The Hybrid Solar Eclipse at 12 Scorpio Nov 3, 2013 Pt. 1 - Who Does It Affect and for How Long?

by Robert Wilkinson

This Solar Eclipse will have a huge impact on everyone for 3+ years. All eclipses shut something down, taking away elements of our lives no longer true for us. Over the next 40 months many will go through endings while finding a higher, deeper, more formal way of relating to and communicating with others.

Scorpio is the sign of elimination, purification, and regeneration of power. It is how Taurus, the sign of values, resources, and capturing concrete forms of things, externalizes. So parts of our magnetism and how we attract things, as well as our ability to hold on to things and people will end, with the void sure to attract new forms of these.

Because this Eclipse lasts 3 hours and 22 minutes from start to finish, and it's of a relatively high magnitude, it will have a major impact on everyone for about 3 years 4+ months. As with the themes of the November 2012 and May 2013 Solar Eclipses, this one will help us end old mental leftovers, old truths, old perceptions and interpretations, and old ideas about our future, with the void sure to attract new forms of Scorpio energies.

Look to the house where this Lunation falls to see what area of your life will be impacted, just as the houses where past Solar Eclipses fell have already been shutting down obsolete patterns since then. This one will take something away, leaving a void that will attract something appropriate to who you are becoming.

This Hybrid Solar Eclipse happens on November 3, 2013, at 4:50 am PST, 7:50 am EST, and 12:50 pm Greenwich (November 4 in New Zealand). This stabilizing, intense, structuring, and deepening Solar Eclipse finds 23 Libra rising in Santa Monica, 17 Libra in Vancouver, 21 Scorpio in Toronto, 24 Scorpio in Montreal, and 25 Scorpio in Washington DC. That means the span of Ascendants across North America is between mid-Libra and late Scorpio.

Continuing eastward, we find rising signs of 21 Capricorn in Rio, 27 Capricorn in Lisbon, 25 Capricorn in London, 13 Aquarius in Berlin, 10 Pisces in Sofia, 25 Pisces in Johannesburg, and 10 Aries in Moscow. That means the span of Ascendants across the Atlantic into Europe and Africa is between late Capricorn and early Aries.

Moving into Asia and Oceana, we find Ascendants at 25 Taurus in Abbottabad, 26 Taurus in New Delhi, 18 Taurus in Trivandrum, 17 Gemini in Phnom Penh, 12 Gemini in Jakarta, 30 Gemini in Hong Kong, 29 Cancer in Tokyo, 9 Gemini in Perth, 1 Cancer in Melbourne, 15 Cancer in Brisbane, 30 Cancer in Wellington (Nov 4), and 20 Virgo rising on Maui (Nov 3).

So you can construct a rough chart for where you are in the world, I’ll give you the rounded up degree for each planet. Use the Ascendants given above to get a rough sense of what’s on the eastern horizon where you are, and using an Equal House system, you can see what’s going on in your part of the world for the next 4 weeks.

In this New Moon Solar Eclipse at 12 Scorpio, Mercury is 8 Scorpio retrograde, Venus is 29 Sagittarius, Mars is 12 Virgo, Jupiter is 21 Cancer, Saturn is 14 Scorpio, Uranus is 10 Aries retrograde, Neptune is 3 Pisces retrograde, Pluto is 10 Capricorn, TransPluto is 1 Virgo, Chiron is 10 Pisces retrograde, and the NN is 8 Scorpio.

When a Lunation is on one of the angles of a chart, it is said to be particularly powerful. Among the cities covered in this column, this month the Lunation is culminating in Rio to Berlin, and setting in Pakistan and India. The Eclipse is on the nadir in east Oz and NeZ, and rising in North America.

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Sun and Earth. The Moon blocks the light from the Sun and casts a shadow on Earth. In eclipse lore, where the Eclipse is visible will be where the greatest effects can be expected, lasting the number of years that the eclipse is long in hours.

