The Solar Eclipse of March 2007 in Pisces - What Does It Mean, and What Are its Effects?

by Robert Wilkinson

The Solar Eclipse occurs at 29 degrees of Pisces on March 18 at 7:43 pm PDT, just before the Vernal Equinox March 20 at 5:08 pm PDT. This Solar Eclipse will bring many things to completion, and the seed essence of whatever progress we've been making will be stripped of old forms so newer, more appropriate means of expressing our Light can come forth. Eclipses affect everyone, including nations, for a long time after they occur, and take things away that are no longer a part of our future; they obscure the Greater Lights so lesser ones can be seen which will become Greater Lights in their time. This Solar Eclipse at the end of Pisces will be the next larger step in time to free us from "a narrow destiny" promised by last September's Virgo Eclipses.

As I wrote in the article on the September 2006 Solar Eclipse in Virgo still in major play in our lives, it opened opportunities to "hear and take the call and joyously rise to the occasions about to be presented to us. The quality of what will be offered entirely depends on our willingness to be trained and educated in ways appropriate to our individual mental-spiritual dharma."

We've all left some things behind that has led to a freedom from old conditions that were a significant part of our lives. It affected different signs in different ways, of course, since how an eclipse works is entirely how it configures with our planets in our houses. In this article I gave a brief sketch on how it affects each individual sign, and if you know your Ascendant, or Rising sign, please look at that as well.

The theme of an "escape from a narrow destiny" had been initiated by Mars at 30 Virgo in the September 2006 Lunar Eclipse, and was kicked into high gear by the Solar Eclipse on that exact degree. That Lunar Eclipse promised some short term revolutionary developments that were picked up by the Solar Eclipse and moved into long term situational dynamics. So for the past 6 months we've begun to be shown a "conquest of illusion," and had to concentrate on finishing up some form of training, preparing for the new ways being precipitated by the endings of the current Pisces Eclipses as well as the openings and inspiration on every level promised by the on-going Grand Fire Trines.

Here it's important to note that there was a Grand Fire Trine in the March 3-4 2007 Lunar Eclipse. This will be a factor in the events promised by the Lunar Eclipse in the months it will be operative. For those concerned with the endings and adjustments already in motion associated with the recent eclipse, it will ultimately prove to be very brightening and inspirational in its effects. On a final note regarding last Autumn's Solar Eclipse, because it lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes, expect it to be in major effect through mid-2010, which of course will affect 2011, 2012, and beyond.

Later we'll see what NASA says about the coming eclipse. For now let's explore the astrological meanings behind the Eclipse configurations. To begin with since the Eclipse falls in the penultimate degree of Pisces, the Moon would usually be considered void of course, but this Solar Eclipse is exactly square Pluto, a very powerful indicator that many things will be stripped to the core as a result of this lunation.

It will most affect people with planets in late Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, and challenge all to find self-confidence amidst the general chaos and breakdowns, and not lose sight of our greater Realizations or fall into forgetfulness under the pressures of lesser things. Use focus, concentration, and self discipline in creative ways, follow the details, and get a "form" to practice your Truth and skills.

We'll find new ways to take our social skills and cultural values and express them differently, and some will find their "virtuosity." If appropriate, see it as "finding your cause." Find situations where your special talents can be valued. For Truth-seeking Souls consciously walking the Way, find the central point with which to "anchor" your perspective so you don't get disoriented by all that is stirring but only partially developed. The gestative power of the Ageless Wisdom will be seen and experienced, some will revise ideas back to source, and some will find a greater understanding resulting from "patient steady work and persisting aspiration." All will realize new potentials based in recapping past opportunities at the threshold of a new cycle of experience.

Jupiter and Neptune rule this eclipse. Jupiter is exactly trine Saturn and sextile Neptune, promising a very fortuitous effect. Jupiter's degree is a challenge to actively prepare for the future, sacrificing parts of the present to ensure future well being. Use foresight to plan for future needs, and do what is needed to ensure the means of supplying those needs. Be thorough, find ways of connecting to the source of life on Earth, and link with others, turning weakness into strength, deprivation into connectedness, through compassionate cooperative relationships.

Jupiter expands all it touches, and represents the morality, ethics, higher spirituality, and clergy of a country. That the eclipse is in a Water sign would indicate more increase of water, usually meaning floods, and with the Lunation square Pluto, expect everything to be intense and at times extreme. This can mean a lot more water (rain) where there was none before, so crops could benefit as well as being deluged. I would think hypocrisy would be busted, and intrigues exposed in the light of a higher law coming forth. Jupiter and Saturn are stabilizing each other in a very strong and enlightening way at present, setting the inspiration for rapid developments to comes.

