Come Further, Come Through — Scorpio Lunar Eclipse

You will enter a four-week stretch featuring three eclipses beginning with the Scorpio Full Moon and lunar eclipse at about 4 pm EDT on Thursday. If experience and astrology bear out, the last days of May will find you have come further, and through more, than would be expected of a month-long period. As with any long journey, a good start will serve you well.

Astrology by Len Wallick

A good first step is understanding eclipses.

Eclipses normally take place in pairs, twice a year. A lunar eclipse at a Full Moon typically follows, or is followed by, a complementary solar eclipse during a New Moon two weeks later.

They occur twice a year because that is nearly always how often the Sun is close to one of the perpetually opposed and slow-moving lunar nodes.

They occur in pairs because the Sun usually remains close enough to a given node during the two weeks between the full and new lunar phases for two eclipses to take place, two weeks apart.

The Sun and Moon do not follow the same path through the sky as viewed from Earth. Nor do Earth and Moon follow the same orbital planes through space (as viewed from outer space). In either case, paths or planes, there are two points of intersection. Those are the lunar nodes, the essential ingredient of eclipses. When the Sun appears near one of those intersections from our point of view, or on the zodiac, the first requirement of an eclipse is met.

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