Solar Eclipse on 1st August, 2008
June 23, 2008 3:05 pm Astrology DonateA total eclipse of the sun will be observed on 1st August 2008. To see a total solar eclipse, you must be standing within the band of its shadow, stand anywhere outside and you only see a partial eclipse. A solar eclipse is a New Moon that occurs when the moon is on the same latitude as the Earth and the Sun. As this New Moon passes between them it blocks out the sunlight and casts a shadow across the earth’s surface.
The track of the moon’s shadow on this particular Solar Eclipse will first touch the surface of the earth at dawn in Northern Canada, it then moves across the north polar region and into Siberia, then across the western edge of Mongolia and leaving the earth at sunset in Central China.
It is being highly regarded by the Chinese because it is the eclipse of the Olympics – hmmm! I wonder who will be eclipsed during the Games? Just a note for the Numerologists – the Games open on the 8/8/08 – the number 8 is the most prestigious number according to the Chinese.
An eclipse repeats its degree every 19 years. One way of looking at what it can bring up on your chart is to ask what was I doing around the beginning of August 19 years ago? I have noticed that clients often say it was when their first child was born, when they got married or some such major event of that importance.
Many astrologers say an eclipse is only significant if it falls on the Sun, Moon or Ascendant – not so, say I – we are ALL effected one way or another. In my opinion whichever house on your birth chart that the eclipse falls in will be intensified as an issue, rather than just an event.
For example, a client with an eclipse falling in his 8th house of debts, was forced to deal with his debts as a major event and go into a debt repayment scheme. Although he had had many New Moons falling in his 8th previously over the years, it was the eclipse that was in his face, so to speak. And it changed his life – freed him up to look at his future possibilities instead of living in permanent terror. In effect, the Eclipse was the knock on his door.
So, eclipses are not to be feared – simply seen as a “click” mechanism creating circumstances that can help clear up the old “stuff” in whichever area of your life indicated by where it happens on your birth chart.
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Ali Fisher :
Date: June 23, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
On 9/8/1989 my father sold our family farm. He considered that as he was going to die soon and I as his only child and a daughter would not be interested in running the farm, it would be better for me to have the money to care for my mother. It was a major event and not a wise decision because I had no financial IQ and instead of there and then investing in property I held on for years until it was almost too late to buy my own home. The purchaser now has a farm worth millons and I have a house worth half a million, for which I am very grateful. I was running away at the time but now have a new spiritual understanding of abundance and trust that all will return to me. When I was buying my present home, I saved myself about 30K by consulting an astrologer about my savings, taking my money out of the bank before its value reduced drastically two days later. So please listen to what Dawne has to say and/or get a reading from her if you are doing something at this time that is a major life event. But act on her advice. AF
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Dawne :
Date: August 7, 2008 @ 12:54 pm
Thank you for that interesting idea – I confess I haven’t come across it before. And you could be right because eclipses have long been associated with earthquakes and the like. The huge eclipse that cast its shadow over most of the Northern Hemisphere in 1999 – starting in Martha’s vineyard and ending in the Gujerat region of India – demonstrated that theory.
This most recent one had already caused physical ructions in China – who knows what else is likely to follow politically?
It’s often the case that events can occur just before the astronomical “marker” happens – which creates an interesting question about cause and effect.
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