Neptune is on a degree of disappointments, challenging us to develop resilience and strength as we turn from difficult relationships to more promising interactions. Move through all interactions with integrity and character, and when confronted by the vanishing of old illusions, have compassion. Retire from problematic situations creating stress, and you can find a "spiritual justification" for being true to yourself through the forms of difficulty.

Jupiter and Neptune in a favorable aspect shows that these two forces will work productively in the natal houses they occupy, and bring forth good results for those with planets between 17-23 Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. It will be very productive for those born between the 5th and 13th of February, April, June, August, October, and December.

This Eclipse will work as a Thinking-Deciding-Feeling sequence of responding on the personality level. It will require that we need to consciously incorporate our feelings and experience of things we've seen, discussed, and acted upon. This is a great configuration for getting information and clear visions, then deciding or acting on the basis of those.

Still, we need to remember to feel, and name those feelings and experience to ourself or others, to complete the process. Follow decisions with naming your feelings and how you're experiencing those actions and decisions, then do more research and communication, get information that updates your understanding, again followed by deciding, acting, and then complete the process through feeling and experiencing what just moved forward. Just don't get hung up on feeling frozen in place.

How the planets are proportioned in the chart determines the Jones Patterns. The Eclipse chart is a classic Bucket due to almost all the planets occupying half the chart and one on the other side. As I explained in this article the Saturn opposition Neptune defines the axis of opposition, with Saturn the nozzle to express and/or balance the energies of all the other planets. The primary occupied section is led by Jupiter, again indicating a time of radical expansions and openings, and closes with Venus at 2 Taurus, a degree of "a cosmic visitation" that will awe our consciousness and can lead to a complete transformation of how we do our Being.

Primary Lunation aspects include the Sun-Moon square Pluto and wide novile to Neptune, a wide conjunction with Uranus, wide semi-square to Mars, and semisextile to Venus. Thus Pluto is the prime factor in this eclipse. Besides the Jupiter sextile-trine the Saturn opposition Neptune, other outstanding astrological factors include Mars conjunct Neptune, Mercury quintile Jupiter and sextile both Pluto and Venus, which are in trine. Astrologers should take note that the aspects are "out of sign" but close in orb, which carries its own significance.

The very powerful Venus in Taurus will be a stabilizing influence despite the transformational awe of the degree, and its close tredecile to Saturn and quintile to Neptune and Mars promise a lot of serendipity in those areas of our lives. That configuration is so unique and gifting to all, I would suggest surrender to the larger quality of life you've been moving into before now, stop resisting the magnetic pull of the future, and you'll see gifts specialized to your circumstances, while your gifts perfectly fit circumstances you'll find yourself in.

The aspects challenging "right action" on our part include the Mars conjunct Neptune opposed Saturn, and Venus semisquare Uranus square Jupiter, tying Venus to a sesquisquare (135 degrees) to Jupiter. This 3-point configuration activates the void points of the Great Octile of the other points semisquare, square, and sesquisquare around 1 to 5 degrees of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, and 16-20 of Gemini, Virgo, Sag, and Pisces. Depending on how your Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus are functioning as a team, you'll see varied results.

I've discussed the Jupiter square Uranus effect for 2007 in this article. These aspects have coincided with the release of powerful, erratic, and high strung energies in our world, so watch Venus, since she's going to release all her extraordinarily positive aspect energy through these Octile aspects. With Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn so favorably aspected, this should be a good eclipse, even though it will take some things away.

Thus the Saturn opposed Neptune is extraordinarily harmonized by both Venus and Jupiter, a very good thing since Neptune is, after all, still doing its fogging thing in its dance of The Grand Irrationality with Pluto, the release point and trigger for this Eclipse. While Neptune is supported by Moon, Sun, Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus with no direct release point activated, Pluto will release the square from the Sun and Moon through its productivity and understanding harmonized by an out of sign sextile from Mercury and trine from Venus. Thus every bump can be turned into multiple productive applications, and there will be concrete developments assisting us to see that whatever was is now in our rearview mirror.

On a final note, the New Moon North Node is on a degree that offers us a form of "rebirth" through participating in collective events dedicated to renewal of how we present ourselves to our world and our Deity. The North Node is conjunct Uranus, so this eclipse will feature many Piscean individuation experiences showing us a synthesized view of long term developments. It's time to keep forgiving and blessing the passages as compassionately as we can. Get some quiet time to get a new inspiration, be at peace retreating from old excitable or bizarre dramas, and see the movie of your life and the larger Life we all share as symbols of your unique Self.

