those old chaos-hyenas lurking in the shadows. 👻💀

Eclipses trigger re-awakenings to our ultimate path and purpose—the project concerning our most precious inner spirit and its potential for transcendence. 💞

When it happens, you might fall into a limbo state, reconsidering your habits, priorities, and relationships from the meta-picture, or a “higher” perspective accounting for not just where you struggle, but where you also shine—where you have gifts, talents, and (perhaps secret) ambitions.

Because… we forget. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank god we have each other (and transits) to help us remember. ☺️

HOW TO FIND OUT HOW THE 2021 GEMINI - SAGITTARIUS ECLIPSES AFFECTED YOU…

…(IF AT ALL, MEBBE NOT, IDK, THIS IS HOW YOU FIND OUT) ♊️♐️

First, pull up a copy of your natal chart > This post shows you where/how to get a copy. If you’re a total noob (s’cool if you are), this post shows you how to read it.

Hint > in this article, I might use intermediate-advanced astrology terms in this article not covered in those posts, but I link to a bunch of articles at the bottom to guide you through the whole story on all the lingo I’m throwin’ around, for you to work through at your own pace. ✌🏻

Next, look to the House(s) the Eclipse falls in your natal chart > Find Gemini ♊️- Sagittarius ♐️on your chart, then look to the numbers between the spokes (a.k.a. the Houses / angles).

Also inventory those Houses for your Nodes, planets, or other points. Did the Eclipse graze anything? You can tell by looking for the exact degree of the Eclipse > the June 10, 2021 Eclipse was at 19° Gemini. ♊️💫

Just look to the Gemini quadrant in your chart to see if anything was in the line of fire, and if so, double-check the degree number of it.

What happens if the Eclipse touched one of my objects?  😳Like—what gets “activated”?? > Miracles. Epiphanies. News from out-of-the-blue. Turning points, new circumstances in general.

What was triggered, along with the rest of the chart, tells you everything > the object (planet, asteroid, orbital point) describes the concern, the Sign describes the type of experience, the House suggests the arena it’ll unfold in, and aspects to the activated objects all describe the “meaning” behind the Eclipse. ✨✨✨

With Eclipses, because they activate both halves of the chart (there’s a North and South Node), the themes between Houses are blended, so that you learn through an uncomfortably paradoxical real-time experience the internal and external halves of a karmic issue, and their thoroughfare through your whole life.

In the above example image, the Node (fate) is transiting my Vertex-Chiron (destiny-wound) in Gemini (understanding) in the Eighth House (power), while Chiron (wound) also transits my personal Node (fate) in my Fifth (self-fruition), while natal Saturn (structure) and Uranus (individuality) are chillin’ in the Second House (value) opposite my destiny-wound (out of frame).

(Astrology is basically like Mad Libs. 💁🏻‍♀️)

Astrologers and Internet witches available via Google can help you flesh it out, and the dates I popped in near the bottom (provided by CafeAstrology) can help you think back to Eclipses of yore, to help you build a narrative to describe and analyze your own sleeping or forgotten life purpose.

By now, you might be feeling a little hot and tingling in your ears, perhaps making hyper-synaptic connections between weird thoughts, feelings, and events from May-June. 🤯

IF YOU ARE—like… I know, right??

It’s crazy!

Just crazy!! 🤪

reading for the eclipse in the signs gemini-sagittarius ♊️♐️ >

🌟 Gemini ♊️is a mutable (“changeable”) Air Sign (think iridescence versus a breeze), native to the Third House of Kindred, Perception, and Self-Understanding. Gemini exalts the neighborhood, your childhood buds, cousins, and early caregivers and educators, all of which collude to help you integrate into the world. Gemini is ruled by magician-psychopomp Mercury who knows what he’s working with, what you’re workin’ with, as well as the lay of the land, and is willing to collaborate and befriend to make up for what’s missing.

🌟 Sagittarius ♐️ is a changeable Fire Sign (think rainbow light versus wildfire), native to the Ninth House of Philosophy, Truth, and Going the Distance. Sagittarius loves far-seeking, far-reaching, far-flung places, the higher road, the path that gets you where you’re going while making you into who you are meant to be, thus revering mentors and higher education. Sag is ruled by jolly Jupiter, the social magnate, the Santa Claus of the solar system, who would rather target for positions of influence, and have everything he might need within easy reach.

