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 mature social Self, and are willing to see a broader view of evolution and the path they share with others, both more and less aware. This Eclipse will remove old Leo/Aquarius stuff, cleaning out the old to make way for newer, more abundant manifestations of Leo and Aquarius energies in our lives.
So what can we expect this month? Since all Eclipses shut something down, this Total Lunar Eclipse on Jan 31 at 5:27 am PST, 8:27 am EST, 1:27 pm GMT, begins a several month period of things getting "shut down" in the houses it occupies in our charts. Given that it happens with some mildly productive and highly specializing aspects, this one will deal a death blow to some areas so unique life gifts and relationships may come forth.
This Eclipse will be visible during Moonset in Greenland, North America (except for northern BC, the Yukon, and Alaska), Central America, and NW South America. It is not visible in the rest of South America, the Atlantic, Iceland, Great Britain, Western Europe, and all of Africa except Egypt, east Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Madagascar, where it is visible at Moonrise. It is also visible at Moonrise in central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and central and south Asia including all of western China, Tibet, Burma, Thailand, and Indonesia. The whole eclipse is visible east of a line from the middle of central Russia through central China through Vietnam and westernmost Oz. In other words, if you’re in eastern Russia or eastern China, Japan, the Philippines, Oceana, Oz, NeZ, Alaska, and all of NW Canada, you get maximum visibility of 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 past Eclipses in the archives if you want to know more about their influence in recent years. I also included a list in the introductory article to this eclipse. 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. The2017 February Solar Eclipse fell at 9 Pisces, and the one in August was 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: 10:51:15 UT
U1 Umbral phase begins: 11:48:27 UT
U2 Umbral phase begins: 12:51:47 UT
Greatest eclipse: 13:31:00 UT
U3 Umbral phase end: 14:07:51 UT
U4 Umbral phase ends: 15:11:11 UT
P4 Penumbral Eclipse ends: 16:08:27 UT
Penumbral magnitude: 2.2941
Umbral magnitude: 1.3155
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 Total Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Aquarius-Leo.
© Copyright 2018 Robert Wilkinson
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