The 2009 Solar Eclipse at 30 Cancer was one of the longest of the 21st century, so its effects have been powerful through 2012 into 2013. The Solar Eclipses of 2010 will also be powerful for a number of years. There's more in the archives, so please take a new look.

As I've mentioned in previous articles, we had 4 Solar Eclipses in 2011, which is a very rare occurrence. The January 2011 Eclipse was visible in Europe and the major cities of the Middle East. Perhaps that Eclipse had some correlations with the "Arab Spring" revolutions spreading throughout that region.

The Solar Eclipse of January 2011 lasted 4 hours and 20 minutes, which also makes it a player in the events of 2012-2013-2014, since it'll be active for 4 years and 4 months. As noted, the June 2011 Gemini Eclipse was very long, bright, and powerful, while the July 2011 Cancer Eclipse was short and weak, and its influence only lasted through the end of 2012.

The November 2011 Sagittarius Eclipse was very bright, and will be in effect for almost 4 years. So besides the usual transits and Lunations, planetary stations and conjunctions to the outer transformational planets, we also have Eclipses as long wave influences still be in play years after the event!

The June 2011 Eclipse was visible in Northern Canada, Iceland, Greenland, and Norway. The July 2011 Eclipse was visible only in a small area between Antarctica and South Africa, so was seen by no one. The November 2011 Eclipse was visible in South Africa, Antarctica, and New Zealand.

The May 2012 Eclipse was visible from S. China and Japan through the Northern Pacific and Aleutian Islands down to S. Oregon and N. California, central Nevada, southern Utah, northern Arizona, New Mexico (Albuquerque!), and the Texas Panhandle. The November 2012 Total Solar Eclipse was partial across a large area of the South Pacific (including Australia and New Zealand), southern South America, and part of Antarctica. The only place it was total was on the east coast of Queensland, Australia.

The May 2013 Annular Solar Eclipse at 20 Taurus will be in effect for 3 years and 9 months. That one was visible in Australia, Indonesia, Oceania and much of the central the Pacific Ocean.

From the NASA Solar Eclipse site (where you can find more than you could ever want to know about Solar Eclipses!)

The final event of 2013 is the most interesting eclipse of the year. It is one of the rare hybrid or annular/total eclipses in which some sections of the path are annular while other parts are total. The duality comes about when the vertex of the Moon's umbral shadow pierces Earth's surface at some locations, but falls short of the planet along other sections of the path. The unusual geometry is due to the curvature of Earth's surface that brings some geographic locations into the umbra while other positions are more distant and enter the antumbral rather than umbral shadow.

In most cases, the central path begins annular, changes to total for the middle portion of the track, and reverts back to annular towards the end of the path. However, November 3 eclipse is even more unique because the central path to begins annular and ends total. Because hybrid eclipses occur near the vertex of the Moon's umbral/antumbral shadows, the central path is typically quite narrow.

The hybrid eclipse of 2013 is visible from within a thin corridor, which traverses the North Atlantic and equatorial Africa. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes eastern North America, northern South America, southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The path of the Moon's shadow begins in the North Atlantic approximately 1000 km due east of Jacksonville, FL. From the central line, a 4 second annular eclipse is visible at sunrise (11:05 UT). As the shadow races forward, the narrow 4 km wide path rapidly shrinks to zero and the eclipse changes from annular to total. This all transpires within the first 15 seconds of the shadow's trajectory. For the remainder of the track, the eclipse remains total.

Continuing on a southeast course, the vertex of the umbral shadow passes progressively deeper into Earth as the planet's curvature brings the path along the surface closer to the Moon…. The greatest eclipse occurs in the Atlantic at 12:47:36 UT, approximately 330 kilometres southwest of Liberia. At this instant, the axis of the Moon's shadow passes closest to Earth's centre. The maximum duration of totality is 1 minute 39 seconds, the Sun's altitude is 71°, and the path width is 57 kilometres.