Check out this article for more of a description of the Gemini-Sagittarius axis specific to the Eclipse.

Remember, the Signs tell you the theme behind the Eclipse, and how it might express itself, whereas the Houses that Gem-Sag line up with indicate where you’ll be working out these themes.

if you’re like me, and gemini-sag falls on between the second-eighth houses >

In general, the Second-Eighth Houses blend themes between Value-Resource, Cash-Debt, Cultivating-Multiplying, Masturbation-Sex, Pleasure-Pregnancy. 💫

“If this eclipse stimulates your 2nd-8th house axis, you will be called upon to strike a balance between your own needs for security and comfort and the same needs of other people, likely those of a significant other. If 19-20 degrees Gemini is in the second house, personal finances will come into strong focus. How well have you taken care of your finances? More importantly, have you taken charge of your personal sense of security? If 19-20 degrees Gemini is in the eighth house, issues of sexuality and spirituality may be a stronger focus. In either case, issues of shared resources, sexuality, and possessions are featured. With this eclipse, it’s time to start fresh with regards to how you go about satisfying your needs for security and comfort.If 19-20 degrees Gemini is in the second house, take charge of your life by taking the necessary steps to make yourself feel good and secure. You are called upon to make a stand and to tend to your comfort levels. If you do so, the positive effects will ricochet back into your intimate life. If you continue to tend to your partner’s comfort levels while ignoring your own, feelings of resentment and neglect can infect your relationships. Get in touch with what feels most comfortable for you, and the intimacy level in your relationship will step up a notch. If 19-20 degrees Gemini is in the eighth house, you are learning about the comfort levels of others. Essentially, you are learning to share and to surrender yourself (in a balanced manner!) to intimacy.”

(Source)

Is all this TMI? Or you just can’t make heads or tails of it? > This section references where/what the Eclipse activated in my own chart, and might not pertain to you at all.

The only way to know is to pull up your chart, look for Gemini and Sagittarius, and then Google about the Houses (a.k.a. the “area of life”) they express themselves in. 💫

To kick you off, visit this article (where I extracted the above summary), and scroll to your Eclipse Houses (for me, the Second-Eighth).

Here’s the lay of the land as the Node of Fate crossed Chiron-Vertex in my Eighth House > divorce, estate-planning, intimacy dramas, codependency issues. (Trés Eighth House, btw.)

Intrinsic is also a Second House concern > reclaiming sense of personal value after a long, strange trip threading through my Saturn Return, and integrating a new chapter into a bad-intimacy saga stretching all the back into preschool. 😔

All colliding with my obsession to pursue and write about the occult. 💀💕

And perhaps thrown into the mix a Gemini-forward cafe employee realizing their own erratic boundary issues. 🤨

So, if you’re also having an Eclipse moment, take every little astro-hint as a context clue, and hold it up to the look and feel of your life right now.

And also diary the shit out of it. ✍🏻

ALONG WITH YOUR REFLECTIONS OF THE MOST RECENT ECLIPSE > start looking into your deeper past and future Eclipses! You can use the calculator and process I’m about to guide you through to craft a narrative tracing the whole of your personal Eclipse Cycles—wherever the Node of Fate tripped your chart, and sent you careening into destiny with renewed purpose!

HOW TO FIND (+ TIME) YOUR PERSONAL ECLIPSE CYCLES

Good to know for planning extraordinarily synchronicity!

And also for “walking the cat back” on new and just-ending Eclipse stories, such as I.

HERE’S HOW > VISIT THE ASTRO-SEEK.COM ECLIPSE CALCULATOR…

ENTER YOUR BIRTH INFO INTO THE CALCULATOR (birth date, time, place).

Also select the span of years you’re interested in seeing eclipses. You can select going backwards or forwards (in 5 year increments). Include the city you’re currently (or will be) residing in.

Also select the types of aspects you’re interested in—”conjunctions”, “oppositions”, and “squares” from eclipses to your chart will interest you most. 👍🏻

AND IT WILL SPIT OUT A HANDY GRAPHIC + SUMMARIES OF WHERE THE FUTURE ECLIPSES WILL AFFECT YOUR CHART! 🤩

Scroll below the chart to see the actual calendar dates, the signs of the eclipses, the houses + points of your chart they’re “doomed” to strike, and a link to see to the chart of the day!

