by Robert Wilkinson
This Full Moon Eclipse of Sun in Leo and Moon in Aquarius will bring tremendous heart strength and vision to those who embrace “the joy and power of new beginnings,” and are willing to combine with old with the new in a genuinely friendly package. This is about demonstrating valor, courage, spontaneity, and self-disciplined precision. Those who listen to the inner voice and find their place in the "Cosmic Choir" will receive unexpected gifts and blessings!
So what can we expect this month? Since all Eclipses shut something down, this Partial Lunar Eclipse on August 7 at 11:11 am PDT, 7:11 pm BST, begins a several month period of things getting "shut down" in the houses it occupies in our charts. Given that it happens with some productive, spiritual, specializing, and irrational aspects, this one will bring powerful building energies in many areas of our lives.
This Eclipse will be visible during Moonset between the areas defined by the line from Manchuria and Japan down through New Guinea, east Oz, and NeZ. It is not visible in North or South America except in far eastern Brazil at Moonrise. It is also visible at Moonrise in Europe, most of Africa, Turkey and the Balkans. The whole eclipse is visible east of a line from the middle of S. Africa up through western Ethiopia, through northern Saudi Arabia up to NW Iran, across the central Asia republics including India, Pakistan, China, Mongolia, the Philippines, over to eastern New Guinea and down to easternmost Australia. In other words, if you’re in Iran over to China, down through SE Asia and most of Oz, you get to see the Eclipse!
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. The Solar Eclipse effects lasted up to 2016, so this was a very long wave elimination. There's a lot about them in the archives if you want to know more about their influence in recent years. 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. These effects also lasted years.
The September 2015 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.
The March 2016 Solar Eclipse was in Pisces, but the Lunar Eclipse was in Aries/Libra. The September Lunar Eclipse was the first to fall in the same axis that the Lunar Nodes occupy, as the North Node was in Virgo, and the South Node was in Pisces. That firmly accented growth in Virgo and release in Pisces, with a tremendous focus for the following 4 months due to the Harvest Full Moon Eclipse at 25 Virgo/Pisces that lasted almost 4 hours.
We again shifted at the Lunar Eclipse in February 2017, with this one also occupying the Leo-Aquarius axis. And of course, while the last Solar Eclipse fell at 9 Pisces, the coming one will be at 29 Leo, so we’ve now left the Virgo-Pisces Solar eclipses for many years.
Using the NASA Lunar Eclipse page, we find the timing on this event:
P1 Penumbral Eclipse begins: 15:50:02 UT
U1 Umbral phase begins: 17:22:55 UT
Greatest eclipse: 18:20:28 UT
U4 Umbral phase ends: 19:18:10 UT
P4 Penumbral Eclipse ends: 20:50:56 UT
Penumbral magnitude: 1.2886
Umbral magnitude: 0.2464
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 Partial Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Aquarius-Leo.
© Copyright 2017 Robert Wilkinson
Hi Robert. I have natal Uranus at 18 Leo in the 2nd house, so the eclipse hits me just as Uranus went retrograde. I'm tending a hopeful attitude rather than doom-gloom. On another note, you sent me two Campbellite stones during you altar sale. I had one of those set into a ring by a very talented jewelry artist. I will send you a picture in the near future. It is quite stunning, and I thank you for passing it on to me. Peace and light--Veronica
Posted by: Veronica Norman | August 03, 2017 at 09:26 AM
A couple more factoids about Uranus...it is retrograde in my natal chart and on the cusp of houses 2 & 3--possesions and communication. I am intrigued, but will continue to relate in the positive. Thank you for your work Sai Robert.
Posted by: Veronica Norman | August 03, 2017 at 03:04 PM