The South Node of the eclipse is on the degree of "a volcanic explosion," showing there will be many forceful releases of things that have been pent-up before now in both our inner lives and the outer world of affairs. Follow your "will to wholeness" to "break up old complexes" and release whatever you need to in order to get beyond old ego structures and subconscious fears that have kept you bottled up. Purify your body, feelings, and mind of old frustrating distinctions, and exercise Divine discernment to figure out some action that shows what you're learning.

This continues the theme from the recent Eclipses with the North Node in Pisces and South Node in Virgo. The eclipses falling with the Nodes in that axis are blessing us to go our own way within the larger fields of overlapping reality while witnessing the Oneness we ALL are together. We are learning not to expect others to conform to a pulse from Divine Mind the same way we would, and that we also get to do our thing in our own way and don't have to conform to another's expectations. To some extent this sanctions the passages, and shows us what is closing out in our lives. Pray, meditate, forgive, release, and merge into the compassionate ALL of the oceanic field that is Pisces, symbol of the great Ocean of Consciousness.

For those of you into what NASA has to say about eclipses, here it is, straight from the site:

Partial Solar Eclipse of March 19 - "The first solar eclipse of 2007 occurs at the Moon's ascending node in Pisces and is visible from eastern Asia and parts of northern Alaska. Greatest eclipse takes place at 02:31:56 UT when the eclipse magnitude will reach 0.8754. The penumbral contact times with Earth are listed below.

Partial Eclipse Begins: 00:38:26 UT

Partial Eclipse Ends: 04:25:00 UT

Here's a link to a NASA table of when the eclipse shadow will hit various cities throughout its path. As you can see, its shadow will primarily fall on Asia, from Iran and Russia through Afghanistan, India, and Mongolia, all the way to Vietnam, China, the Koreas, and northwestern Alaska. From another site, we find times of maximum eclipse and magnitude at 4 major cities are Beijing - 02:23UT (0.39), Shanghai - 02:12UT (0.19), Hong Kong - 01:47UT (0.16) and Calcutta - 01:30UT (0.42).

As you know from reading other eclipse articles on this site, historically wherever the shadow falls indicates regime change, environmental changes, or other forms of major shifts of power. Further, if the eclipse falls on the Ascendant or Sun of a country or person, we will see a stronger effect than if it fell away from an angle or is making few aspects in the natal chart.

Also remember that with Solar Eclipses, the number of hours it's active is the number of years it's in force. This one is about 3 hours 46 minutes, which would imply it will be in effect for about 3 years, 9 months. Thus this eclipse will primarily affect us through 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Keep in mind that the September 2006 Solar Eclipse will also be active simultaneously.

Overall, my assessment is that many things will abruptly end, and very unique and specialized gifts will replace old stuck situations. Avoid worry, restlessness, and needlessly being driven by nerves. The Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces parts of our lives are being harmonized, and the coming years will bring ways we can demonstrate that inspired understanding.

Furthermore, this eclipse will lead to our Gemini and Virgo energies productively interacting with our Taurus and Libra energies, which themselves will be in a uniquely positive interactive relationship to our Capricorn and Aquarius sectors. The ruler of our Aries and Scorpio is in productive aspect with the Jupiter, ruler of the eclipse, so enlarge your perception, analyze the subtleties, and allow the husk of old things to fall off, preparing the seed of more inspired things to come. With all this, it should be a very productive eclipse!

To see how it affects your individual sign, here's How The 29 Pisces Solar Eclipse in March 2007 Affects Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces?

For those interested in what I've written about eclipses dating back to 2001, here's Eclipses Past and Present – A Look At What They’ve Brought All of Us in 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, and 2001

© Copyright 2007 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Svetlana]

It sounds so optimistic when the High-class Astrologer calls the eclipse(taking into consideration all other meanings of the word too:) productive,promising and blessing-providing...
With great reverance to Jupiter,Pluto and Co roles- what especially attracts attention is Venus,Venusian impact.It would be interesting to know why this heavenly creature is called both Morning/Evening star and a planet simultaneously? I once read that according to some hypothesis it was this Miss/Mrs:)
who caused the mess in the Solar System which caused the radical planetary changes in Hyporborean times.Do you share this or any other opinion? There are too many pieces of art and letters devoted to this Beauty
to take it veeery seriously,as far as I can see and understand it in the adequate manner.