What to do with the information? >>>> First, note the Eclipses happening in Houses with objects such as your Nodes, planets, and other points. Notice the column that actually gives you a heads-up of what the Eclipses are aspecting!

If you’re astro-nerdy, click “transit chart” on the far right to see a more complete picture of what’s goin’ down during that Eclipse activation. 🪐

OR, you can idle in the astrologers’ forums for a few days discerning the in-depth metaphors for each Eclipse, House, and astrological point it contacts in your chart. ✨

For what purpose? >>>> Re-exploring the secret territory of your hopes, dreams, fantasies, and most cherished goals. What future dates might you target for? What do the metaphors and similes in the astrology signal to you?

Note: you can actually change the dates shown for the Eclipses as well, going deeper or further in time. 🐇🌀

GEMINI-SAGITTARIUS ECLIPSE DATES! ♊️♐️💫

Once you unpack the present transit (where/how this Eclipse just hit you), and where Eclipses will hit you in the future, remember to review past Eclipse transits. Knowing can help us become crystal-clear on our hidden cycles, all those sneaky patterns that might have thrown us off our true grind.

AS YOU READ ABOUT PAST ECLIPSE DATES > What was up? What was the haps? Who were the key players, what was the scene, the location, the mood, the hopes, pains, and promises du jour?

Where do you store your memories, dreams, goals, and frustrations? Even if it’s in your iCloud photo albums, your Twitter and Instagram, your secret slam poetry scribbled onto loose pieces of waterlogged stationery you couldn’t bear to trash, as long as you have a repository of observed reality to reference, it feels less insane trying to comb through the remembered details (because you don’t really know what you’re just conferring spooky-vibes onto).

Remember that the June 10, 2021 Eclipse I’ve been talking about is one of several in a set, running from June 2020 to December 2021. 🗓

Every Eclipse “set” lasts about two years, and is called an Eclipse Story, and leads into the next seven years, or rest of the Eclipse Cycle. 💫

Want more intel (and dates)? Get the full scoop at Cafe Astrology. 🤙🏻

gemini-sagittarius eclipse dates 2021 >

• Wednesday, May 26 >.Total Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius

• Thursday, June 10 > Annular Solar Eclipse in Gemini

• Friday, November 19 > Partial Lunar Eclipse in Taurus

• Saturday, December 4 > Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius

gemini-sagittarius eclipse sets (recent, upcoming, current) >

• June 2029 to June 2031

• June 2020 to December 2021

• December 2010 to May 2013

• December 2001 to November 2003

• December 1991 to May 1994

  June 1982 to November 1984

This is the fifth eclipse in a series falling along the gemini-sagittarius axis ♊️♐️💫, and here are those dates >

• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse June 5th, 2020 at 15:12:15 at 15° Sagittarius 34′

• Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse November 30th, 2020 at 4:29:32 at 8° Gemini 38′

• Total SOLAR Eclipse December 14th, 2020 at 11:16:26 at 23° Sagittarius 08′

• Total LUNAR Eclipse May 26th, 2021 at 7:13:43 at 5° Sagittarius 26′

• Annular SOLAR Eclipse June 10th, 2021 at 6:52:29 at 19° Gemini 47′

• Total SOLAR Eclipse December 4th, 2021 at 2:42:51 at 12° Sagittarius 22′

some other astro-specifics to focus your personal eclipse appraisal >>>>

These are some notes on the June 10, 2021 Solar Eclipse from Cafe Astrology, mentioning astro specifics, for your special consideration. ✨

🌗“The Solar Eclipse occurs close to the inferior conjunction of the Sun and Mercury, which marks the middle of the Mercury retrograde cycle. We’re looking back before moving forward. It’s also square Neptune, pointing to some unclear thinking and certain things left up in the air. We can be wrestling with perceptions and expectations. It’s hard to see our path, but our discomfort with the past can be very real now, motivating new beginnings.”

🌗“The last time we had a set of Gemini-Sagittarius Eclipses was December 2010 to May 2013” > what were you up to? How much of it rhymes with your life these days?