Slowly curving to the east, the track just misses Sao Tome and Principe and intercepts the coast of Gabon north of Port-Gentil in the Wonga Wongue Reserve (13:51 UT) where the central line duration is 1 minute 7 seconds and the Sun's altitude is 46°. The Moon's shadow crosses Gabon in 9 minutes and sweeps over the Congo in 7 more. Entering the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the path width is 36 kilometres and the duration is 48 seconds.

The track begins curving to the northeast as it narrows and the duration of totality decreases. By the time the umbra reaches the western border of Uganda, totality drops to 23 seconds with the Sun at 18° (14:22 UT). Sweeping over northern Kenya, the path crosses Lake Turkana where the central line duration is 14 seconds at 14:25 UT.

In its final 2 1/2 minutes, the lunar shadow races across southern Ethiopia before leaving Earth's surface in Somalia where a 1 second total eclipse occurs at sunset.

This is the 23rd eclipse of Saros 143. The series began on 1617 Mar 07 with a string of 10 partial eclipses. The first of 12 total eclipses occurred on 1797 Jun 24. The 2013 event is the first of 4 hybrids of the series before transitioning to pure annular eclipses beginning 2085 Dec 16. The series ends with a set of 20 partial eclipses the last of which occurs on 2897 Apr 23.

In all, Saros 143 produces 72 eclipses in the sequence of 10 partial, 12 total, 4 hybrid, 26 annular, and 20 partial eclipses.

Besides the factor of where the shadow falls, in Astrology Eclipses are said to be most powerful when they conjunct the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, or Midheaven of a birth chart. When this happens it always brings endings related to the planets and sectors involved, but these can be of great benefit in clearing away old life factors that have no place in our future. As it was once sung, "something's lost and something's gained in living every day..."

All Solar Eclipses are New Moons. When a Lunation is on one of the angles of a chart, it is said to be particularly powerful. As I noted earlier, it will be rising in North America, and on or near the Midheaven between Rio and Berlin. It will set in Pakistan and India, and be on the nadir in Australia and New Zealand. These places will all see developments related to this Eclipse over the next 3+ years.

This is a powerful Eclipse due to its duration and magnitude that will trigger effects from other recent Eclipses due to several factors. In tomorrow’s article on the Inferior Conjunction, I offer many different periods when some planet in Scorpio going stationary retrograde or direct have direct influences on the Conjunction. You may also assume those Scorpio “hot spots” also have some relationship to this Eclipse, as well as the Scorpio Solar Eclipse of November 2012 and the Taurus Solar Eclipse of May 2013. Enjoy finding the correlations between past, present, and future!

Of course, besides these past echoes and the usual general effects, the Eclipse will also bring losses and endings where it falls in our individual birth charts. In an example of how a loss can work to great benefit, if it conjuncts the Saturn in a birth chart, it can indicate the ending of old, lesser responsibilities, limitations, or fears, and open the being to a greater sense of purpose. If it conjuncts Jupiter, then it could show the ending of an old philosophy or belief system and open the gates to something far greater.

Given a Solar Eclipse is a New Moon, then like all Lunations that work their influence over time, it's triggered by subsequent transits to those points. Thus we can assume this Eclipse will set developments into motion related to all of 2013, since Saturn went retrograde on that exact degree early this year.

We also should get major signs and signals related to this Eclipse when Mercury moves across the degree in direct motion on Nov 21-22. There will also be some dramatic initiatives activating these Eclipse effects when Mars transits this degree during the third week of August 2014. That’s when the real heavy lifting related to this Eclipse will be front and center. And of course, each time the Moon transits 12 Scorpio we should catch forms of what this Eclipse is taking away and/or regenerating.

Those transits of the Moon, Mercury, and Mars hold the keys to effective abilities to respond to what’s coming for everyone in 2014 and beyond. This Eclipse and these transits are opportunities to understand magnetism better, whether our own, others, or situations. This can give us insights into why we had to give something or someone up, or why we could not hold on to something or someone, and why cleaning out our inner and outer life from time to time creates space that will be filled with new things, people, ideas, feelings, and actions.

In the next part of the series, we'll explore how this Eclipse will manifest and its astrological components, including which signs will be most affected over the next 3 + years.