[giverny]

Hi there Robert and wow to the above post! I must admit I do love eclipses even though they are heavy duty but this one sounds VERY INTERESTING and transformational! I am very interested in the astrology of countries and i have noted that asia has been effected weather/disaster wise a LOT. I feel for asia as this eclipse with fall over there AGAIN they just had an earthquake and that plane crash had something to do with strong wind gusts i have heard.I would guess that the tsunami of 2004 would have had some eclipse and or major astrological triggers which resulted in the disaster. We are experiencing cyclone activity and have had lots of weird storms,floods and lightening strikes which have all increased in magnitude in Australia too all coinciding with the eclipses. I remember reading a fascinating article and predictions from Jennifer Lawson an astrometeorologist which was so spot on how can anyone not believe in astrology? Would love to hear more on this subject. Many thanks to you and your responses you are a 'word magician' and such a kind soul we need more of you in our world.blessings to you.

[Aditya]

Hi Robert I am a fan of yours. I have been going through very trying times.
In my birth chart, Jupiter is in Aquarius 4th House and Neptune is in Scorpio which is also my ascendant. The eclipse falls in Pisces where I have the Sun in the 5th house of my birth chart. With my limited interpretation this looks very auspicious. Could you please have a look.
21st March 1974
1755 UT
Dehradun India
Namaskar

[Larissa Pond]

Probably Solar Eclipse in Pisces March 18 will give a clairvoyant abilities to see the future more easily and clearly. Intition will probably be sharp like opening of sixth or seventh sense? My intuition is running high now Robert, sometimes I know what news I am about to hear. My dreams come true. For example, I have not seen a person for 5 years and have not even once thought of this person. Then I dream of him and the next day I suddenly meet him our of blue! It happens often. Sometimes I dream of people asking me for help, fo example, and yes, the next day they call me saying that they were thinking of asking me of that exact thing. Interesting. Sometimes I know but I don't know how. Sometimes some people whom I know, trying to find me, and I start dialing their phone number while at the same exact second they are dialing mine and we laugh because it is unusual. Hm..

[Robert]

Hi Svetlana - Usually I don't regard eclipses as especially favorable, but this one has so many good aspects that I must surmise it will yield beneficial endings. Venus is a "Morning Star" when it rises just before the Sun; it is an "Evening Star" when it sets just after the Sun (like now). Technically, it's not a "star" but a planet, though the ancients, who gave us those terms, didn't make such distinctions. And we do know of ancient Zodiacs that clearly indicate Venus was not in our Solar System until relatively recently. We are told by the Wisdom Tradition that Venus is the vehicle by which the Elders from the Hall of Blue Lights decided to come to this solar system to help our planet, which apparently is somewhat of a juvenile delinquent relative to where it should be in the pantheon of planetary life/consciousness. That's why this time in history is so important; we're ALL waking up and making choices which will affect our individual and collective evolution for thousands of years to come. Or so we have been told by the ancient texts we have access to.

Hi giverny - We will see more extreme weather in the near future due to all kinds of things mirrored in the dance of the planets. It is said that weather may be predicted by examining the seasonal ingress charts for various locations, then seeing how the various lunations accord or discord with the ingress charts. At least, that's what we've inherited from the ancients. Our technologically thoughtless world has sewn the wind, and we'll all most assuredly reap the whirlwind in years to come. Of course, there have been other times in distant past where there were Earth upheavals, coinciding with a major shift in power and focus among us humans. In the near future, due to forces we've unleashed that we can no longer control, we're entering another period of relatively fast change in weather patterns and geography. That's why I encourage everyone who comes to this site to think in the future, and by making adjustments in where we are, where we intend to be, and who we intend to be with, we can surf this giant wave of change without getting slammed to the ocean floor. And thanks for your blessings.

Hi Aditya - For the benefit of many who read this site, the sign positions you've given are Sidereal positions rather than the standard "Tropical" positions usually done in Western Astrology. In Western astrology, you have Jupiter in early Pisces, conjunct Moon and Mercury, usually a very auspicious position, making you intuitive, compassionate, and somewhat of a procrastinator. Your Neptune in the western system is in early Sagittarius, and is a generational thing, so we cannot regard this personally, except to say that with Neptune rising, you symbolize that energy to all the others in your life you meet. Your strengths are to be found in your Venus trine Mars, Mars trine Pluto, and the wide but very important grand trine between your early Pisces planets and natal Saturn and Uranus. The eclipse will primarily affect your 7th house of relationships, and bring an old limitation or duty to an end while opening up a new perspective on old wisdom. Age 33 turns you inward, so find compassion and understanding as you face the future. And of course, namaskarams to you as well. Aum.