🌗“Even more relevant is the set of Gemini-Sagittarius Eclipses from December 2001 to November 2003 because the North Node was in Gemini then, as it is now.”

🌗“This phase of the Moon occurs at 19 degrees and 47 minutes of Gemini, affecting people with personal planets and points at approximately 15 to 25 degrees of the Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces) most significantly.”

SO—WHAT’S YOUR ECLIPSE STORY? 🧚🏻‍♀️✨

When an Eclipse impacts a chart, it’s called an Eclipse Story. An Eclipse Story unfolds within and lasts about two years, coinciding with the Eclipse series that started it. You could say the two-year Eclipse Story stages the next 7-year karmic passage until the next set Eclipse set.

So… like, it doesn’t stop. 😵‍💫

But it does evolve!

this eclipse set started june 5, 2020 with the sagittarius lunar eclipse ♐️, and will close out this year on december 4th with the sagittarius solar eclipse ♐️.

Circa June 2020 (last year), in my world, I was initiating a divorce.

Basically, from the man I had met nine years ago, at the start of my last Eclipse Story. 🙊

(CAN YOU BELIEVE)

For me, the flash in the barista’s eyes kickstarted research into a magical realm of occult understanding that is the morphic field of how I think, feel, and feel into the world.

First of all, I recognize > a “relationship project” is not in order.

But the strange experience might link us both to more integrated versions of ourselves.

More intel is needed.

Are you also having an Eclipse moment? >>>> Remember, if your Nodes land in Gemini-Sagittarius ♊️♐️, this is your story. ✨

Scroll back up and take note of all the dates involved in the Gemini-Sagittarius Cycle (reaching back to 2011), then give yourself time and space to think about it. All of it.

Also, maybe revisit your archived playlists and albums from 2011. (For me: lots of Kanye, Katy Perry, and DeadMau5. That explains a lot. 🤔)

Also consider and celebrate > you’ve breeched a new chapter!

Welcome to integrating the shocking new awareness that your deepest intimacy issues are tied to destined-healing crises with your erratic neighbors!

And by 2023, everything will be different. 🤢🤩

But what has the eclipse triggered, exactly? > 

…An existential plot twist ✨

Speaking only for myself, the Eclipse triggered crystalline new awareness about hidden psychological patterns in my life—

…like noticing a brand new spiderweb glinting in a sunrise…

…and now deciding whether or not to dust it away. 💫

“Here is another way to think about the way eclipses work: Imagine that a puzzle piece fell out of the sky into your hands. This new piece offers information, and when added to the overall picture of your puzzle will change the complexion of the situation and bring you a flash of insight. You may say, ‘For the first time, I understand!’ Now you have a full picture of the situation and can make a fuller, more realistic appraisal of what it means to you. You will also know what you must do next. This is the experience of an eclipse!”

(Source)

Here’s what I’ll admit > some of the Eclipse lore I’ve found might pertain to the barista, who may have had a Node triggered by the Eclipse, and I am currently stalking the issue with synastry (astrology chart comparison), based on (potentially wrong) birth data gathered via eavesdropping and past awkward getting-to-know-and-dislike-you conversations. 💫

I’m presuming his Nodes were grazed, while the Node of Fate and wandering Chiron simultaneously triggered a healing passage in my own chart, perhaps linking us through astrological transits.

Per much of the astrological lore (via LOLcats / Internet witches), the Eclipse activating my Eighth House would trigger deep psych work, particularly in the area of mine, your’s, our’s.

The little dog is definitely not my issue—that’s his weirdness.

But, like—this makes me feel ookey asking (so it’s probably true) > was his reaction also indicative of some raging codependency issues? 🤔

We’ll just have to wait to see how that checks out, once we’ve integrated the shock and prowled the astrology forums a few days longer. ✨

I’m literally sick to my stomach about it, but happily obsessed, thank you for joining me. 💕

In the meantime, I’m soothing myself with deep research into Chiron-Vertex-Eclipse activations while avoiding eye contact with salty Gen X baristas who might be trying to apologize for telling me to stop coming into the shop by making extremely creamy-delicious foam, and that’s really what this is about > the amount of money I’m spending on foam-sugar-stimulants instead of hustling for copywriting gigs. 🤭

So, my Eclipse Story is about my bad-intimacy saga, codependency issues, as well as financial and psychological shadow work.