For more on this one: Astrology in November 2013 - On The Threshold of A Hybrid Solar Eclipse at 12 Scorpio

© Copyright 2013 Robert Wilkinson

ps - I suppose I should wish you all a Happy Diwali, "the festival of lights" in India. This is an important holiday dedicated to Lakshmi (if you don't know who this manifestation of Divine Mother is, look her up!!) Interesting that this year the Jewish "Festival of Lights" closely corresponds with the Indian "Festival of Lights!"

From Wiki: "For Hindus, Diwali is one of the most important festivals of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. For Jains, Diwali marks the attainment of moksha or nirvana by Mahavira in 527 BC. Arya Samajists, celebrate this day as Death Anniversary of Swami Dayanand Saraswati. They also celebrate this day as Shardiya Nav-Shasyeshti."

So it seems hundreds of millions are celebrating this time as one of victory of good over evil, when we can set the intention for all good things to come our way via Divine Mother. By all means, go for it!!

Comments

[Micheline]

This one am really feeling is going to be a big one for me and tres important!!! It conjuncts almost exactly my IC, and my natal venus is in Scorpio at 14 d! I also have the progressed moon In Scorpio at 11 d!!! This SE also has Mars in Virgo at 11 d and thats really close to my natal Mars!!! I do have one question for you Robert! Should I look at my relocated chart as well?

[Robert]

Hi Micheline - It should be a good one, all things considered. And since you mentioned it, I NEVER do "relocation" charts since they assume we can be born other than where we were. I use geodetic equivalents and charts for nations, states, and cities, but do not accept the premise of astrocartography, having studied it for decades. When someone demonstrates how its assumptions work without another astrological factor also explaining what's happening then I will dialog.

[Shekinah]

Happy Diwali, all. Thanks, Robert for including mention of this day celebrating the ever-victorious Light. I have noticed many interesting parallels between Hindu holidays and Jewish ones, and loved that you made the link too. Ageless wisdom knows no boundaries.

This eclipse is conjunct my natal uranus in the 1st. A closing down of an old self-expression and an ushering in of a new one, I suppose. Looking forward to its unfolding. I've noticed how much the emphasis in Scorpio is bringing up unaddressed grief.

May the Light shine forth purely in all our hearts!

[debbie]

Thank you Robert, this resonates very well, even to the point of revealing to myself a couple of good ways I may use my coming Saturn in first house opposing my natal Venus in 7th at 15 Scorpio/Taurus, especially as I found the courage to end an abusive marriage when he conjuncted Venus and had to work hard on myself to uphold my values and have faith in my healing understandings to help myself and my children through life threatening situations, often as a result of others not honouring their own responsibiities or even deliberately trying to destroy me using my love and gratitude for the blesssing of my children and distinguishing, ethically without attacking or blaming, simply facing the fears within me that were fueling the situations when the square occured. I have to be honest from those past experiences even though I have done my best to work with Lord Saturn's and Divine Mother's constant bombarding my chart, I was honest with myself that I had an underlying fear of this coming opposition and have been searching and re-searchng (thanks to merc rx)to find hope to support my faith especially with these other challenges affecting us all, and the light bulb has gone on, not once but 3xs with what you have written here, I also sense "the power" flowing much more freely through your own words in your current writings, which I am acknowledging.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Debbie xxx

[debbie]

PS love Joni Mitchell, off to listen to "I really dont know love at all", even if it does always trigger tears :)

[Robert]

Hi Shekinah - Ultimately, we all should be celebrating our connection with the Divine every day but who's counting? Out with the old Uranus, in with the new!!

