by Robert Wilkinson
I realize we live in an era of truncated attention spans, so I figured it would be useful to take a new look at recent eclipses and what they may bring to all of us over the next few months and years. Important endings and new beginnings will manifest, and so another look is in order.
As you know, Lunar Eclipses have an affect over several months, whereas Solar Eclipses show effects over several years. We're now moving through the heart of the Aquarius Lunar Eclipse period, so let go of ego props and whatever cannot be sustained. The long wave influence of the Jan 2009 Aquarius Solar Eclipse cannot be overestimated, since it will bring new goals, visions, understandings, projects, and relationships to all of us wherever Aquarius falls in our charts.
So for your renewed perusal, here's a one stop shop for the articles about recent Eclipses still in effect:
The Solar Eclipse of January 25-26, 2009 in Aquarius.
From a little further back:
The Solar Eclipse of August 1, 2008 - Long Range Transfiguration, Tears of Joy.
The Solar and Lunar Eclipse - Is Any Eclipse Destined to Have Bad Effects?
What Is A Solar Eclipse, and What Does It Forecast?
The Solar Eclipse of February 6-7, 2008 in Aquarius.
© Copyright 2009 Robert Wilkinson
I attended your talk on 2009 in Ojai. I want to apply a statement you made to the group to my own astrological chart: "Claim your power in whatever sector Jupiter is in." Do you mean house, or quadrant, or something else? Do I look at my natal chart, or do I look at where the planets are today for my location? If I do in fact look at a daily chart for today, do I find my rising sign and assume that is the first house, and then number the houses accordingly? Do you recommend a specific web site for the daily chart, whose calculations you find are reliable? I want to begin to take ongoing responsibility for my own data. Many thanks.
Posted by: Mary Anne Burns | February 21, 2009 at 05:35 PM
Hi Robert,
Do you have an article that explains why the influence of solar eclipses last years and why lunar eclipses only have an influence of a few months?
Thank you,
Matt
Posted by: Matt | February 23, 2009 at 04:25 PM
Hi Mary Ann - Glad you made it to the talk. Wherever Jupiter is, by natal house, quadrant, and aspects to your natal and progressed planets, shows where your protection and opportunity will arise. I don't usually advise looking at charts for the moment and superimposing them on the natal, since the Asc and house positions change too frequently for it to be of any great import UNLESS something specific occurs at a given moment. Every day will produce an Ascendant that coincides with yours. There are several accurate sites where you can get your birth info. As for daily calculations, there are fewer. Why not just get an ephemeris or inexpensive software program, which usually can be found for under $100, and sometimes a lot less? Just remember that we often get what we pay for. Besides my computer program, I often refer to the American Ephemeris for the 21st Century to get accurate transit degrees.
Hi Matt - I explain it several times in the Eclipse articles listed. The lengths of eclipse influence have been passed down to us from antiquity. I use the same rule of measurement as the ancients. How they came to it is lost in the mists of time, though I suspect the students of Thoth-Hermes and later, the Babylonians, had something to do with the original formulation perhaps as long as tens of thousands of years ago if we are to believe the ancient Chronicles.
Posted by: Robert | February 24, 2009 at 11:58 AM