Hi Larissa - Yes, during this time of Pisces, especially with the NN in Pisces, we've all be given opportunities to cultivate intuition, distance "knowing," and a sense of the vastness of our reality. It doesn't surprise me that some are seeing (or feeling) their intuition sharpen and validate their inner knowing. Truly, all distinctions in space and time are in the eye of the perceiver, and it is possible to know things without it filtering through the rational mind, especially in this time of The Grand Irrationality and heightened intuitive potentials. You may be able to cultivate your gift into something far greater than you've imagined up to now. See how to make it serve Dharma, Wisdom, and the Community, and you'll find your place in this time of transition. Glad your time walking between worlds has opened you to a "higher power."

[Gabrielle]

Hi Robert,
Thanks for your amazing site!!

The upcoming eclipse will be on my birthday. I'm a Pisces Sun (28* 32), Pisces descendant-Pisces rules my 7th house, Virgo rising and I have been hit HARD by the eclipses since last year-LOTS of changes and relationships (of all kinds, even contractional) ups and downs. Pluto is also my final dispositor and as you know makes aspects to several of the eclipses, including this one. There were many other transits and unfavorables in my solar return chart last year that caused some volatility as well, however I've got to say the eclipses were the major disruptors. I've been wondering about "narrow destiny" for a while now and though I think it is something that has yet to be fully realized by me I am starting to understand how this phenomena has played out in my career and romantic relationships. Everything has truly worked out for the best, albeit it was crazyvolatile and sometimes painful, and now I'm on the end of a goldmine of a new life and new me. There have been LOTS of synchronicities.

Its like I’ve been spelunking and thinking I am in this grand place, a place I can do so much, but each time have been pushed wondering where I’m going through some narrow crack into another big room and I think I finally see the bright sunlight and a beautiful clearing through this last narrow crack. That’s how it feels to me-as if I've been lead around, pulled by a force I can't see and to a destination I don't know of. The narrow destiny doesn’t look so narrow when one’s in it, only when one’s out and looking back.

This eclipse looks very promising. I was wondering if you had any thoughts about the solar eclipse being on my birthday and conjuncting my sun and Ceres and opposing my ascendant and all the other stuff you have listed will be gong on. How long do you think I will be affected by this event? Also my solar return chart shows Venus and Part of Fortune conj. my Asc. in Taurus and my MC is conjunct me and my partner's composite sun to the second! I have linked both my natal chart and solar return below. Any words at all will be helpful. Thanks again for your awesome site!

http://people.tribe.net/98304509-3662-4a50-9c1e-b9d557df4e50/photos/40f134ee-8108-4233-8148-f6791fd0e006

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[Robert]

Hi Gabrielle - You're most welcome. I'm not sure how Pluto can be your final dispositor, since even if it's in Scorpio you still have Mars in the mix, at least in worldly affairs. I'm sure an old light will be shut down, and a greater light come forth as a result of this eclipse. Actually, these Virgo-Pisces eclipses shold be good for your Pluto and your Neptune, offering long term spiritual productivity and understanding. And yes, while eclipses do take things away, they also make room for better things in the future. We all go through time, space, and experiential tunnels to come out of the darkness into the light. I think it's a universal human metaphor, from cradle to grave.

I'll be speaking to how the eclipse will affect different signs in the near future, since it's impossible for me to answer every request that comes in here. We're all affected for the number of years the eclipse is long in minutes, months for the minutes of a lunar eclipse. Whatever house the eclipse falls in affects that house, in your case how you relate to others, and how they relate to you.

[Gabrielle]

Thanks Robert! Yes, Mars is as well, though some have different opinions on which planet, if not both, is the ruler of Scorpio.

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I've really seen this.

[Gabrielle]

Oops! The last sentence was in reply to this statement by you:

Actually, these Virgo-Pisces eclipses shold be good for your Pluto and your Neptune, offering long term spiritual productivity and understanding.

[Robert]

Hi Gabrielle - I outlined some of my approach to rulerships in this article. If they worked for thousands of years, then they still work. It's just the visibles show the world of the visible, while the invisible outer Triad work in the very powerful "invisible" world of Spirit.

My old friend the venerable Carl Payne Tobey was the first to demonstrate mathematically how Pluto rules Aries, and the traits of the two seem to perfectly reflect each other, such as Pluto ruling seeds, which sprout in Aries, and purification, aka "spring cleaning," and a host of other comparisons. I took that a step further, and saw another outer symmetry that mirrors the inner symmetry. That's why I belive that Uranus rules both Capricorn and Aquarius, Neptune rules both Sagittarius and Pisces, and Pluto rules both Aries and Scorpio. Which inner or outer rulership applies is all a matter of which level of Light we're dealing with, and whether it's a result of self-generated karmas, or Dharmic Karma. We steer the inners, but we obey the outers.

