by Robert Wilkinson
The Full Moon of Sun in Virgo and Moon in Pisces is the Harvest Moon, said to be the largest Moonrise of the year. Make sure you’re looking east at sunset this Friday!
So what can we expect this month? Since all Eclipses shut something down, this Penumbral Lunar Eclipse begins a long period of things gettin "shut down" in the houses it occupies in our charts. Given that it happens with some productive, spiritual, and irrational aspects, this one will bring some powerful releases and movement that dislodges stuck things.
This Eclipse will be visible during Moonset in Japan, far eastern Russia, east Oz, and NeZ. It is not visible in North America and almost all of South America. It is visible at Moonrise in Scandanavia, western and central Europe, and west Africa. The whole eclipse is visible east of a line from Finland down through SE Europe and east Libya all the way to Angola, all the way to a line running from the southernmost point in Japan down through the Philippines to central Oz. So you who are living in Scandanavia and most of Europe, your Sunset should be awesome! Everyone in Asia gets a great seat for the show that night, and western Pacific residents should get up a little early the next day!
It’s important to remember that most worldly events follow celestial events. Whether an event happens simultaneously with or later than an Eclipse, or some aspect configuration, is conditioned by many things. Sometimes a decision is made that will affect many things in the future, but we don’t know about that until the result manifests.
The time of an Eclipse is when the future effects are set into motion. Regard it as beginning a process of elimination to come to an understanding in the future about why those things had to be shut down for a while, or leave the life altogether. We have to close out parts of our past to create space for future ways to do our Being. Eclipses create excellent time periods to do that.
For example, the Eclipses in Gemini and Sagittarius in 2011-2012, both Solar and Lunar, served to shut down old ways of life, thinking, and understanding wherever we have Gemini and Sagittarius in our charts. There's a lot about them in the archives if you want to know more about their ongoing influence. The Eclipses in 2013 shut down old ways of life, feeling, and valuing wherever we have Taurus and Scorpio in our charts, and the Wesak Full Moon Lunar Eclipse opened us to a form of “Buddha Wisdom,” as much by what it took away as by what it introduced.
Last September’s Total Lunar Eclipse was the last for many years where the Nodes were in Libra and Aries, showing we had been in an era when those signs have been most affected in our charts. And in an interesting note, both Lunar Eclipses in 2014 occurred in Aries/Libra, but the Solar Eclipses fell in Taurus and Scorpio. In 2015, both Lunar Eclipses occurred in Aries/Libra, but the Solar Eclipses fell in Pisces and Virgo. So the long wave Solar eclipses were working on different areas of our charts than the short term Lunar eclipses those years.
This year in March the Solar Eclipse was in Pisces, but the Lunar Eclipse was in Aries/Libra. This is the first Lunar Eclipse to fall in the same axis that the Lunar Nodes occupy, as the North Node is in Virgo, and the South Node is in Pisces. This now firmly accents the growth in Virgo and release in Pisces, with a tremendous focus for the next 4 months due to this Harvest Full Moon Eclipse at 25 Virgo/Pisces lasting almost 4 hours.
Using the NASA Lunar Eclipse page with our friendly Pocket Astrologer, we find the timing on this event:
P1 Penumbral Eclipse Begins: 16:54:40 UT
Middle of Eclipse: 18:54:18 UT
P4 Penumbral Eclipse Ends:20:53:57 UT
In the next parts coming this week, we'll explore the qualities of the Full Moon, the Sabian Symbols, the aspects, configurations, and other specifics of this Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Pisces-Virgo.
© Copyright 2016 Robert Wilkinson
LunarEclipseOn16September2016AndWorld. The lunar eclipse on 16 September 2016 is a penumbral one. In this light , this Vedic astrology writer had , on 28 June and after on a number of occasions in 2016 , alerted the global community and India as well that planetary impacts during ongoing times particularly during 9 August to 20 September 2016 look to be suggesting coming into being of dangers to the world attended by political , economic and social upheavals having potential to cause health hazards or epidemics. Many global tensions in South China Sea , East China Sea , Ukraine - Baltic States - Russia, Koreas , US- Russia have been in the news during the aforesaid period. On 9 September 2016 , North Korea successfully tested nuclear device which caused man made earthquake of 5.3 magnitude in the sea. It is said that the bomb is much more lethal than Hydrogen Bomb used in Hiroshima during Second World War. The coming fortnight could likely cause eruption of hostilities having look -like shape of WW3 though may not be WW3. Let the global community have restraint during these horrible times. As regards individuals , those born in months of March and September and are in vulnerable situations , may take more care and strategy these days for a fortnight from now in matters which are either held up or are causing stress. A policy of wait and watch may be alright for them. No alarm however.
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