by Robert Wilkinson
This Solar Eclipse will have a beneficial self-gathering, objectifying, and creative-expressive effect for a long time. All eclipses shut something down, taking away elements of our lives no longer true for us. Over the next 4+ years we will go through endings while finding more appropriate ways to do our Being in the Cancer arena of life. This Eclipse offers us to regard ego in more humorous ways.
Cancer is the sign representing our ability to act in innocent or naïve ways to further our private self-interest without ulterior motives getting in the way. It is the Wisdom of our ancient primal Innocence, where we instinctively know how our roots have nourished our “flowering Self,” and how to understand the Wisdom needed in each moment to coax forth the best culmination of every life situation. A Solar Eclipse in Cancer takes away old personal habits, creating space for new ones; old ways of nurturing and being nurtured give way to new ways to making sure our “up close and personal” experience of life suits us and gives us a sense of security; old personal ways of relating to self and others are replaced with a new sense of “our shell of personality” and how it’s evolved.
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.
Because this Eclipse lasts 4 hours and 55 minutes from start to finish of the penumbral phase, it’s of fairly long duration, so will have an impact of 4 years and 11 months. It’s magnitude is strong, and it will be visible in the south Pacific, Chile, and Argentina.
Because an Eclipse conjuncts the Moon’s Nodal axis, the nodes are very important guides showing the line of greatest development and showing what we know. The NN shows the line of development, so because it is in Cancer, the challenge is to grow into a greater caring or way of nurturing self and/or others. This is the Mother energy that cares for its young and those it holds close.
Embrace the past, as it shows you how you got here. Embrace yourself for those times you knew to take care of yourself and/or what you cared about. This North Node will further growth in all Cancer areas, so it begins to re-fill the voids left by previous Eclipses in Cancer. Grow toward what will sustain your outreach in life, and accept the “political protection” if offered a position of responsibility.
SN in Capricorn helps us eliminate old limitations and responsibilities, as well as obsolete rules and boundaries we no longer need. It can also give us opportunities to express the growing caring Cancer energy of the NN through forms of responsible demonstration of what we know. Whatever is cleared out via the Capricorn SN will over time attract new forms of Cancer expression and activities.
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. I gave you the positions and links to past eclipses in the previous eclipse article. And remember that whatever is taken away will create an attraction for something more appropriate to who you are now, and who you are becoming.
So What’s Happening Where?
The coming Total Solar Eclipse happens at 12:16 pm PDT, 8:16 pm BST on July 2. As I’ve given you, the total penumbral phase is 4 hours 55 minutes, indicating an influence lasting 4 years and 11 months. The umbral phase, where the eclipse will be most intense, lasts 2 hours 44 minutes, showing the heart of the eclipse effects lasting 2 years and 9 months. It will be visible in the southeast Pacific ocean, Chile, and Argentina. I’ve been using information from the NASA Solar Eclipse site for many years. In the past, they included a bunch of information about each eclipse, but now they’ve changed their site and it has much less scientific data about this eclipse.
More On the Influence of 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 which have no place in our future. As you know if you’ve been here for any time at all, I believe that "something's lost and something's gained in living every day..."
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 I offered in the article explaining Solar Eclipses in general 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 triggers events related to previous celestial events, and is triggered by subsequent transits to those points. For example, because of where the North Node is, we can assume this Eclipse at 11 Cancer will have similar evolutionary energies as were present in late 2000, the last time the NN was in this part of Cancer.
Summing Up
This Eclipse will release powerful energies of a “cutting, grinding, and polishing” nature due to Mercury and Mars setting off the generic tension in the atmosphere anchored by Jupiter sesquisquare Uranus and square Neptune with Uranus semisquare Neptune. In this Eclipse, that “Rhombus Diamond” friction is activated by Mercury and Mars, making for an intensely combustible Eclipse, with a lot of “agitated fire” and “inflamed mind” indicated by Mercury on its station conjunct Mars in Leo. These are involved in TWO evolutionary configurations known as “The Hammer of Thor.” Again, major friction which will help generate the Fiery inspiration needed to launch a new focus in August and September as the inner planets compress in Leo and Virgo.
While the North Node remains in Cancer, I regard these eclipses as productive for shutting down old Cancer/Capricorn things and attitudes we no longer need, with the void opening new compassion, caring, nurturing, and a sense of family. We demonstrate these through the house where we have late Capricorn.
Remember that some endings are more a blessing than a problem. With this, we’ll see how skillful we can be at navigating the larger choppy waves of FOUR occupied points of a Great Octile, or 8 pointed Star pattern. This Eclipse is the exact degree where Jupiter went stationary direct in March 2014, so whatever is being removed is related to some Jupiter tendencies which began to expand in late 2013 and early 2014. Listen to your inner “Voice of the Silence” and you will understand “the world of the 5 senses and the mind as the playground of God and Soul.”
Since the 2018 Cancer Eclipse, we’ve all expressed a dream offered to us since then, and should be finding ourselves at the end of the quest, one way or another. Keep accepting recognition for the excellence of your “performance,” but also understand that when it’s time to leave the stage and the lights come up, there’s nothing to do but get in the bus and move on to the next performance. Still, the NN in the neighborhood of that Eclipse should help us grow by filling some spaces we’ve created by what we left behind since last July.
In the next part of the series, we'll explore how this Eclipse will manifest and its astrological components, including Sabian Symbols, which signs will be most affected, and more on the mixed energies at work in this Total Solar Eclipse. This one will sharpen our powers of discernment and “understanding of human nature.” Cultivate your sense of irony and humor, and use these wisely in situations or with people who take themselves too seriously.
This puts the world at a turning point where ego rigidity must be punctured so that forms of caring can bring redemption to the suffering generated during this time of humanity’s “liberating ordeal.” Those who can consolidate and integrate around their sense of humor will find “the light touch of masterful living.”
See you soon with the next article on this Solar Eclipse!
Previous articles in this series:
Astrology in July 2019 - On the Threshold of a Total Solar Eclipse at 11 Cancer
What Is A Solar Eclipse and How Does it Affect our Life?
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