Hi debbie - You're most welcome. Bet you like this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8jGFu7ys64

[zm]

Robert, most delighted to hear that per certain Eclipse energies, Wise Ones are, by definition, quick to learn from mistaken experiments and that, by definition, Wise learnings translate immediately and directly into the shutting down of certain unwanted Scorpionic influences (e.g., energetic drains and hangers-on). As you say, indeed, this is the Season wherein communities hold members accountable for growing up instead of skulking around and behaving wistfully and impatiently. To get real instead of continuing to act as if. To wit, if the proverbial 8-Ball has already rendered an unmitigated NO for an answer, the most fixed and fixated among us are just spooling some seriously negative Karma for themselves by attempting to change the answer by using subversive means (Some things never change). Am loathe to use the word 'should', but some, by Now, should know better. May this date, on all levels, signify the threshold of a once-and-for-all-Time, turn-the-page, New Year. I think this is the happiest I've ever been to hear the words, "shut it down."

[Yeshe]

Thanks Robert. The eclipse hits the cusp of my 12 house, to the degree, and I'm having my Jupiter return. Cleaning out the unconscious in preparation of the good things to come! My dream life has been incredibly active lately - have Neptune at 25 Scorpio.

[zm]

Yeshe, NepSCO@26 here. Imagine a certain cohort w/in a range (arc in either direction) of this SCO Rx may be having an especially active dreamscape. Anyone else? Tho some mornings, zero recall; others, several pgs worth of dream journaling w/illustrations. Not to mention, the veil is rather thin. The impressions/ethereal reverb can seem to linger for days, until it runs (a more or less) natural course. As you mention, Sweepy Sweepy. And so it is. Just read something profound tonight about the threshold of old/new. Most resonant this year. :)

[caliban]

Hi zm, happening in my 12th. So yes, dreams. Sometimes really odd vivid imagery that does not seem to make sense. Like me on harley for one example. Like whadup with that? LOL. I usually don't get too caught up in the actual dream, like erase, and then pay attention to what comes to mind for me. That's where I find the meat.

But the re-occuring feeling when I awoke this week is that two things were coming together. I sorta get that but it's kind of like what Robert wrote in his article on Astrological Aspects-The Septile Series back in 2005: 'Any planet septiling, biseptiling, or triseptiling any other planet has hit a fork in the road of that process, a point where reason and rationality may not serve your ability to choose.' The change seems to be coming from something other than reasoning and rationality. It's in those kind of dreams (which never seem quite right, as that is the nature of dreams) where I get a sense of the change happening on some level.

[Micheline]

Thanks Robert for anwering my Q!!! Actually, your Right. I don't see how relocating my chart is all that important anyway! The Natal Chart, progressed chart and Solar yearly charts are good enough for me!!!

[Jason Powers]

Always great stuff Robert. I ready you nearly every day. Just not posting as much...

Happy Halloween. The 2013 year is nearly out...Take Care.

[Krystie]

wow ok... I just need to get my head around something new to me from this post. Excuse my lack of astrological understanding but does this mean that if I am located in Perth, people with planets or ascendants around 9* Gemini will feel the effects of this eclipse? even though it is happening at 11* Scorpio? and if so, how do you calculate that?

[Animesh Banerji]

Hi Robert, being an Indian and a Hindu, I really admire your knowledge about the Hindu festivals, rituals and overall vedic spirituality. I have been reading your posts for many years now but this time, I felt compelled to comment. The way you mention vedic spiritual terms really strikes a chord somewhere in me. Thank you so much for sharing the light with all. Regards, Animesh Banerji

[Ally]

Wonderful article! I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how to find which house this solar eclipse falls under. Do I look for the house that my moon is in since it's an eclipse or is it the house that my sun falls in because it's a solar eclipse? I'm confused. Thanks for any help.

[Robert Gavrel]

I had Rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse occur on my Birthday November 3. What does if anything does this mean for me?

[Glenda Selonke]

My astro book says 11 degrees Scorpio. It was sextile my natal Jupiter
. I am not. doing well, however

[Robert]

Hi zm - It sounds like you're already hip deep in the energies! This is truly the time to shed magnetic patterns that would generate negative karmas in the future while holding voids so they're filled appropriately. Those with Neptune in late Scorpio will no doubt have "dreams come true" or see how what they used to hold as fashionable may not fit their lives any more.