[Stevo]

Hello again Robert!!! It's Stevo. It's been awhile since I've posted but I've been keeping up. With my Scorpio Sun in the Grand Irrationality, it's become quite necessary to "stay behind" a bit on your articles. They are extremely accurate on my end. So, in reference to your reply to a recent reader:

"We steer the inners, but we obey the outers."

I am being told and guided in a very transpersonal way to give up SATURN. !!! This is stuff that has come up during meditation and dreams. And a lot of spiritual events going back to my Mars return in Sept. and likely that eclipse. It's been difficult to understand. And all I can say about it now is that it's been stronger since the recent lunar eclipse. There's something about this that is saddening because I believe the depth of this goes beyond giving up limitations, fear, and the usual things that are associated with Saturn.

This Solar eclipse will occur on my Pisces Chiron which opposes my late Virgo planets. As it turns out, my father was a Pisces (also a Saturn in Pisces) who died when I was 14. There's no doubt that this is my Chiron wound. But I've often thought of how this may have a Saturn-discipline type effect to it. Otherwise, my Saturn in Aries should not be effected by this eclipse.

So,could this be some sort of preparation for Saturn in Virgo and to emphasize Uranus in Pisces? Or, Pluto in Capricorn-and to stand clear of Saturn's coming transformation? I don't get it. But it seems I need to obey.

10/29/68 10:44pm ET

....Stevo

[DianatheHuntress]

Another major eclipse, and wondering if this one might actually signal some future relief, Robert?
I've had a very long and drawn out siege in these recent years and am really REALLY tired of being "Plutoed"... after perusing my progressed chart, I discovered that I have Sun/Moon EXACTLY conj. @ 28' Sag, and transiting Pluto conjunct these.... my natal Pluto is conj. transiting Saturn @ 20' Leo, with natal Mars (conj. Regulus) between these and my 29' Leo ascendant. The transiting Grand Fire Trine is all over this......

With the Solar eclipse in the seventh @ 29' Pisces.....

wow.

Can you shed some light on this, and do you think it's a good time to make a major geographical change, or should I ground myself first?

Thank you, Robert, for your kind insight.....

With love, Diana } -----

(10/23/49 - 29' Leo^)

[thehotcloset]

Just want to tell you you're great. Thank you.

[Robert]

Hi Stevo - Welcome back. Maybe you're being told to give up an "old" Saturn, and take up a new Saturn. We all face a whole new world, radically different from any we've known up to now, some of which is existentially sad indeed. And "parting is such sweet sorrow," so it doesn't surprise me that sadness is a part of endings. Saturn just keeps the time, showing the "forced stops" in whatever we're doing. It's the Pisces forces presently dominant that are giving us all a somewhat "floaty" experience, with the aforementioned existential sorrow a prime keyword for Pisces. I would think the eclipse on your Chiron would open you to healing. My father is also a Pisces, and the Solar Eclipse will be exactly on his Sun. Sorry your dad died so young. That's a wound all right. And yes, this lunar eclipse and last Autumn's lunar and solar eclipses do portend things that will crystalize when Saturn slips into Virgo and transits those points. Just bless the passages, and move into the dreamspace of images affecting the future.

Hi Diana - As I've stated, I believe these eclipses should work for good, even if they will take things away. Looks like your progressed Light and Feelings are experiencing major seed revelations. It also indicates that the past few years you've been scanning, month by month, your entire life, due to the prog Moon crossing the span of your prog Sun since birth. Yes, Saturn is restructuring our entire generation's Pluto, and the Grand Fire Trine is burning up old material to brighten our future landscape in a time of darkness. Whether you should go or stay is affected by many aspects, too much to discuss in a comment stream. That said, many are planning major geographic moves at this time, so you're in synch with the general tide. By all means, get as grounded as you can in this time of no Earth, get a clear vision that inspires you, and wait for the right time to commence the journey.

Hi thehotcloset - Thanks. Glad to know I'm on target.

[Stevo]

Thanks Robert! Very insightful. My Chiron wound is deeply rooted in the untimely death of my father and how it left me without financial support. So, transits to both my 2nd and 8th houses are very sensitive. Saturn has certainly made a wreck of things in my 2nd. And Neptune has just arrived in my 8th. I can only hope for the best.

In a previous post, you and I had a brief thread on my Saturn and Aries. And you were kind enough to give your personal view of Aries. I believe this marked the beginning of a quest for me to seek new authority and new knowledge. Well........the search is over. After the Mars/Pluto conjunction, Mars came into Capricorn like a bat out of hell. This will be a transit I will never forget. Mars saying, "PAY ATTENTION TO ME, I AM YOUR TEACHER". After wrestling with this for several days, I was enlightened. So, if this is what it's all about. Yes, it's a whole new thing.....