Welcome to me. 💁🏻‍♀️🦋

“SHOULD I BE WORRIED THOUGH? ABOUT MY OWN ECLIPSE STORY?” 🤔😳 >

If you are also having an Eclipse moment, you can totally relax. 💖

FIRST OF ALL, you have stumbled into this weird portal with its very idiosyncratic, but reassuring secondary references, so… miracles happening. 👐🏻✨

Second, I’m in the Eclipse portal with you. I’m affirming this weird thing. This weird thing is life. 🌀

Maybe this is also what movies like The Matrix and Cloud Atlas are actually about, and we’re currently living into the plots of stories not-yet-penned.

Maybe our Eclipse Stories will become new archetypal story lines in the Age of “Aquarius” cultural reboot? 🤔🤩

Just keep your eyes peeled. Count omens. Revisit playlists and diaries of yore.

Document everything.

i also pulled a card from my threads of fate oracle deck, this is what came up >

“The Observer indicates a time where you being encouraged to suspend judgment or conclusions and simply witness. Humans are always trying to sort their external world - we want to process it, make sense of it, and figure out our place within it. It is our way of trying to feel secure and comfortable within our environment. However, this can also reach extremes where we are automatically forming opinions without gathering enough information.The Observer asks you to pause and simply pay attention. This may feel passive, but in observing we are already cultivating change.”

— Threads of Fate Oracle Deck (Rose Gold Edition, mm’hmm ☺️)

This felt like an extra spooky omen, because of this quote I found connected to Vertex points…

“The point of all Vertex contacts is to reveal ourselves from a perspective that is higher and deeper than ordinary conscious awareness. In a way, the Vertex is beyond the Nodes, which are all about the development of consciousness. The Vertex unveils the ‘Watcher,’ in us. The one who knows. The one who is beyond the conscious Self.”

(( **Runs screaming from the room** 😱))

MORE ECLIPSE RESOURCES! 🤩

• Here’s the 2021 Eclipse Calculator > plug in your birth data (time, date, location you were born) and see! Note: definitely save a copy of the chart as well as a link back to the page—it’s gonna take some time reading through. 🗓

• Want an Eclipse horoscope for your Sign? > What to expect with the Gemini-Sagittarius Eclipses, plus a full run down on each one.  Here’s another from Dark Star to compare and contrast. 👌🏻

• Or, if you want to guess, here’s a table of the 2021 Solar and Lunar Eclipses. Compare the column with the Signs + degree numbers to the Signs + degrees in your chart. (For nerds, click “view chart” to see the transit chart for that day!)

• LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 2021 LUNAR ECLIPSES, plus a summary of the Eclipse in your Houses. Also, for further reference > learn about eclipse transits on your natal chart.

• What New Moons and Eclipses mean as they travel through your Houses. This is basically how you start creating personalized lunar horoscopes!

• An astrologer’s insider tips + advice for coping with Eclipses! If you’re DIY’ing your own transit chart from the Eclipse dates, that post has the inside scoop on what to look for.

• From Mystic > How Eclipses Affect Your Relationships, and also, Eclipse rituals that work.

• Looking up Eclipses for historic family events or on behalf of your aunties? Eclipse dates from 1994-2030.

• This Mystic Medusa blog post explains the nerdy-cool facts of Eclipse Cycles, a.k.a. Saros Cycles, and I think I understand it. 👍🏻

• For varsity astrology students > this write-up about eclipse families, spanning millennia, and their historical coincidences! I love the part about Prince William being born on an eclipse cycle 🙀> “To have Prince William involved in this series implies quite strongly that he is going to change the face of the monarchy or walk away from it, as his great uncle did. What lends further weight to this unfolding drama is that this Series started in the same period of history as the British monarchy itself. The first recognised King of England who could truly claim that title was the Anglo Saxon Ecgberht and he came to power in 802 ce. The series ends in 2036 with the heir containing this eclipse in his natal chart. I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.”

