Earth and the Moon will line up with the Sun and lunar south node on Sunday (Monday in the Eastern Hemisphere). The result will be a solar eclipse in the first degree of Gemini. From East Asia, and across the Pacific to western North America, viewers will see a black lunar disk block the Sun. Viscerally astonishing as solar eclipses are to witness, their astrology is best viewed without drama, as simply as possible, in order to work with what they symbolize — that something is out of place and must change.
When the sky is dark during the day and the darkest part is the middle of the Sun, things are out of place. When things are out of place, they cannot remain that way for long. That simple fact is how the reality of a solar eclipse connects with the symbolism of astrology.
One way astrology symbolically interprets celestial events is how big they are. When it comes to lights in the sky, none are as big, bright or important to your life as the luminaries, Sun and Moon. Earth’s rotation makes the Sun appear to move across the sky defining the day. Earth’s orbital movement, combined with the tilt of its rotational axis, makes the rising and setting Sun appear to move North or South along the horizon, defining the seasons. Unlike the Sun, the Moon really does move relative to our planet, and its orbital motion, combined with Earth’s rotation, contributes to its phases and the fact that it rises a bit later every night. For the most part, the respective paths of the luminaries across our sky, whether real or apparent, rarely intersect.