Thanks again Robert, you're the best!

[DianatheHuntress]

Yes, Robert you are one cooooool cat!!! Thanks for reminding me to use the gravity of dear old Saturn wisely... it has been Heavy Jelly. I had to go and read "Howl" again.....

You are so right on about the Lights in both natal and progressed charts... but it's not just this incarnation, and if I don't "implode" soon, I will have probably burned all the karma of centuries off, alchemy complete... hey, we're talkin' OLLLLDDDD Souls here....

Wanna trade Mercuries....? With Neptune conj. So. Node/ Mercury in Libra... it's sink or swim... I like yours better.....

Speaking of Libran energy...the Sabian Symbols have really been a beautiful and inspiring focus.... the symbol for 29' Pisces is " prismatic rainbow light splintering in all directions", and I've found it helpful to see the opposite degree image also, as the synthesis.

Stay loose, Robert, and if you might happen to run into The Dalai..... give him a big kiss for me.....

With love, Yours Truly :} ---

[L. Duffy]

The solar eclipse on March 18 occurs at the same exact degree as the composite sun in the chart of my husband and mine. Also, during this solar eclipse transiting Uranus will be exactly conjunct our composite Venus. Composite Sun and Venus are both in the first house.

Any interpretations on what to expect?

[Robert]

Hi Stevo - I live with natal Saturn in the 2nd, so I can empathize! Glad Mars helped you break through however you did. If he's your timekeeper, then just wait till the Grand Fire Trine in June. Until then, take care in late April, since it's in a Grand Mutable Cross, and early May, when it squares Pluto. Mars may be a great teacher in some ways, but it is still Mars!

Hi Dianathehuntress - Next time I hang with HHDL, I'll high five him for you! ;-) Well, you've been checking in with all the Solar material you've ever known, getting ready to do a new thing, a new service, at this Progressed New Moon. At least your Mercury is nuanced, balanced, and hyperintuitive. Mine is always ready to race, and I start way more than I can finish. 29 Pisces can show us the whole and the parts if we find the right point of view. We'll be able to see what is the One Light, as well as the differentiated spectrum, however those metaphors apply. And my Saturn's the opposite degree, which should prove interesting in my life. It seems as though I'll be "weaving a new song."

Hi L. Duffy - It would seem that the Light you two are together is about to shift manifestation, and of course it will affect your composite house with Leo on the cusp. With the limited info you gave me, I can only opine that how you express your affections will revolutionize and that an old way of defining the self image of the marriage will end, and you will both see it from the angle of the light passing through a prism breaking into a spectrum. Narrow the focus to enlarge the vision.

[Alix]

Hi Robert, as you explained: "The South Node of the eclipse is on the degree of "a volcanic explosion," showing there will be many forceful releases of things that have been pent-up before now in both our inner lives and the outer world of affairs".
What happens to a person who has the ascendant at 14 or 15 degrees of Virgo, which in this case will be conjunct the South Node? Would that person be in physical danger?

[Robert]

Hi Alix - Probably no more than the millions with mid-Mutable signs important (or late Mutable, for that matter!) It would be more likely that there would be physical symptoms of dramatic energy releases. Could be a "spring cleaning" of the body, or just a refusal to worry about certain things any more. And of course it could precipitate healing crises, but not fatal unless other dramatic factors are also present in great numbers affecting the Hyleg, the Rulers of the Asc and several other houses, and so forth. However, since we live in times when things can become unexpectedly extreme, we all should be alert to our surroundings and make adjustments ahead of time if possible so that we avert any negative potential of living in desperate times with desperate people. Of course, that's true for all of us.

[Alix]