Still have questions or confusions about eclipses? >

Check out my (way more recent) post: A User's Guide to 2022 - 2023 Taurus - Scorpio Eclipses 🌻🌙💫…

…which also features a very cool printable worksheet for helping you decipher your own magi-radical eclipse moments with astrology! 🤩

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and if you’re still at a loss about your astro-magical eclipse moment… 😫

Drop me an email, and I’ll help out as best I can! ✌🏻

(Heads up, tho: I will not reply in a timely manner, and when I finally do, it might be very cryptic, but that’s only to draw you in closer, so that I might pre-abandon you before you seduce and abandon me, intimacy issues unfolding before your eyes... 👐🏻✨)

And if you also had an ecstatic-astrological moment of any kind…

Email me about your story immediately, in whatever form (text, audio, song, vlog) makes sense.

DO IT.

DO IT NOW. 🙀

Tarot Cast • August 21st, 2017

Today’s the day. The North American solar eclipse is HAPPENING, people! Rachel over at Aeolian Heart wrote a post about what you should expect astrologically from this rare & romanticized event. Here’s a taster:

“Expect to contend with theatrical emotions, where the performance of one’s public persona (character, role, image and face) metamorphoses into newly hyperbolic grimaces of tragedy and comedy.”

Read more here. In the article, Rachel also asks a germane question, prompted by the Leonine vibe of the eclipse:

“What expression do I choose to wear in the face of fear & uncertainty?”

This week’s Tarot Cast goads you into answering this Q. In the first position, the Serenity card: the major key for retreat & introspection. Coincidentally (or fatefully), the Serenity card also corresponds with Virgo & Mercury, which are hella retrograde as of late. Mercury Retrograde is always an opportunity for a little retreat & soul-digging. (Read more about Mercury Retrograde over here.) 

In the description for this week’s Tarot Cast activity, I actually describe the line between “spiritual bypassing” the issues of the day & stepping back in order to get a longview of what’s happening… & your role in it all.

We’ve also got the 9 of Cups & The Starseed: 2 Major Arcana keys & my favorite card of the Cups suit. It’s going to be a beautiful, illuminating week, people.

💠 SERENITY.

MESSAGE: STEP BACK FOR A WIDER POINT-OF-VIEW.

The Serenity card in The Starchild Tarot is identical to The Hermit card of the Rider-Waite deck. It’s the key of spiritual retreat, introspection, & self-purification. The inner-resources you develop from taking yourself out of the heated debates du jour better equip you for dealing with the true-world experiences those discussions are supposedly about. Serenity is the opposite of self-righteousness.

💠 Nine of Cups.

MESSAGE: THE CIRCLE OF LOVE BEGINS & ENDS WITH YOU.

Numerologically, 9 is a hair’s breadth away from the end of the cycle, where the elements the suit refers to recycle back through the journey. Love, inspiration, & soulfulness flood & ebb dreamily from the Ace of Cups all the way to 10, its zenith of adoration, joy, & family harmony. We are prismatic thresholds for the Divine to shine on the world & the 9 of Cups symbolizes a self-aware contentment on matters of the heart. The expression of this card: beatific contentment. The 9 of Cups reflects the choice of letting the world notice your joy… of infusing your beliefs, feelings, & actions with love. Someone wearing the face of soul-satisfaction makes others suddenly realize how thirsty for joy they actually are. 

Hint: no one can give you love & joy. Your only option is to shine.

💠 The Starseed.

MESSAGE: REMEMBER. REMEMBER. YOU ARE NOT YOUR EGO.

Numerologically, The Starseed card corresponds to 0. The Starseed symbolizes the germ of your soul as it journeys through the cosmos, incarnating numerous times in several different dimensions, stockpiling conscious experience. 

The Starseed corresponds with The Fool in the Rider-Waite deck: the Innocent, the Beginner. Starseeds are new to this reality, but they’re genetically wiser: in previous lives in different cosmic realms, starseeds survived apocalypses. In some cases, they watched their home planets perish into voids. They’ve already been tasked to find the Truth about themselves in the face of horror & peril.   

In some ways, the Starseed also represents the End of the journey to Awakening, because even after you’ve amassed the experience & delicately crafted your persona (the tool you use to rudder your passage through this chaotic realm), you realize how much the persona handicaps your authentic, lightworking, joy-radiating starry-eyed Self.

