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 enduring Light of the power of their “Spiritual Ancestry.” The potential for broad and deep understanding is front and center at this Eclipse! Put the focus on the inner Self and the power of the Heart Center to express your Wisdom and Love through unfamiliar and/or frictional conditions to purify your lower Self. 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 July 27 at 1:20 pm PDT, 4:20 EDT, 9:20 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 very spiritual, frictional, and specializing aspects, this one will dislodge a lot of stuck material so we can get on with “our adventure in consciousness.”
This Eclipse will be visible during Moonset in Southeast Asia, China, Japan, the Philippines, Oz, NeZ, and Oceana. It is also visible at Moonrise in South America, NW Africa, Great Britain, Europe, and Scandinavia. The whole eclipse is visible central and east Africa, the Middle East, and central and south Asia, including Pakistan, India, and Tibet. In other words, if you’re in the area between England, central Africa, and India up to Tibet, you get maximum visibility of the Eclipse!
Eclipse Effects Across Time
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 that one also occupying the Leo-Aquarius axis. The2017 February Solar Eclipse was 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.
The January 2018 Lunar Eclipse was at 12 Aquarius/Leo, while the February Solar Eclipse was at 28 Aquarius. The current Lunar Eclipse at 5 Aquarius/Leo and the coming August Solar Eclipse at 19 Leo indicate we are in the heart of this sign axis.
With the Moon conjunct the NN in Leo, that energy continues to be our line of greatest development. From a venerable spiritual source, we read that Leo is about individuality and self-consciousness, aware of their purpose and radiating a definite Life beacon offering them and others the Light of perception allowing personality integration and release of pent-up potential. The more evolved of this sign are aware they hold the Divine Law in their own persons, and demonstrate awareness of the Divine order and pattern of things. Leo expresses this through the broad, altruistic Aquarian understanding of humanity's common aspirations and embracing a fixed vision and discipline leading to a greater good. We’ll develop this theme in the next 3 articles.
The Solar Eclipse we just had in Cancer is a harbinger of the Jan 2019 Solar Eclipse in Capricorn to come as the Nodes get closer to their entry into the Cancer/Capricorn axis in November 2018. The 2019 Solar Eclipses will be exceptionally powerful since they will all involve Saturn and Pluto in the axis of “the Tension of Opposites.” Next January will feature the last Lunar Eclipse in this series, a “Supermoon” at 1 Leo/Aquarius.
Using the NASA Lunar Eclipse page, we find the timing on this event:
P1 Penumbral Eclipse begins: 17:15 UT
U1 Umbral phase begins: 18:24 UT
U2 Umbral phase begins: 19:30 UT
Greatest eclipse: 20:23 UT
U3 Umbral phase end: 21:13 UT
U4 Umbral phase ends: 22:19 UT
P4 Penumbral Eclipse ends: 23:29 UT
Penumbral magnitude: 2.68
Umbral magnitude: 1.61
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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