{"id":10867,"date":"2009-02-08T10:29:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=10867"},"modified":"2009-02-08T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T16:06:31","slug":"leo-eclipse-in-t-minus-24-hours-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/leo-eclipse-in-t-minus-24-hours-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Eclipse in T-minus 24 hours and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

As mentioned almost daily since God knows when, an eclipse of the Leo Moon occurs Monday morning at 9:49 am EST. This is also the Leo Full Moon. This eclipse is a penumbral type, so some sources say that it will barely be visible, as the Moon will only pass through the edge of the Earth’s shadow. I would propose that makes it a kind of invisible eclipse all the more interesting for being opposite Chiron and, more to the point of invisible, Neptune.<\/p>\n

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Poster child for the Leo lunar eclipse that's exact Monday morning at 9:49 am EST. Photo by Bares.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Put simply, this is a Full Moon no matter what you do, full of all the usual things a Full Moon is full of, like one colossal case of PMS: such as the sense of edgy anticipation that something is about to happen. It may be, but don’t discount the hormonal illusion, the insomnia, the nervousness, the sense of polarity. The Moon is opposite a LOT of planets right now; it’s just about the only thing of any size in Leo, while Aquarius across the sky is home to Mars, Jupiter, the North Node, Nessus, Chiron and Neptune.<\/p>\n

The Sun for its part has been making a series of conjunctions to all these planets, so this is creating a rough ride for a lot of people, particularly on such questions as what the heck am I doing here. This astrology looks pretty important so you can at least assume you have a purpose, otherwise you would have incarnated at a much more boring time in history.<\/p>\n

What’s adding to the sense of both polarity and bigness of the moment is Saturn opposite Uranus. These are the traditional and modern rulers of Aquarius, respectively. There are some people such as my astrology mentor David Arner who thinks that Uranus (the first planet ever discovered by science) is just not the right fit for Aquarius, but of course that would be typical of that sign. I am with him all the way that when you think of Aquarius, think of Saturn first and any other planet you want to associate with Aquarius second.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this eclipse should release some of the psychic tension that so many of us seem to be dragging around. I’m sitting here with a list of things I have to write that is even managing to intimidate as I sit here on a Sunday morning wondering how I’m going to meet all these deadlines — though I know that it’s a) at least partly an illusion and b) that around eclipses I always do at least some of what I really love because I want to encode that into the pattern of the next six months. I think this is the basic purpose of eclipses: to help us make progress, break continuity and establish a new pattern.<\/p>\n

If you’re taking this energy on the frantic side, you might want to ask yourself what, exactly, the rush is, and I do mean exactly; document your issues, really know what needs to be done by when. The chances are you can slow down. Maybe bot a lot, but probably just enough to restore a sense that you have some ability to choose. That alone would be something useful to encode into the next six months.<\/p>\n

Overall I think we’ve done pretty well with this transition into the the new year, the new presidential administration, and coming through a Mercury retrograde with two eclipses — but of course there is one to go, and it will be soon enough. Oh, and please don’t let any less-than-creative newspaper horoscope scare you into thinking you’re going to have a bad week. More likely it will be an interesting one.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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