If you at all identify (ironically) as a Starseed or a Lightworker (they’re one in the same), you might be feeling scattered. You might be feeling jabbed at & may be feeling a little jabby as well. Stepping back might seem irresponsible, like spiritually bypassing these huge concerns. The cause is righteous, after all!

If you’re feeling low energy--too low to even guess what sort of inspired action you can take on the issues--then read on for this week’s activity!

(Curious about this "Starseed" stuff? Bookmark this post to read later: 13 Signs You May Be A Starseed.)

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this week’s tarot cast action:

replace every minute spent in debate with one trivial, but enlightened action.

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Debate is masturbatory. I studied philosophy at university for 7 years--most of my adult life. Most of my closest friends were debate team members who grew up to become razor-toothed attorneys. Some of them defend people who did (& continue to do) bad things. Some of my friends prosecute people who got caught doing the right thing… though it went against the rules.

Unfortunately… yes, unfortunately… debate is the lifeblood of modern philosophy. Philosophy, which translates to For The Love Of Wisdom. 

Debate is the art & science of proving I Am Right. And the longer the debate, the less wise action taken. The only action debate inspires is action taken out of angst, rage, resentment, & desperation. 

These week’s cards fatefully align with what many of us are struggle against: the urge to feel right.

Because we are right. Right?

How can you tell the difference, if you’re stuck in the same roiling mass as the people standing on the opposite side of the issues?

To grow a little wiser, which is the spine of serenity, here’s the inspired action I suggest you take. For every single urge you feel to launch a Twitter war or argue with your friend’s racist uncle through a Facebook comment train, pop over to the ACLU & make a donation. Make a teensy donation right now, just to get the feel of it.

But why?! Why NOT debate? Why throw money at an organization that stays out of the debates happening on the sidelines, an organization which instead takes clear, well-formulated action to get in front of the people who need to hear the real score on what’s happening? An organization that gets supplies & resources to the people who need them, who in turn are now empowered to get supplies & resources to others who need them, thus bringing the invisible majority onto our radar?

If you don’t vibe with the ACLU in particular, donate to the organization that’s doing the actions you can’t be doing, given the constraints on your time, energy & focus. If you’ve got time to pick Twitter fights, perhaps you have time to volunteer on behalf of that organization that has the strength & momentum to make a bigger impact than merely enraging bystanders on the Internet.

Because no one is very impressed with the clicking you do to share a meme over Facebook or Twitter.

Serenity comes from having the strength to pull yourself out of the melee, no matter how attached to the outcomes of the conversation you are. Wisdom will not suddenly arise out of name-calling & attacking each other’s points of view… there is no other frame of reference.

In the Lightworker’s Guide, the reference book of The Starchild Tarot, the Serenity card’s message:

“You are waking up to a renewed sense of spirituality that is illuminating your life in new & vibrant ways. You may feel less inclined to share your thoughts & views with others, as you realize each person is on their own cosmic path to enlightenment.”

It is not spiritually bypassing the issues if you choose to turn off Twitter notifications. It is not spiritually bypassing the issues to respond to cruel remarks with a solemn retort: “That’s inappropriate.” “Unnecessary.” 

Take all that annoyance, anger, & other shadow-drama welling up inside you & channel it into where the biggest bubble of conscious intention as already amassed. Donate. Write a letter to your state senator. Ask a survivor of hate-crime or racist backlash, What do you need? I’ll bring it. Where can I help?

And if this post (or just the general vibe of the social climate) is getting to you, you can email me! I’ll do what I can to help spin the sitch for you. 

And let me sign-off bringing it full-circle with my household’s #songoftheday:

MEWITHOUTYOU, “THE SUN & THE MOON” 

Mine's been a vivid story, dimly remembered
And by the hundredth time it's told, halfway true
Of bad behavior well engendered
What good is each good thing we think we do?

Daniel broke the king's decree
Peter stepped from the ship to the sea
There was hope for Job like a cut down tree
I hope that there's such hope for me

Find a friend and stay close and with a melting heart
Tell them whatever you're most ashamed of
Our parents have made so many mistakes
But may we forgive them and forgive ourselves

All Tarot images via The Starchild Tarot by Danielle Noel.