Hi Robert, Thanks for the insight. I've been quite obsessed with the lunar nodes lately and have been devouring every article and book I can find about it. I then started this research going over my life's cycles as well as other people's I've got the charts and was astonished with what I've seen, which to me finally explained why every situation I got into that I didn't want to at first always lasted about 9 years. Always a 9 years period roughly, stuck in a karmic situation that I couldn't leave no matter how hard I tried. I've been reading about the nodal opposition and this is by far what scares me the most to the point of getting paranoid, I'd say, like this one for instance: "The North Node conjunct North Node often reflects forming relationships and fortunate connections, while the South Node conjunct the North Node indicates broken relationships and unfortunate connections. The latter combination frequently times mishaps, accidents, and unusual circumstances". Would you agree with that? I remember the last nodal opposition I had which happened in May 1989, it didn't bring any accidents but when the south node first conjuncted my Pluto at 5th of Virgo in February, I already realised I was in a very difficult karmic relationship, which I could not escape so easily although it was a very bad one, it took me several years to figure out who that person was in another life and what had happened. I am particularly apprehensive that Saturn will conjunct my north node at 0 of Virgo in the beginning of September until May 2008 and then it will be conjunct with the transiting south node when they will both conjunct my Pluto at 5th of Virgo. Not only that but my Quiron is exactly conjunct my south node, so the nodal axis will be conjuncting opposite both my Pluto and Quiron. All of that when Pluto is conjunct my Moon until the end of the year. Doesn't that sound like extremely heavy karmic material? I mean, Saturn conjunct Pluto is already heavy enough, what about having that combined with a nodal opposition? I would be grateful if you could help me shed some light.
I was born in Sao Paulo-Brazil on May 31st 1961 at 8:55am.
P.S: My grandmother (my role model) passed to the other side 10 days ago, it all happened very quickly and she didn't suffer much, I was so glad that Pluto was really generous to her in this respect :)

[Robert]

Hi Alix - The Nodes do coincide with 9 year periods of growth followed by 9 year periods of release of what we learned. One is intake, one is outflow. However, the ancients told us they are not in effect unless the Moon is making an aspect. This was absolute. My interpretation of this is that we are either in a learning or demonstrating pattern re: whatever, and it's triggered by the transiting or prog Moon. You're right that they show larger periods of "karmic situations," but then we're right where we need to be anyway, if that's our karma. We then learn how to transmute the lessons into understanding so we don't go through them again, and can assist others in that pattern in the future.

I don't know that I've been in a pattern for 9 years of "broken relationships and unfortunate connections" since my NN is 19 Pisces and SN 19 Virgo. I mean, we ALL have those things throughout our lives. Some of mine started good, ended bad, and others vise versa. As for "mishaps, accidents, and unusual circumstances," I had plenty more of them in the previous 9 years which was under the beams of the previous NN conjunct my NN. Definitely more personal struggle with "tragedy" between Summer 1988-1997 than from Summer 1997 through now, though of course I've had trials and troubles and breakthroughs and triumphs the whole 18 years. In your example, your realization re: relationship could as easily had to do with Pluto square your Pluto and secondary triggers. Saturn crystalizes all it touches. It will show you a new, matured, more effective NN direction as a result of its transit, and you should go back to the article I wrote about Saturn on everyone's Pluto between 2003-2020. It's maturing your seed power, your ability to transform obsolete forms into more effective expressions for your time and community. Saturn conj Pluto conj NN would seem to me to be a great new adventure in being pulled to your higher discipleship. Chiron on your SN can heal your SN. And Pluto conj the Moon ENDS a tough period, rather than begins it, if everyone with Moon in Sag that I know are any benchmark of how it's operating.

My blessings and prayers go out to your grandmother to help her Eternal Consciousness through the Bardo. She is no doubt blessed to have you as a loving granddaughter. Send her a beam of light and love to help guide her to the Heavenworld, or Devachan, in the perfect way and time, guided by the Angels in charge of that "department of labor."

[Alix]

Hello again Robert and thank you once more, is the nodal opposition a period of release of what we've learned during the 9 years period generated by the NN conjunct NN one, could this be a time of harvesting or rather a time to exercise what we've learned? But it is definitely true that the past 9 years have been more challenging for me in terms of apprenticeship than the previous 9 years period. I really think I've been killing a lion everyday since September 1998 when I started to have my authority and autonomy constantly questioned and scrutinised, but those were also times when I felt more independent. I'll re-read the Saturn on everyone's Pluto between 2003-2020 again.

[Robert]

Hi Alix - The Nodal opposition is a point where we begin to release what we've built, and build for a future point of release. We learn from our line of least resistance, and release what we've learned from our time of development. In any case, no fear, just reorienting.

[Jennifer]

Hi Robert! I can see we are all keeping you extremely busy these days. Thank you so much though. I am not sure what to atribute this to, but over the past month, I feel like II have been having inner explosions out of the blue which hit on a scenario from the past that I have usually forgotten (thought I did), and seems to get down to the bottom of things in the end. I think the explosions release them like a purge emotionally. I have Chiron at 1 degree Capricorn 3rd house conjunct our friend Pluto so I thought it might be that but I see everyone referring to the eclipses. What do you think? It is exhausting and draining to go through this. Any thoughts on how to deal with this. 5/24/51 3:30pm