Hi Yeshe - Yes, this will clean out some old ambitions, old motives, and old ways of viewing "the movie of your life." Jupiter returns can be great for re-setting the dream, vision, and adventure!

Hi caliban - Lots of clearing out, clearing up, and different perspectives on old desires and stuck emotions. You on a Harley! Now that's power! And it may not be rational, but it still symbolizes freedom and a big presence.

Hi Micheline - Well, I believe much is seen in the natal, progressed, and transits. Where to go (to me) is a function of that town/state/country's chart and how these relate to our own. To note, the state with its Sun on my North Node was always difficult for me, while the state with its Sun on my South Node was very good to me and for me.

Hi Jason - Glad you checked in, and glad to see you seem to be doing well. See you 'round the parts.....

Hi Krystie - It means that Perth as a place will experience the Eclipse effects in a Gemini way, with the planetary positions in that chart indicative of how the Eclipse will work out for Perth. Those with anything near 6-12 Gemini will feel it most acutely. While it's happening at 11+ degrees of Scorpio (= 12 Scorpio by Sabian Symbol), that's where the Lunation is, not what's on the Asc wherever it's happening. It could be that if you're in Perth, wherever 9 Gemini falls in your chart will be the specific focus of what is shut down for you as a result of you being in Perth, while wherever 12 Scorpio falls in your chart is the specific focus of what is shut down for you in general.

Hi Animesh Banerji - Thanks for your praise of the site. Namaskarams!

Hi Ally - You look to the house where 12 Scorpio would fall. It has nothing directly to do with your natal Moon or Sun.

Hi Robert Gavrel - I mentioned what a Solar Eclipse led to when it conjuncted my Sun in an article linked within this article: http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2013/10/astrology-in-november-2013-on-the-threshold-of-a-hybrid-solar-eclipse-at-12-scorpio.html - It definitely means a huge part of your previous life will end over the next 40 months, specifically regarding the house your Sun occupies in your chart. Obviously it means many, many more things, but that's beyond the scope of a comment stream. In a session, covering that alone could take an hour or more.

Hi Glenda - Your book is rounding down. It happened at 11 degrees, 15 minutes Scorpio = 12 Scorpio by Sabian Symbol. No astrological event immediately translates into "doing well" or "not doing well." Much that presents itself in the present to any of us is related to past Eclipses, conjunctions, Lunations, stationary points, and other factors in the chart. To note, our inner state is more a function of progressions than transits.

Everything in your life has been a sequence of unfolding steps up to now. You made choices at crucial forks in the road that led you to here. We are always dealing with consequences of past and present actions and inactions, and our present actions and inactions will inevitably lead us to future consequences. Must not we then be mindful of our choices?

To note, there are many who at present "are not doing well." Some of that comes from realizing what they MUST let go of, or how they've attracted something or someone who is really no good for them, or who must leave their lives. In my own case, I've recently had a significant death in my family. I'm only doing well because I know how to live in the "death zone" without copping an unhelpful attitude. Some are going through frustrating circumstances, but how well they're doing or not really has less to do with outer circumstances and more to do with the strength, depth, and breadth of spiritual understanding they've cultivated up to now.

If you want "to do well," what would that look like in your inner landscape? It may be as easy as changing the imagery of your subconscious mind, your expectations, and your mental assumptions. Or it may be that you are shedding a skin you don't want to shed. But regardless of the cause, one thing is true: life is painful, but we do not have to suffer. Breaking the link between pain and suffering is one of the greatest works we humans can do, whether for self or for others. And it can't be done with happy talk or in superficial ways. But the result is worth the effort.

[Kathy Hamilton]

I'm grateful for the information you are providing. Last month's solar eclipse conjunct end my natal mars/progressed moon/3rd Pluto/12th square at 12 Scorpio. Today's new moon conjunct s my south node at 12 Sag. My speech is being whittled to a bone. Sending the rest of this message telepathically.

[manjeet]

Hi, want to ask wat is the effect of this eclipse on my charts?
My date of birth is 8-2-86... I have little knowledge of astrology so please elaborate in general